Food:Soul

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WHAT IS FOOD:SOUL?  Flux’s potluck play development series provides a process for a staged reading of a play that Flux is passionate about. It also provides an opportunity for community-generated work in response to urgent issues. Food:Soul features free food for the audience, home cooked by the Flux community, often in partnership with Judson Memorial Church’s Bailout Theater.

WHY DO WE DO IT?  Food:Soul breaks the mold of traditional staged readings by developing community through developing plays. Our extreme staged reading model gives the artists and audiences a taste of the excitement of a full production, and the potluck dinner that surrounds it frames the play as a free, communal event. Food:Soul provides Flux a chance to share plays we’re considering for full production with the Flux community. Projects like Breathe Free and Understand Our Ground provide our community an opportunity to process, heal, and activate around urgent issues.

HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?  Sign up for our email list if you want to be the first to hear about our next Food:Soul. If you want to join in as an artist or a volunteer, email info@fluxtheatre.org

To learn more about past Food:Soul readings, look below.

Fear & Wonder
by Jason Tseng
directed by Emily Hartford

June 12, 2024
@Judson Memorial Church

Featuring: Sam Im (Jabez), Neil Tyrone Pritchard (Ryan), and Tanika Baptiste (Transition Minsiter), with Caren Celine Morris (Stage Manager), Julianna Kantor (Assistant Director), Lori Elizabeth Parquet (Dramaturg), Chris Wight (Musician), Ned Hartford (Vocal Director), and Chester Poon (U/S Jabez).

More photos here.

AM I DEAD? The Untrue Narrative of Anatomical Lewis, The Slave
by Kevin R. Free
directed by Heather Cohn

part of the Flux Forward play development program

December 14, 2015
@A.R.T./NY

Featuring: Sol Crespo, Lori E. Parquet, Anna Rahn, Alisha Spielmann, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Chinaza Uche

Learn more here and here.

Marian Smouldering; Or, The True Tale of Robin Hood
by Adam Szymkowicz
directed by Kelly O’Donnell
part of the Flux Forward play development program

@TheatreLab

Cast: Ryan Andes, Jessica Angleskhan, Amanda Berry, Phillip Gregory Burke, Becky Byers, Nat Cassidy, Kevin R. Free, Renata Friedman, Nandita Shenoy, Alisha Spielmann, Tanisha Thompson, and Matthew Trumbull.

Breathe Free
in partnership with New Sanctuary Movement and Judson Memorial Church

Creative team: Sol Crespo, Heather Cohn, Emily Hartford, Montserrat Mendez, Anna Rahn, August Schulenburg, Jason Tseng and Christine Zagrobelny.

Participating artists: Sarah Amandes, Ken Glickfeld, Ivy Hong, Kaitlin Ingram, Adriana Jones, Daryl Lathon, Carl Li, Vaimoana Niumeitolu, Collin McConnell, Antonio Minino, Ekwa Msangi, Matthew Murumba, Lori E. Parquet, Paloma Rabnor, Trevor Salter, Adriana Sananes, Jane Lincoln Taylor, Matthew Trumbull, Chris Tse, Chinaza Uche and Stephanie Willing.

Once Upon a Bride There Was a Forest

by Kristen Palmer
Directed by Heather Cohn

January 23, 2014
@TheatreLab

Cast: Becky Byers, Sol Crespo, Rachael Hip-Flores, Isaiah Tanenbaum, August Schulenburg and Chinaza Uche

Understand Our Ground

Contributors: Aziza Barnes, Becky Byers, Heather Cohn, Sol Crespo, David DelGrosso, Shaun B. F., Aizzah Fatima, Emily Hartford, Rachael Hip-Flores, Aja Houston, Kayhan Irani, Bianca LaVerne Jones, S. Brian Jones, Alex Johnson, Kelly O’Donnell, Rocio Mendez, Mike Mihm, Vernice Miller, Joseph Merlo III, Stephen Conrad Moore, Lori E. Parquet, Chester Poon, Anna Rahn, August Schulenburg, Tarantino Smith, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Matthew Trumbull, Jennifer Tsay, Chinaza Uche, Alex Ustach, Lauren Williams, Anthony Wills Jr., Jodi Witherell, Kristen Vaughan

November 6, 2013
@Judson Memorial Church

GOLDSBORO

by Nat Cassidy
Directed by August Schulenburg

January 30, 2013
@Judson Memorial Church

Cast:Ryan Andes, Pete Boisvert, Tandy Cronyn, Neimah Djourabchi, Ken Glickfeld, Rachael Hip-Flores,Will Lowry, Brian Silliman, Isaiah Tanenbaum and Shaun B. Fauntleroy

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IF I DID THIS

by EM Lewis
directed by Pete Boisvert

Friday, July 27 2012
@Judson Memorial Church

Cast: Matt Archambault, John Greenleaf, Marianne Miller, Stephen Conrad Moore and Jane Lincoln Taylor

pictures here and here

WET OR,
Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes

by Liz Duffy Adams
Directed by Kelly O’Donnell

October 5, 2011
@Judson Memorial Church
(in partnership with Bailout Theatre)

Cast: Matthew Archambault, Becky Byers, Tiffany Clementi, Elise Link, Julian Stetkevych, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Daren Taylor. Stage Directions: Will Lowry

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SPECTACULAR BROWNE

by Brian Pracht
directed by Antoinette Broderick

March 16, 2011
@Judson Memorial Church
(in partnership with Bailout Theatre)

Cast: Corey Allen, Matthew Archambault, Mychael Chinn, David Crommett, Elise Link, Mike Mihm, Raushanah Simmons, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Travis York

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MISS LILLY GETS BONED
Or: The Loss of All Elephant Elders

by Bekah Brunstetter
directed by Heather Cohn

December 15, 2010
@Judson Memorial Church
(in partnership with Bailout Theatre)

Cast: Matthew Archambault, Jesse-James Austin, Michael Davis, Kitty Lindsay, Alisha Spielmann, Nitya Vidyasagar

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HEARTS LIKE FISTS

by Adam Szymkowicz
directed by Keith Powell

September 15, 2010
@Judson Memorial Church
(in partnership with Bailout Theatre)

Cast: Tiffany Clementi, David Crommett, Jill Knox, Jason Paradine, August Schulenburg, Christina Shipp, Amy Staats, Cotton Wright
assistant director: Casey Schmal

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LICKSPITTLES, BUTTONHOLERS, AND DAMNED PERNICIOUS GO-BETWEENS

Feb 17, 2010
by Johnna Adams
directed by John Hurley

@Judson Memorial Church
(in partnership with Bailout Theatre)

Cast: Ryan Andes, Matthew Archambault, Tiffany Clementi, Benjamin Ellis Fine, Katie Hartke, Becky Kelly, Nick Monroy, Matthew Murumba, Ryan Quinn, Ed Schultz, August Schulenburg, Christina Shipp, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Nitya Vidyasagar

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VOLLEYGIRLS

by Rob Ackerman
directed by August Schulenburg

August 9, 2009
@Blondies Sports Bar

Cast: Matt Archambault, Jason Paradine, David Crommett, Jane Taylor, Jaime Robert Carrillo, Catherine Porter, Tiffany Clementi, Candice Holdorf, Kelly O’Donnell, DeWanda Wise, Elise Link, Jessica Angleskhan, Christina Shipp, Cotton Wright, Caitlin Kinsella, Isaiah Tanenbaum

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NARRATOR ONE

by Erin Browne
directed by Scott Ebersold
assistant directed by Kyle Fox

March 8, 2009
@48 W 21st St

Cast: Jake Alexander, Michael Davis, Polly Lee, Brian Murray, Christina Shipp, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Cotton Wright

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THIS STORM IS WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS

by Jason Grote
directed by Kelly O’Donnell

March 30, 2008
@48 W 21st St

Cast: Jake Alexander, Will Ditterline, Candice Holdorf, Ellen McLaughlin, Jane Taylor

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PRETTY THEFT

by Adam Szymkowicz
directed by Heather Cohn

December 2007
@48 W 21st St

Cast: Tiffany Clementi, Charlotte Graham, Felicia Hudson, Elise Link, Kelly O’Donnell, Brian Pracht, Zack Robidas, Jane Lincoln Taylor, Gregory Waller

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