Nancy Bannon has written/directed five short films. Original feature screenplays have been recognized by festivals, contests, labs including: Nicholl Fellowship (quarterfinalist 2018, 2017), Sundance Screenwriters & Episodic Labs (second round qualifier multiple years), NYWIFT development lab (fs2p), Slamdance Film Festival (grand prize finalist), more. Her short screenplay, Blood was published in The Southampton Review. Original theater work (she conceived, wrote, directed) includes: Cornfield, Puncture, The Pod Project (immersive events, NYC). As movement director: Romeo and Juliet (w/ Orlando Bloom) on Broadway, more. Off-Broadway includes: Occupied Territories, a play (nominated for five Helen Hayes Awards) which she co-wrote and plays a leading role. Nancy is the recipient of three Princess Grace Awards, a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award, multiple prizes and scholarships and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. Faculty: SUNY Purchase, Rutgers University, American University and The Studio Acting Conservatory. Nancy was a professional dancer for over a decade. nancybannon.com
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POWERHOUSE 2019 | MUSICAL WORKSHOPS
Rachel Chavkin Heather Christian
featuring
David Abeles
Tattiana Aqeel
Stephen Bogardus
Clifton Duncan
Danaya Esperanza
Brian Flores
Ari Groover
Christopher Sears
Margo Siebert
Ching Valdes-Aran
ANNIE SALEM:
AN AMERICAN TALE
adapted from the novel by Mac Wellman
book by Rachel Chavkin
music by Heather Christian
lyrics by Heather Christian and
Rachel Chavkin
directed by Rachel Chavkin
movement by Raja Feather Kelly
An otherworldly journey into the jagged heart of rust-belt Ohio, where blue monkeys play in the wreckage of post-industrial America, and where high school boy Jack Scan is in love with the prettiest girl in town. This timely adaptation of Mac Wellman’s wry, surrealist coming-of-age story, adapted by Obie Award-winning artists Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown, The Great Comet) and Heather Christian (Animal Wisdom), travels through time and space, to Mars and back again as it tries to make sense of the forces lurking in the American woods.
July 5 - 7
Annie Salem: An American Tale
César Alvarez Emily Orling
The Elementary Spacetime Show
THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW
music and lyrics by César Alvarez
book by César Alvarez with Emily Orling
directed by Sarah Benson
You can die, you just have to answer a few crazy questions first. And sing. And dance.
A young girl attempts suicide and wakes up trapped in a cosmic vaudevillian game show that she must win in order to enter the void of death. But the more she wants to die, the harder she has to work. A new musical of why to exist when you no longer want to, with up-tempo genre-bending songs and a healthy dose of the absurd from the creators of Futurity.
July 12 - 14
featuring
Andrew R. Butler
Cosmo Castaldi
Mariah Del Rio
Sofia Dobrushin
Joshuah Dominique
Andrew Farmer
Jari Jones
Mason Alexander Park
Mimi Scardulla
Terran Scott
Saheem Ali Jocelyn Bioh Michael Thurber
GODDESS
conceived by Saheem Ali
music & lyrics by Michael Thurber
book by Jocelyn Bioh
additional lyrics by Mkhululi Z. Mabija
directed by Saheem Ali
A young man returns home to the African coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya, to marry his betrothed and step into his family’s political dynasty. But when he visits Moto Moto – a steamy afro-jazz club and the stomping ground of his youth – he finds himself drawn to a beautiful, mysterious new singer. Soon, he must decide whether to fulfill the legacy of his lineage, or give in to his love of music and a newfound attraction. A story of love, destiny, the spirit world and the power of passion, inspired by the ancient myth of Marimba, the goddess of music.
July 26 - 28
featuring
Phoenix Best
Rodrick Covington
Amber Iman
Janelle McDermoth
Abena Mensah-Bonsu
Adesola Osakalumi
Lance Roberts
Antoine Smith
Avery Smith
Goddess