Following three sold-out runs, The Flea Theater is set to announce Cycles 4 and 5 of #serials@theflea, the raucous late-night play competition featuring The Bats and some of NYC's hottest young playwrights. Live music and free beer from official sponsor Sixpoint Brewery help fuel this weekly event, which runs Thursday, Friday & Saturday nights at 11pm, October 20-November 5 and December 1-17. All tickets are only $10.
"This late-night raucous event continues to sell out because it¹s just that good," says Artistic Director Jim Simpson. "Join us downtown for a beer and some wild, imaginative theater; not improv, and not for the faint of heart."
In #serials@theflea, five teams of Bats perform original ten-minute episodic plays. The audience votes for its three favorite pieces, which return the next week with a new installment. The teams with the two least popular stories must likewise come back the following week, but with entirely different serialized plays.
Participating playwrights include Lucy Alibar (Too Little Too Late), E.J.C. Calvert (The Bird Girl), Jonathan Caren (The Recommendation at The Old Globe), Adam Collier, Joshua Conkel (milkmilklemonade), Stacy Davidowitz(Pink!), Dylan Dawson (The Tenant), Lila Feinberg (Monkey Bowl), Halley Feiffer (How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them), Edith Freni (Baby Girl), Jonathan Goldberg (The Landwhale Murders), Angela Hanks (breathe into this bag), Joshua Elias Harmon (Love in the Time of Channukah), Jessica S. Hinds (Nevin), Lucas Kavner (Fisheye), Boo Killebrew (They're Just Like Us), Daniel Kitrosser (The Mumblings), Krista Knight (Salamander Leviathan), JC Lee (Julliard Playwriting Fellow), Eric John Meyer (The Sister at The Brick), Michael Mitnick (2nd Stage Uptown's The Sex Lives of Our Parents), Jordan Seavey (The Truth Will Out), Zachary Smilovitz (Wanton Displays of Affection), Kevin Christopher Snipes (The Chimes at SPF), Chris Sullivan (EST/Youngblood), Laura von Holt, and Emily Chadick Weiss (EST/Youngblood).
Bands for Cycle 4 & 5 include Boy Girl Party, Leigh Jones, Lucas Kavner, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly, Uzimon and more TBA!
Created by Bat company members Dominic Spillane and Stephen Stout, in
collaboration with Jim Simpson, #serials@theflea features participating directors by Liz Carlson, David Chapman, Wes Grantom, Luke Harlan, Kel Haney, Portia Krieger, Mia Rovegno, BrIan Smith, Sarah Elizabeth Wansley and Pirrone Yousefzadeh.
The production features over 40 members of The Bats, The Flea's resident company of actors, including Tiffany Abercrombie, Crystal Arnette, Yoni Ben-Yehuda, Satomi Blair, Jenna Bosco, Veracity Butcher, Jenelle Chu, Ugo Chukwu, Thomas Crawford, Greg Engbrecht, Eric Folks, Bobby Foley, Katherine Folk-Sullivan, Cleo Gray, John Paul Harkins, Grant Harrison, Kana Hatakeyama, Halima Henderson, Alex Herrald, Josephine Huang, Amanda Idoko, Raul Sigmund Julia, Vin Kridakorn, Maren Langdon, Bruce Lemon, Betsy Lippitt, Sean McIntyre, Michael Micalizzi, Kate Michaud, Seth Moore, Megha Nabe, Sade Namei, Joy Notoma, Margaret Odette, Frank Paiva, Daniel phai, Briana Pozner, Donaldo Prescod, Ivano Pulito, Joann Sacco, Michelle Silvani, Dominic Spillane, Stephen Stout, Akyiaa Wilson, Monica Wyche and Wilton Yeung.
