Theater for the New City
Executive Director, Crystal Field
Presents
Dream Up Festival, Special Engagement Reading:
Today I’m In Heaven Again
Written by Kara Gordon
Directed by Kyle Dunn
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 6:30 PM
JOHNSON THEATER
FREE
$5 Suggested Donation
You can make reservations at literary@theaterforthenewcity.net
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions
On a bare stage, a dead woman tells the audience her story. As the night stumbles on, a surreal confessional devolves into a retelling of the myth of Van Gogh–and ends with two strangers laughing in the face of death.
CAST
Miranda Volpe
Catherine Bloom
Writer Bio:
Kara Gordon is an actress and playwright based in Brooklyn. Plays produced include Teeth (New York Theater Festival, 2023), The Pool (The Attic @ The Tank, 2023), and Cardboard Moon (Hippodrome Theatre New Works Festival, 2020). She graduated from the University of Florida (BFA Acting & BA English) in 2022. This year, she founded ELEGIE, a New York-based theatre company that produced an intimate production of Jean Genet’s The Maids at The Tank’s loft Attic space that will transfer to Circle Theater Festival at The Flea this fall.
Director Bio:
Kyle Dunn is an actor and director. He has appeared in AMERICAN HORROR STORY (Disney/FX), UNCOUPLED (Netflix), and EVIL LIVES HERE (Hulu). He has also appeared at the Tank, Soho Playhouse, Beckett’s Place, Adult Film, and the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, plus a pair of works by the artist Wayne Koestenbaum: THE COLLECTIVE (2022) an improvised feature film, and TRASH BLOSSOMS (2021), the world’s first ever TikTok playlet. He trained at Terry Knickerbocker studio and with the Atlantic Theater Company. This fall, you can see The Maids at the Flea Theater, which he directed.