Nathalie Bryant
Nathalie was born in France, the daughter of a French mother and American father. After graduating High school with an International Baccalaureate, she went on to study Fine Arts and Psychology in Paris before she found herself immersed in acting. She moved to NY in 2007 to study at HB Studios and then pursued her Meisner training with Wendy Ward at the Ward Acting Studio.
Her stage credits include Ophelia in the Secret Love Life of Ophelia by Stephen Berkoff (dir. Philippe Peyran-Lacroix), Antigone in Jean Anouilh’s version, The Jewish wife in Fear and Misery of the 3rd Reich (dir. Pascal Castelletta). In NY she was Natasha in Three Sisters, Suzy in Hot L Baltimore, and Olga in You Can’t Take It With You (dir. Amy Wright).
On the NY Independent film scene, her credits include Anna in Hamartia, (Loredana Gasporotto), Sandra in Miscommunications (Matt Stevens, 1783 Pictures), and Beth Dawson in the comedy horror feature When Death Calls (Jim Haggerty, Yellow Ape Productions). She was recently involved with the Galli Theatre, a non-profit company that presents interactive fairytales for children and performs for free in Hospitals and Medical Centers. She is currently living in NYC.
Nathalie has performed in several Concrete Timbre productions including: Folie Pure, Coq tôt, Un Lieu de Vie, Voices of justice and consanguinity…, Satie’s Birthday Party, as well as several salon concerts.
Visit her website at: www.nathaliebryant.com
Irina Abraham
Irina is an award winning director and actress. She started as a classical and ballroom dancer in Belarus. She travelled Europe with dance companies and an Experimental Youth Theater company. In 2007 Irina came to NYC and studied acting and directing at HB Studio. In 2010 Irina directed her first show Playgrounded. It played at HB Studio and Manhattan Repertory Theatre. From 2010 to 2014. Irina has worked as a choreographer and actor with such companies as the Russian Arts Theater & Studio, Nylon Fusion Theater Company, Yangtze Repertory Theater of America, the Bedlam Ensemble, etc. In 2014 Irina co-directed Requiem by Hanoch Levin that was produced by the Tank Theater.
She grew to love cinematic language and played leading roles in According to Her (2015, feature film, dir. Estelle Artus) and 2050 (dir. Princeton Holt) for which she received a best actress award. Irina also appeared on TV Shows such as The Americans, The Blacklist, and Blindspot.
In 2014 Irina co-founded Necessary I.T.E.M.S. Project. In 2016 Irina also joined the innovative Off Off Broadway theatre company Blessed Unrest as an actress. In 2017 Irina was awarded Outstanding Directing at The Planet Connections Festival for The (Last) Station by Eugene Muzica. In 2018 Irina wrote a children's play, Mozart And Me, that was produced by Scorpis Arts and Culture that went up at Baruch Center for the Performing Arts followed by a tour to China in the Summer 2019. Irina was hired as the tour director.
Irina is thrilled to be working with the Concrete Timbre and with the beautiful text by Sylvaine Hinglais.
More info at www.irinaabraham.com
Directors
Fedly Daniel
Fedly's studies in the Theatre started at Stony Brook University. It is there that he became a founding member of the student-run Stony Brook Actors Conservatory, where he starred in their productions of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein and Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
Fedly also completed a 2 year Meisner Technique program at Ted Bardy Acting Studio, where he currently teaches an acting technique class.
He then took to the NYC Theatre scene in where he performed in Diffractions Theatre's very successful production of The Bald Soprano directed by Roxane Revon.
He continued on the same path with Ma's Playhouse's Home directed by Antonevia Ocho-Coultes, The WhiteListed Theatre Company's Lost in Space Directed by Petar Varbanov, Price of Silence Theatre Company’s Blurred Lines of Justice directed by Jason J., and White Sky, Black Sky directed by Mathilde Schennen.
Fedly was featured in the Concrete Timbre production of Un Lieu de Vie at Gallery MC, and in several of its salon concerts.
Projections
Bob is a is a videographer and photographer. A California native. He moved to New York after teaching elementary school for 33 years.
A true Canon fan, Bob is usually seen carrying a camera and shoots photos at lightning speed. His photographs have been published in several books, publications, and internet sites.
Bob coordinates the technical aspects of live performance projections, and works to provide contextual settings for all Concrete Timbre performances. He has worked creating videos, projections, and photo montages for productions by many innovators producing exciting music and theater in New York City.
Bob graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and has an M.A. from University of San Francisco.
Bob plays blues guitar and is a fan of Jimmy Thackery and Richard Thompson.
For more information, visit www.RobertMorton.net.
Robert Morton
Actors
Playwright
Composers
Musicians
In 1999, I founded Concrete Timbre as a studio performance group to create and record new music compositions, soundscapes, sound installations, and several theatrical sound designs. In 2005 we moved out of the studio and have since produced contemporary music in theatrical settings as well as theater performances that feature live music and sound including: 1776: A Fresh Start; Folie Pure; Coq tôt; Satie's Birthday Party; Un Lieu de Vie; Anna Strong's Laundry; Age of Pain(e); Voices of justice and consangunity...;
4 Wars; Dziewczyna; A/K/A Benjamin (Franklin's Women), and several salon series concerts. Each of these interdisciplinary productions featured the talents of more than
20 artists.
As a composer and sound designer, my compositions have been performed at many (many!) innovative performance spaces in New York, Paris, Baltimore, Buffalo, California, Tennessee, and Florida. I’ve been lucky to work with some really inspiring interdisciplinary artists with a flair for the contemporary(!) such as: Ladies First, Contrafunktus, Composers Concordance, The Chocolate Factory, Paracademia, Fifth Wave, and members of IRCAM.
So for now, I try to keep the music great, the story interesting, the visuals stimulating, and the movement fresh - and then of course, wind them into a spectacular melange. Merde!
For more information, visit www.AnnWarren.net
Ann Warren
Whitney George
Voyage de Ouf
4 performances only!
October 17, 2019 at 7:30 pm
October 18, 2019 at 7:30 pm
October 19, 2019 at 4:30 pm
October 19, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Playwright
Sylvaine Hinglais
Translation & English titles
Ann Warren & Rebecca Ballard
Original Music and Sound
Whitney George & Ann Warren
Director
Irina Abraham
Co-Director
Nathalie Bryant
Projections & Titles Design
Robert Morton
Lighting Design
Bentley Heydt
Set Design
Tim Abraham
Performers
Fedly Daniel (Ouf Palmé)
Tamara Sevunts (Solo Ouf)
Sylvaine Hinglais (Voix)
Musicians
Lindsey Eckenroth (Flute, Piano)
Evan Runyon (Double Bass, Guitar, Piano)
Joe Tucker (Percussion, Piano)
Whitney George is a composer and conductor who specializes in the use of mixed media to blur the distinctions between concert performance, installation art, and theater. Utilizing a wide variety of material including literary texts, silent film, stock footage, and visual arts, George's compositions are characterized by an immersive theatricality that thrives on collaboration in all phases of the creative process. Her affinity for the macabre, the fantastic, and the bizarre frequently gives rise to musical programs that evoke the traditions of phantasmagoria and melodrama, challenging musicians to experiment liberally with their stage personae, and audiences to widen the scope of their attention.
She is the artistic director and conductor of The Curiosity Cabinet, a chamber orchestra formed in 2009 whose members were culled from a network of close collaborators within New York's diverse new music scene. The Cabinet's live performances often engage playfully with the prototype of the classical concert, imbuing even non-theatrical compositions with elements of drama. The ensemble has participated in the inaugural CUNY New Music Festival and was invited as the ensemble-in-residence at the Hartford Women Composers Festival in 2012. She collaborated on Concrete Timbre productions of Un Lieu de Vie, 4 Wars, A/K/A Benjamin (Franklins's Women), 1776: A Fresh Start, and many salon series concerts.
George holds an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts, a masters degree from Brooklyn College Conservatory, and is currently continuing her studies as a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studied with David Del Tredici, David Olan, Bruce Saylor, and Tania Leon.
In addition to her composing and conducting, George teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory, works at the Hitchcock Institute of American Studies and is the Managing Director for New York’s American Modern Ensemble (AME).
For more information, visit www.whitneygeorge.com
University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street (corner of Rivington)
New York, NY 10002
The word OUF is French verlan (a cool slang spoken by Francophones) for the word FOU (crazy) which is essentially pronounced backwards! The show is an inventive theatrical production that’s a mosaic of allegorical skits, each with its own color, humor and emotion.
The music is live, original, and contemporary, evoking the magic of soaring dreams. The projections and lighting creatively allow performers to transform in front of the audience.
The language is French but we’ll make sure non-French speakers understand using English titles, gestures, and acting skills to make you think and feel!
Sylvaine Hinglais (Playwright, Director, Offstage Voice)
Sylvaine founded the Paris-based Compagnie Cosmopolite du Pierrot Lunaire to mount textual creations, but also to involve artists from different countries and different inspirations. She invents characters with original forms of expression. The polycultural character of the troop enables her work to have a focused reflection on strangeness, relationships to one another and to places, with characters seeking the concept of home. On a larger scale, she explores notions of territory and borders by being sensitive to the variety and gestural language of her cosmopolitan actors. She is also inspired by her own theatrical and academic music training.
Sylvaine has a Doctor of Letters from the Sorbonne in Paris and was a professor at Columbia University for 8 years. She invented an immersive language course, Français par le théâtre, and teaches at the Sorbonne and at the Alliance Française in Paris. Sylvaine regularly publishes the texts produced by the Pierrot Lunaire, as well as other theatrical monologues, dialogues, and sketches. She has published several books for youth, including Le Fabuleux Amour d’Aucassin & Nicolette.
Her past collaborations with Concrete Timbre include: Folie Pure, Le Bain de Mer en Point d’Orgue in Satie’s Birthday Party, Avec ou Sans Voix in Coq tôt, and Un Lieu de Vie.
Sylvaine Hinglais
Tamara is a Canadian-Armenian actress, originally from Montreal and now based in NYC. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she is fluent in six languages.
Off-Broadway credits include: Your Alice (BAM), Daybreak (Beckett Theatre), The Good Girl (59E59 Theatres) and Loose Canon (SoHo Playhouse). Regional credits include: Feste in Twelfth Night, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum amongst others at The Scranton Shakespeare Festival.
Film credits include: You Can’t Go Home Again (Lincoln Center), The Real American (Listapad International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, NYTVF…).
Recently, Tamara reprised her role as the Cheshire Cat in Your Alice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at The Arcola in London, and premiered new work, Black Garden by Gordon Penn, in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Opprimé.
For updates and a full list of credits, visit www.tamarasevunts.com
Tamara Sevunts
An interesting group of artists!
Lindsey Eckenroth, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, is a musicologist and flutist currently based in Brooklyn. After earning a degree in flute performance from New York University in 2008, Lindsey has dedicated herself to the performance of 20th- and 21st-century music. She has been a member of the interdisciplinary new music ensemble The Curiosity Cabinet since its inception in 2009. Recent performances include Huang Ruo's Bound with Fresh Squeezed Opera and Whitney George's Princess Maleine with dell'Arte Opera.
As a musicologist, Lindsey is currently pursuing her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is writing a dissertation on rockumentaries.
Her research interests include representations of popular music in documentary films, music and/as affective labor, rock stardom and celebrity, and psychogeography.
Lindsey works as Data Coordinator at RILM and has taught in the music department at Brooklyn College since 2010.
Lindsey Eckenroth
American bassist and composer Evan Runyon has performed with Klangforum Wien, The Knights, International Contemporary Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble and Talea Ensemble. He has worked directly with composers including Julia Wolfe, Rebecca Saunders, Louis Andriessen, Ana Sokolovic and George Lewis, and collaborated with Wye Oak, Emily Wells, Sam Amidon, the Miró Quartet, and members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Eighth Blackbird.
Evan is founder-director of antiphonal rock band Real Loud and double bass quartet Large Furniture, a member of L'Histoire ensemble Exceptet, and an enthusiastic collaborator across manifold musical genres. A prolific session musician, the tracks on which Evan has performed have combined streams in the tens of thousands.
His principal mentor was Robert Black, with whom he earned a postgraduate diploma. www.evanrunyon.com
Photo (by Mark DiOrio)
Evan Runyon
Joe Tucker
Born in Detroit, MI, percussionist Joe Tucker has made a name for himself as a performer of contemporary chamber music, broadway, and world music. Working both as a soloist and with various ensembles, Joe has played some of New York’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and Symphony Space.
He has also been a featured soloist on tours through North America and Europe. Throughout his career, Joe has worked with names like Eighth Blackbird, the Bang on a Can Allstars, So Percussion, Talujon Percussion, the Curiosity Cabinet (of which he co-directs), and trombone virtuoso Dave Taylor. As a world music proponent,
Joe has worked closely with Gamelan Yowana Sari, Gamelan Dharma Swara, the Arabic Orchestra of Manhattan, and the Arabesque Trio. He was featured in the Concrete Timbre productions of Un Lieu de Vie, 4 Wars, A/K/A Benjamin (Franklins's Women), and many salon series concerts.
Joe has studied with: Judy Moonert, Michael Lipsey, Matthew Ward, David Cossin, and David Colson. He continues to grow by learning from his friends and colleagues.
For more information, visit his website.
Ouf are on the train. Ouf wait for a bus, a truck, a boat.
Ouf walk straight ahead.
They come from everywhere, without knowing where they are going. Ouf feel violence and the need for love intimately intertwined.
Some sleep at a beach campsite, others at refugee camps.
Some dream of a lost face, others of being able to eat.
All hope to find a place in the sun. In the sun?
But as the earth turns, the sun moves constantly.
So, when do we get there?
Voyage de Ouf is made possible in part with public funds from
Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC.
LMCC serves, connects and makes space for artists and community.
Lighting Design
Bentley Heydt is an Asian American, disabled lighting designer based in NYC by way of Oklahoma, Ohio, and Pennsylvania for musical theater, theater, dance, opera, and live events whose work has been seen in NYC, PA, OH, OK, TX, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Bentley is grateful to be joining Concrete Timbre for Voyage de Ouf!
He enjoys challenging an audience to further their understanding of humans and empathy through storytelling and collaborations.
Thank you, the audience, for joining us at the theatre. MFA, Ohio University.
For more information, visit
Bentley Heydt
Translation & Titles
Rebecca Ballard is an American member of the French theatre Compagnie Cosmopolite du Pierrot Lunaire, which she joined in 2002. Rebecca has played a strong role in the production of the plays of Le Pierrot Lunaire since joining the group. She worked closely with Sylvaine Hinglais on translations of several of her plays from French to English, including Voyage de Ouf, which was produced in Paris, in French, in 2018.
She lives in Paris and in Dallas, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Master of Arts in Humanities (Writing, Rhetoric and Literary Theory) from the University of Texas, Arlington.
Rebecca Ballard
Set Design
Tim Abraham is a French American artist who is currently living and creating in Jersey City.
Born in New York, Tim moved to France at the age of two and came back to the US by the time he was 18. Having moved from city to city in France and Switzerland and then in the US, Tim was able to absorb both European and American culture.
His artistic work spans from large scale canvases to painted objects to murals. In 2016 he became interested in set design. In 2017 he received an Award for Best Scenic Design at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and has been creating sets since.
More information at www.timtasticart.com.
Tim Abraham
