RED OVER RED to Play in Brooklyn July 22 - August 7

Brooklyn-based theater company 31 Down's loud meditation on paranoia and premonition surrounding plane crashes, RED OVER RED, will premiere with a run at New York City's Incubator Arts Project July 22-August 7, 2010. 31 Down returns with their signature sonic destruction, creating a horror theater that is immersive, visceral and contemporary. Red Over Red follows four people working in and around the airline industry to explore distrust in one another on a personal level, and distrust in the unknown on a primal level. Featuring recurring crash nightmares, the work graphically dives into our renewed fears of flight post 911. Starring frequent Richard Foreman and HAl Hartley actor DJ Mendel, and Caitlin McDonough-Thayer, Ryan Holsopple and Risa Sarachan.

31 DOWN creates darkly themed audio-based performance work with a heavy emphasis on light, imagery and mood. The work is a form of study in audio and visual perception. Like radio, disembodied voices and a remote sense of time and place inform visual tableaus and aural landscapes that set out to put the audience into a dreamlike, heightened state. There is an invested use of new technologies and interactive systems to create and control the performances. Recent performance history includes: The Assember Dilator (Performance Space 122), The Scream Contest (P.S. 122: Seattle Edition), Universal Robots, Metronoma and That's Not How Mahler Died (Ontological-Hysteric Incubator), I Used to be Curious [Loud] (PRELUDE07), Rita, Katrina and Stan (PERFORMA05).

Written by Shannon Sindelar and Ryan Holsopple
Directed by Shannon Sindelar
Sound and video by Ryan Holsopple

D.J. Mendel made his professional acting debut working with avant-garde theater legend Richard Foreman and has since appeared in New York and Internationally in Mr. Foreman's PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE, PANIC (How to be Happy) and THE UNIVERSE. He has also performed with some of New York's most prominent theater artists including Big Dance Theater, David Neumann and Karen Coonrod. A long time collaborator with HAl Hartley, he has been in Mr. Hartley's films, FAY GRIM, THE BOOK OF LIFE, NO SUCH THING, THE NEW MATHS, THE GIRL FROM MONDAY and in Mr. Hartley's theatrical debut, SOON, which premiered at the Salzburg Festpiel. He has also starred in Richard Sylvarnes' THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and H.C.E, both debuting at the Tribeca Film festival and most recently played the title role in Salvatore Interlandi's, CHARLIE.

Ryan Holsopple (founder and artistic director of 31 Down) Ryan writes, designs sound, oversees all technical aspects of production and performs for the theater company. He has also designed sound for Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions. He has served as an associate projections designer with designer William Cusick on The Clean House and The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center Theater and Arjuna's Dilemma, BAM Next Wave 2008. Ryan has taught interactive technology at CUNY's City Tech and Radio production at the College of Staten Island. Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) of New York University.

Caitlin McDonough-Thayer New York credits include: The Assember Dilator (31down; PS 122), Trifles (Theater of a Two-Headed Calf; Ontological-Hysteric Incubator), Dutch A/V (Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts), Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland, Panic: How To Be Happy, Zomboid, Film Project #1, (Richard Foreman; OHT), Antigone, and Kasimir & Karoline (Nature Theater of Oklahoma), Problem Radicals (Object Collection; PS 122), Stars in Her Eyes (Clay McLeod Chapman; Sell Out Festival), The Lacy Project (Ohio Theater's Ice Factory). Coming up: Macbeth, The Interlochen Arts Festival, and The Wife, by Tommy Smith.

Shannon Sindelar is a writer, director and theater producer from Washington state. Recent directing work includes: The Assember Dilator (31 Down at P.S. 122), the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde (Target Margin/The Bushwick Starr), Universal Robots (31 Down/Ontological Incubator), I Used to be Curious [Loud] (31 Down/ Prelude07), and Jason Grote's A Christmas Carol (The Brick Theater). She is the director and co-writer for 31 Down projects, and recently toured to Seattle with the company to present The Scream Contest (P.S. 122 Off-Site at Bumbershoot). She is currently the Managing and Programming Director of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and was recently named one of nytheatre.com's People of the Year.

Risa Sarachan New York credits include: BANG/whimper (NY Fringe), Learning to Love Me More (Ontological-Hysteric Incubator), Claire and Daniel (Atlantic Theatre Stage 2 and Network One Act Festival semi-finalist) and The History of My Domestication (TigerMilk Collective). Risa has also been seen in several independent films, such as My Friends Told Me About You, now available in the Wholpin's DVD Collection, and hiTec! which has just begun screening in New York. BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing.

About Incubator Arts Project
The Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and guidance with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. Its programs primarily support world premieres of original work and also include a concert series, work in progress opportunities and artist salons and roundtables.

The Incubator Arts Project grew out of the Incubator, a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. In 2010, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater announced that it would leave its permanent home, St. Mark's Church, and that the Incubator would take over the space and operate year-round.

Beginning in 1993, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, in addition to its primary support of the work of Richard Foreman, opened its doors to emerging, independent artists. Since 1993 the emerging artists program at the Ontological took many forms, including the Obie-winning Blueprint Series for emerging directors. In 2005, the OHT reorganized the programs under the name INCUBATOR, creating a series of linked programs to provide young theater artists with resources and support to develop process-oriented, original theatrical productions. By 2010, the program had quadrupled in size, involving a range of artists and increased support. The programs included the centerpiece Residency program for premieres, two annual music festivals, a regular concert series, a serial work-in-progress program called Short Form, and roundtables and salons aimed at keeping Incubator artists involved year-round. In May, 2010, the Incubator received an OBIE grant.

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