Writing the Walls – WAR 2024
WRITING THE WALLS – WAR. 2024
April 13th – 7:00PM
April 14th – 3:00 PM
April 20th – 7:00PM
April 21st – 3:00 PM
STUDIO THEATER IN EXILE AND HUDSON VALLEY MOCA PRESENTS:
Exciting new works by poets, playwrights, choreographers, and composers inspired by HVMOCA’s JURIED SHOW WAR – directed by Mara Mills
A bit of history: Writing the Walls began in 2005 when Studio Theater in Exile’s co-founder and Artistic Director Mara Mills and Livia Straus, co-founder Hudson Valley MOCA, created WTW and invited poets and playwrights to contribute original works reflective of their interaction with the art in the Museum. Until Quarantine 2020 there were yearly on-site performances at HVMOCA where the audience moved from artwork to artwork and the poets read in front of them. To keep tradition during the COVID Quarantine STIE and HVMOCA produced Climbing the Walls and Writing (Off) the Walls online. In 2022, STIE became formally housed in the HVMOCA’s black box, complete with stage, sound, lights, projection, and seating and performances moved to the theater.
$ 25.00 – General admission
$ 20.00 – students, seniors, HVMOCA members
Writing the Walls is a collaboration between Studio Theater in Exile’s Black Box Theater @ HV MOCA and HUDSON VALLEY MOCA, 1701 Main Street, Peekskill, NY. 10566.
The project is in its 18th year.
“Year after year, I have experienced “Writing the Walls” as a participant or as a member of the audience. In each scenario, I have been richly rewarded As a member of the audience, I have been thrilled by the talent of our local wordsmiths and intrigued by their particular connections to a work of art- which often differ from my own! All in all, “Writing the Walls” provides our community with an opportunity to engage deeply with art and artists of all sorts. How wonderful! “ Marcy B. Freedman
Marcy B. Freedman performing in Writing the Walls 2023
FOR WTW – ANY ACTORS INTERESTED IN PERFORMING, please contact mara.mills@studiotheaterinexile.com
About Studio Theater in Exile
Studio Theater in Exile is a collective which morphed out of the Newman Theater and Theater in Odd Spaces. Formed in 2018, Studio Theater in Exile shares and builds upon the mission of these previous organizations, and now supersedes them as an official entity. The Newman Theatre, in Pleasantville, NY, ran from 1993 to 2005 and its mission was to “Bring the Arts and Community Together”. Besides mounting established plays, the Newman was known for encouraging and creating original work, including Promised Land, about the Holocaust which began at the Newman and toured from SUNY Purchase to Budapest, Hungary, Memoirs of a Mad Masseuse written by Westchester Playwright Staci Swedeen, and Shedding Light, an Abeles award winner that toured the tribe-state area. After the Newman Theater closed, the executive team ran Theater in Odd Places from 2005-2018 wanting to continue the mission and focus collaborating with others and produce new works presented in unusual venues. And thus Studio Theater in Exile was born. Mara Mills and Jeremy Gratt, cofounders with Marsha Newman of the Newman Theater and partners in Theater in Odd Spaces are the founders of Studio Theater in Exile. Karina Ramsey joined the administrative team in August 2018. Evan Bishop and Katori Walker joined us this year, both as creators and members of the collective.
mission: Studio Theater in Exile collaborates with playwrights and performers to create and develop original work. Studio Theater in Exile is a company without a space that collaborates with its environment. It is an outgrowth of the belief that theater takes place anywhere and can be performed anywhere – in the streets, galleries, libraries, museums, black boxes, backyards, and even on a stage. We have been working with performers and playwrights to develop work that can be performed in any venue. Co-founders, Mara Mills and Jeremy Gratt have worked together, since 1991, to present original work, based on the art in an exhibition, a social justice issue, history, or the spark of an idea. Karina Ramsey joined Studio Theater in Exile in 2018.