Cast | Kalyne Coleman, Brendan George, and Lindsey Steinert, featuring Adrianna Aguilar, Amanda Centeno, Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Yonatan Gebeyehu, Michael Alan Johnson, Jenny Nguyen Nelson, Elyse Steingold, and Adam Weppler
Original Songs | Laura Galindo, Daniel & Patrick Lazour, Stompcat, and Storm Thomas
Cinematography | Chun Fung Kevin Chiu
Editing | Alex Hare and Lowell Thomas
Sound Design | Megumi Katayama
Audio Mixing/Mastering | Robin Buyer
Costume Consultant | April M. Hickman
Digital Graphics | Victoria Ungvarsky
Animation | Aiden Berglund
Birthday Card Design | Lexy Ho-Tai
Promo Artwork | Britannie Bond
The Tank and Post Theatrical present
CAPRICORN 29
By Alex Hare and Julia Izumi
Directed by Alex Hare
Co-Produced with Sami Pyne
NOW EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 16TH!
On the eve of her 29th birthday, a Very Online millennial stumbles upon a curious conspiracy theory: the powers-that-be have initiated a new capitalist plot to eliminate unsuccessful 30 year olds. What sounds at first like the byproduct of someone watching too many dystopian films from the 1970s quickly proves harder to dismiss. And as the countdown to 30 begins, surviving and saving a generation may be the opportunity one young-ish adult needs to finally fulfill her rapidly fading potential.
Unfolding in the form of a hallucinatory YouTube wormhole, CAPRICORN 29 is a micro movie musical that wrestles with the tyranny of age-based milestones.
Audience members may start streaming the project at any time between now through Wednesday, June 16th and will have 48 hours to finish once started. The run time is approximately 50 minutes.
Audience members will receive a physical birthday card if they purchase tickets on or before May 10; those who purchase tickets after May 10 will be able to view and download it online.
Tickets are available via Post Theatrical’s website on a pay-what-you-can scale ranging from $10 - $100.
Capricorn 29 is part of Post Theatrical, a national wave of plays-by-mail occurring in Spring 2021, conceived and coordinated by RealTime Interventions. For details, please visit www.posttheatrical.org.
MEET THE TEAM
ALEX HARE
DIRECTOR / CO-WRITER
Alex Hare is an NYC-based theatre director focusing on new musicals and music-driven storytelling. With Zhailon Levingston and Nehemiah Luckett, he is developing A Burning Church through Musical Theatre Factory’s MAKERS cohort, New Ohio/IRT’s Archive Residency, and a fellowship with A Blade of Grass. He received the SDC Foundation’s 2020 Charles Abbott Fellowship for early-career musical theatre directors. Assistant credits: School of Rock, Side Show (Broadway), Emma (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Alex has worked frequently as an assistant and researcher for film director Bill Condon. He studied American Studies at Columbia University. http://alexhare.nyc
JULIA IZUMI
CO-WRITER
Julia Izumi’s work has been developed and presented at MTC, Clubbed Thumb, Bushwick Starr, WP Theater, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seattle Rep, Barn Arts Collective, The COOP, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights' Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, CAATA’s National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, and Pork Filled Productions. Honors for her work include the OPC Dr. Kerry English Award, O’Neill’s NPC Finalist, Kilroys List Honorable Mention, and KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. She is a 2020/2021 New Georges Audrey Resident and a New Dramatists member. MFA: Brown University www.juliaizumi.com
SAMI PYNE
PRODUCER
Sami Pyne is an independent producer based in New York City. Most recent producing credits include Kyk Hoe Skyn die Son created by Keenan Tyler Oliphant at Clubbed Thumb, Columbia School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival curated by David Henry Hwang, 2020 & 2019’s Prelude Festival at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, and Twenty-six Seconds by Kate Pressman in Lynn Nottage’s open studio at the Park Avenue Armory. She’s worked with wonderful folks at HERE Arts Center, TDF, PlayCo, Aged in Wood Productions, and Signature Theatre. Sami holds a BFA from Shenandoah Conservatory and an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University School of the Arts. www.samipyne.com
LAURA GALINDO
SONGWRITER
Laura Galindo is a Colombian theatre and music maker. In the last year, she’s been a resident with Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, BarnArts in Maine, and The New Victory Theatre’s Labworks Program. Her one-woman-and-her-band musical, Annie Aspen’s Musical Space Spectacular! was featured in Ars Nova’s 2019 ANT Fest. It’s a love for connection that brought her to music and theatre; both in the ways that the disciplines intersect and the potential they have to communicate profoundly with others. She’s also ramping up for a year of new music with her bandmates, starting with her new single 'Last Place', available for listening everywhere.
DANIEL & PATRICK LAZOUR
SONGWRITERS
Daniel and Patrick Lazour are brothers and music theatre writers. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. It premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in May 2019 directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Their new musical community project about cancer treatment, patients and caretakers was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and is being developed with the American Repertory Theater. Patrick and Daniel were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. Most recently, they were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo and are teaching artists at Lincoln Center Theater. They perform their songs live at the Boiler Room in New York City. @frereslazour
STOMPCAT
SONGWRITER
STOMPCAT is a band/religion dedicated to making music that will directly impact the lives of you and your loved ones. They have performed at venues across America, including the Skylark Lounge (Denver), the Mr. Roboto Project (Pittsburgh), Plush (St. Louis), The Way Station (Brooklyn), 54 Below (Manhattan), and Ars Nova (West Manhattan). www.stompcat.com does not work right now.
STORM THOMAS
SONGWRITER
Storm Thomas is a black-mixed trans/gnc writer, drummer and multi-hyphenate artist from Los Angeles who plays many instruments (drums, guitar, piano, mandolin, midi, etc.) and writes experimental, process-based, afro-futurist musicals: Notes on the Past (Trans Theater Fest), Ancient Future (in-house production, Polyphone Festival), and Be Like Bone (in progress). Storm is a co-founder of the performance collective Theater, But Dance. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College; undergraduate, UC Santa Cruz & CUNY Empire State. Proud member of Rainbow Theater & The African American Theater Arts Troupe (UCSC). Teaching: Black Musical Theater (Uarts, Playwrights/NYU), Music for Performance (Playwrights/NYU), New Musical Theater Lab beg. & adv (Uarts), Theater of the Oppressed NYC (Red Hook, Housing Works), Dreamyard (Musical Theater Factory). Dramaturgy: Orchid Receipt Service (Theater Mitu), Guys and Dolls (Uarts), Noise (The Public Theater, workshop). Workshops: Elementary Spacetime Show (Ars Nova), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep), The Temple (Phreak and Queer Festival, PhilaMOCA), Merced de Papel (Vox Theater Festival, Dartmouth College), Parade Ground (Fresh Ground Pepper). Performances: Heather Christian’s Animal Wisdom Album Recording, Streep Show (Connelly Theater), Individual World Poetry Slam (Finals Stage), The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA), Futurity (Soho Rep/Ars Nova), Obie Awards 2017, Lexus Verses & Flow Season 3 Episode 1 feat. Jill Scott, guest speaker at The Immersive Design Summit on Participation and Agency (Associate Director, The Universe is a Small Hat). Storm is currently in residence with Musical Theater Factory Cohort II.
MEGUMI KATAYAMA
SOUND DESIGNER
Megumi Katayama is a Sound Designer, Sound Artist, Audio Engineer, and Composer based in NY. Her recent theatrical sound design credits include Pass Over (Studio Theater), Pride and Prejudice (Long Wharf Theater), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public Theater), El Huracán (Yale Rep/The Sol Project, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Nomination), soft (Williamstown Theater Festival Fellowship). In addition to Theater, she has worked on Art Installations, Video Projects, Short Films, Audio Plays, Theme Park, Corporate Events, and TV productions. Megumi holds a BFA from the University of Central Oklahoma and an MFA from Yale School of Drama.
ROBIN BUYER
AUDIO MIXER
Robin Buyer is a Brooklyn-based mixer, engineer and composer. He typically works out of Pulse Music and Virtue and Vice. Most recently he has produced, engineered and mixed records for Jacob Brandt (1969: The Second Man) and the Lazour brothers (We Live in Cairo). Robin composes music both under his own name and with Numbers & Figures, and performs with Gamelan Yowana Sari.
APRIL M. HICKMAN
COSTUME CONSTULANT
April M. Hickman is a costume designer, stylist, and costume illustrator originally from Denver CO. Her most recent and first film credit, The Promotion, was a short film she received a nomination for Best Costume Design by the LA International Film Festival. She recently received her M.F.A. in costume design at Yale School of Drama (20’) where some of her credits include Hamlet, Pivot and Seven Spots on the Sun. Other credits include, The Plot a world premiere by Will Eno, directed by Oliver Butler (Yale Repertory Theatre), the feels…(kms), Is God Is and Agreste (Drylands) (Yale Cabaret). April previously lived in Chicago IL and Washington DC, where she worked as the resident costume design assistant at the Goodman Theatre and was a costume fellow turned costume design assistant at Arena Stage. She has assisted several prominent costume designers, including Emily Rebholz, Jess Goldstein, Ilona Somogyi, Paul Tazewell, and Catherine Zuber. She was awarded the William R. Kenan Jr. Costume Design Fellowship at the Kennedy Center in 2014 and the Leo Lerman Fellowship in 2020. April received her B.F.A. in costume design from University of North Carolina School of the Arts where she designed Topdog/Underdog, Detective Story, and Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Intentions.
CHUN FUNG KEVIN CHIU
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Chun Fung Kevin Chiu is a 26 year old NYC-based DP and editor with 6 years of experience shooting commercial, music video, and short narrative work. He has worked extensively with corporations, brands, and artists over the years on multiple projects which have debuted on Condé Nast, Eurovision, BET, L'Oreal which have cumulatively netted hundreds of thousands of views. Kevin's visual style can be characterized as a combination of expressive movement, strong colors, and clean compositions. Particularly attuned to musicality and movement, Kevin is proficient at working with choreographers and dancers and capturing their work for the screen. With a specific interest in the filmic rendering of human emotion, Kevin is especially drawn towards projects with expressive potential through which production elements and storytelling can lead to the creation of timeless films. A cinematographer by trade - but also a director, editor, and colorist - Chun Fung Kevin Chiu places a high value on visual aesthetics and design in all projects he involves himself with.
LOWELL THOMAS
CO-EDITOR
Lowell Thomas is a filmmaker based in Chicago, IL. He recently worked as the Video Producer at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he served as the lead editor and director of photography for the company's productions of What is Left, Burns and Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!. Other recent editing credits include CAPSULE by Whitney White and Peter-Mark Kendall, which premiered at the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival. Currently, he is the director of photography for Definition Theatre's production of America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of the American Negro by Stacey Rose. www.lowellthomasii.com
AIDEN BERGLUND
ANIMATOR
Aiden Berglund is a Brooklyn native songwriter and filmmaker, specializing in the marriage of mixed media animation and sonic textures. Aiden graduated from the Film and Electronic Arts department of Bard College in 2019 with distinction as the recipient of the Sidney Peterson Experimental Film prize. Currently he is living between New York City and Berlin, writing and animating for his music/animation project "Grimson." A list of his works can be found at Aidenberglund.com.
LEXY HO-TAI
CARD DESIGNER
Lexy Ho-Tai’s multi-disciplinary art and teaching practice explores imaginative and tangible world-building through craft and play. Working in a range of mediums, her collaborative and participatory practice employs humor, imagination, and absurdity to invite viewers to contemplate pressing social and environmental issues. She believes that joy is a radical act of resistance, and that play forges a powerful space for audiences to envision and work towards alternative futures. Residencies include the Watermill Center, Flux Factory, ARoS Museum, Everglades National Park and the Museum of Arts and Design. You can view her work at lexymakesthings.com or @lexymakesthings.
VICTORIA UNGVARSKY
DIGITAL GRAPHICS
Victoria Ungvarsky is a New York-based producer, manager, and marketer — who occasionally wears the hats of photographer, writer, and puppet wrangler. She has worked in commercial, nonprofit, and festival theater. Experience includes: Groundswell Theatricals, Chickenshed NYC, Feinstein's/54 Below, and Ricochet. She is also a NextGen Advocate for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Victoria received her BA from Kenyon College and will begin her MFA this fall at the School of the Arts at Columbia University. www.victoriaungvarsky.com
MEET THE CAST
KALYNE COLEMAN
JESS THE CRAFTS VLOGGER
Kalyne Coleman is from Richmond, Virginia and is a Brown/Trinity Rep MFA in Acting Program grad and University of Pennsylvania alum. Credits include: 2020 ABC Discovers Talent Showcase; Cynthia, Wine in the Wilderness (Portland Center Stage), Lorraine Hansberry & Nikki Giovanni, Lessons in Survival (Vineyard Theater); Leigh, America v. 2.1 (Barrington Stage); Nella Pea, Black Odyssey (Trinity Rep); Lady Anne, Richard III & Rosaline, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare Academy); Brutus, Julius Caesar; Selector, How We Got On; Henrietta, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Gabriela in References to Salvador Dali: Make Me Hot (Brown Trinity). Website: https://www.kalynecoleman.com/ IG: @kalynecoleman
BRENDAN GEORGE
SIMON SKINCARE
Brendan George is a performer who loves new work and is currently trapped in the digital realm. Perhaps you've seen him there! NY credits include the U.S. premieres of Bleach (Wilson Lounge), The Crisis Actor (Laurie Beechman), and No Sympathy For The Wolf (FringeNYC). He's developed work at The Tank, The Flea, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the NOW Collective, and Teatro LATEA. Proud graduate of Brown University and member of NYU Grad Acting '24. @curiousbgeorge www.brendangeorge.com
LINDSEY STEINERT
THE USER
Lindsey Steinert is a New York-based actor and occasional writer who loves putting her Capricorn energy towards organizing and then re-organizing already organized spaces. Lindsey recently graduated with her MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep and is the creator of “Upstream Swimming,” the first known solo piece written and performed by a child of gay dads about growing up with same-sex parents. www.lindseysteinert.com
AMANDA CENTENO
PERSONALITY VLOGGER
Amanda Centeno is an actor based in Brooklyn. Let’s get coffee and collaborate when the world opens up. www.amandacenteno.com
OCTAVIA CHAVEZ-RICHMOND
ASTROLOGY YOUTUBER
Octavia Chavez-Richmond is an actor, playwright, and storyteller whose work has been featured at international film festivals and regional theaters. She holds an M.F.A. in acting from Brown University/Trinity Repertory where she received the David Wickham Playwriting Award. After graduating, Trinity Repertory awarded Octavia with the Margo Skinner Memorial Fellowship for 2018. Her original short film Lolita Express recently debuted at the NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival (March 2021). Octavia’s uses theater and film to explore women’s relationship to their bodies. She is particularly interested in women of color and their sexual agency. Her work disrupts hierarchy, racism, and misogyny and challenges conventional beauty standards.
JENNY NGUYEN NELSON
THEATRE VLOGGER
Jenny Nguyen Nelson is entering her third year with Brown Trinity’s MFA Acting program. Though she’d like to say she spends her free time reading poetry, you can actually find her binge watching old episodes of Real Housewives (any city). She has a boxer named Marty and a husband named Ian- she loves both in no particular order. Find her on Instagram @bratwurst_banhmi or JennyNguyenNelson.com
GRACE OBERHOFER
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ELYSE STEINGOLD
REACTION VLOGGER
Elyse Steingold is an actor/comedian/software engineer/non-sequitur from Richmond, Virginia. As a theatre and film actor, she has performed across the US and Europe, and her self-written short film made a splash in the festival circuit. She's thrilled to be part of this team!
ADAM WEPPLER
ARTIST YOUTUBER
Adam Weppler is an Actor/Producer based in Brooklyn. Some recent favorite credits include Mainframe Pictures’ Ten Minutes to Midnight, and Puppet Julius Caesar with The Puppet Shakespeare Players. Special thanks to my lovely wife, Victoria, and to the Capricorn 29 team!
ADRIANNA AGUILAR
JOGGING VLOGGER
Adrianna Aguilar is a dancer turned personal trainer. With her company TREES, she has performed at venues such as Bowery Electric and National Sawdust. Adrianna loves to move–whether in a studio, in a gym, anywhere! Through her specialized training in Myo-fascial Stretching, she is able to help others connect to their bodies through movement, which brings her immense joy. This is her first time acting in anything, let alone in a micro movie musical. She is excited to be working alongside the incredibly talented team of Capricorn 29. Catch her moving @movewithaud or at www.adriannaaguilar.com.
MICHAEL JOHNSON
CULTURE CRITIC YOUTUBER
Michael Johnson is the Creative Director at Rock Rising. He graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Acting in 2016. Most recently Michael starred in the beautiful short film Don't Call It Magic, which was written and directed by Scott Jackson Arick. Michael records and releases music under his musical pseudonym BROCRISP--new album titled Jungle Savior streamable everywhere! He also hosts the podcast Looking For Artists, produced by Rock Rising.
About Post Theatrical
what is post theatrical?
We are a group of theater artists and companies joining forces during the pandemic to produce mail-based theatrical experiences. Many of us first met in the summer of 2020 in the Orchard Project’s international digital think-tank, the Liveness Lab. We wondered if analog mediums could offer a sense of tactile connection to far-flung audiences in this time of isolation and screen fatigue. Pittsburgh company RealTime Interventions conceived and coordinated this "national wave" of projects, and Post Theatrical was born. Wildly varied in form, content, and duration, these experiences have been intentionally built for increased audience access and inclusion beyond that which is possible in typical live theater. Our work aspires to connect human beings of disparate backgrounds despite (and in some ways, through) distance.
who is post theatrical?
Participating companies include RealTime Interventions (Post Theatrical conceivers/ coordinators, Pittsburgh, PA) with Milia Ayache (Beirut, Lebanon); New Georges, with Emerie Snyder & Lina Younes (NYC); DEMASKUS Theater Collective (Pittsburgh, PA); The Tank with Alex Hare & Julia Izumi (NYC); Tiny Box Theater (Greenpoint, Brooklyn/Astoria, Queens) with Ya Chin Chang (Hong Kong); the junior class of the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School (New Haven, CT); Let’s Make a Theatre Company with Scott Adkins (Park Slope, Brooklyn); Slipped Beyond Productions with Chelsea Sutton (Los Angeles, CA); The Wallpaper Company (Troy, NY); and Visual Echo with Irina Kruzhilina (NYC). Individual artists include Karinne Keithley Syers (Amherst, MA); Melisa Tien (Hell’s Kitchen, NYC) and Lance Horne (NYC).