Recent Theatre Projects
The Bushwick Starr presents:
demons.
written and directed by Keelay Gipson
Produced in association with JAG Productions and Oye Group
May 16 - June 10, 2023
At the Connelly Theater at 220 East 4th Street, NYC
Tuesdays - Saturdays at 7pm
The show runs 90 minutes, no intermission
The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to partner with JAG Productions and Oye Group to present demons., a new Afro-Surrealist play written and directed by award-winning playwright Keelay Gipson. When the death of their patriarch draws family members home, they must reckon with grief and the haunting realities that death often brings to the surface. A surreal dark comedy, demons. is a meditation on the reality of getting older, of losing a parent, and that ever-elusive quest to exorcize the trauma a family passes down through the generations.
FEATURING:
Donell James Foreman, Paige Gilbert, Joseph Lymous, Ashton Muniz, Gayle Samuels, and Jason Veasey
Set design by Yu Shibagaki, lighting design by Minjoo Kim, sound design by Christopher Darbassie and puppet design by Cedwan Hooks. Associate direction/costume design by Machel Ross, video production by Mike Hayhurst. The director of puppetry is Jon Riddleberger. Casting is by The Bushwick Starr.
Artwork by Felix Junior
demons. is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation. Production design support for demons. provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).
demons. was originally developed as part of JAGFest 2019 and New York Stage and Film’s 2022 Summer Season at Marist College, and received pre-production support from Evening Squire Productions.
Previous Theatre Projects
Kourtney's Choice
Kourtney's Choice is the US adaptation of a hard-hitting Applied Theater Production that has proven highly successful in the UK (under the name 'Chelsea's Choice') in raising awareness of the issues surrounding the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Child Sex Trafficking. In the UK the play has been seen by over 750,000 young people and is also used by a number of police forces, social & health departments, charities and government agencies around the UK as part of their front-line and first-responder training.
Take a look at some rehearsal pictures and you can find more information at www.kourtneyschoice.com.
