🍵coming up!🍵
Tea Time @ Torn Page (435 W 22nd Street) on Dec 14th with two amazing women actors. Reserve your seat by emailing: themuseprojectnyc@gmail.com.
Tea Times are a one-of-a-kind Muse pilot program. During Tea Times, veteran actresses (Ms. Cherry & Ms. Sheth) discuss their experiences building their careers. A q&a with attendees and tea (and cookies!) and networking to follow. This event is open to all, and it is also a special opportunity for women actors to network with Ms. Cherry & Ms. Sheth, each other, and to seek insight and support. The Muse Project's venue for the event is Torn Page, the historic home of Rip Torn & Geraldine Page.
(l-r): Emmy Award winning actress Erin Cherry, acclaimed actress Sheetal Sheth.
erin cherry
12:30pm, Dec 14th, Torn Page
Emmy Award Winner Erin Cherry received her M.F.A. in acting from Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts. She portrays Brenda on the Emmy Award winning show After Forever (Amazon Prime) and she is the producer and host of Sundays With A Cherry On Top which is a health and lifestyle show on Black Culture (You Tube). Cherry is also a private acting coach and acting teacher at the Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York City. You can find her on twitter @cherryacts and on Instagram @sundayswithacherryontop.
sheetal sheth
2pm, Dec 14th, Torn Page
Sheetal Sheth is an acclaimed actress known for her provocative performances in a wide range of memorable roles on film and television. She has starred in over 20 feature films and many TV shows and has earned a loyal following. Perhaps best known to mainstream film audiences for starring opposite Albert Brooks in Warner Bros’ LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD, Sheetal has become a favorite in the independent film world. She won 3 Best Actress nods in the festival circuit for THE WORLD UNSEEN, 1 for her role in WINGS OF HOPE, and most recently for GRIN. In 2012, fans voted her ‘Favorite Movie Actress’ in AfterEllen’s Visibility Awards. Her latest feature film, HUMMINGBIRD, which she also produced, is in post production. Sheetal has represented such brands as Reebok and CHI hair care. She was also the first Indian American to be featured in Maxim. She regularly speaks on panels and forums internationally and takes an active interest in politics. She served in President Clinton's AmeriCorps and is currently on the advisory board of Equality Now and an ambassador for The Representation Project. Her first children's book, Always Anjali, won the 2019 Purple Dragonfly Book Award Grand Prize and is already in its 2nd printing. www.sheetalsheth.com.
what has The Muse Project done in 2019 so far?
The So-fi Festival, in association with The Muse Project, will be presenting a reprise workshop of Kyra Miller's BlueBearGasLight at The (Bell Labs) Boardroom - Westbeth - 463 West Street New York, New York 10014. This work was originally incubated at The Muse Project, Jocelyn Kuritsky Artistic Director.
A folklorist prepares her version of an old, dark fairy tale, only to discover a disconcerting fun-house mirror image in her own partnership.
BlueBeardGasLight
Presented by the So-fi Festival, in association with The Muse Project
This work was originally incubated at The Muse Project, Jocelyn Kuritsky Artistic Director
Written and Performed by Kyra Miller
Developed with Katie Pearl
Video Consultant Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Puppets designed and built by Kyra Miller
Dollhouse set by Jei Olson
Saturday, June 15 at 8:30pm and Tuesday, June 18 at 7pm
Westbeth, 463 West St. @ Bethune St.
in the (Bell Labs) Boardroom (Suite #1209)
A folklorist prepares her version of an old, dark fairy tale, only to discover a disconcerting fun-house mirror image in her own partnership.
BlueBeardGasLight
Presented by the So-fi Festival, in association with The Muse Project
This work was originally incubated at The Muse Project, Jocelyn Kuritsky Artistic Director
Written and Performed by Kyra Miller
Developed with Katie Pearl
Video Consultant Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Puppets designed and built by Kyra Miller
Dollhouse set by Jei Olson
Saturday, June 15 at 8:30pm and Tuesday, June 18 at 7pm
Westbeth, 463 West St. @ Bethune St.
in the (Bell Labs) Boardroom (Suite #1209)
what did The Muse Project do in 2018?
we produced 5 Mini Muse Presentations at The Flea Theater in NYC.
The core program of The Muse Project is the Mini Muse workshop - actresses are given space, resources, and artistic collaborators in order to create and publicly present the first iterations of a theatrical piece. These works can encompass a very wide array of performance.
It's incredible what even a Mini Muse workshop can do.
-Ian Morgan, director
The Muse Project, in association with The Tank, presented Musings: a collection of Mini Muse presentations at The Flea Theater as a part of our Anchor Partnership. Musings showcased the exciting, fresh, paradigm-shifting storytelling that New York's leading actresses developed through intensive Mini Muse workshops.
Vanessa Aspillaga presented from a piece that incorporates music and her visual art, a creative memoir of sorts - with collaborator José Zayas; Lynn Cohen presented from a piece that reimagined Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz - with collaborators Lewis Black, Ronald Cohen, and Ian Morgan; Jessica Frances Dukes presented from her first solo show exploring a complex familial lineage of race, class, and identity in America - with collaborators Taylor Barfield and Seret Scott. Déa Julien presented from a piece that tells the story of a young Syrian refugee and her relationship to the wealthy American woman who sponsors her for a year - with collaborators Kylie Brown, Caroline Hewitt, & Megan Sandberg-Zakian of Maia Directors; and Kyra Miller presented from a new piece exploring puppetry, Gaslight, and Bluebeard - with collaborators Noel Allain and Katie Pearl. Actresses Chelsea Dee and Zainab Musa were 2018 Muse alternates.
The Muse Project also presented an inaugural Tea Time event and a Mini Gala at The Flea Theater. Tea Times are a one-of-a-kind Muse pilot program - an opportunity for attendees to network & to become more acquainted with the life-and-times of a singular stage actress. A veteran stage actress opens the event with stories about her experiences building her career. In 2018, actress Florencia Lozano, was our Tea Time host. The Mini Gala is a small, tailored intimate gala event, where guests had the opportunity to mingle with the Muses and other special guests at The Flea.
Vanessa Aspillaga presented from a piece that incorporates music and her visual art, a creative memoir of sorts - with collaborator José Zayas; Lynn Cohen presented from a piece that reimagined Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz - with collaborators Lewis Black, Ronald Cohen, and Ian Morgan; Jessica Frances Dukes presented from her first solo show exploring a complex familial lineage of race, class, and identity in America - with collaborators Taylor Barfield and Seret Scott. Déa Julien presented from a piece that tells the story of a young Syrian refugee and her relationship to the wealthy American woman who sponsors her for a year - with collaborators Kylie Brown, Caroline Hewitt, & Megan Sandberg-Zakian of Maia Directors; and Kyra Miller presented from a new piece exploring puppetry, Gaslight, and Bluebeard - with collaborators Noel Allain and Katie Pearl. Actresses Chelsea Dee and Zainab Musa were 2018 Muse alternates.
The Muse Project also presented an inaugural Tea Time event and a Mini Gala at The Flea Theater. Tea Times are a one-of-a-kind Muse pilot program - an opportunity for attendees to network & to become more acquainted with the life-and-times of a singular stage actress. A veteran stage actress opens the event with stories about her experiences building her career. In 2018, actress Florencia Lozano, was our Tea Time host. The Mini Gala is a small, tailored intimate gala event, where guests had the opportunity to mingle with the Muses and other special guests at The Flea.
the muse project.