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Remember2019

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Notch joins Mauricio Salgado, Arielle Julia Brown, Carlos Sirah and Yazmany Arboleda, along with community partners The Delta Cultural Center, The Elaine Legacy Center, and the Boys, Girls, and Adults Community Development Center for Remember2019--an effort to make space for the congregation of Black communities in the Arkansas Delta. Our work is to support and facilitate local practices of self-determination, memory, and reflection, as directly related to the mass lynching of 1919, the lasting effects of racial terror, and the current and future health of these communities. 
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Remember2019 was awarded a prestigious MAP Fund grant, featured on HowlRound and Monument Lab, and invited to present at NPN's annual conference, USDAC's Citizen Artist Salon, and the Children’s Defense Fund Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute. 

The Walk & Through Time

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As part of our Through Time program, Notch is honored to work with St. Ann's Warehouse and The Walk to invite Little Amal to New York City where (alongside 100 immigrant, asylee, and refugee  youth)  she will meet the Statue of Liberty for a one time only event in fall 2022. 
Little Amal is a 12 foot tall  living artwork, a giant puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who has travelled across 12 countries to bring attention to the issues facing refugees, asylees and especially unaccompanied donors worldwide. Learn more or get involved here. 

In 2020 & 2021, Notch worked with coLAB Arts, The Black Community Watchline, and RCHP-AHC, which helps resettle refugees from around the world in central New Jersey, provides home studies and post-release services to unaccompanied refugee minors, and assists people who have been subjected to human trafficking, creating original theater pieces with the diverse refugee communities served by these organizations. Check out the blog or read a Broadway World article about the collaboration's launch. ​

Wild Home

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Notch is collaborating with Jessica Kahkoska for Wild Home, which takes an odyssey across America, collaborating with rural towns significantly pressured by fossil fuel industries. 
In each community, we develop a series of plays, through public storytelling events, that are performed by community and professional actors in outdoor, wilderness spaces.
The program is currently collaborating with communities in  Alaska, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania,  Utah and West Virginia.

Wild Home was awarded a creative residency in Montana with the Taft-Nicholson Center, an NEA Artworks grant, multiple Travel and Exchange grants from Network of Ensemble Theaters, and has been  featured on HowlRound and Broadway World.

Gen U

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Anna Karenina: a riff

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gerstl took the easy way out

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Amazon and Walmart are the behemoths of the 21st Century, much like Big Steel and Big Auto were at the beginning of the 20th Century. The demands that working people are making on these companies will shape the working person’s future for decades to come.
Spearheaded by playwright James McManus, this project engages the individuals and organizations behind the current unionization movement in creation of an original theatrical work that speaks to this urgent moment in America. 
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The program is currently in development and community engagement, for more information to to get involved reach out to info@notchtheatre.org

In Gwen Kingston's fresh adaptation of Anna Karenina, Russians play melodicas to an original, folk-punk score by Christie  Baugher, Yan Li, Teresa Lotz, and Will Turner. Natalie Rine, Associate New York Critic, says that "​Notch’s production electrifies as a rollicking, fresh investigation of Tolstoy’s classic novel, bursting with a folk-rock score that pokes and prods at the consequences of female rebellion, bringing bold new questions into an arresting, quasi-contemporary conversation on the role of women in families, communities, and countries. [...] this small but strong production is a declaration of Notch Theatre Company’s visceral, scintillating point of view that is a force to be reckoned with as even the best of current day Broadway’s appeal to address modern themes pales in comparison." Read the full review here and read an interview with the makers here.​

This brand spankin' new play by powerhouse playwright Lydia Blaisdell  is a deliciously naughty dive into the infamous love triangle between the renowned Austrian-American composer Arnold Schönberg, Schönberg’s wife, Mathilde, and infamous Austrian painter, Richard Gerstl. Set in Austria in the racous 1900s, this uproarious comedy partners with Queer, non-binary, and Trans communities to challenge how we frame historical cultural narratives and interrogate who we center in those stories.
This October, the program will enjoy a workshop at The Eugene O'Neill Theater and, thanks to an ARPA grant from the City of New London’s Cultural District Commission,  a free, public sharing on Sunday, October 9th in downtown New London, Connecticut. From there, the project will present a sneak-peek preview in New York City at New George's annual Jamboree. ​

Voices from a Pandemic

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 Since April 2020, Voices from a Pandemic  has been inviting artists and cultural workers to remotely collect testimony from frontline workers to hear their experiences during this worldwide crisis. This includes anyone continuing to do the in-person work that keeps a country and its people alive and functioning, not only essential employees but also the frontline protesters who are risking their safety and health to fight for a revolution that uplifts us all.
As we embark on vaccine distribution, Notch has launched the first installment of a digital story bank and is presenting a workshop of the plays, featuring theatre-makers and community stories from all over the world. Voices is a communal creation, collaborating with more than 100 cultural workers, community members and artists. More on Broadway World. 


FIT

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FIT, conceived by Marina Morrissey and written by Gwen Kingston, follows the story of Carrie Buck, who in 1927 was the test case for a Supreme Court ruling allowing the forcible sterilization of women deemed “feeble-minded,” a ruling  that has never been overturned. In a contemporary storyline, Don and June, who have Down Syndrome, want to have a baby. June’s mother is taking her to court because she believes her daughter isn’t equipped to raise a child. She is not "FIT." Developed in partnership with members of the intellectual disability community,  FITpremiered at White Heron Theatre on Nantucket, was presented at La Mama Studios in NYC, and with Trinity Rep (in collaboration with Spectrum Ensemble) in Providence, RI. Read N Magazine's article on the Nantucket production.

DICK

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In 1850, one man sinks an entire ship to settle a Moby Dick measuring contest. In 2022 an all womxn and non-binary cast battles thunderstorms, whirlpools, boredom and the occasional whale to resurrect the Pequod and ask: ...why?
​Thanks to a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a space residency at HB Studio, Notch workshop DICK by Gwen Kingston over a week-long, community-engaged process that culminated in a free and open to the public sharing on June 25th, 2022.  The workshop featured: Anita Castillo-Halvorssen,* Lennox T Duong, Ashley Hicks,* ​Gwen Kingston,* Oriana Lada,* Marina Morrissey,* Yasmin Pascal, Isabel Pask ; Dramaturges: Aaluk Edwardson, Hayley St James
*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Check out this podcast episode about the workshop from the HB Insight Series

Recovery 

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Recovery brings communities in recovery from addiction,  injury, trauma, and eating disorders together in the creation of an interdisciplinary performance combining video, interactive theater, meditation, and a museum installation to raise awareness, build community, and create spaces for healing.

The Grate

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The Grate,  spearheaded by playwright Liz Appel, who seeks to explore what gratitude means at this moment in time. How does it appear, how is it coded for different people in different places? What can we learn about the way our communities function and what they value through a collective gratitude process?

Fellowships, Retreats & Residencies

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Each year, Notch hosts a retreat on the Broad River in North Carolina where female identifying artists are invited to connect, commune, recharge, and workshop new Notch programs. Additionally, we award two annual fellowships - the Maurice Richards Fellowship, which offers a microgrant to young citizen artists and community organizers, and our Generous of heART Fellowship, dedicated in memory of Darlene Windom, and created for cultural workers who use their art to uplift their communities. 

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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward."

- Let the Great World Spin​​

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