terraNOVA's Monthly Performance Party SUBTERRANEAN Returns 12/3

terraNOVA Collective returns December 3, 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. To purchase tickets visit www.smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444.

December's event will include performances by the music of LPFunk, master storytelling by Martin Dockery, and award winning spoken word artist Patrick Rosal.

"It's the end of 2009 and the end of our first year presenting SUBTERRANEAN to our audiences," said curator James Carter. "I'm extremely excited to be rounding out the year with such extraordinary artists."

SUBTERRANEAN
Thursday, November 3, 2009
10:00pm
$10.00 Entry + 1 Drink Minimum
D-Lounge 101 East 15th Street
beneath the Daryl Roth Theatre
Just off Union Square

LPFunk (Lucas Papaelias) has acted in and composed music for Broadway's Cyrano de Bergerac starring Kevin Kline, Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home From the Wars at the Public, and Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights' Horizons, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk award. He also appeared in the movie School of Rock alongside Jack Black. He is currently developing his original rock'n'roll theatre piece, ITHACA: A Perpetual Shredfest!, and has performed the music from ITHACA with his full band at Joe's Pub, ARS Nova, and other music venues. www.lpfunkrocks.com/ithaca

Martin Dockery has told stories on the stages of The Moth, Speakeasy, The Liar Show, and many others in and around New York City. Last year Wanderlust was performed in San Francisco, Westchester County, and in New York City at both Ars Nova and The Barrow Group Studio Theatre, where it enjoyed a sold-out run. He performed a new monologue, The Bike Trip, at Galapagos Art Space in NYC at the end of January; and debuted another new show, The Surprise, at the end of February, as part of the New York FRIGID Festival, where it won an Audience Choice Award, before being selected for the soloNOVA Festival in May. Also in May, he performed Wanderlust at The Orlando Fringe Festival (where it sold out and was selected as Best in Venue), and will be traveling with the show in June & July to Fringe Festivals in London, Toronto, and Winnipeg, before traveling to San Francisco with The Surprise in September. Last summer he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with The Liar Show, which The Scotsman gave 4 Stars. His stories have made him a seven-time finalist in The Moth's bi-annual Grandslam Storytelling Championship. Also, he was a co-creator of the play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which ran on Broadway as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His play Oh, That Wily Snake!, which The New York Times called "fantastic," is part of a McGraw-Hill anthology textbook on literature. He received his B.A. in English from Kenyon College and his M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University.

Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. Awarded a Fulbright grant as a U.S. Scholar to the Philippines in 2009, he has served as visiting writer at Penn State Altoona, Centre College, and the University of Texas at Austin. He taught creative writing for many years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman's Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets. In addition to conducting workshops in Alabama prisons through Auburn University, he has taught high school workshops through the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Sarah Lawrence College's Summer Writing Conference for High School Students, and the Volume workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, The Literary Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , and the Beacon Best. His work has been honored by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net among others. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken.

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

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