2011 soloNOVA Line Up

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Feeder: A Love Story Post Show Discussions

During our run of Feeder: A Love Story, some amazing artists and experts came through HERE to share their thoughts about subjects relating to the play.

After the March 14, 2011 performance, Geoffery Jackson Scott (New York Theatre Workshop), August Schulenburg (Flux Theatre Ensemble, Theater Communications Group), Jen Begeal (Ride5 Media) & James Carter (playwright, terraNOVA Collective) discussed transmedia storytelling in theatre, how it assists socialization of theatre, and how it relates to marketing and social media. Arwen Lowbridge moderates.


Following the March 21, 2011 performance, Janie Martinez (Big Moves New York), Golda Poretsky (bodylovewellness.com, Health at Every Size), Jennifer Conley Darling (actor, terraNOVA Collective Artistic Director) & James Carter (playwright, terraNOVA Collective) discussed Fat and Size acceptance in society and entertainment and Health at Every Size (HAES). Arwen Lowbridge moderates.


Thanks to our wonderful panelists and fantastic moderator for being a part of bringing awareness to two relatively new movements. We hope you can enjoy and learn a little bit more about these very important topics.

Feeder Post Show Discussions - March 14 & 21

TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING MARCH 14
FAT ACCEPTENCE MARCH 21

terraNOVA Collective will hold post-show discussions with the audience immediately following performances of their mainstage production, FEEDER: A LOVE STORY at HERE (145 6th Avenue – Entrance on Dominick Street, 1 block south of Spring Street) on Monday, March 14 & 21. Admission to these special events is included with the purchase of a ticket to any performance of Feeder: A Love Story.

TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING IN THEATRE
Monday, March 14Join us after the performance for a discussion about transmedia storytelling - creating a story on multiple media platforms. Panelists will explain what transmedia storytelling is, how it works, what it makes possible or impossible for theatre, and examples of theatre companies currently telling transmedia stories. Geoffery Scott (New York Theatre Workshop Literary Associate; curator of CUNY’s Prelude Festival), Jen Begeal (Social Media Manager for Ride5 Media Group), and August Schulenburg (Social Media Manager for Theatre Communications Group; Artistic Director of Flux Theatre Ensemble) will join playwright James Carter for this examination of theatre’s future.

FAT ACCEPTANCE
Monday, March 21After the show join us for a conversation about Fat Acceptance through the lenses of Health at Every Size (HAES) and fat in entertainment. Performer Janie Martinez, playwright James Carter, actress Jennifer Conley Darling, and Golda Poretsky, founder of Body Love Wellness, will examine society's views on being fat and overcoming prejudices.

FEEDER: A LOVE STORY follows the relationship of Jesse and Noel. Like thousands of other couples, they met online, fell in love, and got married. When Noel and Jesse delve into the fringe lifestyle of feederism they open themselves up to an extraordinary world of passion, love and food. But what happens when one partner outgrows the other?

The production, presented by terraNOVA Collective will play a three week engagement at HERE (145 6th Avenue - entrance on Dominick Street, 1 block south of Spring Street), March 6-26, Thursday through Saturday & Mondays at 8:30pm and Saturday & Sunday at 4pm. Tickets ($20/$15 students & seniors) may be purchased online at www.here.org or by calling 212-352-3101.

Geoffrey Jackson Scott (Transmedia Storytelling) is an artist and researcher dedicated to the exploration, creation and sharing of architectures/platforms around which people can gather. Working in the mode of social practice, at the center of Geoffrey's work is an art object/encounter designed to foster dialogue, interaction and participation between people. Chief among his artistic concerns is a desire to collapse the distance between creator and spectator through these participation-based projects. Currently pursuing a M.A. in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, his academic work focuses on exploring how the architectures of physical, as well as virtual, space determine and shape our possibilities for interaction/participation. Over the last 6 years, Geoffrey has worked as Literary Associate at New York Theatre Workshop and spent 3 years as co-curator of CUNY's Prelude Festival.

Jen Begeal (Transmedia Storytelling) is a Social Media Manager for Ride5 Media Group, an award-winning strategic marketing and creative services firm. Ride5 believes business survival requires brands to develop mutually beneficial, sustainable relationships with their diverse audiences that enable success through dynamically integrated campaigns, extreme audience engagement and adaptation to cultural trends. Other projects include: Mind Flux, Shoe Power, and Zenith the film.

August Schulenburg (Transmedia Storytelling) is the Artistic Director of Flux Theatre Ensemble and the Social Media Manager of Theatre Communications Group. He is the primary contributor to the Flux blog, which was named one of the top 5 theatre blogs by The Guardian, and has experimented with transmedia, including fictional characters tweeting for The Lesser Seductions of History. For TCG, he runs the TCG Circle blog, Facebook page, and has live tweeted the National Conference, the Fall Forum, and several of Arena Stage's New Play Convenings. August is also a playwright, actor, and director, and will be directing Ellen McLaughlin's Ajax in Iraq for Flux in June.

Janie Martinez (Fat Acceptance) is an artistic chimera. Janie is a college graduate in the performing arts and plied her skills in NYC for such Off-Broadway shows as the Pulitzer Prize winning show How I Learned to Drive (NYC-LA), De La Guarda's Villa Villa (NYC-London) as costume supervisor/designer to being a featured actress in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus and Steven Shainberg's Fur alongside Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. Ms. Martinez is active in the NYC performing arts scene, performing alongside her mentor, Ms. Penny Arcade for such acts as the Globesity Festival and the 365 Plays at the Public Theatre. She performs avant-garde cabaret acts sharing the bill alongside Justin Bond (of Kiki and Herb) and Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons) and drag legend Sweetie. Ms. Martinez is the artistic director for Big Moves NYC, a dance company that promotes size acceptance thru dancing and has toured with several shows across the US, Canada and Europe actively dispelling negative images for persons of size thru her one woman show Fat Chicks Go to Hell. She has also appeared as a model for publications such as Details Magazine, Time Out NY, The New York Times, Anthem Magazine, and Next Magazine and has been photographed by noted photogs Mick Rock, Mary Ellen Mark and Christian Weber

Golda Poretsky (Fat Acceptance) After spending nearly her entire life dieting, Golda decided in 2007 to stop dieting and start listening to her body. In 2008, she founded Body Love Wellness, a wellness company that provides individual and group counseling from a Health At Every Size perspective. Using her background in nutrition and holistic health, she now counsels women and men on how to get off the dieting roller coaster, give their bodies what they really crave, and love their bodies and themselves. In addition to counseling clients throughout the country, Golda teaches workshops on healthy eating without dieting, intuitive eating, and radical body love. She is also a featured weekly columnist on the web site More of Me to Love, has written articles for Jezebel.com and Daily Venus Diva, and has a popular podcast on body acceptance and intuitive eating as well. Golda’s counseling programs and activism work have been featured on CBS’s The Early Show, ABC’s Nightline, NBC’s LX New York, Psychology Today and Time Out New York, among others. In June 2010, Golda’s book on healing from dieting, Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal was published in paperback and kindle editions. Golda has a degree in health counseling and integrative nutrition from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, as well as B.A. in history from New York University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

terraNOVA Announces Feeder: A Love Story

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Emily Owens PR | emily@emilyowenspr.com | 972.743.3746

TERRANOVA COLLECTIVE
presents
FEEDER: A LOVE STORY
WRITTEN BY JAMES CARTER
DIRECTED BY JOSÉ ZAYAS

What happens when one partner outgrows the other?

MARCH 6-26 @ HERE

TWO PRESS PREVIEWS MARCH 6

OPENING NIGHT MARCH 7

terraNOVA Collective will present a transmedia theatrical event, incorporating live video from a web camera and computer on stage, and internet video blogging (vloging) that engages the audience online before and after the play. In a unique departure from traditional theatre storytelling, this production parallels social networking and personal interaction, sharing a very human story. This production is being presented through HEREstay, HERE’s curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.

FEEDER: A LOVE STORY follows the relationship of Jesse and Noel. Like thousands of other couples, they met online, fell in love, and got married. When Noel and Jesse delve into the fringe lifestyle of feederism they open themselves up to an extraordinary world of passion, love and food. But what happens when one partner outgrows the other?

The production, presented by terraNOVA Collective will play a three week engagement at HERE (145 6^th Ave - entrance on Dominick Street, 1 block south of Spring Street), March 6-26, Thursday through Saturday & Mondays at 8:30pm and Saturday & Sunday at 4pm. Tickets ($20/$15 students & seniors) may be purchased online at www.here.org or by calling 212-352-3101.

JAMES CARTER (Playwright) is a dramatist and producer. Full-length plays include: Baby Steps (The Lion, Theatre Row), Reaching Outpost (commissioned by Kaneland High School, Elburn, IL), FEEDER: A Love Story (Center Stage, NY – terraNOVA’s 3rd Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival & Collective: Unconscious’ undergroundzero Festival 2008), and Family Wayward (terraNOVA’s Groundbreakers Reading Series). One acts include: Billy’s Bad Behavior (part 1) and Number Four (part 2) with Impetuous Theater Group’s 2006 47:59 Festival; The Christmas Card for Center Stage, NY’s ‘Open 24 Hours’ hosted by John Patrick Shanley. Producer - Artists’ Night, dancelikeforever (CSNY), Baby Steps, Buck Fever (Blue Heron Arts Center), Lead Curator on terraNOVA’s soloNOVA Arts Festival (2004-2010 – DR2 Theatre & D-Lounge, Performance Space 122, Mo Pitkin’s, Center Stage, NY and People’s Improv Theater), Curator and Producer on SUBTERRANEAN, a monthly performance party (D-Lounge). James also served as Season Producer for The Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 2007/2008 season, including: Going to the River 2007, Lucy (William Carden, dir.), and On The Way To Timbuktu (written & performed by Petronia Paley; Talvin Wilks, dir.), Thicker Than Water 2008 (Youngblood), Marathon 2008 (playwrights – Auburn, Black, LaBute, Mac, Rivera) and Close Ties (Pamela Berlin, dir).

JOSÉ ZAYAS (Director) was born in Puerto Rico and graduated from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities. He is co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Immediate Theater Company. Zayas has held residencies at numerous theaters including the Ensemble Studio Theater and INTAR, where he served as co-producer of the 2006 New Works Theater. In 2007 he was selected as one of nytheater.com’s People of the Year. He is also a Drama League Fellow and an alumnus of Lincoln Center’s Director's Lab and Soho Rep Writer/Director's Lab and has received numerous fellowships including the Phil Killian, Kenneth Frankel, John Pasquin and Van Lier. He is a current participant of the 2009-2011 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. His credits include: Caridad Svich's In the Time of the Butterflies (Repertorio Espanol) and The House of the Spirits (Denver, 5 Ovation awards including best direction; Repertorio Espanol multiple ACE and HOLA awards, including best production and director; Teatro Mori, Chile), Madre, el drama padre, (ACE and HOLA awards, Repertorio Espanol) Nowhere on the Border (ACE and HOLA awards, Repertorio Espanol), Letters to a Mother, (ACE and HOLA awards, Repertorio Espanol), Father of Lies (PS122), MilkMilkLemonade (Astoria Performing Arts Center), The Wizard of Oz (TheatreworksUSA), Babes in Toyland (Ice Factory), Southern Promises by Thomas Bradshaw (PS122), Ghost Light by Desi Moreno-Penson (59e59), Lies I Wish I'd Told You... by Mallery Avidon (Dixon Place), Are Women Human? by Nanna Mwaluko (Fresh Fruit Festival), Okay by Taylor Mac (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Vengeance Can Wait by Yukiko Motoya (PS122), The Strangest (HERE), Again and Against by Betty Shamieh (The Lark), The Past Is Not a Foreign Country (Very) Personal Maps of Seattle by Mallery Avidon (Soho Rep), The Wasps and Tecmessa by Ken Urban (Target Margin), Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist by Thomas Bradshaw (Brick Theater, 4 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations), Devil Land by Desi Moreno-Penson (Summer Play Festival/Cherry Lane Theatre), Crowns by Regina Taylor (Virginia Stage Company). His Assistant Director credits include Talk Radio directed by Robert Falls and starring Liev Schreiber; Regrets Only directed by Christopher Ashley; Come Back Little Sheba directed by Michael Pressman.

TERRANOVA COLLECTIVE is a vibrant playground for artists devoted to innovative new and original theatrical works. Its multi-layered development process, solo arts festivals, and productions serve to nurture and liberate our community.

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