A VERY MUSLIM CHRISTMAS, SPECIAL EFFECTS and More Set for The Wild Project This Winter

The Wild Project has announced its current and upcoming shows for December and January. Details below!

Now Playing:

December 17
NERDS ON FIRE CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR
Featuring Teddy Yudain, Zak Kamin, Kate Shine, Jack Fellows, Kelsea Baker, Kelsey Glass Johnston, Harrison Greene, Alyssa Lott
Thursday at 7 PM
Tickets: $10
With some of the freshest writers and comedians in New York, Nerds on Fire makes their triumphant return to the Wild Project for a night of sketch so hot it'll fog your glasses. You may have seen them at the PIT, Treehouse Theater, Muchmore's, StandUpNY or Under St. Marks, but put down the LL Bean catalog and join them for a night of ALL NEW SKETCHES that'll really jingle your sleigh bells.

December 19 - December 21
A VERY MUSLIM CHRISTMAS by Nicholas Gorham
With Nicholas Gorham, Enid Ellen, David Commander, Willie Farrad Mullins, Mark Dommu, Ryan Streit, Felix Mayes, and Pamela Jean AgaloosFriday - Sunday at 8 PM
Tickets: $15
America's most celebrated Hollywood legend, Nicholas Gorham, returns this year with a brand new television special live from Egypt! Join us as this bright star and his family survive another Christmas caper as they glamorize their way to safety and learn the subtleties of international affairs. As the group flees the great dangers that befall them, they are forced to learn from others and honor religious differences, all the while holding on to the most important part of the Christmas season: Fame.

December 20
YOU'RE THE EXPERT
Boston's WBUR live podcast!
Saturday at 4 PM
Tickets: $20
Recommended by The Onion A.V. Club and PBS NOVA, YOU'RE THE EXPERT is a live show, podcast, and new public radio program on Boston's WBUR that uses comedy to make academic research more accessible and exciting. Through games, sketches, and hilariously misguided guesses, a panel of hilarious comedians will try to get to the bottom of what a distinguished scientist does all day. You won't want to miss being part of the audience for this live show and podcast taping, hosted and produced by Chris Duffy. Featuring panelists Janeane Garofalo, Zhubin Parang (writer for The Daily Show), and a special guest!

Coming Soon:

January 3
GOD'S ETERNAL CAMPGROUND written and directed by Joey Angerone
With Franck Lacroix, James Kuck, and Alexis Burns
Saturday at 7PM
Tickets: FREE
A short film about 2 cousins, and how their lives are affected by the Civil War.

January 8 - 10
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Schedule varies (see show details below)
Tickets: $15
This annual festival of contemporary performance features artists from the Contemporary Performance Network, curated by network editors Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson. The four-day festival features panels and artist events, launches the Contemporary Performance Almanac15 book, and hosts nightly performance parties in the Wild Project Bar.

January 8 at 8 PM
Night Bazaar / Heather Litteer [90min]
Heather Litteer curates the opening night party with performative interviews of female legends from the downtown arts scene.

January 8 at 10:30 PM & January 9 at 11 AM
Asking For It / Adrienne Truscott [1hr]
Adrienne Truscott, one-half of the infamous Wau Wau Sisters, dressed only from the waist up and the ankles down, undresses and dresses down the rules and rhetoric about rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between.

January 9 at 8 PM
Gray Spaces / Mixed Bill [90min]
Guest curator Ben Gansky, Cloud City puts together an evening of new works and works-in-progress from the Contemporary Performance network revealing radical fresh bleeding-edge trans-medial experiments in performance. Existing between the black box of experimental theatre and the white rooms of the art museum, gray spaces explore the marginal zones of performance.

January 9 at 10:30PM
Vocal Test / Colin Self [1hr]
Colin Self is a composer, vocalist, and choreographer living in Brooklyn, NY. His performances explore vocality, corporeality, and familial systems as a site for energetic transformation.

January 10 at 11 AM & 10:30 PM
group/Institute for New Feeling [90min]
"group" is a full-sensory live music and video performance that engages audience members in eye contact, cardiovascular, breathing, and physical contact exercises. Please be aware that this is a highly interactive experience and there is no sitting on the sidelines. For more info visit www.iamgroup.me and read our group member agreement.

FREE Events:

January 8 & 10 5PM
Lobby Talk/Aperitifs

January 9 at 5 PM
Book Launch/Aperitifs

All performances are at The Wild Project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets can be purchased from OvationTix on 212.352.3101 or online at www.thewildproject.com. The Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain.

The Wild Project is a theater, film, music, and visual arts venue that presents diverse, engaging, inspiring, and entertaining works to the vibrant and growing community of Alphabet City in New York's East Village, while bringing together the artists and the environment in a unique way. Founded in 2007, the wild project is an innovator among arts venues, providing an eco-friendly theater and gallery where the artists and space nurture each other. The company is dedicated to creating an environment that supports the artists, and to cultivating artists that support the environment. With an eco-conscious approach to presenting the dynamic works of hundreds of emerging artists each year, the wild project offers an artistic and environmental education for patrons of all ages, interests, and incomes in its community.