Breakthrough Arts Fest: A Mini-Festival Featuring Visual & Performing Arts
Collaborative Arts announces its lineup for Breakthrough Arts Fest: A Collaborative Arts mini-festival featuring visual and performing arts. Among the original work by New Brunswick artists included in the two weeklong festival are the world-premieres of one-act plays Baby Boom and Touch, and dance work Sentient. Breakthrough Arts Fest is being presented from May 16 through June 1.
Theater work consists of Baby Boom by Lia Romeo and directed by Laura Credidio, showing in repertory with Touch by Carrie Louise Nutt and directed by Christa Cillaroto. Also being staged is Wendy MacLeod’s Juvenilia, directed by Collaborative Arts artistic director Dan Swern, highlighting actors from Lab Theater, a Rutgers University student theater ensemble.
An original dance/theater piece, Sentient, directed by Avianna Perez, written in collaboration with Justin Woo is being performed by Collaborative Arts’ dance ensemble, Insurgo Stage Project. Sentient will be performed in repertory with The Day of Two Noons by graduating Rutgers University dance major, Morgan Hille Refakis, as well as Milestones: Dumping, by daring and hilarious spoken word/performance artist Pandora Scooter.
As part of ongoing efforts to make the work by New Brunswick playwrights more visible, the Breakthrough Arts Fest will include readings of four new works: Kevin Franklin’s Ivory for Ebony and Brett Williams’ The Revival directed by Dan Swern; Carrie Louise Nutt’s When Gods Walk the Earth directed by Christa Cillaroto; and Lia Romeo’s Green Whales directed by Brett Williams.
All dance and theater works will be presented in Downtown New Brunswick at the George Street Playhouse, located at 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901.
For a full calendar of events and ticket information please visit www.colab-arts.org/breakthrough-arts-fest. You can also make an inquiry or reservation by email at inquiry@colab-arts.org or by phone at (732) 993-5842.