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Around the Coyote 2006-2007 Performing Arts Series Naughty or Vice, December 2007 Slit, November 16 & 18 Millenium Chamber Players, October 27 Re:Action Reading Series, October 11 Re:Action Reading Series, September 8 Millenium Chamber Players, June 30 Naughty or Vice, December 2006 Upcoming Performing Arts Events ...	October 2007, RE:Action Reading Series
NAUGHTY OR VICE 2007 four monologists perform original pieces about their less-than-ideal holidays December 7, 8, 9, 2006 at 7pm $5 suggested donation In conjunction with the Multiples & Miniatures exhibition, Around the Coyote presents Naughty or Vice, a series of original monologues exploring the darker side of the winter holidays. Written and performed by Margot Bordelon, Kim Morris, J. Adams Oaks, and Will Rogers, monologues range from the adventures of holiday car theft, to a desperate search for a turkey dinner while in Spain. These delightfully acerbic pieces take an unapologetic look at the year's most magnified holiday. Margot Bordelon is a Chicago based writer, director and performer. She has worked for such companies as Steppenwolf, Collaboraction, Timeline, Serendipity, Pavement Group, Live Bait, Around the Coyote, Bailiwick, Hell in a Handbag and Appetite Theater. Before moving to Chicago in 2004, Margot lived in Seattle where she worked with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space, University of Washington PATP, Live Girls! and Double Shot Productions. She is a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago, an Associate Artist at Collaboraction and currently serves as the Literary Associate at Lookingglass Theatre Company. Please visit: margotbordelon.com Kim Morris is a writer living in Chicago. She's on the story development team for 2nd Story (www.storiesandwine.com). She writes Power Love (www.power-love.blogspot.com) and edits Lost Blueprint (www.lostblueprint.blogspot.com). J. Adams Oaks received his MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. His short fiction has been published in The Madison Review, River Oak Review, The Tap and Hairtrigger 21. His work won the National Society of Arts and Letters regional competition as well as Chicago Public Radio's "Stories On Stage" competition. As a member of Serendipity Theatre Collective's story development team, he has both written and performed for "2nd Story" and "Sunday Salon." His first novel, Why I Fight, will be published in Spring 2009 by Simon and Schuster. Will Rogers is an alumni of Lincoln Center Directors Lab ('05,' 06) and Directors Lab Chicago ('06). He currently works as Events and Audience Development Manager for Victory Gardens Theatre. Prior to moving to Chicago, Will served as the Associate Director of Marketing for Austin Lyric Opera for two years. During his time in Austin, Will directed with Salvage Vanguard Theater and through his own production company The Idea Place. With the latter, he was selected as FronteraFest's "Best of Fest" for his two short musicals Tupperwhere? the musical! ('05) and Sisters of the Sea('07). Will has also worked with Spoleto Festival USA, Birmingham Summerfest, and Hidden Valley Camp. Will holds a B.F.A. in Media and Performing Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design
SLIT an evening of performance + poetry at the Around the Coyote Gallery Friday and Sunday, November 16 and 18 at 8pm $10 at the door For reservations email rachel@synapsearts.com reservations are recommended the last Synapse show completely sold out! About the Event Please join us for an evening of dances, writings, and experimental audience participation opportunities. Choreographers Rachel Damon and Sarah Haas will premiere conceptual pieces from the female perspective dealing with gender identity, love, sexism, loss, and racism. Between each performance piece, enjoy multiple installation stations. The Listening Station immerses you in an abundance of original poetry and music. The Body Suite Station gives you the opportunity to try on more than what you were born with The Subversive Sweets Station treats you to suggestive baked goods you can decorate yourself! This is an art event in which all may explore the ideas of ripening, recall, and radical females. Featuring performances by: Susan Aldous, Sabrina Cavins, Jesse Coffelt, Rachel Damon, Shelley Dzenkowski, Elisa Foshay, Sarah Haas, Carleen Healy, Nadia Oussenko, Katie Matteson, Erica Mott, Laura Tennal, John Peruzzi, and Mary Willmeng Synapse Arts Collective is a Chicago-based performance group that utilizes a holistic and hand-made approach to creating dance, theatre, and visual art. Synapse works to create experiences that encourage the viewer to question his or her own social perception. Our events often include audience participation, and our motive is to craft active viewers who then become more socially active citizens. The purpose of our artwork is to evoke critical thought, raw emotion, and fresh inspiration in its witness. Sarah Haas is an independent choreographer/performer and writer. Her current areas of interest are the inseparability of racism and sexism, gender identity, and cultural work that promotes education and social justice, specifically, but not exclusively, with regard to women's rights. The purpose of my work is to explore and challenge the constant flux between my environment and myself, to compound and blur the relationship between feminine and masculine, and to ultimately envision my surrounding environment and myself outside of race, sex and gender. Find out more about Sarah at www.myspace.com/truthcreateschoice
Millennium Chamber Players Saturday, October 27, 2007 starting at 7:30pm $5 admission at the door includes refreshments Works include: Essa-Pekka Salonen's CATCH & RELEASE Igor Stravinksy's THE SOLDIERS TALE (with narration) Carmel Raz's NEW WORK Performers: Robert Katkov-Trevino - Conductor Olga Katkova-Trevino - Violin Clayton Condon - Percussion Kara Bancks - Clarinet Barbara Saks - Flute Kate Eakin - Oboe Timmy Carr - Trumpet and others....
Re:Action Reading Series Saturday, October 11, 2007 Our new literary reading series aims to recreate the immediate visceral reaction that visual art inspires through personal storytelling from strong, emerging Chicago writers and performers. RE:Action Reading Series believes responding to the work of visual artists will inspire dialogue about the subjective experience of art, and help foster new forms of collaboration among artists of different mediums. By performing literary works in an alternative venue, RE:Action Reading Series hopes to cross-pollinate the literary, theatrical and visual art communities as well as their audiences. Curated by J.Adam Oaks (Serendipity Theatre Collective) and Margot Bordelon (Lookinglass Theatre). The curators will be joined this month by writers Byron Flitsch and Kim Morris.
Re:Action Reading Series Saturday, September 8, 2007 Curated by Margot Bordelon (Lookinglass Theatre) and J .Adams Oaks (Serendipity Theatre Collective). Four emerging writers read works inspired by the artwork on exhibit at the Around the Coyote Gallery. This month's curators will be joined by Megan Stielstra and Ric Walker.
Millennium Chamber Players An Evening of Wind Quintet Music Saturday, June 30, 2007 starting at 7:30pm $5 admission at the door includes free Peroni beer Works include: Carl Nielsen's Quintet, Samuel Barber's Summer Music, Franz Danzi's Quintet in F, and Percy Grainger's Walking Tune Performers: Kate Eakin - Oboe Deborah Morris - Clarinet Barbara Saks - Flute Jason Russell - Horn Robert Katkov-Trevino - Bassoon
NAUGHTY OR VICE five monologists perform original pieces about their less-than-ideal holidays Every Friday and Saturday from December 1 through December 16, 2006 at 7:30pm $10 suggested donation $5 suggested donation for Critics' Night Dec. 1 and Industry Night Dec. 9 Around the Coyote presents Naughty or Vice, a series of original monologues exploring the darker side of the winter holidays. Naughty or Vice is the work of five Chicago-based solo performers whose imperfect holiday experiences are explored in each short, fifteen-minute piece. Naughty or Vice is written and performed by Margot Bordelon, Tim Bruns, Cynthia Castiglione, Brian Lobel and Braden LuBell. Monologues range from an ill-fated Christmas Eve dinner in a Wendyis parking lot, to a dissection of Adam Sandleris Hanukah Song. These delightfully acerbic pieces take an unapologetic look at the yearis most magnified holiday. Margot Bordelon is a writer, performer and director; she most recently directed Perks of Nudity by David Perez for Pavement Group. Other Chicago Credits include Pearl and Eloise Are Dead for Around the Coyote's 2006 Fall Festival; Ball and Other Funny Stories About Cancer, both by Brian Lobel; Plants and Animals for Bailiwick's Director's Fest, SCARRIE! The Musical for Hell in a Handbag and Scrabble Yew Near for Appetite Theater. She assistant directed A Man For All Seasons at TimeLine and Love Song at Steppenwolf, where she was an Artistic Apprentice for the 04-05 season. Originally from Seattle, Margot worked with such companies as Seattle Rep, Empty Space, Live Girls!, University of Washington PATP and Double Shot Productions - a company she co-founded. Margot holds a BFA in Acting and Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts and currently serves at Literary Associate at Lookingglass Theatre Company. Tim Bruns graduated from Emporia State University with a BFA in Theatre and is now working at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Tim has written, directed, and produced many projects through Dark Tag Productions, a production company he started in college. Last winter his play, Her World Disappears had its world premiere at The Side Studio in Chicago. Timis farce The Safety Date was named The Last Play Standing in a contest run by Another Chicago Theatre Company. Timis productions have been staged in California, Maryland, Kansas, and Illinois. Most recently, he wrote and acted in the short film Dash with Cap Gun Productions. Cynthia Castiglione is an actress who has performed with many companies since she graduated from the Theatre School at DePaul University. Recent Chicago acting credits include understudying for Splatter at The Annoyance; Laika's Coffin at Collaboraction's Sketchbook 7; (im)propriety at Rogue Theatre and White Devil with American Myth. She performs with the improv group (untitled) and can be seen in Ugly Baby currently running at Strawdog Theatre and Corrupt Ferret at Annoyance. Brian Lobel is a writer and performer originally from upstate New York. His plays BALL and Other Funny Stories About Cancer have been produced in Chicago (at the Bailiwick and Live Bait Theater) as well as at theaters, universities and medical schools nationwide. Brian is the recipient of the 2004 Hopwood Drama Award for BALL and the recipient of a 2006 CAAP Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs to develop Other Funny Stories. He has worked for, and with, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Goodman, Next Theatre and Chicago directing credits include The Phase by Molly Bain, Acorns & Guns for Breadline Theatre Group, and Night-Cher at 20,000 Feet for Hell in a Handbag. Braden LuBell is currently playing Frankie in Perks of Nudity with Pavement Group at EP Theater. He appeared at the Raven last year in Outside the Lines production of Infidel; before that was serving as resident director and casting director for Backseet Productions in Philadelphia, where he directed Closer and The American Plan. Previous directing experience includes heralded productions of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, One Flea Spare, his co-authored stage adaptation of the James Baldwin novel Giovanni's Room, and his own deconstruction of The Glass Menagerie. In Boston, he has acted with Speakeasy at the Lyric stage and on the Majestic stage in Infinity's House. Braden studied at Emerson College, and has taught at the Actor's Workshop in Boston.
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