May 11th- May 26th 2023 @Mitu 580 Brooklyn, NY
Produced and created by the Lisa Clair Group in association with Immediate Medium and IN COLLABORATION with New Georges
Willa just can’t take it any more! She feels boxed in! She wants to WEAR POWERFUL SUITS! Her apartment is infested with ants - her WHOLE LIFE is infested with ants! Willa is ATTACKED ON ALL SIDES! One day Willa receives a lump of clay. But not an ordinary lump- this clay is ALIVE! Willa is transformed; first into mother of a golem daughter and then into Mayor of New York City! This is a golem story. But like any Golem story, chaos reigns! #WILLA4MAYOR #chaosreigns #nospoilers
WILLA’S AUTHENTIC SELF is a musical, monstrous and maximalist re-imagining of the ancient Jewish Golem myth. Created by Lisa Clair Group, the piece explores how the desire to create can lead to the transformation of our communities and the responsibility of citizen artists to respond to our changing city and world through our own creative urges.
Written by Lisa Clair
Directed by Shannon Sindelar
Performed by Lisa Clair, Juliana Francis Kelly, Dee Dorcas Beasnael, Sauda Aziza Jackson, Nicholas Sanchez, Hanlon Smith-Dorsey, and Jeremy Kadetsky
Lead Production Design by Caitlin Ayer
Sound Design by John Gasper
Lighting Design by Mary Ellen Stebbins
Associate Scenic Design by Yijun Yang
Associate Costume Design by Emily White
Associate Props and Media Design by Red
Technical Direction by Jessie Blackman
Assistant Lighting Design by Willem Hinternhoff
Production Assistance by Beth Brownrigg and Winter Commander
Stage Management by Max Mooney
Creative Produced by Blaze Ferrer
THE MOUND is an immersive installation experience that explores the sonic, visual, material and emotional world of our new performance work ‘Willa’s Authentic Self’.
First presented at The Collapsable Hole, NYC on June 30th and Thursday July 1st 2021.
created by Lisa Clair, Caitlin Ayer, Kate McGee, Kara Fan, David Gould and Johnny Gasper.
With directorial support by Morgan Green and creative producing by Blaze Ferrer.
Written by Lisa Clair
Directed by Eugene Ma
Additional writing by Kevin R. Free
Produced by the Lisa Clair Group in association with Immediate Medium’s Agency Program and Presented by Target Margin Theater in December, 2018.
The Making of King Kong is an explosive and subversive fantasia ‘Making Of’ the original 1933 flick which premiered at Target Margin Theater in December 2018. Created by Lisa Clair Group, this new play takes a comedically brutal look inside the strangest adventure drama this thrill-mad world has ever seen and seeks to uncover the CULTURAL MONSTER BEHIND THE MONSTER
Performed by Youree Choi, Claire Fort*, Kevin R. Free*, Sauda Jackson, Molly Pope*, Ean Sheehy*, and Hanlon Smith-Dorsey*.
Epilogue written by: Kevin R. Free,
Set: Caitlin Ayer,
Lights: Samuel Chan,
Sound: Chad Raines,
Costumes: Normandy Sherwood
Video: David Pym,
Movement Consultant: Sam Pinkleton,
Stage Management: James Wyrwicz,
Technical Direction: Will Jennings
Produced by the Lisa Clair Group in association with Immediate Medium’s Agency Program. Presented by Target Margin Theater.
PRESS
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What’s YOUR Problem? //A Deep Space Lounge Act
Created by Lisa Clair Group
LISA CLAIR'S MAGNETIC, UNEXPECTED, INTERGALACTIC TAKE ON CABARET SERVES UP GLITTER AND GLAM IN THE FACE OF BODILY DISASTER!
Medical trauma gets the ol' glitter-and-glam, smokey lounge, old-time treatment in this neo-cabaret with original music. A lounge singer determined to transform personal disaster blends medical experiences, bodily invasion and pop culture depictions of our universe into a deep space musical extravaganza.
Show Credits:
Created by: Lisa Clair Group
Original music: Brian McCorkle
Original Direction: Chantal Pavagueaux
Direction/Choreography: Allison Plamondon
Performances by: Lisa Clair, Brian McCorkle, Hanlon Smith-Dorsey, Jedidiah Clarke, David Commander
Media design: Rob Ramirez
Additional Choreography: Sam Pinkleton
Presented at
Cloud City: Spring 2015
Ars Nova ANT FEST: Summer 2015
The Silent Barn: Album release concert fall 2016
The SFX Festival : Winter 2017
This Kitchen is Not a Kitchen by Lisa Clair
A family of 5 gathers for the Italian Christmas eve 'Feast of the 7 Fishes'- but things as not as they seem- older brother is a ghost- french waiters seek revenge- lobsters speak in french accents- and a polar bear plays the saxophone. A meditation on family, grief, food and tradition.
Reading presented at The Wild Project as part of B-Side Fest
Yeh' I've Been Searchin'
by Lisa Clair Group
Inspired by the final work of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 went "In Search of the Miraculous" by building the smallest sailboat known to man in an attempt to cross the ocean. He was determined lost at sea, never to be found. This play is a meditation on those who have disappeared and the people who continue to believe they may one day reappear. It calls into question the common search for the miraculous within us all and attempts to re-write history just a bit in order to ask, "What if a miracle were found?"
Presented by The Performance Project at University Settlement July 2013.
Written and directed by Lisa Clair. Featuring: Max Dana, Siobhan Towey, Hanlon Smith- Dorsey, Jedidiah Clarke.
Media and sound by Rob Ramirez. Monsters by Angela Zammarelli. Choreography by Sam Pinkleton
Written and created by: Lisa Clair
Directed by: J. William Herbert Sigmund Go
Regarding Hot Air Balloons, the age old tale concerning levity vs. gravity, a brother and a sister, the miracle of hot air , the problem with kites, eating popcorn , singing, climbing mountains and the simplicity of soup. Written in spurts of both light and dark inspiration in the two years following the loss of a brother. In this odd and somehow magical time the world became foggy and warped, and strangely enough, anything seemed possible. The play is an investigation into how one encounters the world after they have experienced this kind of loss. We are led through our journey by a varied cast of characters that includes Andy Warhol, Jean Michelle Basquiat, Julia Child, Edith Piaf, The Back Fat Contessa, Balloon Boy and of course Hot Air Balloons.
Performances: July 7, 8, 9 @ 8pm
IRT: 3B Development Series 2010
Animations by: Henning Koczy
With: Siobhan Towey, Sara Gozalo, Martina Potratz, Hanlon Smith Dorsey, Thomas Mcginn, Melissa Chambers, Richard Saudek, Menelik Puryear
Production manager: Cicero Oca
Animated by the inimitable Henning Koczy
A boy goes up in Andy Warhol's balloon and never comes back. Or never leaves? A fanciful re-imagination of the balloon boy hoax originally written for stage (Regarding Hot Air Balloons) by the incomparable Lisa Clair, who narrates.
