HARSH CACOPHONIES I & II

Written and performed by Kev Berry
Directed by Alex Tobey

Premiered live November 13 & 14 at 8pm
Streaming until the end of March

Harsh Cacophonies I & II is a full-length monologue about the intersection of queerness and the things that hold us back from attaining an impossible perfection. Carefully balancing autobiography, spoken word, standup, and storytelling, Tank Associate Artist Kev Berry’s ritual of queer performance explores how we each learn to view our physical selves in the mirror and the constant struggle to to find a sense of the sacred among the infinite and unbearable noise. Harsh Cacophonies I & II will be the first production to be live streamed from The Tank’s empty mainstage theatre, and the first production to be live streamed from any theatre in New York City since the shutdown.

*Harsh Cacophonies I & II is a Tank Co-production.

KEV BERRY

Kev Berry is a New York-based playwright, performer, and life of the party. His work has been seen at The Tank, Joe's Pub, Feinstein’s/54 Below, 3-Legged Dog, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Judson Memorial Church, HERE Arts Center, New York Live Arts, the New Ohio Theatre, The Duplex, the Dramatists Guild Foundation, Dixon Place, The Brick Theater, Access Theater, Littlefield, The 9 Studios, Otto's Shrunken Head, The Cobra Club, Skidmore College, and across the harsh North Country of upstate New York. Kev is an Associate Artist at The Tank, the September 2018 Artist-in-Residence at Judson Memorial Church, a 2017 Artist-in-Residence with Fresh Ground Pepper, a January 2019 resident with Hot Bread, and the former Artistic Associate at 3LD. He is a member of the 2019-2020 INKubator Playwrights Cohort at Art House in Jersey City. Alongside his collaborative partner and director Alex Tobey, he was a Full Access Resident Artist with Access Theater during the 2019 – 2020 season. Kev serves as the curator and producer of the series Fast and Furious: Rapid Responses to Current Events at The Tank. His play Peter was a Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Award in 2019, and a Semi-Finalist for the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship in 2020. He was the recipient of a Pet Project Grant from Jeremy O. Harris and The Bushwick Starr. His performance in Nadja Leonhard-Hooper and Dan Nuxoll’s Eat the Devil was recently hailed by the New York Times as “vehemently campy.” B.Sci. Theater, B.A. Gender Studies, Skidmore College. He is represented by George Strus at A3 Artists Agency. kevberry.com

ALEX TOBEY

Alex Tobey is a Brooklyn-based stage director obsessed with music, magic, and mystery. Past directing credits include Caveman Play (Exponential Festival), Good Girl Gone Bad (HERE), The Greeks (Burning Coal Theatre Company), The Orange Terror Cycle (The Tank), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), Watch Me Burn (The Wild Project), Transverse: An Autopsy of Gender (The Brick), Elected Remains (Exquisite Corpse Company), and Expedition (Fourth Street Theatre). Alex is the Resident Director of INKubator at Art House Productions in Jersey City and the former co-director of bubble:PGH, a traveling inflatable performance space in Pittsburgh. BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. www.alextobey.com