Coral Cohen to Direct James Clements' BEAUTY FREAK; Full Creative Team Announced

What Will The Neighbors Say? is excited to announce the creative team for the workshop production of Founding Co-Artistic Director James Clements' latest play, Beauty Freak: Leni Riefenstahl's 'Olympia,' this November. The production will officially inaugurate the company's 2018-2019 season at the Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, following a week long development workshop in the space. The performances will be held on November 10th and 11th at 7.30pm, at the Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46th Ave, NY 11101 (entry through the parking lot) and tickets are available at www.wwtns.org. Full casting will be announced in the coming weeks.

Coral Cohen will join the team as director. Cohen is a theatre director and producer based in New York City. She is focused on work that explores sociopolitical structures and how they affect the humans that live inside them. Coming up this Winter, she is producing and directing a new devised theatre piece on Jewish Women at HERE Arts Center. She has assisted extensively at La MaMa E.T.C under Jen Wineman and Gian Marco Lo Forte and directed at Jimmy's No. 43 and Lehman College. She is part of the SDCF Observership class 2015/16 and 2017/18 and a member of the inaugural Director's Track at the legendary Siti Company Summer Training Intensive in 2018. She is also a freelance events manager who has worked at the Park Avenue Armory, Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center, and Lincoln Center. BA-Theatre Arts/Directing, Pace University.

Co-Founding Artistic Director Jorge Morales will design projection and sound. Jorge Morales is a Puerto Rican video designer, sound designer, and composer currently based in New York City. He has designed in places such as Signature Theatre and NYTW and composed for plays such as The Burma Project (dir. Kate Whoriskey), and Artaud Artaud (Theatre for a New City). He is currently touring with Big Dance Theatre's 17c and Meredith Monk's Cellular Songs, and has presented at places such as MassMoca, UNC Chapel Hill, BAM's Harvey Theatre, and Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

Johanna Pan will act as production designer on this workshop. Pan's recent credits include The Sign in Sydney Brustein's Window (NYU Tisch Grad), James and the Giant Peach and Bye Bye Birdie (Barrington Stage), Urinetown (LNT), Delta in the Sky (Boogla Nights), The Sea Concerto (Flux), Salomé: Woman of Valor (Chutzpah! Festival), Ajax in Iraq and Woyzeck (Strasberg), Four Sisters (WWTNS?), Aphrodisiac (Loft 227), Cinderella (Coleytown), Boom (Stonewater Productions), Fingers & Toes (Plaza), Am I? Am I? Am I? (Flea), and associate costume designer for the recent Lincoln Center Falsettos revival on Broadway. She has also worked at Goodspeed Musicals, The Muny, Playwrights Horizons, Signature (DC), Roundabout, Primary Stages, Maltz Jupiter, Alley, Asolo Rep, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Rattlestick, Atlantic. B.F.A. Ithaca College.

Photo: (L-R) James Clements (c) Pablo Calderón-Santiago; Johanna Pan (c) Bridget Badore; Coral Cohen (c) Cody Oyama; Jorge Morales (c) Pablo Calderón-Santiago

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