Sunday, November 8, 2020: Online!

a new series from COMMUNITY & ARTIST ENGAGEMENT At Undiscovered Works, we believe that stories impact change, that we better our world by coming together to learn about our shared and unique experiences. Our programming is dedicated to supporting artists as they times,develop all plays, the while music, entertaining monologues, and comedy, inspiring and dialogue. film. Our ensemble-based Off and Off-Off productions bring to light the social issues of our

ABOUT MIXOLOGY Mixology is a new series from Undiscovered Works that explores the creative possibilities of presenting theatrical, cinematic, and performance pieces in virtual space. This month’s event features six new Shorts of All Sorts! “We started off doing some exploring with Zoom as part of the Undiscovered Works monthly storytelling event. After discussions with other creators on Sunday afternoon. In an attempt to push the boundaries of the online we know we decided to do some further experimentation with a spin-off elementsworld we thatwanted will to keep incorporate things on filmed track!” content and live elements. Of course in experiments sometimes things explode… but there are a few sure fire - Jennifer Dean and Eric Rice OUR PROGRAM LET’S TALK ABOUT... REVISITING THE MYTH OF THE CONSTITUTION created by Jennifer Dean & Irene Meltzer Richard in collaboration with Eric Rice FLEETWOOD (Live) written & performed by Robert Pagnani video collage by Jennifer Dean MY PREAMBLE created by Faryl Amadeus KOKO’S LOVE: EPISODE 3 (Excerpt) created, produced & performed by Yoshie Sakai DUSTY LIVE FROM THE CLOSET (Live) written by Leah Abrams voiced by Patricia Black accompanying video by Jennifer Dean & live musical accompaniment by Paul Mendoza KURTIS ON ZOOM (Live) written by Julie Hays performed by Mike Roche, Jennifer Dean, Marcia Haufrecht, Eric Rice & Bonnie Rose ***** * Q&A with presenting artists follows our presentation. *

SPECIAL THANKS to Vincent Gagliostro for designing the Mixology logo and banner.

Vincent Gagliostro member of the political AIDS activist group ACT UP. Gagliostro is pre is an artist, filmmaker,Lumberville activist and, which an original he has writ ten in collaboration with Avram Finkelstein. In 2016 Gagliostro made- paring to direct his second feature film, After Louie, starring - histributing feature cinematographer film writing and for directing the Oscar debut nominated with documentary, How ToAlan Survive Cumming, a Plague Zachary Booth and Sarita Choudhury. He was a con- collections of The Whitney, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropol . His graphic and fine art work is in the permanent videos — Cream, Diamonds and Pearls, and Kiss — prompted his move- itan, and Cooper-Hewitt. His art direction on three of Prince’s music Activism. On the web at gagliostro.com. into video art and film. He has lectured at Yale on the subject of Art and OUR PRESENTING ARTISTS Leah S. Abrams (Dusty Live From the Closet voice to express her disdain with her own species, to the creative suggestion ) is grateful to have finally found a thatto life. inspired And, of this course, little she series is immensely of monologues grateful that to have Dusty allowed for the her last to 16 find 1/2 humor in difficult times, and to Jennifer, Patricia, and Paul for bringing it all Undiscovered Works’ community blog. She is founder and executive director years of love. Leah typically writes essays that you can sometimes find on (My Preamble ofFaryl Undiscovered Amadeus Works, a non-profit theatre production company. Mary Meet Grace, which is a personal thriller) is aabout Native a troubledNew Yorker adoptee and recent who goes LA too far transplant. She’s about to write and direct her first short film, directing, and acting, Faryl is a photographer, notorious baker, and mom of totwo! find out more about her newly deceased birth mother. As well as writing, Patricia Black (Dusty Live From the Closet And the Swan (TheaterLab), Hamlet, The Tempest, Julius Caesar (Gallery Players), Romeo & Juliet (Flamboyán Theater), Coriolanus) New (Italy York Theater:Time Theatre), Guilt By Association

Pose (Manhattan Rep).Ballad Resident of a Hustler Bat –. The Flea Theater Company. Artistic Advisory Board member – The COOP Theatre. TV: Ryan Murphy’s (Kurtis on Zoom; Let’s Talk About...) currently works as an Jennifer on FX. Dean Upcoming: Film: editorof incredible and has people worked (the2ndSexandthe7thArt.com as an actor, director, and producer). She inis alwaystheatre happy and film -telling and wrote stories a thesisin whatever on women way shemaking can. moviesjenniferdean.biz in America, interviewing a ton Marcia Haufrecht (Kurtis on Zoom , followed by a national tour with Can) graduatedCan. As an fromactress Performing she has appeared Arts High School as a dancer and got her first job on Broadway in roles ranging from Tondeleyo in White Cargo, to Queen Elizabeth opposite onAl PacinoBroadway, in Richard off, and III off-off Broadway, as well as on television and film, in

. She has performed with Center Stage in Baltimore,Dog TheDay AfternoonBoston Theater, Prince Company, Of The City Lincoln, Daytrippers Center,, Theand Publicon TV inTheatre, Ensemble, AsStudio The Theatre,World Turns and andLa Mama. Law & SomeOrder of, Law her & film Order: appearances SVU, and Lawhave & been Order: in CI Win Win as Paul Giametti’s mother, Gina, The Night Listener with Robin Williams, and The Producers: The Musical. She has more recently been seen in the films The Perfect Witness and Anamorph marciahaufrecht.com. (film version). Additional recent films include (Kurtis on Zoom Julie Haysstarring Willem Defoe. More information: Home Therapy Kit Carli )Anne grew Songbyrd up and lives Baker in wasNew part York of City. The Her Midtown play International Theater was Festival produced and at nominated the Atlantic for Theater best playwriting and a finalist and for the directing.HBO Comedy Years festival. May Go By premiered at the Planet Connections Festival

Sort Of Like Julie... Only Worse premiered at the Midtown nominated for Best One Act Play and also produced in Westport CT. by Play With Your Food. new play The Blockers was part of The Emerging Artists New Work Series. International Theater Festival nominated for best supporting actor. Her

Julieperformance was selected will return.as a participating She is also artistan actress. in the JulieHays.com New Group Theater’s Writing Workshop. Julie is creating and writing for Zoom, but hopeful live Paul Mendoza(Dusty Live From the Closet) was born and raised in Southern

California. He lived in San Francisco where he was a published poet and started a theater companyFools calledTime Bare Against Bones Us Theater. BetweenWatching 1998 andPorn 2002 Bare Bones Theater produced 18 productions including Mendoza’s own full-length plays: (1998), After (1999) Time (2003), and Touches (2007) (2001).and most He recently moved Lastto New To FallYork (2017) City in in2002 which and he has also turned has a hissupporting energies roleto writingand composed and directing the original short music.films including Keith Overton (Let’s Talk About... form and narrative post production) is work. a New Keith York-based has edited 1st aAssistant narrative Editor feature currently works for Vice News Tonight. He specializes in non-scripted, short lengthfor Global film, Citizen, assisted Amnesty on live toInternational tape broadcast Concert, shows and for the MSNBC, Songwriters Comedy Central, Youtube and Nickelodeon. In addition, he was an assistant editor

Hall“Celebrity of Fame. Crime Keith’s Files.” credits include producer and editor for the Jean Grae’s sitcom “Life with Jeannie,” and Online Editor for Seasons 1 and 2 of TV One’s Robert Pagnani (Fleetwood) is a classical singer, writer, teacher, philosopher and storyteller. He lives in New York City with his wife Mary and their two cats, Jersey and Marina. A philosopher by nature, he is always seeking the unique and often overlooked slant in any situation, and often finds thought provoking,is lucky enough fascinating to visit, and and even relishes humorous the opportunity results. He to is share an avid stories traveler of his and enjoystravels. visits https://robsbigmouth.wordpress.com/ throughout North America, Europe and any other location he Eric Rice (Kurtis on Zoom Mother Night Incendiary Agents Sort of Like Julie... Only Worse ) NY credits include: (dir. BrianOrson’s Katz, 59E59);Shadow (dir. Peter Jensen, NewRiverside Ohio SymphonyTheatre); (dir. Kelly Hutchinson,Henry Abingdon IV, Parts Theatre); 1 & 2 (dir. Elyzabeth Gorman)(dir. and Lauren Henry VReinhard, Theatre Row); (dir. Hondo Weiss-Richmond,In-Between Robert Moss Theatre); Stanley’s Thanksgiving (dir. Micah To Live Forever (dir. and Melisa Fear Annis)of Heights - RST/Prospect Park Alliance.Just Love Film: (dir. Kanchalee Peeling Wijakpaisarn); Apples on Your Own Game Night Paisner); (dir. Jennifer Dean); (dir. Charles Peirce); (dir.@riceunderwater Nisan Dağ); (dir.www.riceunderwater.com David Ketterer). BA, Applied. Arts & Sciences, Drama, Emphasis in Acting, SDSU (US Army GI Bill). AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Social: . More info: Irene Meltzer Richard (Let’s Talk About...) When she’s not making stuff and spouting off on social media, Irene is a freelance consultant in the areas of audience engagement, event management, and partnership development. She has collaborated on campaigns for film and multi-cultural projects at a wide- range of profit and non-profit companies. Irene was born in the Bronx and has always called NYC home even when she’s residing somewhere else. She where, by what helpe, and by whose ~ Why, how, and when, doe many things believesdisclose.” in — epistemological Thomas Wilson, modesty The Arte and of Rhetoriqueliving by the 5W1H: “Who, what,@irene. and richard.77 @irene_ruthless @petitesoeur , 1560. Facebook: (Kurtis on Zoom) Kurtis , Night Mike Roche- Instagram: - Twitter: Over Taos (INTAR/dir. ), Doubt (T. Schreiber Theatre/Peter , The Father (reading w/ )(by Julie, Room Hays, Service dir. Jennifer (Actors Dean) Studio/ Arthur Storch), A Clockwork Orange Jensen)Tantalo), cul-de-sac , Billy the Kid (Flea Theatre/ , Psycho (dir. Thomas G.(59E59, Waites) EST,, Salome Edinburgh (Two River Festival/Joe Theatre) , Johnny Johnson Dream(Unquowa Show Rep/John Cariani), Salome Jim Simpson) (dir. John Strasberg) (PA: Barrymore Theatre/Broadway dir. Estelle Parsons). www.mikeroche.net Member: Godlight Theatre Company (2010 Drama Desk Award), SAG-AFTRA, AEA. Special Thanks: Julie, Jennifer, (Kurtis on Zoom) Vivienne,Bonnie Rose Eric, Leah and Holly O’Brien. Nightis a native Falls onNew Manhattan Yorker. She, she is continueda veteran actressto of Film & TV. Her career got started when the iconic director Sidney Lumet cherry-pickedTV show 100 Centre her for St the film workedin Mr. Robot, with andMr. Lumetrecently on on many Blue other Bloods films and had a recurring role on the . She has workedKurtis and with alongside the Coen these Brothers, incredible Rami Malekactors in this online event for Mixology. She is also. Bonnie a member is thrilled of UAC to andbe working is on the again with Julie Hays (writer) in IMDB.me/BonnieRose (KOKO’s Love) is a multidisciplinary artist, working in video, advisoryYoshie Sakai board for Festival of Cinema NYC. installation,University. Recent performance, solo exhibitions and sculpture. include She California received State her BFA University from California State University Long Beach and her MFA from Claremont Graduate

Dominguez Hills in Carson as the 2018-2019 PRAXIS Artist in Residence (2019), Verge Center for the Arts in Sacramento (2018), Groundspace ProjectProgram in (2016), Los Angeles the Skowhegan (2017), and School Antenna of Painting in New Orleansand Sculpture (2016). (2014), She attendedand received the Vermontthe 2012 StudioCalifornia Center Community Residency Foundation (2019), the for ACRE Visual Residency Artists

Emerging Artist Fellowship. Her work has been shown throughout the Unitedpractice States originates in film from festivals her interest and art andexhibitions understanding from Los of Angeles the quotidian to Miami, asand well the as narrative. internationally The soap in operaCambodia, fascinates Canada, her, Germany, not only andfor its Japan. outrageous Her characters and scenarios, but also for how it touches upon the most fundamental emotions and at times spews familiar life lessons and moral clichés that are highly accessible, or as her 86-year-old, first generation Japanese mother would say it is “what she lives for.” Her past and present workfamily. has www.yoshiesakai.com always dealt with perceptions and the inability to fulfill others’ expectations whether it be the mass media or those of her Japanese American THE WORKS LET’S TALK ABOUT… REVISITING THE MYTH OF THE CONSTITUTION created by Jennifer Dean & Irene Meltzer Richard in collaboration with Eric Rice 2020 | USA | 4 min, 41 sec Whatever awaits us after the November 3rd election is resolved, surely there is a great deal of work we will have to undertake to rebuild liberal democracy in the United States. The Constitution can be, as it has been, a powerful myth inspiring us to broad

- encritiques and more and fully contributions realize the of five Eric basic Rice, principles decided to set revise forth as in wellits Preamble. as polish Withthe collage all of thatshort, in themind, 2nd Jennifer installment Dean inand their Irene ‘Let’s Richard, Talk About...” with the series, valuable which they previously had presented in October’s Mixology event. We revisit “The Myth of the Constitution” utilising even more archival clips and images as well as voice overs by Keith Overton and someone we’ve missed during the last four years. We hope you find it to be an invigorating and revelatory time-traveling“I do not conceive journey that wefrom are George more inspired—haveWashington... more wisdem—or pos sess more virtue than those who will come after us. The power under the - https://csac.history.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/281/2017/07/ washington_to_washington11.10.pdfConstitution will always be with the people.” — Nov. 9, 1787

“The government they [the Framers] devised was defective from the start, Torequiring Justice severalThurgood amendments, Marshall... a civil war, and momentous social transfor mation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.”- http://thurgoodmarshall.com/the-bicentennial-speech/ — May 6, 1987 With many stops in between and afterwards to our present and in so many ways critical situation.

SOURCES The Bicentennial Speech Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Francisco

Patent And Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii May 6, 1987 praisingIn 1987 Justicethe “founding Thurgood Fathers” Marshall for theirgave agenius speech at as writing part of a thedocument constitution that - al bicentennial celebration. Politicians and Judges around the country were established the guiding legal principles of the republic for generations. But Marshall was one of the few voices pointing out that the original constitu tion required numerous amendments and came to a crisis that required a - http://thurgoodmarshall.com/the-bicentennial-speech/Civil War to solve. In a time of flag waving and patriotic rhetoric, Marshall’s comments surprised many and created Front-page headlines. The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription parchmentRatified June (the 21, document 1788 | Date on effective display inMarch the Rotunda 4, 1789 at the National Ar A transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript - chives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflect the original. George Washington’s Farewell Address vertiserWashington and didthen not in publiclypapers around deliver the his country.Farewell This Address. version It first of the appeared address in print on September 19, 1796, in the Philadelphia Daily American Ad- Library provided courtesy of The Papers of George Washington. The only changesis taken frommade the were original a modernization of the final manuscriptof the spelling, in the capitalization, New York Public and punctuation. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Wash- ingtons_Farewell_Address.pdf

Private letter from George Washington to his nephew Bushrod, dated Nov 9th 1787. In George Washington’s private letters he expressed a desire to see the Con stitution adopted even though (like all Federalists) he acknowledged that it - vided a viable method of correcting problems that might become apparent afterhad some the Constitution imperfections. was He implemented. praised the amendment provision that pro- https://csac.history.wisc.edu/document-collections/george-washing- ton-and-the-constitution/

Retreat from Equality

Sag Harbor Initiative | October 11, 1987 In 1987 over that year’s Columbus Day weekend, a group of concerned signedcitizens, to including bring together William “black Pickens, and Bettywhite Friedan,thinkers E.and L. Doctorow,activists, women Kurt and menVonnegut, asking and new Eleanor questions Holmes about Norton, our eroding participated American in a values 3-day eventof equality, de- freedom and community that has aroused intense and new commitment.” minority rights. https://www.c-span.org/video/?528-1/retreat-equalityIn this session of the Sag Harbor Initiative, panelists discussed the issue of FLEETWOOD (Live) written & performed by Robert Pagnani video collage by Jennifer Dean

lege student, Robert Pagnani went As a 16-year-old community col- wasn’t as easy as he had hoped. in search of part-time work... which accompanying visuals inspired by the piece! Robert reads the fourth installment of his adventures as a goat-herder with MY PREAMBLE created by Faryl Amadeus 2020 | USA | 30 sec Actor and writer Faryl Amadeus shares her answer to the call put out for individuals to create a video postcard using the phrase “We The People,” by complet ing the sentence in a way that resonates with them. - KOKO’S LOVE: EPISODE 3 (Excerpt) created, produced & performed by Yoshie Sakai

An original East Asian/Asian Ameri 2018 | USA | 9 min, 10 sec ines the melodramatic tropes of TV - dramascan hybrid to challenge soap opera the that myth re-imag of the-

“model minority” and reveal the guise of superficial “perfection” of being thatboth annoyingly Asian-American insists and on athe woman. importance It is about of having a Japanese-American a male inherit the fam - ily, whose patriarch, Hiroshi, is a liquor store owner in South Los Angeles Loosely autobiographical, Sakai felt it was important to write, produce, direct,family businessand act out and all not the a charactersfemale, his ofonly this child, dark a dramedy. daughter KOKO’s named Love Yuki. is a stage for the everyday doubts, anxieties, hopes, and daydreams that come rytelling. She uses greenscreen technology to act out all of the characters in from living while challenging the notion of fictitious and non-fictitious sto- in a New Orleans reverie… where she learned a lot despite missing her Mom this dark dramedy. In Episode Two Yukie was kidnapped and found herself but… will she ever find her way home? DUSTY LIVE FROM THE CLOSET: EPISODE 1 (Live) written by Leah Abrams voiced by Patricia Black accompanying video by Jennifer Dean & live musical accompaniment by Paul Mendoza she ponders her existence and that of the woman who feeds her. Enjoy the musings of Dusty the Cat as KURTIS ON ZOOM: EPISODE 4 (Live) written by Julie Hays performed by Mike Roche, Jennifer Dean, Marcia Haufrecht, Eric Rice & Bonnie Rose

act play which was then turned into a Julie Hays first wrote KURTIS as a one-

short film (watch here to learn more about him) - and now Kurtis is getting his therapy on Zoom! The fourth in a five-part series of KURTIS ON ZOOM, actor Mike Roche (Kurtis) reprises his role for this online adventure - and this week a focus group of characters joins to help Kurtis cope in quarantine - with Eric Rice as “Marvin Marvel”, Marcia Haufrecht as Judy and Bonnie Rose as Mildred Smith. Our Next MONTHLY STORYTELLING EVENT TOMORROW! Monday, November 9, 2020 @ 7:30 PM EDT Bless This Mess. Adam Strauss (The Mushroom Cure) reads excerpts featuring a Thanksgiving theme. Reed Seifer shares his novel-in-progress,The Princess and the Witch Boy,

thoughts.Sienna Aczon and Aaron Banes present an upcoming 4-song visual EP. Nia Witherspoon returns to share timely

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