OPEN MIC NIGHT
JUNE 1ST - JUNE 4TH

Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey return to JACK to share their work-in progress theatrical experience entitled Open Mic Night! -  a wake, held for a venue that never existed.  Embracing  the chaos and demise of a bygone performance scene, this new work  promised jokes, several reenactments, and even some snacks. Open Mic Night culminates in a eulogy — a speech celebrating not only the life of the fictional space, but of every real space we have lost, and the many lives we led in those spaces.Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey return to JACK to preview Open Mic Night -  a wake, held for a venue that never existed.  Embracing  the chaos and demise of a bygone performance scene, this new work  promised jokes, several reenactments, and even some snacks. Open Mic Night culminates in a eulogy — a speech celebrating not only the life of the fictional space, but of every real space we have lost, and the many lives we led in those spaces.

$20.00 Tickets HERE

About the Artists
Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey’s work wrestles with questions of cruelty, authenticity, deception, entertainment, and power. They value simple language, functional design, autobiography, and vulnerability. Their work has been presented at Under the Radar at the Public Theater, La MaMa, JACK, Soho Rep, the Deutches Schauspielhaus, and the Radikal Jung festival at the München Volkstheater. Peter and Julia are both members of the 2017-2019 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the 2017-2018 Devised Theater Working Group at the Public Theater, and were Baryshnikov Arts Center Resident Artists in 2019. Julia has worked with New York City Players, Soho Rep, The National Theater of Hungary, and was an Assistant Director on Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men. Peter has performed for or collaborated with artists such as 600 Highwaymen, The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman, and the Wallace Shawn-André Gregory Project.