Lemuria
by Bonnie Antosh
a Work-in-Progress Staged Presentation
on October 20th at 7:00pm
The finalist of Cycle One of our New Visions Play Development Program.
Professor Anabelle Katz-Carver, the greatest primatologist since Jane Goodall, runs her elite research lab as a strict matriarchy. After grooming potential successors for decades, she's finally ready to choose an heir—but in the animal kingdom and in our own, how does a queen pass the crown on to another queen? Lemuria is an inheritance comedy about dominance, queer Southern scientists, academic lineage, sex, and—yes—lemurs. Inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Tickets for Lemuria can be obtained with a tax-deductible donation of $125 per seat to New York Classical Theatre in support of the New Visions Play Development Program.
Light hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Meet the Cast
M/Roommate, Scout Backus•
Nina/Cordelia, Molly Camp•
Reagan, Cherrye J. Davis•
Anabelle, Kate Goehring•
Miriam, Jacqueline Guillen•
Sebastian, Luke Islam•
Creative Team & Staff
Bonnie Antosh, Playwright
Britt Berke+, Director
Stephen Burdman, Artistic Director
Matthieu Chapman, Literary Director
Stephanie Klapper^†, Casting Director
Emma Balk, Joe Piserchio, Casting Assistants
Lacey Jo Sloat•, Stage Manager
Briana Gibson Reeves†, Social Media Manager/Audience Development Coordinator
•Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and
Stage Managers in the United States
+Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
#Member, United Scenic Artists • Local USA 829 • IATSE
^Member, Casting Society of America
†Artistic Associate, New York Classical Theatre
New Visions
New York Classical Theatre, an AEA, Off Broadway Theatre, has expanded its repertoire beyond the historic classics and launched its three-year original play competition, New Visions. The finalist of each cycle is eligible to receive a full production in a future season.
Per our expanded mission statement, NY Classical affirms that we are “committed to developing and producing new plays by living playwrights that enrich and expand our understanding of what defines a classic.”
We recognize that the historic theatrical canon from which American theatre derives its “classics” has a long history of violence, oppression, and erasure of bodies, identities, and voices that are not white, not male, not cis-gendered, not heteronormative, and/or disabled.
Through New Visions, NY Classical is developing original plays that explore new ways of viewing the “classics,” expand our ideas of what “classics” can be, and challenge the power structures that undergird the notion of “classics.”
The New Visions play development program is directed by Literary Director Matthieu Chapman.
