as•sem•bly |ə-sěm'blē| (noun)
1. a group of people gathered in one place for a common purpose.
2. a public facility to meet for open discussion.
3. the action of fitting together component parts of a machine or
other object.
4. a collective of artists dedicated to realizing a new American theater.
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Harpo's Salon: A Night of Conversation - Part Deux!
Thursday, September 26 | 7pm Doors Open | 7:30pm Performance | 8:30pm Post-Show Hang!
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The Attic @ The Tank
312 West 36th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY — see transportation options​
THE LINE-UP
Corporate Workshop
by Ben Beckley, Emily Caffery, Jess Chayes and Meredith Lucio
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From the Carwash Collection
by Rob Neill
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An experiment in time and place. In this time and place. And you. Or maybe you and me. Let's see how it goes this time. The Carwash Collection is developed from recent moves, travels, short walks, and cleaning out more than one closet.
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Work like this can be found most weekends in The Infinite Wrench (use 20for20 discount code for $20 no fee tickets)
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girl saints
by Rosie McInnes
performed by Miranda Reilly
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“girl saints” follows three girls in Catholic school who, while doing a group project on a female Saint, come into conjured contact and relationship with Catherine of Siena; the Patron Saint of Everything Girls Do on the Internet and Their Phones.
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​​Welcome to The Assembly's new performance and conversation salon! We've missed coming together as a community of art-makers and audience members, and so we're thirlled you've joined us in the Attic to drink, snack, see some exciting new works-in-progress by some wonderful artists in our community!
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It's Just Money
by Emily Louise Perkins
performed by Moti Margolin
Or, The Woman Covered in Jewels
Co-created by Kate Budney (performer), Aoife Hough, Kelleen Moriarty (performer)
With collaborator Piper Hill (performer)
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Or, The Woman Covered in Jewels is a new multi-modal work devised from the text of Oscar Wilde’s lost and fragmented play, La Sainte Courtisane. The piece experiments with non-traditional storytelling forms to bring Wilde’s text into conversation with modern explorations of sexuality, spirituality, and what it means to really believe something.
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LEAD ARTIST BIOS
​KATE BUDNEY (she/her, Or, The Woman Covered in Jewels co-creator/performer) is an actor and theater maker based in Brooklyn with a passion for devised theater, musical theater, and theater for young audiences. Recent credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (Northern Stage), Frederick The Musical (Long Island Children’s Museum), and Pericles and One Night (Target Margin Theater). She is also a teaching artist (currently working with Dancing Classrooms NYC), as well as a baker and cat fosterer.
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AOIFE HOUGH (she/her, Or, The Woman Covered in Jewels co-creator) is a stage manager, deviser, and theatre-maker based in Brooklyn. Her previous work includes The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America (Winner of Drama League Award for Outstanding Digital Theater, Individual Production), House Plant (Next Door @ NYTW), (Still) Asking for It (Joe’s Pub), and the world premiere of Specially Processed American Me (Dixon Place).
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​MOTI MARGOLIN (It's Just Money performer) is an actor, writer and translator, singer-songwriter, and also a videographer who has worked in perhaps every venue in NYC... ? Is that possible? It feels like it! But really he's proud to have long-standing relationships with some of the best and finest theater companies and makers, including the Assembly, to provide archival and marketing work, and to be a part of their continuing development. As an actor, he continues to perform in tv and film, and plays and readings. Most recently he performed in Emily's "The Russian And The Jew". Being natively fluent in Russian, as a translator he's worked on several of the Chekhov classics, including "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya" both of which have been produced, the latter most recently at Idiom Theater in Washington state. He's also working on his own plays, and also writing just about a song a week of late. Thanks to the Assembly for opportunity, and eternal love to Emily for writing a part for him and his Brooklyn accent! www.motimargolin.com
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​​ROSIE MCINNESS (girl saints playwright) is a Massachusetts-based theater maker, playwright, poet and climate activist. Rosie has made and produced devised work in collaboration with The Open Theater Project, Off the Grid Theater Co, Liars and Believers and Central Square Theater in Boston and Loom Ensemble in the Hudson Valley. Rosie also works for The Sunrise Movement, a youth-lead climate movement building across race and class to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal.
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​KELLEEN MORIARTY (she/her, Or, The Woman Covered in Jewels co-creator/performer), is a queer, disabled director, dramaturg, and storyteller based in Brooklyn. She is a former Westport Country Playhouse Directing Fellow and a former member of Mercury Store’s Directing Lab. Favorite recent credits include “Houses of Telescopes” (Pipeline Theatre Company), “She Kills Monsters” (Governors State University), “Cupid and Psyche: an audioplay” (Stay True). BA in English and Theatre with a concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Dartmouth College. She loves tea, baseball, and podcasts.
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ROB NEILL (From the Carwash Collection creator) is a New York-based writer, performer, theater maker, and educator. He is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of the the New York Neo-Futurists. His plays have been performed at, The Kraine, The Ontological Theatre, P.S. The Public, and HERE. As an actor he has performed in Broadway shows, in the Edinburgh Festival, and in many Neo-Futurist plays all over the country. He is also a member of Another Limited Rebellion, has a BA in Philosophy and Russian Studies from Grinnell, and did his post graduate work in Classical Acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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EMILY LOUISE PERKINS (It's Just Money playwright) is a writer, actor and voiceover artist. In what feels like another lifetime she collectively devised HOME/SICK (JACK, The Living Theater & LA's Odyssey Theater), and That Poor Dream (The New Ohio, The Tank) all with The Assembly Theater Project and, also with the Assembly co-authored I Will Look Forward To This Later with Kate Benson in collaboration with IRT & The New Ohio Theater as a part of the 2016 Archive Residency. Her other favorite productions with the company include Krista Knight's Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (Clementine, The Ontological) and Chekov's The Three Sisters (Irina, The Red Room). She also more recently co-authored The Russian & The Jew with Liba Vaynberg that had it’s world premiere right here at the Tank and then has had many a staged reading of her first full length all her own entitled Bootlegger which she wants to produce fully when she can drum up the funds. She’s also working on something called “Nothing Became of Her” and it seems fitting to end this bio with that. www.emilylouiseperkins.com​
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​MIRANDA REILLY (girl saints performer) is a New York City based actor hailing originally from the Boston area. Miranda is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has been working consistently in theater, film and TV since graduating. Miranda most recently made her writing/acting debut off Broadway at the Irish Repertory Theater for their Pride festival. Miranda can be seen on Amazon Prime in Vibration (2020) and doing a stunt in a Diane Keaton movie that got 1% on Rotten Tomatoes. Miranda is currently working on her debut novel.
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​​THE ASSEMBLY is a multi-disciplinary collective of theater artists committed to realizing a visceral and intelligent theater through sustained collaboration. Founded in 2008, the company has created 11 original works, including IN CORPO (2023); SEAGULLMACHINE (2018); HOME/SICK, a NY Times and Backstage Critics' Pick ("a cutting edge young theater collective" -NY Times, 2011), revived in 2017 (JACK, Brooklyn); and I WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THIS LATER (2016), praised for its "boldly unhip sincerity" (NY Times). The Assembly has performed in such New York venues as Theatre Row, La MaMa ETC, The New Ohio, The Ontological Incubator, The Prelude Festival, HERE Arts Center, toured to the Edinburgh and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals and The Odyssey Theater in LA. From workshops to productions to post-performance discussions, The Assembly is dedicated to rooting its artists, audiences, and peers in a profound sense of community.
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The Assembly is Ben Beckley, Meredith Lucio, Emily Caffery, Jess Chayes & Stephen Aubrey.​
Kate Budney
Aoife Hough
Moti Margolin
Rosie McInnes
Kelleen Moriarty
Rob Neill
Emily Louise Perkins
Miranda Reilly
