PLASTIC BAG STORE: THE FILM ROBIN FROHARDT
Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7PM PDT CAP UCLA Online channel ART MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER
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PLASTIC BAG STORE: THE FILM ROBIN FROHARDT
Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7PM PDT CAP UCLA Online channel
Approximate run time: 60 minutes, no intermission
Followed by a post-show discussion with Robin Frohardt and CAP UCLA’s Executive and Artistic Diector Kristy Edmunds
Plastic Bag Store: The Film was commissioned by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance with additional support by the Adelaide Festival, Times Square Arts and Pomegranate Arts. Funds for Plastic Bag Store: The Film provided in part by the James A. Doolittle Endowment. MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST
Dear Most Valued Customers:
It’s almost impossible for me to try to explain what it is you are about to watch and the journey it took to get here. I started working on The Plastic Bag Store in 2015 after watching someone bag and double bag all my groceries that were already bags inside of bags inside of boxes. I wanted to highlight the absurd amount of packaging we are using and throwing away by making something even more absurd, a grocery store that only sold packaging. Over time the project evolved into an elaborate immersive puppet play with transforming sets and hidden rooms. For several years, my amazing team and I slowly pieced together this epic beast of a project. Sometimes that meant working with the support of prestigious residencies at architectural firms and fellowships at Universities. But more often it meant grueling rehearsals, endless schlepping and hours spent sifting through NYC garbage.
With all the pieces finally in place and a venue to die for, The Plastic Bag Store was set to open in the heart of Times Square on March 18, 2020...ya know... the day the whole world shut down? We did one amazing dress rehearsal and locked the doors and walked away.
I think part of me wanted to give up after that. When the opportunity presented itself to create a filmed version of the project, I was relieved that there would be some record of what we created (we didn’t film that rehearsal). I never imagined how beautiful the film would turn out, and how perfectly it would capture the story as I see it in my head. We then found a way to integrate the film into the installation for a live experience which we ultimately got to show in Times Square and take to Australia! So, creating the film has made The Plastic Bag Store viable and tourable in this time in a way that other projects haven’t been. For that, I cannot be more grateful.
Plastic Bag Store: The Film is a labor of love from many hands. The film is in no way a substitute for seeing the complete installation live, but it tells a story that I have been dying to tell you for a very long time.
-Robin Frohardt ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Plastic Bag Store: The Film Created by Robin Frohardt
Original music by Freddi Price Puppeteers: Nick Lehane, Admiral Grey, Rowan Magee, Andy Manjuck, and Emma Wiseman Featuring Tyler Gunther as Tyler Dorritos Voices: Freddi Price, Andy Manjuck, Rosemary Quinn Additional Shopkeepers: Chad Raines, Erica Schnitzer
Director of Photography Robert Kolodny Produced by Caitlin Mae Burke and Robin Frohardt Executive Producers Linda Brumbach and Alisa E. Regas Production Management by Pomegranate Arts, Production Manager Jeremy Lydic, Geneneral Manager Rachel Katwan
Additonal Camera Adam Kolodny Location Sound Chad Raines
Production Coordinator Erica Zippel Schintzer
Editors: Robert Kolodny and Robin Frohardt Sound Design and Mix: Lawrence Everson Additonal Sound Design: Chad Raines Video Post-production Services: House of Nod The Plastic Bag Store was conceived as an immersive installation and puppet- theater piece designed to take place in a storefront retail space. Yucky Shards cereal, Bagorade sports drink, Fabags deodorizers boasting “that fresh bag scent”, rotisserie chickens, cupcakes and sushi are among the thousands of hand sculpted items—all made from discarded plastic bags. The store was scheduled to open in March 2020 to coincide with New York’s plastic bag ban but was postponed due to the city’s COVID-19 lockdown ultimately opening in a vacant Times Square storefront for a limited audience in Fall 2020 earning a spot on the NY Times’ Best of 2020 Theater list. For L.A. audiences, Frohardt and her team will reimagine a visit to The Plastic Bag Store through a new film commissioned by CAP UCLA.
Plastic Bag Store: The Film transforms the installation into a dynamic series of stories that traverse ancient history, the present day and a future dystopia. The Plastic Bag Store employs inventive puppetry, humor, craft and a critical lens to explore how the hordes of plastic waste might be misinterpreted by future generations. ABOUT THE ARTIST
Photo by Maria Baranova
Robin Frohardt is an award-winning artist, puppet designer, and director living in Brooklyn, NY. Frohardt’s performance and puppetry-based work has been presented at St. Ann’s Warehouse and HERE in New York City, as well as national venues including the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts and the NEXTNOW Festival in Maryland. Her films have been screened at the Telluride Film Festival, Maritime Film Festival, and the Parish Museum. Her original play The Pigeoning, which debuted in 2013 and was hailed by the New York Times as “a tender, fantastical symphony of the imagination,” continues to tour in the US and abroad, and has been translated into German, Greek, Arabic and Turkish. She has received a Creative Capital Award and a DisTil Fellowship from Carolina Performing Arts for The Plastic Bag Store; has been the recipient of Made In NY Woman’s Fund Grant Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and MacDowell Colony Fellowship; and was the first artist in Residence at Olson Kundig, a renowned design and architecture firm in Seattle. In addition to directing her own work, Frohardt’s puppetry and props have also appeared in TV shows such as Orange is the New Black and 30 Rock as well as Radio City Music Hall’s Spring Spectacular. ABOUT THE TEAM freddi price (Composer) is a multi-disciplinary performing and recording artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, band leader, composer, actor and voiceover artist. Over the years he has collaborated, composed and performed with bands, artists and stage productions on both US coasts in addition to touring in the US and Europe with his talents and music having been featured by the likes of David Byrne, Eric Burdon, Ann Magnuson among many others on stage and on recordings. His compositions, performances and voice have accompanied theater productions in San Francisco and New York. For his original music for Robin Frohardt’s previous NYC puppet theater piece, The Pigeoning, he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play. Besides providing music for theater and some commercial work, fp also performs on many instruments and voice in a variety of forms and genres, from solo to large groups, blues to rock and soul, brass band and cabaret.
Robert Kolodny (Director of Photography) is an Emmy Award winning Director and Cinematographer. He has contributed cinematography to film works by David Byrne, The Safdie Brothers, Laura Poitras and Robert Greene; for projects that have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Criterion Channel. Robert has created and publicly displayed site-specific video installations that have been shown on exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Art Boston and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery. His short film FLY ON OUT was screened at the Court Métrage at the Festival de Cannes. He garnered a Vimeo Staff Pick for his short ALLO ALLO.
Lawrence Everson (Sound Design & Mix) is an Emmy Award winning and Golden Reel nominated sound editor and re-recording mixer for feature films. He has worked on a wide variety of award-winning projects that have taken home prizes from Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and the Academy Awards. His work also includes broadcast series, interactive audio design and advertising, including a Super Bowl spot. Educated at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, he has returned there to guest lecture for the Interactive Media Division. Lawrence has also spoken as a featured panelist at Hot Docs and the Maryland Film Festival regarding the art of documentary sound, lectured classes at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri and David Lynch’s MA in Film program, been an advisor for the Saul Zaentz Innovation Labs and has been profiled by Filmmaker Magazine, Creative Cow Magazine and Pro Sound News. In 2019 Lawrence was also chosen by Doc NYC as part of their prestigious 40-Under-40 list
Chad Raines (Location Sound) is a Sound Designer and Composer from Dallas, TX. For theater he has collaborated with Rachel Chavkin, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Robert Woodruff and many others. As a performer he has shared the stage with David Byrne, Amanda Palmer, White Denim, Weasel Walter, Ra Ra Riot, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and many others. At the moment he performs with the bands Holy Hell and The Simple Pleasure.
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew (Originating Puppetry Lighting Designer) is a designer for theatre, opera, dance, music performances and installation. Her designs have been seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Rose Theater Jazz at Lincoln Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), HERE Arts Center, St. Ann’s Warehouse, La Mama ETC, The Kitchen, ArtsEmerson, Manhattan School of Music, Joyce SOHO, Bard Music Festival, REDCAT, Highways Performance Space, and internationally at Havana, Prague, Lima, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Graz Austria and Bloemfontein South Africa. Jeanette received the Bel Geddes Design Enhancement award for her lighting and projection design for Ludic Proxy. She was the recipient of the 2009-2011 NEA/TCG Career Development Program and was the 2006 Gilbert Hemsley Jr. lighting internship. Jeanette currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and advises at Barnard College.
Admiral Grey (Performer, Props) is a multidisciplinary artist who has presented original and collaborative theatrical works as a performer, writer, deviser, director, composer, designer, and puppeteer at LaMama, University Settlement, The New Ohio, SoHo Rep, HERE, Rubulad, Dixon Place, Irving Plaza, Judson Memorial Church, and many others. She has created modern theatrical performances with The Nerve Tank, The Drunkard’s Wife, Psychic Readings, Sister Sylvester, and Snake In The Boot Collective, as well as solo performative work. As a vocalist, bassist and keyboardist she has toured with her bands nationally and internationally, as well as performed at NYC venues Saint Vitus, The Bowery Electric, Trans Pecos, Death By Audio, Northsix, Glasslands Gallery, Rockwood Music Hall, Silent Barn, and Baby’s All Right. Currently she is a Puppet Lab artist debuting new work at St. Ann’s Warehouse this June and is vocalist and bassist for the new band Holy Hell.
Tyler Gunther (Performer, Props, Design and Production Assistant), originally from Arkansas, moved to New York after attending grad school for Costume Design at the University of Maryland. He has designed costumes for theatre, opera and dance and has assisted designers at The Santa Fe Opera and Liceau Opera in Barcelona. Tyler has also worked as a studio assistant for artists Robin Frohardt and Duke Riley. When not building medieval pageant wagons he also freelances as an illustrator.
Nick Lehane (Performer) Select puppeteer credits: Robin Frohardt’s The Pigeoning (HERE); Petrushka (Giants Are Small, NY Philharmonic, Barbican Centre); Islamic Solidarity Games Opening Ceremonies (Baku, Azerbaijan); Doug Fitch’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro (American Symphony Orchestra, Bard SummerScape); Little Red Fish (NYC Children’s Theater/Puppet Kitchen); Pip’s Island; James Ortiz’s The Little Mermaid; “Lore” (Amazon). Select puppet design: PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Tale of Desperereaux (Old Globe, Berkley Rep) and The Phantom Folktales (Virgin Atlantic); Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn’s Hood (Asolo Rep, dir. Mark Brokaw). Select acting: This Is Our Youth (Broadway); The Old Man and the Old Moon (PigPen); Fidelis (The Public); The Electric Baby (Two River); Set in the Living Room... (TRE). Lehane’s puppet play Chimpanzee premiered at HERE Arts Center through the Dream Music Puppetry Program and has toured to the World Puppet Theater Festival (Charleville-Mézières), Casteliers (Montreal), and the London International Mime Festival at The Barbican Centre.
Rowan Magee (Performer) is a puppeteer from Troy, NY, and a curator for the Object Movement Festival, a winter residency and spring showcase of experimental puppet artists in NYC. He has puppeteered on international tours with Phantom Limb Company, Robin Frohardt, Nick Lehane, and Dan Hurlin, and in New York City for American Opera Projects, Trusty Sidekick, Chris Green, Spencer Lott, and the National Theater in the 2018 Tony Award winning Broadway revival of Angels in America. This summer Rowan performed the reference puppet for the titular character in the upcoming feature film Clifford the Big Red Dog, in theaters fall 2020. He has designed puppets for The Dalton School, St Mark’s School, and Lincoln Center Education, received a Jim Henson Foundation Grant for his marionette show No 1 Chinese, and teaches for CO/LAB, Marquis Studios, and Story Pirates.
Andy Manjuck (Performer) is a Brooklyn-based puppeteer, director, and voiceover artist. Recent work: Puppetry: Chimpanzee (Nick Lehane); The Pigeoning (Robin Frohardt); Made in China; Baby Universe; Saga (Wakka Wakka); UAE 48th National Day (Betty Productions) Petrushka (NY Philharmonic Orchestra, Giants Are Small), VO: Adam Ruins Everything (TruTV); Unavowed (Wadjet Eye Games); Whispers of a Machine (Clifftop Games); MooseTube (GoNoodle). Andy is the Co-Artistic Director of the theater company Eat Drink Tell Your Friends whose show, Lectures, recently had a residency at the Jim Henson Carriage House. He is also a company member of the award-winning Wakka Wakka. His new puppet play, Bill’s 44th, a recipient of a Henson Foundation Production Grant, is currently in development. It is part of Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse this June, and will be performed at the New York State Puppetry Festival before premiering at Dixon Place this October. andymanjuck.com
Emma Wiseman (Performer) is a multidisciplinary theatermaker with a particular interest in puppets and objects. She has been a resident artist with Mabou Mines and the Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse, and her original and collaborative works of performance have been seen at venues including St. Ann’s Warehouse, Dixon Place, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Abrons Arts Center, CATCH performance series, and the INSITU Dance Festival. As a performer, Emma has worked with David Neumann, Jeanette Yew, Megan Murtha, Dan Hurlin, and dance/music collective The Space We Make. Emma has toured internationally with Robin Frohardt’s The Pigeoning and Nick Lehane’s Chimpanzee. She served as lead puppeteer for the Emmy-nominated “Animated Life”, a New York Times Op-Doc series created by Sweet Fern Productions, and has worked on puppet videos for the World Wildlife Fund, singer-songwriter Nellen Dryden, and the band Mipso. Emmawiseman.me
Erica Zippel Schnitzer (Stage Manager) is a Brooklyn-based theater maker. Select credits include The Recipe (The Momentary), Only Human (Off-Broadway), Playdate (Dixon Place), What The Constitution Means to Me (NYTW), Mile Long Opera (The Office Arts), Black Light (The Public), and Celebrate Brooklyn! Music Festival, The Miseducation of the Black Womyn (The Tang Art Museum). Erica is a founding member of 3DaysPrior Productions and Four Person Phantom. For upcoming projects visit ericaschnitzer.com.
Caitlin Mae Burke (Producer) is an Emmy-winning producer. An inaugural inductee into DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 and alumna of Berlinale Talents, Caitlin’s award-winning films have received accolades at top-tier festivals including Sundance, Berlinale, and Tribeca Film Festival and have been broadcast across the US and around the world. Her work has screened at MoMa, The Museum of the Moving Image, and in movie theaters internationally. Caitlin’s non-film projects include producing the Webby- nominated podcast OTHER MEN NEED HELP. She is the supervising producer at IF/Then Shorts, a fund and mentorship program for short documentaries via Field of Vision.
Pomegranate Arts (Executive Producer, Production Management) For the past twenty-three years, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Founder and Director Linda Brumbach, along with Managing Director Alisa E. Regas produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach, the multi-award- winning production of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the North American tour of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch’s Shockheaded Peter featuring The Tiger Lillies. Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced over 30 major new performing arts productions and tours for Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Dan Zanes, London’s Improbable, Sankai Juku, Batsheva, and Bassem Youssef and collaborated on new productions with the Kronos Quartet, Leonard Cohen, Robert Wilson, and Frank Gehry. Pomegranate Arts hopes to continue to build a community of institutions and individuals that are inspired by the artists who help bring beauty and truth into the world, ask important questions, and take bold risks. pomegranatearts.com plasticbagstore.org
Instagram: @pomegranatearts Facebook: /pomegranatearts CREDITS Plastic Bag Store: The Film is based on an installation and play Created by Robin Frohardt in collaboration with the Puppetry Ensemble NICK LEHANE, ADMIRAL GREY, ROWAN MAGEE, ANDY MANJUCK, EMMA WISEMAN
Co-produced by ROBIN FROHARDT and POMEGRANATE ARTS
Production Management POMEGRANATE ARTS
Founder and Director: LINDA BRUMBACH Managing Director, Creative: ALISA E. REGAS Operations Consultant: KALEB KILKENNY General Manager: RACHEL KATWAN Production Manager: JEREMY LYDIC
Originating Lighting Designer: JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW Associate Lighting Designer: TSUBASA KAMEI Rigger: JANET CLANCY Electrician: DANIEL CONNER Production Sound Designer: CHAD RAINES Audio: WES SHIPPEE Stage Manager: ERICA ZIPPEL SCHNITZER Production Assistant: TYLER GUNTHER Carpenters: RYAN BOURQUE, JACK MIKESELL Scenic Construction: SILOVSKY STUDIOS, LYDIC! DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Props Construction Support: ADMIRAL GREY, TYLER GUNTHER Illustrations: TYLER GUNTHER Trucking: JP CARRIER
Special Thanks NEIL ARMFIELD, NICK BINDBEAUTEL, BRITTNI COLLINS, JEAN COONEY, KRISTY EDMUNDS, RACHEL HEALY, CONSTANCE HOCKADAY, MORGAN JENNESS, EMIL KANG, PAUL LAZAR, MARK SIFFIN, TIM TOMPKINS
THE PLASTIC BAG STORE: THE FILM was commissioned by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, Adelaide Festival, Times Square Arts, and Pomegranate Arts
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