We are so proud to welcome our 2013 Artists-in-Residence!

Victoria Alvarez-Chacon, Sophie Blumberg, Gail Gallagher, Heather Jencks, Alexis Martino, Arielle McAlpin, Kelly Opalko, Cary Shoda, Dani Snyder-Young, Alexander St. John, Danielle Stack,
Laura Stephenson, Noelle Velasco, and Charlotte Woolf as our 2013 Photographer-in-Residence.

We are so excited to have you on board, and we are excited to get to know you better!

Halcyon Theatre would like to give a huge thank you and congratulations to the first group to complete a year of the Artist-in-Residence program: Mikah Berky, Cynthia Caul, Fin Coe, Rafa Franco, Denise Hoeflich, Natalie Hurdle, Noe Jara, Ebony Joy, Jin Kim, Sarah Laeuchli, Dylan Parkes, Maren Rosenberg, Anne Serine, Riso Straley, and Leah Tirado.

Halcyon Theatre is also proud to welcome Mikah Berky, Fin Coe, Denise Hoeflich, Noe Jara, Sarah Laeuchli,  Maren Rosenberg, and Riso Straley as Halcyon company members, with Sarah Laeuchli in the role of Director of New Play Development.

You are all incredibly talented artists, and have become part of the Halcyon family. We can't wait to see what the future holds!

After the Alcyone Festival 2012 closed, we're taking a couple weeks off to rest and regroup.

Our next performance event will be October's Ceyx Series. We're putting the finishing touches on the lineup now. Looks like another amazing group.

Our next full production will be The Emperor of the Moon by Aphra Behn. We're shifting our mode of working and will not be producing a season. Instead we are focusing all our efforts on making each show awesome.  

So, the exact dates are not yet set. However, as we continue to develop the project, you'll be able to follow our progress right here.

Join Halcyon Theatre Saturday, August 4, 2:30pm at The Greenhouse for a panel discussion on "Dreaming a New Theatre. This Free event is part of the Alcyone Festival 2012.

Panelists include:
Deb Clapp 
Neal Dandade
Reginald Edmund
Minita Gandhi
Marc Pinate
Elaine Romero

About the Panelists:

Deb Clapp

Deb is Executive Director of The League of Chicago Theaters, which serve a membership of more than 200 theaters, a rich and varied theater community ranging from storefront, non-union theaters with budgets under $10,000 to major cultural centers with multi-million dollar shows.

Neal Dandade

Neal Dandade has lived in Chicago since 2006. He has trained and performed at the Annoyance, Second City, and iO theaters. He was also a member of Stir Friday Night, Chicago’s Premier Asian American comedy group. He is currently an understudy for the Second City National Touring Company and received his MFA in the Writing for Screen and Stage program at Northwestern University. In Summer 2011, Neal was a writing intern at The Daily Show and the Colbert Report as part of Comedy Central’s Summer School Internship

Reginald Edmund

ealReginald Edmund, is a resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists, he was previously a 2009-2010, 2010-2011 Many Voices Fellow playwright. Originally from Houston, Texas, he served Artistic Director for the Silver House Theatre, as well as the founder and producer for the Silver House Playwrights Festival and the Houston Urban Theatre Series. Reggie was the inaugural recipient of the  Kennedy Center Fellowship at Soul Mountain Retreat as well as the 2009 National Runner-up for the Lorraine Hansberryand Rosa Parks Playwriting Award.
Minita Gandhi

Minita Gandhi

Born in Mumbai, India, raised near San Francisco, Minita has been seen on The Chicago Code (FOX),and as the title role in the upcoming Hindu mythological film, Parvati's Golden Skin. She has performed with Tony award-winning director Mary Zimmerman's "The Arabian Nights," and has played at Chicago's Lookingglass Theater, The Gift, First FolioTheater, Silk Road Rising, Theatre Seven and Halcyon.

Marc Pinate

Marc David Pinate is theatre artist committed to creating performance on the edge. Through the mediums of theatre, spoken word, music and movement Marc collides the political with the abstract and pop culture with the spiritual to construct a new reality. As an actor he has worked with the Magic Theatre, Campo Santo, and Teatro Vision in the SF-Bay Area and Su Teatro in Denver. He is a National Slam Poetry champion and was front man for the poetry-music group, Grito Serpentino. His directing experience includes founding Los Del Pueblo Actors’ Lab and the Hybrid Performance Experiment. Marc is currently pursing an MFA in Directing at DePaul University’s Theatre School in Chicago.

Elaine Romero

Elaine Romero is a 2011/2012 member of the Goodman Theatre’s Playwright’s Unit for which she is writing a full-length version of A Work of Art. Graveyard of Empires is the first in a trilogy Elaine is writing about the U.S. at war. A Work of Art is the second piece of the trilogy. She has won over $125,000 for her plays, which have been presented at the Goodman Theatre, Alley Theatre, Newtown Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. Recent commissions include Goodman Theatre, Centerstage, American Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company (The Dalai Lama is Not Welcome Here), and Kitchen Dog Theater Company. Her plays include Walk into the Sea(Sloan Foundation/Magic Theatre, Sundance Playwrights Retreat),!Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds, Before Death Comes for the Archbishop (TCG Pew National Theatre Artist in Residency grant),Sun, Stone and Shadows (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Alicia(Zachary Scott Theatre), Something Rare and Wonderful (Alley Theatre), Xochi: Jaguar Princess (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), Revolutions (Manhattan Theatre Source; in Spanish at the Panama National Theatre), Ponzi (Kitchen Dog Theater)—Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, A Work of Art (short version, American Theatre Company), and Barrio Hollywood, which received its Spanish World Premiere at Aurora Theatre and was published by Samuel French in English and Spanish. Her play Wetback is in development with Teatro Vista. Elaine taught in the RTVF Department at Northwestern University. She has adapted Revolutionsfor the screen for a film production company in Spain, and is currently revising a film that will be produced in Mexico.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.  ~Cesar Chavez

Join Halcyon Theatre Saturday, July 21, 2:30pm at The Greenhouse for a panel discussion on using our art to activate social change. This Free event is part of the Alcyone Festival 2012.

Panelists include:
Ellyzabeth Adler (Founder, chicago danztheatre ensemble, Teacher, Performer)
Jamil Khoury (Co-founder, SIlk Road Theatre Project)
Milta Ortiz (Playwright, Poet, and Performer)
Marc Pinate (Theatre artist, Poet, Activist, and Teacher)
Willa Taylor (Director of Education and Community Engagement, Goodman Theatre) 

About the Panelists:

Ellyzabeth Adler

Ellyzabeth Adler founded Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble in 2001, creating a resource for performers whose interests extend beyond their primary artistic discipline. Ellyzabeth hoped to foster a sense of true artistic collaboration, drawing on the many artistic media to create multi-sensory dance theatre performances that would inspire audiences to engage in making positive changes in the world.

Believing in bringing quality arts education to children, she later created opportunities for artists to work as teachers and visiting artists in Chicagoland schools and community centers, specifically focusing on areas that do not have other arts programs available. Ellyzabeth developed a multidisciplinary approach to teaching children literacy, social emotional learning, and the artistic process; believing that early cultivation of the imagination and critical thinking skills would initiate a life-long quest for learning, curiosity and social and civic engagement.   

Ellyzabeth earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Performing Arts and Broadcast Journalism from Roosevelt University, and a Masters of Arts in Directing and Movement from University of Illinois at Chicago. Her thesis outlined her techniques for creating kinesthetic theatre to provoke emotional awareness, which Ellyzabeth has since gone on to use as a stepping stone to develop a curriculum for children with Autism to help them to understand emotion and physical responses. This curriculum was implemented at LEEP clinic and she has taught it at schools within Chicago.

In 2008, she was commissioned by the United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations - working with international painter Florent Mouttii - to create  a performance based on his images of immigrants to France in response to the country’s race riots. The piece was performed at their annual conference. In 2009, Ellyzabeth spent a month teaching in Bangalore, India. She taught dance, art, and literacy at The Balle Mane (“Girls Home”) at Gopalapura, a home for about 60 girls between the ages of 6 and  18 years old. She has taught performance, development workshops, and given lectures at the Women’s Theatre Alliance, Making the Most of Out-of-School Time (MOST), the Chicago Teaching Artist Collective and Theatre In the School-Chicago Chapter.  She also served as a Teaching Artist at ProsArts Studio as and Poetry Pals, where she taught interfaith dialogue between Jewish, Christian and Muslim children. To date, Ellyzabeth has collaboratively adapted, directed and choreographed seven full-length works, and has created over a dozen concert-length works around women’s issues, the body, suicide, pathways to enlightenment and the human condition.

Jamil Khoury

Jamil Khoury is Founding Artistic Director of Silk Road Rising (www.silkroadrising.org). Promoting playwrights of Silk Road backgrounds is a passion that dovetails well with Khoury’s experiences living in the Middle East and his eleven years as a cross-cultural trainer and international relocations consultant. Khoury’s plays focus on Middle Eastern themes and questions of Diaspora. He is particularly interested in the intersections of culture, national identity, sexuality, and class.

Khoury is currently writing a new feature film/docudrama called Mosque Alert which he is developing as part of a first-of-its-kind, eight step, interactive, online, new play development and civic engagement process. He conceived of and devised two critically acclaimed cabarets Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret (2012) and Silk Road Cabaret: Broadway Sings the Silk Road (2009). He also conceived of and was a featured playwright in Silk Road's production of The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion (2010). Khoury’s short playWASP: White Arab Slovak Pole inspired the short video play both/and (2011) and the documentary film Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness (2012). His weight loss of over a hundred pounds, and conversations with his personal fitness trainer, inspired the short video play The Balancing Arab (2012). Khoury’s play Precious Stones won Gay Chicago Magazine's 2003 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work and has been performed in ten cities across the U.S. His play Fitna was performed at University Theatre of The University of Chicago and his play Azizati was performed at Café Voltaire.

Khoury holds a M.A. degree in Religious Studies from The University of Chicago Divinity School and a B.S. degree in International Relations from Georgetown University 's School of Foreign Service. He is a Kellogg Executive Scholar (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and has been awarded a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Nonprofit Management. Khoury is the 2010 recipient of the 3Arts Artist Award for Playwriting.

Milta Ortiz

Milta Ortiz is a playwright/poet/performer currently attending Northwestern’s Writing for the Screen and Stage MFA program. Milta’s play, Last of the Lilac Roses is a finalist at NYC’s Repertorio Español, Nuestra’s Voces play contest. Presently, she is a member of ATC’s Chicago Chronicle playwriting. She received two individual artist grants from City of Oakland Cultural Arts, and Zellerbach Family Foundation to write and perform original work. She was co founder of HyPE theater troupe and one third of Las Manas Tres Spoken Word troupe. She has been published in Teaching Artist Journal; in anthologies Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound, Coyolxuahqui, Cipatl; edited City of Stairways: A Poet’s Field Guide to San Francisco, a book with her WritersCorps students; and self published chapbook, Encantadas with Las Manas Tres. She earned a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.  

Marc Pinate

Marc David Pinate is theatre artist committed to creating performance on the edge. Through the mediums of theatre, spoken word, music and movement Marc collides the political with the abstract and pop culture with the spiritual to construct a new reality. As an actor he has worked with the Magic Theatre, Campo Santo, and Teatro Vision in the SF-Bay Area and Su Teatro in Denver. He is a National Slam Poetry champion and was front man for the poetry-music group, Grito Serpentino. His directing experience includes founding Los Del Pueblo Actors’ Lab and the Hybrid Performance Experiment. Marc is currently pursing an MFA in Directing at DePaul University’s Theatre School in Chicago.

Willa Taylor

Willa Taylor is the Goodman’s director of education and community engagement. She began her career in arts education at Arena Stage where, under founding director Zelda Fichandler, she established the Allen Lee Hughes Fellows Program—one of the first theater-run apprenticeships designed to increase participation by people of color in professional theater. She then went to Lincoln Center Theater where she created The Urban Ensemble, a multidisciplinary project that served at-risk youth. This collaboration between Lincoln Center and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Public Theater was cited by President Clinton’s Council on the Arts and Humanities in its 1996 report, Coming Up Taller. At Lincoln Center, she consulted for New Victory Theatre, where she designed the arts education program for their inaugural season. Ms. Taylor also served as cultural director for Gay Games IV, where she oversaw the production of more than 200 cultural events, including the Broadway production of Sir Ian McKellen’s A Knight Out. In addition to a longtime career in the arts, Ms. Taylor brings to the Goodman a wealth of experience in other areas. For 12 years she served as a Russian and Arabic linguist in the US Navy. While overseas, she oversaw productions for the United Service Organization in Greece and managed Armed Forces Radio and Television in Turkey where she created the Profiles in Black history series. Following her graduation from Kendall College’s culinary program in 2001, Taylor opened Taylor-Made Cuisine, a gourmet catering company as well as Home Café, a neighborhood bistro. In 2005, she helped open and served as the catering chef for Chicago’s EatZi’s Easygoing Gourmet, a chain of gourmet bakeries, take-out markets and restaurants based out of Dallas, Texas.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454 
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org  

Halcyon Theatre Announces The Performance Schedule for the Fifth Annual Alcyone Festival Featuring New Works by Mexican Women

CHICAGO, IL (May 16, 2011) Halcyon Theatre Announces the fifth annual Alcyone Festival featuring new works in translation by Mexican women. The Alcyone Festival 2012 will be performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.  From July 12 through August 12.

The Alcyone Festival 2012 will feature works (in English translation) by women in Mexico. There is a long and distinguished body of  theatrical work in Mexico. Unfortunately, many of these works are rarely seen in Chicago.  With this year's Alcyone Festival, Halcyon is presenting four plays in translation by some of Mexico's best playwrights.

Says Artistic Director Tony Adams, “I was really inspired by some of the works that Henry Godinez and the Lark brought to the Goodman's last Latino Theatre Festival for readings, so for this year's festival I wanted to continue that conversation and present full productions of some fantastic plays by Mexican women. The fact that Henry will be directing with us is pretty amazing. Not just because he introduced me to some of the writers, but he is one of my favorite artists in the country. A large part of our work revolves around the idea of connection, and so I'm also really excited to reconnect with another director in this year's fest, Alex Gualino. Alex was one of the founding members of Steep theatre, where I was a longtime member, and I worked with him on my first show in Chicago.” 

Performances will be Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep, from July 12 through August 12, 2012. Tickets are $12-20, and are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336.  Festival passes are available for $75. 

Members of the media are invited to attend any performance.  

This year's festival features:  

A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino
"There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love wanders whimsically through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. "
Performances: Thursday, July 12, 7:30pm; Sunday, July 22, 2:30pm; Saturday, July 28, 7:30pm; Friday, August 3, 7:30pm; Saturday, August 11, 7:30pm

Freud Skating on Thin Ice
by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez
"A dramatic rewriting of the famous case of Freud's "Dora."
Performances: Saturday, July 14, 7:30pm; Friday, July 20, 7:30pm; Thursday, July 26, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 5, 2:30pm; Thursday, August 9, 7:30pm

Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning
by Mariana Hartasánchez, tranlation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Tony Adams
"When a magician's hand escapes and seduces a psychiatrist, two fathers return from the dead in a battle of rhetoric and illusion over the living. "
Performances: Sunday, July 15, 2:30pm; Saturday, July 21, 7:30pm; Friday, July 27, 7:30pm; Thursday, August 2, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 12, 2:30pm

The Tip of the Iceberg
by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Anneliese Moffitt
"A couple on the skids, a woman having a nervous breakdown, a serial killer on the prowl and a girl holding onto a mewling cat make up the darkly, comic poetically ferocious world of The Tip of the Iceberg."
Performances: Friday, July 13, 7:30pm; Thursday, July 19, 7:30pm; Sunday, July 29, 2:30pm; Saturday, August 4, 7:30pm; Friday, August 10, 7:30pm

Full Performance Schedule:

Thursday, July 12, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Friday, July 13, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Saturday, July 14, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Sunday, July 15, 2:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
   
Thursday, July 19, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Friday, July 20, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Saturday, July 21, 7:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
Sunday, July 22, 2:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
   
Thursday, July 26, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Friday, July 27, 7:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
Saturday, July 28, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Sunday, July 29, 2:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
   
Thursday, August 2, 7:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
Friday, August 3, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Saturday, August 4, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Sunday, August 5, 2:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
   
Thursday, August 9, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Friday, August 10, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Saturday, August 11, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Sunday, August 12, 2:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo

About the Alcyone Festival:

Now in its fifth year, our annual Alcyone Festival celebrates female playwrights. Women writers are grossly underrepresented on stages across America, so we created the Alcyone Festival to combat this directly, by celebrating the depth and breadth of women writing for the stage. To date the Alcyone Festival has presented 26 works by women, only two of which had previously been seen in Chicago.

For our first annual Alcyone Festival, in the summer of 2008, Halcyon Theatre produced the works of 10 early female playwrights spanning almost 1000 years in rotating repertory. These works have been seldom (and mostly never) seen on contemporary stages.

For the Alcyone Festival 2009 we decided to play with the notion that women only write small domestic dramas, picking a theme as far away from that as possible: terrorism, the cult of martyrdom and its effects upon the innocents.  The Alcyone Festival 2009 featured six phenomenal writers from across the globe.

The Alcyone Festival 2010 celebrates the work of María Irene Fornés.

The theme for the Alcyone Festival 2011 was Remixed, creating new works by women based off of classical texts by women. We presented five new works using/adapting/sampling/re-envisioning . . . remixing classical plays written by women from Hrosvita (c. 935 to c. 1002) through 1800. The Alcyone Festival 2011 celebrated both new and (really) old writers and showed how the lineage of female playwrights over the past thousand years can inspire and inform contemporary audiences and artists.

The Alcyone Festival 2012 will feature new works by Mexican women, in English translation.

About Halcyon:  

Mission- We are fiercely committed to making the stage as diverse as the city of Chicago; presenting new voices from inadequately represented communities, as well as recasting classic works to showcase their contemporary relevance. 

About- Halcyon Theatre was formed to connect people, transform our borders and ascend towards a more  just union. We strive to make incredible theatre from stories around the world, to help show our world in new ways, and rediscover the individual beauty of people from our global community. Our artistic philosophy is driven by our continuing belief that at every point of human history where there has been an explosion of artistic creativity, it has happened when different cultures and traditions have intersected and informed each other.  If every artist working with an organization looks and thinks the same, it is difficult for them to grow. A homogeneous group produces homogeneous art. Striving for artistic excellence with artists of varied cultural backgrounds and training is at the forefront of everything we do. 

# # # # MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT  

WHAT:  Halcyon Theatre Announces The Fifth Annual Alcyone Festival Featuring New Works by Mexican Women, in English translation. 

WHERE: The Alcyone Festival 2012 will be performed at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. 

WHEN: The Alcyone Festival 2012 will play Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep. 

ADMISSION: $12-20 for single tickets.  Festival Passes are available for $75.   

BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336. 

FEATURING:

A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino
"There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love wanders whimsically through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. "

Freud Skating
by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez
"A dramatic rewriting of the famous case of Freud's "Dora."

Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning
by Mariana Hartasánchez, translation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Tony Adams
"When a magician's hand escapes and seduces a psychiatrist, two fathers return from the dead in a battle of rhetoric and illusion over the living. "

The Tip of the Iceberg
by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Anneliese Moffitt
"A couple on the skids, a woman having a nervous breakdown, a serial killer on the prowl and a girl holding onto a mewling cat make up the darkly, comic poetically ferocious world of The Tip of the Iceberg."

*exact lineup subject to change

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Thursday, July 12, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Friday, July 13, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Saturday, July 14, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Sunday, July 15, 2:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
   
Thursday, July 19, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Friday, July 20, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Saturday, July 21, 7:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
Sunday, July 22, 2:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
   
Thursday, July 26, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Friday, July 27, 7:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
Saturday, July 28, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Sunday, July 29, 2:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
   
Thursday, August 2, 7:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo
Friday, August 3, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Saturday, August 4, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Sunday, August 5, 2:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
   
Thursday, August 9, 7:30pm -- Freud Skating on Thin Ice
Friday, August 10, 7:30pm -- The Tip of the Iceberg
Saturday, August 11, 7:30pm -- A Lovers Dismantling
Sunday, August 12, 2:30pm -- Two Dead Guys and a Banjo

WEBSITE: halcyontheatre.org; halcyontheatre.org/alcyone12

CONTACT: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454  
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454 
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org  

Halcyon Theatre Announces The Fifth Annual Alcyone Festival Featuring New Works by Mexican Women

CHICAGO, IL (May 16, 2011) Halcyon Theatre Announces the fifth annual Alcyone Festival featuring new works in translation by Mexican women. The Alcyone Festival 2012 will be performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.  From July 12 through August 12.

The Alcyone Festival 2012 will feature works (in English translation) by women in Mexico. There is a long and distinguished body of  theatrical work in Mexico. Unfortunately, many of these works are rarely seen in Chicago.  With this year's Alcyone Festival, Halcyon is presenting four plays in translation by some of Mexico's best playwrights.

Says Artistic Director Tony Adams, “I was really inspired by some of the works that Henry Godinez and the Lark brought to the Goodman's last Latino Theatre Festival for readings, so for this year's festival I wanted to continue that conversation and present full productions of some fantastic plays by Mexican women. The fact that Henry will be directing with us is pretty amazing. Not just because he introduced me to some of the writers, but he is one of my favorite artists in the country. A large part of our work revolves around the idea of connection, and so I'm also really excited to reconnect with another director in this year's fest, Alex Gualino. Alex was one of the founding members of Steep theatre, where I was a longtime member, and I worked with him on my first show in Chicago.” 

Performances will be Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep, from July 12 through August 12, 2012. Tickets are $12-20, and are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336.  Festival passes are available for $75. 

Members of the media are invited to attend any performance.  

This year's festival features:  

A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino
"There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love wanders whimsically through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. "

Freud Skating
by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez
"A dramatic rewriting of the famous case of Freud's "Dora."

Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning
by Mariana Hartasánchez, tranlation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Ebony Joy
"When a magician's hand escapes and seduces a psychiatrist, two fathers return from the dead in a battle of rhetoric and illusion over the living. "

The Tip of the Iceberg
by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Anneliese Moffitt
"A couple on the skids, a woman having a nervous breakdown, a serial killer on the prowl and a girl holding onto a mewling cat make up the darkly, comic poetically ferocious world of The Tip of the Iceberg."

*exact lineup subject to change

About the Alcyone Festival:

Now in its fifth year, our annual Alcyone Festival celebrates female playwrights. Women writers are horribly represented on stages across America, so we created the Alcyone Festival to combat this directly, by celebrating the depth and breadth of women writing for the stage. To date the Alcyone Festival has presented 26 works by women, only two of which had previously been seen in Chicago.

For our first annual Alcyone Festival, in the summer of 2008, Halcyon Theatre produced the works of 10 early female playwrights spanning almost 1000 years in rotating repertory. These works have been seldom (and mostly never) seen on contemporary stages.

For the Alcyone Festival 2009 we decided to play with the notion that women only write small domestic dramas, picking a theme as far away from that as possible: terrorism, the cult of martyrdom and its effects upon the innocents.  The Alcyone Festival 2009 featured six phenomenal writers from across the globe.

The Alcyone Festival 2010 celebrates the work of María Irene Fornés.

The theme for the Alcyone Festival 2011 was Remixed, creating new works by women based off of classical texts by women. We presented five new works using/adapting/sampling/re-envisioning . . . remixing classical plays written by women from Hrosvita (c. 935 to c. 1002) through 1800. The Alcyone Festival 2011 celebrated both new and (really) old writers and showed how the lineage of female playwrights over the past thousand years can inspire and inform contemporary audiences and artists.

The Alcyone Festival 2012 will feature new works in translation by Mexican women.

About Halcyon:  

Mission- We are fiercely committed to making the stage as diverse as the city of Chicago; presenting new voices from inadequately represented communities, as well as recasting classic works to showcase their contemporary relevance. 

About- Halcyon Theatre was formed to connect people, transform our borders and ascend towards a more  just union. We strive to make incredible theatre from stories around the world, to help show our world in new ways, and rediscover the individual beauty of people from our global community. Our artistic philosophy is driven by our continuing belief that at every point of human history where there has been an explosion of artistic creativity, it has happened when different cultures and traditions have intersected and informed each other.  If every artist working with an organization looks and thinks the same, it is difficult for them to grow. A homogeneous group produces homogeneous art. Striving for artistic excellence with artists of varied cultural backgrounds and training is at the forefront of everything we do. 

# # # # MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT  

WHAT:  Halcyon Theatre Announces The Fifth Annual Alcyone Festival Featuring New Works by Mexican Women. 

WHERE: The Alcyone Festival 2012 will be performed at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. 

WHEN: The Alcyone Festival 2012 will play Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep. 

ADMISSION: $12-20 for single tickets.  Festival Passes are available for $75.   

BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336. 

FEATURING:

A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino
"There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love wanders whimsically through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. "

Freud Skating
by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez
"A dramatic rewriting of the famous case of Freud's "Dora."

Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning
by Mariana Hartasánchez, translation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Ebony Joy
"When a magician's hand escapes and seduces a psychiatrist, two fathers return from the dead in a battle of rhetoric and illusion over the living. "

The Tip of the Iceberg
by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Anneliese Moffitt
"A couple on the skids, a woman having a nervous breakdown, a serial killer on the prowl and a girl holding onto a mewling cat make up the darkly, comic poetically ferocious world of The Tip of the Iceberg."

*exact lineup subject to change

WEBSITE: halcyontheatre.org ; halcyontheatre.org/alcyone12

CONTACT: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454  
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454 
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org  

Halcyon Theatre Announces The Fifth Annual Alcyone Festival Featuring New Works by Mexican Women

CHICAGO, IL (May 16, 2011) Halcyon Theatre Announces the fifth annual Alcyone Festival Featuring New Works in translation by Mexican Women. The Alcyone Festival 2012 will be performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.  From July 12 through August 12.

The Alcyone Festival 2012 will feature works (in English translation) by women in Mexico. There is a long and distinguished body of  theatrical work in Mexico. Unfortunately, many of these works are rarely seen in Chicago.  With this year's Alcyone Festival, Halcyon is presenting four plays in translation by some of Mexicos best playwrights.

Says Artistic Director Tony Adams, “ I was really inspired by some of the works the Henry Godinez and the Lark brought to the Goodman's last Latino Theatre Festival for readings, so for this years festival I wanted to continue that conversation and present full productions of some fantastic plays by Mexican Women. The fact that Henry will be directing with us is pretty amazing. Not just because he introduced me to some of the writers, but he is one of my favorite artists in the country,  A large part of our work revolves around the idea of connection, and I'm also really excited to reconnect with another director in this years fest, Alex Gualino. Alex was one of the founding members of Steep theatre, where I was a longtime member, and I worked with him on my first show in Chicago.” 

Performances will be Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep, from July 12 through August 12, 2012. Tickets are $12-20, and are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336.  Festival passes are available for $75. 

Members of the media are invited to attend any performance.  

This year's festival features:  

A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino
"There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love wanders whimsically through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. "

Freud Skating
by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez
"A dramatic rewriting of the famous case of Freud's "Dora."

Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning
by Mariana Hartasánchez, tranlation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Ebony Joy
"When a magician's hand escapes and seduces a psychiatrist, two fathers return from the dead in a battle of rhetoric and illusion over the living. "

The Tip of the Iceberg
by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Annelise Moffit
"A couple on the skids, a woman having a nervous breakdown, a serial killer on the prowl and a girl holding onto a mewling cat make up the darkly, comic poetically ferocious world of The Tip of the Iceberg."

*exact lineup subject to change

About the Alcyone Festival:

Now in its fifth year, our annual Alcyone Festival celebrates female playwrights. Women writers are horribly represented on stages across America, so we created the Alcyone Festival to combat this directly, by celebrating the depth and breadth of women writing for the stage. To date the Alcyone Festival has presented 26 works by women, only two of which had previously been seen in Chicago.

For our first annual Alcyone Festival, in the summer of 2008, Halcyon Theatre produced the works of 10 early female playwrights spanning almost 1000 years in rotating repertory. These works have been seldom (and mostly never) seen on contemporary stages.

For the Alcyone Festival 2009 we decided to play with the notion that women only write small domestic dramas, picking a theme as far away from that as possible: terrorism, the cult of martyrdom and its effects upon the innocents.  The Alcyone Festival 2009 featured six phenomenal writers from across the globe.

The Alcyone Festival 2010 celebrates the work of María Irene Fornés.

The theme for the Alcyone Festival 2011 was Remixed, creating new works by women based off of classical texts by women. We presented five new works using/adapting/sampling/re-envisioning . . . remixing classical plays written by women from Hrosvita (c. 935 to c. 1002) through 1800. The Alcyone Festival 2011 celebrated both new and (really) old writers and showed how the lineage of female playwrights over the past thousand years can inspire and inform contemporary audiences and artists.

The Alcyone Festival 2012 will feature new works in translation by Mexican women.

About Halcyon:  

Mission- We are fiercely committed to making the stage as diverse as the city of Chicago; presenting new voices from inadequately represented communities, as well as recasting classic works to showcase their contemporary relevance. 

About- Halcyon Theatre was formed to connect people, transform our borders and ascend towards a more  just union. We strive to make incredible theatre from stories around the world, to help show our world in new ways, and rediscover the individual beauty of people from our global community. Our artistic philosophy is driven by our continuing belief that at every point of human history where there has been an explosion of artistic creativity, it has happened when different cultures and traditions have intersected and informed each other.  If every artist working with an organization looks and thinks the same, it is difficult for them to grow. A homogeneous group produces homogeneous art. Striving for artistic excellence with artists of varied cultural backgrounds and training is at the forefront of everything we do. 

# # # # MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT  

WHAT:  Halcyon Theatre Announces The Fifth Annual Alcyone Festival Featuring New Works by Mexican Women. 

WHERE: The Alcyone Festival 2012 will be performed at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. 

WHEN: The Alcyone Festival 2012 will play Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, and Sundays at 2:30, in rotating rep. 

ADMISSION: $12-20 for single tickets.  Festival Passes are available for $75.   

BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336. 

FEATURING:

A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino
"There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love wanders whimsically through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. "

Freud Skating
by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez
"A dramatic rewriting of the famous case of Freud's "Dora."

Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning
by Mariana Hartasánchez, translation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Ebony Joy
"When a magician's hand escapes and seduces a psychiatrist, two fathers return from the dead in a battle of rhetoric and illusion over the living. "

The Tip of the Iceberg
by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Annelise Moffit
"A couple on the skids, a woman having a nervous breakdown, a serial killer on the prowl and a girl holding onto a mewling cat make up the darkly, comic poetically ferocious world of The Tip of the Iceberg."

*exact lineup subject to change

WEBSITE: halcyontheatre.org ; halcyontheatre.org/alcyone12

CONTACT: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454  
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org

Halcyon Theatre is excited to offer the first session of our youth summer theatre camp! Kids will have 3 classes a day (drama, music, dance) a day, culminating in a free showcase for the families.

Ages 4-12
Monday, June 18- Saturday, June 30 (no Sundays)
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Saturday, June 30, would be a longer day, with a showcase that night for families)

$350 per person, or $500 for a family.

Come have fun with us!!! 

Register here

Explore masks, movement, and mime in an intensive workshop with skilled physical theatre performer Doug Berky.  Through a combination of mask work and physical improvisation, learn how to fully utilize your body to develop dynamic characters.  Doug combines the traditions of Commedia d'ell arte, Marcel Marceau, and Charlie Chaplin for a truly unique performance style that will expand your skills as an actor and storyteller. The workshop is hosted by Halcyon Theatre

Date: Saturday, May 12 from 2-5.
Cost: $50.
Location: Workshop will take place at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church at 3253 W. Wilson, in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood .

For nearly thirty years, Doug Berky has brought classic solo physical-theatre performances to stages all over the world, transcending age, race and culture. Using the illusion of the mime, the antics of the clown, the transformation of his own handmade, original and exquisite masks, the suspense of a good story and the excitement of improvisation, Doug inspires laughter... and reflection.  He has toured with The Two Penny Circus and The Montanaro Mime Theatre where he appeared in the award-winning NBC children's series, "See Saw," and television specials for Swedish National Television.  Doug has performed and taught as Artist-In-Residence at numerous schools and colleges including schools for the deaf, The Commedia School (Copenhagen, Denmark), Roanoke College (Salem, VA), Furman University (Greenville, SC), and the University of Wisconsin, Racine.

For more info, or to sign up: Contact Jenn Adams at 773.413.0454 or jenn@halcyontheatre.org

Monday, October 1st at 7:30pm

at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N Lincoln Ave, in Chicago

$10 admission

The October Ceyx Series Lineup:

Bryan Albert

Guitarist

Bryan Albert makes a living as a teacher, performer, transcriber, studio artist, and composer/arranger. In addition to his private studio, Bryan has taught at Northwestern University and the McGaw YMCA, and is currently on faculty at Southport Performing Arts Conservatory and Sherwood at Columbia College. Maintained alongside a steady performance schedule, Bryan's current and past jobs and commissions include transcribing for Procustomtracks.com, composing and performing for Inaside Chicago Dance's "Musical Innovators" series, and contributing guitar tracks to the children's record Sittercity Sings and the rock album Dramatic Input by The Grant Kay Band. His most recently completed studio project was the solo guitar album, Demo 2011. Bryan served as Dub Master at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall while on scholarship at Northwestern University. His classical style is influenced by rock, folk, blues, jazz, pop, punk, R&B, hip-hop, and metal.

Barrel of Monkeys

songs and skits highlighting what they do

Barrel of Monkeys teaches creative writing workshops in Chicago Public Schools, and in our own after-school program. The ensemble adapts the stories into sketches and songs which are performed for the school, and later for the public. The kids become stars, and the world is saved. The End.

Reggie Edmund (playwright)

with scenes from his newest play, Blacula: Young, Black, and Undead

Reginald Edmund, is a resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists, he was previously a 2009-2010, 2010-2011 Many Voices Fellow playwright. Originally from Houston, Texas, he served Artistic Director for the Silver House Theatre, as well as the founder and producer for the Silver House Playwrights Festival and the Houston Urban Theatre Series. Reggie was the inaugural recipient of the Kennedy Center Fellowship at Soul Mountain Retreat as well as the 2009 National Runner-up for the Lorraine Hansberryand Rosa Parks Playwriting Award.

He received his BFA in Theatre-Performance from Texas Southern University, and his MFA in playwriting at Ohio University under the guidance of Charles Smith.

In 2009 He founded the Unit Collective and in 2010 he was named Winner of The Southern Writers Competition, and recognized by TCG as a 2011 Young Leader of Color. His plays, 'The Ordained Smile of Sadie May Jenkins', 'Southbridge', 'JuneteenthStreet', and 'The Redemption of Allah Black', all part of his nine-play series The City of the Bayou Collection, were developed at esteemed theaters including Ensemble Theatre of Houston, Silver House Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, the Playwrights’ Center, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Moving Arts, Karamu House, Pangea World Theater, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Texas State University Black and Latino Theatre Conference, the Last Frontier Theater Conference, and the Kennedy Center. Most recently he traveled to Colombia to serve as the guest speaker at the Intercolegiado de Teatro de Buenaventura. He is currently Founder and Artistic Director of The Wild Seven, an company dedicated to playwrights and their works as well as emphasizing the development of an ethnically and culturally diverse community of artists for the Minneapolis/ St. Paul and Chicago area.

Yolanda Nieves

(poet and playwright)

Yolanda Nieves, born and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, is an award winning poet, playwright, director, educator, actress, and founder of The Vida Bella Ensemble. Author of two highly acclaimed poetry books, Dove over Clouds and The Spoken Body (Plainview Press), Yolanda has been widely published. Her play, winner of the American Educational Research Association’s Dissertation of the Year Award for Arts-Based Research 2010, The Brown Girls’ Chronicles, has been nationally acclaimed and performed coast to coast. She is an assistant professor at Wright College, holds two master’s degrees and an Ed.D in Adult Education from National-Louis University.

Charlotte Woolf

(photographer)

Talking about her exhibit Second Skin, about her process and final product and where she wants to go with it now.

Informed by the unique wisdom and geometric expanse of the body, Charlotte Woolf’s photographic work combines the creative and the documentary. Charlotte is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but spent her college years in central Ohio and Stockholm, Sweden. In May 2012, she graduated from Kenyon College with a double major in Studio Art and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her work is influenced by a lifetime of classical ballet training, though more recently modern dance and yoga. The series, Second Skin, is about exploring the landscape of the body by combining projections of abstract anatomy drawings with the human figure. Charlotte has also worked on a handful of organic farms in Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio – experiences that have inspired her documentary photography. Her most extensive image collection is Women and Agriculture in Knox County, Ohio. Charlotte has also photographed performances by Double-Edge Dance, Kenyon College Dance and Drama Department, and Halcyon Theater. Her works have been displayed across Ohio in Columbus, Delaware, Gambier, and Mount Vernon. Her portfolio contains works sampling the breadth and depth of her visual knowledge in gender studies, agriculture, and performance. As a new Chicago resident, she aspires to continue her artistic work not only through a camera lens, but also a progressive and adventurous point-of-view. – www.charlottewoolf.com

Monday, July 9th at 7:30pm
at the Greenhouse Theatre Center 2257. N. Lincoln Ave.
(note: Due to Independence Day, the July Ceyx Series will be on the following Monday)
Pay-what-you-can: $10 suggested donation

The July Ceyx Series Lineup will include:

Bryan Albert

Bryan Albert makes a living as a teacher, performer, transcriber, studio artist, and composer/arranger. In addition to his private studio, Bryan has taught at Northwestern University and the McGaw YMCA, and is currently on faculty at Southport Performing Arts Conservatory and Sherwood at Columbia College. Maintained alongside a steady performance schedule, Bryan's current and past jobs and commissions include transcribing for Procustomtracks.com, composing and performing for Inaside Chicago Dance's "Musical Innovators" series, and contributing guitar tracks to the children's record Sittercity Sings and the rock album Dramatic Input by The Grant Kay Band. His most recently completed studio project was the solo guitar album, Demo 2011. Bryan served as Dub Master at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall while on scholarship at Northwestern University. His classical style is influenced by rock, folk, blues, jazz, pop, punk, R&B, hip-hop, and metal.

Kareem Khubchandani

Kareem will introduce you to his alter ego, Lahore Vagistan, Chicago's premiere Bollywood drag superstar who is trying to make it from the Chicago stage to the Mumbai screen. 

Kareem is a performance artist as well as Ph.D. student in Performance Studies at Northwestern researching queer nightlife in South Asian communities.  In Chicago he has performed with Rasaka Theatre, 2nd Story Storytelling, Entertaining Julia, and Northwestern's Queergasm.  He splits his time between India and the U.S. and is committed to issues of community and social justice.

Derrick York

Derrick York is a lover of the finer things in life: music, food, theatre, Dungeons and Dragons.  He considers himself a consummate gamer; he will play any game you might want to play.  He is also an amateur writer.  He is working on a novel, that he hopes will one day get published.

Check out his personal blog at Phobos' Lair

Osiris Khepera

Jenn Adams and Joe Griffin

And More

Bollywood in Drag, Strangers in Pursuit, Beatmakers in the House...

Monday, June 4th at 7:30pm
at the Greenhouse Theatre Center
2257. N. Lincoln Ave.
Pay-what-you-can: $10 suggested donation

The June Ceyx Series Lineup includes:

Kareem Khubchandani Kareem will introduce you to his alter ego, Lahore Vagistan, Chicago's premiere Bollywood drag superstar who is trying to make it from the Chicago stage to the Mumbai screen.

Kareem is a performance artist as well as Ph.D. student in Performance Studies at Northwestern researching queer nightlife in South Asian communities.  In Chicago he has performed with Rasaka Theatre, 2nd Story Storytelling, Entertaining Julia, and Northwestern's Queergasm.  He splits his time between India and the U.S. and is committed to issues of community and social justice.

Derrick York Derrick is the Company Manager of Halcyon Theatre, and has been with the company since February 2010, doing whatever needs doing to get Halcyon shows up on their feet.  He is a lover of the finer things in life: music, food, theatre, and Dungeons & Dragons.  He considers himself a consummate gamer; he will play any game you might want to play.  He is also an amateur writer who is working on a novel, that he hopes will one day get published.  He will be reading the prologue from that novel for you this month at the Ceyx series.

Sydney Chatman Ms. Chatman is a director, educator, producer and founder of The Tofu Chitlin’ Circuit (“TCC”), located in the Bronzeville district of Chicago.  TCC is a conservatory that allows directors, playwrights, and designers to create works that speak to their community at large.  TCC’s collection of artists are seeking to break the norms of what is considered “conventional theater.”  By no means do they have all of the answers, which is why they have developed monthly artist talks called The A La Carte. Each month is denoted by its delectable edition (Black eyed peas, candied yams, collard greens, etc.).

Ms. Chatman is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab in New York.  Her directing credits include St. James Infirmary (Assistant Director to Harry Lennix), Drip!, The Dear Cora Trilogy with Cheryl Lynn Bruce (Assistant Director), Safia Bernard’s Relationship Games, Let the Circle be Unbroken, Heads, Poof!, Sugar Mouth Sam Don’t Dance No More, For Colored Girls, Beulah’s Land,and The Mojo and the Sayso.  She is a former artistic associate with Congo Square Theatre, and is the performing arts instructor at University of Chicago Charter School where she has written and directed countless performances. 

And More

The March Ceyx Series will be at Teatro Luna
3914 N Clark St. Chicago, IL 60613<
or at livestream.com/halcyontheatre
Pay-what-you-can: $10 suggested donation

May's Lineup

and more to come!

*exact lineup and schedule subject to change.

Monday, April 2nd at 7:30pm
at the Greenhouse Theatre Center 2257. N. Lincoln Ave.
Pay-what-you-can: $10 suggested donation

Watch the Whole Show

Monday March 5th at 7:30pm
The March Ceyx Series will be at Teatro Luna 3914 N Clark St. Chicago, IL 60613 or at livestream.com/halcyontheatre
Pay-what-you-can: $10 suggested donation

Watch the Whole Show

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Monday, February 6th; 7:30 pm at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N Lincoln Ave, in Chicago
or at livestream.com/halcyontheatre
Pay-what-you-can: $10 suggested donation

The Lineup

Watch the Whole Show

Part 1

Part 2

Monday, January 9th; 7:30 pm at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N Lincoln Ave, in Chicago
or at livestream.com/halcyontheatre
Pay-what-you-can: $10 suggested donation

The Lineup

Watch the Whole Show

Part 1

Part 2

Or Watch the Whole Show

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org

Halcyon Theatre announces THE CEYX SERIES- An Inter-Continental Stew of Artistic Bad-Assery that will leave you in Awe as if Catapulted by the Aegean Winds (or a pretty fun variety show).

CHICAGO, IL (November 7, 2011) Halcyon Theatre announces THE CEYX SERIES, presented at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., the first Monday of every month beginning Monday, December 5.

Jennifer Adams, curator for the series, says “The hope is to have as many different kinds of acts as possible, hopefully representing different genres, parts of the world, points of view, etc. The possibilities of what people would like to contribute are endless- Music, Stand-Up, Dance, Spoken Word, Performance Art, Theatre (monologue, one-act, whatever)... The night will be set up like an old Vaudeville night or Variety Show. The flow of the evening will change each month, depending on the final lineup. The idea is just getting different awesome people together, so for example a flamenco dancer might be followed by a spoken word artist and then a bluegrass singer. Content possibilities are wide open, we'd usually rather have folks do what they're most passionate about than what we think they should do.”

Performances will be the first Monday of every month, beginning Monday, December 5. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with a suggested donation of $10, and are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336.

Members of the media are invited to attend any performance.

About Halcyon:
Mission- We are fiercely committed to making the stage as diverse as the city of Chicago; presenting new voices from inadequately represented communities, as well as recasting classic works to showcase their contemporary relevance.

About- Halcyon Theatre was formed to connect people, transform our borders and ascend towards a more just union. We strive to make incredible theatre from stories around the world, to help show our world in new ways, and rediscover the individual beauty of people from our global community.

Our artistic philosophy is driven by our continuing belief that at every point of human history where there has been an explosion of artistic creativity, it has happened when different cultures and traditions have intersected and informed each other.  If every artist working with an organization looks and thinks the same, it is difficult for them to grow. A homogeneous group produces homogeneous art. Striving for artistic excellence with artists of varied cultural backgrounds and training is at the forefront of everything we do.

# # # #

MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT * MEDIA ALERT

WHAT: Halcyon Theatre announces THE CEYX SERIES- An Inter-Continental Stew of Artistic Bad-Assery that will leave you in Awe as if Catapulted by the Aegean Winds (or a pretty fun variety show).

WHERE: The Ceyx Series will be performed at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.

WHEN: The first Monday of every month, beginning Monday, December 5, at 7:30 p.m.

ADMISSION: $10 suggested donation or pay-what-you-can.

BOX OFFICE: Tickets are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheater.org or at 773.404.7336.

WEBSITE: halcyontheatre.org; halcyontheatre.org/ceyx

CONTACT: Jenn Adams
Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre
773.413.0454
press@halcyontheatre.org
halcyontheatre.org