Rude Grooms and NYC Women’s Art Collective LLC present The Ingenue Project: a one-night-only, immersive, multidisciplinary performance exploring the expression of Shakespeare’s ingenues by applying gender-fluidity and nontraditional exhibition to the text. Familiar characters find new life re-interpreted for a modern, youthful, and LGBTQ+ audience.
Groundling Tickets (standing): Pay What You Can ($10 suggested)
Reserved Seating (stools): $20
Preferred Seating (chairs): $30
actor-manager
Calley Luman
performed by
Dan Beaulieu
Leah Isobel
Teshale Nuer
Dana Scurlock
Basit Shittu*
* Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association/AEA Approved Showcase
About the Artists
Calley Luman (Actor-Manager). NEW YORK: A Dream Play (Egg & Spoon). REGIONAL: Hamlet (Seven Stages Shakespeare). INTERNATIONAL: A Midsummer Night’s Dreame (Wales); she created visual art for Reveries: An Immersive Theatrical Experience and The Place in Brooklyn; she released a 3-part poetry series called Cracking Patterns: A Journey thru Codependency which will be available physically soon and she also plans to release her first full length novella Anomalia by the end of this year. She is also the Co-Founder of the NYC Women’s Art Collective which supports femme-identifying artists in the city by providing networking opportunities, performances and showcases, as well as social media exposure. You can follow her creative efforts on Instagram at @calley_at.
Dan Beaulieu (Actor). NEW YORK: Advent staged reading (Salt Pillar Productions); REGIONAL: Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Seven Stages Shakespeare Company. Co-Host of No Holds Bard- The Shakespeare Podcast Shakespeare would have listened to.* TRAINING: University of New Hampshire; Regents College. www.danbeauknows.com Twitter & IG @danbeauknows. All the Love in the world to the Ingenue in this love story called Life, Christine.
Leah Isobel (Singer/Actor). @humblepopstar
Teshale Nuer – Photo/Bio coming soon.
Dana Scurlock (Actor). NEW YORK: Endangered! The Musical (Davenport Theatre), One Nation, One Mission, One Promise (Players Theatre), Imperfect and Important (F*it Club); FILM/TV: The Deuce (HBO), Nella the Princess Knight (Nickelodeon), Revelations & About a Donkey (Congested Cat); TRAINING: The Ohio State University (BA, Theatre); danascurlock.com, @scurlockholmes1
Basit Shittu (Singer/Songwriter) is a Brooklyn-based actor, artist, and activist. Pillowtalk (The Tank, Victory Gardens); The Demise: A Rock opera (NYMF); Next Faggot Nation (HERE ARTS); Baby Fat (La Mama); Miss Evers Boys (NAF, South Africa). @basitshittu on Twitter and Instagram, and his drag persona @dionneslay.