IN SECURITY Previews At 3LD Art And Technology Center 4/17

Unbound Collective will present the World Premiere of IN SECURITY beginning previews April 17th at 3LD Art and Technology Center. Written and performed by Anna Gutto with interactive videos by Ann Oren and directed by Alexis Poledouris, this show seamlessly blends live performance with animation and film. Opening night is slated for April 22.

IN SECURITY is a capriciously funny glimpse into the brain of Dr. Lona Waverton, successful surgeon and endearing control freak. It´s the night before her wedding, and everything is in check, until she makes one mistake - and suddenly her personal and professional lives are thrown into conflict. Drawn into Lona's chaotic fight against insecurity, the audience enters a world where fantasy and reality collide.

Creating the playful world of Lona Waverton, the set juxtaposes real objects with drawn objects, creating a childlike construction of a room. Prop details are projected onto the set and as six different people in Lona's life come in and out of her mind, the projected props morph into "puppets" of those characters, using video with a combination of live action and animation. The set is a vessel to Lona's mind - the more chaotic her mind gets, the more intrusive the characters become.

In addition to Gutto, IN SECURITY features filmed performances by Carmen Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin´s granddaughter and Eugene O´Neill´s great granddaughter), Lawrence Ballard (Broadway's A Raisin on the Sun, A Soldier´s Play), Miquel Belmonte, Stephanie Davis, Anita Hollander, Barbara Klaaysen, Luis Moreno, Erik Parillo, Alireza Rofougaran, Kathleen Turco-Lyon and Veronica Vazquez.. Produced by Lisa Dozier and Michael Soussan, the production features set design by Dagny Drage Kleiva, costumes by Andrea Sundt, dramaturgy by Oda Radoor, lighting by Gina Scherr, sound by Robert Quillen Camp, production stage management by Naomi Anhorn and computer programming by Yu-Chien Cheng. Hit songwriter SILYA ("Sneaker Night" for Vanessa Hudgens) has written an integrated video/live song for the production.

Anna Gutto (aka Anna Guttormsgaard) received critical acclaim for her roles in Jon Fosse´s Night Sings Its Songs and Sa Ka La, both at 45 Bleecker; The Workroom and Under Milk Wood, both directed by Moni Yakim; and Ibsen´s Rosmersholm at 59E59. Before coming to New York, she worked professionally at state theaters in Norway, with award-winning actors and directors. She has done workshops in France, Hungary, Sweden, Estonia, Norway and New York. Her one-woman show Fidel´s Island, about a Norwegian woman who wants to travel to Cuba, was a hit at Molde International Jazz Festival. Other plays she has written include Time and P*ssing in the Wind (2002 NYC International Fringe Festival). Acting in film, Gone with the Woman won Top Feature Award at Hollywood Film Festival, and was Norway´s Best Foreign Language Film contender for the 2008 Academy Award nominations. Anna Gutto is the recipient of the prestigious 2-Year Emerging Artist Grant from the Norwegian Arts Council and the 2007 Cultural Grant from American Scandinavian Society.

Ann Oren´s work has been showed worldwide: The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, APEXART and PS 122 in New York, Festival du Cinema de Paris and the Pink Cow in Tokyo. Ann has received grants from The Jerome Foundation, The School of Visual Arts, The National Board of Reviews New York and The Visual Arts Fund. She received her MFA from School of Visual Arts.

Alexis Poledouris' directing credits include: Vendetta Chrome for Clubbed Thumb at The Ohio Theater; the award-winning The Jew and the Demon by Jonathan Goldberg at NYU; Cherubina by Paul Cohen at the Sanford Meisner Theater; Momma by Edith Freni at PS122; Food for Fish by Adam Szymkowicz at The Kraine;, God's Waiting Room by Ashlin Halfnight for PL115 at PS122 (winner of the NYC Fringe Overall Excellence Award for Best Production) and The Merlin International Theater in Budapest, Hungary. She received her MFA in Directing from Columbia University.

Unbound Collective, previously known as The Unbound Theatre, is an interdisciplinary company using various avenues of expression and encompassing other artistic genres. Unbound Collective champions art and stories as a vital part of the human experience. The company uses video journals, literature, personal experience, vivid imagination and other resources to develop unique pieces. Founded in 2002, the company started off with Josh Bloch and Anna Gutto's P*ssing in the Wind for the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival, followed by Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas at Theater 3, Jon Fosse´s Night Sings Its Song at the Culture Project, and The Workroom by French playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg at Manhattan TheatreSource and the ActFrench Festival. For more information visit www.unboundcollective.org.

IN SECURITY has received financial support from the Jerome Foundation, the Norwegian Arts Council, the Women's Medical Association of New York City and the Norwegian Foundation for Sound and Image (Fond for lyd og bilde), as well as space grants from The Field's FARspace Program. The production was workshopped under the Field's FARspace grant in New York and a multi-media development workshop at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway.

3LD Art & Technology Center is an artist run production studio with one goal, to create a culture of risk taking, experimentation, independence and ambition with a cooperative international community of artists centered in New York. The facility and programs are an arena in which residents simultaneously increase knowledge, streamline production processes and realize their creative visions. 3LD's resident programs are designed to create a stable, savvy, self-sufficient experimental arts community with access to resources and professional development that leads to better quality work, high production values, and new ways of engaging the public, here and abroad. For more info visit www.3LDNYC.org.

IN SECURITY runs April 17 - May 10 with 8pm performances daily except April 23, 26 & 28, May 3 & 5). 3LD Art & Technology Center is located at 80 Greenwich Street (at Rector Street -- accessible from the 1 train at Rector Street). Tickets are $27, $14 for students at 212-352-3101 or www.3LDNYC.org.

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