Dixon Place

Wednesdays, April 2, May 7, June 4, Sign Up At 7, Perform At 7:30pm, FREE!!
7 PEOPLE - 7 MINUTES
Come test out new material; theater, music, dance, puppetry… whatever! Bring your friends & frenemies! (Sorry, no stand-up.) ~ Sponsored. by the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs.

Thursdays, April 3, 10, 17 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, Stu/Sen $10
ANGST & BURLESQUE
Bitter Poet rants about lost love for l'enfant terrible of burlesque, Howling Vic!
The Bitter Poet has performed at PS 122, The P.I.T., The Brick Theater, Arlene Grocery, Theatre For the New City, Mo Pitkin's, Bowery Poetry Club, Galapagos Art Space and others.

Mondays, April 7, May 5, & June 4 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
LITTLE THEATRE curated by Mike Taylor & Jeffrey M. Jones
The OBIE-winning series is dedicated to the best of the new! Stay tuned to www.dixonplace.org for an extraordinary line up of work by; John Clancy, Matthew Korahais, Leslie Ross, Lucy Sexton & Jenny Seastone Stern.

Friday & Saturday, April 4 & 5 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
RYAN GREEN ~on a shared bill with ~ ERIC LOCKLEY
Ms. Green - Assisted Suicide: A hatful of stories & songs about death. How wonderful.
Written & performed by Ryan Green. Directed by Michael Cherry.
Ryan Green graduated from Baldwin Wallace College with a BA in Musical Theatre. He sings bossa nova at Le Petit Bistro on 15th Street every Thursday night.
~Blacken The Bubble: A fast-paced comedic romp that explores an extra-ordinary day of three white office workers who get more than they bargain for when a new black employee, joins the company to fill its minority quota. Written & performed by Eric Lockley.
Eric Lockley is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama. Both a writer and a passionate performer, his other writing includes his two one-man shows: Last Laugh, which was recently produced at La MaMa, and Asking for More- part of the 2007 Globesity Fest.

Wednesday, April 9 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
PETER NEOFOTIS
Peter regales us with "The Stranger" and "The Fool," two tales from Stories from Concord, VA.
Winner of the Faulkner Society prize, Peter Neofotis graduated from Columbia in 2003. He has been performing his stories at DP since the 16th annual HOT Festival. He works at NASA.

Friday & Saturday, April 11 & 12 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
PANOPLY THEATRE LABORATORY
Schooled and Unschooled: Raise your hand to speak up in my society!
An expression of the absurdity and social violence of the classroom. There will be a pop quiz.
Featuring: Anika Solveig, Marisa Merrigan, Ian Dunn, Micheal Connely, Dani Faitelson, Mary Sheridan, & Rachel Handshaw. Directed by Esther Neff.
Esther Neff, Artistic Director of PTL and founding member of The Internationalists Directors Collective, was born in Indiana on a Sustainable Organic goat and vegetable farm and was unschooled grades K-12. Selected work includes; The Seven Deadly Sins Project at The Public, Cultur(e)ality at BAX and Matthew Stephen Smith's Shiver Meek & Mute at Prospect Theater.

Tuesday, April 15 at 8:00pm, Tickets $10-15 (addl donations gratefully accepted!)
MONEY OF THE MONTH CLUB starring PEGGY SHAW & LOIS WEAVER
A performance party for Dixon Place's 22nd birthday! Come celebrate with us!
Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of Split Britches will perform their favorite pieces in Retro-perspective a collection of their greatest hits that makes the politics of gender sexuality class the humor of human relations accessable to all ages and persuasions while celebrating their 30-YEAR career as teachers and creators of innovative queer theatre in the USA and beyond. They will also present some sneak preview pieces from their new show "Miss America" which will premiere at LaMama in June.
Peggy Shaw has received three OBIES for her work with the Split Britches Theater Company founded in 1980 with collaborators Lois Weaver and Deb Margolin. Celebrated works include: You're Just Like My Father, To My Chagrin, Menopausal Gentleman and Lust And Comfort. Lois Weaver has toured with Leslie Hill and Helen Paris in On the Scent as well as developing a guerilla video performance entitled Dirty Laundry commissioned by Franklin Furnace in NY and a solo piece entitled Still Counting. She teaches and tours independently in the U.S and beyond.

Wednesdays April 23 & May 14, at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
CRONES, DUCKS, AND BABES: A HOWLING VIC REVUE!
An evening of vaudeville, music, burlesque, magic & more. Come early for face painting. Curated by Howling Vic.
Victoria Libertore (Howling Vic) has performed at BRIC, CB's 313 Gallery, Fresh Fruit, Galapagos, HERE, HOWL, Joe's Pub, Joyce SoHo & The Women's Project.

Thursday, April 24 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
FLARF!
The kick-off evening of Flarf Festival 2008 features outré theater by members of the Flarflist Collective; K. Silem Mohammad, Kim Rosenfield, Rod Smith, Melanie Nichols, Michael Magee, Mitch Highfill & Gary Sullivan. For more info www.flarf08.blogspot.com.

Friday & Saturday, April 25 & 26 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
ENEMYRESEARCH ~ on a shared bill with ~ JEN ABRAMS
Garbage: Zach Braff, dead honeybees, "Umbrella." That's all you really need to know.
Created By enemyResearch.
enemyResearch is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Lydia Brawner whose work is dedicated to the art of conversation. Projects include: Gone With The Wind, Pittman Sits On A Couch Reading Classics Of Critical Race Theory, and The Fish Funeral.
~Study #4: Most of This Is True: Two sisters navigate a minefield of rules and expectations, correcting, criticizing, manipulating, and occasionally complimenting each other.
Choreographed by Jen Abrams, with Ariel Polonsky & Jessica Ames.
Jen Abrams has shown work at HERE, La Mama ETC, and the Bowery Poetry Club, as well as at WOW Café Theater, where she has been a member for eight years and presented five seasons.

Monday, April 28 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $10
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Floydada tells the story of two sisters who decide to open a DaDa Cabaret in 1926 West Texas.
Written and directed by Barry Rowell, performed by Catherine Porter & Nomi Tichman.
(A Peculiar Works Project-the Obie-award winning company)
Nomi Tichman is delighted to work at Dixon Place. She is particularly delighted to be reunited with Barry Rowell and Catherine Porter after having worked with them on It's Good Enough For Me, Freiheit Makes A Stand and Before I Wake. She has been seen in NYC in many productions including Modern Living at La MaMa, Kerouac:The Musical at Theater East and Come Clean with Jeff Weiss at PS 122. Nomi has also toured nationally and internationally in On The Town, Godspell and Babes in Toyland. In addition, she works as a singing teacher and vocal coach in NYC (212-501-7031).
Barry Rowell is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Peculiar Works Project. has written the PWP productions Freiheit Makes a Stand, It's Good Enough for Me, B4 I Wake, and the Guided Tour of The Judson House Project; with PWP partners Ralph Lewis and Catherine Porter, he created the live multimedia documentary performance, Welcome Aboard the Friendly Tripbox; and co-wrote 3Christs with S.M. Dale, which PWP will be remounting later this seasons. His play B4 I Wake was recently presented at Theatre of NOTE in Los Angeles, and his 10-minute play, Dialogue in 3 Parts, was a finalist in the Creative Mechanics' inaugural Stage This! festival and is available in the published collection on amazon.com. Barry has directed productions of S.M. Dale's Privileged & Confidential (Los Angeles/NYC video conference performance), Ruth Margraff's Gat Him To His Place at HERE Arts Center; Kurt Weill's opera The Protagonist at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall for the American Symphony Orchestra. Next, he will be directing a concert version of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which he has adapted with Christopher Burney and visual artist Myrel Chernick, in preparation for a fuller workshop next season.
Catherine Porter has appeared Off Broadway with En Garde Arts in Mac Wellman=s award-winning Crowbar, and acted with such Off-Off companies as Aisling Arts, TOSOS II, Theatre Askew, Flux Theater Ensemble and 78th Street Theatre Lab. She is Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Peculiar Works Project, an OBIE Award-winning performance company with whom she has performed many leading roles (OFF Stage: the East Village Fragments and The West Village Fragments, The Beggar's Opera, It's Good Enough for Me, 3Christs, Freiheit Makes a Stand, Privileged & Confidential, among others) and produced more than 80 site-specific plays and large-scale events, featuring over 100 artists annually (www.peculiarworks.org). In addition, Catherine is Development Director for Dixon Place, where she has also served as Interim Executive Director (winter '01). She co-founded the multi?disciplinary arts series, stART, at Judson Memorial Church. A Texas native, Catherine graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth with a BFA in Theatre. She is a member of Actor's Equity Association, and serves on the boards of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and Concrete Temple.

Tuesdays, April 29 & May 27 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
Live DEEP n fLoW
A new series devoted to the return of the word curated by Baraka de Soleil.
Flow in and out. An homage to the exciting spontaneous nature of spoken word artistry. Featuring; members of D UNDERBELLY, Carmen Barika & many others.
Award-winning interdisciplinary artist Baraka De Soleil spearheads D UNDERBELLY, an underground collective of artists exploring culture as it relates to societal notions of 'blackness.'

Wednesday, April 30 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GOOGLE
A reflection piece on what our society deems important from a lonely student's point of view.
Written & performed by Liz Kelley
Liz Kelley is an artist who hails from CA. She is the winner of the rambleunderground.org fiction contest and has written 2 pieces for the UCSB Monologue Festival.

Thursdays, May 1, 8, 15, & 22 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
OFF THE HOZZLE by DP's artist-in-residence, LUMBEROB
One mic. two pedals. two feet. it's a vocal show : loud, soft, fast,
and slow. lumberob is part dub clown, part broken down - an experiment
in layers and loops. OFF THE HOZZLE is a rare long format lumberob
show, a new piece of properly built bumpy grinder beatbox and fairly
advanced golf swing theory. lumberob hopes to sock your knocks off!
Recent graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brooklyn College,
Rob Erickson is a musician and a writer. He has been developing the
Lumberob show for over eight years now as a solo artist and in
collaboration with Jad Fair, Kevin Blechdom, 1/2 Japanese, Adult
Rodeo, and most recently the Nature Theater Of Oklahoma. Rob is a new
member of Joyce Cho and the proud father of Tallulah.

Friday & Saturday, May 9 & 10 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
PUPPET BLOK (innovative storytelling) curated by Leslie Strongwater
Unearthed is an object theatre piece about a photographer who attempts to capture the soul of his beloved in the heart of his camera.By Jonathan Farmer, directed by Emily DeCola.
Jonathan Farmer is an actor/writer/director and co-founder of Climb the Ladder.
Emily DeCola is a recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Production Grant and is a member of The Puppet Kitchen; a full-service puppet studio shoehorned into an ancient East Village bakery.
~Finding Your Way Back, a ritual exploration of twins in a labyrinth using movement and sound. By Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith, w/ Jessica Scott, Caroline Yes & Lisa Andaloro
Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith began her study of puppetry with Alain Recoing in Paris and neutral mask with Dody DiSanto in DC. Puppeteering credits include; David Michael Friend's Ego at HERE and Mabou Mines' Peter and Wendy at Arena Stage.

Friday & Saturday, May 16 & 17 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
GANG OF SEVEN is a comedy about a rogue focus group, so turned on by sharing their private opinions that they begin meeting on their own.
Featuring; Mary Shultz, Black-Eyed Susan, Tony Nunziata, Chris Maresca, Agosto Machado, & Jon Costelloe. Written and performed by Jim Neu, directed by Keith McDermott.
Jim Neu has been writing and performing his plays since the late 70s. Since 1991 almost all his work has premiered at La MaMa. Gang open there in December 2008.

Monday, May 19 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $10
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Welcome To The White Room, written by Trish Harnetiaux, directed by Sam Gold.
Somewhere between eating The Last Deck of Cards in the World and dancing the Tango, the puppeteer is summoned - and with him a sense of purpose. Or so it seems.
Trish Harnetiaux. Full-length plays; Inside a Bigger Box, Straight On Til Morning, and I Will Come Like A Thief. Publications include: Straight On Til Morning and The Dorsal Striatum.
Sam Gold is a Wooster Group Current Associate, NYTW Usual Suspect, Drama League Directing Fellow and a recipient of the Princess Grace Award.

Wednesday, May 21 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
CAROUSEL: a cartoon slide show & other projected pictures.
Curated & hosted by R. Sikoryak.
Featuring; Leela Corman, Brian Dewan, Glenn Head, M. Sweeney, Lawless, Jared Whitham, Todd Alcott & more!
Leela Corman is an illustrator, cartoonist, bellydancer, and painter in New York City.
Brian Dewan makes filmstrips, accompanies silent films and shows artwork at Pierogi gallery.
Glenn Head's comics have appeared in The New Republic and Press, and The Village Voice.
M. Sweeney Lawless's work appears in "23/6". She can hide up to five bees in her mouth.
Jared Whitham is a painting clown who loves garage sales, science fiction and reality.
Todd Alcott mostly writes screenplays. But he really likes making comics too.
R. Sikoryak has adapted the classics for Drawn and Quarterly and Raw. His cartoons have appeared in Nickelodeon Mag, Wired, TV Guide, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and on the cover of The New Yorker. He's been creating slide shows since the early 1990's.

Friday & Saturday, May 23 & 24 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
TERRA INCOGNITA THEATER
Pebbles & Cart Cycles: Moocha & The Day of Wrath is an evening of 2 short works exploring the theater of internal conflict. Directed by Polina Klimovitskaya.
Polina Klimovitskaya is the Founding Artistic Director of Terra Incognito Theater. Shows include; BACA award winner Ida At The Window and Red Beads, produced by Mabou Mines.

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, May 29, 30, 31 & June 5, 6, 7 at 8:00pm, Tix are $15, $12
THE DEBATE SOCIETY
You're Welcome: A Cycle of Short Plays- A DP MONDO CANÉ! COMMISSION
The Debate Society has created a collection of 5 small works about creation & failure. This unified theatrical myth tells the story of an invented band of performers & their catastrophic attempts at connection.
Written & performed by Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen, directed & developed by Oliver Butler.
The Debate Society's work includes; A Thought About Raya, The Snow Hen, The Eaten Heart, and The Untitled Auto Project, presented at DP in the Fall of 07. Premieres at PS122 Fall of 08.

Tuesday, June 3 at 8:00pm, Tickets $10-15 (addl donations accepted!)
MONEY OF THE MONTH CLUB hosted by Laura Peterson
Deborah Hay's solo adaptations performed by DEBORAH BLACK & ELISE KNUDSON
Elise Knudson has been dancing in New York for a long time for people like Risa Jaroslow, Jody Oberfelder, Noemie Lafrance and Christopher Williams.
Deborah Black holds a BFA with honors in dance from Tisch School of the Arts.

DP theatre events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; & generous private funds from ART/NY's Fund for Small Theatres; Altria, Inc; Edith C. Blum Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; Dramatist Guild Fund; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts; Greenwall Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Katherine Dalglish Foundation; Low Wood Fund; Lucille Lortel Foundation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; & Peg Santvoord Foundation.