OBSESSIONS
JUNE 1 & 2, 2018
7:30PM
Join us for a special weekend of performances from four local teens performing an original piece devised in collaboration between teens and professional artists based on the theme of obsessions.
Friday, June 1 | Invited Dress Rehearsal
Doors: 7:30pm
Performance: 8:00pm
TICKETS:
Free w/ RSVP
(email hello@thecreatorscollective.org for more information)
Saturday, June 2 | Premiere of OBSESSIONS
Doors: 7:30pm
Performance: 8:00pm
TICKETS:
$8 in advance
$10 at the door
PURCHASE TICKETS | Facebook RSVp
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FEATURING:
Bree Campbell
Sam Colbert
Emma Kotkin
Matt Kotkin
MUSIC, SCRIPT & DIRECTION:
Kodi Lynn Milburn
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OBSESSIONS IS PART OF OUR ONGOING
WRITING + PERFORMANCE PROJECT:
COLLECTIVE STORYTELLING
SHARE A MEMORY!
Contribute a memory around the theme of obsessions during your teenage years and be a part of the original performance piece that will be devised by a group of teens this spring:
MEMORY COLLECTOR
INFORMATION FOR TEENS INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE FREE WRITING WORKSHOP AND/OR FREE PERFORMANCE PROJECT:
Teen Writing Workshop
Wednesdays 5-6:30pm
February 7 - March 21
Auditions for Performance Project
Friday, February 16th 6-8:30pm
Rehearsals
Mid-March through mid-May
Performances
June 1-2, 2018
To sign up for the writing workshop and the audition, or to ask any questions, email:
submit@thecreatorscollective.org
Obsessions is a multimedia performance work collaboratively developed between teens and professional artists based on collected memories around the theme of obsessions. Something we all experienced in our teenage years, obsessions exposed what was most important to us, what we couldn't stop thinking or talking about, and often times, what defined those informative years for us.
This project will begin with a six week teen writing workshop followed by an interdisciplinary performance project bringing together teen and professional artists to collaborate on a devised work to be performed in Brooklyn, NY on June 1-2, 2018. This project aims to explore common themes from a pivotal time in adolescence through movement, language and film.
Obsessions is the third phase of Collective Storytelling, an ongoing, grant-funded collaborative and interdisciplinary project that offers young and professional artists the opportunity to develop work together that focuses on identity and memory.
The project is sponsored, in part, by Citizens Committee for New York City.
Image from Collective Storytelling, August 2014. Photo by Danyelle Hamilton
WRITING WORKSHOP
Teen Writing Workshop
Wednesdays 5-6:30pm
February 7 - March 21
Brooklyn Public Library Main Branch at Grand Army Plaza
Led by Amy Beth Wright
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Amy Beth Wright teaches writing at Fordham University, Purchase College, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is a Brooklyn-based writer, focusing on autobiographical writing, short fiction, and travel essays. Most recently, her writing has appeared in Southwest: The Magazine, Catapult, the Nashville Review, Metropolis and AlterNet. She also edits Parks and Points, a website dedicated to sharing writing about public lands.
Image from Collective Storytelling's 2015 production of When I Was Seventeen. Photo by Terrence Pope.
PERFORMANCE PROJECT
Auditions for Performance Project
Friday, February 16th 6-8:30pm
BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange
421 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Rehearsals & Performances
Mid-March through Early-June
COLLABORATORS
KODI MILBURN | MUSIC DIRECTOR:
KODI LYNN is a down to earth Nebraska native. She moved to the city for a two year conservatory program at the New York Film Academy. During her time studying musical theater at NYFA, she sang at 54 below in Ewalt and Walkers' “The Making of Madeleine Moore”, belted in NYFA’s production of “Chess”, and worked with Bobby Cronin and Crystal Skillman on a musical adaption of the claymation film “Mary and Max.” Before leaving school she wrote a dance on film script called “Could you Dance in my Shoes” that was brought to its feet and directed by Deidre Goodwin. After graduating the program Kodi pursued many different avenues of the art world. She has been the assistant director for two readings at the New York Film Academy and a short film entitled “Je l’aime a Mourir.” Kodi is currently working on further developing her musical, Chrysalis, which premiered in Brooklyn in August 2017.