Concept & Design: Yuki Izumihara & Jack Perla
WARHOLA is a new full-evening music theater work in development with composer JACK PERLA, choreographer/playwright RAJA FEATHER KELLY, designer YUKI IZUMIHARA, dramaturg/director LESLIE SWACKHAMER, and lyricist JEFF GOODBY.
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CREATIVE TEAM
RAJA FEATHER KELLY is an American dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn who is notable for his radical downtown surrealist productions which combine "pop and queer culture. He has choreographed numerous theatrical productions, including Fairview and A Strange Loop. He is the artistic director of his dance company called The Feath3r Theory, and he serves as the artistic director of the New Brooklyn Theatre.
Raja has been awarded a Creative Capital Award (2019), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019), a Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (2018), Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), and is a three-time Princess Grace Award winner (2017, 2018, 2019). He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College. |
YUKI IZUMIHARA is an award winning scenic, projection, and production designer born in Shimonoseki City, Japan and based in Oakland, CA. Ms. Izumihara’s work is influenced by years of martial arts training and is animated by a belief in discipline, ethics and craftsmanship. She also serves as an art director, concept designer, and visual artist to establish, clarify, and amplify project identities through visual language.
Her work has been featured at LA Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Omaha, San Diego Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, New World Symphony, SF Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, LA Chamber Orchestra, Sun Valley Music Festival, ODC Dance, the Hammer Museum, Getty Villa Museum, Cardi B’s Art Basel Concert and various theaters across the country. |
JEFF GOODBY grew up in Rhode Island and graduated from Harvard, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Boston, and his illustrations have been published in TIME, Mother Jones and Harvard Magazine. Jeff founded GS&P in 1983 with Rich Silverstein, starting with a client they renamed Electronic Arts. Since then, the two have won just about every advertising award imaginable. And yes, Jeff was the guy who originally wrote “got milk?”
He is also a director and has delivered the director’s address at the Association of Independent Commercial Producers. His work has been memorialized in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Jeff has always held that the best advertising is like vandalism—loud, funny and still there the next day. |
LESLIE SWACKHAMER is an award-winning director and dramaturg known for directing large works with bravura ensembles and bold visuals. Equally at home with new and established pieces, Leslie has workshopped, directed and produced over 100 new works at theatre and opera companies across America. Opera companies where she has directed include The Washington National Opera, Vancouver Opera, Opera Carolina, Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Opera Omaha. Theaters where Leslie's work has been produced include Southcoast Rep, The Alley Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre, Madison Rep and Seattle Rep.
Leslie has held artistic leadership positions at The Cleveland Play House and ACT Theatre (Seattle). A passionate advocate and activist for new plays and work by women+, Leslie is the Executive Director of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the oldest and largest international prize specifically honoring women+ playwrights. |
FiLM credits
Music and Lyrics:
Directed by: Executive Producer: Produced by: Editor / Art Director: Postproduction Supervisor: Colorist: Graham Willcox Sound Mixer: Animation: Line Producer: Special Thanks: |
Jack Perla and Jeffery Goodby
Jeffery Goodby Tod Puckett, Kronos Performing Arts Association & Jeffery Goodby Avi Oron Cary Flaum Graham Willcox Dave Baker Mike Landry, Elevel Amanda Steigerwald Noémi and Michael Neidorff Peter and Jayne Davis Roy and Laura Lundgren Piedmont Pianos The Craneway Pavillion Blake Gopnk Agustin Arteaga |
New York City Unit
Producer: Mary Ford Director of Photographer: Mark Sandhoff Assistant Director: Amanda Steigerwald Audio Engineer: Geoff Countryman Production Company: Good Company Richmond, California Unit Director of Photography: Mark Sandhoff and Michael Miller Assistant Director Amanda Steigerwald Audio Engineer: Zach Miley Assistant Camera: Emilio Diaz Assistant Camera/Tech: Hanna Hegnell Producer: Jack Sloman Production Company: E level, Goodby Silverstein & Partners |
Performers
Anthony Roth Costanzo Kronos Quartet David Harrington John Sherba Sunny Yang Hank Dutt Vocal Quartet Cathy Gloria Kate Lamont Solas B. Laigee Trance Thompson Rock Quartet Kai Eckhart (Bass) Deszon Claiborne (Drums) Dave McNab (Guitar) Jack Perla (Piano) |
Warhola
Andy in Twelve Sessions Lyrics by Jeffery Goodby Duration ca. 15 minutes Voices Andy Warhol (Counter Tenor or Mezzo Soprano) Vocal Quartet (SATB) Instrumentation String Quartet Rock Quartet (Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Drums) |
Score Samples
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