playwright - songwriter - performer
Zoetrope
World Premiere Production in Brooklyn. Spring 2021.
Two people, a fish, a New York City apartment on top of a trailer bed, and you.
Exquisite Corpse Company is back with an interactive, immersive, and portable living diorama of 2020. Over the course of 35 minutes, the audience experiences an interactive, COVID-19 safe, live performance, and plays a role in dictating the way the story plays out. The project aims to explore interactivity and intimacy in a time of isolation. Functioning like a traveling peep-show, audience members peer inside a living room that is equal parts familiar and absurd as they experience a living room drama unlike any they’ve seen before.
Directed by: Tess Howsam and Portia Lewis
Produced by: Liz Frost and Exquisite Corpse Company
Written by: Leah Barker, Emily Krause, and Elinor T. Vanderburg
Literary Direction: Blake Bishton and Philip Christian Smith
Featuring: Jules Forsberg-Lary, Leana Gardella, Starr Kirkland, Vanessa Lynah
COVID-19 Consultant: Zachary J. Bailey
Stage Manager: Sari Schein
Lighting Design: Krista Smith
Costume Design: Matsy Stinson
Sound and Graphic Design: Ran Xia
Art and Scenic Design: Emily Addison and Dominica Montoya
Interactive Devices: Jesse Vance
Intimacy Director: Daniella Caggiano
Carpenter: Sean T. McGrath
Photos by Jessica Dalene, courtesy of Guild Hall