The Amoralists (James Kautz, Artistic Director) announce their 11th season, RICOCHET: An Amoralists Anthology about Surviving an American Epidemic. RICOCHET will feature four boundary-pushing original, intersecting plays that follow a community as it copes with the aftermath of a mass shooting. Written by The Amoralists 2018/2019 'WRIGHT CLUB playwrights, Gabriel Jason Dean, Charly Evon Simpson, and James Anthony Tyler, the season will include four complementary original graphic novels created by Danica Novgorodoff.
The Amoralists 2018/2019 'WRIGHT CLUB playwrights include three divergent, adventurous, emerging writers that have joined their ensemble of artists, for a no-holds-barred, no-sides-taken dive into the world of collaborative storytelling.
Here's how 'WRIGHT CLUB works: One unifying event. Three distinct perspectives. No right answers.
Over the course of one year and in conversation with The Amoralists ensemble of artists, each of their three 'WRIGHT CLUB authors will craft a play in their unique style that explores one side of the season's unifying incident and pushes an over-arching narrative forward. Each of these plays will be presented in a limited engagement production. The fourth play, collaboratively written by all three club authors, caps off the year with the final installment of the story, presented in a full production.
PLAY 1 by
Gabriel Jason Dean is directed by Kimille Howard and runs August 2 - 5, 2018 at Walkerspace (46 Walker St.).
PLAY 2 by Charly Evon Simpson is directed by
Kate Moore Heaney and runs October 4 - 7, 2018 at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.).
PLAY 3 by
James Anthony Tyler is directed by
Bianca LaVerne Jones and runs December 13 - 16, 2018 at Teatro Latea at The Clemente (107 Suffolk St.).
PLAY 4, collaboratively written by
Gabriel Jason Dean, Charly Evon Simpson and
James Anthony Tyler, will run April - May 2019 (venue TBA).
Performances for PLAYS 1, 2 & 3 are Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30pm, and Saturdays & Sundays at 3pm. Early and exclusive access to pre-sale tickets for all upcoming shows and other insider perks are only available with an Amoralists Membership. Purchase at
https://Amoralists.com. Tickets for the general public go on sale one month before each show begins.
The Amoralists are a diverse collective of uncompromising artists. Founded in 2006, they produce original work that confronts the American condition in all its complexity. Their stories are emotionally charged and character driven, a place where politics and perspectives collide and no side emerges unscathed. Explosive, vital, raucous and raw, they do theatre, no moral judgement.
From New York Times' Critics' Pick productions and world premiere work from writers including
Adam Rapp,
Emily Schwend and
Ken Urban, THE AMORALISTS bring audiences stories that are incisive, at times outrageous, and always entertaining. With a cadre of artists known for their raw and visceral performance style, "nobody else weds old-fashioned realist structure to working-class-hero lunacy quite this way" (Time Out New York). Now in their 11th season, "THE AMORALISTS have cemented their reputation as the most promising, crowd-pleasing ensemble to emerge downtown" (The New York Times). For more info visit
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Gabriel Jason Dean's plays include IN BLOOM, TERMINUS, QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT, HEARTLAND, The Transition of Doodle Pequeño, MARIO & THE COMET (a musical), and others. He was most recently named a Finalist for the Humanitas Emerging TV Writer Award for his original pilot, WE BELONG. His plays have been produced or developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club,
McCarter Theatre, The Flea, Oregon Shakespeare, The Kennedy Center, PlayPenn, and others. His scripts are published through Samuel French, Dramatic Publishing and Playscripts.
Charly Evon Simpson is a playwright and performer from New York City. Her plays include Jump, Scratching the Surface, Hottentotted, While We Wait, and more. Her work has been seen and/or developed with NNPN's Kennedy Center MFA Playwright's Workshop,
Ensemble Studio Theatre,
Ars Nova, The Flea, and others. She's a member of 17/18 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers' Group and is The Pack's current playwright-in-residence. BA: Brown. MSt: Oxford. MFA: Hunter College.
James Anthony Tyler is the recipient of the 3rd Annual
Horton Foote Playwriting Award and currently a Nashville Rep Ingram New Works Playwright. His plays include Some Old Black Man (Berkshire Playwrights Lab at 59E59), Dolphins and Sharks (
LAByrinth Theater Company and Finborough Theatre in London), and the upcoming Artney Jackson to be presented this summer at
Williamstown Theatre Festival. MFA, Film, Howard University; MFA, Dramatic Writing, NYU; 2017 Graduate The Juilliard School's Playwrights Program.
Danica Novgorodoff (original show artwork and graphic novelist) is an artist, writer, and graphic novelist from Kentucky who currently lives in Brooklyn. Her graphic novels include The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Refresh Refresh, Slow Storm, and A Late Freeze. Her art and writing has been published in Best American Comics, The Believer, Artforum, Esquire, VQR, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Journal, and many others. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, and was named Sarabande Books' 2016 writer in residence.
Photo: Amoralists WC Authors - Gabriel Jason Dean, James Anthony Tyler, Charly Evon Simpson.
Photographer Russ Rowland
