DEVISING
PLAYING THE OTHER
MFA Contemporary Theatre and Performance students will present PLAYING THE OTHER, an intimate devised theatrical piece facilitated by Obie Award-winning playwright Dael Orlandersmith and Tony Award-winner Jim Nicola.
PLAYING THE OTHER requires us to journey to unfamiliar places; places around identity, race, gender, culture, and class. This reminds us that doing so can often lead us right back to our very own backyard.
Creative Team:
Dael Orlandersmith: Facilitator
Jim Nicola: Facilitator
Kristin Loughry: Production Coordinator
Cate Alston: Sceneographer
Company: Giancarlo Abrahan, Justin P. Armstrong, Irisdelia Garcia, Augustin Groz, Elly Han, Shonari James, Cheng-Hsien (BinBin), Raina Lawrence, Carlos Zipactonal Martínez, Zandra Paxton, Xin "Zinc" Tong (童心')
NO PLACE
Created by CoPA’s MFA students and lead by the New School faculty Irina Kruzhilina over the course of the 2022 Spring semester, the performance takes the form of a promenade, where audiences are taken on a dream journey through a series of worlds that trace our ultimately doomed desire to trade our flawed everyday life for an unattainable ideal. Along the way the audience encounters mysterious travel agents, participants in an otherworldly perfection pageant and characters from the ultimate utopian play, Shakespeare’s The Tempest. See More.
Featuring:
Giancarlo Abrahan - performer, dramaturgy
Carlos Martinez Noyola - performer, dramaturgy
Zandra Paxton - performer, dramaturgy
Yihong Chen - performer, audience participation
Augustin Groz - performer, audience participation
Elly Han Yang - performer, audience participation
Xin “Zinc” Tong - performer, audience participation
Shonari James - performer, voice and movement development
Justin Armstrong - performer, movement development
Irisdelia Garcia - performer, scenography
Cheng-Hsien Kuo - performer, scenography
Raina Lawrence - performer, scenography