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Livestreamed on this page Monday 16 November at 3:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 23:30 GMT (London). 

Monday 16 November 2015

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Readings of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Theatre Work

Monday 16 November 2015

 

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The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Fassbinder and the Stage livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 16 November at 3:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 23:30 GMT (London). 

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This event honors the work of legendary German filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would have turned 70 this year. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died at the age of 37 after having completed forty feature films, two television series, and twenty-four stage plays in less than fifteen years. Fassbinder began his highly influential career directing and acting for the theatre before becoming the leading force in the new German cinema.

 

The following readings will be livestreamed and followed by a discussion with the directors.

Bremer Freiheit (Bremen Freedom)
Translation by Denis Calandra
Excerpt directed by Jess Barbagallo

Katzelmacher
Translation by Denis Calandra
Excerpt directed by Ashley Tata

Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant)
Translation by David Tushingham
Excerpt directed by Caitlin Ryan O’Connell

 

Jess M Barbagallo

Jess Barbagallo is a an actor, writer, dramaturg, and director. He has performed and collaborated with Big Dance Theater, Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf (and its Dyke Division), Builders Association, Half Straddle, Tina Satter, Andrea Geyer, Casey Llewellyn, The Drunkard’s Wife, Hoi Polloi, Cat Galasso, Katherine Brook, Trish Harnetiaux, Nellie Tinder/Julia May Jonas, Eliza Bent, Becca Blackwell, and Jody McAuliffe. Jess has written the plays Grey-Eyed Dogs, I’ll Meet You in TijuanaSaturn NightsMen’s Creative Writing GroupGood Year for Hunters, and Great Romance, and is responsible for the ongoing comedyWithout Me I’m Something or Karen Davis Does … Jess was a 2009-10 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab Member, 2011-12 Queer Arts Mentorship Fellow, 2012-13 BAX Artist-in-Residence, a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a 2014-15 New York Live Arts Writer-in-Residence. He has been published in The Brooklyn RailBOMB Blog, The Poetry Project Newsletter, by 53rd State Press, and at homoflix.wordpress.com, a review site for gay and lesbian Netflix. Currently, Jess is a participant in the Persona Seminar at The New Museum, a think tank composed of artists and academics exploring urgent themes (like persona) in contemporary culture. Melancholy over feminism, but persistently feminist. BFA: Acting, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing.  MFA: Playwriting, Brooklyn College (Advisor: Mac Wellman).

 

Ashley Tata

Ashley Tata is a Brooklyn-based theatre & opera director. Recent credits include the world premiere of Mojiao Wang’s opera Encounter at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing as part of the Beijing Modern Music Festival; David T. Little’s Soldier Songs with video by Bill Morrison (Atlas Theatre, DC and the Holland Festival, produced by Beth Morrison Projects); Guard (2014) (part of The House is Open at the Fisher Center, Bard College); Venture Opera’s Don Pasquale (National Opera Center, NYC and Kay Meeke Center, Vancouver); Lainie Fefferman’s Here I Am (Roulette Intermedium, NYC); Into the Woods (LIU Post); The Censorship of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour (Martin E. Segal Center); Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living (Revolve Productions, NYC); Menotti’s The Telephone (Alchemical Theater Laboratory, NYC). She has assisted Rinde Eckhert, Daniel Fish and Robert Woodruff, among others. BA Marymount Manhattan College. MFA Columbia University. www.ashleykellytata.com

Caitlin Ryan O'Connell

Caitlin Ryan O’Connell is in her third and final year at Brown/Trinity Rep MFA in Directing. At Brown/Trinity: Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, Will Eno’s GNITThe Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and her upcoming fall thesis production of The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Caitlin is a former directing intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has worked with The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, LCT3, Trinity Repertory Company, and Clubbed Thumb. Caitlin trained with the National Theater Institute, St. Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon McBurney’s Complicite, and The NY Neofuturists. She is a teaching artist with The International Theatre and Literacy Project and has worked the past two summers in Rwanda devising plays with Rwandan Youth. She is an alumna of Wellesley College.

 

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