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The Tank has been generous enough to grant The Varsity Theatre Company and me (Jessica Owens) the chance to work with them again by participating in LadyFest. A festival "that features new work by some of the most exciting lady or gender non-conforming artists in New York - in celebration of womanhood and the female voice, in all its glory." The collaboration will feature a three performance run of The Valkyries, which previously received a developmental reading at Dixon Place.
I am graciously asking for your financial support.
The Tank is an amazing incubator of creative endeavors and has been generous enough to provide the performance space for free. However, as producers, paying our Directors, Actors, Designers and Stage Managers what they deserve is at the forefront of our mission. We, therefore, come to you to ask for your support in raising money to cover their salaries (60-70% of all money raised will go directly to these talented artists), as well as the purchase of materials for sets, props and costumes, and some of the everyday expenses to go along with producing theatre in NYC.
We thank you in advance for your support and guarantee you that anything at all you're able to give will be much appreciated!
Most importantly, I would love for you to come see the show!
The show page can be seen here.
And tickets can be purchased here.
The Valkyries
In The Valkyries, the tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.
Written by Jessica Owens
Produced by The Varsity Theatre Company
PERFORMANCES:
Sun, 08/18 at 7:00PM
Mon, 08/19 at 7:00PM
Tue, 08/20 at 7:00PM
@ The Tank - 312 West 36th Street
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Jessica Owens (Playwright/Producer) Is a Brooklyn based Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer and Theatre Administrator. Writing includes The Valkyries (Dixon Place) I LOVE NEW YORK: a found text american dream (Dixon Place, The Tank) Dramaturgy includes: The Glass Menagerie (Pigeonholed Theatre), I Once Found Myself in an Isolation Chamber (The Tank), The Pitchforks (The Loading Dock, The Drama League), Macbeth (Columbia Stages), Northern Lights (ATHE Development Workshop), Ascent, and MAY: A New Musical Fable. Jessica has worked at institutions such as The Broadway League, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, and Creative Artists Agency. She is a Script Reader for Roundabout, The Public, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, YouthPLAYS Publishing, Jewish Plays Project, and various other playwrighting competitions. Co-Founder of The Varsity Theatre Company and Initiative for Millennial Theatre Artists. She holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MA from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts & Birkbeck College.
The Varsity Theatre Company is a Brooklyn based collaboration formed with the intent of creating work that stimulates the modern audience through detailed exploration of characters and their humanity. Believing that the political is personal and that philosophies are often defined by social interactions, The Varsity seeks to engage with the large, sweeping questions of our society from the ground up through developing new work and generating new interpretations of existing texts. Central to The Varsity’s mission is its focus on experimenting with and pushing the boundaries of how theatre uses visceral elements - sound, movement, duration, etc. - to replicate human emotion and the human experience.
I am graciously asking for your financial support.
The Tank is an amazing incubator of creative endeavors and has been generous enough to provide the performance space for free. However, as producers, paying our Directors, Actors, Designers and Stage Managers what they deserve is at the forefront of our mission. We, therefore, come to you to ask for your support in raising money to cover their salaries (60-70% of all money raised will go directly to these talented artists), as well as the purchase of materials for sets, props and costumes, and some of the everyday expenses to go along with producing theatre in NYC.
We thank you in advance for your support and guarantee you that anything at all you're able to give will be much appreciated!
Most importantly, I would love for you to come see the show!
The show page can be seen here.
And tickets can be purchased here.
The Valkyries
In The Valkyries, the tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.
Written by Jessica Owens
Produced by The Varsity Theatre Company
PERFORMANCES:
Sun, 08/18 at 7:00PM
Mon, 08/19 at 7:00PM
Tue, 08/20 at 7:00PM
@ The Tank - 312 West 36th Street
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Jessica Owens (Playwright/Producer) Is a Brooklyn based Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer and Theatre Administrator. Writing includes The Valkyries (Dixon Place) I LOVE NEW YORK: a found text american dream (Dixon Place, The Tank) Dramaturgy includes: The Glass Menagerie (Pigeonholed Theatre), I Once Found Myself in an Isolation Chamber (The Tank), The Pitchforks (The Loading Dock, The Drama League), Macbeth (Columbia Stages), Northern Lights (ATHE Development Workshop), Ascent, and MAY: A New Musical Fable. Jessica has worked at institutions such as The Broadway League, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, and Creative Artists Agency. She is a Script Reader for Roundabout, The Public, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, YouthPLAYS Publishing, Jewish Plays Project, and various other playwrighting competitions. Co-Founder of The Varsity Theatre Company and Initiative for Millennial Theatre Artists. She holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MA from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts & Birkbeck College.
The Varsity Theatre Company is a Brooklyn based collaboration formed with the intent of creating work that stimulates the modern audience through detailed exploration of characters and their humanity. Believing that the political is personal and that philosophies are often defined by social interactions, The Varsity seeks to engage with the large, sweeping questions of our society from the ground up through developing new work and generating new interpretations of existing texts. Central to The Varsity’s mission is its focus on experimenting with and pushing the boundaries of how theatre uses visceral elements - sound, movement, duration, etc. - to replicate human emotion and the human experience.