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workshop by joey massa
Erica is directing an equity developmental reading of Joey Massa’s new play, Workshop, In early October. Workshop is a boundary-pushing play about a pair of people engaging in the experimental practice of restorative justice in the context of sexual assault. Check back soon for more information!
SUGAR & CANDY: READING SERIeS @ THE TANK
Catch Erica directing a reading of playwright, MK Rothberg’s new play, Late April, East of Sheridan August 29th, @7PM as part of a new play reading series at The Tank. Tickets can be found Here!
In process
Erica has been working with long-time collaborator and friend, playwright Kallan Dana on several new and exciting projects, under their collective theater company, Four Person Phantom. Check back soon for more information about this production.
PAST news
Rule of 7x7 @ The Tank
Erica will be directing a piece this coming June, written by Leemore Malka as part of The Tank’s bi-monthly play series, Rule of 7x7. The concept is 7 plays, 7 writers and 7 rules each play has to follow. Performances run June 24th and 25th. Check back soon for production photos!
two shows in rep
by Society
Erica is the production stage manager for SOCIETY’s upcoming double bill at The New Ohio Theatre. Come see The Days of True Jubilation by Mona Mansour, Directed by Scott Illingworth; and The Strangers Came Today by Emily Zemba, Directed by Violeta Picayo. Performances run June 8th-June 25th.
two Headed Rep @ 59E59
Erica will be Assistant Directing two plays in rep, produced by Two Headed Rep at 59E59. The plays: The Collision and What Came After, or, GUNCH! by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Directed by Lily Riopelle and The Martyrdom Of The Holy Virgins Agape, Chionia, And Irena, By Hrotsvitha The Nun Of Gandersheim, As Told Throughout The Last Millennium By The Men, Women, Scholars, Monastics, Puppets, And Theater Companies (Like This One) Who Loved Her, Or: Dulcitius New text by Amanda Keating, Translation by Lizzie Fox, and Directed by Molly Clifford. Click here for tickets!
The great hunger
3DaysPrior
Productions
Erica is a Resident Artist with New York based production company, 3DaysPrior. Erica is a co-founder with a variety of talented young artists and producer for 3DaysPrior’s work. She is also an active content creator, most recently having directed Playdate, presented by Dixon Place, with Dixon Place and Emily Bergquist as co-producers. Check out what 3DaysPrior is up to right now!
pridefest 2021 At The Tank
On June 25th, come see Plays, Books, and Music, Oh My!, a series of four Kallan Dana plays performed in rep through The Tank’s Pridefest 2021! The performance will be held outdoors on Broadway between 35th and 36th in Manhattan. For tickets, click here.
Plastic Bag Store
@ The Adelaide Festival 2021
Plastic Bag Store by Robin Frohardt, a theatrical endeavor and art installation that began in a storefront in Times Square (Click HERE for the NYTimes’ “Critics Notebook” coverage by Laura Collins-Hughes), will be traveling to The Adelaide Festival in South Australia. The show and exhibition will run February 23 - March 14, 2021. Catch Erica as the Production Stage Manager and makeshift cashier.
Limefest 2020 at The Tank
Wednesday, August 26th, Erica, alongside Kallan Dana, will be devising and performing a site-specific, socially distant, outdoor performance of My Teenage Wet Dream, a short play about a duo of young millennials camped outside the supposed private home of an early oughts washed-up boyband member. For information and to reserve a spot, visit The Tank’s website Here.
summer hot! festival
On July 23rd, Erica will be directing a reading of Kallan Dana’s new short play, Basement, in Dixon Place’s Summer HOT! Festival. Basement is the story of a queer married couple living their lives as hoarders in the basement of their family home. The Summer HOT! festival is a theatrical festival promoting NYC’s queer art and artists from July 6 - August 1, 2020. For more information, click here.
rashdash residency
Erica will be attending a Residency in January 2020 with RashDash Theatre Company based in London, England. RashDash is Abbi Greenland, Becky Wilkie and Helen Goalen who create and perform original work based in Manchester. During this weeklong residency, Erica will be collaborating with other artists and devising new styles of content creation and generating material. Learn more about the work RashDash does here.
PLAYDATE
Erica will be directing a full production of Playdate by Kallan Dana at Dixon Place September 26-28, 2019 (for tickets click the hyperlink)! Playdate is a meta-theatrical dark comedy about the last day of Hugh Hefner’s life inside the Playboy Mansion. It’s spooky and clownish and not at all sexy!
Update: For photos of the production click HERE.