events & artist management
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Performance Space New York:
Hannah Gadsby: NANETTE
March–May 2018
Role: Company Manager
Venue: SoHo Playhouse - New York, NY
Presented by: WestBeth Entertainment, Barrow Street Productions & Token Events
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Hannah Gadsby's genre-defying Off-Broadway "anti-comedy" performance of NANETTE was supposed to be her exit from comedy — instead, it launched her to international stardom.
I joined the production during its initial extension, brought in by Gadsby's original Company Manager, now producer and wife, Jenney Shamash.
North America 2022 Tour: HORIZONS
Roles:
August 2021 – March 2022: Marketing Asset Manager
April – June 2022: Tour Manager
Handled tour logistics and artist services for 30 cities across the East Coast, West Coast, and Canada
Performers: Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince
Presented by: WestBeth Entertainment, Apollos Children
Production Manager: Christie Ward
Creative Designer: Jack Jewell
Lighting Designer: Dusty Harrison
LED Engineer: Jacob Wise
Audio Engineer: Noelle Sammour
Truck Driver: Alan Poulter
Merchandise: Logan Goodson
Executive Assistant: Stephanie Poulter
PSNY GALA
May 2019
Role: Stage Manager
Venue: Performance Space New York - East Village
Host: Solange Knowles
Gala Chairs: ALOK, Alan Cumming, Telfar Clemens, Suzanne Geiss, Humberto Leon, Eileen Myles, Andrea Rosen, Chloë Sevigny, and Michael Stipe
Performance: Princess Nokia
Creative Direction: Raul Lopez of LUAR
Honorees: Honoring the galvanizing voices in the fight against AIDS: Ivy Arce, Kia LaBeija, Tourmaline, Jack Waters and Peter Cramer
Food: DeVonn Francis of Yardy
Photographers: Mary Kang, Elea Franco, & Ricardo
THEM
June 2018
Role: Stage & Company Manager + Props
Venue: Performance Space New York - East Village
Created by: Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper, and Ishamel Houston-Jones
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In their recent iteration of THEM, the trio Cochrane (musician), Cooper (writer) and Houston-Jones (choreographer) came together to illustrate and illuminate the darkness of the AIDS epidemic for our current generation. Originally created at and premiered in 1986 at PS122 (now Performance Space New York).
I supported the 2018 production as Stage & Company Manager and as the handler of all props, including a real goat carcass for the dream sequence.
Photos by Rachel Papo
Simon Amstell: WHAT IS THIS?
June 2018
Role: Stage & Company Manager
Venue: Theatre 80 - East Village, NY
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A deeply personal, funny exploration of beauty, intimacy, freedom, sex and love, What Is This? is Simon Amstell's fifth show. Amstell began performing stand-up in his teens, going on to become the youngest-ever finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards. He started his TV career on Nickelodeon in 1998, until he was fired for making pop stars uncomfortable. He soon found his niche as the co-host of the Channel 4 show, Popworld, where, ironically, he gained a huge following for his groundbreaking work in making pop stars uncomfortable.
Amstell has won two British Comedy Awards, an RTS Award, a Broadcast Award, a Chortle Award and has been nominated for a BAFTA.
EDDIE IZZARD
September 2018
Role: Stage Manager & Artist Services
Venue: The Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY
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Work-in-Progress showing workshopping new material.
One of the most acclaimed comedians of their generation, Eddie Izzard’s unique, tangential, absurd, and surreal comic narratives are lauded for their creativity and wit, earning them a New York Drama Desk Award and two Emmys for Dress to Kill, two British Comedy Awards for Top Stand-Up Comedian, and an Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement.
In the U.S., Izzard is the first solo stand-up comedian to perform at the Hollywood Bowl; has sold-out three consecutive nights at Radio City Music Hall and toured arenas throughout the U.S. including a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden.
AVANT GARDE A-RAMA
February 2018
Role: Assistant Stage Manager
Venue: Performance Space New York - East Village
Hosts: The Factress (aka Lucy Sexton), Carmelita Tropicana, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu
Organized by Salley May with Tyler Ashley, Laurie Berg, Benjamin Kimitch, Juliana May, Will Rawls, Heather Robles, Ali Rosa-Salas, Shanta Thake, Stewart Uoo, Gillian Walsh, Edisa Weeks
Featuring: Adrienne Truscott, Alexandra Tatarsky, Antonio Ramos, Charles Dennis, Cornelius Loy, Courtnee Roze, Daphne Always, Erin Markey, Hamm, Holly Hughes, James Godwin, Joe E. Jeffreys, John Kelly, John Zorn, Justin Hicks and Jade Hicks -The Hawtplates, Mina Nishimura, Momo Shade, Morgan Bassichis, Murray Hill, Nuyorican Poets Café – La Bruja, Pat Oleszko, Patti Spliff, Peggy Pettitt, Penny Arcade, Pharmakon, Reggie Watts, Seung Min Lee, Shane Shane, Sibyl Kempson – 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co., Sister Jean Ra Horror, Spiderwoman Theater – Muriel and Gloria Miguel, The Illustrious Blacks, Tony Stinkmetal, and Will Sheridan
Door Queen: Shiny Penny
Photos: Maria Baranova
