we need your listening
New Ohio Theatre Ice Factory
Created during COVID lockdown, we need your listening places Zoom audience members in a series of one-on-one encounters with actors in their homes. This project examines at the tenuous space between performers and audience members through technology, time, and space.
Premiered at the New Ohio Theatre’s 2020 Ice Factory Festival
Created by Velani Dibba, Ilana Khanin, Elizagrace Madrone, Stephen Charles Smith with ensemble: Hilary Asare, Alex Bartner, ChiWen Chang, Sam Gonzalez, Alice Gorelick, Julia Greer, Nile Assata Harris, Annie Hoeg, Sam Im, Bri Woods
“The show was an experiment in de-glossing video production. How to make Zoom feel fresh again after all these months? By roughing up its surface. In facing screens at each other, like two mirrors in a mise en abyme, the team had distressed the video into something new.”
- Helen Shaw, VULTURE