We are so proud that Is This A Room was honored with the following awards this year:
Obie Award Special Citation for Concept & Direction to Tina Satter
Obie Award for Performance to Emily Davis
Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play to Emily Davis
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Sound Design to Sanae Yamada and Lee Kinney
Is This A Room was featured on the March 13, 2020 episode of This American Life called “Low Hum of Menace.” Listen here.
The Drama Desk Awards nominated Is This A Room in the following categories:
Outstanding Director of a Play for Tina Satter
Outstanding Sound Design for a Play for Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada
Outstanding Actress in a Play for Emily Davis
Outstanding Puppet Design for Amanda Villalobos
Unique Theatrical Experience
The Lucille Lortel Awards nominated Is This A Room in the following categories: Outstanding Play
Outstanding Director for Tina Satter
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play for Emily Davis – she won!
Outstanding Sound Design for Lee Kinney & Sanae Yamada
And, Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada were honored by the Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Sound Design for Is This A Room.
Half Straddle’s Jess Barbagallo and Tina Satter were selected for the 2020 Orchard Project Episodic Lab where they will work on BUSHWOOD 2020, the comedy series they conceived and are co-writing about very local politics. Learn more.
Half Straddle Artistic Director Tina Satter was awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting. Learn more.
Tina was awarded a Pew Fellowship-in-Residence that she will begin in 2021. Learn more.
WATCH:
Drawing from the cache of video projects and documentation that Half Straddle has been creating since the company’s inception in 2008, this new presentation juxtaposes previously unscreened excerpts from the Half Straddle video archive in an installation format.
“Cadences” functions as both documentation and a deliberate poetics of particular performers and performances as the people and work have moved—and move—through time. The piece becomes a record, then loop, of experiments, physical changes, and an ongoing interrogation of a kind of community creating together.
Featuring Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent, Becca Blackwell, Enver Chakartash, Emily Davis, Dylan Dawson, Gracie Gardner, Erin Markey, Hanna Lea Novak, Paul Pontrelli, Naomi Raddatz, Julia Sirna-Frest, Lucy Taylor
Edited by Tina Satter
Concept by Tina Satter & Josh Lawson
Is This A Room returns for another limited run at the Vineyard December 20 to January 19, 2019.
Following wonderful reviews and an extended Off Broadway run this fall at the Vineyard Theatre, Is This A Room was named in the Best Theater of 2019 in The New York Times by both Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, and was noted in the best performances of the year in Artforum.
Is This A Room returns for another limited run at the Vineyard December 20 to January 19, 2019.
Following its sold-out limited run at The Kitchen last January, Is This A Room has its Off Broadway premiere at the Vineyard Theater for a six-week run. Previews start October 3. Official opening is October 21.
Half Straddle’s Off Broadway premiere!
The original cast returns: Becca Blackwell, Emily Davis, Pete Simpson, and TL Thompson. Same design team! Learn more and get tickets here.
Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription will be seen in cities across the U.S., Europe, and Australia over the coming year:
Noorderzon Festival* - Groningen Holland / August 22-24, 2019
Mladi Levi Festival* - Llubljana, Slovenia / August 26-27, 2019
Annenberg Center / Fringe Arts - Philadelphia, PA / September 13-15, 2019
Vineyard Theatre - OFF BROADWAY DEBUT / New York City, NY / October 3 – November 10, 2019
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MI / January 9-11, 2020
UMS - Ann Arbor, MI / January 29 - February 1, 2020
Fusebox Festival - Austin, TX / April 14-20, 2020
On the Boards - Seattle, WA / May 5-11, 2020
Stanford Live - Stanford University, CA / May 15-18, 2020
Malthouse Theatre - Melbourne, Australia / June 27 – July 20, 2020
Ruhrtrienniale – Ruhr, Germany / August 27-29, 2020
*This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Half Straddle’s Ghost Rings tour continues to California! Catch us at Stanford Live with the original band back together: Chris Giarmo, Erin Markey, Tina Satter, and Kristen Sieh. More info and tickets here.
Following performances at New York Live Arts, American Realness and Luminato, GHOST RINGS will continue its tour with dates at FringeArts in Philadelphia, September 8-9, 2017, with Chris Giarmo, Erin Markey, Tina Satter, and Kristen Sieh. Click here for more info.
Following performances at New York Live Arts, American Realness and Luminato, GHOST RINGS will continue its tour with dates at the TBA Festival at PICA, Portland, September 13-14, 2017, with Chris Giarmo, Erin Markey, Tina Satter, and Jo Lampert. Click here for more info.
GHOST RINGS: Live at New York Live Arts is available now on vinyl and digital - order through Bandcamp, to get your own Limited Edition 53rd State Press “Ghost Rings: Live at New York Live Arts” Album on Pink Vinyl for just $15 or as a digital release for $10. Click here for more info.
Tina will be leading a two-day workshop on July 8 and 9 at Abrons Art Center, focusing on writing, performance, and directorial exercises and techniques that will be used to generate new performance writing and scene approaches — and can be applied to infuse projects already in process.
Click here for more information.
Please join us to celebrate the official release of the Ghost Rings: Live at New York Live Arts” Album: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 16th at Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn.
No Cover! Complimentary Cocktail! Sweets & Flowers! Live Songs from the Record! Performance at 6:30 p.m. with Chris Giarmo, Erin Markey, Kristen Sieh
Dress Code: Summer Cool
Get your own Limited Edition 53rd State Press “Ghost Rings: Live at New York Live Arts” Album on Pink Vinyl for just $15
You can also purchase “Ghost Rings: Live at New York Live Arts” on Bandcamp or order the record directly from 53rd State Press.
Following performances at New York Live Arts and American Realness, GHOST RINGS will be having its Canadian Premiere at Luminato Festival in Toronto, June 20 to 22, 2017, with Chris Giarmo, Erin Markey, Tina Satter, and Kristen Sieh. Click here for more info.
Also in the Festival - Erin Markey’s Boner Killer, on June 23.
Stay tuned for upcoming September tour dates for GHOST RINGS!
The reclamation of spaces, ideas, and paradigms by female-identified and informed bodies and queer bodies embodying feminist ethos MUST be made paramount at this moment in American Life.
Here I Go, pt. 2 of You is an open work period and colloquy that encompasses rehearsals and showings of new theater and video work; the launch of an online journal of performance writing; public lectures; and communal zine-making activities that will act as accessible discussion periods.
Featuring public lectures by Jess Barbagallo, Emily Davis, Cecilia Gentili, Ariel Goldberg, Heidi Hahn, Jeremy O. Harris, Branden Jacob-Jenkins, Julia Jarcho, Jennifer Krasinski, Talia Kwartler, Casey Llewellyn, Janee Ojaiko, Isaiah Quinones, Claudia Rankine, Tina Satter, Kaneza Schaal, Sarah Schulman, Karen Sherman, James Sprang and Lumi Tan.
The work engages company members, peers, and their artistic heroes to expand critical artistic discourse to interrogate and reflect on how we codify; and to consider why various performances are made and ask what their making means at this time.
ALL EVENTS FREE - CLICK HERE FOR LATEST SCHEDULE
