The Tank (Rosalind Grush and Rania Jumaily, co-artistic directors) is thrilled to host the world premiere of PHOTO & SUPPLY, created by Eat Drink Tell Your Friends and directed by Andy Manjuck (Wakka Wakka's Made in China at 59E59 Theaters). Part of The Tank's Flint & Tinder series, PHOTO & SUPPLY begins performances on March 16 for a limited engagement through Sunday, April 2. Opening Night is Sunday, March 19 at 7 PM. The performance schedule is Thursday - Sunday at 7 PM. Performances are at The Tank (151 West 46th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues). Tickets are $18. To purchase tickets, visit www.thetanknyc.org.
Meet Phyllis: She has run a photo development shop in her neighborhood for many years, but now the neighborhood is changing. Business is slow, and Phyllis must close up shop. In protest, boxes unpack themselves, floor tiles shake, and long-forgotten photographs burst to life.
With dynamic sets and a colorful cast of handmade masks and puppets, PHOTO & SUPPLY is a story for right now, speaking to community, collective memory, and honoring the value of a physical record.
The cast of puppeteers include Macklen Mayse, Ashur Rayis, Rachel Shane, Rachel Schapira, and Gabrielle Schutz.
Eat Drink Tell Your Friends, a non-hierarchical company that explores intimate stories to start larger conversations, is Rachel Schapira, Ashur Rayis, and Andy Manjuck.
Rachel Schapira (creator/performer) is a working artist living in Brooklyn. She makes theater, puppets, books, drawings, fiber art, prints, poetry. Her recent design and fabrication credits include Ripe Times'Septimus and Clarissa, The Story Pirates, Opera Slavica's Iolanta,
Basil Twist's Arias with a Twist andSisters' Follies, window displays for Macy's Christmas windows. She is into community, communication, and decision-making by committee.
Ashur Rayis (creator/performer) is a musician and sound artist, who is a co-founding member of Eat Drink Tell Your Friends. His work appeared in Maiko Kikuchi's No Need For a Night Light,
Elliott Jenetopulos's KATZENKUNST, AORTA Films' The OH! Files, and in several pieces by Sophie Sotsky/TYKE Dance. He is a founding member of TRUX monster truck collective, and works as an audio engineer in NYC.
Andy Manjuck (creator/director) is a co-founding member of Eat Drink Tell Your Friends. He is a puppeteer, performer, director, and writer. He is a member of the award-winning company Wakka Wakka (Made In China, Baby Universe, SAGA), and works closely with artist Robin Frohardt (The Pigeoning). He performed Petrushka (NY Philharmonic Orchestra/Giants are Small) at the Barbican in London, and El Retablo de Maesa Pedro with Doug Fitch and the American Symphony Orchestra as part of Bard College's Summerscape program.
About The Tank
The Tank is a Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer. We serve emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in the 62-seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other resources such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, and artist fees. Our programming is multi-disciplinary, representing disciplines including theater, music, dance, comedy, film, and storytelling. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all and positioning the arts within civic and socio-political discourse.
Founded in 2003 by nine emerging artists, The Tank has since provided an artistic home for tens of thousands of New York City-based performers. Recent successes produced by The Tank as part of Flint & Tinder include Manual Cinema's Ada/Ava (Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, New York Times Critics' Pick),
Mac Wellman's The Offending Gesture (New York Times Critics' Pick),
Andrew Schneider's youarenowhere (Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, New York Times Critics' Pick), and Torry Bend's The Paper Hat Game (New York Times Critics' Pick). Artists who have presented work at The Tank early on in their careers include
Alex Timbers (Tony-nominated theater director),
Reggie Watts (theater performer/comedian/ musician currently the bandleader on The Late Late Show with
James Corden),
Amy Herzog (Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright),
Lucy Alibar (whose one-act play Juicy and Delicious premiered at The Tank and was adapted to be the Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild), Andrew Bujalski (film director, Computer Chess), and We Are Scientists (rock band). The Tank also presented the premiere of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant by
Kyle Jarrow, which won an Obie Award and went on to a national tour. The Tank has been honored with an official City Council proclamation, chosen for the WNYC *STAR* initiative, and featured on CNN, BBC, the New York Times, and more.
