Into the On a regular basis and Existential: Jon Fosse’s Texts for Efficiency in New York, 2004 to the Current
Monday, Could 6 The Segal Theatre 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Ongoing engagement and experiments all through the day. Come and go as you please.
Be part of us for an all-day occasion to listen to readings of 5 performs by 2023 Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse, of their American English translations. The Norwegian playwright was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his revolutionary performs and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” Whereas a lot of the American literary world is aware of Fosse’s prose, his theatrical texts are what formed his profession and made him related all over the world.
Oslo Elsewhere co-founders Anna Gutto and Sarah Cameron Sunde reunite twenty years after they produced the U.S. debut manufacturing of Fosse’s work in New York Metropolis, to revisit and experiment anew. New York actors will begin at 11 AM studying throughout a ten hour length within the middle of the Segal Theatre. Viewers will likely be seated within the spherical, and invited to interact in Jon Fosse’s texts in a number of varieties.
At 6:30 PM, there will likely be a panel dialogue with Sunde and Gutto, moderated by Merve Emre (The New Yorker, Wesleyan College), adopted by the ultimate studying of deathvariations. All performs translated by Sarah Cameron Sunde.
Altogether, Oslo Elsewhere premiered three of Jon Fosse’s performs in New York (Night time Sings Its Songs, deathvariations, Sa Ka La). Sunde went on to translate and direct A Summer season Day and Dream of Autumn, for Rattlestick at The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and Quantum Theater in Pittsburgh, respectively, and he or she is presently engaged on a translation and directorial idea for Fosse’s latest play.
This occasion is conceptualized and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Anna Gutto; curated by Frank Hentschker; and introduced by The Martin E. Segal Theater Middle in collaboration with Oslo Elsewhere, with assist from The Royal Norwegian Consulate Basic. The actors are: Arlene Chico-Lugo, Birgit Huppuch, David L. Townsend, Deb Knox, Diane Ciesla, Frank Harts, James Martinez, Lizan Mitchell, Natalia Payne, Raymond McAnally and Xavier Scott Evans.
Schedule (topic to vary):
11:00 AM Night time Sings Its Songs
1:00 PM Sa Ka La
2:30 PM A Summer season Day
4:30 PM Dream of Autumn
6:30 PM Panel dialogue with Anna Gutto, Sarah Cameron Sunde, extra to be introduced; moderated by Merve Emre (The New Yorker, Wesleyan College).
8pm deathvariations
The forged will likely be an ensemble of actors, together with some unique forged members alongside different main New York performers: Arlene Chico-Lugo, Diane Ciesla, Xavier Scott Evans, Anna Gutto, Frank Harts, Birgit Huppuch, Deb Knox, Natalia Payne, James Martinez, Raymond McAnally, Lizan Mitchell, and David L. Townsend.
Audio visible assist group: Gretchen Burger, Adriana Guiman, Lauren Helpern, Paul Hudson, and Erick Stoll.
All through the month of Could, we’re encouraging theater practitioners across the U.S. to learn by these 5 performs translated into American-English. Ship an electronic mail to [email protected] and [email protected] to request the translations and signal as much as take part.
Biographies:
JON FOSSE was born in 1959 within the Norwegian coastal city of Haugesund in Western Norway and made his debut as a fiction author in 1983 with the novel Raudt, Svart. In 1985 got here the novel Stängd Gitar. The primary assortment of poems Engel med Vatn i Augene was revealed in 1986. Fosse made his debut as a playwright in 1993 with the play And We Shall By no means Be Separated, a fee from Den Nationale Scene in Bergen the place it was first carried out in 1994. The large breakthrough as a playwright got here with the play Somebody is Going tol Are available 1996 after which adopted with a sequence of performs similar to A Summer season’s Day, Night time Sings Its Songs, Dream of Autumn and Deathvariations. Jon Fosse quickly grew to become one in every of Europe’s most carried out playwrights, translated into greater than forty languages, and his performs have been staged practically 900 occasions worldwide. Though at this time Fosse is finest referred to as a playwright, he has at all times continued to write down fiction, similar to The Septology, Fosse’s most in depth work so far. Jon Fosse was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. He resides in Oslo, Norway.
OSLO ELSEWHERE was based by Anna Gutto and Sarah Cameron Sunde in 2004, with a mission to carry Jon Fosse’s performs (and different Norwegian writers) to American audiences. Creating American English translations that may resonate with a U.S. viewers was central to their work — establishing Sunde as Fosse’s main American English translator and director. Oslo Elsewhere formally launched Fosse to American audiences with NIGHT SINGS ITS SONGS at The Tradition Venture’s 45 Beneath Theater (2004) to vital acclaim, with The New York Occasions describing the manufacturing as “universally glorious.” In 2005, Oslo Elsewhere was commissioned to create VARIATIONS ON A THEME for his or her Royal Highness King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway throughout their official go to to New York. To mark the Ibsen centennial in 2006, Oslo Elsewhere produced an IBSEN/FOSSE double invoice with Ibsen’s ROSMERSHOLM and Fosse’s DEATHVARIATIONS at 59E59 Theaters, developed in partnership with the Nationwide Theater in Norway. In 2008, they produced Jon Fosse’s SA KA LA again at 45 Bleecker Theater. Oslo Elsewhere continued to assist Sunde’s subsequent three translations/productions of Fosse’s performs: A SUMMER DAY, DREAM OF AUTUMN, and SLEEP at Rattlestick/The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and Quantum Theater in Pittsburgh. Sunde’s translations have been revealed in PAJ: A Journal of Efficiency and Artwork and Oslo Elsewhere’s work has been written up in The New York Occasions, Selection, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, amongst others, and has obtained huge recognition throughout Norwegian media and press. www.osloelsewhere.org
Oslo Elsewhere took a pause round 2014 when Sunde moved her follow in direction of media and efficiency artwork and Gutto grew to become a movie director. They’re excited to reunite and produce the mix of their expanded inventive trajectories into this occasion.
ANNA GUTTO is a theater and movie artist, largely directing for the display screen in recent times. Her function movie debut PARADISE HIGHWAY, starring Academy Award-winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman, premiered at Locarno Movie Competition 2022 and was hailed by Selection as “a singularly promising debut for a first-time function filmmaker.” Whereas within the Large Apple, along with working as an actor in addition to co-artistic director for Oslo Elsewhere and The Unbound Collective, Anna additionally produced live shows at Carnegie Corridor, was a advisor for HBO’s BOARDWALK EMPIRE and was a contributing visitor lecturer at Columbia College (2012 Ibsen’s A Doll Home). She graduated with Honors from Columbia College in 2016 with an MFA in movie directing. Gutto co-directed HOME FOR CHRISTMAS for Netflix and her quick movies gained a number of competition awards, incl. Finest Director and Finest Ensemble Forged. MOMMY HEIST was broadcast on French channel FR3 and A LUCKY MAN is an Alfred P. Sloan Basis Award recipient and within the screening catalogue of the Museum of the Transferring Picture. Dealing with a spread of genres and mediums, for Anna, storytelling is about connection – characters connecting with one another, and tales connecting with an viewers. Anna is now a twin citizen of the US and Norway.
SARAH CAMERON SUNDE is an interdisciplinary artist and director working on the intersection of efficiency, video and public artwork. She investigates scale and length in relation to the human physique, water, ecological disaster and deep time. In 2023, she was named a Cultural Chief by the World Financial Discussion board. In 2021 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to finish her sequence of 9 performances and video artworks made on six continents, 36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA (2013 – 2022). Her work has been carried out and exhibited across the U.S. and internationally in Norway, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Mexico, Kenya, Uganda, the UAE, and Iraqi Kurdistan. In 2017, Sunde instigated and co-founded Works on Water (a triennial and artist-driven experimental group devoted to artwork that’s made on/in/with our bodies of water). She additionally co-founded the stay artwork collective Lydian Junction (2011-2015), Oslo Elsewhere (2004-2013), and the Translation Assume Tank (2003-2008), and served as Deputy Inventive Director of New Georges for 16 years (2001-2017). She can be internationally referred to as Jon Fosse’s main American English translator and director. SarahCameronSunde.com + 36pt5.org
MERVE EMRE is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Artistic Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan College and the Director of the Shapiro Middle for Artistic Writing and Criticism. Her books embody Paraliterary: The Making of Unhealthy Readers in Postwar America, The Character Brokers (chosen as among the finest books of 2018 by the New York Occasions, The Economist, NPR, and The Spectator), The Ferrante Letters (winner of the 2021 PROSE award for literature), and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Quotation for Excellence in Reviewing by the Nationwide Ebook Critics Circle. She is a contributing author at The New Yorker.
Biographies of Actors:
ARLENE CHICO-LUGO is an award-winning movie and theatre producer, an award nominated actor, an interpersonal communications specialist and an educator utilizing theater and storytelling to create bridges of understanding. As an actor, Arlene has made appearances in movie, tv, and the stage. As a producer she works independently to carry quick kind movie and video content material to life and produce theatrical experiences. As an educator, Arlene teaches performing, devised theater, and storytelling. Arlene is the co-founder of Liberation Arts Collective, a multidisciplinary arts group. She is a Creatives Rebuild NY grant finalist, who, throughout numerous mediums, endeavors to find avenues for profound emotional resonance, real connection, and reality.
BIRGIT HUPPUCH had the pleasure of enjoying Hilde within the Oslo Elsewhere US Premiere manufacturing of SAKALA years in the past and appears ahead to reviving her position for this studying occasion. Birgit has additionally acted in NYC premieres of POISON from The Netherlands and POLLOCK from France. She has carried out in lots of productions in NYC and regionally. She obtained an OBIE for her efficiency in TELEPHONE. She had a stroke herself in 2018 and he or she loves alternatives to carry out and collaborate similar to at this time.
DAVID L. TOWNSEND: Bway: The Iceman Cometh, Current Laughter. Off-Bway: The Library (Public), Hamlet, Twelfth Night time (Pearl), Jewtopia. Regional: FROST/NIXON, Titus Andronicus, Midsummer. TV: The Plot Towards America, Deception, Bull, The Individuals, Gotham, The Knick, Boardwalk Empire. Fosse: DeathVariations (59E59) Coaching: Juilliard.
DEB KNOX, an LA-based actor, is ecstatic to be reunited together with her deathvariations castmates helmed by Sarah Cameron Sunde within the celebration of Jon Fosse. Final yr, on the Connelly Theater, Deb carried out in a manufacturing of Fall River Fishing, a play she co-wrote with Zuzanna Szadkowski, produced by Bedlam and directed by Eric Tucker. Different theatre: Bedlam’s Peter Pan at The Duke on forty second; Marie Antoinette in The Chevalier (Cleveland Symphony Orchestra); Susan Smith in Carson Kreitzer’s 1:23 (Cincinnati Playhouse) & Belinda in The Provok’d Spouse (ART), each directed by Mark Wing-Davey; Kafka’s Amerika (Jeune Lune/dir. Dominique Serrand); The Grasp Builder (Wallace Shawn& Andre Gregory); Jon Fosse’s deathvariations at 59E59, Slasher (Zephyr/LA); Crimes of the Coronary heart (Deb Aquila/LA); TV: Brothers & Sisters; In Plain Sight. FILM: Carrie II; Paramount/Marvel’s The Advisor (w/ Clark Gregg); Secrets and techniques from the Rose Backyard (w/ Mary Tyler Moore and Linda Lavin). Deb was born and raised in Greensboro, N.C. B.A. Dartmouth Faculty. M.F.A. from ART at Harvard College.
DIANE CIESLA (she/her/hers) had the pleasure of working with Sarah Cameron Sunde and Anna Gutto in Jon Fosse’s Night time Sings Its Songs and deathvariations in addition to Anna Gutto’s Mommy Heist. Different credit embody Pittsburgh Public, Alabama Shakespeare, PlayMakers, GeVa, Hartford Stage, North Shore, New Concord, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare, Kansas Metropolis Starlight, Muny, McCarter Theatre, 59 E. 59, Lucille Lortel, Mint, La Mama, The Lark. Excursions: Misplaced in Yonkers. Movie: Suits and Begins, 5 Flights Up, The Cunning Merkins, One other Earth, Underneath New Administration, TV: Regulation & Order, Search Celebration, The Path, Tough Individuals, Royal Pains, Lipstick Jungle, All My Kids, Guiding Mild.
FRANK HARTS presently stars reverse Colman Domingo and Chris Rock within the Academy Award-Nominated movie RUSTIN directed by George C. Wolfe, and produced by President Barack and First Woman Michelle Obama’s Greater Floor for Netflix. He performs civil rights icon James Farmer, Jr. On the comedy entrance Frank lately guest-starred on the hilarious season three premiere of HBO Max unique sequence SOUTH SIDE. Raised within the Midwest, Frank is of blended heritage with Southern roots on the African American facet and Brooklyn roots on the Irish facet. A product of a protracted line of African and Irish storytellers. Frank went instantly from coaching at Juilliard onto Broadway as George Murchison within the Tony Award-Successful manufacturing of A Raisin in The Solar. He has additionally carried out main roles for The Public Theater, Signature, and Lincoln Middle. On digicam Frank has labored with notable movie administrators Jane Campion, Spike Lee, Jason Bateman, Jim Jarmusch, Steve McQueen, and Kenneth Branagh. Frank loved portraying the sequence common position JT Tarmel for Fox & Warner Bros on PRODIGAL SON. A number of Visitor-Star recurs embody Billions, The Blacklist, The Individuals, The Leftovers, Blue Bloods, Bull, 30 Rock, and Grasp of None within the critically acclaimed episode “New York, I Love You.” His award-winning quick movie Two Wongs, which he wrote and directed, premiered at over ten festivals in main cities in 2022/23.
JAMES MARTINEZ – Off Broadway: Again Again Again (Manhattan Theatre Membership), US Drag (Beckett Theatre), Asphalt Kiss (59E59) directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. Transfers (New York Stage & Movie). Regional: Sonia Flew (La Theatre Works), A Midsummer Night time’s Dream (McCarter/Papermill Playhouse). Chosen Movie/TV: Love, Victor (Hulu Disney+) Wolf Pack (paramount+)Home of Playing cards, One Day at a Time (Netflix), Inform me a Story, CSI, Unforgettable, Elementary, the Michael J. Fox Present, Guilt By Affiliation. Movie: Run All Night time, The Classes, Brother to Brother, Misplaced Revolution, B-Woman, and Facet Results. Martinez is a graduate of the Juilliard Faculty.
LIZAN MITCHELL – Broadway: Ohio State Murders, Electra, Having Our Say, So Lengthy on Lonely Road. Off-Broadway: On Sugarland, Cullud Wattah, Passage, Brownsville Music, Cell, Trojan Girls, Ain’t Speculated to Die a Pure Loss of life. Regional: OurDaughters, Like Pillars, Skeleton Crew, A Raisin within the Solar, The Home That Will Not Stand, Richard lll, The Tempest, The Gem of the Ocean. Movie/TV: “Detroit,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “The Good Spouse,” “The Preacher’s Spouse,” “The Wire,” “The Human Stain,” “Regulation & Order.”
NATALIA PAYNE – New York theater credit embody Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Desk of Pleasure (Eager Firm), Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview (Soho Rep, TFANA – 2019 Pulitzer Prize), Anna Ziegler’s The Final Match (Roundabout), Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I (Playwrights Horizons), David Ives’ New Jerusalem (Basic Stage Firm), Saviana Stanescu’s Aliens with Extraordinary Expertise (WP Theater), Deirdre O’Connor’s Jailbait (Cherry Lane), and Oslo Elsewhere’s manufacturing of Jon Fosse’s deathvariations (59E59). Regionally, Natalia has appeared at Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Area Stage, The Outdated Globe, Studio Theater (Helen Hayes Award nomination), New York Stage & Movie, and The O’Neill. TV: Recurring roles on “Workin’ Mothers” (CBC/Netflix) and “Cardinal” (CTV/Hulu), and visitor appearances on “Regulation & Order: S.V.U.” (NBC), “Delicate Pores and skin” (HBO Canada), “Ransom” (CBS), “Murdoch Mysteries” (CBC), “Reign” (CW), “Darkish Matter” (SYFY). Movie: The Lack of a Teardrop Diamond, The Phrase, Loopy Love. Natalia has additionally narrated quite a few audiobooks (AudioFile Earphone Award winner) and is a frequent narrator for Apple Information+ Audio. Initially from Toronto, Natalia speaks Ukrainian and French, along with English. BA in Theater Research from Yale College. Extra on her web site: https://nataliapayne.com
RAYMOND McANALLY is an award-winning actor, produced author, and lecturer. Tv credit embody BLACK MIRROR: SAN JUNIPERO (2017 Emmy); Visitor starring roles on BETTER CALL SAUL, MODERN FAMILY, CHICAGO FIRE, RIZZOLI & ISLES, SVU, 30 ROCK, amongst others. Characteristic Movie credit embody PARADISE HIGHWAY, MARVELOUS & THE BLACKHOLE, THE REVIVAL, COMPLIANCE, amongst others. Theatre credit embody (*award-winning efficiency) GOD’S EAR (unique forged, The Winery and New Georges); CASA VALENTINA*, Pasadena Playhouse; ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS*, U.S. Regional Premiere, Repertory Theatre of St Louis; amongst many others. Ray’s solo present, SIZE MATTERS, obtained its world premiere at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, directed by the late Ed Stern. Filmed earlier than a stay viewers, it now streams on Amazon Prime. His full-length play THE CRUELTY OF CHILDREN was a semi-finalist on the O’Neill Middle 2019, amongst others. Raymond was the pinnacle content material author for Each day Fiber Movies, which produced over sixty digital shorts featured by FunnyOrDie.com, Fullscreen, CNN, New Media Rockstars, and The Meals Community. Raymond has been a lecturer for Rutgers Arts On-line since 2013. He has visitor lectured at schools and conservatories since 2009. He holds an MFA in Appearing from Mason Gross and a BA in Philosophy from Sewanee. www.raymcanally.com
XAVIER SCOTT EVANS is an American actor based mostly in Brooklyn, NY. He’s finest recognized for his latest work on HBOMax “Love Life” (2021), “FBI” (2021), and his starring position within the function movie Backside of the ninth. Roles in theater embody New York Theatre Workshop’s world premiere of On Sugarland (5x Lucille Lortel Award nominated) written by Helen Merrill & Obie Award successful Aleshea Harris (Is God Is) and directed by Lilly & Obie Award successful Whitney White. The Atlantic Theater Firm’s world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s (“The Homecoming Queen”)The Final of the Love Letters directed by Patricia McGregor starring Tony Award Nominated Daniel J. Watts. Current Movie: Paradise Freeway (starring Morgan Freeman, Juliette Binoche) directed by Anna Gutto.
Photograph credit score: By Jim Baldassare. Louis Cancelmi in Night time Sings Its Songs by Jon Fosse, produced by Oslo Elsewhere at 45 Bleecker Theater, New York, 2004.
All performing rights for texts by Jon Fosse are dealt with by Colombine Theatre Company: [email protected].
