LIKE JELLY at Dixon Place

ABOUT THIS SHOW
Meredith and Celeste are on a search for the immortal jellyfish; real creatures with Benjamin Button abilities. Celeste has a pet jellyfish that she wants to return to its kind and Meredith has an obsession with them. The strangers, generations apart, find each other online and travel to Florida of all places. On the long drive down to the state of sunshine and Mickey Mouse, they examine their bodies in rearview mirrors and ignore phone calls from home. Religious family and lovers left behind try to stop them before they run into the ocean and maybe even become jellyfish themselves.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jeana Scotti is a playwright, director and performer born and raised in the borough you need to swim out to in NYC. Recent productions include Baby’s Breath in Theatre for the New City’s Dream Up Festival (writer/director), Alveoli in The Strawberry One Act Festival (writer/director), and an excerpt reading of Like Jelly at Naked Angels. She has performed at the Secret Theatre, La MaMa, The Ear Inn, and in independent films. This fall she will present a female driven, immersive workshop of selected poems of Ai called Vice. BA Purchase College in Theatre and Performance ’13.

Kelsey Lurie is a director. performer and theater artist from Burlington Vermont. She trained with Theater Mitu and held internships with Target Margin Theater. Selected productions: The Country by Martin Crimp (Director SUNY), Machinal by Sophie Treadwell (The Young Woman SUNY), 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (Asst. Director, Wirehead Collective) and The Skriker by Caryl Churchill (Josie, Wirehead Collective). Kelsey graduated from SUNY Purchase College and was awarded Julius Novick Award for Outstanding Theater and Performance student in 2015.