Naked Stages returns to Pillsbury House Theatre November 30-December 10 for another round of completely original work by four distinctive artists.
Nov 30-Dec 3 @ 7:30 pm
AUTOPILOT by Ephraim Eusebio
A CIA operative, pilot of an unmanned aerial vehicle, a drone, bombs targets in South Asia while struggling to be a good father and a husband. Video, mime, shadow puppetry, dance, and acrobatics combine in a pageant of stunning images set to original pop music fashioned after today’s top-40 hits. Should we all just tune in and engage our inner Autopilot? Performed by Ephraim Eusebio, Lily Eusebio, Angelique Lele, Rabiya Sehgal-Larocque, Andrea Grey, Nathan Brende, Chrys Laramy. Directed by Masanari Kawahara.
WE ALL DIED AND CAME BACK EASIER by Max Wirsing
How much of our lives are a product of other people’s stories? To what extent are we free to create ourselves? We All Died and Came Back Easier is a mashup of gay cultural history through installation, image and movement, swallowed, digested, and spit back up by a post-Stonewall homo. Performed by Max Wirsing, Dustin Maxwell and Nick LeMere. Directed by Arwen Wilder.
Dec 7-10 @ 7:30 pm
DON’T CRY FOR ME by Paulino Brener
A tall Argentine leaves his mother land to come to the U.S. and discovers that changing the language you speak might change who you are. Don’t Cry For Me uses satire, movement, and storytelling to explore connections between language and identity. Performed by Paulino Brener. Directed by Dario Tangelson.
IN AND OUT OF THE BODY by Moe Lionel
What do you do with facts that haunt you? How does the body reconcile trauma and hope? Moe Lionel travels from the depths of a swimming pool in L.A. to a bathtub full of ice in Minneapolis, mapping genealogies of violence, masculinity, and whiteness held in his body. Performed by Moe Lionel. Directed by Gabrielle Civil and Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe.
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About the Artists
Ephraim Eusebio is a first generation Filipino-American artist born in South Minneapolis and predominantly raised in central Illinois before coming back home after graduating with a major in Studio Art from Knox College. He has lived in South Minneapolis since 1992 and worked as a Scenic Artist with The Children's Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Mu Performing Arts, and Barebones Productions, and has performed with Galumph, Barebones, and In the Heart of the Beast. Ephraim is also known as a member of local punk and rock bands over the last 20 years, including The Danger Board, Flizon Rice, Dashing Everywhere, Tricycle, Count Jugula, and Last Legs. For this performance he is excited to have his 12-year-old daughter, Lily, will be joining him onstage.
Max Wirsing moved in 2000 from his home state of Vermont to Minnesota, where he studied printmaking at Carleton College. He currently works as a freelance dancer, a performance maker, and as a company administrator for Emily Johnson / Catalyst. Recently, Max has performed in works by Chris Schlichting, Justin Jones, Karen Sherman, and Morgan Thorson; and has also been a part of various video installation projects such as Peter Becker Nelson's On Dying, Techtonic Industries' the desire to stay versus the inevitability of change, and Andy Underwood-Bultman’s Silver Lake.
Paulino Brener was born in Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, Argentina. He has been doing theater and dance in the Twin Cities since 2001 with companies such as Teatro del Pueblo, Trece Lunas Arts Collective, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre and Ethnic Dance Theater. He is the guest curator for "Noche Hispana" at Patrick’s Cabaret. Paulino is also a Spanish teacher. He uses art to connect and share with people around him. He is passionate about languages and cultures, teaching children, performing, technology, Social Media and doing crafts like knitting. And he is very tall! Find out more about Paulino at paulinobrener.com/
Moe Lionel, made his performance debut in Kelley Meister’s Naked Stages piece, Seducing Those Who Are Afraid, at the Pillsbury House Theatre in 2010. Now, he returns to the stage with his own recorded audio, prose, and movement to tell stories of reconciliation. His work focuses on the intersections between genealogies, social and political struggles, trauma, families, and (trans) bodies. He has read his work at the Bedlam Theatre, the Vine Arts Theatre, and Dreamland Arts. His first solo show, it runs in the family, directed by Nastalie Bogira, debuted at the Bedlam’s Ten Minute Play Festival this past spring. He yearns for and in moments, finds hope for a world where it is a little bit easier to breathe.