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이영진씨 연극 '우리는 죽을거야' 앙콜 공연(2/4-3/22)
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극작가 이영진(Young Jean Lee) 원작 '우리는 죽을거야(We're Gonna Die)'가 2월 4일부터 3월 22일까지 오프브로드웨이 토니 카이저 시어터(Tony Kiser Theater, 2nd Stage)에서 공연된다. 2011년 퍼블릭시어터 조즈 펍에서 이영진씨 연출, 주연으로 초연됐던 '우리는 죽을꺼야'는 뮤지컬도, 연극도, 콘서트도 아니다. 이번 공연은 라자 페더 켈리(Raja Feather Kelly)의 새 연출로 무대에 올려진다. https://2st.com
1974년 대구에서 태어나 두살 때 도미, 워싱턴주 풀만에서 성장했다. UC 버클리 영문과와 동 대학원을 거쳐 2002년 뉴욕으로 이주, 브루클린칼리지에서 희곡으로 석사학위를 받았다. 자전적인 희곡 ‘풀만, 워싱턴’을 비롯한 ‘용비어천가(Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven)’‘교회’‘선적(The Shipment)’ 등 풍자성 연극과 록 캬바레 'We’re Gonna Die'로 주목받았다.
이씨의 작품은 비엔나, 하노버, 베를린, 취리히, 오슬로, 로테르담 등 해외에서도 공연됐다. 2007년엔 오프브로드웨이의 토니상인 ‘오비(OBIE)상’ 신인 희곡작가상을 수상했다. 2018년 헤이즈 시어터에 '스트레이트 화이트 멘(Straight White Men)'을 올리며 브로드웨이 진출 최초의 아시안 여성작가로 기록됐다.
WE'RE GONNA DIE BY YOUNG JEAN LEE
February 4 - March 22
Tony Kiser Theater, NYC
DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY RAJA FEATHER KELLY
WITH FREDDY HALL, JANELLE McDERMOTH, KEVIN RAMESSAR, XIMONE ROSE, DEBBIE CHRISTINE TJONG, MARQUES WALLS
We're Gonna Die is a non-musical/non-play/non-concert that is not about dying. It's a celebration of the things we do, say, and sing to keep ourselves going as we hurtle toward the finish line. Through a series of stories and songs both hilarious and heartbreaking, Young Jean Lee’s We're Gonna Die, under Raja Feather Kelly's new direction, offers proof positive that being alive is about more than just awaiting the inevitable.
SCENIC DESIGN: DAVID ZINN
COSTUME DESIGN: NAOKO NAGATA
LIGHTING DESIGN: TUCE YASAK
SOUND DESIGN: JASON CRYSTAL
YOUNG JEAN LEE (PLAYWRIGHT)
Young Jean Lee is a writer, director, and filmmaker who has been called “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by The New York Times and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” by Time Out New York. She has written and directed ten shows with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. She was the first Asian-American woman to have her play produced on Broadway when her play Straight White Men premiered on Broadway in 2018. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN Literary Award, the Edwin Booth award, a United States Artists Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell prize. Her short films have been presented at the Sundance Film Festival, The Locarno International Film Festival, and BAMcinemaFest. She is currently working on a screenplay commission for Cinereach and a Broadway commission from Second Stage Theater and Center Theatre Group.
RAJA FEATHER KELLY (DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER)
Raja Feather Kelly is the artistic director of New Brooklyn Theatre. In 2009, he founded the dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory. The two companies merged in 2018. Raja has been awarded a Creative Capital Award (2019), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019), a Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (2018), Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), and is a three-time Princess Grace Award winner (2017, 2018, 2019). He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College. Raja has been named as the 2019?2020 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts and is an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Raja has also been awarded a New York Dance Performance "Bessie" Award, a Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard, a DanceWEB Scholarship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, a HERE Arts Fellowship, 2018 Creator-in-Residence at Kickstarter, and a Choreography Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Over the past decade he has created thirteen evening-length premieres and six short-format works. Professionally, Raja has performed with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Keely Garfield, Kota Yamazaki, David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham|Abraham.In.Motion, Christopher Williams Dance, and zoe | juniper. He has also managed a number of dance companies: Race Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, zoe | juniper, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group. Since 2016, Raja has choreographed extensively for Off-Broadway theatre in New York City, most notably for Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop: A Strange Loop, Hurricane Diane, The Sandbox, Drowning, Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Everybody, FAIRVIEW, under the directorship of Lila Neugebauer, Lileana Blain-Cruz, and Sarah Benson. Other theatre credits include choreography for Skittles Commercial: The Musical (Town Hall), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (SohoRep), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), GURLS (Princeton University), Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen), Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop), Fireflies (Atlantic Theatre Company), If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, nominated for the 2019 Lucille Lortel Award and the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography), The Good Swimmer (BAM), and Faust (Opera Omaha).
JANELLE McDERMOTH
Janelle McDermoth is a Bronx, NY native, last seen on Broadway in A Bronx Tale. STAGE: HAIR (Int'l Tour), Soul Doctor (Off Broadway), Fulton Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, and 11th Hour Theater Co. TELEVISION: "Blue Bloods," "High Maintenance," "Blindspot," "The Rundown with Robin Thede." In 2018, she began performing as a solo singer/rapper around NYC and her first single, "Winning", was released in 2019. B.A in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Many thanks to her family, friends, and team at CESD. www.janellemcdermoth.com @janellemcdrmth
XIMONE ROSE
New Orleans native. University of Michigan Musical Theatre Program. (GO BLUE!) Broadway: Once On This Island (Storyteller). 1st National: Beautiful (Lucille). Regional: Old Globe, MTW, Fulton Theatre. CGF Talent. Instagram: @SimoneWithAnX
DEBBIE CHRISTINE TJONG
is excited to make her Second Stage debut! Debbie is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and actress. Alumni of Berklee College of Music. Off-Broadway: The Wrong Man (MCC Theater), Rags Parkland (Ars Nova), Red Roses, Green Gold (Minetta Lane Theater), Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical (New Ohio Theater). International: A Labor of Love (p.L.a.Y Prod.), Les Miserables (Victoria Theater). Thank you to my husband Nate, Professional Artists and the team behind We’re Gonna Die! Instagram: @debbietjongmusic
DAVID ZINN (SET DESIGN)
Second Stage: Make Believe, Torch Song, Dogfight. Broadway: Diana, The Minutes, Choir Boy, Boys In The Band, Spongebob Squarepants, Doll’s House Part 2 (costumes), Amelie, The Humans, Fun Home. Off-Broadway: Hamlet, The Outer Space, Troilus and Cressida (Public Theater), Othello (clothes, NYTW), Hir, The Flick, Pacebo, Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons), Fondly Colette Richland, Arguendo, The Sound and the Fury, The Select (The Sun Also Rises) (Elevator Repair Service). Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Hewes awards.
NAOKO NAGATA (COSTUME DESIGN)
started her career as a biochemist in Japan. Her evolution into costume making is a long story. With literally no formal training, she has been creating for a diverse group of choreographers and dancers non-stop since 1998. Working closely with collaborators, Naoko helps bring to life what she herself calls, “the creation of a shared dream.” This is her first theater project. Endless thanks to Enver Chakartash. I could have never gotten through this experience without you.
JASON CRYSTAL (SOUND DESIGN)
Recent designs: Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant (Audible), Side Show (Atlantis Theatrical), Found (Philadelphia Theatre Company), The Tempest (The Public Theater / Shakespeare in the Park), Othello (The Old Globe), Somewhere (Hartford Stage). Broadway associate for: Tina, Hamilton, The Cher Show, Bright Star, Cinderella, The Addams Family, others. Broadcast Engineer for the Toll Brothers Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network and SiriusXM. Sound Supervisor for Hamilton, spanning six Companies
