Heather Christian's ANIMAL WISDOM Opens This Weekend at The Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr and West Yorkshire Playhouse present ANIMAL WISDOM, created by Heather Christian and directed by Mark Rosenblatt, featuring and made in collaboration with Sasha Brown, Heather Christian, Fred Epstein, Eric Farber and Maya Sharpe.

Performances run October 11 - November 4, with previews Oct. 11 - 13 at 8pm. The official opening will be held on Oct. 14. Shows continue Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8pm (except 10/18 benefit performance at 7pm) at The Bushwick Starr theater, located at 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]. Note: There will be no performance 10/25, and a Tuesday night performance 10/24 at 8pm.

Directions: Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right. For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS.

Tickets available at www.thebushwickstarr.org.

Heather Christian is an Obie Award winning composer/performer. Composing/Performing credits include Mission Drift Nat'l Theater London, The World Is Round BAM, Annie Salem Ars Nova/Sundance Theater Lab, Of Mice and Men West Yorkshire Playhouse, and North, LaMama ETC. She has recently emerged as a film composer (Lemon, Sundance and SXSW, open in theaters globally now, and Gregory Go Boom, Sundance Grand Jury Prize) and writes incidental music for plays: Emily Climbs (the Brick NYC), Daily Life Everlasting (LaMama NYC), the entire 2016 season at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Macbeth, As you Like It, Measure For Measure). She is a long time collaborator in devised theater with the TEAM, Jane Comfort Company, Salty Brine, Mac Wellman, Big Dance Theater, Taylor Mac, and Witness Relocation. She was recently named one of TimeOut NY's Downtown Innovators To Watch. She has recently been seen in Taylor Mac's 24 Decade History of Popular Music and in Toshi Reagon's Parable of the Sower. She is currently collaborating with Rachel Chavkin on new musical,Annie Salem (Sundance Theater Lab/ Royal Court London/ Ars Nova Uncharted), an adaptation of a Mac Wellman novel of the same name set to premiere next year in NYC and is an Ars Nova commissioned artist alongside Andrew Schneider with experimental music-theater piece currently titled Sum. She has released 8 records, taught an Atelier at Princeton, owns and operates her own recording studio in Beacon, NY, and can be seen all over the world as Heather Christian & the Arbornauts in concert halls and dive bars avant-torching. Visit www.heatherchristian.com for more.

The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award winning non profit theater that presents an annual Season of new performance work. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance. We provide a springboard for emerging professional artists to make career-defining leaps, and we are a sanctuary where established performance companies come to experiment and innovate. Our past Seasons have included new work from groundbreaking artists such as The Mad Ones, Clare Barron, Dave Malloy, The Debate Society, the TEAM, and Half Straddle.

West Yorkshire Playhouse has a reputation both nationally and internationally as a leading UK producing theatre. The theatre is a cultural hub, a place where people gather to tell and share stories and to engage in world class theatre. From large scale spectacle to intimate performance the Playhouse develops and makes work for the stage, found spaces, touring, schools and community venues. Previous national and international tours have included Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and and Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom The Musical. Alongside work for the stage the Playhouse is dedicated to providing creative engagement opportunities, building and running sustainable projects that reach out to a diverse range of communities. The theatre has won awards for staging the first Dementia-Friendly performance and become the UK's first ever Theatre of Sanctuary for refugee and asylum seekers providing a programme of work and creative activity. The Playhouse is proud to support new and emerging artists and the theatre provides creative space for new writers, directors and individual theatre makers to refine their practice. Through our Furnace programme we resource work-in-development allowing artistic innovation and creative risk-taking to flourish. We support a growing number of independent artists and theatre companies offering resources, mentoring, commissions, residencies and training opportunities and by co-producing and showcasing their creative work.

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