Our friends at Judson Memorial Church, hosts of our last Food:Soul Hearts Like Fists, have another Bailout Theater planned, and some Fluxers are contributing plays. Judson is partnering with Living Wage NYC to stage short plays inspired by their work. Myself and Erin Browne (playwright of our upcoming production of Menders) are among those contributing…
Congrats and huzzah to the winners and nominees of the 2010 NYIT Awards! We were thrilled to see Crystal Skillman win for Outstanding Original Full Length Script and the New York Neo-Futurists grab the Caffe Cino award; and were admittedly disappointed when our Heather Cohn did not take home the IT for Outstanding Director. As…
(What is Flux Sunday?) After 3 weeks off for our 5th Annual Retreat (aka, Flux Sunday all day long), we returned to action with a high spirited Flux Sunday. Playwrights: Johnna Adams (Nurture), Fengar Gael (The Spell Caster), August Schulenburg (Denny and Lila, The Refrigerator Hums) Actors: Isaiah Tanenbaum, David Crommett, Alisha Spielmann, Richard Watson,…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Tiffany Clementi, August Schulenburg, Christins Shipp, Cotton Wright) Thanks to everyone (around 100!) who came out for our sixth Food:Soul, Adam Szymkowicz’s Hearts Like Fists. This was a special Food:Soul for us, as our first Food:Soul was Adam’s Pretty Theft. It was also our second partnering with Judson Memorial Church’s Bailout…
(Photo: Tiffany Clementi. Pictured: Adam Szymkowicz, Kelly O’Donnell, August Schulenburg, working on Adam’s play CLOWN BAR) After establishing our Core Values at the 5th annual retreat, we moved onto Aesthetic Values. There was plenty of discussion surrounding these values as well; including whether or not we even needed them. After all, we’re artist-driven, and good…
(Pictured: Kelly O’Donnell and Tiffany Clementi on the bus to Little Pond for Flux’s 5th Annual Retreat)There is much to unpack from our 5th annual retreat. The 4th retreat generated so many ideas about values, mission, strategic plan and more that the sheer amount of thought made synthesizing it into a cohesive frame difficult. However,…
Flux is thrilled to announce our fourth season! Our fourth season explores the cost of a society remaining always vigilant. In our see something, say something world, what happens to empathy when we’re always on guard?What is our responsibility to those keeping watch?And what happens when our defenses are breached? Season 4: Don’t Look Away…
To begin, I apologize for the title of this blog post. I’ve been staring at a computer for so long when I go to the bathroom I click on the doorknob. To continue, it’s time for some shout-outs for deserving plays getting published! James Comtois’ play, Infectious Opportunity, is being published by the good folks…
(Photo by: Jason Paradine. Pictured: audience for Flux’s 5th Food:Soul) We’re back from the retreat with a treat for you: Adam Szymkowicz’s crimefighting comedy, Hearts Like Fists. You’ve heard about this play before, and after an uproarious read at our retreat (more on that anon), we’re sharing it with you. Hearts Like FistsWritten by Adam…
It’s that happy time! We’re off to our 5th Annual Retreat at the beautiful Little Pond Arts Retreat (picture above from 2008). The first two days will be spent finishing our work from last year on values, mission, membership structure, and internal communications; then transition into a strategic plan conversation that will look at programming,…
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