Written by Shualee Cook • Directed by Dmitri Barcomi
Performed at Arts on Site at the National Queer Theater’s Queer Village Reading Series, October 2018
In 1895 New York, trans man Ambrose Carlton has a plan to beat the restrictive system around him and live as himself as much as possible - to find a bride at Roland "Laureline" Reeves' infamous Cercle Hermaphroditos, a social club for "androgynes" (aka, trans women). Ambrose hopes to find a lady there he can marry legally while still pursuing the life they want in private. But finding the proper match becomes more difficult than he expected, especially after the club is raided by police and the fragile safe place Laureline has created threatens to break apart for good.
Written by Seth Majnoon • Directed by Dmitri Barcomi
The Brick theater, 2018.
Starring AJ Dresdale, Alex Guhde, Rae Haas, Kate-Seren Sonell • Lighting Design by Evan Kerr • Costume design by Anna Marie Hurdle • Stage Manager Nat DiMario
Crucifixion Sun is the final Good Friday sermon of the least repentant itinerant preacher in the Southwest, a passion play with all the moral fiber of a Western. A homeless teenager and a discredited saint journey down the I-5 highway, a landscape ridden with unscrupulous angels and reactionary congregants, who pursue the unlikely pair as they head toward the crossroads between sanctification and destitution, trying their damnedest to dodge queer martyrdom.
Written by Darrel Alejeando Holnes. Movement by Jonathan Gonzalez. Produced by Margaret Champagne.
Starring Cornelius Davidson & DeVante Lewis.
The Brick Theater.
When Shaquille returns from war in Afghanistan to his childhood home in small-town Louisiana, he fights for his life against his inner demons as a hurricane approaches the Gulf Coast. This theatrical journey into PTSD explores the depths of a soldier's mind and the hidden corners of American history.
The Chaos of Triperuno
Written by Teofilo Folengo • Conceived and directed by Dmitri Barcomi
Adapted by Dmitri Barcomi & Majnoon el-Helou
Infamous yet forgotten Renaissance bad boy and author Teofilo Folengo, a Benedictine monk-turned-poet, will guide you through a literary mixtape swirling languages and mysticism, adapted by Dmitri Barcomi from the 1527 satirical fantasy poem The Chaos of Triperuno. The Chaos of Triperuno explores love and morality with magic and humor, in a multidisciplinary adaptation of a never before staged work.
La Mama Theater, November 2017.
Photos by Stephen Delas.
Adapted and performed by Eri Nox • Directed by Dmitri Barcomi • Based on the poem by T.S. Eliot • Music by Dexter Driscoll
An electronic dance opera-odyssey through TS Eliot's iconic poem: part rave, part multimedia installation, this dark, dystopian clusterf*ck follows genderqueer Tiresias on a quest through the seediest hovels and holes in Trump's 'Murica. Devised and performed by internationally unrenowned power-bottom Eri Borlaug (Brooklyn's self-proclaimed Kween of Electronic Dance Opera), expect to dance as you enter the glam/grunge underworld of 'Murica in a 50-minute party/theatrical event.
Production History
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, August 2017
Cloud City, Brooklyn, April 2018
X-FILES: The Highly Classified Wholly Unauthorized Musical
Written & Directed by Dmitri Barcomi • Music & Lyrics by Dexter Driscoll
Shoot the Lobster Gallery | The Club @ La MaMa | 2016
FBI agents and paranormal investigators Scully & Mulder encounter a bizarre piece of alien technology that has the power to alter life as we know it... past, present, and future. Strange truths are revealed in a race against time to save one man's life and the world itself... A delightfully spooky musical adventure with songs by Dexter Driscoll and an original script by Dmitri Barcomi.
The Topography Between (a New York radio love song)
Written by Zachary Miceli • Directed by Dmitri Barcomi
Produced by Reginald Van Lee
The New York International Fringe Festival, Soho Playhouse
In a play world set in the New York unconscious to a live R&B band, Rodney and Callisto yearn for each other from across vast urban topographical divides. They are lovers; one is waiting for an HIV test in a city clinic and one, inside the walls of a central bookings jail cell, is waiting to see a judge. As they inhabit these anticipatory institutional spaces, each comes into contact with mysterious strangers who constantly seem to be poised on the brink of revelation.
Featuring: Sydney Afriye, Ian Blom, Therese Dizon, Sekou Luke, Ian Palmer
The Band: Yanice Cotto, Francisco D’Ferreiro, Mark Oleszko, Jordan Robinson
Music Direction by Mark Oleszko • Lighting Design by Heidi Fink • Stage Manager Morgan Stevenson
3SISTERS, OR: If we Could Only Get to Greenwich Village
Conceived & Directed by Dmitri Barcomi • Written by Dmitri Barcomi & Anton Chekhov
HOT! Festival, Dixon Place
3SISTERS, Or: If We Could Only Get to Greenwich Village is what would have happened if Anton Chekhov wrote his plays at a gay bar. A humorous theatrical mélange utilizing Chekhov’s play Three Sisters and original writing to explore the familial bonds created by queers, 3SISTERS is a short comedic piece about three sisters/queens: Olga, the 33 year old washed up old slut, Masha, a 23 year old wannabe slut trapped in a stifling marriage, and Irina, jailbait princess. Sexual secrets are uncovered and tempers spark as the sisters explore love, sex, and their yearning to return to Greenwich Village.
Willi B. Wilde Presents: A Living Room Spectacular
Conceived, Curated, and Hosted by Dmitri Barcomi
Dixon Place
Drag personality Willi B. Wilde acts as emcee/hostess to a fresh lineup of artists for an unforgettable evening that is part talk show, part drag revue. Live performances are accompanied by a discussion about the artists and their work with hostess, art critic, and interviewer Willi. Featured guest artists include drag king Archie Liebling and pop star Dexter.
A Living Room Spectacular is a transient art salon created and curated by Dmitri Barcomi, hosted in living rooms and art venues throughout New York City. The salon features performances and readings of new theatrical works, poetry, and music. Founded in 2016, the Spectacular is a bohemian solution to creating art under capitalism. We are the artistic cockroaches of the city whose creativity shall thrive under any circumstances.
U-Haul to the Moon
Written by Seth Majnoon | Directed by Dmitri Barcomi
Manhattan Repertory Theater
Two futuristic space explorers crash land on the moon. As they explore both the lunar topography and their own emotional landscape, they discover ancient remnants of another pair of moonwalkers whose presences linger and whose history mirrors their own: Ruby and June, founders of a lesbian separatist moon colony.
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
Written by Charles Busch • Directed by Dmitri Barcomi
Eugene Lang College, April 2015
Join Upper West Side dilettante Marjorie Taub as her and her family's lives are sent into upheaval by the mysterious arrival of an old friend. Hilarious and heretical, this intellectual comedy is sensual and silly, guaranteed to amuse, enlighten, and possibly offend.
