Coming December 10-15 2024
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10 years ago, Philadelphia’s Team Sunshine Performance dared themselves to do something no theater company has done before: Gather the same ensemble every 2-3 years to remake the same show… for 24 years. That show is The Sincerity Project, an original piece of theater that invites the artists and audience to sincerely engage with the passage of time.
A decade into this experiment The Sincerity Project has taken many forms, yielding and morphing to the changes in the artists’ lives and in the world. Over these 10 years the ensemble members have found life partners, witnessed the death of their parents, become parents, purchased homes, moved cities, and stepped more deeply into their queerness and trans identity. Disrupting the forward momentum of contemporary life, these regular returns create a container to pause and reflect on the harrowing, beautiful, and complex realities of being alive. Audiences are invited to join in this collective pause, writing a letter to their future selves that will be available to read at every future installment. By year 24, some audience members will hold 12 letters in their hands. For the first time, The Sincerity Project #5 (2024) focuses on Alex Torra, the project’s Lead Artist and Creative Director, on his journey to become a parent. Through the eyes of two pre-teens and ten adults with a vast array of takes on parenthood, this installment asks: how do you prepare to raise a child in today’s world? And what are queer, radical ways to imagine a family? |
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CAst & Team
Director: Alex Torra
Ensemble: Aram Aghazarian, Rachel Camp, Benjamin Camp, Sydney Camp, Danielle Currica, Makoto Hirano, Pippa Keenan, Mel Krodman, Marcie Mamura, Iris McCloughan, Shavon Norris, Megan Quinn
Creative Producer: Jillian Jetton
Ensemble: Aram Aghazarian, Rachel Camp, Benjamin Camp, Sydney Camp, Danielle Currica, Makoto Hirano, Pippa Keenan, Mel Krodman, Marcie Mamura, Iris McCloughan, Shavon Norris, Megan Quinn
Creative Producer: Jillian Jetton
SPECIAL THANKS AND SUPPORT
Special Thanks: Asian Arts Initiative, Jackie Andrews, Destiny Barnett, Angel Canady, Anna Flenner, Cameron Jankowski, Natalie Le, Donovan Lockett, Liz Marenkova, Matt Nelson, Eden Nguntling, Chloe To, Tenia Weeks
Alex Torra is a 2023 Princess Grace Special Project recipient for The Sincerity Project #5 (2024)--10th Anniversary. This Project was financed in part by a Swarthmore Faculty Research Support Grant and a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting through the Commonwealth Financing Authority. Certain previous iterations of The Sincerity Project have been supported and presented by FringeArts.
A Special Thank You to our Sincerity Monthly Members!
Amanda Chudnow, Erin Read, Brian Ratcliffe, Teresa Wilensky, Joshua McLucas, Stephanie Harmelin, Arthur Larrabee, Elizabeth Scanlon, Laurie McCants, Barbara Domue, Neil Bardhan, Christie Hartwell, Cliff Schwinger, Jesse Gottschalk, Susan Walker, Kylin Mettler, Jerene Good, Roxana Torra, Jillian Jetton, Liz Green, Katie Brady, Ellen Chenoweth
Amanda Chudnow, Erin Read, Brian Ratcliffe, Teresa Wilensky, Joshua McLucas, Stephanie Harmelin, Arthur Larrabee, Elizabeth Scanlon, Laurie McCants, Barbara Domue, Neil Bardhan, Christie Hartwell, Cliff Schwinger, Jesse Gottschalk, Susan Walker, Kylin Mettler, Jerene Good, Roxana Torra, Jillian Jetton, Liz Green, Katie Brady, Ellen Chenoweth