Untitled Ain Gordon Project (2022)

UNTITLED AIN GORDON PROJECT WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AIN GORDON LIGHTING AND PRODUCTION DESIGN BY KELLY MARTIN

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2022 2PM AND 7:30PM STUDIO ONE, CFA 104 855 COMMONWEALTH AVE

Artistic Team Writer/Director Assistant Director Dramaturg Lighting Designer Assistant Lighting Designer Board Operator Sound Designer Scenic/Paint Charge Properties Master Production Manager Stage Manager Production Assistant Producer Faculty Project Advisor

Ain Gordon Enzo Gonzales Edward Sturm Kelly Martin McKenna Ebert Klara Ballay Sam Bliss Brenda Dziadzio Anna Vidergar Eric Sprosty Allison Donahue Ariel Narayan Alyce Dissette Mark Stanley

Cast Man Nurse She

Peter Dimaggio Mishka Yarovoy Janelle Grace Hampton Richards Emma Cahoon Michaela Lazarou

About The Untitled Ain Gordon Project Writer and director Ain Gordon workshops a new play inspired by overlooked memories from the first five years of the AIDS crisis during the 80’s in Philadelphia. Capping an eighteen month research process, the play imagines three figures: a nurse, a single man, and a chorister.

Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer/director/actor, two-time NYFA recipient and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. Gordon’s work focuses on marginalized or forgotten histories and the invisible players inhabiting that space. Recent projects include: “Radicals In Miniature” a series of requiems to personal icons who never achieved public immortality, premiered 2017 at Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY) and Vermont Performance Lab and toured in 2018/19 to International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Quick Center, Connecticut College (all CT), Williams College and The Yard (both MA); “217 Boxes Of Dr. Henry Anonymous” culminating a two-year residency at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania focused on Dr. Fryer who, in 1972, disguised as Dr. Anonymous opposed the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of homosexuality as a disease, premiered 2016 at the Painted Bride (PA) plus 2018 performances at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY) and 2019 productions at Transylvania University (KY) and the Center For The Art of Performance UCLA (CA); and “Not What Happened” a contrapuntal duet for two people that never meet - the historical re-enactor and the woman she portrays, premiered 2013 at BAM Next Wave Festival (NY), and toured to Krannert Center (IL),Vermont Performance Lab & the Flynn Center (both VT), etc.

Gordon is a former Core Writer of the Playwright’s Center (MN), has twice held the post of Visiting Artist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (PA), was a 2014 Artist-In-Residence at NYU Tisch School of The Arts, Resident Artist at The Hermitage (FL), and a 2020 Pabst Endowed Writer-In-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Gordon has been Co-Director of the Pick Up Performance Co. since 1992.

Kelly Martin is a lighting designer and associate based in New York City. Work with Ain Gordon includes the tours of Radicals In Miniature and 217 Boxes of Dr Henry Anonymous. He has lit productions with numerous theatre, opera, and dance organizations, including New York Theatre Ballet, Boston Early Music Festival, Opera North, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Bang Group, Co•Lab Dance, Duncan Lyle Dance, Suffolk University, and MIT. In addition to being the lighting director for New York Theatre Ballet, he frequently works with designers both in the city and regionally. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Lighting Design from Boston University.

Upcoming Projects

Shakespeare’s R&J FEB 19 - 20

“Jewels 1” Juliane Ethel Leilani Miller Studio Theatre, CFA 352 | 855 Commonwealth Ave Written by Joe Colarco, Directed by Shamus A Laboratory Production. Free admission; limited seating.

The Corruption of Morgana Pendragon FEB 24 - 26

Studio ONE, CFA 104 | 855 Commonwealth Ave Written by McKayla Witt, Directed by Noah Putterman Tickets are $20; visit www.bu.edu/cfa/theatre/season to reserve

Mac Beth DEC 9-12 David Copeland Black Box Theatre, CFA 354 | 855 Commonwealth Ave Written by Erica Schmidt | Directed by Gigi Juras A Laboratory Production. Free admission; limited seating.

For more details, visit www.bu.edu/cfa/theatre/season