Jody Christopherson's AMP To Premiere At HERE this December

Goode Productions (with Associate Producer Meredith Packer) will present the World Premiere of AMP, a solo horror piece written and performed by Jody Christopherson, directed by Isaac Byrne (The Other Mozart; In Vestments) at HERE (145 Avenue of the Americas, entrance on Dominick Street, one block south of Spring Street), December 5-19 with performances Tuesday, December 5 at 8:30pm, Wednesday, December 6 at 8:30pm, Thursday, December 7 at 8:30pm, Friday, December 8 at 8:30pm, Saturday, December 9 at 8:30pm, Sunday, December 10 at 4pm, Wednesday, December 13 at 8:30pm, Friday, December 15 at 8:30pm, Saturday, December 16 at 4pm, Sunday, December 17 at 4pm, and Tuesday, December 19 at 8:30pm. Tickets ($35) are available in advance at www.here.org or by calling 212-352-3101. AMP will run in rep with the World Premiere of Greencard Wedding, which stars Jody Christopherson and Ryan McCurdy. Both productions are part of SubletSeries@HERE: a curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical support.

AMP is a multi-media solo horror play inspired by the writings of Mary Shelley, Luigi Galvani's discovery of "animal electricity," the birth of modern feminism, and the monsters society creates. As Mary Shelley begins the process of writing Frankenstein in 1816, her writings are interwoven with film interviews from inside an asylum with a woman who auditions for the Boston Symphony during their first historic "blind auditions" in 1952.

AMP will feature sound and projection design by Martha Goode, with video and still photos shot on location inside abandoned asylums on the East Coast. Additional text is from the writings of Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Luigi Galvani. AMP will also feature the voices of J.Stephen Brantley (NYIT 2017 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award; Difficult People on Hulu) as famed philosopher (and Mary Shelley's father) William Godwin, Chloe Dirksen as the architect of modern feminism, (and Mary Shelley's mother) Mary Wollstoncraft, Ryan McCurdy as Percy Shelley, and Jonathan West as Lord Byron, with the help of Dialect Coach Chloe Dirksen.

AMP was previously developed through residencies at Write Out Front and All For One Theater. For the play AMP, Jody Christopherson is the recipient of a 2017 New York Society Library grant, for emerging female writers writing about history and literature.
Isaac Byrne (Director) Originally from Texas, based in NYC, Isaac has been awarded the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Direction twice and productions he has directed have been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, an Off Broadway Alliance award, 24 NYIT awards, and 6 Planet Connection Awards. Credits include: The Other Mozart (NYIT Outstanding Solo Performance, Nominated for Director), In Vestments (NYIT Outstanding Premier of a New Play), To Nineveh (NYIT Outstanding Production), Tar Baby (DR2, PS122), 52 Man Pick Up (Ars Nova, Edinburgh Fringe), The New Normal, I Used to Write on Walls, Grimm Reality (Co-Production with Bryant Park), and Hazard a Little Death (Planet Connection Best Original Script). He also performs regularly with the Aztec Economy theatre company in the touring show, Butcher Holler Here We Come. He has taught acting at the University of the Arts, New York Film Academy, and the Matthew Corozine Studio.

Jody Christopherson (Writer/Performer) is a performer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in New York. Recent works include; Greencard Wedding, (writer/performer/filmmaker) a multi-media rock musical about artist visas,(recently presented by: The Studios of Key West, The Brick Theater in Brooklyn NY, FilmGate Miami at the Miami Light Project, Dixon Place (New York), Carrie Morris Performing Arts in Detroit MI), Because You Are Good, a solo show, devised and performed by Ms. Christopherson, based on interviews with Mabou Mines Associate Clove Galilee, (2015 Innovative Theater Award Nomination) and Necessary Exposure: The Female Playwright Project, (conceptual artist/photographer) a photography and sound installation in art galleries and on Itunes. Additional acting credits include; a critically acclaimed performance as Nannerl Mozart in the award winning monodrama,The Other Mozart, The Reenactors by Juliana Francis Kelley dir by Tony Torn at Abrons Art Center, Lincoln Center Film Society, The Kitchen, The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Actors Theater of Louisville, Nebraska Repertory, Performance Space122, The Bushwick Starr, Ensemble Studio Theater, IRT, Working Theater. Ms. Christopherson is the creator of http://newyorktheatrereview.blogspot.com/ a contributor to The Huffington Post, and has been a teaching artist at The Orchard Project, a speaker at Mason Gross School of the Arts and New York Mensa. Member: Actors Equity Association, Dramatist Guild of America. http://jodychristopherson.wixsite.com/jodychristopherson

GOODE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) has been producing New Works for over a decade. Led by Martha Goode, the company believes that the fostering of emerging artists is integral to the future of the arts in our country. Producer credits include Broadway: The Miracle Worker (Circle in the Square, associate producer); Regional: The Rime (at The Virginia Arts Festival), Greencard Wedding (The Studios of Key West, Carrie Morris Performing Art Center in Detroit MI, best actor Fringe Arts Detroit and The Allways Lounge in New Orleans LA); New York: Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell, Sweet, Sweet Spirit, Parts of Parts & Stitches, Costa Rehab, Barrier Island, A Home Across the Ocean and Good Lonely People (with Manhattan Theatre Works); Wanda's Monster (with New York City Children's Theater); To Barcelona!, The Riverside Symphony, Eli and Cheryl Jump, Don't Do Drugs (with Crosstown Playwrights); The Stranger to Kindness (Winner Best Production, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity); The Violet Hour (with Active Theater); and Training Wisteria (New York International Fringe Festival). Member of APAP. www.goodeproductionsnyc.com