Process in Performance: Season 2 Vol. XI: A Conversation with Bill Camp, Joan MacIntosh & Thomas Jay Ryan on their work with Ivo Van Hove

Welcome, Pig Iron!

 PROCESS IN PERFORMANCE welcomes

Dito van Reigersberg, Sarah Sanford and Geoff Sobelle,

on their work with the Pig Iron Theatre Company

 

 

MONDAY, April 8th, 7:30 PM

83 E. 4th St | 3rd floor

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DITO VAN REIGERSBERG is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company. He has performed in almost all of Pig Iron’s productions since 1995, including the OBIE-winning original pieces Hell Meets Henry Halfway, a black comedy about tennis and melancholia, and Chekhov Lizardbrain, a mashup of Three Sisters and neuroscience theory. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. Favorite roles for Pig Iron include Current Okada in Zero Cost House, seen most recently at the Under the Radar Festival; Orsino in Twelfth Night; Federico in Poet in New York; Charlotte in Cafeteria; and John White in Welcome to Yuba City. He has also created and performed with Headlong Dance Theatre, Azuka, Mauckingbird, and Nichole Canuso Dance Company. He is a Barrymore Award recipient for Best Ensemble for Mission to Mercury (Pig Iron) and a nominee for Best Actor in a Musical for Hedwig (Azuka), as well as a Helen Hayes Nominee for Best Leading Actor in a Non-Resident Play for Hell Meets Henry Halfway. With his co-artistic director Dan Rothenberg and Quinn Bauridel, he has been named a Pew Fellow (2002) and a Knight USA Fellow (2010). His alter-ego Martha Graham-Cracker is famously “the tallest drag queen in the world”—her monthly cabaret series at L'Etage in Philadelphia has been running for over 7 years.
 
SARAH SANFORD has been a Pig Iron company member since 2002. Sarah has been co-creator/performer in Shut Eye, The Lucia Joyce Cabaret, Hell Meets Henry Halfway,Love Unpunished, 365 Plays/365 Days, Welcome to Yuba City,and Twelfth Night. She is also on the core faculty at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training where she specializes in Movement Analysis. When not working with Pig Iron, Sarah acts, directs, and teaches around Philly and elsewhere; recent credits include BANG, a 3-woman clown show about female sexuality that played to sold-out houses at the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Theresa Rebeck’s one-hander Bad Datesat Montgomery Theatre, and choreography for The Acting Company’s As You Like It, directed by Dan Rothenberg. She has performed internationally with The Riot Group, Jo Stromgren Kompani, Volcano, and Pig Iron, and has directed both scripted and original work in Philadelphia and Toronto. Winner of the 2010 F. Otto Haas Award for Best Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist; graduate of École Jacques Lecoq.
 
GEOFF SOBELLE is a theatre artist dedicatedto the “sublime ridiculous.” He is the co-artistic director of rainpan 43, a renegade absurdist outfit devoted to creating original actor-driven performance works. Using illusion, film and out-dated mechanics, R43 creates surreal,poetic pieces that look for humanitywhere you least expect it and find grace where no one is looking. R43’s shows include: all wear bowlers (Innovative Theatre Award,Drama Desk nomination), Amnesia Curiosa, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines (OBIE award – design), andElephant Room (commissioned by Center Theatre Group). His independent work includes Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl and the upcoming Object Lesson (commissioned by Lincoln Center 3). He has been a company member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company since 2001. Pig Iron works include: Gentlemen Volunteers, Mission to Mercury, Shut Eye, James Joyce is Dead and so is Paris, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Chekhov Lizardbrain and Welcometo Yuba City. All ofhis work to date has premiered at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival beforetouring nationally and internationally. As a teacher, Geoff has led workshops all over theworld in devised theatre creation, physical approach to character, clown and “jeu.” He is a core teacher at the new Pig Iron school in Philadelphia (APT). His work has been supported by theIndependence Foundation, the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the WyncoteFoundation, US Arts International, the Princeton Atelierand the New England Foundation for the Arts. He is a 2006 Pew Fellow and is a 2009 Creative Capital grantee. He is a graduate of Stanford University, and trained in physical theatre at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France.

PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY, founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performance works that defy easy categorization. In the past 18 years the company has created 27 original works and has toured to festivals and theatres in England, Scotland, Poland, Lithuania, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Romania and Germany. The body of Pig Iron's work is eclectic and daring. Individual works have been inspired by history and biography (Poet In New York, 1997 and Anodyne, 2001), rock music (Mission to Mercury, 2000 and James Joyce is Dead and so is Paris: The Lucia Joyce Cabaret, 2003), American kitsch culture (Cafeteria, 1997), serendipity (Dig or Fly, 1996 and The Snow Queen, 1999), and fallen heroes (The Odyssey, 1995 and The Tragedy of Joan of Arc, 1998). In 2001, Pig Iron collaborated with legendary theatre director Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003) to create an exploration of sleep, dreams and consciousness (Shut Eye). In 2005, Pig Iron won an OBIE Award for Hell Meets Henry Halfway, an adaptation of Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel Possessed; in 2008, Pig Iron won a second OBIE for James Sugg's performance in Chekhov Lizardbrain. In 2006, Pig Iron was named Theatre Company of the Year in the Philadelphia Weekly. Pig Iron calls itself a“dance-clown-theatre ensemble” - our focus moves from character to space to contact with the audience. Individual pieces have been called “soundscape and spectacle,” “cabaret-ballet,” and “avant-garde shadow puppet dessert-theatre.”We have a hard time sitting still. Currently, Pig Iron is composed of 3 artistic directors and 4 company members, in addition to an administrative staff and board of directors. The company made Philadelphia its permanent home in 1997; though individual pieces are often developed in residency at other theatres or at universities, we premiere all our work in our hometown of Philadelphia.

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PROCESS IN PERFORMANCE
MARCH 4, 2013 | 8PM | 83 E. 4^th Street
with Bill Camp, Joan MacIntosh and Thomas Jay Ryan on their work with Ivo Van Hove

Maybe you caught them in Ivo Van Hove’s shows at New York Theatre Workshop:

Tom in THE LITTLE FOXES and THE MISANTHROPE

or Bill in THE MISANTHROPE

or Joan in THE MISANTHROPE, ALICE IN BED and MORE STATELY MANSIONS.
Or backstage on A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE where she was the Assistant Director.

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Process in Performance: Season 2 Vol. X: A Conversation with Elisabeth Conner, Anne Gridley and Robert Johanson

New York Theatre Workshop and Nick Westrate

invite you to 

 PROCESS IN PERFORMANCE

 

 with Joan MacIntosh, Thomas Jay Ryan and Bill Camp,
on their work with Dutch Director Ivo Van Hove

MONDAY, MARCH 4th, 8PM

83 E. 4th St

3rd floor

BILL CAMP
Broadway: Death of a Salesman, Coram Boy, Heartbreak House, Jackie: An American Life, Saint Joan, The Seagull. Theatres include the Baryshnikov Arts Center, BAM, TFANA, NYTW, Roundabout, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla, Guthrie, Joseph Papp Public Theater, ART, Huntington, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, Williamstown, Long Wharf, PS 122, St. Marks, NYT&F and 52^nd St. Project. Films include Lincoln, The Wettest County, Tamara Drewe, Compliance, Public Enemies, Deception, Love and Roadkill, In & Out, Coach. TV includes “The Good Wife,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Damages,” “Brotherhood,” “L&O:CI,” “Joan of Arcadia,” “Law & Order,” “NY Undercover,” “The Great Gatsby” (BBC). Awards: Obie (2002), Eliot Norton (1997, 2006). Juilliard Group 18. Member of AEA.

JOAN MACINTOSH
Ms. Macintosh co-founded The Performance Group and played in their productions of Makbeth, Seneca’s Oedipus, Mother Courage and her Children, as well as Commune, Dionysus in 69 and The Tooth of Crime for which she won OBIES. Broadway: Orpheus Descending; The Seagull, National Actor's Theatre; Our Town, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, both for Lincoln Center Theater. New York Shakespeare Festival: The Bacchae,; Father Comes Home from the Wars, Pts 1, 8, & 9; 365 Days/365 Plays; Macbeth; All's Well that Ends Well; Julius Caesar; Cymbeline; A Bright Room Called Day; Three Acts of Recognition; Dispatches; and Alice in Concert. New York Theatre Workshop:The Misanthrope, Alice in Bed, More Stately Mansions, Streetcar Named Desire (assistant director,) all with Ivo Van Hove: winning an OBIE for Sustained Excellence of Performance, Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance and the Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel Award for Distinguished Performance, for More Stately Mansions. Joan won the Drama Desk Award for her solitary performance in Request Concert at The Women's Interart Theatre in NY; and the 2007 Eliot Norton Award for her work in Britannicus, at Harvard's A.R.T. She also collaborated with Mr. Woodruff on Edward Bond's Chair, at TFANA in New York.

THOMAS JAY RYAN
NYTW: THE LITTLE FOXES, THE MISANTHROPE. Broadway: IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY. Off-Broadway: THE TEMPERAMENTALS, IN THE MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMMER, CELEBRATION/THE ROOM, SIN, JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, SUITCASE, VENUS. Regional: Berkeley Rep., Kennedy Center, Old Globe, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Guthrie, Yale Rep., Sundance Theater and Film Development Labs. Film: Fay Grim, Strange Culture, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Dreamboy, The Dying Gaul, The Attic, Teknolust, The Book of Life, Henry Fool (title role). NYTW Usual Suspect.

 

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Monday, January 28th at 7:30 PM

Join us in conversation with three performers from Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Elisabeth Conner, Anne Gridley and Robert Johanson during their run of Life & Times: Episodes 1-4 at the Under the Radar Festival presented by Soho Rep and The Public Theater. 

NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA is an award-winning New York art and performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. Since Poetics: a ballet brut, their first dance piece created as an ensemble, Nature Theater of Oklahoma has been devoted to making the work they don’t know how to make, putting themselves in impossible situations, and working from out of their own ignorance and unease.  They strive to create an unsettling live situation that demands total presence from everyone in the room. They use readymade materials around them, found space, overheard speech, and observed gesture, and through extreme formal manipulation, and superhuman effort, they affect in their work a shift in the perception of everyday reality that extends beyond the site of performance and into the world in which we live. 

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PROCESS IN PERFORMANCE

NYTW | 2013

  Featuring Performers From…

Monday, January 28^th, 7:30pm

  

with: Bill Camp, Joan MacIntosh & Thomas Jay Ryan
Monday, March 4^th, 7:30pm

 

 Monday, April 8^th, 7:30pm

 

Performers from The Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Ivo van Hove's U.S. Productions, and Pig Iron Theater Company discuss their work and continue the conversations started with Ellen Lauren, David Greenspan, Elizabeth Marvel, Kate Valk, Taylor Mac, Ruth Maleczech, Scott Shepherd, Henry Stram, Juliana Francis-Kelly, David Patrick Kelly, and Lola Pashalinski.