Seeing is believing - but perception can be manipulated for beauty or deception. Magician Jeff Grow takes you on a journey where elegant sleight of hand and insight into human behavior collide dismantling everyday experience and tempting us to question: Why do we choose to believe the unbelievable?
"Grow is an appealing technician who brings a boyish charm to a group willing to be fooled... he's got us in the palm of his hand." Jo Ann Rosen, nytheatre.com
After sold out performances in the 2009 soloNOVA Arts Festival, terraNOVA Collective remounts CREATING ILLUSION, magician Jeff Grow's two time 2009 New York Innovative Theatre Award winning solo show (Outstanding Solo Performance and Outstanding Performance Artist).
The production, presented by terraNOVA Collective will play a limited engagement at The D-Lounge (101 East 15th Street at Union Square East) Friday, October 16, 23, & 30 at 10pm. Tickets ($15) are available online at www.smarttix.com or by calling 212-868-4444.
Jeff Grow (Creator & Performer) Jeff's original work has been featured in venues throughout the US and Europe, in award winning films and national commercials. His most recent show, Creating Illusion debuted this spring in the soloNOVA Arts Festival at the DR2 Theatre (NYC) and received two 2009 New York Innovative Theatre Awards (Outstanding Solo Performance and Outstanding Performance Artist). Other original theatre works include: Magicians, Wise Fools and Ordinary Magic, A Story About Magic, Transfix, and Goldoni's The Coffee Shop. Television credits include "30 Rock", "Rescue Me", "Guiding Light" and "The Chris Rock Show". www.jeffgrow.net
Jessi D. Hill (Director) Latest Credits: Lucinda's Bed by Mia McCullough at Chicago Dramatists, Jeff's Grow's Creating Illusion for soloNOVA Arts Festival (2 NYIT Awards), The Children's Hour at Astoria Performing Arts Center, and two plays by Johnna Adams: a workshop of Sans Merci for The New Group and a production of Angel Eaters for Flux Theatre Ensemble (6 NYIT Awards Nominations). Before moving to NYC, Jessi lived in Chicago for eight years working as freelance director and Artistic Director of Stage Left Theatre Company. Jessi was recently a guest artist at Fordham University, completed a season as Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company as well as a Directing Residency with The Ensemble Studio Theatre and just joined terraNOVA Collective's staff as Literary Manager. Hill is the recipient of the 2008/09 Denham Fellowship from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and was recently named a Finalist for the 2009-2011 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. MFA: Yale School of Drama.
terraNOVA Collective is a vibrant playground for artists devoted to innovative new and original theatrical works. Our multi-layered development process, solo arts festivals, and productions serve to nurture and liberate New York City. terraNOVA is best known for its' soloNOVA Arts Festival, as well as the Groundbreakers Program, a unique way of fostering and nurturing new work throughout the developmental phases. terraNOVA is proud to be a theatre in residence at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square.
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