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Necessary Monsters performed at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art February 29 and March 1st. The Bath Opera was presented as a reading at Mabou Mines as part of the resident artists project. The Jamal Lullabies will be presented at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival.

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Jamal Lullabies

Jamal Lullabies performs at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival

The Jamal Lullabies is a musical tribute and lament written and scored by Emily Conbere and directed by Paul Bargetto. In the piece four young, white women sing about Jamal, a beloved black student at their school who was killed at a gang shooting during a party. As the women unfold their stories it becomes clear that each of them loved him in profound ways that altered the course of their lives. The Jamal Lullabies is a potently ironic exploration of love and race in the popular cultural imagination. It stars Bekah Coulter, Debbie Friedman, Allison Jill Posner, and Nicole Stefonek

undergroundzero festival

Artistic Director Paul Bargetto curates the second annual undergroundzero festival presented by Collective Unconscious. This year brings a new round of cutting edge independent theater to Tribeca. Please come and see some of the finest artists in the Independent Theater presenting new work and revivals July 8 through August 2nd 2008.
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Our Mission

East River Commedia is a group of international artists who collaborate on the production and development of ensemble-based performance works in New York City and abroad. Recognizing the need for greater international representation in theater and performing arts in New York, the company works closely with international artists, consulates and cultural organizations to reach out to the city's many communities.

In addition, the members of ERC believe in the importance of a wide scope of influence and audience, and are committed to productions, tours, and residencies in foreign countries as an integral part of the group’s ongoing development.The company is interested in theater that emerges at the crossroads of poetry, music and gesture. In these forms, we seek to explore human desires—for power, love, belonging and possession—and to uncover the contradictory and mysterious drives that bind audience and performer, parent and child, individual and society.

Our most powerful tool is laughter, a kind of laughter that Fellini calls: “...the intention of the real—that is, the deepest and most honest—writers of comedy,” authors who want “only to tear open our most painful scars so that we feel them all the more strongly.”