The Institute of Useless Activity’s THIS AND THAT co-created by Phil Soltanoff and Steven Wendt

The Institute of Useless Activity’s 

THIS AND THAT 

co-created by Phil Soltanoff and Steven Wendt

Artist Rebecca Purdum, 1985, Artist Studio

 Artist Rebecca Purdum, 1985, Artist Studio, 

from The Artist Project, 

a comprehensive survey of artist working in New York in the 1980s

Playwight Liba Vaynberg, The Gett, Rattlestick Theater, 2022

Playwight Liba Vaynberg, Rattlestick Theater, 2022

The Gett, 

Playwright - Liba Vaynberg

Director - Daniella Topol

​Featuring (in alphabetical order)

Baal - Ben Edelman

Ida - Liba Vaynberg

Other Man - Luis Vega

Mama - Jennifer Westfeldt

​Creative Team (in alphabetical order)

Magic Consultant - Alexander Boyce

Technical Director - Nicholas Brester

Intimacy Director - Daniella Caggiano

Production Manager - Teresa Cruz, Kasper Klop

Master Electrician - Dariel Garcia

Dramaturg - Matt Green

Production Stage Manager - Allison Hohman

Set Designer - Misha Kachman

Sound Designer - Megumi Katayama

Associate Sound Designer - Keirsten Lamora

Costume Designer - Johanna Pan

Light Designer - Paul Whitaker

Playwright Victor I. Cazares, "American (Tele)visions" on stage at NYTW, 2022

Playwright Victor I. Cazares

New York Theater Workshop 2022

(Tele)visions

by Victor I. Cazares

Directed by Rubén Polendo

A co-production with Theater Mitu

Cast

Clew- JESSE/ALEJANDRO

Raúl Castillo- OCTAVIO

Ryan J. Haddad-JEREMY

Elia Monte-Brown-MARIA XIMENA

Bianca "b" Norwood- ERICA

Scenic & Costume Design Bretta Gerecke

Specialty Costumes Mondo Guerra

Lighting Design Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew

Technology Design Theater Mitu (Kelly Colburn, Alex Hawthorn, Justin Nestor)

Casting Caparelliotis Casting (David Caparelliotis/Joseph Gery)

Fight Director J. David Brimmer

Intimacy Director Andy Arden-Reese

A long, long time ago—the ‘90s—in a Walmart far, far away, Erica, our Hero of Ages Lost, pushes her shopping cart—that most sacred ancient vessel of capitalism—through the aisles of a memory play. american (tele)visions is an explosive collision between the American Dream and the American Nightmare—the story of an undocumented Mexican family.

NYTW Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares