Событие «X-ID REP Performance Presentation»

Presented as part of X-ID REP, an open studio research project organized in conjunction with the New Museum’s Fall 2015 R&D Season: PERSONA.

The culminating event of X-ID REP is a performance presentation of selections from research conducted throughout the duration of the project, a research-driven enterprise utilizing a pop-up repertory theater model to examine the shifting ethical boundaries surrounding intercultural cross-play on contemporary American stages. The performance will feature new texts for theater written by Kirk Wood Bromley, Jackie Sibblies Drury, *MJ Kaufman, and Aya Ogawa, and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, Kareem Fahmy, JJ Lind, and Niegel Smith.

The project brings together a group of directors and playwrights recognized for their diverse approaches to staging across various identifications of class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and ability, among others. These artists will cast a resident company of actors with whom they will collaborate to develop material that further highlights a spectrum of approaches to the topic. Their rehearsal-based research will unfold in a studio environment that will be open to the public at set times. Operating from various positions of agency and privilege, the members of X-ID REP will collectively examine the constructs of staging intercultural cross-identifications while directing our attention to the social conditions from which these constructs emerge and persist, perniciously or otherwise.

Participating Artists
Lileana Blain-Cruz: Director
Kirk Wood Bromley: Playwright
Jackie Sibblies Drury: Playwright
Kareem Fahmy: Director
MJ Kaufman: Playwright
JJ Lind: Director
Aya Ogawa: Playwright
Niegel Smith: Director

Schedule of Events
September 20, 2015: Company Auditions
October 26–31, 2015: Open Studio Rehearsals with Director Kareem Fahmy
November 2–7, 2015: Open Studio Rehearsals with Director JJ Lind
November 16–21, 2015: Open Studio Rehearsals with Director Lileana Blain-Cruz
December 16–21, 2015: Open Studio Rehearsals with Director Niegel Smith
January 8–9, 2016: Performance Presentation