Thaddeus Phillips Brings A BILLION NIGHTS ON EARTH to BAM Tonight

Theater artist Thaddeus Phillips returns to BAM with A Billion Nights on Earth, a fantastical journey through time and space, tonight, November 15, through November 18, running at BAM Fisher (Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Pl).

A Billion Nights on Earth weaves together the extraordinary and the unexpected into an epic adventure through space and time. A child in search of a lost stuffed animal discovers an unlikely door into another dimension, soon followed by his worried father. The pair--played by real father and son actors Michael and Winslow Fegley--must rely on ingenuity and each other to find their way home through an ever-shifting landscape. Employing Kabuki theater, pop-up storybook design techniques, and installation art aesthetics, Thaddeus Phillips and artist Steven Dufala create a magical theater work for adults and kids alike. Composer Juan Gabriel Turbay's cinematic score animates this work of suspense, wonder and whimsical wisdom.

Thaddeus Phillips is a theater director, designer and performer originally from Denver, Colorado. His inventive and cinematic stagings have been seen Off-Broadway and theaters and festivals around the world. Recent work includes the adaptation and direction of Ankomsten based on Shaun Tan's graphic novel The Arrival for Teateri in Sweden and a worldwide tour of 17 Border Crossings (BAM 2015 Next Wave) to venues across the USA, Europe, and Asia. He began his career doing object puppet performances of Shakespeare (The Tempest, King Lear & Henry V) which were performed at La Mama, and venues across the US and UK. Directed works and creations include: RED-EYE to HAVRE de GRACE at New York Theatre Workshop; CAPSULE 33 at Barrow Street Theatre; Flamingo/ Winnebago, Whale Optics, THE MeLTING BRiDgE in Philadelphia; and The Earth's Sharp Edge at La MaMa. For his performance as Polonio in ¡El Conquistador!, he was nominated for a Drama League Award. Phillips is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient and his work has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Hewes Design Award. On screen he has played the notorious pilot Barry Seal for MundoFox and appeared in Netflix's Narcos and Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He was last at BAM with 17 Border Crossings (BAM 2015 Next Wave).

Steven Dufala is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Philadelphia. Although he works primarily in collaboration with his brother Billy as The Dufala Brothers, Steven has worked in the theater most recently on Underground Railroad Game at Ars Nova and The Object Lesson at New York Theatre Workshop. With his brother Billy, he received an Obie Award for design with rainpan 43's machines machines machines machines machines machines machines at HERE Arts Center. Along with entire creative team, he received a Bessie Award for design for Geoff Sobelle's The Object Lesson at BAM's Next Wave Festival in 2014. Steven and Billy co-teach sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and are represented by the Fleisher/Ollman gallery in Philadelphia. Their work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the West Collection, and many private collections.

IF YOU GO:

A BILLION NIGHTS ON EARTH
Created by Thaddeus Phillips
In collaboration with Steven Dufala

Directed by Thaddeus Phillips
Designed by Steven Dufala
Dramaturgy by Tatiana Mallarino
Creative collaboration by Michael + Winslow Fegley
Music by Juan Gabriel Turbay
Lighting design by David Todaro
Costumes by Jan Avramov
Set engineering by Efren Delgadillio Jr.

BAM Fisher (Fishman Space), 321 Ashland Pl
Nov 15-18 at 7:30pm; Nov 18 at 2pm (BAMkids matinee)
Tickets: $25
For ticket information, call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100, or visit BAM.org.

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, and BAMcafé are located in the Peter Jay Sharp building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (between St Felix Street and Ashland Place) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located two blocks from the main building at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell Places). Both locations house Greenlight Bookstore at BAM kiosks. BAM Fisher, located at 321 Ashland Place, is the newest addition to the BAM campus and houses the Judith and Alan Fishman Space and Rita K. Hillman Studio. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. BAMcafé, operated by Great Performances, offers a dinner menu prior to BAM Howard Gilman Opera House evening performances.

Photo Credit: Johanna Austin

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