Friday, May 11, 2012

Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 8:00 pm

Daniel Neer: Narkissos* [Purchase Tickets to This Performance]

Chandler Carter: Personal Helicon, (text by Seamus Heaney) – WORLD PREMIERE
Martha Sullivan: Pride, (text by Yusef Komunyakaa) – WORLD PREMIERE
Alysa Reit: First Monday in November, (text by Daniel Neer) – WORLD PREMIERE
Scott Gendel: Metamorphosis, (text by Daniel Neer) – WORLD PREMIERE
Jonathan David: Gitchee Gumee, (text by Daniel Neer) – WORLD PREMIERE
Lauren Bernofsky: Among All Creatures, (text by Scott Russell Sanders) – WORLD PREMIERE
Jason Robert Taylor: Bare Ruined Choirs, (text by William Shakespeare) – AMERICAN PREMIERE
Robinson McClellan: The Gyre, (text by Daniel Neer), – NYC PREMIERE
Eleonor Sandresky: Someone Comes By, (text by William Bronk)
Susan Botti: The Exchange, (text by May Swenson)
Benjamin Britten: The Death of Saint Narcissus, (T.S. Eliott)

Daniel Neer, creative director of NeerSighted Productions, is a playwright, poet, librettist, singer and actor. Credits include performances at Carnegie Hall, BAM, Alice Tully Hall, The Apollo, Chicago Art Institute, Aspen Musical Festival, The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Miller Theater, Radio City Music Hall, and on Broadway in Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème and the National Theatre’s Coram Boy, directed by Melly Still. A champion of contemporary opera, he has premiered notable works with the Royal Opera House ROH2, American Opera Projects, New York City Opera VOX on the Edge Series and the Center for Contemporary Opera. His first play, The Interview, was recently produced at New York’s New Works 3 International Festival for Short Plays. He is librettist for two chamber operas: Chandler Carter’s Mercury Falling, which received critical acclaim at the Long Leaf Opera Festival, and Sidney Boquiren’s Odes to Earth and Air, a multimedia opera which received a workshop premiere at Adelphi University.

Harpist Alyssa Reit completed her Bachelors and Master’s degrees at the Juilliard School as a student of Marcel Grandjany, and has performed with institutions ranging from the Orchestra of St. Lukes, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, to contemporary music groups and traditional Irish bands, in venues as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Tully Hall, BAM, the Public Theater, and The Kitchen. She has performed with renowned storyteller Laura Simms, toured with Patti Lupone and Kevin Klein with Lincoln Center Children’s Programs, a European tour with Martha Clarke, and a U.S. tour with Anonymous 4. She performed in and helped organize“The Grand Harp Event” with composer John Cage at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and “The Garden of Harps” at the Museum of Modern Art.

Ted Gorodetzky has staged numerous plays and musical works throughout his diverse career in the arts, including Vultures with Rising Sun Performance Company, two play premieres at Richmond Shepard Theater in NYC,The Survival Show at Theater 80 at St. Marks, the Works in Progress series for New York Women in Film and Television, Chance, a new drama, at the Porch Light Theatre, Odes to Earth and Air (Director & Multimedia Composition) at Adelphi University, and the original chamber theater piece, Mercury Falling, which was presented by Long Leaf Opera Festival in Raleigh, NC where it garnered critical success and enjoyed an outstanding reception amongst festival audiences. Behind the camera, he has directed the films First Time and Secret Santa Secret, both also his screenplays.

*All programs are subject to change.