Most of our FABULOUS Cast

Peter Guarraci, Megumi Haggerty, Kurt Gottaschalk, Jeffrey Emerson, Mahayana Landowne,

Arille Stok - not pictured Charlie Waters and Bradley Sumner

In anticipation of the Big Night, playwright Kurt Gottschalk has created a Spotify playlist of Sounds that might be heard in Buddy's office, or in his head, plus some nods to things that inspired the writing, including a track by Musical Director Charlie Waters! You can check it out here.

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Dig to this Indiegogo! Everything we could ask for to make the February 16 staging at Dixon Place a success, and at bargain basement levels! Please click on over to here and consider pledging to help us get this up an on the stage.

Funds from this campaign will go primarily to rehearsal space, basic set design, props and costuming as well as travel stipends for the cast and crew.

Please support this exciting project. No donation is too small. And non-monetary support - forwarding and reposting the campaign page link,inviting friends to come to the show - is greatly appreciated.

And check out the books, exclusive CDs, dinner and drink invitations and personal labor we're offering as humble tokens of gratitude.

See you and your on Feb 16^th at 10pm at  Dixon Place Theater, 161A Chrystie Street,

Thank you!

Final Cast for Dixon Place 2/16

VERY excited to annouce our cast!

Buddy Zinn - Jeffrey Emerson
Charlie - Charlie Waters
Gemma Nadler - Ariella Stok
Harry Buscaglia - Peter Guarraci
Ophelia Black- Megumi Haggerty
Edwin Randolph - Bradley Sumner

Rehearsals are a go-go starting on 1/29.

Look! A Press Release!

New Play by Author, Journalist and WFMU Host Kurt Gottschalk to be Staged at Dixon Place Theatre

Under a Scar-Filled Sky: The Buddy Zinn Mysteries – directed by Mahayana Landowne and produced by Kristen Persinos with live music by Charlie Waters – draws from film noir and Taoist Buddhism to tell the tale of a P.I. trapped in a purgatory of his own devise.

Saturday, February 16, 10 pm

Dixon Place Theater

161 Chrystie Pl.

NYC NY

www.dixonplace.org

January 18, 2013 (For Immediate Release) – Solon Productions is pleased to announce a staging of its first collective effort, Under a Scar-Filled Sky: The Buddy Zinn Mysteries, as a part of the Dixon Place “Works in Progress” series.

The one-act philosophical farce is based a series on four flash fictions contained in Kurt Gottschalk’s 2011 collection Little Apples: A Story Cycle concerning Buddy Zinn, a koan-spouting private investigator more interested in intellectual posturing than solving a case. At the suggestion of musician and actress Kristen Persinos, the four stories were developed for the stage, with well more than twice as much new material penned. When the first-time playwright and the first-time producer met the experienced director Mahayana Landowne, the project began to get off its feet.

 

Buddy Zinn, the hero of the story, ruminates about crossword puzzles, pop music, the devil, Greek mythology and Buddhist parables in a dingy office he never seems to leave. The potential clients who attempt to hire his services end up frustrated with his seeming indifference and unamused by his pontificating. But is he enlightened or just drunk? Is he divinely unattached or miserably detached. Ultimately, the answer may be uncomfortably unclear.

The one friend, or foil, in Buddy’s life is Charlie, a confidante and yes-man who may be a product of Buddy’s imagination. In a unique act of staging, Charlie is played by musician and composer Charlie Waters, who provides a jazzy soundtrack live on the set while giving Buddy the ego support he needs.

 

Casting will be announced soon. The production staff is available for comment.

Watch http://buddyzinn.blogspot.com/ for updates.

Writer, journalist and musician Kurt Gottschalk's first published piece was a letter to Trouser Press magazine about David Bowie when he was 13. He received a Master’s in journalism from Columbia University and has written for the Village Voice, Time Out, Wire, The Brooklyn Rail and magazines in England, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Russia. He produces and hosts the weekly program Miniature Minotaurs on WFMU radio.  “Under a Scar-Filled Sky” was originally conceived as four short stories within his Little Apples: A Story Cycle, published by Lulu in 2011. Last year his Sentences was published under the Lulu imprint. http://spearmintmusic.blogspot.com/
 

Director Mahayana Landowne looks to create work with dramatic visions that transcend daily life. Recent productions include : MIXED (Baruch Performing Arts), Impossible Country (Mudbone Collective), Baruch Voices (Baruch),  Picasso Project (Luna Stage), Blue, (Vital Theater), Carcass (Diaspora Drama), The Heiress, (The Roundtable Ensemble at the Mint), Machinal (U. of Rochester), Post-Code (American Living Room, HERE) and Terrible Infant (Fringe Festival). Musicals include: Spring Bling, Summer in the Hummer, and The Dick Cheney Holiday Spectacular (Ace of Clubs), Western Unidad (Ice Factory Festival, Ohio Theater) and Post-Code (American Living Room, HERE). Favorite past productions include: The Skriker, Antony and Cleopatra, The Seagull, brass logic, Streetcar Named Desire, Obgynt, King Lear, and Mud. Affiliations/ Fellowships include: Drama League 00’, Second Stage, NYU-BFA Acting and Yale School of Drama, MFA Directing. As a Director, Landowne has also used her skills for creative grassroots organizing for social issues including the NYC Dance Parade which brings together over one hundred dance organizations to dance down Broadway and many art action activities that promote participatory art culture. yana.landowne.org

Producer Kristen Persinos is no stranger to downtown theater and a graduate of the Boston University acting program. She has performed at the Downstairs Series in some early pieces by playwright Anne Washburn and the first Blueprint Directors Series, both at the Richard Foreman Ontological Theater.  She participated in a Mabou Mines workshop her first year in NYC, has acted in many pieces over the years and has performed in her own rock band, Impostor Syndrome. http://impostorsyndrome.net/

Musical Director Charlie Waters: composer, performer, fighter of uptown hegemony, dealer in stolen tonalities, processor of metaphysical alpha notations, geographer of city sounds, leader of the nuAtonality, sparkler, father & husband, Concertomentist, Baptist, Southerner, flower-lover, Williamsburger, day-jobber.

Please note: As per Dixon Place policy, complimentary tickets are only available to industry professionals. Please visit the dixonplace.org to buy tickets or contact the production staff at buddyzinn@gmail.com for passes or for further information. 

Production Meeting 01/12/2013

 

Writer Kurt Gottschalk, Producer Kristen Persinos,

Producer Urania Mylonas and Director Mahayana Landowne.

Auditions 1/19/13

Very excited for the next step.  Looking to re-cast 3 out of the 6 roles:

BUDDY ZINN:  Male (30 +) A rough-edged stereotypical noir detective.  Good with language and physical comedy - carries the weight of the play. Physically smaller stature preferred. Juggler a plus.
 

EDWIN RANDOLPH: Male (45+) Firm and no nonsense - wealthy prim department store owner and father.

OPHELIA BLOCK: Female young (20s) Small boyish and stylishly attractive, fragile, inquisitive and speaks abruptly, nervous and trusting.

buddyzinn@gmail.com