PAST PRODUCTIONS
ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS, INC.,
PRODUCTION HISTORY
2015 - 2018
2015
THE SHAPESHIFTER
Produced at Art House Productions
8 performances
February 12th - 22nd, 2015
Written by Meg Merriet
Director: Amanda Levie
Lighting Design: Lance A. Michel
Atmospheric Design: Joe Velez
Prop Design: Joe Velez
CAST: Julian Gordon, Alana Inez, Alex Adisorn, Clara Childress, Genevieve Hoeler
Devastating nightmares from his suppressed childhood issues haunt fisherman Locke Cleary every night. After meeting therapist Vanessa at a wedding, both are sucked into a mysterious aquatic realm full of despair, hope and intrigue as they learn to cope with their own shortcomings.
IN FULL COLOR
Produced at Art House Productions
3 performances
March 26th - 29th, 2015
Created by Summer Dawn Hortillosa
Director: Summer Dawn Hortillosa
Lighting Design: Lance A. Michel
CAST: Jennifer Cendano Armas, Karen Eilbacher, Samille Ganges, Ines Garcia, Yvonne Hernandez, Amanda Levie, Nicole Miranda, Nerissa Tutiven, Shirin Terhune Vazir
An evening of original monologues written and performed by women of color.
THE HOUSE OF ATREUS
Produced at Art House Productions
6 performances
June 13th - Jun 20th, 2015
Created by Mason Beggs, Christine Goodman, and Meagan Woods
Director: Mason Beggs
Lighting Design: Lance A. Michel
Scenic Design: Andrea McKenna
Prop Design: Pat Christodulidis
Costume Design: Meagan Woods
Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/130816895
The House of Atreus was an immersive piece devised by
Art House Productions under the guidance of Mason Beggs and Shayfer James. The piece took inspiration from The Oresteia.
2016
THE HANDLESS MAIDEN
Produced at Art House Productions
7 performances September 15, 2016 - September 24, 2016
Created by Mason Beggs and Shayfer James
Director: Mason Beggs
Choreographer: Meagan Woods
Lighting Design: Lance A. Michel
Scenic Design: Andrea McKenna
Prop Design: Pat Christodulidis
Costume Design: Kima Baffour
CAST: Dave Chura, Molly Dunn, Gabriela Gowdie, John Paul Harkins, Peter Horn, Alyssa Kempinski, Dina Selimovic, Catriona Rubenis-Stevens
The Handless Maiden was an immersive piece devised by Art House Productions under the guidance of Mason Beggs and Shayfer James. The piece took inspiration from Grimm's "The Maiden Without Hands"
Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/202975446
THE LAST HIPSTER IN BROOKLYN
Produced at Art House Productions
3 Performances October 28th - 29, 2016
Directed by Modesto Flako Jimenez
Written by: Nick E. Finn
Lighting Design: Lance A. Michel
CAST: Nick E. Finn
A one-man show which combines spoken word poetry, hip-hop and multimedia elements, Finn plays 13 characters, including Brooklyn natives, recent transplants, a police officer, and “the leader of the hipster revolution.” Together the stories reveal how different people view hipsters, and the evolution of Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXxNYj3EwRs
SHENANIGANS
Produced by Art House Productions at the West Side Theatre
Art House Productions and Leah E. Jackson present the NJ premiere of SHEnanigans, the latest solo-show creation from AUDELCO award-winning performer, Helena D. Lewis
After her mother's unexpected death, a devoted daughter struggles to adjust to her newfound matriarchal duties. An intimate, dramatic, and humorous look at love and life from a menopause baby who embraces her inherent dysfunction to care for her eccentric 82-year-old father and Smokey, the affable family pet.
WHERE:
West Side Theater (*note this is not at Art House)
WHEN:
Saturday, May 13th, 8:00pm
Sunday, May 14th (Mother's Day), 3:00pm
Ticket price:
$20 in advance
$25 at the door
$15 for students/seniors
Mother's Day Special: 2 for $36
Helena D. Lewis is an award-winning actress, poet, and playwright. Her one-person show, Call Me Crazy: Diary of A Mad Social Worker, chronicles her work in the social service field portraying twenty-five characters from pimps to menopausal women. Call Me Crazy has had over fifteen sold-out performances and was profiled on the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) SocialWorkersSpeak website and Rutgers Alumni Magazine.
Call Me Crazy is the winner of the AUDELCO 2014 Best
Solo-Performance Award, Best Short at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in NY, and was festival Pick at the inaugural DC Black Theater Festival. Helena has also performed Call Me Crazy at the NASW-NJ 2012 Annual Conference, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Kumble Theater at Long Island University, Rutgers University School of Social Work Field Day, and was produced by Urbintel, Inc. in conjunction with the New York Public Library at the Schomburg Center in NY.
Lewis has performed at numerous universities and colleges across the country and has been featured in the Peabody Award Winning series, Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.
2017
LEISURE, LUST
Produced at Art House Productions
12 Performances October 26th - November 12, 2017
Directed by Marina McClure
Written by: Sara Farrington
Set Designer: Mary Hamrick
Costume Designer: Alice Tavener
Stage Manager: Kristiana Cowcer
CAST: *Stephanie Regina, *Gabriella Rhodeen, *Kyle Stockburger, and *Christopher Tocco.
*Appeared courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Written by 2-time Drama Desk nominee Sara Farrington, Leisure, Lust is inspired by two very divergent worlds: Edith Wharton’s upper crust 1% and social reformer Jacob Riis’s most impoverished underclass. Farrington tackles issues of gender, sex, love, mental illness, and class in a tangled knot of privilege, poverty, and the myth of the American dream.The plot revolves around the savage imagination of novelist Grace Hunter (based on Wharton), whose husband Harry is rapidly losing his grip on reality. A mysterious stranger, Delancey Morris, emerges and sets off this intricate, decades-spanning, turn-of-the-century love story--where nothing is exactly as it seems.
NJ Stage Press: https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles/getarticle.php?titlelink=art-house-productions-opens-new-space-in-jersey-city-with-leisure-lust
NJ ARTS NET REVIEW:https://www.njarts.net/theater/art-house-productions-inaugurates-new-space-artfully-nuanced-leisure-lust/
2018
GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING
Produced at Art House Productions
12 performances March 15th, 2018 - April 1st, 2018
Written by LM Feldman
Director: Adin Walker
Lighting Design: Victoria Bain
Scenic Design: Claire Deliso
Costume Design: Sarafina Bush
Technical Director: Kevin Torres
Rigging Consultant: Dan Kent
CAST: Emily Kitchens*, Lawrence Street*, Paulo Quiros*, Tiffany Iris, Javan Nelson, Thomas Muccioli, and Hank Morris
*Appeared courtey of Actors Equity Association
Faced with a painful chapter in her life and fighting the inertia of depression, Emm decides to enter the world of competitive rock-climbing. Her quest through the rugged and humorous terrain of physical training and personal relationships charts the journey of a young woman suspended between muscularity and vulnerability, falling and climbing, parents and children, and the ardor and grace of being human.
Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf012hnhpZQ
Review: https://www.arthouseproductions.org/blogs/news/review-grace-or-the-art-of-climbing
NOT MEDEA
Art House Productions
Dec 6th - 16th, 2018
Written by Allison Gregory
Directed by Adin Walker
An exhausted working mother escapes to the sanctuary of the theatre and encounters a play she desperately doesn't want to watch. Allison Gregory’s Not Medea, is a refreshing take on an old story and gives its audience a much needed perspective on the trials and tribulations of motherhood in the 21st century. A synthesis of myth/magic/real world, Not Medea is a fierce slap-down about love, lust, motherhood, and forgiveness.
Performance Dates:
December 6th- 16th, 2018
Thursday-Saturday shows at 8:00PM
Sunday shows at 3:00PM
**ACCESS PERFORMANCE**
ASL and Audio Interpretation with Tactile Tours
Friday, DECEMBER 14th
6:30pm mixer
8pm show
Cast:
WOMAN: Kersti Bryan*
JASON: Jonathan Higginbotham*
CHORUS: Isabel Pask
Creative Team:
Playwright Allison Gregory
Director Adin Walker
Scenic Andrea McKenna
Lighting Victoria Bain
Costumes Sarafina Bush
Sound Stanley Mathabane
Stage Manager Alison Fortune
Production Manager and Theater Manager Julia Celentano
*Appearing Courtesy of AEA
Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMt0WQAHnE