The Dirty Blondes present their third one-day-play festival, DEADLINE today, November 24, 2013 at renowned Galapagos Art Space. The Brooklyn-based company will bring together the best of New York's avant-garde playwrights, directors, and actors to work intensively on creating a night of original work over the course of only one day.
The culminating performance will feature six original 10-minute plays centered on a newspaper headline from that day. Founding member and playwright
Ashley Jacobson has written three interludes as a sneak peek into the development of her next work, The Tunnel Play. These will be directed by Casey Clevery, of Co-Op Theater East, and feature Dondrie Burnham and Brandon Ferraro. After-party featuring DJ Idlemind "The Appropriate Agent" immediately following the performance.
The mission of The Dirty Blondes is to develop beautiful and subversive new works of theater by fostering a community of diverse artists dedicated to creativity and collaboration. This is the third one-day play festival for the group with previous events bringing in more than 1000 audience members, garnering a listing in The New York Times and as a Critic's Pick in The L Magazine. Each participating artist was selected based on their outstanding merit, eclectic resume and proven ability to create dynamic works that function outside conventional thought.
DEADLINE will focus on the writing and rehearsal process as an extremely fruitful, efficient development period where individual artists randomly come together to collaborate and create an unpredictable new play. The writing prompt will be pulled straight from the headlines - encouraging the artists to confront topical stories in a creative way. The goal is to encourage artists to produce their best work possible in a very short amount of time. The final result will be a performance based on raw emotion, first instincts, and uncensored creativity. The evening will be filled with drinks, spontaneous theater, and a jumping after-party.
For more information:
http://thedirtyblondes.org.
Galapagos Art Space is a 9,000 sq ft Obie Award winning cultural venue located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Galapagos is about to become New York City's first LEED certified 'green' cultural venue. It has a 1,600 sq ft lake inside the building, with island seating on the lake, and the lake is surrounded by a beautiful, operatic style mezzanine. Galapagos Art Space is a brand catalyst, helping individuals and projects incubate their work through the critical
Early Stages and launch themselves into global success.
http://galapagosartspace.com/
The Dirty Blondes was founded with a mission to develop beautiful and subversive new works of theater by fostering a community of diverse artists dedicated to creativity and collaboration. Founded by
Elizabeth Sarkady and
Ashley Jacobson, The Dirty Blondes have presented sold-out works at The Secret Theater, The Bleecker Street Theater, and The Brick Theater. The American Play, a premiere work based on the famed novel, American Psycho, garnered top honors (Outstanding Production of a New Play) at the 2012 Planet Connections Theater Festivity, along with awards for Outstanding Lighting and Outstanding Direction. Productions by The Dirty Blondes have been declared "truly poetic" (AndrewAndrew) and "chilling, dark and bitingly funny", and "stunning from the first moment to the last,"(Karen Tortara-Lee, The Happiest Medium). The Dirty Blondes have reached more than 1000 audience members and supported the work of more than 106 writers, actors, directors, and designers.
http://thedirtyblondes.org
DJ Idlemind, "The Appropriate Agent" began learning the art of spinning records at age eight from his cousin, a resident Studio 54 DJ. Idlemind is known for his ability to blend seemingly opposing songs together, often breaking genre, speed and chronological barriers. Although a New York native, he has played music around the US and internationally including sets in Japan, Italy, Sweden and Germany. DJ Idlemind is the official event DJ for the
Brooklyn Academy Of Music and House DJ for the BAMcafé Live concert series. He has worked with,
Robert Redford,
Donald Trump,
Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel,
Sheryl Crow and Jimmy Cliff to name a few. Club Zimbabwe, The Q-Club, La Linea, PS450 and the legendary Tunnel are only a handful of the clubs and event spaces where he has held residencies.
