2024 Programming
Troy Foundry Theatre is excited to bring back this spine-tingling, eerie, and enchanting adaptation of Charles Dickens' timeless classic, A Christmas Carol, presented annually as a winter fundraiser for Troy Foundry Theatre. With a story heavily adapted, edited and re-written by Wesley Broulik (Times Fool Company), David Girard takes the stage in a solo performance with musical and sonic accompaniment provided by Connor Armbruster for an experience that will send shivers down your spine and warm your heart. This unique and ghostly adaptation has a limited-time performance run with two performances during the heart of Troy’s Victorian Stroll time (12/ 8 & 12/9) at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY) and one special performance at Capital Repertory Theatre (12/16). All performances will be at 7pm. Tickets for performances at The Waiting Room will follow TFT’s season pay-what-you-will model, and tickets for the Capital Repertory event will be $50 (plus online fees).
TICKETS FOR TROY PERFORMANCES —> https://buytickets.at/troyfoundrytheatre
TICKETS FOR CAPITAL REPERTORY THEATRE PERFORMANCE —> https://attherep.org/event/a-christmas-carol/
A CHRISTMAS CAROL at The Waiting Room
Click HERE to buy tickets for 12/8 & 12/9 Troy performances
*Tickets for the Troy performances follow our season pay-what-you-will levels
Sunday, December 8 (Victorian Stroll day)
7pm at THE WAITING ROOM (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180 - Franklin Alley Entrance)
Monday, December 9
7pm at THE WAITING ROOM (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180 - Franklin Alley Entrance)
*Tickets for this performance follow our season pay-what-you-will levels
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Capital Repertory Theatre
Click HERE to buy tickets for the 12/16 Cap Rep performance
Monday, December 16
7pm at CAPITAL REPERTORY THEATRE
Tickets for this performance are $50 (plus online fees)
2024 HALF-BAKED FESTIVAL OF EMERGING WORK
FULL SCHEDULE OF PROGRAMMING
Wednesday, September 11th - A Half-Baked Fest Special Event - fundraiser for Will Kempe’s Players!
8pm at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180 / Franklin Alley entrance)
Antonio, or What I Would
Created by Shayne David Cameris & Brenna Geffers
Performed by Shayne David Cameris
It’s the closing performance of a somewhat successful outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The actor playing Antonio asks himself, “what happened here” as he finds the queerness of both his character and his own identity relegated to stage left. This wild romp through history, fantasy, swashbuckling, and booty is a love letter to Shakespeare's most famous Gay Pirate...or maybe more of a sext. Antonio, or What I Would was developed with the Play On Labs and Troy Foundry Theatre.
Thursday, September 12th
8PM at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180 / Franklin Alley entrance)
New Clean Energy
By Kristoph DiMaria
NEW CLEAN ENERGY is an immersive theatre piece set in an alternate near-reality where nuclear energy is the primary global power source. Live nuclear weapons testing is revived from its Cold War hibernation, dominating the geopolitical landscape as tensions ratchet up between the US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and Gaza among other nations. It is a comedy closer to the truth than perhaps is funny, heightened by a surreal adaptation of all life responding to the radioactive environment around it. Points and objects of history are pulled forward to a present day just beyond this one where de/escalation is the game and (for some) survival is the question. Is there a better way? What can we do from where we are? Will it be the end if all else fails? What happens to the planet in the twilight of half-life?
Foundry F*cks with Farce: PART II
Created by Shayne David Cameris, Raya Malcolm, David Girard, Ethan Botwick, and Shannon Rafferty
The TFT team is at it again with a continuation of last years' Farce project! Come laugh with us and catch up on the development of this project from the 2023 Half-Baked Festival. We promise you won't be sorry you came to play. We will remind you what hilarious joys we worked through last year and show you a new piece to the farce. Come f*ck with us!
War of the Worlds
An adaptation by Connor Armbruster
Performed by David Girard
Directed and Curated by Connor Armbruster, David Baecker and David Girard
The invasion begins. From the team that brought the much-loved adaptation of A Christmas Carol last year comes another in-process presentation of a new adaptation of a classic in the same magical style. Armbruster is working to adapt this H.G. Wells classic into a one-man performance by David Girard with music and live sound by Armbruster.
Friday, September 13th
8PM 50 4th St. Troy, NY 12180
10:45
By Brian Sheldon
Directed by David Girard
Omar and Jonathan have lost a bet and must now sleep at a new resting place for a recently departed individual. Of course this is scary but these two are long time companions. It isn't until a mysterious man shows up that they discover the true reason for the overnight stay and what differs between ghosts and men.
The Insulin Project
Created and Curated by Brian Sheldon
Creator Brian Sheldon has lived with Type 2 diabetes for over twenty years now and the ever increasing ignorance when it comes to the American health system continues to haunt their dreams. Sheldon started thinking about what might come of this unclassified epidemic in the not so distant future. What you have is the growing work being presented here.
The Final Dose
Created and Staged by Wesley Cappiello
The Final Dose is a movement piece created and staged by Wesley Cappiello, performed by Ethan Botwick & Shannon Rafferty, centering around the story of an individuals final night on earth, departing with a lethal dose of heroin.
Saturday, September 14
7PM 50 4th St. Troy, NY 12180
My Papier Mâché Monster
Written and performed by Eliana Rowe
This solo performance piece inspired by Rowe's upbringing in the Caribbean Pentecostal Church follows a young rigidly religious kid who transforms into their "saved, sanctified and Holy Ghost-filled" alter ego, Nun, to cope with a sour imagination and undiagnosed anxiety disorder. They obsess and ritual compulsively to cure their twisted visions, but when the incantations used to dispel their monsters fail -- they rupture, split and atrophy.
Everywhere Is
By Camryn Beck, Mitchell Johnson and Amber Wheeler
Directed by Shayne David Cameris
Everywhere Is by Camryn Beck, Mitchell Johnson & Amber Wheeler is a new piece of theatre that questions, explores and challenges the sanctity of parent and adult child through a queer (LGBTQIA+) perspective.
Wednesday, September 18th - *A Half-Baked Fest Special Event*
6PM & 9PM at 518 Craft (200 Broadway Troy, NY 12180)
Gintry
Created by and starring Davey White
Developed with Die-Cast
There is a new cocktail joint opening where the old neighborhood dive used to be. Progress? The stories of a Philly block are shaken and stirred through the perspective of bartender Whitey as he struggles to understand his place in a place he knows he doesn’t belong. Each new chapter features a unique craft cocktail that lets you taste the story as you hear it. Sip a botanical habanero gin concoction while you learn the fate of Hope’s Garden. Consider the Margarita; it’s the only drink on the menu that the bartender didn’t invent. Each BAR SEAT ticket ($100) comes with at least 4 cocktails crafted right in front of you. This one man epic-poem brings metaphors as intricate as the handmade paprika syrup for you to savor. Or choke on. Welcome to the neighborhood. We’re all good open minded liberals here.
BAR SEATING: $100 each
TABLE SEATING: 25 each (DRINKS NOT INCLUDED)
Thursday, September 19th
8PM at The Arts Center of the Capital Region (265 River St, Troy, NY 12180)
Homebody
Created and Staged by Emily Curro & Raya Malcolm
A new piece in development created by Emily Curro & Raya Malcolm, Homebody explores how we recognize home, the relationship between home and body, and how we treat our bodies in our homes.
Say Her Name
By Aaron Moore
Directed by Hettie Barnhill
A young girl has just died. Her name is Jasmine. As she prepares to leave this world for the next she notices all the people shouting her name in anger, knowing nothing about her. Before she departs she demands that the world know her true name.
Friday, September 20th
8PM at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180 / Franklin Alley entrance)
Crystal Clear Living
By Katie Pedro
Directed by Katie Pedro
This is a play about monsters and ghosts and the people who want us:
Enters the Change
Asks himself if a crack would be worth it.
Asks himself - am I sure about this?
Crystal Clear Living is a new play in development by Troy Foundry Theatre Associate Artistic Director, Katie Pedro.
CAST:
Dart – Shayne David Cameris
Clem – Emily Curro
Ezie – Yvonne Perry
Wise – Lance Douglas
Main Character Syndrome
Developed with Die-Cast
Directed by Brenna Geffers
Performed by David Girard
Created by Brenna Geffers, Dean Giagni & David Girard
Based on Dean Giagni’s Graphic Novel “Main Character Syndrome"
You've seen the questions and memes on Reddit and Facebook, "Did kids in the 70’s really just go out and go play the in the woods and your parents had no idea where you were?" "Did you really sneak out of an open window to go to a giant, raging house party with beer in plastic red cups like in those 80's movies?" Author and artist Dean Giagni lived through it and, more importantly – remembered it and how it felt. In his first book, Main Character Syndrome, he created an illustrated historical diary of those times, looking back into his own life. It's all the joy of a new love, a first kiss, having a bonfire with your friends but also the sobering reality of being bullied in school, breaking up and the death of friends and family. Now, Geffers, Girard & Giagni have created a new play based around it!
Saturday, September 21st
8PM at KBK Studios (10 2nd St 2nd Floor, Troy, NY 12180)
There are Black Roses Under the Sea
By Cris Eli Blak
Directed by Angelique Powell
There Are Black Roses Under The Sea, a new play in development by Cris Eli Blak, is an examination of family, culture, poetry, mythology, the importance of remembering where you came from, and the forgotten Black towns in history. When a young man goes on a search for his missing grandfather, he unlocks an ancestral history he never knew existed, all the way under the sea. This is a play; this is a prayer. This is a story of the world we live in, and the one that could exist.
when you wake up, i’m here.
it’s always been this way.
i don’t think i know where you end.
i don’t think i know where i begin.
WHY CAN'T I FIND MINE?
In Camera by Camryn Beck, Mitchell Johnson & Amber Wheeler is a new play exploring codependence, surveillance, and what happens when our most private thoughts are made manifest.
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In Camera
A new play by Camryn Beck, Mitchell Johnson & Amber Wheeler
Directed by Han Van Sciver
Performed by Max Raymond & Marcy Em
WHERE:
403 Fulton St. Troy, NY 12180
WHEN:
Wednesday, May 1 @ 8pm
Thursday, May 2 @ 8pm
Friday, May 3 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 4 @ 8pm
Wednesday, May 8 @ 8pm
Thursday, May 9 @ 8pm
Friday, May 10 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 11 @ 8pm
Directed by..........................................................................Han Van Sciver
“One”....................................................................................Max Raymond
“Two”..........................................................................................Marcy Em
Stage Manager...............................................................Regina Desrosiers
Technical Director | Lighting Design....................................Ethan Botwick
ASM, Media Designer, Co-Sound Designer........................Vinny Pruchnick
Video & Sound Design........................................................Han Van Sciver
Production Photography/Video......................................Willie David Short
Scenic Artists..........................................Mitchell Johnson & Camryn Beck
Artistic Director | Production .................................................David Girard
Producing Executive Director...................................................Emily Curro
Associate Producer..................................................Shayne David Cameris
PAY WHAT YOU WILL TICKET LEVELS:
You can choose whatever price you are comfortable paying to attend our events. If you have the means, please consider purchasing a higher level ticket to help us balance production expenses!
Our "pay what you will" ticket levels will be the same for every show this year.
We can accept pre-sale credit card and debit cards online via this ticketing platform.
Pay what you will levels at the door can only be accepted via CASH or PAYPAL (we can't process debit or credit cards at the door at this time).
PAY WHAT YOU WILL TICKET LEVELS FOR 2024:
$15 Caster
$30 Moulder
$50 Bellfounder
$100 Iron Turner
$500 Galvaniser
PLAY ON LAB 2024
For two weekends in February and March, Troy Foundry Theatre will present the inaugural Play On Lab, celebrating the magic of the early stages of creation in the world of theatre. This is not a festival; it is a crucible for the birth of extraordinary performances, a haven where the whispers of untold stories transform into resounding narratives, embarking on an inspiring odyssey through the uncharted territories of theatrical innovation, placing a spotlight on the genesis of creative brilliance. The 2024 Play On Lab will feature three pieces of emerging work all on their way to future endeavors: Gay Narcissus (Thursday, February 29 at 8pm), developed by Die-Cast and performed by Han Van Sciver, is a one-person song-cycle-slash-spoken-word-slash-rock-concert that wrangles with the myths and prophesies of ancient Greece; Antonio, or What I Would (Friday, March 1 at 8pm), developed by Shayne David Cameris & Brenna Geffers and performed by Shayne David Cameris, is a love letter to Shakespeare's gay pirate, a case for queer visibility, and an invitation to keep it queer; and Silver Hammer (Friday, March 8 at 8pm), created and performed by Nick Ryan, is an auto-biographical horror-fiction concerning disinformation, non-linear warfare, arson, troll-farms, Russian oligarchs, psychic attacks, Tik Tok, and our ever-eroding sense of what is true and what is false. This is a pay-what-you-will event. All performances will be held at 19 3rd Street, Troy, NY (Franklin Alley Entrance).
Gay Narcissus
Developed by Die-Cast
Performed by Han Van Sciver
Thursday, February 29 at 8pm
19 3rd Street Troy, NY 12180 (Franklin Alley entrance)
A simple Bard is on their way to Hell to have a few words with one of the Greek’s least-liked heroes, Narcissus. Armed with only a loop pedal, a guitar, and a broken heart, they are busking to help financially support their journey. The hat is right there if you feel inclined. As Bard tells the story of Narcissus as it currently stands, the stories of gender-swapping Tiresius and ultra-famous Cassandra also weave into Bard’s own understanding of themselves and their trajectory. Gay Narcissus is a one-person song-cycle-slash-spoken-word-slash-rock-concert that wrangles with the myths and prophesies of ancient Greece. The piece seeks to answer the questions: How can we best excavate queer and trans narratives from “classical” texts? Why do trans storylines end so often in death, and how can we subvert this given?
Die-Cast is an award-winning artist collective focusing on immersive, sight-responsive performance and installation. We believe in radical collaboration where artists create work for themselves and each other using our Collective Creation process. https://www.die-castphilly.org/
Antonio, or What I Would
Developed by: Shayne David Cameris & Brenna Geffers
Performed by: Shayne David Cameris
Friday, March 1 at 8pm
19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180 (Franklin Alley entrance)
A love letter to Shakespeare's gay pirate. A case for queer visibility. An invitation to keep it queer. Antonio is an opportunity for us to ask "What if?" What if we could get the endings we actually hoped for? What if we could have a "happy ending"? What if we didn't have to spend our lives just "standing stage left"? Join a frustrated Actor as he takes a moment to ponder just that and imagine all the possibilities for a character he's grown to love and cherish: Antonio from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Silver Hammer
Created & performed by: Nick Ryan
Friday, March 8 at 8pm
19 3rd Street Troy, NY 12180 (Franklin Alley entrance)
A personal account of mass psychosis.An auto-biographical horror-fiction concerning disinformation, non-linear warfare, arson, troll-farms, Russian oligarchs, psychic attacks, Tik Tok, and our ever-eroding sense of what is true and what is false.
Nick Ryan is a theatre-artist based in Troy, New York. Selected playwriting credits include Long Wharf Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare & Company and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. In 2015 he co-created an immersive adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota; in 2022 the show was licensed by Broadway Asia. He is co-artistic director of The Coldharts; their show Edgar Allan has toured since 2013 with performances Off-Broadway, at the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival in Baltimore, and the Poe Museum in Richmond. The audio play was featured on ‘Poe Theater on the Air’ on National Public Radio. Nick is a company member of the Brooklyn-based Bread Arts Collective and co-founder of Four Humors Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Coldharts is a touring theater company established by Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York in 2012. They are founding members of the Twin Cities Horror Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They create devised, music-theatre inspired by the American Gothic. https://www.thecoldharts.com/
