APLOMB Receives Workshop Production at The Habitat This Month

The Habitat presents APLOMB, created & directed by Alex Keegan, in a workshop run August 17-20 7:30pm at the Actors Fund Theater, 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets: $15 at www.artful.ly/store/events/12518.

Featuring: Amber Avant, Shelley Fort, Emma Orme, Drita Kabashi, Rachel Lin, Leemore Malka, Frankie Placidi, Brooke Reynolds, and Mariette Strauss.

Development Ensemble: Lauren Annunziata, Amber Avant, Margot Connolly, Olivia Harding, Drita Kabashi, Leemore Malka, Frankie Placidi, Brooke Reynolds, Rebecca Sands, CorAl Smith, Mariette Strauss, Emma Thorne, and Catherine Woodard.

Creative Team:
Artistic Director: Katie Lindsay
Producer: Caroline Gart
Assistant Producer: Sara May Atlas-Ravid
Stage Management: Lisa Stafford
Scenic: Frank Oliva
Lights: Oona Curley
Projections: Simon Harding
Sound: Emily Auciello
Movement: Yael Nachajon
Dramaturgy: Chris Mills

Amidst pounding chaos, Hayden has a dissociative panic attack at a rave where she knows no one. In the wake of a social anxiety disorder diagnosis, APLOMB explores how Hayden must re-frame her life history, relationships, and self identity upon realizing she's been perceiving the world through a distorted lens.

Director Alex Keegan created APLOMB with an all-female ensemble through long-form improvisation. Keegan has been developing the piece with The Habitat since 2015, in the Directors Playground, an incubator for director-driven projects run by Katie Lindsay & Caroline Gart.

The Habitat is dedicated to putting women's stories at the forefront and supporting the work of female practitioners. Through productions, development programs, and readings, The Habitat creates work that is necessarily theatrical, always political, and deeply personal.