ANCIENT LIVES Got a MAP Fund Grant!
We received a much needed and appreciated MAP Fund grant for our show ANCIENT LIVES which opens at The Kitchen, January 2015.
Tina Satter Receives Doris Duke Award
We are so thrilled and honored that Tina was awarded the Doris Duke Impact Award amidst such inspiring company!
check out more info in the link below
EUROPEAN TOUR
Half Straddle will be touring through April in France and Croatia!
Tour Dates:
Theatre Garonne in Toulouse, France
March 27th - 29th at 8PM
T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers in Gennevilliers, France
April 2nd at 8:30PM and April 3rd at 9PM
Le Maillon in Strasbourg
April 8th and 9th at 8:30PM
Zagrebačko Kazalište Mladih (ZMK) in Zagreb, Croatia
April 14th and 15th at 8PM
SEAGULL (THINKING OF YOU) Play Collection by Tina Satter
New Book out by Tina Satter- see more here.
IN THE PONY PALACE/FOOTBALL travels to France
November 13, 2013 IN THE PONY PALACE/FOOTBALL European Premiere at Le Passage in Fecamp, France. Read about Autome en Normandie here.
AWAY UNIFORM at Culturgest
In October 2013 Half Straddle travelled to Lisbon, Portugal as part of Culturgest.
HOUSE OF DANCE
Written and Directed by: Tina Satter
Performers: Jess Barbagallo Jim Fletcher Elizabeth DeMent Paul Pontrelli
Composer/Music Director: Chris Giarmo
Choreographer: Hannah Heller
Set Design: Andreea Mincic
Lighting Design: Zack Tinkelman
Costume Design: Enver Chakartash
Producer: Richard Maxwell
Associate Producer: Lindsay Hockaday
Stage Manager: Randi Rivera
Production Interns: Eric Larson and Hanna Lea Novak
Publicity: Blake Zidell & Associates
Opens: October 23th, 2013 Abrons Arts Center, New York City
Half Straddle at the 2013 Obies!
It was a huge honor to be acknowledged among artistic heroes and friends with an Obie grant -- and we are very grateful! And thankful to all the collaborators, audiences, institutions & more who have been part of our wonderful experiences so far.
Artistic Director Tina Satter Discusses the Making of Seagull (Thinking of you)
listen on Northeast Public Radio
MASS MoCA Artist Spotlight: Half Straddle
Antje Oegel + Tina Satter in American Theatre Magazine
Antje Oegel + Tina Satter Discuss Art/Artist Relationship in American Theatre Magazine
Half Straddle Songbook Concert at New Museum – December 20
Info from the New Museum
Half Straddle at MASS MoCA – December 4 to 15
Seagull (Thinking of you) Performance on Saturday, December 15Mass MoCA
Half Straddle in Residence at New Museum
more info here
SEAGULL (Thinking of you)
Writer/director Tina Satter draws on Chekhov’s letters, translations, and perverse sense of comedy to consider anew the darkness, beauty, and history of Chekhov’s iconic play The Seagull and its resonances with her Half Straddle ensemble. Seagull (Thinking of you) is a personal look at performance, failure, and attempted love — ultimately an unexpected meditation on why we ever try to say something out loud. With a Russian folk metal-influenced score.
Commissioned by PS122, co-presented with The New Ohio Theatre
Jan 9, 11, 17, 19 8pm Jan 10, 12, 18 10pm Jan 15 5pm Jan 22, 23, 25 8pm Jan 26 2pm
New Ohio Theatre 154 Christopher St., Manhattan
$20 / $15 students, seniors
IN THE PONY PALACE/FOOTBALL
Written + Directed by Tina Satter
Music Arranged by Chris Giarmo + Bobby McElver
New York City debut presented by the Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY, February 10 - 26, 2011
“a giddily exuberant confection that manages to conjure a distinctively eccentric theatrical world”
“launching a goal-line drive to a new feminist form”
“The specific vision and big, playful imagination is something our theatre will need in spades.”
Tina Satter and Half Straddle named as an Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch! by Time Out New York Running time: 70 minutes
An all-female cast portrays the players, coaches and cheerleaders of a high school football team. With the historically-male and highly American backdrop of football, the piece considers what it is to be a female athlete; the shifting stakes, relationships and power dynamics of a team on and off the field; and the concept of placing belief and commitment in something bigger than oneself. The text combines the specific lexicon of football, sports and coaching with the awkward realism of high school-speak. A live score blending deconstructed pop songs accompanies the performance arranged by Chris Giarmo (Big Dance Theater) and Bobby McElver (The Wooster Group).
Casey Yorke | Assistant Director William Burke | Football Choreography Zack Tinkelman | Lighting Design Andreea Mincic | Set Design Michael De Angeles | Costume Design Liz Nielsen | Stage Manager
Starring | Moe Angelos, Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent, Nikki Calonge, Emily Emily Davis, Erin Markey, Glennis McMurray, Kourtney Rutherford, Julia Sirna-Frest
The Pony Palace Marching Band is Justin Dayhoff, Jon Lijoi, Bobby McElver, Mary Rasmussen
NURSES IN NEW ENGLAND
Written + Directed by Tina Satter Music by Chris Giarmo
A co-production of The ICE Factory 2010 Performed at the Ohio Theater, New York City, July 28 – 31, 2010
“Nurses in New England is a funny, charming show by a theatre company I want to see more of … most successful is the way in which playwright Tina Satter manages to create a smart, comic mirror of the medical show genre without every venturing into spoof.”
“With great music, humorous lyrics and comically creepy medical jargon, Tina, a native New Englander, tells her New York audience what it’s like to run a hospital in a small town by the sea.”
Running time: 75 minutesThe language of television hospital dramas is given an unexpected comedic and bittersweet spin in stacking up life and death against our most mundane desires. A female head of surgery and her nursing staff secret smoke, bitch and moan, and find the magic in their starkly beautiful small-town hospital.
Zack Tinkelman | Lighting Design Andreea Mincic | Set Design Michael De Angeles | Costume Design Eliza Laytner | Stage Manager Starring | Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent, Emily Emily Davis, Erin Markey, Annie McNamara, Lena Moy-Borgen, Kourtney Rutherford, Julia Sirna-Frest, Greg Zuccolo
The Nurses in New England band was Chris Giarmo, Matt Bogdanow, Shane Chapman
AWAY UNIFORM
Running time: 60 minutes
With unsettling humor, physical inventiveness, and an attempt to find transcendence in even the smallest moments, the play imagines a separate place where sports drills, ritualistic recreation, and an ongoing merging of a personal past, present, and future feels disturbingly necessary and like a kind of home.
Writer/director Tina Satter uses her poetically tinged approach to the language and feelings of sports as a textual layer to create a world out on the Plains where two young women re-make family and friendship.
Highly regarded experimental performers Pete Simpson, Jess Barbagallo, and Emily Davis are supported with an original score by composer Chris Giarmo.
Preview showing at Other Forces Festival, Incubator Arts Project, New York, NY, February 2012
Supported in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Art.
FAMILY
A co-production of The Ontological-Hysteric TheaterMusic by Chris Giarmo
Performed at the Ontological-Hysteric, New York City, August 13 – 22, 2009
Named a Top 10 Show of 2009 by Time Out New York
“Ridiculous, enchanting musical Family... full to the brim with killer talent.”
“Family re-invents downtown experimental theater for the new millennium—and has a tremendous lot of fun doing it.”
Running time: 75 minutes.
Twenty-year old Lily is about to be impregnated with Rudolf Nureyev’s frozen sperm to make her mother happy. Little sister Frarajaca wants to stage an artistic gangbang. And Mum doesn’t want to deal with anymore goddamn idiots. It’s a family drama. Sort of. Writer/director Tina Satter’s new one-act is an unexpected, musically-enhanced, and close-up look at the ridiculous and inexplicable nature of families and the kinds of love we can’t escape.
Zack Tinkelman | Lighting Design Nathan Lemoine | Set Design Normandy Sherwood | Costume Design Wayne Petro | Stage Manager Starring | Eliza Bent, Sarah Copeland, Emily Emily Davis, Joseph Keckler, Erin Markey, Katherine Scharhon, Julia Sirna-Frest, Rae C Wright