TERM OF ART
January 3 - 12, 2020
Visionary theater-maker Kate Kremer takes aim at U.S. immigration and drone policy in this Kafka-esque roast of nonsense masquerading as justice. The piece -- featuring a series of fugitive, fragmentary scenes with four actors moving through many voices -- draws on recent transcripts of Supreme Court justices wrestling with how to police the borders of citizenship in order to deny rights that ought to be inalienable. As repeated brutalities become settled law, a whisper emerges: “If you think you’re the choir, you’re not.”
Playwright & Director: Kate Kremer
Associate Director: Anne Cecelia DeMelo
Lighting & Scenic Design: Lance K. Lewis
Sound Design: Michael Costagliola
Stage Manager: Priscilla Villanueva*
Featuring: Ash Mayers, Rava Raab, Bryce Payne, Jorge Sánchez-Díaz, Isabella Sazak, Jenna Zafiropoulos
Part of the 2020 Exponential Festival.
Performance Dates & Times
Friday, January 3rd at 8:00pm, Saturday, January 4th at 8:00pm, Sunday, January 5th at 3:00pm,
Thursday, January 9th at 8:00pm, Friday, January 10th at 8:00pm, Saturday, January 11th at 3:00pm, Sunday January 12th at 3:00pm.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kate Kremer is a playwright based in Brooklyn, NY and Wise, VA whose work explores historical, current, and conceivable systems of violence and care. Plays include In Some Conceivable World, or Tit Court (semi-finalist Clubbed Thumb Biennial commission and SPACE on Ryder Farm), Untitled trash collection (Figge Art Museum), Term of Art (Public Theatre Weasel Festival), Charlatans (finalist Princess Grace Award, Bushwick Starr Reading Series), Intimatics (SFX Fest, Dixon Place), Eye Heart Remote (finalist Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation), Porch Play (Brooklyn College), kankedort (commission, Kenyon College Stagefemmes), and Undone (commission, the Motor Company). Kate received her MFA from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. She teaches playwriting at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and is the editor of the experimental play publishing organization, 53rd State Press.
Anne Cecelia DeMelo is a bilingual director, musician, and translator working across theatre, opera, and film. Recent work includes The Wagging Craze (Ars Nova's ANTFest), feminine octagon [or, aristotle can eat me] (LPAC), House of Karen (Signature Theater/Columbia University), and The Trojan Women (The Flea, Drama Desk Award nomination: Outstanding Adaptation). Assistant directing includes the world premiere/international tour of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel's Bone, and Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at St. Ann's Warehouse, as well as productions for BAM’s Next Wave Festival and Atlantic Theater Company. Anne is currently pursuing her MFA in Directing as a John Wells Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.
Lance K. Lewis was born in Washington DC. He attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he was nominated for a “Cappie Award.” He continued to work as a lighting designer in DC until moving to Oxford, PA to attend The Lincoln University, where he received his BFA. He received his MFA in lighting design from Brooklyn College and is currently based in New York.
Michael Costagliola is a Brooklyn-based sound designer and composer. He studied music at Brown University, where he received the Weston Award for Music Composition. He is a Teaching Artist in Sound Design for the Roundabout Theatre Company and is the resident composer for the AntiGravity Performance Project. His work has been heard in New York at La MaMa, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, Ars Nova, and Dixon Place among others, as well as at various theaters in the Northeast and across Europe and India. MFA in Sound Design, Yale School of Drama. michaelcostagliola.com
Jeannipher Pacheco (costume designer) Selective credits: First Ladies (Ellie McPherson); Takeover (Market Road Films); The Weasel Festival (The Public x Brooklyn College); Raisin: The Musical (APAC); Welcome to the Doll Den (Electric- eye Ensemble); world premiere: Radium Now (Brooklyn College) Assistant design selective credits: Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova); Surely Goodness and Mercy (Theatre Row); Desperate Measures (New World Stages); The Crusade of Conor Stephen (Snapple Theater Center); Back Home Again (Aruba); Doomocracy (Creative Time); The Offending Gesture (The Tank); Promising (InProximity). Costume Coordinator on CBS series, Tommy (2019). BFA in Theatre Production Tech and Design from Brooklyn College. More at JeannipherPacheco.com.
Priscilla Villanueva* (AEA, she/her, they/them): Priscilla's recent credits include INTAR Theatre, Theatre of the New City, The Kraine Theatre, Bushwick Starr, Pipeline Theatre Company & The Public Theatre. Peace & Love.
Photo Credit: Jorge luna