Test/Break - come test and break two new virtual works!

Test/Break returns Friday, August 20th at 2:30pm ET time!

Join us as we test/break two new works! This session will run 2 hours. If you have a project that you'd like to submit to test/break please see below. We're currently looking for projects for the fall. Thanks!

PROJECT
Severe Clear is largely an interactive story about choices; no matter how minor or how great, you must make choices each and every minute that passes. The irony of life is that it is a one-way journey. You cannot go back, you cannot make comparisons by trying one way and then another. Severe Clear is also about how we witness life and how we process the thought of the natural end of our lives, our own death, awkwardly. We were greatly affected by the 9/11 catastrophe. Death at that scale was unthinkable. The twin towers crumbling from an act of war was unthinkable. My mother intimately understood that death was a part of life and strived to instill that acceptance into me. Severe Clear is my story.

ARTISTS
James Scruggs is a writer, performer, producer, who creates virtual online interactive pieces, screenplays and large scale topical, theatrical, multi-media work usually focused on inequity or gender politics. His work often puts audience members into challenging positions. Currently
he’s working on a new piece, Bravado which will be a trans-media piece about the virus of hatred and his intimate connection to 9/11. James Scruggs has a BFA in Film from School of Visual Arts. www.jamesscruggs.com.

Kristin Marting is a director and creative producer of hybrid work based in NYC. She has constructed 30 works for the stage (9 original hybrid works, 9 opera-theatre and music-theatre works, 9 adaptations of novels
& short stories and 5 classic plays). Recipient of two prestigious MAP Fund awards, named a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution, a Leader to Watch by Art Table and honored with a BAX10 Award. Kristin is Founding Artistic Director of HERE and co-founding director of PROTOTYPE: opera theatre now.

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PROJECT
THIS OCEAN BETWEEN is a story circus. "What is a story circus?" you wonder. "Well, that's just it!" I respond. It is a place for wondering. For wandering. For wondering and wandering about and through stories and what they can be. In other words, THIS OCEAN BETWEEN is an immersive place and an immersive practice built to support writing and reading in a more instinctual, imaginative, multilinear and performative way.

ARTIST
Olivia Powell is a writer, artist and director who wonders what else stories can be and do. Embracing a poetic sensibility, she experiments across narrative forms and creates works that are often described as “the bedtime stories that we forgot to tell.” Olivia has a background in film and theatre, an MA in digital storytelling, and a passion for exploring story development processes that are experimental, instinctual, imaginative and accessible. In 2020, her co-devised short film, M.A.R.Y., was shortlisted for the international Lumen Prize, and in 2021, her VR writing performance, With words that don’t exist, featured at the VoxLab theatre residency at Dartmouth College.

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STORYTELLERS WANTED!
Are you a storyteller working with emerging media? Do you have something that you'd like to test/break with a live audience?

Test/Break has a rolling application process. We're currently curating works for October, November and December. Do you have something you'd like to test and break? We'd love to hear from you.

Please apply here https://forms.gle/5KZm2hDRf4DeNBYN9