The Press Release
June 10, 2012 For Immediate Release
Contact: Maggie Cino
maggiecino@yahoo.com
Obvious Volcano
presents
DECOMPRESSION
Katie's ecstasy isn't working. Amanda never liked it anyway. It's Burning Man Decompression night and eight bored hipsters invent a lottery. Things turn ugly, alliances shift, and an unexpected guest changes everything. A year later, they're still coming down.
The Burning Man festival has been soaring in popularity. Last year, sixty thousand people converged for a week in the Black Rock Desert to build a temporary city, live in a gift economy, and experiment in radical self-expression. Inspired by Isak Dinesen’s short story “Carnival,” DECOMPRESSION is a comic look at the dark side of this cultural phenomenon, where the privilege of a generation is also its undoing.
DECOMPRESSION will make its world premiere as part of the sixteenth annual New York International Fringe Festival, this August 10th through the 26th, 2012, at the Kraine Theater.
FRI 8/10 @ 5pm
SUN 8/12 @ 9pm
FRI 8/17 @ 3pm
TUE 8/21 @ 9:15pm
SAT 8/25 @ 1pm
Hi Resolution Pics available here
Written by Maggie Cino
Directed by Patrice Miller
Costume design by Candace Lawrence, Set design by Jessica Emerson, Lighting design by Amanda Woodward and Sound design by Chris Chappell.
Starring Rafael Benoit, Michael Criscuolo, David J. Goldberg, Adam Lebowitz-Lockard, Victoria Anne Miller, Elizabeth Nagle, Derrick Peterson, Phoebe Silva and Hannah Vaughn.
part of The New York International Fringe Festival – FringeNYC
A production of The Present Company
August 10 to 26, 2012
Tickets $15-$18
For tickets, visit www.FringeNYC.com.
For more information, visit www.obviousvolcano.com.
Maggie Cino (writer): is a Senior Producer for the Peabody and MACEI award-winning organization, The Moth. Her one woman play, Ascending Bodily, is published by the New York Theater Experience, and her contribution to Piper McKenzie’s Dainty Cadaver project This Is a Brick is published in the Midway Journal. She has co-created and performed material for numerous productions, including No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Show That Made Vaudeville Famous (Theater For the New City, NYC) Moliere’s Monster (Ohio Theater, NYC) and Tramp!: A Clown Show (Nationwide Tour). Very selected stage acting credits include Faith, Hope and Charity (The Public Theater, NYC) The Dorothy Building (Here Arts Center, NYC) and Word to No One (Camden People’s Theater, London). Professional voice over credits include narration for educational sex ed videos and voices for Todd Soldonz’s Life During Wartime. She is a graduate of the Dell Arte International School of Physical Theater.
Patrice Miller (director): The Moose That Roared (The Brick, Director), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Gene Frankel, Director), Ripped: The Musical (Piper McKenzie/The Brick, Director, Choreographer), Bunny Lake is Missing (The Brick, Co-Director), The Bubble of Solace (Piper McKenzie/The Brick, Asst. Dir.), The Pig or Vaclav Havel's Hunt for the Pig (UTC61/3LD, Choreographer), Pangs of the Messiah (UTC61, Asst Dir.) . Her choreography ranges from fashion-collaborative pieces for NYC Fashion Week to The Newspaper Suite, a public dance which toured NYC parks and streets. Patrice has danced for Urban Bush Women's Place Matters: A Look at Displacement and for Martha Bowers in Angels and Accordions. She is resident choreographer and sits on the board of Untitled Theater Company #61. Also resident teaching artist in NYC public schools, Patrice works with students ages 4-18 in art residencies that integrate academic curriculum. Patrice was recently named the Director of Development for The Brick in Williamsburg.
Contact: Maggie Cino
maggiecino@yahoo.com
Obvious Volcano
presents
DECOMPRESSION
Katie's ecstasy isn't working. Amanda never liked it anyway. It's Burning Man Decompression night and eight bored hipsters invent a lottery. Things turn ugly, alliances shift, and an unexpected guest changes everything. A year later, they're still coming down.
The Burning Man festival has been soaring in popularity. Last year, sixty thousand people converged for a week in the Black Rock Desert to build a temporary city, live in a gift economy, and experiment in radical self-expression. Inspired by Isak Dinesen’s short story “Carnival,” DECOMPRESSION is a comic look at the dark side of this cultural phenomenon, where the privilege of a generation is also its undoing.
DECOMPRESSION will make its world premiere as part of the sixteenth annual New York International Fringe Festival, this August 10th through the 26th, 2012, at the Kraine Theater.
FRI 8/10 @ 5pm
SUN 8/12 @ 9pm
FRI 8/17 @ 3pm
TUE 8/21 @ 9:15pm
SAT 8/25 @ 1pm
Hi Resolution Pics available here
Written by Maggie Cino
Directed by Patrice Miller
Costume design by Candace Lawrence, Set design by Jessica Emerson, Lighting design by Amanda Woodward and Sound design by Chris Chappell.
Starring Rafael Benoit, Michael Criscuolo, David J. Goldberg, Adam Lebowitz-Lockard, Victoria Anne Miller, Elizabeth Nagle, Derrick Peterson, Phoebe Silva and Hannah Vaughn.
part of The New York International Fringe Festival – FringeNYC
A production of The Present Company
August 10 to 26, 2012
Tickets $15-$18
For tickets, visit www.FringeNYC.com.
For more information, visit www.obviousvolcano.com.
Maggie Cino (writer): is a Senior Producer for the Peabody and MACEI award-winning organization, The Moth. Her one woman play, Ascending Bodily, is published by the New York Theater Experience, and her contribution to Piper McKenzie’s Dainty Cadaver project This Is a Brick is published in the Midway Journal. She has co-created and performed material for numerous productions, including No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Show That Made Vaudeville Famous (Theater For the New City, NYC) Moliere’s Monster (Ohio Theater, NYC) and Tramp!: A Clown Show (Nationwide Tour). Very selected stage acting credits include Faith, Hope and Charity (The Public Theater, NYC) The Dorothy Building (Here Arts Center, NYC) and Word to No One (Camden People’s Theater, London). Professional voice over credits include narration for educational sex ed videos and voices for Todd Soldonz’s Life During Wartime. She is a graduate of the Dell Arte International School of Physical Theater.
Patrice Miller (director): The Moose That Roared (The Brick, Director), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Gene Frankel, Director), Ripped: The Musical (Piper McKenzie/The Brick, Director, Choreographer), Bunny Lake is Missing (The Brick, Co-Director), The Bubble of Solace (Piper McKenzie/The Brick, Asst. Dir.), The Pig or Vaclav Havel's Hunt for the Pig (UTC61/3LD, Choreographer), Pangs of the Messiah (UTC61, Asst Dir.) . Her choreography ranges from fashion-collaborative pieces for NYC Fashion Week to The Newspaper Suite, a public dance which toured NYC parks and streets. Patrice has danced for Urban Bush Women's Place Matters: A Look at Displacement and for Martha Bowers in Angels and Accordions. She is resident choreographer and sits on the board of Untitled Theater Company #61. Also resident teaching artist in NYC public schools, Patrice works with students ages 4-18 in art residencies that integrate academic curriculum. Patrice was recently named the Director of Development for The Brick in Williamsburg.
