UNEXPECTEDLY ELECTRIC.
Created & performed by SITI Company
Conceived & Directed by Anne Bogart
First seen at City Theatre in 1996 and based on the writings of Marshall McLuhan, The Medium explores the effect of media and emerging technologies on our perceptions, our psyches, and our personal lives. This production contains mature language and themes including representation of self-harm. This production also includes loud gunshot effects.
January 22 through February 13, 2022
Stage: Main Stage
Appropriate Ages: The Medium is appropriate for teens and up.
Opening Night: Friday, January 28, 2022 at 8:00pm
Greenroom Art & Afterparty: Friday, February 4, 2022 at 8:00pm
Pay-What-You-Want: Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 1:00pm
ASL Interpreted Performance: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 7:00pm
Audio Description/Open Captioning: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 2:00pm
CURRENT SHOWS
The Medium
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Talent
Featuring
Anne Bogart
Director
Anne Bogart (Co-Director) is one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include FALLING & LOVING, The Bacchae, Chess Match No. 5; Lost in the Stars; Persians; Steel Hammer; A Rite; Café Variations; Trojan Women (After Euripides); American Document; Antigone; Under Construction; Freshwater; Who Do You Think You Are; Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds–the Radio Play; Cabin Pressure; Alice’s Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg’s Miss Julie; and Charles Mee’s Orestes. Recent operas include The Handmaid’s Tale, Handel’s Alcina, Dvorak’s Dimitrij, Verdi’s Macbeth, Bellini’s Norma and Bizet’s Carmen. She is the author of six books: The Art of Resonance, A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then, You Act; Conversations with Anne; and What’s the Story.
Will Bond
Marshall McLuhan
Will Bond (Marshall McLuhan) is a founding member of SITI Company. He has taught Viewpoints and Suzuki training all over the world and performed nationally and internationally in SITI’s Orestes, The Medium, Small Lives/Big Dreams, Culture of Desire, Bob (Drama Desk Nomination solo performance), War of the Worlds, bobrauschenbergamerica, Death and the Ploughman, Radio Macbeth, Who Do You Think You Are, Antigone, Persians, FALLING & LOVING (with STREB Extreme Action) and in the SITI / LA Chamber Orchestra production Lost in the Stars at the Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA. He has performed Tadashi Suzuki’s Dionysus and Cornwall in The Tale of Lear, in Robert Wilson’s Persephone, and was featured in A Rite with the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Original works include History of the World from the Very Beginning with Christian Frederickson; I’ll Crane For You, a solo dance work commissioned from Deborah Hay; The Perfect Human V.1, Option Delete; and a 2013 EMPAC DANCE MOViEs commission, Lost & Found, with Marianne Kim and Brian H Scott.
Gian Murray Gianino
Ensemble
Gian Murray Gianino (Ensemble) As a member of SITI Company, Mr. Gianino has helped create and performed in their productions of The Bacchae, Steel Hammer, Trojan Women (After Euripides), bobrauschenbergamerica, theatre is a blank page, Hanjo, Persians, Café Variations, Radio Macbeth, systems/layers, and Freshwater. His New York credits include work at BAM, Second Stage, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, Japan Society, WP Theater, SoHo Rep, and HERE Arts. He has performed regionally and internationally including at Yale Rep, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival), Berkshire Theatre Festival, Arts and Ideas Festival, SUNY Purchase, Penguin Rep, Getty Villa (LA), The Court (Chicago), Krannert Center, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center, MC93 Bobigny (Paris, France), Bonn Biennale (Bonn, Germany), Dublin Theatre Festival (Dublin, Ireland), GIFT Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia), NYUAD (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Theatre Olympics (Toga-Mura, Japan). FILM: Abaddon, Inside Me, Hospitality, Dead Canaries; TV: The Affair, Limitless, White Collar, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, All My Children. B.A. Wesleyan University. Member of the Actors Center. Mr. Gianino is an artist-in-residence and faculty member at Skidmore College.
Ellen Lauren
Ensemble
Ellen Lauren (Ensemble) SITI Company: Founding member, Co-Artistic Director. Acting credits include: Three Sisters, FALLING & LOVING (with Streb Extreme Action), The Bacchae, Room (stage and film) Chess Match #5, Persians, Trojan Women (After Euripides), Under Construction, bobrauschenbergamerica, the theater is a blank page (with Ann Hamilton), Radio Macbeth, Death and the Ploughman, Who Do You Think You Are, A Rite (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company), American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Co.), Seven Deadly Sins (with NY City Opera, Kosovar Award), Hotel Cassiopeia, Cabin Pressure, Hayfever, Private Lives, Going Going Gone, and Orestes. Associate Artist Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) under the direction of Tadashi Suzuki. SCOT Credits include Electra (Clytemnestra), Dionysus (Agave), King Lear (Goneril), Oedipus (Jocasta), and Waiting for Romeo (Juliet). Festivals and venues: SIFA, Bonn, Melbourne, Iberoamericano Bogotá, Humana Festival, Bobigny94 Paris, Theatre Olympics 2019, CAP UCLA, Edinburgh Festival, Wexner, Walker, Krannert Center, BAM Next Wave, NY Live Arts, NY Theatre Workshop, Classic Stage Company, WP Theater, Under the Radar, Guggenheim Museum, Joyce Theater, Beijing Center for the Arts, Gu Bei Great Wall Theatre China, Kitchijoji Theater Tokyo, Moscow Art Theatre, Teatro Olympico Vicenza, Toga International Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre St Petersburg, The RSC, Olympic Arts Shizuoka, Buenos Aires Festival, Sao Paulo Brazil, Vienna Festival, Bogotá Festival, Harbor Front Toronto, Istanbul Festival, Festival Mundial Chile, Montpelier France, Hong Kong Festival. Faculty member: The Juilliard School of Drama. Recipient: TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement.
Barney O'Hanlon
Ensemble/Marshall McLuhan Understudy
Barney O’Hanlon (Marshall McLuhan Understudy) most recently appeared in FALLING & LOVING, SITI Company’s collaboration with Elizabeth Streb’s Extreme Action Company, choreographed by Elizabeth Streb, directed by Anne Bogart. Previously he appeared in SITI Company’s production of The Bacchae at BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Also with SITI Company at BAM’s Next Wave: War of the Worlds, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Trojan Women, A Rite (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company), and Steel Hammer with the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Also at BAM: choreography and performance for Charles L. Mee’s The Glory of The World, directed by Les Waters. Barney choreographed the world premiere of Anne Washburn and Dave Malloy’s musical Little Bunny Foo Foo, directed by Les Waters at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Anne Washburn’s 10 out of 12 at Soho Rep, directed by Les Waters; and Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy, directed by Rebecca Taichman at Lincoln Center Theater.
Violeta Picayo
Ensemble
Violeta Picayo (Ensemble) is a bilingual Cuban-American actor, director, and choreographer. Selected credits, New York: Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam), Julius Caesar (Pocket Universe), Taming of the Shrew (Tale Told), Wake (One Year Lease). On-Camera: Mary Stuart (Bedlam), A Despicable Woman (Kostov España), Bedlam: The Series (Bedlam), Fernanda (AFI). Violeta has worked regionally at the American Repertory Theater, Portland Center Stage, Bristol Riverside Theatre, and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Internationally, she has worked in Argentina, Greece, Scotland, and England. Current works-in-progress include Helen. and Parsley (SuperGeographics). Violeta is a proud graduate of SITI's Inaugural Conservatory, the National Theater Institute, and Vassar College. She is an associate artist of SITI Company and a company member at Bedlam. www.VioletaPicayo.com
Stephen Duff Webber
Ensemble
Stephen Duff Webber (Ensemble) With SITI nationally and internationally: FALLING & LOVING (with STREB Extreme Action), The Bacchae, Hanjo, Lost in the Stars, Persians (Getty Villa), A Rite (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company), Steel Hammer, Café Variations, American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Co.), Antigone, Radio Macbeth (as Macbeth), Hotel Cassiopeia, Under Construction, Freshwater, Death and the Ploughman, War of the Worlds (as Orson Welles), bobrauschenbergamerica, systems/layers (with Rachel’s), La Dispute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabin Pressure, Going Going Gone, Culture of Desire, The Medium, Private Lives, Hay Fever, War of the Worlds: Radio Play (as Orson Welles), Short Stories. New York: The Golden Dragon (PlayCo), Death and the Ploughman (CSC), War of the Worlds (BAM), Culture of Desire (NYTW), Trojan Women 2.0 (En Garde Arts), Freshwater (WP Theater), Hotel Cassiopeia (BAM), American Document (Joyce), Antigone (NYLA), Radio Macbeth (Public), Radio Play (Joe’s Pub). Regional: American Repertory Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theater, Magic Theater, Kennedy Center, Portland Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre, Stage West.
Brian Scott
Scenic & Lighting Designer
Brian H Scott (Scenic & Lighting Designer) is a SITI Company member and has designed lighting for Café Variations, Trojan Women and Persians in association with the Getty Villa; American Document with the Martha Graham company; Under Construction, Who Do You Think You Are, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, bobrauschenbergamerica (Henry Hewes Design Award 2004) and War of the Worlds–the Radio Play. With Rude Mechs: Stop Hitting Yourself; Now Now, Oh Now; Method Gun; I’ve Never Been So Happy; How Late It Was, How Late; Lipstick Traces; Requiem for Tesla; and Matchplay. He designed light for Ann Hamilton’s the event of a thread and the theatre is a blank page. With Park Avenue Armory, he has created lighting for tears become… streams become... with Douglas Gordon, The Let Go for Nick Cave and for Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet’s Landfall.
Darron L. West
Sound Designer
Darron L. West is a TONY and OBIE award-winning sound designer whose 30 year career spans theater and dance, Broadway and Off Broadway and numerous regional theaters. His work has been heard in over 700 productions all over the United States and internationally in 15 countries. Additional honors include the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award, among many others. Thirty year company member designing the productions of Anne Bogart’s SITI company. Previously at City Theater: The Medium, Room, The Chosen, Alices Adventures Underground, Culture of Desire, and SLAVS.
Gabriel Berry
Costume Designer
Gabriel Berry (Costume Designer) designs costumes for theatre, dance, and opera. Specializing in the creation of new work, she has designed premieres of the works of artists including John Adams, David Adjmi, Samuel Beckett, Charles Ludlam, Caryl Churchill, Christopher Durang, Ethyl Eichelberger, Richard Foreman, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Maria Irene Fornes, John Guare, Lameece Issaq, Nick Jones, Craig Lucas, Naomi Wallace, Kia Corthron, Will Power, Marcus Gardley, Scott Z. Burns, Meredith Monk, Charles Mee, Tony Kushner, Peter Sellars, Philip Glass, Reinaldo Povod, Mabou Mines, Tennessee Williams, and Branden Jacob-Jenkins. Her notable honors include Obie, Bessie, and Lucille Lortel Awards and a silver medal from the Prague Quadrennial for her contribution to experimental theatre.
Patti Kelly
Production Stage Manager
PATTI KELLY
Resident Production Stage Manager
She/Her
PATTI KELLY (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to City Theatre for her 35th season! Having been with the company for over half of its lifetime, some of Patti’s favorite shows at City Theatre include Birthday Candles, The Real James Bond…Was Dominican, Native Gardens, POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, The Old Man and the Old Moon, The Royale, Hand to God, The 39 Steps, Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Molly Sweeney, The Baltimore Waltz, and Our Country’s Good. Other credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Hartford Stage; Hysteria for Pittsburgh Public Theater; Richard II, The Tempest, Othello, As You Like It, Horse of a Different Color, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth for Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival; and over 30 plays for the Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Plays. Patti is a recipient of the Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.
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