The Debates: Countdown Cabaret
Thursday, June 6, 2019
The Episcopal Actors' Guild
The first debates are just weeks away.
Where is the national imagination? Where should it be?
Who will be in the debates? How should they prepare?
What should be asked of the candidates at the first debate?
Who is running, who should be running?
Join us for a night of theater and questions.
The Episcopal Actors' Guild
The first debates are just weeks away.
Where is the national imagination? Where should it be?
Who will be in the debates? How should they prepare?
What should be asked of the candidates at the first debate?
Who is running, who should be running?
Join us for a night of theater and questions.
Performances
Act 1
- Dear Kindly US Voter by Theater in Asylum
- What They Really Want by Gethsemane Herron-Coward
- Tell Me Imma Be Okay, a new poem by Lawrence Dreyfuss
- Always Say Yes by Jordan Teicher
- 3 Pages of Therapy for Our Current Situation by the Boxcutter Collective
- What Makes an American by Janelle Lawrence
- Music by Ali Dineen ("Hold On" and "American Tune")
- The Whoopsy Daisy Circus by The Boxcutter Collective
- Canvassing by Julia Levine
- Chronosythsia by Joshua Young
- Music by Andy Boyd
- The Debates Convention by Theater in Asylum
Our Team
Individual performances
- Theater in Asylum's Dear Kindly Us Voter featuring Paul Bedard, Theresa Burns, Matt Clemons, Lawrence Dreyfuss, Katie Palmer, Manuela Sosa
- Jordan Teicher's Just Say Yes directed by Becky Abramawitz
- Julia Levine's Canvassing performed by Natalia Lopresti and Megan Medley
as part of an in-development play inspired by Eve and Lilith in the Garden of Eden
- Produced by Paul Bedard, Katie Palmer, and Kathryn Appleton
- Stage managed by Cody Hom
- Lighting and technical wizardry by Dan Stearns
- Heroic assistance from Ariella Axelbank, Rick Fudge, Colleen Hughes, and Julia Levine
- Special thanks to the wonderful souls at The Episcopal Actors' Guild
Theater in Asylum (TIA) is a New York-based theater company founded in 2010 to challenge and empower our community. TIA joyfully pursues a rigorous research and an ensemble-driven approach to theater-making. We create performances to investigate our past, interpret our present, and imagine our future. We prize space to process, space to question—asylum—for ourselves and our community.
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