Friday, April 6, 2007

Sum of Us Theatre Co.


Founded in August 2002 and currently a fiscally sponsored organization through Fractured Atlas, The Sum Of Us produced its first project as part of the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival with Stephen Belber’s Death of Frank at Performance Space 122. The production earned playwright Stephen Belber the 2002 FringeNYC Playwrighting Award, and, as a contender on many must-see lists, the production received some rare attention from both The New York Times and New York Magazine. In February 2004, we took a look at functional dysfunction with writer/novelist Denis Johnson’s edgy new play Hellhound On My Trail at the Kraine Theater. Later that year, collaborations began on the creation of an original piece with Bixby Elliot, an up-and-coming young playwright finishing his MFA at Columbia University. Our process followed the great traditions of The Joint Stock Company and Anne Bogart’s SITI Company: using collaborative and improvisational techniques to create a play that incorporates the sum of the individuals involved.

The Sum Of Us is currently in rehearsals for a March 2007 run of the World Premiere of Hotel Oracle, written by Bixby Elliot and directed by Stephen Brackett at Walkerspace in Tribeca. In this searing and lyrical new drama, Hotel Oracle brings together a lonely reporter, a con man, an expectant mother, a mysterious messenger, a pill popper, and a kindly hotel clerk. Revealing pivotal moments in their personal histories, this play looks at the roads we choose, why we choose them and how far we travel them. Our company’s mission is to tell new and undiscovered stories, to entertain while inspiring thought, to maintain the powerful element of true ensemble work, and to build and nurture the passion for live theater.

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