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
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.
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.
