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SCRATCH NIGHT AT TNC Crystal Field and Theater for the New City (TNC) will present a varied schedule "Scratch Night” performance program, which offers the opportunity for artists to present work in progress to an audience for one night. Scratch Night started in the United Kingdom in 2000 as a way to show work in progress in an evolution of performances. At TNC, we will put our own spin on the idea to best serve our own theatre community and New York area audiences. Scratch Night is looking for a variety of the most daring artists to try out their most cool thoughts on stage and the audience will help in the development by way of TNC’s scratch ballot. Scratch Nights will take place throughout the year on a varied schedule. All theatrical forms are welcome. All stages of development are welcome. Scratch Night at TNC will continue on Monday, February 20th at 7:00pm Contribution: $5 Deactivated DEACTIVATED is a sci-farce that takes place in the year 2050 and follows a group of three couples of varying genders as they attempt to gain government access to have a child. In this over-heated world life is lived underground and all legal US citizens have been sterilized to control overpopulation and conserve resources. DEACTIVATED explores the ambiguity of personal identity and asks the questions: What happens to gender dynamics when becoming a parent is no longer an unalienable right? And, how much are people willing to perceive reality beyond their individual desires to preserve a public good? Kimberly Pau’s plays have been produced and developed at Theatre for the New City (Deactivated), The Gene Frankel Theatre (Bomb Shelter), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Long Island Bores Me), Blue Heron Arts Center (Casualty of Lovely), The Stella Adler Conservatory for Acting (Chew), Tisch School of the Arts: Department of Dramatic Writing (Casualty of Lovely) and Experimental Theatre Wing (Young Woman) and The Green Building (Deactivated). Kimberly studied Dramatic Writing and Drama at Tisch School for the Arts at NYU and has developed work at the International Experimental Theater Workshops in Amsterdam, the International Film & Television Workshops in Rockport, ME and the Play Development Collective in NYC. Acknowledgements include: named one of the Top Ten Off Off Broadway Professionals of 2011 by reviewfix.com, Fredrick & Imanuel, finalist for the SPF Festival, Shithead, semi-finalist for Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, Bomb Shelter, 8 Award Nominations, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, finalist for the TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition. Kimberly is a member playwright at Sanctuary: Playwright’s Theatre in NY and is also Artist In Residence at The Green Building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. www.kimberlypau.com. You can rsvp to: literary@theaterforthenewcity.net |
