Field of Mars

Written and directed by Richard Maxwell

Cast: Lakpa Bhutia, Nicholas Elliott, Jim Fletcher, Eleanor Hutchins, Paige Martin, Brian Mendes, James Moore, Philip Moore, Steven Thompson, Tory Vazquez and Gillian Walsh

Set and Lights: Sascha van Riel

Costumes: Kaye Voyce

Producer: Nicholas Elliott

Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Katiana Rangel

Assistant Stage Manager: Almog Cohen-Kashi

Technical Director: Dirk Stevens

Set Engineer: Charles Reina

Lighting Consultant: Matt Morris

Production Assistants: Makeda Christodoulos, Tim Reid

NYCP Company Manager: Eric Magnus

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Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes, with a 15-minute intermission

Field of Mars was commissioned by NYU Skirball Center and is made possible by a commission from the Walker Arts Center with support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and with special funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Restart NY: Rapid Live Performance Grant with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Portions of Field of Mars were developed at Duke University in 2020 and as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Residency Program on Governor’s Island. lmcc.net

Presented in association with Under the Radar Festival.

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THANK YOU: 17 Frost, Cynthia Hedstrom and The Wooster Group, Mihwa Lee, Jody McCauliffe, Richard Walsh.

WHO’S WHO

Lakpa Bhutia has worked with NYCP since 1996. During the Pandemic, he was part of NYCP’s Incoming Theater Division, performing The Vessel on a boat by the Statue of Liberty. He recently appeared in Engarde Arts’ Downtown Stories (dir. Johanna McKeon).

Almog Cohen-Kashi is an art critic and writer currently pursuing her PhD in art history. She is a native New Yorker who began working with New York City Players in 2022.

Nicholas Elliott is a writer and translator based in Queens. He has worked with New York City Players in various capacities since 2007. He was the U.S. correspondent for French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma from 2009 to 2020.

Jim Fletcher is a founding member of NYC Players with Richard Maxwell.  Currently also works with The Wooster Group.  Has worked with Sarah Michelson (Devotion); ERS (GATZ); Sean Lewis (BroTox); Katiana Rangel (BlastedAma); Forced Entertainment; and many others.

Eleanor Hutchins is an actor. She worked with Richard Maxwell in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. She is a founding member of The Seven Daughters of Eve Theater & Perf. Co and a teaching artist with The Wooster Group’s Summer Institute.

Eric Magnus is company manager of NYCP having been involved in the admin since 2017. He’s a theater artist with an MFA from the PIMA program at Brooklyn College. He has previously performed for Object Collection and Richard Foreman (Astronome at the Ontological, Idiot Savant at the Public). 

Paige Martin is a BESSIE award-winning dancer, and choreographer having worked in the company of Neil Greenberg, extensively with RoseAnne Spradlin and Maria Hassabi, as well as MGM Grand, the underground touring-based dance collective, comprised of herself, Biba Bell, and Jmy James Kidd. She previously appeared in NYCP’s Neutral Hero.

Richard Maxwell denizen of Hell’s Kitchen since 1994. His last play Queens Row was presented at the Kitchen in January 2020 and subsequently at Trienniale Milano in March 2022. His latest book is a collected trilogy: Evening Plays (TCG, 2020). In 2006 he was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

Brian Mendes has been a long-time collaborator and supporter of NYCP including directing People Without History and serving on its Board of Directors. He also has worked with directors Adam Rapp, Annie Baker, Andrew Ondrejcak, James Tyson, Sibyl Kempson and Tania Bruguerra.

James Moore is a composer, guitarist, and bandleader. He has performed internationally as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, most frequently with the raucous electric guitar quartet Dither, the whimsical acoustic group The Hands Free, and the avant-grunge/sloppy-math band Forever House.

Philip Moore is a native New Yorker. He has worked with NYCP since 2010, first appearing in Ads, then Neutral Hero, which toured to Europe and South America. Phil is also an associate member of The Wooster Group, featured in The Room and The B-Side.

Katiana Rangel is an independent theater and performance artist and educator from Brazil. They founded the group Untitled 29, and their main collaborators are Jim Fletcher (Blasted, Ama), Rodrigo Pavon (4.48 Psychosis, What Where) and Jasmine Pisapia (The Vessel, Graceland). Translations include works by Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane and Richard Maxwell.

Charles Reina: 3/25/63. With NYCP since 2017. Charles acted in Richard Maxwell’s Paradiso and Police and Thieves and was a technical assistant and text contributor for Graceland and associate producer for The Vessel, both produced by NYCP’s Incoming Theater Division.

Dirk Stevens, with NYCP since 2010, has been technical director for numerous Richard  Maxwell/New York City Players productions, as well as in multiple productions for different companies across Europe and the Americas.

Steven Thompson, a visual artist from Brooklyn, NY, holds multiple degrees in Painting, Drawing and Sculpture.  Steven’s work has a reputation both quixotic and visionary.  He has shown widely in the US and abroad. This is Steven’s acting debut.

Sascha van Riel has been working with Richard Maxwell since Good Samaritans in Amsterdam in 2002. She works as a freelance set and light designer in The Netherlands.

Tory Vazquez: Most recent: 10th Avenue by Dick Walsh, Listowel Arts Center. Other NYCP shows: Caveman, Isolde, People Without History, Das Madchen. At NYU/Skirball: Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz, Koltès’ In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields (FIAF). She is a proud mom, wife, sister, teacher. Love.

Kaye Voyce (costume design) – With Richard Maxwell/NYCP: Queens Row, Paradiso, The Evening, Isolde (NYC), Open Rehearsal, Neutral Hero, The End of Reality, Henry IV pt 1, and The Frame (Theater Bonn). Other recent credits: ERS’ The Seagull, and The Listeners (Den Norske Opera).

Gillian Walsh is an artist / choreographer from Brooklyn. She has presented performances at Gropius Bau, The Kitchen, Performance Space New York, Performa, Danspace Project and others. She has worked with a range of artists both as a performer and collaborator.

NEW YORK CITY PLAYERS

New York City Players (inc. 1999) is a theater company creating new plays about people, relationships, and above all, feeling.

New York City Players is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation. New York City Players is also supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Major support has also been granted to New York City Players by Charline von Heyl and Christopher Wool, the Rosenthal Family Foundation, Cecily Brown and Rita Ackermann.

Board of Directors: Mónica de la Torre, Molly Grogan, Brian Mendes, Regina Vorria, Robert Weiner and Christopher Wool.

NYCP 2022-2023 supporters: David Allen, Jeff Beauchamp, Peter Bellamy, Philip Bither, Andy Bragen, Cecily Brown, Surya Buddharaju, Miranda Calderon, Janet Clancy, Janet Coleman Dozer, Cooper Collins, John DaQuette, Elaine Davis, Mónica de la Torre, Katharina Dreyer, Matthias Dreyer, Barbara Dufty, Peter Eckersall, Nicholas Elliott, Stephen Facey and Jay Wegman, Sue Fitzgerald, Margaret and Ross Fletcher, Suzanne Fletcher, William Foley, Kathryn Francavilla and Tom King, Jean Ann Garrish, Adam Garth, Jonathan Glaser, Richard Greene, Greene Naftali Gallery, Molly Grogan, Rob Halverson, James Hannaham, Clay Hapaz, Jwahir Hawkins, Cynthia Hedstrom, Jeffrey Horowitz, Timothy Howell, Kevin Hurley, Julia Jarcho, Craig Kalpakjian, Paul Keoni Chun, Anna Kohler, Brie Leftwich, Matthew Lewis, Shawn Lewis, Henry Liles, Lawrence Loewinger, Sicily Masciotti, Christina Masciotti, Deb Taylor and Bill Maxwell, Peggy Maxwell, Nancy Maxwell, E.J. and Kathleen McAdams, Ed McKeaney, Brian Mendes, Norma and Victor Menkin, Mio Nakamura, Anthony Nicolau, Barbara Nunn, Laura Owens, Nancy and Anthony Paul, David Pavkovic, Katiana Rangel, Rachel Reichman, Debra Robb, Mark Rossier, Kerry Scheidt, Michael Schmelling, Felicity Scott, Olivia Shao, Kate Shepherd and Miles McManus, Naomi Skwarna, Alan Springer, William Stasiulatis, Regina Vorria, Robert Weiner, Ethan Wagner and Thea Westreich Wagner, and Linda Yablonsky.

NYU SKIRBALL

NYU Skirball holds close James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” Our mission is to present adventuresome, transdisciplinary work that
inspires yet frustrates, confirms yet confounds, 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. We are NYU’s largest classroom. We want to feed your head.

UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL

The Public Theater’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL is a world-renowned international theater festival shining a spotlight on new theater work from around the world.

SUPPORT

Field of Mars was made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

NYSCA

NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and by Howard Gilman Foundation; FACE Contemporary Theater and FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance), programs of FACE Foundation in partnership with Villa Albertine; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Collins Building Services; Korean Cultural Center New York, Norwegian Consulate General in New York; Marta Heflin Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Aaron Copland Fund for Music; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Stage Pass Fund support.