The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents a Segal Talk with Sasha Denisova (Ukraine), Igor Golyak (US/Ukraine), Sara Stackhouse (US), and Irina Kruzhilina (US) livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Friday 5 May 2023 at 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a chat with award-winning Ukrainian playwright and director Sasha Denisova (Ukraine), and creative director Igor Golyak (US/Ukraine) of Arlekin Players Theatre, to debate their manufacturing of Denisova’s The Gaaga (The Hague). Denisova has been residing in Poland the place she has collected tales from refugees who’ve fled their houses because of the struggle, and traveled to interview many officers and on a regular basis individuals in her quest to create a futuristic path of Putin within the type of this new play. The Gaaga premiered in February in Poland, and Denisova is now working with Arlekin Players Theatre to mount the US premiere which opens in Boston on June 2, 2023. The manufacturing’s producer Sara Stackhouse (US) and scenic designer Irina Kruzhilina (US) will be a part of the Segal Talk.
Sasha Denisova is a Ukrainian playwright and director. She graduated from the philological school of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Her performs embody Dusty Day, Morphology, Mayakovsky Goes for Sugar, Light My Fire (Golden Mask Award winner), Important Things of Sforza`s Family, Decalogue, and Alice and the State (National Theatre “Golden Mask” Award nominee). She has developed and written a number of witness documentary performs, together with That’s sure (Theatre on the Spassky; Kirov), Villages.web (Altai State Regional Shukshin Drama Theater; Barnaul), Plus-minus Twenty (“Ilkhom” theatre; Tashkent), and Kiss! (Prokopyevskiy Drama Theatre). Her brief story “Candy” was revealed within the journal “New World.” She teaches stage route at The Meyerhold Theatre Centre, lectures on the School of the Moscow Art Theatre, and leads the writer and documentary theater studio “Studio-OFF”, created within the repertory theater for the pedagogical work. She fled Russia early within the struggle and is now residing in Poland the place she has written and produced a number of documentary performs, together with The Gaaga.
Igor Golyak was born in Ukraine and is founder/creative director of Arlekin Players Theatre, a theater of immigrants, & Zero Gravity (zero-G) Lab in Boston. A worldwide chief in digital theater, he directed The Orchard Off-Broadway with Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov. During the pandemic he conceived and directed WITNESS, CHEKHOVOS, and State vs. Natasha Banina, every of which turned worldwide digital theater sensations, receiving a number of NY Times Critics Picks and a Special Citation from the Boston Theater Critics’ Assoc. His work acquired Elliot Norton Awards, together with Best Director, a TWI-NY Pandemic Award, and Broadway World Best Director of a Streamed Production Award. He has taught at Boston Conservatory, HB Studios, Boston University, Harvard University, Wellesley College, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, Moscow Specialized Institute for the Arts, and the ARBOS Theatre Festival. He launched the #Artists4Ukraine initiative in 2021.
Sara Stackhouse is managing producer of Arlekin Players Theatre and Zero Gravity (zero-G) Lab. She was government producer of The Orchard Off-Broadway and co-produced Arlekin’s State vs. Natasha Banina worldwide tour, chekhovOS /an experimental recreation/, and WITNESS, garnering worldwide acclaim. She was venture supervisor for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and on the manufacturing staff for the collection Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired By Bach. For Ma, she managed collaborations with Bobby McFerrin, Mark Morris, Wynton Marsalis, Tamasaburo Bando, Tan Dun, Toni Morrison, Mark O’Connor. As founding Executive Producer of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, she produced 48 performs. She was Chair of Theater at Boston Conservatory in the course of the merger with Berklee College. Clients have included Mass Cultural Council, ArtsBoston, Silkroad, Boston Baroque, MIT Media Lab, Forum for Cultural Engagement. She was on the Board of MassInventive, and acquired the “Inspiration Award” from Social Innovation Forum.
Irina Kruzhilina is a New York-based theatre artist, scenographer, director, visible dramaturg, and educator, creating work on the intersection of visible artwork, dwell efficiency, and civic engagement. Her inventive endeavors vary from interdisciplinary downtown theatre to massive scale parades, from opera to web site responsive installations. Her work has been proven at Times Square, TokyoDisney, BAM, Prague National Theatre, NY Philharmonic, and Barbican Center. Recent highlights embody designing units and costumes for Dmitry Krymov’s Cherry Orchard on the Wilma in Philadelphia, creating A Dozen Dreams, a large-scale immersive set up developed in partnership with EnGarde Arts, and directing the site-specific efficiency NoPlace in collaboration with the New School of Drama. Irina’s work embraces collaborative creative alternate amongst theatre makers from completely different backgrounds, fostering beneficiant inventive and academic environments that worth a range of approaches and concepts. Irina is the founding father of Visual Echo, a New York-based efficiency group devoted to facilitating generative dialogues amongst individuals from various backgrounds. Irina is a college member on the New School of Drama and a Chashama resident.
The Gaaga (The Hague) is a brand new phantasmagoria, conceived and written by award-winning Ukrainian playwright Sasha Denisova. She has been residing as a refugee in Poland the place she has collected tales from girls who’ve fled their houses because of the struggle, and traveled to interview many officers and on a regular basis individuals in her quest to create a futuristic path of Putin within the type of this new play. The Gaaga (The Hague) premiered in February in Poland, and Denisova is now working with Arlekin Players Theatre to mount the US premiere in Boston on June 2, 2023.
Arlekin Players Theatre was based by Artistic Director Igor Golyak in 2009 and has since toured to New York, Chicago, and Hartford, in addition to to worldwide festivals in Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, and Monaco. Most not too long ago Arlekin produced The Orchard that includes Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov, each Off-Broadway and in Boston. Arlekin acquired world-wide acclaim, together with two New York Times Critics Picks, for his or her groundbreaking digital theater initiatives in the course of the pandemic, together with of State vs Natasha Banina and chekhovOS /an experimental recreation/ that includes Mikhail Baryshnikov as Anton Chekhov. Arlekin has acquired a number of awards for its work together with 4 2020 Elliot Norton Awards from the Boston Theater Critics Association for latest productions of The Stone and The Seagull. Arlekin takes robust delight of their emphasis on self-identity; they’re an organization of immigrants performing works that play on the concepts of cross-culture, residence, and traditions, difficult the concept of nationality, and discovering frequent themes that unite us all. In 2020, Arlekin launched its Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab to discover new theater potentialities for a brand new time. The firm makes its residence in Needham, MA. In response to the struggle in Ukraine, Arlekin launched #Artists4Ukraine, an initiative to have interaction artists and audiences to boost funds for humanitarian support and stand in solidarity with artists in Ukraine. Arlekin co-commissed The Gaaga and is producing its world premiere in Boston in June 2023. For extra info, go to their web site.