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December 10-15 2024
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Dec 10 at 7pm - Opening Dec 11-13 at 7pm Dec 14 at 1pm & 7pm Dec 15 at 1pm Accessibility Know Before You Go Social Narative Guide 10 years ago, Philadelphia’s Team Sunshine Performance dared themselves to do something no theater company has done before: create a show lasting 24 years. Every 2-3 years the company makes a new installment of The Sincerity Project in response to the shifts in our lives and in the world. Now in its fifth installment, this ambitious and audacious multi-decade theater piece serves as a stopping point, a pause, a moment for us to sincerely engage with the harrowing, beautiful, and complex realities of time’s passing.
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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Photos by Johanna Austin AustinArt.org
CAst & TeamDirector: 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 & Production Manager: Jillian Jetton Lighting Designer: Maria Shaplin Technical Director: Michael Lambui Design Consultant: Nia Benjamin Costume Designer: Vanessa Ogbuehi Stage Manager: Lian Kiem Laventhol Brody |
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, Kristen Long, Dave Keenan, Sarah Gladwin Camp, Ann Callahan, Anthony Camp, Alexandria Capone, Donkey Dover, Ellie Furstenberg, Jake Hooker, Lucy Jackson, Emily Johnson, Tim Kelly, Charles Meyers, Bonnie Paul, Mia Rotondo, Benjamin Smallen, Alan Smith
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.
Support for Team Sunshine Performance provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies (www.bloomberg.org), Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, with support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (include logos of GPCA and PCA), the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (include logo), Independence Foundation, and the Philadelphia Foundation. This grant is being made from The Jay and Deen Kogan Fund.
Support for Team Sunshine Performance provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies (www.bloomberg.org), Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, with support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (include logos of GPCA and PCA), the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (include logo), Independence Foundation, and the Philadelphia Foundation. This grant is being made from The Jay and Deen Kogan Fund.
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