L E V I AT H A N L A B Leviathan Lab is a professional creative studio that invests in the advancement of Asian American performing artists. By providing artistic resources and showcases for their work – including theater workshops, career mentorship and writers labs – we build performances that compel audiences to question how Asian Americans are encountered in both performance and American culture. By expanding the repertory for Asian American artists, we build bridges to Asian American audiences along with new and underserved communities, connecting them and others to great work made by Asian American artists and promoting a new appreciation for the vitality and importance of the Asian American presence on the American stage and screen.
Ariel Estrada | Executive Director L E V I AT H A N L A B 244 Fifth Avenue, Ste. E282 New York, NY 10001 212.726.1059 www.leviathanlab.com
L E V I AT H A N F R I E N D S Leviathan Lab is a member of the fiscally sponsored artist program at Fractured Atlas, a national non-profit arts advocacy organization. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Leviathan Lab in one of the following ways: • By visiting www.fracturedatlas.org and follow the path Donate > Support a Sponsored Artist > Leviathan Lab OR • By check or money order made out to Fractured Atlas*and earmarked in the memo line for “Leviathan Lab.” Your contribution will help Leviathan Lab’s mission to create, distribute and promote first class work by Asian American artists across multiple disciplines. * Fractured Atlas is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the performing arts community nationwide. Contributions made to Fractured Atlas and earmarked for Leviathan Lab are tax- deductible to the extent allowed by law.
L E V I AT H A N A R T I S T S
THE HUNTERS
B Y J E N S I LV E R M A N DIRECTED BY JESSI HILL _________
ALEX|THUY CAMERON|LOC JEFF MANABAT JAKE MANABAT _________
T H E P R O J E C TA B O U T welcome to leviathan lab’s developmental reading of the hunters by jen silverman. staged readings are essential to the playwright’s process, and allow a playwright a chance to hear their work aloud by actors; rewrite, rework, and make discoveries about the play; and most importantly, read the play for the first time in front of an audience. leviathan lab is thrilled to support the hunters in its development process.
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R U N L E V I AT H A N R U N on saturday, april 7 a team of leviathan lab members and our supporters ran in the new york road runners scotland run 10-kilometer race to raise funds for leviathan lab. leviathan would like to acknowledge the training, time and generosity:
BEN BARTOLONE ARIEL ESTRADA DEBRALEE DACO ALLAN MANGASER JASON DECROW MAY NAZARENO CHRIS DOI EILEEN RIVERA SIHO ELLSMORE KURT UY WITH THANKS TO JO MACALDO AND MOST ESPECIALLY TO ALL OUR DONORS! _________
JESSI D. HILL IS A FREELANCE DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF TERRANOVA COLLECTIVE IN NEW YORK. RECENT AND UPCOMING NEW PLAY PROJECTS INCLUDE WORK AT THE WOMEN’S PROJECT, NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP, NY STAGE & FILM/ POWERHOUSE, PRIMARY STAGES, THE NEW GROUP, CULTURE PROJECT, NEW DRAMATISTS, THE LARK, THE PLAYWRIGHTS REALM, NEW GEORGES, AND OTHERS. MFA DIRECTING: YALE. SDC. UPCOMING PROJECTS: WWW.JESSIDHILL.COM JAKE MANABAT WAS MOST RECENTLY SEEN IN THE WORKSHOP OF PAPER DOLLS FOR THE PUBLIC. NEW YORK: JEN SILVERMAN’S CRANE STORY (PLAYWRIGHTS REALM), CHARLES MEE’S GONE (59E59), MILK-N-HONEY (3LD), SODOM (KRAINE). REGIONAL: M. BUTTERFLY, THE PROVOK’D WIFE (ART, DIR. MARK WING-DAVEY), DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, THE KING & I. TOUR: RENT (BENNY, COMPANY). TV: HBO’S “BORED TO DEATH.” MFA, ART/MXAT INSTITUTE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY. JEFF MANABAT JEFF ORIGINATED THE LEAD ROLE OF HENRY TAHARA IN BRONZEVILLE, NOMINATED FOR BOTH AN NAACP THEATRE AWARD AND AN OVATION AWARD, WITH ROBEY THEATER COMPANY IN LA. REGIONAL: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE KING AND I. CURRENTLY, WRITES, COMPOSES, COSTUME DESIGNS, AND PERFORMS WITH THE AWARD-WINNING THEATRE TROUPE THE KINSEY SICKS WHICH TOURS THE US AND INTERNATIONALLY. WITH THEM, HAS RECORDED ALBUMS, SEVERAL MUSIC VIDEOS, THE CONCERT FILM I WANNA BE A REPUBLICAN!, AND THE DOCUMENTARY ALMOST INFAMOUS. THIS YEAR MARKS THE RELEASE OF A NEW ALBUM AND THEIR NEW MUSICAL POLITICAL SATIRE, ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: THE KINSEY SICKS FOR PRESIDENT. JEN SILVERMAN JEN RECEIVED HER BA FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY AND HER MFA FROM THE IOWA PLAYWRIGHTS WORKSHOP. SHE IS AN AFFILIATED ARTIST WITH NEW GEORGES AND WITH IDTHEATER CO, A MEMBER OF YOUNGBLOOD AT EST, AND HER PLAYS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WITH THE LARK, NEW YORK STAGE & FILM/ POWERHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY AT VASSAR COLLEGE, THE BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, THE HOTINK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (NYC), THE PLAYWRIGHTS REALM, AND SEVEN DEVILS PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE. HER PLAY CRANE STORY PREMIERED OFF-BROADWAY IN 2011 WITH THE PLAYWRIGHTS REALM, AND THE ONE-ACT THE EDUCATION OF MACOLOCO WON THE 2009 SAMUEL FRENCH OFF-OFF BROADWAY PLAY FESTIVAL AND WAS PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL FRENCH. HER PLAY AKARUI WILL RECEIVE ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE IN MAY 2012. SHE RECEIVED A 2011 COMMISSION FROM INTERACT THEATRE AND THE NNPN TO WRITE THE DANGEROUS HOUSE OF PRETTY MBANE, WHICH SHE DEVELOPED AT THE MACDOWELL COLONY DURING A 2012 RESIDENCY. JEN WAS A 2009 PLAYWRIGHT IN RESIDENCE AT HEDGEBROOK, THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2010 KATE NEAL KINLEY FELLOWSHIP, AND WILL BE A 2012 RESIDENT AT THE MILLAY COLONY. IN 2011 SHE WAS A US DELEGATE FOR A CHINA/AMERICA WRITERS EXCHANGE IN BEIJING AND CHICAGO.
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L E V I AT H A N U P C O M I N G T H E 1 0 - M I N U T E F I L M I N I T I AT I V E FEATURING NEW FILMS BY LEVIATHAN LAB | KURT UY, INITIATIVE DIRECTOR IN PRODUCTION SUMMER 2012 | SCREENING EVENT FALL 2012
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L E V I AT H A N S TA F F EXECUTIVE BOARD: ARIEL ESTRADA, JASON MA, RAMON VINLUAN ARTISTIC BOARD: ARIEL ESTRADA, FOUNDER | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; NELSON T. EUSEBIO III, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR; ANDREW EISENMAN, DIRECTOR OF ARTIST DEVELOPMENT; MAY NAZARENO, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT; EILEEN RIVERA, DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL MEDIA; KRISTINE M. REYES & SIHO ELLSMORE, WOMEN WRITERS WORKSHOP LIASONS; KURT UY, FILM INITIATIVE DIRECTOR; JO MACALDO & DAX VALDES, MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
T H E F I L I P I N O H E R I TA G E M O N T H P R O J E C T FEATURING NEW PLAYS BY THE WOMEN WRITERS GROUP OCTOBER 2012 | SPACE ON WHITE NYC GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED IN PART BY THE LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: THE FUND FOR CREATIVE COMMUNITIES