Jennifer Crooks is our newest APL Affiliate Artist, joining the 730 Steps cast to take over the role of Porfiry Petrovich!
Jenny has been seen locally with GreenStage, ReAct Theatre, and Ghost Light Theatricals. She’s also appeared with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and Constellation Theatre Company.
We can’t wait to get started on our collaboration!
Fantasia Rose has joined the 730 Steps production team as Costume Designer!
Originally from Northern California, Fantasia considers herself a professional dabbler. As a makeup artist/stylist/costume designer, she’s had the opportunity to work on various stage and screen projects including: Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine (Annex Theatre, 2017), Hold Your Head Up (Maiah Manser, Music Video, 2014), and Growing Pains (Don’t Do It, Web Series, 2016). She also has worked on several productions by The Libertinis.
She holds a BFA in Theater from Cornish College of the Arts – Theater Department.
Welcome, Fantasia!
We have an opening for one actor (non gender-specific, Age: 30-55) to join the cast of 730 Steps (original adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment). Role TBD.
Committed to strengthening a more multicultural artistic community and the principle of diversity, we strongly encourage applications from historically underrepresented groups.
The audition process, which will include a preliminary interview with an APL Artistic Associate and a practical working session with the ensemble, will be conducted February 14-16, 2017.
APL does not generally cast on a per-show basis, making this is a rare opportunity to work with an established and highly regarded ensemble-based company with deep artistic lineage and an international reputation. While we are specifically looking to fill an unexpected vacancy in the cast of this production, we also will be assessing based upon potential for a more long-term artistic association.
We are committed to rigorous work in a highly focused and personally supportive environment. We are looking for someone interested in creating devised psychophysical theatre following long-form, ensemble-centered methodologies that have evolved out of our nearly 30 years of working in Central and Eastern European theatre traditions.
Considerations:
If you would like to be considered, please send an email expressing your interest, along with your resume and headshot to ensemble@akropolisperformancelab.com with the subject “730 Steps Audition.”
Kix joins the 730 Steps creative team as scenic and lighting designer!
An accomplished Ohio-based freelance mixed artist and sculptor, Kix works as set designer and Assistant Technical Director for New World Performance Laboratory & Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture, which hosted our 2015 Glas Nocturne tour. She was a creative and resourceful partner for us during our run at The Balch Street Theatre — and great fun to be around!
Kix also works as TD of Magical Theatre Company, TD & Production Designer of Ma’Sue Productions and Center for Applied Drama & Autism, carpenter for Neos Dance Theatre, and electrician for many northeast Ohio ballet companies.
You can see a sampling of her visual art and sculpture work via her online portfolio, kixnit.
Welcome aboard, Kix!
We are so excited to participate in Seattle Foundation’s GiveBIG event on May 3, and we hope you are, too! Seattle’s GiveBIG is the most successful in the country. It is thrilling to see the impact we can make in just one day by working together.
#GiveBIG today through May 3, and your support for Akropolis Performance Lab will be stretched by Seattle Foundation pooled funds. And as an additional bonus, the first $1,000 in contributions to Akropolis will be matched 100%! – Please help us meet this goal.
As you know, we primarily produce our work in non-conventional or found spaces. We believe this increases authenticity and enriches audience experience. It also requires us to be fully self-sufficient, mobile, flexible, and nimble — for many productions we must set up and strike our set and tech every night! To fulfill our production plans for the next two years while continuing our commitment to this mobility, we must acquire some new equipment.
Money raised during GiveBIG will fund as many of these items as possible:
And you don’t have to wait to make a pledge and risk missing the BIG day. You can schedule your donation today, and Seattle Foundation will process it automatically on May 3! To pre-schedule your gift, visit our GiveBIG profile page HERE.
We hope you will make a donation to APL’s GiveBIG campaign and see your dollars stretched through the power of community.
DONATE NOW!
Thank you, as always, for your friendship and support of our work!
We are so proud to share this performance review of The Glas Nocturne, which is published in the current issue (68.1) of Theatre Journal!
Thank you to Jeanmarie Higgins and #theatrejournal for venturing out to our corner of the country and giving APL’s work critical consideration as part of the international theatre conversation.
From the author: “What started as a quick trip to Seattle to see some friends and some theatre turned into a Theatre Journal performance review of Joseph and Zhenya Lavy’s The Glas Nocturne. I love writing about Akropolis Performance Lab; the work is always virtuosic, irrefutable, and strangely joyful.”
The Invocation of Mephistopheles | Ecce Faustus (2016) | Photo: Mark Jared Zufelt, Aether Images
Dear Friends,
If you missed the February premiere of Ecce Faustus or just want to see it again, you are in luck: We are remounting it to shoot video and are inviting friends to enjoy a free showing — one night only — on April 4. That’s next Monday, and this is short notice, but we hope you can join us!
Seating is capped at 50 and first-come, first-served, so reserve yours here now!
While this event is free to attend, there are expenses associated with this remount that we would appreciate your support in helping cover. Please consider making a donation to APL as you are able.
~ The APL Ensemble
In addition to Zhenya’s nomination for local composing, Joseph received a Gypsy Rose Lee Award nomination for Best Male Lead Actor in a Play for his role as Dr. Glas in The Glas Nocturne.
The Gypsy Rose Lee Awards are selected by Seattle Theatre Critics. Here is the entire slate of 2015 nominees:
Excellence in Production of a Play (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Production of a Play (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Production of a Musical
Excellence in Direction of a Play (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Direction of a Play (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Direction of a Musical
Excellence in Performance in a Play as a Lead Actor (Male) (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Performance in a Play as a Lead Actor (Male) (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Performance in a Musical as a Lead Actor (Male)
Excellence in Performance in a Play as a Lead Actor (Female) (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Performance in a Play as a Lead Actor (Female) (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Performance in a Musical as a Lead Actor (Female)
Excellence in Performance of a Play as a Supporting Actor (Male) – any non-lead (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Performance of a Play as a Supporting Actor (Male) – any non-lead (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Performance of a Musical as a Supporting Actor (Male)
Excellence in Performance of a Play as a Supporting Actor (Female) (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Performance of a Play as a Supporting Actor (Female) (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Performance of a Musical as a Supporting Actor (Female) – any non-lead
Excellence in Performance as an Ensemble (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Performance as an Ensemble (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Set Design (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Set Design (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Costume Design (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Costume Design (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Lighting Design (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Lighting Design (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Sound Design (Larger Theaters):
Excellence in Sound Design (Smaller Theaters):
Excellence in Musical Direction
Excellence in Choreography or Movement
Excellence in Local Playwriting
Excellence in Local Composing
It’s time! Tickets are now available for Ecce Faustus.
Don’t delay. The show runs just 3 weeks: February 5-27, 2016.
See what happens when APL explores the various ways we sell our souls and deconstructs the Faust legend to create a Modern Medieval Mystery Play… staged in a church in the Ballard neighborhood.
Did we mention the composer was a murderer?
Truly another not-to-be missed original piece by the ensemble!
For the second year in a row, Co-Artistic Director Zhenya Lavy has been nominated by the Seattle Theatre Writers for a Gypsy Rose Lee Award in the category of Excellence in Local Composing. The nomination recognizes her work on The Glas Nocturne.
Zhenya’s nomination as one of three for 2015 is an especial honor because, unlike most awards for theatre in the greater Seattle area, the Gypsy Awards do not differentiate separate categories for music at larger- or smaller-budget houses: the potential nominee pool encompasses all original music for theatre activity in the area.
L-R: Joseph Lavy, Linnea Ingalls, Catherine Lavy, Sara Kaus, Annie Paladino, Margaretta Campagna, and Zhenya Lavy | Photo: Joe Patrick Kane
The musical landscape Zhenya built for The Glas Nocturne included piano nocturnes by composers from Field and Chopin to Alkan and Bartok (played live by Zhenya), as well as dynamic arrangements of traditional Swedish folk tunes sung in three- and four-part harmonies by the ensemble.
Award winners will be announced later this month.
If you missed The Glas Nocturne, request a spot on our waitlist and be among the first to know when we will remount it in our 2016-17 season.
In the meantime, buy your tickets now for Ecce Faustus, which opens February 5. Ecce Faustus features stunning 5-part madrigals and sacred music by Carlo Gesualdo, with some of the most complex structures and harmonies APL has ever put on stage — all performed live.
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APL is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.
