In a fractured domestic landscape, human resilience encounters both annihilation and hope. “And you look. And you keep looking. And you make yourself alive by looking.”

Friday, August 16th, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 17th, 8:00 pm

Art Pond Studio Space
313 E 58th Street at 2nd Ave

THE PLAYWRIGHT: John Ransom Phillips is a painter and writer living in New York City whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago in the History of Culture. His published works include Ransoming Time: A Photographer’s Dream Book (Clarissa Editions, 2014), Small Diary of a Little Painter (Clarissa Editions, 2013), Ransoming Mathew Brady (Hudson Hills, 2010), Contemporary Book of the Dead (Hudson Hills, 2009), Bed as Autobiography (University of Chicago, 2004), Reformation of Images (University of California Press, 1984).

THE DIRECTOR: Javier González writes, directs and teaches theater in New York City. Productions of his original plays and adaptations include Open up, Hadrian (Magic Futurebox), FLORIDITA, my Love (Teatro LATEA/IATI Theater), Barceloneta, de noche (Union Theatre, London/IATI Theater, NY), Un instante en una especie de flash (Yerbabruja, Puerto Rico), Never as Happy-Orestia (Theatre of the Riverside Church), Uneventful Deaths for Agathon (FringeNYC) and Las minutas de Martí (Repertorio Español). FLORIDITA, my Love was published by New York Theater Experience as part of an anthology Plays and Playwrights 2011 and online at Indie Theater Now, along with Open up, Hadrian and Uneventful Deaths for Agathon. He is the artistic director of Caborca, holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University, and was a part of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group (2010-11).