Created by Joshua William Gelb, Nick Lehane, and Normandy Sherwood
in collaboration with the company
Performed by Nick Lehane, Rosa Allegra Wolff, and Joshua William Gelb
Scenography by Normandy Sherwood
Sound by Alex Hawthorn
Video by Joshua William Gelb
Theater in Quarantine Founder, Joshua Willam Gelb
Produced by Shannon Sindelar
Production Assistant, Madelyn Barkocy
Social Media Manager, Kate Purdum
TiQ Theme by Alex Weston
RUN TIME
35 minutes
BIOS
Madelyn Barkocy (she / her) is an interdisciplinary creative based in New York and represented by Lohne / Graham Management. Most recent projects include Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Men on Boats (Dramaturg) as well as a production of Anne Carson’s translation of Antigone featuring mask, projections, and ensemble-based movement work (Antigone). In May 2023 she received her BFA in Acting from Adelphi University where she completed her undergraduate thesis in creating character through movement, taking classes at Pig Iron Theatre Company and PUSH Physical Theatre to aid in her research. She is so excited to have a part in bringing Nosferatu to life in the three-dimensional landscape! www.madelynbarkocy.org
Joshua William Gelb is an Obie and Drama League Award winning multi-hyphenate theater maker whose various hats include director, performer, creative technologist, producer, designer, and librettist. His work runs the gamut from devised physical theater, to stylized adaptations of classics, to original musicals as well as collaborations with emerging playwrights. With an eye for the highly theatrical verging on the cinematic, Gelb’s direction has been known to feature striking integrations of technology, music, movement, clowning, and dance.
Alex Hawthorn (they/them) is an artist, composer, and technologist whose work flows between performance, installation, object-making, and sound-making. As a non-binary interdisciplinary artist, Hawthorn is most comfortable outside prescriptive boxes, allowing their research and intuition to shape the form and medium of their projects. They use their work as a lens through which to investigate the natural world, specifically focusing on time: how we experience it, how we have codified it, and how we exist within it. Their work in theatrical sound design has garnered them an Obie award, LA Ovation Awards, and has been heard across North and South America, Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. But most recently they’ve been focusing on writing, coding, and hiking. www.AlexHawthorn.com IG: @AFHawthorn
Nick Lehane is a theater maker, actor and puppet artist. Original work: Fly Away, a co-creation with Derek Fordjour (Petzel Gallery, Art Basel 2021, “The 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020,” –New York Magazine); Chimpanzee (HERE Arts Center, The Barbican Centre). Acting on stage: This is Our Youth (Broadway); Fidelis (The Public Theater); The Old Man and the Old Moon (PigPen); The Cherry Orchard (Quantum Theatre); The Wanderers (City Theatre); The Electric Baby (Two River, Quantum). Puppet performance: Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store and The Pigeoning (HERE); 9,000 Paper Balloons (HERE, Japan Society); Petrushka (Giants Are Small, New York Philharmonic, Barbican Centre); Doug Fitch’s El retablo de Maese Pedro (American Symphony Orchestra, Bard SummerScape); “Lore” (Amazon). Puppet Design: The Tale of Despereaux (PigPen, The Old Globe, Berkeley Rep); Three Sisters (Two River); Hood (Asolo Rep). Lehane was the lead puppeteer and puppet director for Alex Da Corte’s ROY G BIV at Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept.
Kate Purdum is a director, dramaturg, and maker (in this case, of social media content!). Lately she’s worked with and at: Object Collection, La MaMa, The Brick (+aux), and Barnard College. She’s thrilled to add TiQ to this list! You can find her writing in HowlRound & Theatre and Performance Design journal, and her zines scattered to the wind if you know where to look. BA: Theatre & History, Barnard College.
Normandy Sherwood is a theater maker who has been building worlds in NYC for two decades. She is a writer, a director, a costume and scenic designer and occasionally a performer. Her shows include PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE, Madame Lynch, Tiny Hornets, Permanent Caterpillar, and The Golden Veil, and they have been presented by The New Ohio Theatre, Rubulad, HERE, The Kitchen, The Brick, The Public Theater and more. She and Craig Flanagin make no-wave music-driven spectacles with their theater company, The Drunkard’s Wife and their band God Is My Co-Pilot. From 2001-2017 she was a core collaborator in The National Theater of the United States of America (R.I.P.) and with this company she toured the U.S., won an OBIE award and published a book called A New Practical Guide to Rhetorical Gesture and Action (53rd State Press). As a costume designer she has worked with Faye Driscoll, Tina Satter/ Half Straddle, Young Jean Lee, Rachel Chavkin and Kristin Marting. She has been an artist in residence at Macdowell, Yaddo and Millay Arts. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in Expository Writing at NYU.
Shannon Sindelar is a theater director and producer based in New York City. She currently serves as producing director for the Obie Award-winning company The Builders Association and as managing director for the composer-driven non-profit Experiments in Opera. Recent directing work includes regional premieres of Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane, Clare Barron’s Dance Nation, the Midwest premiere of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses, and the Southern premiere of Jaclyn Backus’ Men on Boats. In NYC her directing work has been seen at The Bushwick Starr, PS 122, Roulette and HERE, among others. She currently serves as an adjunct lecturer at Barnard College, is an affiliated artist with New Georges, and is a board member of the performance ensemble Object Collection.
Rosa Allegra Wolff (they/she) is a dynamic performer, dancer, choreographer, and photographer. They were a choreographic fellow with Moving Forward Dance and are actively devising original work. Rosa’s creations weave in self-produced music and personal writing, with collaboration from multimedia artists. Their work has been chosen to be presented at the American College Dance Festival Gala, Spring for Spring Dance Festival, Supper Club Dance, and more. Rosa graduated from George Mason School of Dance in May 2023 with choreography excellence honors. They have worked with artists including Heather Robles, Christina Robson, Lawrence Jackson, Joseph Hernandez, Brandon Dicrisco, and are thrilled to be in process with Theater in Quarantine and NYU Skirball.
ABOUT THEATER IN QUARANTINE
Theater in Quarantine is an Obie and Drama League Award-winning performance laboratory dedicated to the exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space. Established in response to the pandemic by director, performer, and creative technologist Joshua William Gelb, TiQ has live-streamed dozens of visually distinctive, original works to its YouTube channel, performed out of a closet in the East Village measuring only 8 sq feet. Hailed as one of the most imaginative makers of digital performance, TiQ has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Japan’s NHK Television, has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, been a four-time Times Critic’s Pick as well as one of Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020” and the Times’ “Best Theater of 2021.” TiQ’s full archive can be found and streamed anytime on their YouTube channel at youtube.com/theaterinquarantine.
SPECIAL THANKS
David Gould
Josh Luxenberg
Jenny and Matt Jared
The Connelly Theater
The Metropolitan Playhouse
The Drunkard’s Wife
Materials for the Arts
Shoshanna Tarkow
David Hazan
Nicole Baker
Katherine Brook
Morgan Tachco
Dave Gelb and Dreambear
James Jenkins
Justin Nestor and Theater Mitu
Theater in Quarantine is supported by ArtNY’s Creative Opportunity Fund & Strengthening NYC Theaters Grant, LMCC Creative Engagement, and our individual donors.
ABOUT NYU SKIRBALL
NYU Skirball holds close James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” Our mission is to present adventurous, transdisciplinary work that inspires yet provokes, confirms yet confounds, and entertains yet upends. We proudly embrace renegade artists who surprise, productions that blur aesthetic boundaries, and thought-leaders who are courageous, outrageous, and mind-blowing.
A roster of international artistic visionaries command our stage, often with North American or World Premieres, including directors Milo Rau and Toshiki Okada; choreographers Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Florentina Holzinger, and Faustin Linyekula; composers Du Yun, George Lewis, and John Zorn; the theatre ensembles Elevator Repair Service, Forced Entertainment, Gob Squad, Wooster Group, and Teatro La ReSentida; along with the dance companies A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Big Dance Theater, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance. Eminent scholars, authors, and paradigm shifters headline our events and have included Kwame Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, David Chalmers, Angela Davis, Zadie Smith, and Slavoj Žižek.
NYU Skirball’s engagement programming supports the University’s academic mission with conjunctions of cutting-edge live art and practical, experiential curricular resources, including artists’ conversations, workshops, scholarly essays, and diverse public events. Our work promotes encounters with boundary-pushing art forms, enhances critical thinking, nurtures imaginations, and employs the performing arts as an essential means of teaching, researching, and lifelong learning.
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