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wildprojectTV gives artists and creators across theater, dance, film, spoken word, music, and visual arts the resources to transform their theater content into impactful films, live-streams, and theater-on-film using wild project’s 89-seat theater as a production sound stage.
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WAY DOWN
WAY DOWN follows ALEX, a struggling non-binary photographer and the bass player for an even more struggling band in New York City, where they live with their girlfriend/bandmate TYLER. Broke, queer, almost-30 year old artists navigate life and heartache in the city’s most ass-kicking neighborhood. It’s about to go down.
Starring: iris menas, Aury Krebs, Alexis Floyd, Deon’te Goodman, Jake Austin Robertson & Monique Vukovic
Created & Written by Grant James Varjas
Directed & Edited by Ellie Gravitte
Produced by wild project
Original music written by: Nini Camps, Stephen Kellogg, Deon’te Goodman & Kent Coleman
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Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Rising by Jacob Storms from wildprojectTV on Vimeo.
based on the life & career of Tennessee Williams
written & performed by Jacob Storms
originally directed for the stage by Alan Cumming
Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams* (United Solo Award) sheds light on the unexplored early years (1939-1945) of young Williams. The world is on the brink of world war II and a young writer named Tom has finally escaped the family home only to be confronted with the harsh realities of life. To get ahead, he creates a new character for himself to play, Tennessee Williams, and so begins his meandering journey wherein we meet the people in his life who will go on to inspire his most iconic characters all while young Williams grapples with first love, professional triumph and torment, heartbreak, and ultimately “the catastrophe of success.” If you thought you knew Tennessee Williams, think again!
editing by Ellie Gravitte
director of photography by David Doobinin
lighting design by Kryssy Wright
sound mixing by Sean Hagerty
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OF MOTHERS AND MEN
Performances by Lupita Asto, Melissa Sarai, Adwoa Duncan-Williams, Alexis Damita, Georgina Morillo and Hayley Nyota.
Derived from the American classic OF MICE AND MEN, OF MOTHERS AND MEN explores the varying relationships between women, their mothers, and the men in their lives. This monologue-driven piece (compromised of six vignettes) dives into the pivotal roles of two of the most influential people in one’s life.
The cast is made up of an array of multicultural women discussing various topics prevalent to women. Included in the cast is the Writer/Director/Founder of The Black Latina Movement, Crystal Shaniece Roman. Ms. Roman wrote the piece as a tribute to the many paths these intricate relationships often take. Instead of holding steadfast to the typical tropes of romance, beauty, and the ideal family, Ms. Roman uses topics like sexual molestation, abortion, and self-advancement as vehicles to discuss and define these relationships. The results provide the viewer with an atypical and multilayered approach to defining social activism and feminism.
The Black Latina Movement is a vibrant grassroots theater and film production company based in New York City. Alongside creating and producing our own works, The Movement’s priority endeavor is to make the entertainment industry culturally and artistically richer by showcasing the talents of men and women in the arts. This open platform provides artists of all kinds the opportunity to create, write, produce or perform while promoting our local communities as diverse, inclusive places where people want to live, work, and visit.
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THE BLK HRS (Studio Sessions)
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Directed by Mur Music and Lyrics by Mur
TREES is a musical witness statement addressing climate change, deforestation, and the selfishness of mankind. Based on the true story of the destruction of our planet and inspired by the International Bestseller; The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. TREES gives voices to the last remaining Trees on Earth. Featuring new original music and lyrics by Mur and filmed for the first time ever at the wild project theatre in New York City in the Fall of 2020.
Produced by wild project
Featuring: Aisha Kerensa, Mur, Jade Litaker, Nyah Raposo, and Haley Fortune.
Adrienne Truscott’s
ASKING FOR IT
Adrienne Truscott has made a TV series or perhaps the opposite of a TV series. A pilot and 3 episodes. Or a co-pilot or a faux pilot followed by her having/making several episodes. It’s a show, about a show, about comedy and trauma. It’s a traumedy – an intentionally messy meta mixup of how a brain works through trauma, making art and inappropriate jokes along the way. It’s called ASKING FOR IT.
CAST
Alexandra Tatarsky, Adrienne Truscott, Carmine Covelli, Maurina “Mo” Lioce, Heather Litteer, Becca Blackwell, TL Thompson, Miss Behave, Le Gateau Chocolat & Eric Dyer.
CREW:
Director: Adrienne Truscott
Assistant Director/ Production Manager: Maurina “Mo” Lioce
Written by: Adrienne Truscott & Mike Albo
Director of Photography: Carmine Covelli & Adrienne Truscott
Editor: Carmine Covelli
Produced by: Wild Project & Adrienne Truscott
FOLLOWSPOT: a series of comedic performances
AS SCHMERM AS IT GETS
Over the course of an afternoon in an empty theater and one year after their last public show, performer Becca Blackwell, three friends, and two technicians realize that they are simultaneously their own best friends and worst enemies. In addition to a revealing discussion about horniness during isolation, the group explores what’s holding them back and ultimately discovers a common, human quest for expansion, love, and having fun. The final video offering in the artist’s “Schmermterion Trilogy.”
FOLLOWSPOT: a series of comedic performances
LOW VIBRATIONS
In “Low Vibrations,” her latest solo offering, comedic performer Jill Pangallo speaks from the heart about childlessness, middle age, and navigating the complexities of her own adoption. The 45-minute special, shot audience-free at Wild Project theater in New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic, features candid monologue work interspersed with a cast of Pangallo’s signature kooky characters.
FOLLOWSPOT: a series of comedic performances
PETS. AN OPERA IN FOUR PARTS
While we walk them and feed them and brush them and pet them and house them and scratch their undersides in their gilded cages, our universal ask remains… Who, pray tell, takes care of who?
Artists Paul Soileau, Roddy Bottum, and Frank Haines collaborate behind the camera in this four-part, performative opera.
FOLLOWSPOT: a series of comedic performances
IT’S NOT GOING TO WORK OUT
It’s Not Going to Work Out, comedian and producer Brandon Collins (Drunk Black History)’s first special, chronicles his formative years in the suburbs of boujee Ann Arbor, Michigan through his adulthood moving to NYC, losing and finding love and being a Harry Potter stan. It’s Not Going to Work Out is written and directed by Brandon Collins. This one-man show is executive produced by wild project, Solo Project Fund and Casa de Collins LLC.
Michigan-born comedian Brandon Collins chronicles his trials and tribulations as a misunderstood blerd with a heart of gold and booze.
FOLLOWSPOT: a series of comedic performances
AIRWAVES
“Airwaves” is here to show you that radio is merely dated, not dead!
Playwright and Comedian Manning Jordan (Dixon Place, The Kraine Theater, The Brick) takes you through a tour of satirical radio stations. “Airwaves” is directed by Ryan Leach, of LaMama, who has worked with Manning in plays and in the comedy world. Taped before no audience at the wild project in Manhattan’s East Village, the special is produced by Hil Steadman, Ana Mari de Quesada, and Jill Pangallo.
Executive produced by wild project and Solo Project Fund.
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TETHER
TETHER, is a movement, sound, and video work created by multidisciplinary artists; Joanna Mattrey (viola), Laurel Snyder (dance/vocals) and Chris Ryan Williams (trumpet). In this collaborative work, we seek to foster empathy, explore the bonds between people, and tap into the minds, bodies, and inner essences of each other to open portals into the surreal. Their collective practice searches for the translations between sounds and gestures and fuses these mediums to create compositions based on these impulses.
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W.O.e.R.D … Women of Experience Read Downtown
This Edition of W.O.e.R.D. featured artists are Elizabeth Koke, Raffaele Mary, Dael Orlandersmith, and Tanya Selvaratnam!
Brought to you by Heather Litteer and a co-production with wild project.
ABOUT wildprojectTV
wildprojectTV is a virtual performance program that presents live streams, films, and theater-on-film productions. wildprojectTV gives artists film production resources, encouraging them to reimagine and reformat live theater for distribution on our Vimeo platform, thus, creating a sustainable performance model and safe theatrical experience. The program empowers Wild Project artists, getting them back on stage in front of the camera and their work back in front of virtual audiences after Covid-19.
Wild project co-produces or serves as lead producer on wildprojectTV productions and, as the provider of the digital platform, work with the artists to structure a beneficial partnership for their content and audience. wildprojectTV actively partners with many artists we have supported through our Wild Culture and Indie the Wild programs, and we look forward to increasing our virtual partnerships through this program.
If you are a solo artist or production company in theater, music, spoken-word, poetry, dance or film, and you’re interested in partnering or co-producing with us through wildprojectTV, please reach out to Producing Artistic Director, Ana Mari, at anamari@thewildproject.org to discuss your project and join the program.
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