The Rumble with Mahayla & Matt
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ONE NIGHT STAND THE RUMBLE WITH MAHAYLA & MATT NOVEMBER 23 @ 7PM ET With Hosts MAHAYLA LAURENCE & MATT GEHRING THE RUMBLE WITH MAHAYLA & MATT NOVEMBER 23 @ 7PM ET THE TEAM Hosts MAHAYLA LAURENCE & MATT GEHRING Featuring MODEL MAJORITY, ANNABEL & SABINA MESCHKE, TIM PLATT, SHIZ, ALEX SONG-XIA & ADDIE WEYRICH THE ARTISTS WOULD LIKE TO THANK The Ars Nova Team & Myrna Conn! Ars Nova operates on the unceded land of the Lenape peoples on the island of Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape Homeland. We acknowledge the brutal history of this stolen land and the displacement and dispossession of its Indigenous people. We also acknowledge that after there were stolen lands, there were stolen people. We honor the generations of displaced and enslaved people that built, and continue to build, the country that we occupy today. We gathered together in virtual space to watch this performance. We encourage you to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technology and structures we use and to acknowledge its disproportionate impact on communities of color and Indigenous peoples worldwide. We invite you to join us in acknowledging all of this as well as our shared responsibility: to consider our way forward in reconciliation, decolonization, anti-racism and allyship. We commit ourselves to the daily practice of pursuing this work. ABOUT THE ARTISTS MAHAYLA LAURENCE (Host) is an actor and a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She’s a natural-born empath and loves connecting with people through comedy and storytelling. Mahayla currently writes for the Story Pirates Podcast and SHIZ. MATT GEHRING (Host) is a performer, writer and director of comedy. He’s been on Amazon, Netflix and Comedy Central and has spent years on the UCB stage. Currently, he is collaborating with National Lampoon on his Broadway-Meets-Sketch show, SHIZ. MODEL MAJORITY NYC’s premier Asian American sketch comedy team featured in The New York Times, Time Out NY and more. Team members have appeared on SNL, Comedy Central, The Last OG, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Blue Bloods, Blacklist and Law & Order: SVU; as well as Broadway shows, UCB, top comedy clubs and festivals. ModelMajority.com ANNABEL & SABINA MESCHKE are identical twins, both the evil one. In addition to being featured on Vulture, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan and more for their “comedy,” they’ve also had their fair share of viral tweets (@annabel_meschke & @sabinaMeschke) which they are told can be cleared right up with the proper ointment. TIM PLATT is a comedian seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Masterclass with Steve Martin. He is one of Comedy Central’s 2019 Up Next Comedians, a castmember on the D&D podcast Rude Tales of Magic, and has written music for Sesame Street and The Story Pirates. SHIZ Broadway Meets Sketch Comedy. A musical sketch show that is the brainchild of Shaina Taub and Matt Gehring featuring Broadway (and Broadway-worthy) writers and performers. Music directed by Myrna Conn. ALEX SONG-XIA is a writer, actor and comedian from Toronto and based in New York. Her writing credits include The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) and Night of Too Many Stars (HBO). As an actor, Alex has appeared in The Week Of (Netflix) and High Maintenance (HBO). ADDIE WEYRICH is a Philly-raised, NY- and LA-based comedian, actor, writer and host. You can see her acting in shows on HBO, Amazon and Adultswim, or as the "Differin Acne Gel girl." She has great skin. ARS NOVA 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS TEAM JENNY STEINGART JASON EAGAN JASON P. BARUCH, MAKERS LAB FOUNDING CHAIR, CO-FOUNDER FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SENDROFF & BARUCH LLP MANIK CHOKSI & ZI ALIKHAN ALISA LESSING RENEE BLINKWOLT LEGAL CHAIR MANAGING DIRECTOR MAURY DONNELLY & PARR GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN, DANA KIRCHMAN EMILY SHOOLTZ INSURANCE DAVID MENDIZÁBAL, VICE CHAIR ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RICH & BANDER, LLP JOÉL PERÉZ & EMMA RAMOS JUDY BEDOL CASEY YORK ACCOUNTING LAURA GALINDO SECRETARY GENERAL MANAGER STEVEN DALTON NIGHTDRIVE JASON KEMPER MAC INGRAM IT CONSULTANT MICHELLE J. RODRIGUEZ TREASURER DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR JOHN WYSZNIEWSKI, JILLIAN WALKER RICH BATTISTA TAMARA VALLEJOS EVERYMAN AGENCY PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NANCY BERGMAN DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY-IN-RESIDENCE RENEE BLINKWOLT JES LEVINE RESIDENT ARTISTS ON THE ROCKS THEATRE CO. 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