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Sky of Darkness at Theaterlab

Dates: (6/2/2022 - 5/12/2022 )

Theatre:

Theaterlab

Pan Palisetty Production

357 W 36th St, 3rd floor
New York,NY 10018

Phone: 212.929.2545

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Sky of Darkness is a documentary-style play that takes a somber look at neocolonialism, race, and the perils of personal choices in the face of complex global issues. Loosely adapted from Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness and informed by the harsh 1975 critique of the novel by African writer Chinua Achebe, the work is based on actual, first-person accounts of Chinese nationals who found themselves in the service of a huge government-owned industrial conglomerate selling and operating military equipment in West Africa. Featuring the international cast and creative team and infused with multimedia, the two-act piece juxtaposes live actors and pre-recorded content, creating a dreamlike narrative that examines the fleeting nature of memory.

Cast and Creative team for Sky of Darkness at Theaterlab

Cast

Romy Nordlinger

Playwright/Performer
Romy Nordlinger is an NYC-based actor, playwright, and audiobook narrator. TV roles include co- and guest-starring roles on Bull, Manifest, FBI, Law & Order SVU (Officer Talbor), and numerous independent films including the upcoming Good Egg as Agent Farrow. She has performed in many regional and off-Broadway productions in theatres such as The Clurman, The Kirk, Judson Gym, The Wilma Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Playwrighting credits include Lipshtick (NY Fringe, Nuyorican), The Feeling Part (Playwrights Collective), and her upcoming play based on alternative views of mothering, Choices. Romy has been a teaching artist in NYC for 15 years and helps to bring literacy and theatre to underserved communities. She’s narrated over 350 audiobooks. Member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, Dramatists Guild. Graduate University Of The Arts.


Creative Team

Lorca Peress

Director
Lorca Peress is a theatre director specializing in new works off- and off-off-Broadway (plays, musicals, operas, hybrids) and the founding Artistic Director of MultiStages, a multicultural multidisciplinary NYC Co. Her multicultural (Puerto Rican/Polish/Sephardic) and artistic (theatre/visual arts/dance/music/writing) backgrounds led her to create MultiStages in 1997. Selected freelance directing: Joe’s Pub, NYMF (Acorn), Lortel, Signature, Queens College, PRTT, Repertorio Español, Theatre for New City, HERE, La MaMa, NYU, Hudson Guild. Faculty: NYU Strasberg Studio, Strasberg Institute. Awards: Creative Engagement Grants (LMCC/DCA), Taino Areito in Theatre, LaMaMa Inky Awards, National Opera Competition Prizes, HOLA Gilberto Zaldivar Award for Outstanding Production, Honorable Mention Collaboration Awards from Women in Arts and Media Coalition, Manhattan Community Arts Grants (LMCC/DCA), LA Mama and La Mia Ink! playwriting awards.


Adam Burns

Video Designer/Graphic Design
Adam’s artwork, films, screenplays, and theater video designs have been shown internationally, including at the Big Apple Film Festival, the New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, The Brain (West End, London) and Tribeca Cinemas. Shows include Lipshtick, Broadville, Sex & Sealing Wax, and now Garden of Alla. Besides working as a designer and animator, Adam is also a writer; his novels include In Like Flynn, The House Made of Wheels (also a feature screenplay, and recently completed The Last Underground, a dystopian sci-fi about empathy, and humanity’s urgent need to evolve. Nonbinary, he/him/it.


Nick T. Moore

Composer/Sound Designer
Nick T. Moore ( is a Brooklyn-based theatrical composer, sound designer, and a teaching artist whose work was nominated to numerous awards and featured in many international and national productions, including Off-Broadway: The Drawer Boy (SoHo Playhouse/Oberon Theater Ensemble); Expatriate (Culture Project) Summer Shorts 14’-19’ (59E59/Throughline Artists); Crazy for the Dog (Jean Cocteau Rep), Defenses of Prague (La MaMa); Embraceable Me (RReiner/Blumenthal PAC). Off-off-Broadway: 23 Knives (18 Resonance Ensemble Productions); Keep on Truckin’ (8 OberonTE); Peace, The Musical ( MCTC); MonsterLit 1-5 (Brooklyn Lyceum). Film: Being Reel (Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s winner); The 7 Men of Hanukkah (Winner, Boston JFF), The Ticket Seller (NFNY/DAMNFest/WAMMFest/Powfest). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Master Teaching Artist with the Roundabout Theater Company.




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