BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//RiverArts - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://riverarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for RiverArts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260424T010451 CREATED:20241218T192338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T165703Z UID:13784-1739041200-1739048400@riverarts.org SUMMARY:River Readings | a curated evening of play readings DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, February 8The Ark at Shames JCC371 S. Broadway\, Tarrytown\, NY 10591 \n7–9PM\, doors open 6:30PM \nTickets: $35 \n \n Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n RiverArts presents River Readings ~ a curated evening of play readings. \nJoin us for an evening of new play readings by accomplished playwrights\, read by talented actors\, followed by a talk-back with the playwrights. Enjoy a captivating night out and experience the creative process! \nAppendix by Paul AllmanAn unemployed cartoonist and his wife find themselves living on a back porch and slipping from the grasp of civilization \nThe Red Gene by Mariana Carreño KingWhen Leticia\, confined to her basement under house arrest for failing mandatory conversion therapy\, receives an unexpected visit from Rose\, a by-the-book government official\, a locked door leaves them trapped together with dwindling supplies. As their forced proximity chips away at Rose’s rigid beliefs and Leticia’s protective walls\, both women must confront whether their true prison is the basement—or the society that put them there. \nIn Good Conscience by Derek RolandWhen Jack and Jackie discover that their long-time friends and neighbors Sam and Sammy are having a baby and plan to raise it as a future Conventionalist voter\, it sets off an intensely competitive breeding war between the two couples in a fight for the future of the country. \n  \nRiver Readings 2025 is directed by Sara Wolkowitz\, produced by Lauren Orkus\, with special thanks to Nicole Novy Schneider \n \n \n Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS URL:https://riverarts.org/event/river-readings-2025/ LOCATION:Shames JCC\, 371 S. Broadway\, Tarrytown\, NY\, 10591\, United States CATEGORIES:In-person,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RA_RiverReadings_2025-WEB_1920x670-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T213000 DTSTAMP:20260424T010451 CREATED:20231219T212540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T162038Z UID:12821-1706383800-1706391000@riverarts.org SUMMARY:River Readings | a curated evening of play readings DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 27South Presbyterian Church343 Broadway\, Dobbs Ferry\, NY7:30PM\, doors open 7:00PM \nTickets: $25 \n \n Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n RiverArts presents River Readings ~a curated evening of play readings. \nThree contemporary playwrights share selected scenes from plays in progress. Experience new scripts on their journey of development read by talented actors\, with a discussion to follow. Themes recommended for ages 16+. \nAmina Henry InterstateInterstate tells a story about family and change. In the play\, Red\, a single flight attendant\, takes her children on a cross country road trip. This trip sets in motion events that will either destroy this family or make them stronger. \nPeggy Stafford Ambulette: a non emergency vehicle Ambulette is a memory play that unfolds inside a moving non-emergency vehicle\, a beach on the south side of Long Island\, and a cemetery where people used to have picnics. It’s a journey of friendship\, grief and remembrance. \nMelisa Tien Disrupted In the male-dominated tech arena\, two women join forces to create a first-of-its-kind app—one that tracks the menstrual cycle—and form a partnership that is tested to its limits. \nProduced by Lauren Orkus \n \n Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n #RiverArtsTheater#RiverReadings \n \n \n \n \n \n MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS URL:https://riverarts.org/event/riverreadings/ LOCATION:South Church\, 343 Broadway\, Dobbs Ferry\, NY\, 10522\, United States CATEGORIES:In-person,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RA_RiverReadings__1920x1080-Web-V1.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T010451 CREATED:20220127T011327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220313T170527Z UID:9032-1647716400-1647716400@riverarts.org SUMMARY:Kindness Committee | An original play by Melanie Hoopes DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 18th at 7:00pmSouth Church  343 BroadwayDobbs Ferry\, NY 10522 \nTickets: $25 \n \n \n Tickets for Performance\n \n \n \n \n \n RiverArts presents Kindness Committee\, a new play written and directed by Melanie Hoopes on Friday\, March 18th and 19th at 7:00pm; This play is recommended for ages 13 and up. \nSet at a concert on a cold winter night\, Kindness Committee sneaks us into the minds of seven audience members connected by varying degrees to one another. As the musician performs\, each character’s inner world ignites. Some desire\, others despise. One mourns\, another commits to a life of living without a past. One warns of the limits of “kindness” while another embodies the act of forgiving. All of them peel away layers of their past as they reach for a sustainable present. \nKindness Committee delves deep into longings and forebodings\, and examines the increasing importance of strengthening our community as our social\, political and environmental problems mount. \nInspired by a concert by Bay Area-based singer/songwriter John Elliott\, Hoopes creates a fictitious world of characters interacting with one another\, the music and the afterglow it creates. Elliott generously lends his music to weave through Kindness Committee\, allowing the audience to be transported to the concert the characters attend. \nMelanie Hoopes\, a Hastings on Hudson resident\, brought us last season’s zoom performance of Six Feet\, a play about living in the age of Covid. With Kindness Committee\, Hoopes asks us to once again examine the present moment. As we accept our current reality\, we ask ourselves how we want to live moving forward. What must we fortifiy and what gets recycled? Like Six Feet\, Kindness Committee is darkly funny and sure to touch all hearts and souls. \n“John’s performance four years ago with Common Ground Concerts started it all. His breathtakingly honest and personal songwriting awed me. I was captivated by his descriptions of regrets and defenses\, exposing them all\, no matter how misshapen or how ugly. John treats his past with kindness and compassion and in doing this he invites the audience to do their own inventory with the same open-hearted approach. I began writing Kindness Committee to explore how others may have experienced John’s show but somewhere along the way it became a treatise on community. My conclusion is simple and needs to be screamed from the rooftops and tattooed on our arms: We are all we have. The survival of all beings and our beautiful planet depends on the strength of our relation to one another.” \nAbout Melanie Hoopes\, Writer and Director \nMelanie Hoopes is a writer whose credits include Six Feet: A Play About What’s Between Us (RiverArts)\, Lethal Lit (IHeartRadio\, EEP)\, One Giant Leap: The Apollo Moon Landing 50 Years On (The New York Times) and  Bloodline (Netflix). She is the creator and writer of the long-running New York-based episodic stage show\, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet\, a dark\, modern twist on Prairie Home Companion. Her public radio credits include This American Life\, Here’s the Thing and Unfictional. She is a producer and host of Yesteryear: Stories from Home\, a podcast about the history of living in a small village on the Hudson River. She lives in the Rivertowns with her family. \nAbout John Elliott\, Composer \nA native of Minnesota now living in California\, John Elliott has a worldwide following as a singer-songwriter. The Austin Chronicle writes John Elliott is “a legend among songwriters…bold and brave…his shows are not to be missed.” Cory Frye of the Corvallis Gazette-Times writes that Elliott has\, “an affection for the malleability of language\, the clever twists of phrase\, an appreciation for the liquid kinship between rhythm and sounds — how they collide in beautiful violence\, how they stand as ideas and images — even if they ordinarily wouldn’t deign to dance together or be seen in the same room.” \nWhile John has toured internationally since 2006 and his songs have been prominently heard on TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy\, One Tree Hill\, and Californication\, he remains an independent\, unsigned\, and unaffiliated artist\, and he is proud of that fact. Calling himself a “songcyclist” for his eco-friendly propensity for pedaling his bike from one small venue to the next\, Elliott continues to build a dedicated following the old-fashioned way: one new believer at a time. \nChuck Schiele of The San Diego Troubadour says\, “John Elliott’s lyrics get in\, make their statement\, kick you in the teeth\, and get out before they start talking too much…And this lends to the urge of rolling any track to its beginning for another spin.” \nIn addition to contributing his music to Kindness Committee\, John will perform a live concert on March 26th at Common Ground Concerts. MORE INFO HERE. \n \n Tickets for Performance\n \n \n \n \n \n All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. Until further notice\, attendees will be required to wear masks at all indoor RiverArts events. \nFOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: info@riverarts.org \n \n \n \n \n \n #RiverArtsTheater#KindnessCommittee \n \n \n \n \n \n —\nCAST URL:https://riverarts.org/event/kindness-committee-saturday/ LOCATION:South Church\, 343 Broadway\, Dobbs Ferry\, NY\, 10522\, United States CATEGORIES:In-person,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Event-Graphic_KindnessCommitteeWeb_SAT.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T010451 CREATED:20220205T050845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220313T175741Z UID:9073-1647630000-1647630000@riverarts.org SUMMARY:Kindness Committee | An original play by Melanie Hoopes SOLD OUT DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 18th at 7:00pm – SOLD OUT\nSouth Church  343 Broadway\nDobbs Ferry\, NY 10522 \nTickets: $25 \n \n Tickets are still available for Saturday\, March 19th. Purchase here.\n \n \n \n \n \n RiverArts presents Kindness Committee\, a new play written and directed by Melanie Hoopes on Friday\, March 18th and 19th at 7:00pm; This play is recommended for ages 13 and up. \nSet at a concert on a cold winter night\, Kindness Committee sneaks us into the minds of seven audience members connected by varying degrees to one another. As the musician performs\, each character’s inner world ignites. Some desire\, others despise. One mourns\, another commits to a life of living without a past. One warns of the limits of “kindness” while another embodies the act of forgiving. All of them peel away layers of their past as they reach for a sustainable present. \nKindness Committee delves deep into longings and forebodings\, and examines the increasing importance of strengthening our community as our social\, political and environmental problems mount. \nInspired by a concert by Bay Area-based singer/songwriter John Elliott\, Hoopes creates a fictitious world of characters interacting with one another\, the music and the afterglow it creates. Elliott generously lends his music to weave through Kindness Committee\, allowing the audience to be transported to the concert the characters attend. \nMelanie Hoopes\, a Hastings on Hudson resident\, brought us last season’s zoom performance of Six Feet\, a play about living in the age of Covid. With Kindness Committee\, Hoopes asks us to once again examine the present moment. As we accept our current reality\, we ask ourselves how we want to live moving forward. What must we fortifiy and what gets recycled? Like Six Feet\, Kindness Committee is darkly funny and sure to touch all hearts and souls. \n“John’s performance four years ago with Common Ground Concerts started it all. His breathtakingly honest and personal songwriting awed me. I was captivated by his descriptions of regrets and defenses\, exposing them all\, no matter how misshapen or how ugly. John treats his past with kindness and compassion and in doing this he invites the audience to do their own inventory with the same open-hearted approach. I began writing Kindness Committee to explore how others may have experienced John’s show but somewhere along the way it became a treatise on community. My conclusion is simple and needs to be screamed from the rooftops and tattooed on our arms: We are all we have. The survival of all beings and our beautiful planet depends on the strength of our relation to one another.” \nAbout Melanie Hoopes\, Writer and Director \nMelanie Hoopes is a writer whose credits include Six Feet: A Play About What’s Between Us (RiverArts)\, Lethal Lit (IHeartRadio\, EEP)\, One Giant Leap: The Apollo Moon Landing 50 Years On (The New York Times) and  Bloodline (Netflix). She is the creator and writer of the long-running New York-based episodic stage show\, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet\, a dark\, modern twist on Prairie Home Companion. Her public radio credits include This American Life\, Here’s the Thing and Unfictional. She is a producer and host of Yesteryear: Stories from Home\, a podcast about the history of living in a small village on the Hudson River. She lives in the Rivertowns with her family. \nAbout John Elliott\, Composer \nA native of Minnesota now living in California\, John Elliott has a worldwide following as a singer-songwriter. The Austin Chronicle writes John Elliott is “a legend among songwriters…bold and brave…his shows are not to be missed.” Cory Frye of the Corvallis Gazette-Times writes that Elliott has\, “an affection for the malleability of language\, the clever twists of phrase\, an appreciation for the liquid kinship between rhythm and sounds — how they collide in beautiful violence\, how they stand as ideas and images — even if they ordinarily wouldn’t deign to dance together or be seen in the same room.” \nWhile John has toured internationally since 2006 and his songs have been prominently heard on TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy\, One Tree Hill\, and Californication\, he remains an independent\, unsigned\, and unaffiliated artist\, and he is proud of that fact. Calling himself a “songcyclist” for his eco-friendly propensity for pedaling his bike from one small venue to the next\, Elliott continues to build a dedicated following the old-fashioned way: one new believer at a time. \nChuck Schiele of The San Diego Troubadour says\, “John Elliott’s lyrics get in\, make their statement\, kick you in the teeth\, and get out before they start talking too much…And this lends to the urge of rolling any track to its beginning for another spin.” \nIn addition to contributing his music to Kindness Committee\, John will perform a live concert on March 26th at Common Ground Concerts. MORE INFO HERE. \n \n Tickets are still available for Saturday\, March 19th. Purchase here.\n \n \n \n \n \n All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. Until further notice\, attendees will be required to wear masks at all indoor RiverArts events. \nFOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL: info@riverarts.org \n \n \n \n \n \n #RiverArtsTheater\n#KindnessCommittee\n \n \n \n \n \n —\nCAST URL:https://riverarts.org/event/kindness-committee-friday/ LOCATION:South Church\, 343 Broadway\, Dobbs Ferry\, NY\, 10522\, United States CATEGORIES:In-person,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Event-Graphic_KindnessCommitteeWeb_FRI-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="RiverArts":MAILTO:info@riverarts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201017T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201017T220000 DTSTAMP:20260424T010451 CREATED:20201016T215235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201016T223824Z UID:6021-1602964800-1602972000@riverarts.org SUMMARY:Six Feet by Melanie Hoopes DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 17\n8 PM EDT\nZOOM link will be provided to registrants the day before the performance\nDoctor\, caterer\, therapist\, lover. It’s been 217 days since the virus changed their lives. At 6 PM (Hawaii time)\, they’ll meet on ZOOM to discuss a tragic event that connects them all. But will this call tear them apart? \nRiverArts has commissioned an original\, innovative play to be performed live on ZOOM. Written and directed by Melanie Hoopes (Netflix’s Bloodline\, Here’s the Thing hosted by Alec Baldwin)\, SIX FEET is full of tension\, intimacy\, and a cathartic\, biting clarity. It’s a play about confronting emotions that are made more raw\, volatile\, and intense the more they are confined. It shows us what happens when we rely on flat\, 2D interactions to communicate things that are so much bigger than the spaces we inhabit. \nWritten and Directed by Melanie Hoopes. Starring Jenny Bacon\, Anitra Brooks\, Kelly Coffield Park\, Ed Herbstman\, Stephen Park\, Nick Wyman\, and Jean Villepique. Original music by Steve Horelick. Technical Director Jeremy dePrisco and Assistant Technical Director Josh Govier will orchestrate a smooth and clear transmission of the performance. Lauren Orkus is the Producer. Special thanks to Marie-Louise Miller\, Consulting Producer. \n\nCAST\n\nJENNY BACON\nJenny Bacon has brought characters to life alongside some of the masters of the American Theater\, including Sam Shepard\, Tony Kushner\, Sarah Ruhl\, Theresa Rebeck\, Lisa Kron\, and David Rabe. She has worked with groundbreaking directors Ivo van Hove\, JoAnne Akalaitis\, Daniel Aukin\, Walter Bobbie\, Robert Falls\, Mary Zimmerman\, Daniel Fish\, and others\, garnering awards across America and a Herald Angel Award from the Edinburgh Festival. She has appeared on American television playing a variety of unfortunate souls in horrific circumstances\, and has had an absolutely wonderful time doing it. \n\n\n  \n\nANITRA BROOKS\nA graduate of Brown University and The Integrative Sound and Music Institute\, Anitra Brooks has toured the U.S. and world with Drama Desk Award-nominated puppet performers and masked musicians Big Nazo\, Drama Desk Award-nominated “bad-ass masters of vocalogy” Hotmouth\, and with Grisha Coleman’s dance and live music performance installation echo::system. In her 20+ years in New York City\, she has performed at the Public Theater\, Belasco Theater\, LaMama\, HERE Arts Center\, Kraine Theater\, Ohio Theatre\, National Black Theatre\, and other venues. She has also been featured in numerous television and radio commercials\, television shows\, and soap operas. As a recording artist\, she has released two albums of original music: Flood in 2008 and I Walk in Your Light in 2015. She is the co-producer of the community ensemble project and play Where Are We Now?: Race\, Pride\, Class & Inequity\, and teaches Music & Movement at the Greenwich Country Day School. She lives in Cos Cob\, CT with her husband and sons. www.anitrabrooks.com \n\n  \n\nKELLY COFFIELD PARK\nKelly Coffield Park started her acting career in 1978 at the Emelin Theater in New Rochelle\, New York. She is thrilled to be back (virtually) in Westchester County! She is currently Zooming from Los Angeles\, where her husband Stephen Park and she are holding down the fort for their kids in college. She is thrilled to be working with Melanie Hoopes again\, after being part of Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet. \n  \n\n\nED HERBSTMAN\nEd Herbstman is an actor and writer originally from Chicago\, and is married to writer/director Melanie Hoopes. Acting credits include Film: Hustlers\, The Big Sick\, Ode To Joy\, Arthur. TV: Manifest\, Search Party\, Alpha House\, Pinkalicious. Theater: Magnet Theater (co-founder) Second City TourCo\, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet\, Mantzoukas Brothers\, Armando Diaz Experience. Writing credits include Da Ali G Show\, The Truth Podcast. Ed is also a faculty member of the Syracuse University Tepper Semester\, and a volunteer firefighter in the Hastings-on-Hudson Fire Department. He is very excited and grateful to be both involved in this show and married to Melanie. \n  \n\n\n \nSTEPHEN PARK\nStephen Park was born in Brooklyn\, NY to Korean immigrant parents. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in New York City and soon after started acting in the theater. His first film role was as the market owner in Do the Right Thing which led to his next role in Quick Change. Upon moving to Los Angeles\, he became a cast member of the sketch comedy television series In Living Color during the 1991-1992 season where he met fellow cast member Kelly Coffield\, who eventually became his wife. (And his castmate again in this show!) Stephen has been is such iconic movies as the Coen Brothers’ Fargo and A Serious Man\, as well as Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer. He is in Wes Anderson’s soon-to-be released movie The French Dispatch. \n  \nJEAN VILLEPIQUE\nJean Villepique left New Jersey to study theater and improvisation at Northwestern University. She stayed in Chicago\, pursuing improv at the former ImprovOlympic theater\, studying with Del Close\, and then was hired by The Second City\, Chicago. She wrote and performed in five reviews there before moving to New York. There she performed at the UCB and Magnet theaters before moving again to LA. TV/Film credits include The Office\, 30 Rock\, Sharp Objects\, Better Call Saul\, and Jean can currently be seen as Michelle Jones on AP Bio\, streaming on the Peacock platform. \n  \n \nNICK WYMAN\nNick Wyman is an award-winning actor who has acted in a dozen feature films and sixteen Broadway shows\, most recently Network with Bryan Cranston. He was part of the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera\, spent six years as Thenardier in Les Miserables\, and performed in many other on-stage roles. Film credits include Die Hard With a Vengeance\, Maid in Manhattan\, and Planes\, Trains and Automobiles. He has also appeared in television in Boardwalk Empire\, VEEP\, Elementary\, and The Good Wife\, among others. He served as President of Actors’ Equity for five years and his show-business how-to-book\, Climbing Rejection Mountain was just published this summer. \n  \n\nWRITER & DIRECTOR\n\n \nMELANIE HOOPES\nMelanie Hoopes writes for screen\, radio/podcast and stage. Her credits include Lethal Lit (IHeartRadio/EEP)\, Bloodline (Netflix)\, One Giant Leap: The Apollo Moon Landing 50 Years On (New York Times)\,This American Life\, Alec Baldwin’s Here’s the Thing and Unfictional. She is the creator of the long-running New York-based live episodic stage show\, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet\, a dark\, modern twist on Prairie Home Companion. \n\n  \nCOMPOSER\nSTEVE HORELICK\n\nA musical adventurer and educator\, Steve Horelick’s career encompasses a wide spectrum of the music universe. He performs live electronic SurroundScape™ concerts. He is a founding member of the Electric Art Ensemble whom Bob Moog christened as “virtuosic sonic sculptors”. His TV credits include more than 350 episodes\, encompassing such award-winning children productions as PBS’s Reading Rainbow for which he composed the iconic\, Buchla-generated “Butterfly in the Sky” theme song. Other credits include Shining Time Station\, The Puzzle Place\, and The Magic Adventures of Mumfie. His film score credits include everything from an 80’s cult-horror classic to HBO’s legendary baseball documentary series “When It Was a Game\,” which earned him his first EMMY nomination. He has also won many other awards\, including the prestigious Gold at New York Film Festival\, for his many TV and advertising soundtracks. \nHis original songs have been recorded by Bobby McFerrin\, John Sebastion\, Phoebe Snow\, Peabo Bryson\, LeVar Burton\, and Kermit the Frog. \nAs an educator and lecturer he has taught songwriting\, synthesis and film scoring at Queens College and City College in New York City. He is currently the publisher and Executive VP at NonLinear Educating\, Inc. overseeing the production of over 2\,000 courses for their MacProVideo.com and Ask.Video online education websites. \n\n  \nTECHNICAL DIRECTOR\n\nJEREMY DEPRISCO\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy dePrisco has worked with children’s programming (Rainbow’s End Theatre Co.) and continued a decade’s long collaboration as sound designer/composer for director/writer Dr. Stephen Schrum (Penn State University\, University of Charleston\, Pitt-Greensburg Theatre Co.). Throughout the 2000s\, Jeremy worked with the Bloomsburg University Alumni Players as sound designer for their summer murder mysteries with director James Slusser. Jeremy also contributed original music for Compassion Moves\, a combined dance/poetry/music performance directed by Anthony Ferro. Jeremy has written grants\, and supported organizations with live events (Noboborsho\, Philadelphia Maker Faire 2019\, Electro-Music.com). As a producer/engineer\, Jeremy has recorded bands/soloists and released his own music as an independent artist. Most recently has ventured into the world of video synthesis and now offers his talents for streaming events. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR\n\nJOSH GOVIER\nJosh Govier is an audio video tech from Hastings-on-Hudson\, NY. He has a strong passion for technology\, the arts and all of the places that they intersect. He is a longstanding friend of RiverArts\, first starting as a student\, he has gone on to serve as a Videographer\, Sound Recordist\, and Music Tour Associate Producer. \n\n  \nPRODUCER\nLAUREN ORKUS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren Orkus (Producer) is an actor and producer\, as well as a Board Member of RiverArts. She has performed in New York and regionally with companies including The Lookingglass Theatre\, Arena Stage\, Weston Playhouse\, Berkshire Theatre Group\, and the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival\, among others. Lauren co-produced the 2017 Future is Female Festival\, a national theatre festival of short plays by diverse female playwrights. She is the Director of Operations of Barnicle Brothers\, a documentary film production company and holds an MFA in Acting from the FSU/Asolo Theatre Conservatory.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nCONSULTING PRODUCER\n \nMARIE-LOUISE MILLER\nIn September 2018\, Marie-Louise directed the interdisciplinary art performance project\, Braiding. The show took two years to develop\, was a RiverArts production and supported by an NEA grant. Braiding included 15 artists from 5 disciplines. Marie-Louise has studied directing and acting at the British American Drama Academy\, the Royal Court\, and Northwestern University where she earned her MFA. Ms. Miller worked as an assistant director with several theaters in West Germany. After the Wall fell\, she was the first American with The Staatstheater in Dresden\, Germany. She went on to do experimental work in East Berlin\, and study directing at Ernst Busch Academy in East Berlin. In the US\, she worked with playwright/ director Craig Lucas at NYC’s Rattlestick Theater and NY Theater Workshops\, and for the renowned Romanian director Liviu Ciulei at the Seattle Repertory Theater. She has directed 24-hour musicals and been part of the SoHo director’s lab and Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab. She has taught improvisation\, acting/writing for the camera\, character development\, scene study\, and movement. She has also created dynamic classes exploring inner voice through story writing\, performance\, and drawing. \n  \nSpecial support for this production provided by URL:https://riverarts.org/event/six-feet-by-melanie-hoopes/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://riverarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Six-Feet-slider.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR