terraNOVA Collective Returns With SUBTERRANEAN 11/5 At The D-Lounge

terraNOVA Collective returns November 5, 2009 at 10:00pm with SUBTERRANEAN, their monthly performance party in the D-Lounge, a 75-seat cabaret-style venue below the Daryl Roth Theatre at 101 East 15th Street at Union Square. SUBTERRANEAN presents a variety of performers, including spoken word, music, burlesque, magic, storytelling, short play readings, vaudeville acts and DJs. Admission is $10 plus one drink minimum.

November's event will include performances by spoken word artist, Lynne Procope, bouffon clown, Red Bastard (aka Eric Davis), and husband and wife vaudeville rockers, The Bengsons.

LYNNE PROCOPE is a Cave Canem fellow and a former National Poetry Slam champion (Team NYC 08). She is co-author of "Burning Down the House" (Soft Skull 1999) and her work appears in Washington Square Review, Quarter After Eight and the Spoken Word Revolution Redux, Drums Voices, His Rib, Word Warriors and Bowery Women-Poems anthologies among others. She is a poet in residence with Vision Into Art and is executive director of the louderARTS Project.

RED BASTARD (Eric Davis) Mr. Davis currently resides in New York. His original creations have won him both critical and audience acclaim. He performs and teaches internationally. Lauded as one of the premiere clowns of our time, Mr. Davis is setting the worlds of comedy and theater on fire with his contemporary and original creations. A master improviser, clown and bouffon, his work ranges from subtle and realistic to the absurd. His work has been described by critics as "genius" "subversive" and "very, very funny". In 2007, Mr. Davis was nominated for a Golden Nose for Clown of the Year in New York. In addition, he was a Finalist for the NY Comedy Festival's Andy Kaufman Award, and the award winning director and co-writer of The Bouffon Glass Menajoree, which was nominated for Best Director, Best Script, Best Ensemble and Best Production by the NY Innovative Theatre Awards. Mr. Davis is a Founder and Co- Director of the NY Clown Theatre Festival, an international festival celebrating and promoting the art of contemporary theatrical Clown. (www.bricktheater.com). Performance Credits include the clown in Cirque du Soleil's highly celebrated production: Quidam, as well as being contracted for developmental workshop of Cirque du Soleil's Kooza, under the direction of Tony Winner, David Shiner and Cirque's 2009 Touring Production.

ABIGAIL NESSEN BENGSON & SHAUN McCLAIN BENGSON are vaudeville rock musicians and theater activists, described by the New York Times as having "not only a tremendous musical talent, but also a raw honesty, a sincere righteousness." They have performed their original work all over the country and internationally, including such venues as The Culture Project, La Mama, MASS MoCA, the Daryl Roth Theater and BricLab (where they were recipients of a special artists residency), The Market Theater Lab (Johannesburg, SA), Arlene's Grocery, The Knitting Factory and Pianos. They recently returned from a performance tour of South Africa. Stay in touch with them at www.bengsons.com

TERRANOVA COLLECTIVE is a vibrant playground for artists devoted to innovative new and original theatrical works. Its multi-layered development process, solo arts festivals, and productions serve to nurture and liberate our community.

www.terranovacollective.org