The Cell Announces 2018 Residency Series

the cell (Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian, Artistic Director Kira Simring) will grant four artists each a month-long residency as part of its 2018 season. This new residency program grants selected artists the use of the venue for a month and the resources needed to develop a project of their choice that will be presented at the end of their one-month term.

The selected resident artists are as follows:
• In April, playwright Honor Molloy will develop her new play Round Room with Artistic Director Kira Simring for a presentation on April 30.
• In May, Natalia Zukerman will collaborate with Artistic Director Kira Simring and Lighting Designer Gertjan Houben to develop The Women Who Rode Away: Songs, Portraits, and Stories, with performances on May 31 and June 1. Tickets to go on sale April 3rd.
• In June, composer Daniel Felsenfeld will develop his new opera piece. Presentation dates TBA.
• In July, Joseph Hendel will work to devise a new immersive clown piece based on the writings and ideas of Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School of Economics. Presentation dates TBA.

Honor Molloy's past plays include Crackskull Row (the cell, Irish Rep, NY Times Critics' Pick) Voices Carry (Irish Arts Center) and in my heart (International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival); In Pigeon House (Irish Theatre of Chicago); Madame Killer (Clubbed Thumb, NYC; Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney); Rehearsing the Granda (Public Theatre / BACA Downtown); Lesbian Cheek (WOW Café) and Maiden Voyages (New Georges). An alumna of New Dramatists, Molloy has received support from the NEA, NYFA (2011, 2002, 1990), and a fellowship year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

Musician, painter, and educator Natalia Zukerman grew up in New York City, studied art at Oberlin, started her mural business Off The Wall in San Francisco, began her songwriting career in Boston, and now resides, writes, plays, teaches and paints in Brooklyn, NY. Having released seven independent albums on Weasel Records and her own label Talisman Records, Zukerman has toured internationally as a solo performer since 2005. She has also accompanied and opened for some of acoustic music's greats such as Janis Ian, Willy Porter, Susan Werner, Erin McKeown, Shawn Colvin, Ani DiFranco, Richard Thompson, Tom Paxton and many others. Alongside her touring career, Zukerman continues to paint private and public murals as well as illustrating children's books, design and paint sets for plays in New York City and paint private portrait commissions. Natalia teaches private songwriting lessons and has taught at Sisters Song School, Red Rocks Women's Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Interlochen Summer Music Program and other festivals and locations throughout the US and in Canada. In February 2017, Natalia became a Cultural Diplomat for the US Department of State, playing concerts and conducting workshops with her group The Northern Lights throughout Africa.

Composer Daniel Felsenfeld (b.1970) has been commissioned and performed by Simone Dinnerstein, Two Sense, Opera on Tap, Metropolis Ensemble, American Opera Projects, NANOWorks Opera, Great Noise Ensemble Da Capo Chamber Players, ACME, REDSHIFT, Blair McMillen, Stephanie Mortimore, New Gallery Concert Series at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, BAM, Kennedy Center, Le Poisson Rouge, City Winery, Galapagos Art Space, The Stone, Jordan Hall, Duke University, Stanford University and Harvard University. He has also worked with Jay-Z, The Roots, Keren Ann, and is the court composer for John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders. Raised in the outlying suburbs of Los Angeles, he lives in Brooklyn.

Joseph Hendel is a director, writer, musician, and occasional performer from New York, currently living in San Diego to pursue his MFA in Directing at UCSD. As a writer/director, his recent plays include The Tasty Karp Hotel, aka Jew Hotel (Teatr Fredry in Gniezno, Poland), Playing with Masculinity (Have Art: Will Travel! Inc.), and Beware the Ides of Monday (the cell). Other directing credits: The Inner Circle (opera about Alfred Kinsey at the Brick Theater's F*ckfest), AVoid2Remember (Title:Point's?! Festival), and works by Brecht, Ionesco, Pirandello, and Gilbert and Sullivan. He is a resident artist at the cell, a two-time member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and is trained in clown and Commedia by master clown teacher Christopher Bayes. Hobbies include making synth music, reading critical theory texts, and playing with his pet chihuahua, Molière.

the cell (Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian and Artistic Director Kira Simring) is a non-for-profit organization dedicated to the incubation and presentation of new works by emerging artists. Founded in 2006, the cell has produced over a dozen critically acclaimed world premiere productions of new plays and musicals over the past 10 years including Sam's Room, Bastard Jones, Crackskull Row, Hard Times: An American Musical and more. The cell also features the jazz @ the cell series and has served as a home base for a large community of resident artists and organizations such as Blackboard Reading Series, Artists Without Walls (AWOW), Irish American Writers and Artists (AWOW), Sybarite5, Tribeca New Music, and New York Theatre Barn.

the cell is located at 338 W 23rd St, between 8th & 9th Avenues -- accessible from the C & E trains at 23rd Street. For tickets and information visit www.thecelltheatre.org.

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