In a mere one week from this Wednesday, we begin the TMT STEIN LAB at The Connelly Theater, and opening night will be graced with David Greenspan‘s Composition…Master-pieces…Identity, a new piece based on two of Gertrude Stein’s “lectures” and one “play”. We asked him some questions about working on this piece to prepare for his […]
As we’re beginning rehearsals for the TMT STEIN LAB at The Connelly Theater this May / June, I should introduce myself: Lane Dombois, the spring intern. In this capacity, I—along with Moe—will be bringing to you, our internet community, updates on all the exciting theatrical adventures being created by our artists in the weeks leading […]
Moe Yousuf, Lead Artist for the TMT Lab show XOXO I.B. Singer took a moment from last-minute preparations for the show to share some thoughts. TMT: In choosing source material in the Yiddish cannon, what drew you to I.B. Singer, the 1978 Nobel Prize winner in Literature? MY: John Del Gaudio [Target Margin’s Artistic Producer […]
Summer Intern Sarah Kelly Konig, also working as the Assistant Stage Manager on Money, Love and Shame!, files a report from the front line: A Goy (Me) and a Mensch (Allen Rickman) Schmooze about Yiddish Melodrama SKK: Money, Love, and Shame! has not been performed in a very long time, correct? So how did you […]
Sarah Suzuki, spring intern, talked with Nic Adams, assistant stage manager. TMT: Can you give me a little history about Uriel Acosta the man? NA: We’ve been calling him an apostate, but he was an illustrious pain in the ass, one of those guys or gals who really changes the conversation for the political, religious, […]
Tenara moves on to Lost Tribe’s Michael Leibenluft to continue her Lab sneak peaks! TMT: What drew you to choose The Wanderings of Benjamin III as your source material? ML: I was drawn to the idea of adventure or travel as a process or even metaphor for self-discovery, Benjamin’s quest for companionship and a lost community, how the story played […]
Our winter intern Tenara Calem continues her Lead Artist sneak peak series with The Secret of Life’s Andrew Simon. TMT: What drew you to this piece? AS: I like the story and the characters, but not the dialogue – and I’ve been interested in that response since the first time I read it. Personally, I connect […]
Our winter intern Tenara Calem sat down with lead artist Susan Hyon to talk about her upcoming Lab show, Three Gifts for Lenny Bruce. Make sure you reserve your tickets! TMT: What drew you to this piece? SH: This particular story had a lot of theatrical potential. There were images that came out of the story, like […]
EMILY REA first became involved with TMT as Production Manager for the 20th Anniversary Lab at the Brick. This year, she will serve as Lead Artist for her production of OUTSIDE/IN which will premiere on December 18th at JACK. OUTSIDE/IN will explore “a space that is both public and private…” and witness “Yiddish poets… explod[ing] […]
MALLERY AVIDON is a playwright interested in the intersection of fact and fiction. Her play O GURU GURU GURU, OR WHY I DON’T WANT TO GO TO YOGA CLASS WITH YOU had its world premiere at the Humana Festival in February of 2013 and will be produced by Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in November. Her […]
Dylan Jarrett was born in Bergen County, NJ and spent her formative years distressingly far away from NYC on the New York-Canada border in a town called Ogdensburg. She is about to enter her senior year at NYU, where she is majoring in dramatic literature with a minor in creative writing. Looking for internships for […]
Who: Natan SkopWhat: TMT Winter 2013 InternAnd What: Outreach Ambassador for The ( * ) Inn Natan Skop was born and bred a 10 minute walk from Target Margin in Boreum Hill, Brooklyn. In 2006 he moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel where he co-founded Theater in the Rough and served in the Israel […]
Target Margin tracks down The (*) Inn dramaturg and resident Yiddish expert Debra Caplan to hear what she has to say about Yiddish theater.
Carolyn Mraz is a New York-based set designer of theater and live performance. Interested in the aesthetic development of experimental works, she often collaborates on world premieres of devised pieces, new plays, and radical reconstructions of classics.Credits include: SPACEMAN (Incubator Arts at St. Mark’s Church), Barking Girl (East 4th St. Theater), A History of Launching […]
Debra Caplan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where she is completing a dissertation on the interwar Yiddish art theater movement. Her work has appeared in Comparative Drama, New England Theatre Journal, The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy and is forthcoming in Yiddish Women Writers and […]
David Greenspan with Target Margin: performed his monologue play The Argument (Obie), acted in Dinner Party and wrote Old Comedy; two performance Obies: one for Faust (Target Margin) and Some Men, one for The Boys in the Band; recent Marie Antoinette, Melancholy Play, solo renditions of Barry Conners’ The Patsy and Gertrude Stein’s lecture Plays; […]
Well? Not as easy to define as you thought. For every Purim play and Shtetl standard a surprise awaits you. For over a year we’ve been thrilled to find our definition’s flavor complexity evolving like an everlasting Yiddish Gobstopper. So in anticipation of the March 7th opening of The (*) Inn at Abrons Arts Center […]
Who: Tonia JagodnikWhat: Fall 2013 Intern And What: Stage Manager, A Night in the Old Market Place, 2013 TMT Lab Like every college graduate with a Theater degree, I moved immediately to New York to fulfill all of my hopes and dreams. My interview with Target Margin was my very first in New York so […]
Ásta Bennie Hostetter was born in New York City and worked in experimental theater before attending CalArts. Work at school includes: The Firebugs, Cherry Jam (Costumes), and The Life of the Bee (Set). She is an Associated Artist with Target Margin Theater and designed 10 Blocks on the Camino Real (Ohio Theater) and The Argument […]
