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Thursday, July 7, 2016
The Kraine Theatre, NYC

Theater in Asylum's Project series brings together new short works unified around a single theme. The PRIMARIES Project brought together artists to ask:

Hillary?
Bernie?
Trump?
Gary?
Jill?

What are the primaries?
What does it all mean?
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Tres Ex Machina
Written and Directed by Ran Xia
Performed by Therese Dizon, McKenna DuBose, Ben Katz
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​Poll
Created and performed by Robert A. K. Gonyo
Understated Foreign Coming of Age
Written by Sarah Gancher
Directed by Jake Beckhard
Performed by Marlowe Holden as Julia and Xavier Reminick as Zoltan
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Too Much at Stake.
​Vote Smart.

Created and performed by Jabari Brisport
Shots Fired
Text from the 2016 Verizon Strike
Footnoted script available here
Created by Jake Beckhard, Paul Bedard, Amanda Ghosh, Samantha Keogh, Joe Marx, Katie Palmer
Dramaturgy, fact-checking, and script footnoting by Samantha Keogh Directed by Paul Bedard
Performed by Jessie Atkinson, Kayla Catan, Joe Marx, Kate McMorran, and Katie Palmer
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The Nominee
Written by Joe Breen
Directed by Ran Xia
Performed by Vanessa Felix, Aida Leguizamon, and Sarah Young
And We Have to Be Unpredictable Starting Now
Created and performed by Chris Harcum
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ARTILLIERSʼ GYM EXPERIMENT ON CURRENT POPULIST RESPONSES TO AMERICAN SOCIAL INEQUALITY, USING THE FRAME OF THE COAL HEAVERSʼ SCENE FROM THREE TRANSLATIONS OF AUGUST STRINDBERGʼS “A DREAM PLAY” AND SEVERAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES OF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Text by Matthew Minnicino, Caryl Churchill, Project Gutenberg translators, and the Artilliers Gym Ensemble Directed by Jake Beckhard
Performed by Serena Berman, Trey Fillmore, Michael Galligan, and Anna Clare Kerr 
Trump Jokes
Text from the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Footnoted script available at here
Created by Jessie Atkinson, Paul Bedard, Sarah Eismann, Amanda Ghosh, Samantha Keogh
Dramaturgy, fact-checking, and script footnoting by Samantha Keogh
Directed by Paul Bedard
Performed by Paul Bedard, Kayla Catan, Sarah Eismann, Joe Marx, Kate McMorran, Katie Palmer
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To Whom Are We Listening?
Written and performed by Adrian Bridges
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The PRIMARIES Project included two companion pieces to TIA's The Debates:
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Shots Fired
Inspired by and using text from
the 2016 Verizon Strike
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Trump Jokes
Inspired by and using text from
Donald Trump supporters

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