AGIT 10-Minute Play Festival (DIS/Connected)
October 1-3, 2015 at 7:30pm
Schwartz Center Black Box Theater | $5
Featuring...
On the Brink by J. Michael Kinsey
Directed by J. Michael Kinsey
In this devised piece, actors will explore race & consciousness in America by using text, movement, and song. Drawing upon recent events like the SC church massacre & the countless recorded acts of police brutality, this piece asks this question...Do #blacklivesmatter?
About the Playwright: J. Michael Kinsey is a second year PhD student in the PMA Department where he is interested in researching Black Masculinity & Queer Performance. At Cornell University, J. Michael serves as a Graduate Assistant in the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives and is a Graduate Director for Chosen Gospel Choir. After receiving his BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, he performed nationally and internationally as a member of Actor's Equity Association. He is a two time Audelco Award nominee for Best Actor in a Musical, and served as Collaborator and Theatre Consultant for the 2015 Bessie Award winning piece Mr. Tol E Rance. He is currently completing his solo work, "The Kids", which explores aspects of black queer life through the intersection of gender and sexuality.
For You by Yusong Liu
Directed by Stephen Low
Dan: romantic, but pessimistic. Jamie: honest, but sarcastic. It's 3:00AM at an outdoor cafe, inhibitions are lowered, and maybe this is the night where Dan and Jamie finally tell each other how they feel.
About the Playwright: Yusong Liu is a junior and an English major in the college of Arts & Sciences. He writes and performs for The Skits, Cornell Stand-Up, Gucci, Festival24, and is one of the co-creators of This is a Webseries. In the last year, he's been obsessed with relationships, writing about relationships, and coincidentally long walks on the beach.
Land’s End by Kiki Hosie
Directed by Seth Soulstein
Lands End explores echoes in a silence, hope in a desert, and a place that has forgotten itself. Sometimes the ethereal is just fog.
About the Playwright: Kiki Hosie is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a double-major in Comparative Literature and Performing and Media Arts, with a minor in French Literature. She can be found wandering the streets of Piglia’s Absent City, drinking mestos with her droogies in the Korova Milkbar (or was it Momofuku?), and occasionally dipping her feet in the pestilent waters of Elsinore.
Molte Vino by Mark DiStefano
Directed by Caitlin Kane
What would happen if two parents decided to embarrass their son to the utmost extent of their abilities on the night he brings home his fiancee? This is the conceit behind a family dinner turned upside-down when Mickey brings Roberta home to meet his demonstrative, socially maladroit, very Italian parents. While this piece was loosely inspired by my own parents, who may be in the audience tonight, artistic liberties have been taken. If the audience wishes to guess who they are, listen for the most distinctive laughter.
About the Playwright: Mark DiStefano is an English and Performing Media Arts major from Long Island concentrating on creative writing and filmmaking. Favorite things at Cornell include the Dairy Bar, exploring gorges and nature trails on campus and combing the Olin stacks for obscure DVDs. Favorite plays include “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Amadeus,” “Killer Joe" and “The Glass Menagerie.”
Parmacetty by Kelley Mark
Directed by Nick Fesette
Shark week is over, but the question still holds: are sharks friends or food? This play delves deep into the emotional connection between humans and sharks and leaves the audience twisted and conflicted over the nature of humans and animals alike.
About the Playwright: Kelley Mark is a human development major and shark-lover who wants to educate people on how humanity is destroying the ocean. She is a special events sound design expert for the Schwartz center, a rock climbing instructor, as well as a cornellradio.com host on Thursdays from 1:30-2:30pm. If that's not enough, she also holds great interest in global health and is part of a team working on an sms app to help ease patient care for a doctor in Uganda.
Trivial by Jayme Kilburn
Directed by Rosalie Purvis
This multiple-woman one-person show explores the mundane complexities that make up the female experience.
About the Playwright: Jayme is a complex lady who sometimes studies and sometimes eats pizza while crying.
Directed by J. Michael Kinsey
In this devised piece, actors will explore race & consciousness in America by using text, movement, and song. Drawing upon recent events like the SC church massacre & the countless recorded acts of police brutality, this piece asks this question...Do #blacklivesmatter?
About the Playwright: J. Michael Kinsey is a second year PhD student in the PMA Department where he is interested in researching Black Masculinity & Queer Performance. At Cornell University, J. Michael serves as a Graduate Assistant in the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives and is a Graduate Director for Chosen Gospel Choir. After receiving his BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, he performed nationally and internationally as a member of Actor's Equity Association. He is a two time Audelco Award nominee for Best Actor in a Musical, and served as Collaborator and Theatre Consultant for the 2015 Bessie Award winning piece Mr. Tol E Rance. He is currently completing his solo work, "The Kids", which explores aspects of black queer life through the intersection of gender and sexuality.
For You by Yusong Liu
Directed by Stephen Low
Dan: romantic, but pessimistic. Jamie: honest, but sarcastic. It's 3:00AM at an outdoor cafe, inhibitions are lowered, and maybe this is the night where Dan and Jamie finally tell each other how they feel.
About the Playwright: Yusong Liu is a junior and an English major in the college of Arts & Sciences. He writes and performs for The Skits, Cornell Stand-Up, Gucci, Festival24, and is one of the co-creators of This is a Webseries. In the last year, he's been obsessed with relationships, writing about relationships, and coincidentally long walks on the beach.
Land’s End by Kiki Hosie
Directed by Seth Soulstein
Lands End explores echoes in a silence, hope in a desert, and a place that has forgotten itself. Sometimes the ethereal is just fog.
About the Playwright: Kiki Hosie is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a double-major in Comparative Literature and Performing and Media Arts, with a minor in French Literature. She can be found wandering the streets of Piglia’s Absent City, drinking mestos with her droogies in the Korova Milkbar (or was it Momofuku?), and occasionally dipping her feet in the pestilent waters of Elsinore.
Molte Vino by Mark DiStefano
Directed by Caitlin Kane
What would happen if two parents decided to embarrass their son to the utmost extent of their abilities on the night he brings home his fiancee? This is the conceit behind a family dinner turned upside-down when Mickey brings Roberta home to meet his demonstrative, socially maladroit, very Italian parents. While this piece was loosely inspired by my own parents, who may be in the audience tonight, artistic liberties have been taken. If the audience wishes to guess who they are, listen for the most distinctive laughter.
About the Playwright: Mark DiStefano is an English and Performing Media Arts major from Long Island concentrating on creative writing and filmmaking. Favorite things at Cornell include the Dairy Bar, exploring gorges and nature trails on campus and combing the Olin stacks for obscure DVDs. Favorite plays include “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Amadeus,” “Killer Joe" and “The Glass Menagerie.”
Parmacetty by Kelley Mark
Directed by Nick Fesette
Shark week is over, but the question still holds: are sharks friends or food? This play delves deep into the emotional connection between humans and sharks and leaves the audience twisted and conflicted over the nature of humans and animals alike.
About the Playwright: Kelley Mark is a human development major and shark-lover who wants to educate people on how humanity is destroying the ocean. She is a special events sound design expert for the Schwartz center, a rock climbing instructor, as well as a cornellradio.com host on Thursdays from 1:30-2:30pm. If that's not enough, she also holds great interest in global health and is part of a team working on an sms app to help ease patient care for a doctor in Uganda.
Trivial by Jayme Kilburn
Directed by Rosalie Purvis
This multiple-woman one-person show explores the mundane complexities that make up the female experience.
About the Playwright: Jayme is a complex lady who sometimes studies and sometimes eats pizza while crying.