1012 N. Orange Ave. Sarasota
FL 34236
“Movement of Body and Story”
with Hermitage Fellow nicHi douglas and Hermitage Major Theater Award Finalist Sam Steiner
Presented in partnership with Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
Sam Steiner’s Hermitage Artist Residency generously sponsored by Sondra and Gerald Biller.
Sam Steiner was a finalist for the 2024 Hermitage Major Theater Award, made possible with generous support from Flora Major and the Kutya Major Foundation.
Friday, May 30th at 4pm
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe (entrance at 1012 N. Orange Ave, Sarasota, FL 34236)
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Registration is required. $5 per person.
In this two-part ‘master class’ experience, two award-winning Hermitage Fellows and theater artists at the top of their game explore how the mind moves the body and the body inspires the mind. Choreographer and experimental theater-maker nicHi douglas is fresh from the news of winning the prestigious Callaway Award and Lucille Lortel Award, honoring nicHi’s exceptional work Off-Broadway with (pray) as a multi-hyphenate playwright, director, and choreographer. UK playwright and Hermitage Major Theater Award finalist Sam Steiner visits the Hermitage from London, where his work has been produced on the West End and beyond. His acclaimed plays have been translated into a dozen different languages and performed all over the world. This international playwright and screenwriter’s subjects are as wide-ranging as the cultures that have embraced his work – from draconian censorship laws to Kayne West and table tennis, Steiner mines theatrical and cinematic gold in some of the most unexpected places.
Hermitage Fellow nicHi douglas, based in Brooklyn, is a Lucille Lortel, AUDELCO, Callaway, and Princess Grace Award-winning experimental theater and dance maker who is interested in leading community care centered creative processes. You can refer to her/them/him/us using any pronouns said with Respect. They are an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU/Tisch, where they teach dance and movement methodologies. Recent theater: (pray) (NBT/Ars Nova, playwright/director/choreographer; won the 2024 Lortel for Best Musical, Best Director, and Best Ensemble), The Cotillion (The Movement Theatre Company + New Georges, Choreographer), WEIGHTLESS (WP Theater, Choreographer), SKiNFoLK: AN AMERICAN SHOW (Bushwick Starr + NBT, choreographer). Upcoming: RECONSTRUCTING (The TEAM, choreographer) at BAM. www.mynameisnichi.com
2024 Hermitage Major Theater Award finalist Sam Steiner is a playwright and screenwriter from Manchester, England. His acclaimed plays include Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Walrus Theatre, 2015, Edinburgh Fringe, West End 2023), A Table Tennis Play (Walrus Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, 2019), You Stupid Darkness! (Paines Plough & Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2019 and Southwark Theatre, 2020), and Kanye the First (HighTide, 2017). He also has new commissions with the Almeida Theatre and Francesca Moody. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons has been performed all over the world in over a dozen languages and made its West End debut in January 2023. For film, Sam co-wrote Fingernails (2023, dir. Christos Nikou), starring Jesse Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White, as well as the upcoming Rich Flu (dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrrutia), starring Mary-Elizabeth Winstead and Rafe Spall. His current feature slate includes Morning, which Justin Kurzel will direct; Laura Dern, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Noah Jupe will star with Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch producing. Sam is also working on original horror Banquet and an original feature drama The Endling.