Upcoming Shows by 2013 New York Innovative Theatre Award Winners
Every Fall the best and brightest of New York’s independent theater community gather to celebrate outstanding productions and the artists who create them. The ninth annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards were awarded on September 30, 2013.
Independent theater in New York is a rich and vast world, with nearly 2,000 eligible shows produced annually. It can be hard to sort the not-to-be-missed shows from the (let’s be honest) best-to-miss shows.
So we took the lead from some of this year’s IT Award winners, and checked what are they up to next in New York City.
terraNOVA Collective received this year the Caffe Cino Fellowship Award, a special honorary grant selected by a committee (rather than the public) and awarded to “an off-off-Broadway theatre company that consistently produces outstanding work.” terraNOVA Collective was also nominated for seven additional awards for various productions.
terraNOVA Collective, an ever-growing collective of artists, is a very fertile organization. At the moment, their series terraNOVA Rx is presenting two plays in repertory: Animals Commit Suicide, a bold play about a bored young man who tries to get infected with HIV; and Death for Sydney Black, a dark and subversive parody of teen comedy movies.
Animals Commit Suicide
Death for Sydney Black
IRT Theater
134 Christopher Street, 3B
New York City
Performances through December 15, 2013
Tickets $20 (click here for tickets for ANIMALS COMMIT SUICIDE; click here for tickets for DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK)
Padraic Lillis, won the IT Award for Outstanding Director for The Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyberqueen by LabRat Theatre Company. The production also won for Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play.
This is not the only award for directing Lillis won this year. He also won a 2013 Overall Excellence Award at FringeNYC 2013 for directing Bully, a solo show written and performed by Lee J. Kaplan about bullying.
Next up for Lillis is When Thoughts Attack!, a solo comedy written and performed by Kelly Kinsella about anxiety, returning (after a brief hiatus) to The Cell for Sunday performances.
Kelly Kinsella: When Thoughts Attack!
The Cell Theatre
338 West 23rd Street
New York City
Sundays through December 22, 2013
Tickets $15 (click here for tickets)
Jessica Burr and Sonia Villani, artistic director and associate artist, respectively, at the Blessed Unrest theater company won the IT Award for Outstanding Choreography/Movement for Blessed Unrest’s production of Eurydice’s Dream. It was also nominated for Outstanding Performance Art Production.
Coming up next Blessed Unrest will present its reconstructed version of A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens’ classic novel, directed by Burr.
Interart Theatre
500 West 52nd Street
New York City
December 5 to December 22, 2013
Tickets $18 (click here for tickets)
Much further down the road you will be able to see Outstanding Solo Performance winner Erin Treadway in The Twelfth Labor, written by Leegrid Stevens. The Twelfth Labor is scheduled to open in September 2014. Treadway plays Cloe, a damaged woman whose fragmented memories, prophetic dreams, and swirling language are the lens through which the story of her family and her missing father is told. It will play at the Gene Frankel Theatre.
Treadway won a 2013 IT Award for her performance in Spaceman, written and directed by Stevens. Stevens also won a 2013 IT Award for Outstanding Sound Design for Spaceman.
The Twelfth Labor
Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street
New York City
Dates TBA
Tickets TBA