JOBZ Plays PS122 For soloNOVA 5/21-28

In his newest show inventive musician and monologuist Joseph Keckler (New Museum, Joe's Pub, HUMAN JUKEBOX) joins forces with Drama Desk Award-winning director Josh Hecht, and violinist Dan Bartfield to take the audience on a ride through the underworld -- the underworld of low-level jobs the performer has held in the New York art world.

Tickets ($20/$15 students & seniors) are available online at www.9thspace.org or by calling 212-352-3101. Performances are Sat 5/21 @ 7pm, Sun 5/22 @ 2pm, Tue 5/24 @ 7pm, Thu 5/26 @ 9pm & Sat 5/28 @ 4pm at 9th Space, located at Performance Space 122, 150 1st Ave at 9th Street.

"An arresting display of vocal control and disarming wit, but Keckler is just warming up.... a tour de force of deconstruction."
-Baltimore City Paper

BIOS

JOSEPH KECKLER is an innovative musician, actor, and multi-media artist who draws on his elastic, classically trained voice, bizarre and precise characterizations, and image-rich language to create layered performance works. This year Joseph played a showcase at SXSW Festival, completed a fellowship at the MacDowell Artist Colony, and was engaged as an actor at The Sundance Institute's Theater Lab Program. His video installation is currently on view in the exhibition Let it End Like This at apexart. In the past Joseph's performances have been presented by The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, The Stone, NYU Performance Studies, NP Contemporary Art Center and other venues. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo Artist Colony and Abrons Art Center. His solo play HUMAN JUKEBOX was a hit in its premiere at The Dublin Fringe and its subsequent run at La MaMa ETC in 2009. The play he and actress-writer Erin Markey wrote, LOOKING FOR LIMBO was explored at The Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Joseph is currently working on a collection of stories and new video projects. His forthcoming theater piece A VOICE AND NOTHING MORE will premiere at Amsterdam's Bellevue Theater in conjunction with the Amsterdam Fringe in the fall.

Josh Hecht is a Drama Desk Award-winning director of new work. His productions have been seen in New York at MCC Theater (Bob Morris's ASSISTED LOVING), The Cherry Lane (Megan Mostyn-Brown's GIRL), New World Stages (CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS - Drama Desk Award), 13P (Winter Miller's THE PENETRATION PLAY), the DR2 (Anna Ziegler's BFF), Partial Comfort (Ross Maxwell's OPEN HOUSE), regionally at the Humana Festival (Allison Moore's SLASHER),The Guthrie Theater (Megan Mostyn-Brown's LIZARDS), The Berkshire Theatre Festival (Rachel Schroeder's HELIANTHA), the Kennedy Center (Ping Chong's INSIDE/OUT - writer/performer), Axial Theater Company (Howard Meyer's WELCOME...), Half Moon (Annie Baker's CIRCLE, MIRROR, TRANSFORMATION), the Boston Center for the Arts and internationally at the Dublin Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (all three with CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS), among many other local and regional venues. His productions have also been nominated for the GLAAD Media Award and the IRNE Award (Boston).

He regularly works with playwrights developing between one and two dozen new plays a year at theaters such as NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, The Public, LAByrinth, The New Group, and New Georges and at play development Institutions including New Dramatists, The Dramatists Guild, New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Center's PlayLabs, TheatreWorks's New Play Initiative, Voice and Vision's Envision retreat, the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference and others. He is a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and is formerly the Director of Playwright Development at MCC Theater and the Director of New Play Development at WET. He currently teaches the 3rd Year MFA students at The New School for Drama as well as regular workshops at ESPA/Primary Stages School of Theater, The National Theater Institute and the Play Development Collective.

DAN BARTFIELD is a classically trained violinist and violist. He and Keckler have been collaborating for a number of years, recently on their gig at SXSW, and before that on a commissioned score for the sold-out inauguration of Cinema 16's season at The Players Club. He recently performed a classical concert performance at Cornelia Street Cafe and played alongside 21st century vamp Meow Meow at Neue Gallery, in partnership with Carnegie Hall.

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