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Things We Will Miss in NYC
Don’t miss our original devised piece, presented as part of the 2026 PhysFestNYC!
directed by Emily K. Harrison
featuring performances by: Juliet Davidson, Leslie De La Rosa, Del Gonzales, Emily K. Harrison, Nathaniel Klein, and Emma Miller
design by Jess Buttery and Emily K. Harrison
A collage-style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene, this personal meditation on the climate crisis explores the beauty and inevitability of impermanence. Born from the debris of late-stage capitalism, Things We Will Miss features performers in disparate roles, including an amateur astronomer, a park ranger, mythological prophet Cassandra, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and ultimately, themselves. Driven by image, light, and sound rather than linear narrative, it viscerally explores the grief and beauty, the horror and hope inherent in being alive in this very moment.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
7 p.m. & 8:30 p.m., January 13, 2026
Stella Adler Center for the Arts
65 Broadway, New York, NY
Tickets: $20, available NOW!
RECENT PRODUCTION
Telegraph Valley
created by LA Samuelson
in collaboration with sound artist Adam Stone & dramaturg elle hong; curated by Louise Martorano
Performances: 2 p.m., November 22; 5:30 p.m., December 1 + 2, 2025
DVCAI at Barry University, 11330 NE 2nd Ave., Miami, FL
Tickets: FREE
presented as part of Diaspora Vibe’s “What’s in Your Container?”
Telegraph Valley is a performance and installation work situated in that queer terrain between “having a body” and “being a body.” Assembled from house frames, ladders, floating decks, mattresses, rotating light sources, and one dancer, Telegraph Valley makes momentary dwellings out of holes, ladders, and gaps, looking for the ways we find home in bodies that experience more loss as they accumulate more life. It attempts to deconstruct the body as a “house for the soul” metaphor to uncover something that roves, collides, undercuts, and transforms what we understand ourselves to be, how we merge with others, and merge with our own solitude, to get somewhere new.
Telegraph Valley is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by RedLine Contemporary Art Center in partnership with Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI), square product theatre, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org. It is also made possible through collaborations with the Museum of Longmont, MCA Denver, Union Hall Gallery, Understudy Denver, Black Cube Nomadic Museum, and the 2025 Movement Lab Fellowship at Rhode Island School of Design.
Previous iteration:
Installation: March 16 - April 7, 2024
Performances: 7:30 p.m., March 21, 22, & 23, 2024
RedLine Contemporary Art Center, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver
Tickets: $5 suggested donation
Eyes Up, Mouth Agape
A comedy about a very not non-atypical situation.
EYES UP, MOUTH AGAPE “celebrates” the 20 year anniversary of a strange pop culture event and is told through the lens of a fictional documentarian interviewing the key players and an innocent bystander, all of whom are large inanimate objects. This play is created in collaboration with Buntport Theater Company.
November 1-23, 2024
Buntport Theater
717 Lipan St., Denver, CO
Name-Yr-Price Tickets available HERE
Things We Will Miss premieres at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
A collage-style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene, this personal meditation on the climate crisis explores the beauty and inevitability of impermanence. Born from the debris of late-stage capitalism, Things We Will Miss features performers in disparate roles, including an amateur astronomer, a park ranger, mythological prophet Cassandra, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and ultimately, themselves. Driven by image, light, and sound rather than linear narrative, it viscerally explores the grief and beauty, the horror and hope inherent in being alive in this very moment.
15:30, August 12-25 - C ARTS | C Venues | aquila studio
tickets HERE
directed by Emily K. Harrison
designed by Jess Buttery and Emily K. Harrison
with performances by Leslie De La Rosa, Del Gonzales, Emily K. Harrison, Chanel Karimkhani, Nathaniel Klein, & Emma Miller
stage manager: Mer Morales
additional creative team: Savanna Arellano, Juliet Davidson, Rosie Glasscock (production stage manager), and Irmak Sağir
production program HERE
Image: Isinglass by Stephanie Aitken; used with permission of the artist
Workshop Production
July 7-22, 2023
Carsen Theater @ The Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Pick-Yr-Price tickets, $5-$50 - tickets available NOW!
directed by Emily K. Harrison
created by and featuring Savanna Arellano, Juliet Davidson, Del Gonzales, Emily K. Harrison, Nathaniel Klein, and Emma Miller
design by Jess Buttery and Emily K. Harrison in collaboration with the ensemble
full creative team HERE
photos by Jun Akiyama
Featuring two unrehearsed performers who have never met, Celebration, Florida by Greg Wohead is a quietly surreal show for anyone who has ever missed anyone or anything. Veering between reality and simulation, the piece orbits around ideas of surrogacy; a stand-in to replace a person you miss, a re-creation of an experience you can’t stop thinking about, nostalgia for a place that perhaps never existed. Greg will speak to the audience through two performers using pre-recorded audio and headphones. They will know almost nothing about the show when they walk onstage.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT: March 15-18, 2023 @ The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder
Read Toni Tresca’s feature for the Boulder Weekly.
Image: Glitters, by Thomas Saliot; used with permission of the artist.
Dance Nation
by Clare Barron
directed by Gleason Bauer, choreographed by Laura Ann Samuelson
Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they'll claw their way to the top at the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. But in Clare Barron's raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves, and a fight to unleash their power. Dance Nation is a play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.
THREE WEEKS ONLY!
July 14 - 30 in the Black Box Theatre @ the ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts, & Performance, University of Colorado Boulder
1125 18th St., Boulder
Tickets available NOW. Cast and creative team announcement HERE. Full digital program HERE.
Read Lisa Kennedy’s review of the production in The Denver Post, and features in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine and Broadway World.
WINNER 2019 Obie Award (Special Citation for Playwriting and Directing)
FINALIST 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
WINNER 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
2016 Kilroys List
WINNER 2015 Relentless Award (American Playwriting Foundation)
“A blazingly original play […] marvel at how close what you see cuts to the bone.” – The New York Times
“I have seen the future, and it is Dance Nation.” – The Washington Post
“If you were ever a 13-year-old girl, Clare Barron’s daring, raw Dance Nation will probably hit you hard […] It’s a brave, visceral, excitingly off-kilter barbaric yawp of a play. And it gets at something excruciatingly tender: the burden of modesty on young American women.” – New York Magazine
CONTENT ADVISORY:
Dance Nation contains gore, coarse language, depictions of self-harm, simulated masturbation and descriptions of masturbation, and discussions of sex/sexual violence. May not be suitable for patrons under the age of 15.
This production includes a brief strobe effect and may be disruptive to people who are sensitive to light.
Dance Nation is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. | concordtheatricals.com
this production made possible in part due to support from:
photos by Michael Ensminger
Flower Lamp by Indigo
Everything was Stolen is a piece created from a variety of stolen and original (but mostly stolen) texts, songs, videos, images and ephemera in an evocation of America (which was also stolen - hey!), inspired in part by the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, and in part by something American composer John Cage once said: ‘And so it is out of this chaos, this accumulation of history and novelty, that we begin building.’
The piece was originally developed by Emily K. Harrison with students at Brunel University London, and will continue to be developed with a Colorado-based cast for the March 2019 professional World Premiere.
March 14 - April 6, 2019
Buntport Theatre
717 Lipan St., Denver
Created and directed by Emily K. Harrison with Ayla Sullivan Rosamond Glasscock, Production Stage Manager
Featuring: Luc D’Arcy, Aziza Gharib, Seth Palmer Harris, Adam Russell Johnson, Liz Kirchmeier, Jihad Milhem, Katie Ross, Rachel Seiger, Tara Spires, Kristin Marie Stelter, Emily Tuckman, Fabian Vazquez, and Ronan Viard
photos by Michael Ensminger