Blake is solo performer whose work has been described as "spoken word and installation art in a theatrical duet." He plays himself, but the action occurs in a surreal realm where symbols come to life. It's a bit like This American Life on acid. Memories unravel into questions which explode into poetry. Simple storytelling echoes in a world of abstraction.
Scream of the Butterfly is a memory collage which questions our collective assumptions about the world. Binaries such as chaos vs. fate, reality vs. illusion, and self vs. other are stretched to their limits. It's stand-up-existentialism stumbling through the looking glass.
Scream of the Butterfly will play at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) tonight, August 24, through August 28. Tickets ($18) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.
Blake Sugarman (writer/performer) is thrilled to be a resident artist at The Brick. His experimental solo-work has previously been seen at NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing (Kaleidoscope Eyes, thesis project) and Balagula Theatre Company in Lexington, KY (Urbanized Appalachian Soul Rebel). A workshop version of Scream of the Butterfly was presented at The Living Gallery as part of Bushwick Open Studios 2015. As an actor, Blake has performed with Theatre in Asylum, The Medicine Show, FringeNYC, and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. BFA: New York University. blakesugarman.com
Jacob Sexton (director) is a Brooklyn-based theatre director. He has directed for Fordham/Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Bushwick Open Studios, and FringeNYC. Additionally he has worked in new play development with Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Assisting credits include Anne Bogart, Les Waters, Jon Jory, Lila Neugebauer, Mortiz Von Stulpenagel; most recently he toured with Siti Company assisting on Julia Wolfe's Steel Hammer (music by Bang on a Can All Stars) which culminated at BAM Next Wave Festival 2015. Former SuperLab Assistant at Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons, and Directing Intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville. BA: Fordham University. jacobmsexton.com
Megan Lang (production design) is a NYC-based lighting designer. She has designed at Abrons Arts Center, Under St. Mark's, the Berkshire Fringe, NYC Fringe, the Wild Project, Dixon Place, Theatre for the New City, 59E59, JACK, The Brick, Stella Adler, Atlantic Stage 2, and The Bushwick Starr. Her lighting assistant credits include productions at the The Cherry Lane, Atlantic Theater Company, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, The Juilliard School, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Soho Rep, NY Live Arts, La Mama and Three Legged Dog. Assistant special effects work includes Sting's The Last Ship, Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature), and An Act of God (Studio 54). BA: Fordham University. Meganlangld.com
The Brick is located at 579 Metropolitan Avenue (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the L & G subway lines (L: Lorimer stop; G: Metropolitan stop). For more detailed directions & further information, visit www.bricktheater.com. The Brick and its non-profit company, The Brick Theater, Inc. were founded in September of 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a storage space and a yoga center, this brick- walled garage was completely refurbished into a state-of-the-art theater complex, with a large sprung floor and professional lighting and sound package.
Winner of THE 2009 CAFFE CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD, The Brick is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for subversive theatrical experiences. Home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Bouffon Glass Menajoree (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Musical), Red Cloud Rising, Theatre of the Arcade and Suspicious Package (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Play), The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including Target Margin Theater, New Georges, Jason Grote, Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, The Mad Ones and Thomas Bradshaw.
Watch a preview for SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY below!
