Feb23

Intimate Artist Nights: Eric Craft, Isabel Tongson, SMJ & Natalie Myrick, and Kyr Siegel

The Makers' Space, 117 Grattan St. Studio 120, Brooklyn

Eric Craft (he/him) is a New Jersey based playwright and theatre maker who likes to write fun little stories about that ask fun big questions, featuring bugs, romance, art, or celestial bodies. In Moth the Missionary, a young spider debates between eating a lustful, crass mosquito or a poetic, proselytizing moth who worships the moon. The play examines what roles religion and religious trauma can play in our struggles against an uncaring universe.

Isabel Beatriz Tongson is a Filipina-American actor, playwright, and director based in New York with special interests in authentic and empowering stories of Asian-Americans, first-generation immigrants, and censored history. She is presenting a staged reading of her play A White Girl’s Understudy. It is about Lyn— an Asian-American Broadway understudy who covers the principal role for a new play. During a performance of Speakeasy Love, the story bleeds into Lyn’s reality and she gains more than she bartered for she must ask herself if her greatest desires are truly what she wants.

Rae, a content creator and emerging playwright, and Lily, her non-famous girlfriend, navigate career doubts, mental illness, and a self-imposed time limit as the desperate need to become famous overtakes Rae and pushes her to the limit. i’m fine though is a chronically online comedy that explores how we interact with our mind, our body, our work, and our perceptions of ourselves. i’m fine though is written by musical theater duo, Natalie Myrick & SMJ.

Kyr Siegel is a playwright, actor, dancer, and poet born in Oregon and currently living in Brooklyn. His work primarily explores what chosen family and community means to queer individuals, how nature is the core of our beings, and how to break through the boxes society intends to put us in.  His play "Greater Grief" finds Patroclus (the lover of the Greek mythological hero Achilles) searching for his passions, desires, and own individuality at the end of his long life. Can Patroclus finally separate himself from Achilles and recognize his own personhood in order to escape purgatory?