Thinking Theater NYC

La MaMa will present the world premiere listening party of the scripted podcast Give Me A Wildfire produced by Non Sans Content, an independent film and new media production company dedicated to artistic integrity, human curation, and slow content creation. Emceed by 24 Hour Plays Artistic Director Mark Armstrong, the evening will include a Q & A with writer Daniel Duren, director C.C. Kellogg, actor-producer Sigrid Sutter, sound designers Michelle Deniesse Lugo, Alexandra Alvarez Pilonieta, and members of the cast (TBD). This is a strictly limited engagement. Featuring on-location, immersive sound captures of the Boundary Waters wilderness, the story follows David as he tracks his wife Jesse, an eco-journalist who’s gone missing while on assignment in Northern Minnesota. An intimate thriller, the story asks, “How far would you go to protect something you love?” The cast includes Ken Barnett, Tina Benko, Reed Birney, Steven Epp, Chris Ghaffari, Timothy Hull, Carol Jacobanis, Chris...

The Climate Fables: Ogallala Written by Padraig Bond Directed by Zoë Kay Presented by Torch Ensemble and FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks 94 St. Marks Place, Manhattan, NYC September 20-22, 2024 Demeter, the world's last surviving elephant in playwright Padraig Bond's The Climate Fables: Ogallala , shares a name with the goddess of crop growth and fertility, both of which are central concerns in this newest production in Torch Ensemble's cycle of ecological plays. Ogallala is Torch Ensemble's second production of a residency at FRIGID New York and the fourth of The Climate Fables produced so far in a planned twelve-play cycle–the standard number of chapters in epics–spanning 1,000 years. With two further plays in the cycle set for UNDER St. Marks this fall, Ogallala , boasting the longest runtime and largest cast of an individual Fable so far, picks up, among other threads, the story of Susan Kether (Penelope Deen), pregnant in a post-climate-apocalypse world in...

Brooklyn Art Haus will present the world premiere of  Snow Bird , written by Melina Nakos and directed by Em Hausmann, for a limited workshop run, with evening performances on September 21st and 22nd. Net proceeds from this production are being donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. Snow Bird is a new play set in 2009 that follows the lives of five men living in an outpost in the Arctic Circle. Inspired by real-life scientists working at Station Nord in Greenland, Snow Bird ’s characters study the effects of global warming on the Arctic Sea ice by flying planes—affectionately nicknamed “snowbirds”—outfitted with measuring devices close to the Arctic ice. Led by a cast of trans-identifying actors, Snow Bird explores themes of masculinity, queerness, isolation, and duplicity through the framework of scientific discovery. What happens when a group of only men are locked in an ice box for 9 months straight? “ Snow Bird is an environmental play that desperately tries to esca...