KLECKSOGRAPHY 2018

June 2, 2018
  • Atlas Performing Arts Center

One Wild Challenge. Thirty Artist Brains. Eight days to solve it.

Drawing from the inkblot test for which Rorschach Theatre was named, all participating artists will be shown a single, distinctive piece of visual art. Under the aesthetic mentorship of different theatre companies, each team of director, playwright and actors will have just one week to create, develop and stage a performance based on that work of art.

On Saturday, June 2nd this single image explodes into six wildly different visions that showcase the aesthetics of six of DC’s best small theatres.

Rorschach Theatre’s inaugural collaborators for this project are Hissing Black Cat Theater, Pinky Swear Productions, Pointless Theatre, Theater Alliance and Young Playwrights Theater.

Kylos Brannon will live VJ the event which also includes six micro plays -“Klex Haikus” – each under one minute long and created in flash collaborations just hours earlier.
 
This re-envisioning of our Klecksography program was based on the results of a DC theatre survey undertaken by Rorschach in the fall of 2017. More than 40 local artistic directors and producers responded in addition to dozens of freelance artists. Based on those results, we’ve invited other companies into our process and rebuilt the program to focus on networking and connection. By providing producers with a high-impact, low-investment way to vet new artists, we aim to close the gap many artists experience in trying to connect with new companies.

This project is sponsored in part by Pat Murphy Sheehy.

PLAYWRIGHTS

Jordan Ealey
Liz Maestri
Kristen Nasser
Andrew Reid
James Rogers
Jonelle Walker

DIRECTORS

Peter Danelski
Gregory James Ford
Jordan Friend
Manna-Symone Middlebrooks
Matthew Munroe
Chelsea Radigan

ACTORS

Angeleaza Anderson
Pooja Chawla
Katy Chmura
Colin Davies
Suzanne Edgar
Mehul Gulati
Jordan Clark Halsey
Drew Holcombe,
Melanie A. Lawrence
Jordan Lee
Rachael Montgomery
Greg O Ongao
Chinna Palmer
Lori Pitts
Ben Ribler
Morgan Sendek
Baakari Wilder

Creators of "Klex Haikus"

Rebecca Ballinger
Logan Beveridge
Jasmine Brooks
Brenna Fredrickson
Blythe Hart
Marley Kabin
Nathaniel Klein
Mackenzie Larsen
Mo O’Rourke
Jonathan Del Palmer
Camille Pozderac
Andrew Quilpa
Ruthie Rado
Danielle Scott
Nicole Smith
Becky Topol
John-Nicholas Walsh
Clancey Yovanovich

STAFF

Stage Manager Linz Moore
Lights Elliot Shugoll
Sound Robert Pike
Video & Live VJ Kylos Brannon