Jeff worked throughout the month of November, 2024, with a quartet of actors under the auspices of Common Productions (Al Zoe Schneider and Julie Kimbrell) in Thomas, West Virginia. The other two performers were Trish Fuentes and Cara Danae with help from Josh Stevens. Jeff directed an exploration centered on several techniques developed by Fay and Glassman as applied in a portion of the score and script for their new production Action at a Distance, culminating with a final showing and extended conversation with the audience. November 1-30, 2023
Fay|Glassman Performance, with actor Mark Enslin, conducted a week-long residency at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. The residency included a full evening performance of works from the repertory, as well as a slew of classroom talks and public workshops. October 17-24, 2023
“Krannert Art Museum is proud to present an artist talk, workshop, and performance demonstration by Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo in conjunction with Pattern and Process, an exhibition encouraging viewers to investigate how pattern can create and challenge our ways of knowing and interpreting the world. Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo are a composing and performing movement-based theatre duo, working together since 1991.” Fay/Glassman Performance’s artist talk and workshop is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council Agency. September 16, 2023
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman received an llinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) Artist Fellowship for New Performance Forms - 2023: “The intent of the Artist Fellowship Program is to enrich and strengthen the state of Illinois by supporting accomplished Illinois artists who are the foundation of Illinois' creative environment. The Artist Fellowship Program recognizes exceptional artists who have created a substantial body of work throughout their career by providing awards to support continued artistic growth.” IACA April, 2023
Lisa Fay received a SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION AWARD: Each spring, Diversity & Social Justice Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign honors outstanding community members whose work to address marginalization, oppression, and privilege has led to critical awareness, perspective taking, and equity-action in their community. April, 2023
Lisa's article Towards a Rattling of the Everyday: performance scores and graphic notation is now published in the current issue of Journal of Performance Research in the UK. The article elaborates on Fay's innovative formal conceptualizations and their requisite techniques that allow for composing complexities of time in the medium of movement. Performance Research is a specialist performance arts journal published bi-monthly. It is an independent, peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Performance Research is based in the UK and Berlin. Summer, 2023
Zan Zendegi Azadi: a play on contagious courage in Iran by a collective of artist women from Iran with collaborative creation and direction from Lisa Fay, was performed for one time only at Channing Murray Foundation on the edge of the UIUC campus, December 6th, followed by a discussion with the full cast and audience. An overflow audience were accommodated in the main hall of Channing Murray, while many had to be turned away at the door. The performance, all original material by the ensemble, lasted one hour followed by discussion went for on for nearly as long. December, 2022
Jeff conducted a series of fourteen experimental movement theatre lab sessions under the auspices of the Vernal & Sere Theatre and the Windmill Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia during the month of October, 2022. Part of the project was to find out more about the workings of the composition Action at a Distance. The labs were attended by a group of 4-8 (depending on the day and scheduling) actors who were involved with V&S and other film, tv, and live theatre in the city. Since October, Lisa and Jeff, along with Vernal & Sere, have been designing a residency for Fay|Glassman for one month in the spring of 2023. This would hopefully come together with funding from the Georgia Counsel for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and Network of Ensemble Theatres. Fall, 2022
We are currently completing and refining the composition and score for Action at a Distance, and moving ahead on two shorter works for solo performers, while biding our time and applying for grants that would make it possible to return to work on the full realization of Action at a Distance. If funding comes through, we will be working intensively in 2023-2024 in Santa Fe with the actors of Theater Grottesco with whom we explored the piece in 2018. Waiting…waiting. The pandemic is doing its thing. But so are we. July, 2022
Lisa Fay was immersed in work with Anton Kreuger on a new one person show for the South African National Arts Festival slated for June and July 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the festival was reconfigured into an online event. Lisa Fay received a Connection Grant from Network of Ensemble Theaters to support the development of an alternative online work for the Virtual South African National Arts Festival held in July 2020
https://nationalartsfestival.co.za
Lisa Fay received assistance from the Foundation for Contemporary Art through its FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund in July 2020. In this time of the pandemic we think back to the incredible support given to us by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. While it’s sadly dark now, we look forward to the Center’s renewed role when the time comes to move beyond the pandemic.
Also sad, is the closing of the Prop Thtr, ending its legendary decades of operation on Elston Ave. in Chicago. So many people have added meaning to their lives at Prop. Stefan Brün let it be known. A new era will begin shortly.
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TWO PIECES by Lisa FAY
January 18th Saturday 2pm 2020
January 19th Sunday 7pm 2020
part of the Curious Theatre Branch Rhino Festival
https://rhinofest.com/two-pieces
Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston Avenue, Chicago IL 60618
Tickets $15 at the link below, or at the door, or contributions accepted more or less
https://www.dime.io/events/two-pieces/
Two movement-and-text theater pieces from Fay/Glassman Performance. HUNG: Performed by Jeff Glassman, composed by Lisa Fay. One coat rack and a character. “and so on - this oscillation between two not whats. Poof. Fizzle. Out. Not a big moment. Hardly a noticeable. Just out.” LICKETY SPLIT AND OTHER FORMS OF COLLAPSE: Performed by Mark Enslin and Jeff Glassman. Composed and directed by Lisa Fay. Understated political satire with hiccups - a lecturer without words pulls the plug, a rug, the wool, and a fast one. In between, two breadwinners vie for the spot of lowest bidder. Going, going... Featuring the Redundant Workers Song of Obsolescence. Graphic scores notating the inner workings of these pieces will be displayed. Fay’s work has been referred to as “surreal vaudeville” by The New Orleans Times-Picayune. The creation of these works was supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council and an Urbana Public Arts Grant, and produced by Fay Glassman Performance.
In the works: Three sessions of month long development and rehearsal work followed by premier performances in Santa Fe and Albuquerque of the new ensemble work Action at a Distance by Jeff Glassman and Lisa Fay as performed by four Theater Grottesco actors.
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In the works: a two month residency as the first artist residency by a new ensemble establishing a new theatre venue in Thomas, West Virginia. This is slated for spring or summer of 2021. Workshops, intensive sessions, work on new work, and presentations will be organized for the ensemble and for the community.
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The Great Performance Project of 2019 concluded last summer,
a rather audacious title, but it has a history with us.
We taught an intensive one-week workshop for young people, roughly high-school age, July 22-26 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, funded in part by a grant from the City of Urbana Arts and Culture Grant Program. We combined skills with Kvn Tajzae, an actor, musician, playwright and screenwriter, working nationally and internationally.
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In Chicago June 28th-30th 2019 at Prop Thtr:
Jeff will be exhibiting and explaining several of our scores and participating on an artist panel at the following symposium:
Chicago Laboratory for ElectroAcoustic Theatre, Prop Thtr, and Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), presents Curious E.A.T.S. (ELECTRO ACOUSTIC THEATRE SYMPOSIUM), a three-day event exploring the relationship between theatre, multichannel sound, experimental music, and technology.
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Plans are being made for the eventual continuation and completion of work on Action at a Distance in league with Prop Thtr and four determined performers, possibly involving Theater Grottesco as well. We are beginning a year of preparation for this.
Chaotic Structures/ Action at a Distance – The Magazine
https://themagsantafe.com/chaotic-structures/
Between September 6th and October 10th, 2018, we rehearsed the first 11 minutes of
Action at a Distance
for purposes of our learning how to perform the composition, and to bring audiences in on the collaboration through discussion after viewing the work. This was done in Santa Fe, in collaboration with Theater Grottesco. Thirteen showings with discussion were performed in Albuquerque at the Q-Staff Theatre, and in Santa Fe at the Santa Fe Playhouse, all in October, 2018. The rehearsal work and the showings were exceptionally fulfilling. Prospects for mounting the complete work in the future are excellent.
Colliding Plays | Santa Fe Arts Journal
https://santafeartsjournal.com/2018/09/colliding-plays/
Action at a Distance is created, written and directed by Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo; realized and performed by Koppany Pusztai, John Flax, Danielle Reddick, Tara Khozein (collectively, Theater Grottesco).
The piece entwines six independent playscripts as they are cut into short parts and organized according to the geometric proportions of a cube. Multiple simultaneous plays are in motion on stage at the same time. The actors apply a set of techniques to accomplish this, invented through the previous work of Fay and Glassman such as "pivot-montage" "manifesting absence" "uncanny coordination" and "contra-diction." The piece follows a scored structure that functions as an "instrument" or framework that relates the actors to one another like players in a jazz quartet or a string quartet. Character, actor, part and play all are in flux, with repetition, and variation built in.
Preliminary rehearsal work was done with Kate Arvin, Ben Michaelis, and Susana Bailén Acevedo in Olympia, Washington 2016-2017.
This work was made possible with a Network of Ensemble Theaters travel grant. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Theater Grottesco in Santa Fe, NM and Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo received a NET/TEN Travel Grant (from Network of Ensemble Theatres), with additional support from the Illinois Arts Council, to support three weeks of rehearsals in September or October 2018 in Santa Fe with both companies together in order to realize public performances of "Quartet" (provisional title Action at a Distance) by Theatre Grottesco directed by Lisa and Jeff. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
In California, Qilo Matzen was joined by musician Brian Peterson in two performances of Lisa Fay's piece Still/Pulse, choreographed in June 2016. The first was an October 27th Performance Salon at the Finnish Hall in Berkeley, and the second was a December 15th Milkbar Salon in Richmond.
Lisa and Jeff are offering a 5-week, 8 credit, course called Experimental Ensemble Theatre Lab at The Evergreen State College, as part of the 2nd Session, Summer 2018. The students participating will work together as an originating ensemble, creating their own ideas through works that will be presented publically at the end of the five weeks.
Jeff worked with the actors of Theater Grottesco for a week in January as the introduction to the new composiiton "Quartet" for four actors which he and Lisa will bring to Grottesco this spring and summer, pending additional grant support.
Jeff conducted workshops in January for a group of invited actors in NYC who were brought together by Rick Burkhardt in relation to his play opening at New York Theatre Workshop "Next Door" in March, teaching them extended techniques in movement for theatre.
Feb 23 – Lisa Fay “The Artist as Artist: An Insistence”
“Art + Activism: Transforming Silence into Action” – Spring 2018
UIUC University YMCA, Champaign, Illinois
Activism is often focused on responding to negative and oppressive institutions and societal practices. This series highlights the unique role art plays in asserting positive, creative visions of the future during times of strife. Artists confront social issues through innovative pathways, working on the level of emotional connection and impact rather than reiterating facts and arguments.
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Illinois Arts Council support! We are pleased that Fay|Glassman Performance has been awarded an organization support grant from the Illinois Arts Council agency. This grant will help us to sustain projects into the coming year, specifically in the creation, rehearsal and work-in-progress showings of Action at a Distance, a new work realized in conjunction with Theater Grottesco in Santa Fe. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. It is supported also through generous in-kind assistance through our creative residency at Krannert Center.
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“Arts in Community: Arts-Based Outreach as Avenue for Wellness”
Lisa Fay and Rachel Lauren Storm, M.Ed. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and City of Urbana
In this session, participants will be invited to engage in an arts-based exploration of the inclusive power of creative dialogue in supporting community wellness. Counseling center clinicians will gain a deeper awareness of multiculturally-competent outreach and intervention possibilities through incorporating arts practices into outreach and clinical work through an exploration of unique arts- based community engagement programs in the Champaign-Urbana campus-community. Using the Urbana-Champaign campus and greater community as a case study, we’ll examine a varietyof performance-based projects (Open Scene, INNER VOICES Social Issues Theater, Writ n’ Rhymed, Healing Works, Black Herstory Slam, and more) how these projects address a multitude of issues from bridging the campus-community divide to creating conversations on social issues (such as power, privilege, oppression on macro and micro levels), efforts support the cultivation of this social space for rich civic dialogue vital to the wellness of community. Session participants will work collaboratively to identify best practices and key strategies for the role of the arts in advocacy, support, and empowerment.
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Lisa and Jeff appeared at Indiana University East in Richmond Indiana September 7th for a performance and workshop.
A link is here: Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman at Indiana University East
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Lisa Fay was the first Artist-In-Residence in the inaugural program of the new OPEN SCENE project awarded a grant by the NEA. For this residency Lisa worked in collaboration with Co-Artists-In-Residence, the group "Hill L. Waters" comprised of Dominique Hill and Durell Callier. For OPEN SCENE, The City of Urbana and the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center received a $50,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for an arts-based program that involves youth. The only other Illinois entity to receive an "Our Town" grant was the Art Institute of Chicago! The grant program supports creative projects that help transform communities into lively and resilient places, with arts at their core. Together the three artists worked intensively with a vibrant group of young people, using the facilities of the UCIMC for this highly successful series of workshops. Friday, April 14th 6-8pm - Theatrical performance and artist-facilitated dialogue.Sunday, April 16th 2-4pm - Showcase of youth creative ensemble and community discussion.
Video: OPEN SCENE Lisa Fay and Hill L. Waters Residency
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International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women, took place for the first time on March 8, 1911. The United Nations has sponsored International Women’s Day since 1975. When adopting its resolution on the observance of International Women's Day, the United Nations General Assembly cited the following reasons: “To recognize the fact that securing peace and social progress and the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms require the active participation, equality and development of women; and to acknowledge the contribution of women to the strengthening of international peace and security.”
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Women’s Resources Center celebrates local leaders in honor of International Women’s Day 2017
This year’s International Women’s Day Distinguished Honorees include:
LISA FAY Director, Inner Voices Social Issues Theater
International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the economic, political and social achievements of women, took place for the first time on March 8, 1911. The United Nations has sponsored International Women’s Day since 1975. When adopting its resolution on the observance of International Women's Day, the United Nations General Assembly cited the following reasons:
“To recognize the fact that securing peace and social progress and the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms require the active participation, equality and development of women; and to acknowledge the contribution of women to the strengthening of international peace and security.”
The Women’s Resources Center is sponsoring International Women’s Day Celebration on March 8th, 2017 from 9:30am–11am at the iHotel and Conference Center, Alma Mater Ballroom. This annual celebration, in conjunction with International Women’s Day celebrations all over the globe, honors local efforts in our campus-community to improve the lives of women across the globe. The Women’s Resources Center, together with numerous units on campus, is excited to honor the work of scholars and activists in our campus-community whose work has helped improved communities all over the globe! Our honorees this year represent a wide-range of achievements within the fields of education, health care, policy, history, and social work.
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Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo returned this summer to Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, UIUC, to work intensively on creative development of Folding Time: an origami of the everyday.
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Jeff was offered another one-year visiting faculty position in Performing Arts at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, September 2016 - June 2017. He created and taught a one-year program for 50 students with Arun Chandra, music composer and teaching collaborator at Evergreen, focused on experimentation in theatre and music. One component of this project was a twice weekly experimental performance lab for innovation in the domain of theatre with emphasis on movement and gesture, that takes untried and uncertain ideas some distance toward their realization in theatre compositions.
During May, Lisa Fay returned to Evergreen as Artist-In-Residence and worked with the students in this program, presenting her work, ideas and philosophy.
Joining Lisa was Qilo Matzen, dancer from the Bay Area, who performed a new choreographic work by Lisa Fay titled PULSE and Jeff Glassman performed the Lisa Fay movement-based theatre composition 'napse. A discussion with the audience followed.
Additionally, many sessions were held with two performers for the purpose of further construction of specialized techniques in acting necessary for the eventual realization of the performance work "Quartet."
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We performed works by Lisa Fay at the recent international conference of the American Society for Cybernetics in Olympia, Washington, June 1-5, 2016. As has been true many times in the past, we enjoyed insights and converstions we don't get anywhere else, always stimulating. It was a great audience to perform for. Mark Enslin and Jeff did the performing. Mark Enslin was excellent. Lisa was author and director, of her "Lickety Split and other forms of collapse", and "Hung", and also directed "The Alarmist."
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We conducted a 9-day residency March 19th-27th, 2016, for performing arts students and faculty at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. This included the creation of a new piece set on the senior dance students to premier in the spring dance concert at Kenyon. We also did a public presentation of ideas, and a special presentation to music students. It was an incredible week with amazing intelligent students and faculty-artists. The seniors then continued to rehearse the piece with faculty Balinda Craig-Quijada and Kora Radella up to the weekend of concerts. We heard it went excellently in performance and was received with high praise and interest.
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On February 25th, 2016, for our participation in the Rhino Festival of The Curious Theatre Branch held at The Prop Thtr every year, Jeff Glassman read the part of Eugene Ionesco in a performed reading of the interview with Ionesco by Shusha Guppy that was published in the Paris Review in 1984. Jennifer Moniz read the part of Shusha Guppy. Quite an interview. You can read it here.
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The first stage of a collaboration between Yu Jin Gyu, Lisa Fay, and Jeff Glassman took place in Seoul, South Korea, from Nov. 8th to Nov. 26th 2015. First performances of the results were on November 18th and 19th at the Dongsoong Arts Center in the Daehangno district in Seoul. Yu Jin Gyu and Jeff worked together in a studio in Seoul for one week, collaborating with Lisa via skype and email. The performance consisted of three solos by Yu Jin Gyu, alternating with three solos created by Lisa and Jeff. A final piece, the longest, was the result of the prepared time in the studio and involved Yu Jin Gyu and Jeff together in a silent piece called "Precariat." Supported in part by a
generous City of Urbana Arts Grant and by a Network of Ensemble Theaters NET/TEN travel grant.
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The second session of Theatre of the Hummingbird took place at the Community Center for the Arts (C4A) in downtown Urbana, corner of Race and Main Sts. on December 27,28,29,30. The project was for the writing and performing of participant's theatrical works generated in the short period of a few days, and to show those works to a public audience at the conclusion. Contact C4A for details and to participate in the next project. Nine young people participated in the workshops and created a performance of their creation, performed on Dec. 30 2015. As expected, the experience was excellent. Supported in part by a
City of Urbana Arts Grant.
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Fay|Glassman Performance was recently awarded a transformative New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) Capacity Building Grant for the reconstruction and upgrading of the portable "flats," set pieces, costumes, props, lighting devices and sound devices to enhance performances and enable expanded touring for new performance works by Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo.
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from NETWORK OF ENSEMBLE THEATERS
"We are pleased to announce the 2014-15 Spring Travel Grant Recipients!"
Fay|Glassman Performance (Urbana, IL) will engage in a 3-week artistic exchange with Jung Dae Kyung, chair of the Korea Small Theater Association (Seoul, South Korea), and Yu Jin Gyu, director of the Chuncheon International Mime Festival (Chuncheon, South Korea). The artists will share composition and performance techniques to manifest the core structure of an evening-length work and develop international touring strategies.
Network of Ensemble Theaters
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NEFA Finalists
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo was selected May 2015 as finalists entered into the final round of consideration for a grant award from the National Theatre Project: Creation and Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA)
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THREE RECENT INTERVIEWS:
INTERVIEW for ARTS COUNCIL KOREA, December 2014 conducted by YU JIN-GYU, Director of the Chuncheon International Mime Festival
webzine ARKO:http://webzine.arko.or.kr/load.asp?subPage=10.View&searchCate=03&pageType=Webzine&page=1&idx=257
INTERVIEW for SMILE POLITELY, January 2015, the independent, online, culture magazine, conducted by MATHEW GREEN: http://smilepolitely.com/arts/theatre_of_the_hummingbird/
ARTICLE for SMILE POLITELY, May 2015, the independent, online, culture magazine, written by Cope Cumpston:http://www.smilepolitely.com/culture/an_abecedarian_amble_through_cu_x_is_for_x-perimental/
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CURRENTLY ONGOING
Artists-In-Residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in a creative residency, 2014-2015
Artists-In-Residence at Daehangno Small Theatre Festival (D.FESTA), through the Korea Small Theatre Association, Korean Arts Council and the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. This includes performances in Seoul and two other cities, as well as master-classes and workshops for professional actors, and at universities, November-December, 2014, and continuing project for fall, 2015
Plans for a future artistic collaboration on a new production between a Korean artist and ourselves is in progress. More to say about that soon.
We are a Resident Company at the PROP THTR in Chicago, the oldest surviving off-loop, non-equity theater in Chicago. http://www.propthtr.org
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Quintets for a Quartet
1 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2015
1 p.m. Sunday, February 22, 2015
Five performers take ordinary human behaviors and untangle them at their core, twisting apart strands of speech from the speaker, time and place from the location, and character from the actor and scene, in order to twist them back together in a manner more like music composition than storytelling. This rigorously playful work comes out of a nine-week experimental creation and rehearsal period in Urbana, Illinois, involving the five performers with Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman. We invite you to this experiment.
Written by:
Jeff Glassman
Directed by:
Jeff Glassman with Lisa Fay
Performed by:
Brook Celeste
Keith McKenney
Yael Beretta
Austin McCann
JuliaWilliams
The performance lasts 45 minutes.
1 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2015
1 p.m. Sunday, February 22, 2015
On the Web:
Rhino Festival: http://curioustheatrebranch.com/rhinofest/2015/shows/quintets_for_a_quartet.php
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman: www.lisafayandjeffglassmanduo.org
The 26th Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival
at the
Prop Thtr
3502 N. Elston • Chicago
Elston near Kedzie and Addison
Quintets for a Quartet
Tickets
$15 (or pay-what-you-can more or less) at the door
$12 in advance online
Reservations
By phone: (773) 492-1287
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THEATRE OF THE HUMMINGBIRD
PERFORMANCES WENT WONDERFULLY WELL
The six participants in Theatre of the Hummingbird performed their newly created half-hour composition two times for public audiences at Pizza M on Sunday, March 8th, 2015. All the performance material was written by the participants, who also made the directorial decissions. Audiences were full. Responses were predominantly from people deeply impressed with the depth of ideas, and skill of performance. Plans are now being made for the next stage of the project this summer or fall.
BELOW IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE PROJECT'S BEGINNING:
Theatre of the Hummingbird
This is a pilot project for a community-based, youth-driven, participatory theater project. Participants ages 14-20 (slightly flexible) will be led by local national and international theater artists Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman, creating live theater originated and performed by the participants, centered around themes that are important to them.
ABOUT Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo:
www.lisafayandjeffglassmanduo.org
Meeting Friday and Saturday evenings for four weekends in a row (skipping Feb. 20-21), we’ll develop and refine a theater performance — this could include incorporating spoken word, music, movement and dance depending on the participants. Along the way we’ll work out ways to convey our ideas effectively, and at the end of the project we will perform our work for family, friends, and the general public.
Why Hummingbird? The Hummingbird embodies a compelling design principal for this project in particular, and community-based theater work more generally: While nourishing itself with nectar from flowers, the hummingbird also pollinates the flowers.
Workshop: Theatre of the Hummingbird
Instructors: Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman
Meeting times:
4 weekends: February (6-7)(13-14)(27-28) March (6-7-8)
Fridays and Saturdays 6-9:00 PM
Sunday (March 8) matinee and evening times TBA
No sessions on February 20-21
Location: C4A Community Center for the Arts
Studios, room 7 Downtown Urbana
103 N Race St,
Urbana, Illinois
Performance venues TBA.
Ages: 14 – 20 (slightly flexible)
Prerequisites: The project will culminate in performances therefore we ask that participants be able to commit to the entire series of sessions.
Dress: Comfortable clothes that you can move in.
Cost: The project is offered FREE to interested area youth with a suggested, BUT NOT REQUIRED, donation of $75.00 per participant (we are raising funds to cover costs.)
This project supported by a City of Urbana Arts Grant
Registration: Register online at
http://c-4a.org/offerings/register/ (and choose button "spring semester performance arts")
or Search: www.c-4a.org
or Contact: info@c-4a.org 217-384-5150
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MAAF (Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation) through their USArtists International program has awarded Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo a grant for travel and performance in the Daehangno Small Theatre Festival (D.Festa) during the upcoming tour to South Korea
November 22-December 8, 2014
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/pat_presentation/us_artists/index.html
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We were Artists-In-Residence at Daehangno Small Theatre Festival (D.FESTA), through the Korea Small Theatre Association, Korean Arts Council and the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in Seoul, South Korea.
November 22 -December 8, 2014
This included five performances in Seoul at the Noeul Theatre, as well as master-classes and workshops for professional actors. After the festival we were engaged by the Haja Production School (Seould Youth Factory for Alternative Culture) in Seoul for four nights of workshops for middle school and high school students culminating in their performance of their works.
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We were at the IRT Theatre on Christopher St. in Manhattan for a creative residency from Dec. 24th, 2014 through Jan. 5th, 2015. This was not for performance or public workshops but for use of the theatre in development of new work.
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We conducted two weekends of workshops Dec. 12-24 and Dec. 19-21 (2014) at the Prop Thtr in Chicago.
The workshops culminated in a public showing at Prop Thtr.
For information contact Stefan Brun at the Prop Thtr.
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Lisa Fay was selected for a panel at the Network of Ensemble Theater's Intersection: Ensembles + Universities symposium in New York City
at The New School and La MaMa.
The Intersection symposium launches a multi-year investigation of the connectivity between professional performing arts ensembles and colleges/universities.
October 31-November 2, 2014
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NEFA Finalists, 2014
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo was selected as finalists in the final round of consideration for the Creation and Touring program: National Theatre Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
We are honored by this recognition.
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501c3
We are glad to say that Fay|Glassman Performance is now a 501c3 Non Profit Organization with tax exempt status and can therefore accept tax deductible contributions.
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For over a year now we have been engaged in creating a new evening length work that is comprised of five intricately linked scenes which fold, twist and surface into and out of one another. We are delighted to report that in February 2014 the Illinois Arts Council granted Individual Artists Project support to Lisa Fay for her to continue work on a substantial segment of the project. Open studio sessions were held in April and May, a sneak preview was given at the Boneyard Arts Festival at the Channing Murray Foundation in Urbana in April. A premiere of this section was presented in late May along with other current work in progress by Glassman.
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We are happy to announce that the Illinois Arts Council also granted Individual Artists Project support to Jeff Glassman providing partial funding for his work with Lisa Fay on a project with an ensemble of five excellent actors. The project took as its centerpiece Glassman’s QUARTET, a complex movement based theatre piece using our full range of formal inventions that have continued to evolve in recent years. The Quartet structure was approached through the creation of four short works, each exploring one of the performance problems of the Quartet. The premiere was performed six times as an evening of new works in progress by Fay and Glassman for the composition series Glass of Wine with Brün in Urbana, Illinois May 29-June 1 2014, after which the Quartet-inspired pieces were performed at the Prop Thtr in Chicago on June 8th, 2014.
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We made a presentation and a short demonstration performance in a delightful symposium concerned with the future of mime in relation to theatre and dance for the symposium
"Making the Invisible Visible: Mime's Contemporary Legacy" at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 11th, 2014
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September-October, 2013: One-month artist residency and tour for Korea Small Theatre Association
Featured performances at D.Festa
Daehangno international Small Theatre Festival
and D.Festa festival Artists-in-Residence
Seoul, South Korea
Performance tour to the city of Cheongju, and to Jeju Island
One week of workshops for 15 professional theatre artists in Seoul,
and a five-day workshop in Jeju
The D. Festa is an annual theater festival in the Daehakro region of Seoul which began in 2007. Daehakro is a distinct creative region of Seoul with hundreds of middle and small size theater groups. In the face of the capitalization of the performance arts culture by big capital, multiplexes and major theaters, the D.Festa is organized by the Korea Small Theater Association as an alternative to activate theatrical culture based on small communities and theaters. The D.Festa (Daehakro Small Theatre Festival) is held in theaters and on the streets of Daehakro in the late summer to early autumn period.
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April 6-14, 2013: One-week guest artist residency for
Theater Grottesco
and Center for Contemporary Arts
"EVENTUA"
4 performances, 3 masterclasses
Santa Fe, NM
Center for Contemporary Arts and Theater Grottesco team up to produce Eventua: a series of cutting-edge performances. Launching in March 2013, Eventua is an 8-week program featuring local and national artists at the vanguard of event-based contemporary art. As an annual collaboration, Eventua promises to become one of the most diverse and interesting performance programs in the Southwest. Invited groups include: Lisa Fay/Jeff Glassman Duo, Sandglass Puppet Theater, Faustwork Mask Theater, Laura Goldhamer, Cole Bee Wilson, CHERYL, and others.
CCA and Theater Grottesco intend for Eventa to create an off-season festival for art-lovers to experience genre-bending performance by artists from around the globe, creating cross-pollination between local artists and audiences and those from afar. 2013 is the pilot of what promises to be an annual collaboration with aims to become
one of Santa Fe's destination events.
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March 22, 2013: presentations to students at St. John's University
Queens, NY
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March 21, 2013: Dialogue and Discourse presentation
at the Jewish Museum, Gregory Chaitin (mathematics)
and Fay/Glassman (theatre)
New York, NY
The Jewish Museum and
the New School for Public Engagement
212-423-3200
info@thejm.org
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York NY 10128
at: The Jewish Museum
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 7:00pm
Dialogue and pattern: Gregory Chaitin and Jeff Glassman
Thursday, March 21, 7:00 pm
Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
Gregory Chaitin and Jeff Glassman offer a dialogue between patterns. Chaitin is a mathematician whose work centers on the question of whether mathematics is mechanical or creative. Glassman, in collaboration with Lisa Fay, composes and performs for the stage in a way that is closely analogous to musical composition, including techniques for the orchestration of contextual shifts of time and place in complex patterns that he calls ‘pivoting'.
This event is presented as part of In Dialogue, a series of performative dialogues between experts in diverse fields in conjunction with the exhibition As it were… So to Speak: A Museum Collection in dialogue with Barbara Bloom. Each evening concentrates on a different aspect of “dialogue,” pairing speakers demonstrating theory and practice. Unlike in traditional conversation the speakers do not engage with one another, instead each addresses the subject at hand and the audience members directly. These events are in partnership with the New School for Public Engagement.
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January, 2013: One-week guest artist residency at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA performances and workshops
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October, 2012: Guest-artist residency in the University of Illinois Dance Department
work set on dance students
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September, 2012: Performances at D.festa, international Small Theatre Festival, Seoul, South Korea
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August-September, 2012: Performances and Teaching for Haja Center
Seoul Youth Center for Alternative Culture
Seoul, South Korea
One-month guest artist residency at Haja Center
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July 9-13th, 2012: Bateson Idea Group/American Society for Cybernetics
International Conference
Featured Performance
Asilomar Conference Center, California
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May 4th, 5th and 6th, 2012: Urbana Winks:
Theatre Laboratory Intensive
(Free and Open to the Public)
Funding by the City of Urbana Arts Grant
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April 16 - May 4th, 2012: Artist Residency
Barkstall Elementary School
Champaign, Illinois
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April 18th, 2012: Allen Hall/Unit One
University of Illinois
Performance and Workshop
at 8:00 PM
Urbana, Illinois
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December 5-18, 2011: At the IRT THEATER
IRT Theater is located on the third floor of the
old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, NYC.
154 Christopher St., buzzer 3B
www.irttheater.org
www.lisafayandjeffglassmanduo.org
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo
Depth of a Moment: in four parts
In residence December 5-18, 2011
Virtuoso deconstructors of everyday life Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman return to IRT…
“surreal vaudeville”…”I think that Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman belong in some kind of genius category. One is reminded of silent film comedians and European circus clowns, who hone their material to its essence.”
— David Cuthbert, Theatre Critic, New Orleans Times-Picayune
SIX PERFORMANCES ONLY!
Thursday, December 8th at 8:00 PM
Friday, December 9th at 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 10th at 8:00 PM
Thursday, December 15th at 8:00 PM
Friday, December 16th at 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 17th at 8:00 PM
$20 Suggested
$10 “pay what you can”
$5 “pay what you can”
At IRT: 154 Christopher St. #3B (3rd floor)
(Look for future announcements of workshops)
ARTISTS
“Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman have the consummate professionalism of a longstanding comic team. While undoubtedly their short theater pieces contain comic moments, their real intent is to go to the center of human movement, habit and meaning…Chillingly depicts where we are now.”
— Paige Listerud, Chicago Theatre Blog
“achieved dazzling sophistication“…”the performers were intercutting between scenes locatable on a single stage… The piece then became an anatomy of power relationships as the two struggled for dominance in their changing personas… I’ve seen a lot of theater fail to reach this virtuoso level of characterization.”
— Kyle Gann, The Village Voice, New York
“…the end results were hilarious but intellectually challenging, simple in execution yet extremely difficult to execute.”
— John Cutler, The Lincoln Star Journal, Nebraska