Jessika Malone

Kindling Arts Unveils Full Programming Line-up for 8th Annual Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 20, 2025

Kindling Arts will present 19 projects for its 2025 Festival, united by the 'Fortunes & Fates' festival theme. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

Tennessee Playwrights Studio Will Host TPS 2025 Virtual Reading Festival
by Stephi Wild - May 1, 2025

Tennessee Playwrights Studio has announced the TPS 2025 Virtual Reading Festival. Tickets are free, and the festival is open to the public. Learn more here!

Kindling Arts Presents Its Popular Holiday Special Featuring THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 3, 2024

Kindling Arts will present its signature holiday fundraising event Kindling's Very Special Holiday Special again this December, featuring an unforgettable screening of the cult classic The Muppet Christmas Carol for the second year in a row.

Kindling Arts Unveils 13 Projects For 7th Annual Festival Celebrating Local Contemporary Performance
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 23, 2024

Discover 13 unique projects at Kindling Arts' 2024 Festival, featuring immersive dance-theater, outdoor sports-theater, comedy, and performance art, all exploring the theme of Imperfections. Learn more about the programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Kindling Arts Festival Reveals Dates & Opens Artist Applications For 2024 Event
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 18, 2024

The 7th annual KINDLING ARTS FESTIVAL is set to fill West Nashville venues with contemporary dance, devised theater, performance art, and more, from July 18-21, 2024. Learn how to apply!

Kindling Arts to Present Second Annual Holiday Special Featuring THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 21, 2023

Kindling Arts presents its second annual holiday special featuring a screening of 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' and live performances. Join in the festive fun on December 21st and 22nd at the Darkhorse Theater in Nashville. Tickets on sale now.

KINDLING ARTS FESTIVAL 2023 Brings Counterculture To West Nashville From July 27-30
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 20, 2023

The high-impact, four-day Festival features a wide array of performance art, including the return of the popular Bar Fight! series, wildly inventive new theatrical mash-ups, iconic and unconventional late-night parties, emerging dance talent, and more - all celebrating the timely concept of Counterculture.

Kindling Arts Announces Dates For Its Sixth Annual Dynamic 4-Day Performance Festival, July 27-30
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 18, 2023

Nashville's radically unique independent arts incubator Kindling Arts has announced the official dates for its 2023 festival of live performances taking place Thursday, July 27 through Sunday, July 30, 2023.

KINDLING'S VERY SPECIAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL Takes Over The American Legion Post 82, December 17
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 13, 2022

Starring Blake Holliday as a familiar iconic actress in the middle of a jolly good meltdown, the festive holiday cabaret fundraiser will be held at The American Legion Post 82 in East Nashville and will feature a variety of special guests.

BAR FIGHT! to be Presented at Ozari Events This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 19, 2022

It's duets and drop kicks at Princess Daddy's Fight Night & Karaoke, the underground fight club where songs are slayed and rivalries are laid to rest. BAR FIGHT! will tkae place at Ozari Events on Friday, July 29th and Saturday July 30th at 9PM (doors at 8PM).

Kindling Arts Festival to Feature 19 Unique Performance Projects And Over 160 Local Artists
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 12, 2022

The Kindling Arts Festival has announced the 2022 line-up for the 4-day celebration of performing arts experiences from Thursday, July 28 through Sunday, July 31 at five distinct venues across West Nashville.

Love and Changing Gender Roles Explored in Vanderbilt University Theatre's ORLANDO
by Jeffrey Ellis - Feb 17, 2018

Jessika Malone (a Fred Coe Artist-in-Residence) directs the Vanderbilt University Theatre production Orlando, Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of a 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf, through February 24.

Theaterati of the Year Among New First Night's Top Ten Categories Revealed
by Jeffrey Ellis - Jan 3, 2018

Design categories, road shows, theatrical events and the 12 people whose achievements in 2017 are particularly noteworthy were revealed tonight as part two of First Night's Top Ten of 2018 - critic Jeffrey Ellis' annual review of the best in Tennessee theater was presented during a live Facebook broadcast with two of the hosts of Midwinter's First Night (Ashley Wolfe and J. Robert Lindsay) announcing the work recognized among the best of 2017.

Tori Keenan-Zelt's New Play SEPH Coming to American Theatre of Actors
by BWW News Desk - Oct 5, 2017

Do you want to grow things or kill things? As a teenage goddess, Seph lives in her family's in-between. With her mom, she makes grass grow and flowers bloom.

Tori Keenan-Zelt's New Play SEPH Coming to American Theatre of Actors
by BWW News Desk - Sep 18, 2017

Do you want to grow things or kill things? As a teenage goddess, Seph lives in her family's in-between. With her mom, she makes grass grow and flowers bloom.

HAUNTED Heralds New Collaborative Effort by Cutting-Edge Nashville Companies
by Jeffrey Ellis - Sep 14, 2017

Haunted the new collaboration between cutting edge Nashville arts organizations Actors Bridge Ensemble, abrasiveMedia, and FALL: contemporary - aerial dance may heralds fresh way of creating performances in Music City.

The FRINGE-y 5: NATE EPPLER's Adventures in FRINGEland
by Jeffrey Ellis - Aug 4, 2017

The most wonderful time of the year is quickly drawing to a close: 2017 Sideshow Fringe Festival opened last week only runs through this Sunday, August 6, but until then you have a jam-packed calendar of creative, imaginative and adventurous theater to inspire you and to enlighten you - perhaps even enough to keep you satisfied until the 2018 rendition rolls around.

Critic's Choice: What's Playing in Tennessee? Nashville Theater Calendar for August 3, 2017
by Jeffrey Ellis - Aug 3, 2017

Feeling the urge to let your imagination run wild, your spirit to soar or to just leave the world in which you live and go on an adventure? Sounds like a trip to the theater is in order! Luckily, companies all over the Volunteer State have been hard at work, creating new productions to transform and to transport, shows that will entertain you this summer. That's where THE NASHVILLE THEATER CALENDAR comes in handy: Peruse our listings every week to find out what shows you should see!

The FRINGE-y 5: MATTHEW MARCUM's Existential Take on The Fringe
by Jeffrey Ellis - Aug 3, 2017

Today, our FRINGE-y 5 spotlight focuses on internationally recognized performance artist, producer and educator Matthew Marcum, whose work combines text, sound, movement, and optics to create contemporary theatre productions, live art events, conceptual installations and educational workshops. Marcum holds a dual MFA in Theatre Performance Making from The University of Chichester in the U.K. and the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago.

The FRINGE-y 5: DIEGO GOMEZ On Being Led to The Fringe
by Jeffrey Ellis - Aug 2, 2017

It's the most wonderful time of the year for Nashville's theater community: 2017 Sideshow Fringe Festival opened last Thursday night with #ThrowbackThursdayLive! and a weekend jam-packed with offering for the most adventurous of theater-goers and as the action gears back up for another full calendar of events week, we pick back up with more FRINGE-y 5 interviews. Today, our spotlight focuses on Diego Gomez, an actor/writer/musician who is an integral part of 2017 Sidewhow Fringe Festival as writer of The Backpack, an original script performed last weekend, and as an actor in this week's Marian, Or (The True Story of Robin Hood).