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Theatre Reverb is young company of interdisciplinary artists from the United States and Central Europe that specializes in the creation of original theatre pieces and spectacles. The company was founded in early 2006 by Kristin Arnesen and Radoslaw Konopka and is dedicated to their mission of developing new work and collaborative pieces. Their work is influenced by silent cinema, popular culture, circus arts and classical Indian theatre which Kristin and Radoslaw studied together in Kerala India. Their productions are stylized and combine loose narrative, dance, video and spectacle with sampled material from mass media, popular culture and news headlines. Their live theatre pieces and video works have explored topical issues from militarism and fear culture to sexual politics and celebrity worship, though they are defined as much by their curiosity and humor as by their content. Christopher Thomas Gilkey joined the company soon after its inception and since that time the trio has created four original full-length theatre pieces and a number of short spectacles and film and video works that have been shown at venues throughout New York (e.g. Under St Marks, Teatro La Tea, The KGB Red Room Theatre, Galapagos Art Space and Joria Prductions). They have also presented works at The FRIGID New York Festival (2008) and the Boulder International Fringe Festival (2009). Theatre Reverb is in residency at Galapagos Art Space in New York where they perform and are the regular hosts of the cutting-edge series The Floating Kabarette. Since The company’s first full-length production was featured on the “Polsat International,” Polish satellite television network’s program Faces of America (Oblicza Ameryki, 2006). They won “Audience Choice” and “Sold Out” awards from their FRIGID festival production, ExcesSecret: “¿Guess What ‘It’s’ About?” (FRIGID New York, 2008), and also received project grants from the City University of New York (2007/2008). |