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Unveiling the Veil
Coffeehouse Theatre
Unveiling the Veil places audience members directly in a séance circa 1919, where the world, still reeling from the tragedies of WWI, looked to the supernatural for answers.
The approximately hour-long experience is led by five actors and performed for an audience of nine séance attendees. This séance is an intimate immersive experience that employs a mix of modern and traditional theatrical techniques to take audience members on a one-of-a-kind supernatural journey.
COMPANY
Director: Aviana Glover
Producer & Production Designer: Alexa Orovitz
Playwright: Macy E. Kunke
Costume Designer: Ashley Kae Snyder
Sound Designer & Co-Lighting Designer: Murph Elyria
Asst. Costume Designer: Margot Le Duy
Lighting Consultant: W Alejandro Melendez
Stage Manager & Co-Lighting Designer: Ben Minke
Production Assistant: Jesse Korson
Technical Director: Dustin Washburne
Technical Director: Owen Reese
Technical Consultant: Ben Braunstein
Video and Poster Design: Elle Reck
In Partnership with Social Medium Makerspace
FEATURING
The Medium (Gene Fairchild): Gabriell Leza
The Assistant (Francis Jackson): Brayden Lawrence
The Skeptic (Louise Clyde): Skylar Shen
The Widow (Laurel Newton): Stella Cockrum
The Spirit (Pvt. Henry Newton): Joe Curry
Swing: Ayvan Williams
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Production - March 7th & 10th
FAUSTPILLED
Misfit Toys
u/Faust takes the redpill;
u/Faust drinks the Kool-aid;
u/Faust is indoctrinated into the cult of knowledge;
u/Faust always ends up in the same place.
The tragic tale of hunger for unbridled knowledge and intellectual ecstasy is reclaimed and re-examined through a chronically online perspective by weaving together classic poetry, philosophy, and modern shitposting. FAUST is a devised digital fairytale warping through generational fever dreams of cracked screens and breaking psyches. In this adaptation by Siena Foster-Soltis, the titular Faust is reimagined as a Gen-Z incel. The misanthropic, pseudo-intellectual, and suicidal antihero falls down an internet rabbit hole, leading them to a mysterious pop-up ad promising transcendence, a Joe-Rogan style influencer named Mephisto, and a cam girl named Gretchen.
COMPANY
conceived and directed by Aviana Glover and Rory James Leech
adapted by Siena Foster-Soltis after Johann Woflgang von Goethe
video design and technical direction- Zoe Danger Lappin
design associate - Grace Hlavacek
assistant stage manager - Darby Huffaker
production stage manager - Heather Friedman
FEATURING
Justine Faith Camesa
Emma Crawfis
Ben Formella
Connor Fitzmaurice
Dominique White
Maria Jurado
Oliver P. Gifford
PRODUCTION HISTORY
workshop production - january 20th, 2023 - valencia, california
Voyeur
California Institute of the Arts
Voyeur was part ARG, part site specific burlesque performance which was viewed from beneath an open dorm room window, where onlookers peered through domestic boundaries to acts of eroticism and destruction. Voyeur employed a website link spread through cryptic messages and posters around the CalArts campus (originally ruavoyeur2.com). This link led to a live video feed of a camera planted outside the window, keeping a watch on me 24/7 as I built the stage for the show, directed the performers in space, and lived my life constantly aware I could be being watched through the camera's lens. One night mid-December the burlesque performance of Voyeur occurs, while a stranger watches with the audience. During the last number this stranger goes into the room and very violently kills the dancer and me, closing the curtains to end the show. Voyeur created an animal exhibit of my own pleasure and pain which culminated in an ultimate moment of violence (which my paranoia convinced me would eventually happen).
COMPANY
conceived and directed by Aviana Glover
lighting and sound design- Aviana Glover
assistant choreographer- Max Martin
PRODUCTION HISTORY
One Night Performance- December 17, 2019
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