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, with a group of actors who were cast during auditions held as a public event earlier this fall.

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.

Featuring
Becca Blackwell
Drae Campbell
Youree Jong Choi
Mikeah Jennings
Gregg Mozgala
Alexandra Tatarsky
Saori Tsukada

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