Sunday, March 21, 2021: 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 five 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 we know we decided to do some further experimentation with a spin-off on Sunday afternoon. In an attempt to push the boundaries of the online world we wanted to incorporate filmed content and live elements. Of course in experiments sometimes things explode… but there are a few sure fire elements that will keep things on track!” - Jennifer Dean and Eric Rice OUR PROGRAM FAMILY (Live) a selection from the play written & directed by Marcia Haufrecht read by Eddie Kassar, Meissa Hampton, Karen Giordano, Robert Haufrecht, Tom Ashton and Julie Hays

I MISS THOSE DAYS LIVING FOR THE NIGHT (Live) an original song performed by Cullen Gallagher

IT’S A GIRL! PROJECT: CAROLINE VOAGEN NELSON & CHRISTINA LAFONTAINE one of a series of short documentaries by Kanchalee Wijakpaisarn

AQUACADE a dreamlike, experimental short film by Caroline Voagen Nelson

KURTIS ON ZOOM: EPISODE 1 - “CLOSURE” written & directed by Julie Hays produced & edited by Jennifer Dean original music & theme by Tom Ashton starring Mike* Q&A Roche, with Vivienne presenting Leheny, artists Eric follows Rice, Marcia our presentation. Haufrecht & Bonnie * Rose

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

is an artist, filmmaker,Lumberville activist and, which an original he has writ member of the political AIDS activist group ACT UP. Gagliostro is pre- paring to direct his second feature film, After Louie, starring - ten in collaboration with Avram Finkelstein. In 2016 Gagliostro made 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

Tom Ashton Family; Kurtis on Zoom The Blacklist God Friended Me A Crime to Remember (David, Such A FunnyComposer/Musician, Life, Saturnalia ) is a New York- Fullbased Moon actor/musician. and High Tide TV: in the Ladies Room (NBC); (CBS); Everything Dark; FILM: in This World Butterfly Hour Yellowface (also wrote/performedWho’ll Save The Plowboy songs);. Enchantments Dickie Roberts: (also Formercomposed Child score); Star NYCView THEATER: From The Top My Boss’s Daughter Tru; Calling Roswell; ; singer-songwriterTV/FILM MUSIC: ; Early Edison ; ; ; ; . RECORDINGTech Bettys. ARTIST/PRODUCER: (Plan Hatcher Music); (Sony Music). AWARD: Winner,Jennifer Best Dean Supporting Actor (SeoulKurtis Webfest): on Zoom ) currently works as an editor and thesis on women (Producer, making movies Editor, in America, interviewing a ton of incredible people (hasthe2ndSexandthe7thArt.com worked as an actor, director, and producer in theatre and film - and wrote a jenniferdean.biz. ). She is always happy telling stories in whatever way sheCullen can. Gallagher More info: I Miss Those Days Living for the Night) is (Singer/Songwriter, a musician and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. A guitarist and vocalist, he’s played various types of music throughout his life—classical, jazz, hardcore—though lately Ernesthe’s mainly Tubb. writing There country are still and some contemporary days he dreams classical of beingtunes. in Some The days Ramones he picks or up the guitar and dreams of being Leo Brouwer, and other days hesoundcloud.com/ dreams of being cullenbriangallagher demoted. bandcamp.comBlack Flag or Redd, and Kross,old instrumental too. Works stuffin progress at modernsilentcinema.bandcamp.com are online at . He also blogs about old, some crime newly novels dusted-off and movies hardcore at pulp-serenade.com recordings are. at Karen Giordano Family City of a Dead Woman , (Sarah,The Friend From) is Tel a nativeAviv and New Subterranean Yorker who Love works which in theatre,earned film and TV as an actress, director and coach. Some recent film credits include appeared on The Last O.G. Happy, Law and Order and her a nomination for Best Lead ActressThe at Mutilationthe Milan Filmof St. Festival.Barbara ,On The TV, Raft she of hasthe Medusa, North of Providence, SyFy’s, A Valentine for Carol Lombard, The Yellow Wallpaper. Some, ItalianOff- Broadway American Theatre Reconciliation credits include and many more. Also a theatre director, she was Face Divided ofnominated Urban Angels for BestActing Director Workshop. for Edward Allen Baker’s at Planet Connections Festivity. Karen is a world renowned acting coach and artistic director Meissa Hampton (Muriel, Family) is an awarded Actor, Writer, Filmmaker and

Activist. She is an Artist in Residence at MIT in Cambridge, Mass with the Media Lab. Her films have screened and her performances honored with Best Actress awards in dozens of National and International Film Festivals. She is an active member of SAG-AFTRA and New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT). She is the Founder of the Actors Alliance for Gender Equity in Media. She is a published and awarded writer and Poet and has recently directed her first feature documentary A Social Cure thefilm, Founder and managing, surveying director the HIV/AIDS of Rising epidemic Artists Studios in South, a theatreAfrica and and how improv our social networking technologies can helpMHAMPTON.com us realize a future to connect free from and HIV.learn Shemore is about Meissa’s work. school for young artists. Please visit Marcia Haufrecht Family; Judy, Kurtis on Zoom) graduated from , followed (Writer/Director, by a national tour with Can Can. As an actress she has appeared Performing Arts High School as a dancer and got her first job on Broadway in ranging from Tondeleyo in White Cargo Richardon Broadway, III off, and off-off Broadway, as well as on television and film, in roles , to Queen Elizabeth opposite in . She has performed with Center Stage inDog Baltimore, Day Afternoon The Boston, Prince Theater Of The CityCompany,, Daytrippers Lincoln, and Center, on TV The in The Public Sopranos Theatre,, As The Ensemble World Turns Studio, Law Theatre, & Order and, Law La &Mama. Order: Some SVU ,of Law her & film Order: appearances CI haveFor been Life in Win Win The Night Listener with Robin The Producers: andThe ABC’sMusical . She has more recently been seen includein the films The Perfect Witness as Paul andGiametti’s Diane mother, Gina; marciahaufrecht.com. Williams; and (film version). Additional recent films Robert Haufrecht (Frank, Family . More information: Subterranean Love and Subterranean Love (Ileana & Paul) ) has written and directed two short films, , which Won a Best Screenplay award at the Chelsea Film Festival (NYC) in 2017 andNo Exit Best Director Helloaward Out at theThere Network Film FestivalCowboy (NYC) Mouth in 2019. and Bothmany films original have plays, been includingscreened at festivals in the USWithin and Europe. The Skins Among of Saints plays, The directed: Noisemakers Sartre’s and Don’t, Saroyan’s Listen To What It Sounds ,Like Sam Shepherd’s Mark Borkowski’s . He has performed, Anotherin English, Year in both Paris and , and in many plays in New York, as well as film and TV. His most recent film role (barely pre-Covid) was a cameo in Dan Simon’s . Dan was the great DP/editor forJulie both Hays my (Rebecca, films. We Family are planning a third in thisKurtis series on Zoomto round) grew out up a trilogy. and lives in Home Therapy Kit was produced at the Atlantic Theater and ; Writer/Director,Carli Anne Songbyrd Baker was part of The New York City. Her play directing.a finalist for Years the May HBO Go Comedy By festival. Midtown International Theater Festival and nominated for best playwriting and Sort Of Like Julie... Only Worse premiered at the Planet Connections Festival nominated Festivalfor Best andOne nominatedAct Play and for also best produced supporting in Westport,actor. Her CTnew by play, Play The With Blockers Your Food., was premiered at the Midtown International Theater artist in the New Group Theater’s Writing Workshop. Her play Everything Dark in thispart Worldof The recently Emerging had Artists a Zoom New public Work reading Series. Julie produced was selected by Theater as a participatingFor the New

JulieHays.com. City. Julie is creating and writing for Zoom, but hopeful live performance will return. MoreEdward information: Kassar ( Family Other People’s Money at A Steady Rain and Art Of Mice and Men, I Hate HamletDr. Rosenbaum,, My Three Angels,) FuddyTheater Meers Credits: and others at the Hampton The Ivoryton Playhouse; at The John Drew Theatre; Hurly Burly, The Club Mulligan Farm, 9 Out of 10, Scallop Pond, Stuck, Girl Seeking, Voices fromTheatre the Co.; Grave and and others. Happy to beand involved others with with The such Common a talented Basis group Theatre and playwright.Co. Film Credits: Vivienne Leheny (Marta, Kurtis on Zoom bunker, Vivienne works as an actor and audiobook narrator. Her most recent ) When not hiding out in herAfter COVID- the Wedding, when she had the audacity to mock Julianne Moore. (Let it be said, Ms. appearance on the big screen was as the “Snarky Wedding Guest” in

Moore was exceedingly gracious.) In addition to Snarky Wedding Guests, Vivienne has portrayed romantic hero alien gladiators/warriors/cyborgs as well as elves, orcs and dragons in her audiobook narrations. But playing Marta to the delightful Mike Roche’s inestimable Kurtis has been one of her great joys. And playtime with the fabulous producer Jennifer Dean as we perform theVivienneLeheny.com glittering writing. by the brilliant and generous Julie Hays, is why Viv’s able to crawl out of her bunker-based bedCaroline in the Voagenmorning. Nelson For more non-essentialAquacade nonsense: has evolved from deconstructing (Creator, environments ) is and a New history York-based in photomontage artist and filmmaker working in mixed media, animation, and installation. Nelson’s practice to creating narratives in animation. She researches historical archives to create landscapes inspired by the past and spaces in transition. She received her undergraduate degreecvoagen.com at the School and voagen-studio.com of the Art Institute. of Chicago and recently received her MFA in animation at the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute. MoreEric Rice information: Kurtis on Zoom Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night Incendiary Agents (“Marvin Marvel”, Sort of Like Julie...) NY creditsOnly Worse include: (dir. the Kelly NY Hutchinson,Premiere of Orson’s Shadow (dir. Brian Katz, 59E59); (dir.Riverside Peter SymphonyJensen, New Ohio Theatre); Henry IV, Parts 1 &Abingdon 2 Theatre); Henry (dir. VLauren Reinhard, Theatre Row); (dir. In-BetweenHondo Weiss-Richmond, Robert Moss Theatre);Stanley’s Thanksgiving (dir. Elyzabeth Gorman)To Live andForever and Fear(dir. ofMelisa Heights Annis) - RST/Prospect ParkJust LoveAlliance. Film: Peeling (dir. Kanchalee Apples on Your Wijakpaisarn); Own Game Night (dir. Micah Paisner); (dir. Jennifer Dean); (dir. Charles Peirce); @riceunderwater (dir. Nisan Dağ); riceunderwater.com(dir. David Ketterer).. BA, Applied Arts & Sciences, Drama, Emphasis in Acting, SDSU (US Army GI Bill). AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Social: . More information: Mike Roche (Kurtis, Kurtis on Zoom) Kurtis Night Over Taos Doubt The Father Room Service(by Julie Hays, dir. Jennifer Dean), A Clockwork (INTAR/dir. Orange ), (T. Schreiber Theatre/Petercul-de-sac Jensen), (reading w/ Al Pacino),Billy the Kid (/ArthurPsycho Storch), (dir. Thomas G. Waites), Salome (59E59, (Two EST, River Edinburgh Theatre), Festival/JoeJohnny Johnson Tantalo), Dream Show (dir. (Unquowa Rep/JohnSalome Cariani), (Flea Theatre/Jim Simpson),

John Strasberg), (PA: Barrymore Theatre/Broadway dir. Estelle Parsons). Member: Godlightmikeroche.net Theatre. Company (2010 Drama Desk Award), SAG-AFTRA, AEA. Special Thanks: Julie, Jennifer, Vivienne, Eric, Leah and Holly O’Brien. More information: Bonnie Rose Kurtis on Zoom

(Mildred Smith, Night Falls) ison a Manhattan native New, she Yorker. continued She is to a veteran actress of Film & TV. Her career got started when the iconic director Sidney showLumet 100 cherry-picked Centre St. her for the film Mr. Robotworked, and with recently Mr. Lumet on Blue on Bloodsmany other films and had a recurring role on the TV Hays (writer) in Kurtis She on hasZoom worked and alongside with the these Coen incredible Brothers, actors Rami inMalek this onlinein . Bonnie is thrilled to be working again with Julie IMDB.me/BonnieRose. event for Mixology. She is also a member of UAC and is on the advisory board for FestivalKanchalee of Cinema Wijakpaisarn NYC. More information:It’s A Girl! Project) was born and raised in (Director, Bangkok, Thailand. She came to NYC in 2011 and began her studies in filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts where she immersed herself in the complete process, from set designing to screenwriting. In 2015, she graduated from the City College Karibuof New YorkNews. with Her an main M.F.A. areas in Media of focus Arts are Production. in screenwriting, Her short directing, films have and screened editing. in several film festivals and have been featured on Directed by Women and in

Kanchalee returned to BangkokNew Face in 2016 of Buffalo and worked (currently as a producer on hiatus), in a acommercial coming of production company, producing TVC and online videos. In the United States,It’s a Girl! she Projecthas created, an episodic projects series like about women in professional careers which aims to inspireage documentary young girls aboutto pursue four their refugee dreams youth and living expand in their Buffalo, knowledge NY, and of different of storytelling through writing and translating articles on her personal blog and career paths. She currently resides in Western New York and is expanding her love

Directed by Women Thailand, and is also studying illustration. THE WORKS

FAMILY A selection from the play (Live) written and directed by Marcia Haufrecht. - in her life agrees to participate in family A forty-year-old woman at a crossroads Rosenbaum), Meissa Hampton (as Muriel), therapy. Starring Eddie Kassar (as Dr. Haufrecht (as Frank), Tom Ashton (as Karen Giordano (as Sarah), Robert

David)I MISS andTHOSE Julie HaysDAYS (as LIVING Rebecca). FOR THE NIGHT (Live) An original song performed by Cullen Gallagher IT’S A GIRL! PROJECT: CAROLINE VOAGEN NELSON & CHRISTINA LAFONTAINE directed by Kanchalee Wijakpaisarn

One of a series of short documentaries 2021 | USA | 8 min, 18 sec women in professional careers talking aboutby Kanchalee their experiences. Wijakpaisarn This showingepisode individual artists and collaborators. Note: presents multimedia artists Caroline Voagen Nelson and Christina Lafontaine as This short was originally filmed in 2016 and updated in 2021. AQUACADE created by Caroline Voagen Nelson

2017 | USA | 3 min, 14 sec A dreamlike, experimental short film withthat journeysthe prohibition through of pinball hidden machines histories in underwater New York City, beginning

and their demise in the East River in 1942. The film collages multiple techniques in animation, blending stop motion, 2D, andKURTIS 3D with ON archival ZOOM: footage. EPISODE 1 - “CLOSURE” written and directed by Julie Hays produced & edited by Jennifer Dean original music & theme by Tom Ashton

play2021 which | USA |was 7 min then turned into a short Julie Hays first wrote KURTIS as a one-act

film (watch here to learn more about him) all– and new now episodes Kurtis – starring is getting Mike his Roche therapy (as on Kurtis), Zoom! Vivienne Last year Leheny during (as Mixology Marta), Eric we watched Kurtis navigate lockdown live. Now Kurtis is being filmed on Zoom with

Rice (as “Marvin Marvel”), Marcia Haufrecht (as Judy) and Bonnie Rose (as Mildred Smith). UNDISCOVERED WORKS NEEDS YOUR STORIES! Are you a creative artist looking for an opportunity to share new work? We’d love to consider including you in our monthly series! Please contact us at [email protected]. Undiscovered Works is dedicated to supporting artists as they develop plays, music, all stages of development, bringing together voices from across our community. monologues, comedy, and film. Our monthly storytelling series presents work in issues of our times, all the while entertaining and inspiring dialogue. Our ensemble-based Off and Off-Off Broadway productions bring to light the social It’s time to Party, Period. Join our friends over at on Saturday, March 27th for their musicians, filmmakers,Broadly and performers Entertaining of all stripes are coming together inbiggest support party of ofmenstrual the year -equity gone virtual. and nationwide! A stunning lineup of Admission: proof of a donation , , of your choosing. ($10 or more) to Hashtag Happy Period Women’s Worth Inc. The Homeless Period, or a menstrual equity organization and sign up for their mailing list

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