THE OBJECT LESSON Program | Studio Theatre

TH E O B J E CT LES S O N CREATED AND PERFORMED BY GEOFF SOBELLE

A N N O U N CIN G T H E STUD IO X

2016–2017 S E A S O N Studio X is purposefully eclectic, encompassing plays that benefit from particularly intimate or immersive stagings, presented work, and some of Studio’s world premieres.

MOTHERSTRUCK!

BY STACEYANN CHIN A hilarious, intimate, and heart-shaking story of the best-laid plans and hairpin turns with a magnetic performance from Staceyann Chin (Def Poetry Jam).

S T R A I G H T W H I T E M E N

BY YOUNG JEAN LEE From one of the most daring writers in America comes a razor-sharp comedy that confronts the complexities of identity and hypocrisies of privilege.

N O S I S T E R S WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AARON POSNER WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEW NEIGHBORHOOD While Three Sisters plays out in one theatre, half the cast is also performing upstairs in another. Same building, separate theatre… No Sisters. A wildly funny play about wildly unhappy people.

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WELCOME FRIENDS, As we approach the end of the first season of Studio X, I can only say, this may the best show yet. Studio hosted Geoff Sobelle several seasons ago with his company rainpan 43 with All Wear Bowlers, Amnesia Curiosa, and machines machines machines machines machines machines machines. We’re thrilled to welcome him back with this odd and amusing encounter in a warehouse of stuff in The Object Lesson. It’s all about the ephemera of life discovered.

Like all of Studio X productions, this is a play full of distinctive theatrical intent. The Object Lesson team — director David Neumann and set designer-installation artist Steven Dufala along with Geoff Sobelle — have fully and expansively occupied the environs of Stage 4. We reside here in a warehouse and experience whatever story Geoff pulls from a cardboard box.

As a set designer, I know well that we have a secret relationship with our things — that we accompany our stuff as much as it accompanies us into the unknown of our lives. These items themselves seem to have very little meaning, but the things collect, discard, adopt, embrace, and sometimes just drag around can hold our memories, reveal our aspirations, expose the core of who we are.

What are the chances of a cardboard box of…well, of junk to combust into romance, passion, and tender humor? Join us to experience this buoyant journey into the unknown with an open heart.

I hope you enjoy this show.

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DEBRA BOOTH DIRECTOR OF DESIGN

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THE OBJECT LESSON CREATED AND PERFORMED BY GEOFF SOBELLE DIRECTOR DAVID NEUMANN SCENIC INSTALLATION DESIGN STEVEN DUFALA LIGHTING DESIGN CHRISTOPHER KUHL SOUND DESIGN NICK KOURTIDES ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JUSTIN ROSE PRODUCTION TECHNICAL DIRECTOR JEFF LARSON PRODUCER JECCA BARRY PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER LISA McGINN PRODUCTION MANAGER JOSH ESCAJEDA STUDIO TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ROB SHEARIN A PRODUCTION

The Object Lesson is performed without an intermission.

The Object Lesson is generously underwritten by Susan and Dixon Butler.

The Object Lesson was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater and was developed with support from The Map Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Wyncote Foundation, The Carol Tambor Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, an Independence Foundation Fellowship, and the Philadelphia Live Arts Brewery (LAB) program.

Further development was supported by residencies at Abrons Art Center, The Orchard Project, the Space on Ryder Farm, and at The Yard, a multi-disciplinary dance space in Martha’s Vineyard.

The Object Lesson was the recipient of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, The Scotsman Fringe First Award, and the Total Theatre Award for Physical/Visual Theatre during its run at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2014.

Beginning May 18, 2016 in Stage 4.

The Object Lesson is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

ARTIS T BI O S GEOFF SOBELLE (Creator/Performer) is a theatre artist dedicated to the “sublime ridiculous.” He is the co-artistic director of rainpan 43, a renegade absurdist outfit devoted to creating original actor-driven performance works.

Using illusion, film, and outdated mechanics, R43 creates surreal, poetic pieces that look for humanity where you least expect it and find grace where no one is looking. R43’s shows include all wear bowlers (Innovative Theatre Award, Drama Desk nomination), Amnesia Curiosa, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines (Obie Award – design), and Elephant Room (commissioned by Center Theatre Group). His independent work includes Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl and The Object Lesson (commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater). He has been a company member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company since 2001. All of his work to date has premiered at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival before touring nationally and internationally. As a teacher, Mr. Sobelle has led workshops all over the world in devised theatre creation, physical approach to character, clown, and “jeu.” He is a core teacher at the Pig Iron School in Philadelphia (APT) and is on the faculty at Bard College.

His work has been supported by the Independence Foundation, the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the Wyncote Foundation, USArts International, the Princeton Atelier, the MAP Fund, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. He is a 2006 Pew Fellow and is a 2009 Creative Capital grantee. He is a graduate of Stanford University, and trained in physical theatre at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France.

DAVID NEUMANN (Director) is a director, choreographer, dancer, and actor.

He studied theatre at SUNY Purchase and danced with several choreographers including Doug Elkins, Jane Comfort, Sally Silvers, and Doug Varone. As his work expanded into theatre, opera, and film, he worked with artists including Hal Hartley, Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellars, Lee Breuer, JoAnne Akalaitis, and Robert Woodruff. Mr. Neumann founded his own company, the Advanced Beginner Group in 2001, with work presented at PS122, New York Live Arts, Central Park SummerStage, Celebrate Brooklyn, Symphony Space, and The Kitchen. Neumann and company have been honored with four Bessie Awards, a 2009 Creative Capital Grant, a 2011 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award for Dance, and a 2014 NDP Production Grant from New England Foundation for the Arts for his latest work I Understand Everything Better, which premiered at Abrons Arts Center last April.

STEVEN DUFALA (Scenic Installation Design) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. While he works primarily in collaboration with his brother Billy, he also works on as many other projects in as many other fields as possible, being drawn in particular to works that explore overlapping concerns of various disciplines. He makes drawings, clothes, furniture, prints,

music, sculpture, photos, books, and thinks an awful lot about what all these things have in common and what on earth people do with them. Mr. Dufala has been working intermittently with dance and theatre as a designer for about 15 years, and over this time has worked with Pig Iron Theatre Company, BalletX, anonymous bodies, Geoff Sobelle, and others. With his brother Billy, he received an Obie Award for design with rainpan 43’s machines machines machines machines machines machines machines. Mr. Dufala and his brother co-teach sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and are represented by the Fleisher/Ollman gallery in Philadelphia. Their work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the West Collection, and many private collections.

CHRISTOPHER KUHL (Lighting Design) is a lighting, scenic, installation designer for new performance, theatre, dance, and opera. Recent work includes The Nether, Eclipsed, The Author, Next Stop Amazingland, and Elephant Room (Center Theatre Group), Straight White Men (Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, The Public Theater, Centre Pompidou), Holoscenes (Early Morning Opera, Nuit Blanche Toronto), ABACUS (Early Morning Opera, REDCAT, BAM, Sundance Film Festival, EMPAC), Dog Days (LA Opera), and John Cage Song Books (SF Symphony, Carnegie Hall). He has also had the pleasure of working and making art at the Fusebox Festival, On the Boards, Kennedy Center, LA Opera, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Philly Live Arts, Arena Stage, MCA Chicago, The Chocolate Factory, The Kitchen, Jacob’s Pillow, Beijing Music Festival, KVS Belgium, MAC France, the Holland Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

He has received two Ovation Awards, a Drammy, and a Horton Award. In 2011 Mr. Kuhl received Center Theatre Group’s annual Richard E. Sherwood Award, and in 2014 was awarded a Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design. He is originally from New Mexico, a graduate of CalArts, and an associate artist of Hand2Mouth Theatre.

NICK KOURTIDES (Sound Design) designs for musical theatre and creates sound environments for collaborative ensemble works. Previous collaborations with Geoff Sobelle include Elephant Room and Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl.

His New York credits include Sunset o639 Hours at the Joyce, The Object Lesson for BAM Next Wave, Elephant Room at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Our Aeneid at Red Bull, Carson McCullers Talks About Love at Rattlestick, Jomama Jones: Radiate at Soho Rep, and Chekhov Lizardbrain at Under The Radar and Soho Think Tank. Mr. Kourtides’ work has been seen internationally at Lublin Konfrontacje Teatralne, Paris Quartier d’Ete, London Barbican, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Regionally, he has worked at McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theater, Center Theatre Group, Folger Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Prince Music Theater, and many others. With Pig Iron Theatre Company, he has designed Cankerblossom, Isabella, Chekhov Lizardbrain, and Mission to Mercury. He was a visiting instructor in sound design at Swarthmore College in 2010.

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DAVID MUSE (Artistic Director) is in his sixth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre. For Studio, 2ndStage, and Studio X, he has directed Constellations, Chimerica, Murder Ballad, Belleville, Cock, Tribes, The Real Thing, An Iliad, Dirt, Bachelorette, The Habit of Art, Venus in Fur, Circle Mirror Transformation, reasons to be pretty, Blackbird, Frozen, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he directed seven productions, including Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Coriolanus. Other PHOTO: TEDDY WOLFF. directing projects include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, and Swansong for New York Summer Play Festival. He has helped to develop new work at numerous theatres, including New York Theatre Workshop, Geva Theatre Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Mr. Muse has taught acting and directing at Georgetown, Yale, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Classical Acting. A sixtime Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Direction, he is a recipient of the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and the National Theatre Conference Emerging Artist Award. Mr. Muse is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.

MERIDITH BURKUS (Managing Director) joined Studio Theatre in May 2014. She brings ten years of arts management experience to the position—encompassing theatre, music, film, and public media. Most recently, Ms. Burkus held the position of Director of External Relations at StoryCorps, the Peabody Award-winning radio program and national oral history project, working to optimize StoryCorps’ impact on a national scale. Under her leadership, StoryCorps increased its operating budget by 25% and launched several new initiatives and recording locations across the country. She previously held positions in marketing, public relations, and development with several New York City organizations, including five seasons at The Public Theater as Director of Individual Giving. At The Public, she significantly increased annual contributions to various programs and initiatives such as Shakespeare in the Park, Public Lab, Joe’s Pub, and the Under the Radar Festival, in addition to being a key player in the successful completion of the recent $40 million capital campaign to renovate The Public’s historic home on Lafayette Street. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music.

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