UPCOMING + NEWS
KINDERKRANKENHAUS @ THE BRICK
Written by Jesi Bender | Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps
Week of September 24th-30th | stay tuned for ticket info and showtimes | The Brick Theater 625 Metropolitan Ave.
In a vaguely familiar time and place, children gathered inside the grey walls of a hospital are given diagnoses they don’t understand and told to work towards correcting their ills, or face the consequences. Kinderkrankenhaus explores neurodiversity, the pathologizing of difference, and the complexity of labels in a world where the unspeaking are seen as unthinking. Can the children learn to live in this place where concepts like love are indefinable but they are still expected to know when something does not conform to its boundaries?
WEASEL FEST
BY BROOKLYN COLLEGE'S 2023 MFA PLAYWRIGHTS
June 9th and 10th @ 8pm | stay tuned for ticket info | The Brick Theater 625 Metropolitan Ave.
After a transformative two years under the tutelage of artist-extraordinaires Haruna Lee, Dennis A. Allen II, and Elana Greenfield, the Brooklyn College playwriting cohort will self-produce and present the 2023 Weasel Festival, a showcase for recent graduates for the last 15-odd years. This year’s Weasel Festival (whose full title is Bring a Weasel and A Pint of Your Own Blood) will play in Brooklyn in June 2023 for two nights of wild new pLaYs. Prompted by our recent alumni playwrights, our festival will explore the theme of legacy.
LITERARY MANAGER AT THE WORKSHOP THEATER
As of December 2022, I've joined The Workshop Theater as their Literary Manager. I'm so grateful to have been a part of The Workshop community for the past 3 years as a writer and intensive facilitator, and I'm so excited to collaborate with The Workshop in this new capacity.
TWISTED JUNIPER NAMED A EUGENE O'NEILL 2022 NPC FINALIST
You Can Tell from the Twisted Juniper reached the Finalist round of the 2022 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, where approximately 60 of 1200+ submissions make it to this phase of the process. “This exceptional assemblage of writers and their work represent the forefront of artistry, curiosity, and perspective. These voices are essential to our shared understanding of the human experience as they imagine thrilling theatrical and social futures across their work. We highly encourage you to investigate and connect with these artists and firmly believe they deserve the attention of a national new work audience.”
RECENT
THE SWTICH @ THE BRICK'S ?!:NEW WORKS
Written by Russell Nichols | Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps | Assistant Directed by Jordan Powell
click each date for tickets: Wednesday, April 5th, Thursday, April 20th, and Friday, April 21st | The Brick Theater 625 Metropolitan Ave.
Today is Reckoning Day, which means the Three Fates must select one random person to die by flipping a switch. The women—Clo, La-La and Morta—have performed this sacred duty for centuries. But today, when one of them questions the validity of the law, the Fates have to make the hardest decision of their lives. | ?!:New Works is a yearly multi-week festival of 1-20 minute new works in all mediums featuring your most brilliant/disastrous ideas! Curated by The Brick Curation team, hosted by Garlan Jude. The spiritual successor to The Exponential Festival, ?!:New Works features a veritable slew of experiment(al)(ing) artists from a variety of disciplines presenting brand new work. Working it out. With each other. With you. All within a few weeks.
LETICHE AND THE [WONDROUS] PURSUIT OF ELVIS @
THE BUSHWICK STARR READING SERIES
Written + Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps
Monday, March 27 at 7:30pm | SOLD OUT, waitlist at the door | info here
CPR – Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211
In Letiche and The [Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis, New York City mother-daughter duo, Imara and Kal, are on a swamp tour on their New Orleans vacation. They find themselves led by a white captain on an all-Black boat of tourists. In the murkiness of their 75-minute tour, Kal finds herself itching and her psyche morphing in a place full of contradictions and turns to the alligators and their leader—the mighty alligator, Elvis—for some clarity.
BB BRECHT & THE WORK-IN-PROGRESS EPIC ADVENTURE 2023 WORLD TOUR @ THE PUBLIC THEATER'S UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
Created by Miranda Haymon In collaboration with New Georges and The Hodgepodge Group
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 @ 7pm + Saturday, January 21, 2023 @ 7pm | The Public Theater
bb brecht is a cabaret star.
bb brecht is an influencer.
bb brecht wants to willkommen you back.
In this anarchic, queer, and very Black cabaret series, bb brecht explores alienation, didacticism, and epicness in a 21st century world using unboxing videos, green screens, TikToks, autotune - whatever our churning culture may hand him. He gives lectures, shakes his ass, performs songs, and shares his skin routine (you’re welcome). bb brecht is the alter ego of creator Miranda Haymon. But are they more Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or Beyoncé and Sasha Fierce? Auf geht’s!
BEING UP IN HERE
AND ALL THE OTHER BUSINESSES THAT DON'T CONCERN YOU @ BRICK AUX
A Staged Reading Written + Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps
Sunday, December 18, 2022 @ 7pm | Brick Aux 628 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn, NY
Being Up in Here and All the Other Businesses that Don't Concern You follows best friends Aaliyah and Eli, who get magic shoes and run On Their Way—as far as space and as near as the GnM’s bodega in Brownsville—to reach The Final Destination, where they're to meet neighborhood matriarch Mama She. But what happens when they make the unfamiliar familiar and run off course?
BB BRECHT'S HOLIDAY YULETIDE SPECTACULAR @ DIXON PLACE
Created by Miranda Haymon In collaboration with New Georges and The Hodgepodge Group
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 @ 8pm | Dixon Place
bb brecht DJ set & special guest pop-up performances: following the performance, upstairs in the cabaret lounge!??
bb brecht is Miranda Haymon’s alter ego and the star of an anarchic, queer, and very Black cabaret series in which bb brecht explores alienation, didacticism, and epicness in a 21st century world using unboxing videos, green screens, TikToks, autotune - whatever our churning culture may hand him.
COMMISSION FOR THE WORKSHOP THEATER'S 2022 OUT OF THE HAT FESTIVAL
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | ART/NY 520 8th Ave
Marissa has been commissioned to write for The Workshop Theater's Annual Out of the Hat Festival. This festival's theme this year is "New York City." Stay tuned for more information and tickets.
BLUE FIRE BURNS THE HOTTEST @ THE BRICK X EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL 2022
written + directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps | Fall 2022 World Premiere
September 16-18, 22-24, 2022 | The Brick 579 Metropolitan Ave.
"The mortal fear must be running high in the veins…"
Two men—two rivals—who, after holding out for years, finally come to a now abandoned boxing ring that their fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and so on and so forth fought in to fight for their lives and to claim themselves as the “greatest.” In the midst of jabs and hooks, and crosses and uppercuts, Blue Fire Burns the Hottest finds these men, whether consciously or unconsciously, figuring out who they are in relation to higher power. Blue Fire Burns the Hottest was selected as part of The Exponential Festival 2022. | more info here