Video by Alex Budovsky
ABOUT: The Art of Training A Goldfish explores the complicated relationship of Mikhail Bulgakov, a Ukrainian writer, satirist and former medical doctor, with the rise of Soviet power, the purges of Stalin, and the space an artist lives between imagination and reality.
FEATURING: Brandon deSpain, Lane M. Jackson, Tatyana Kot, Vadim Kroll, Iryna Malygina & Evelina Pristovšek
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, May 11 at 6:15pm, Saturday, May 13 at 2:15 and Sunday, May 14 at 6pm
LOCATION: Teatro Latea, 107 Suffolk St. NY, NY 10002.
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Nicole Colbert (Playwright/Co-Director) is a director/choreographer, writer, educator, and theatre critic for offoffonline.com. Her dance/theatre works range from experimental dance to re-imagined works of classical drama, utilizing a physical vocabulary. She has developed an approach to teaching movement for actors that fuses elements of dance with principles of Gaga, LeCoq, and Viewpoints. Her dance/theatre adaptation of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams received a grant from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and was premiered as part of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in 2017 and 2019. It was the first dance/theatre production of its kind for the festival. This is her first evening length play. She is thrilled to be working with such a talented cast who bring with them a worldview that contributes to the world of the play.
Tatyana Kot (Co-Director/Actor) was born in the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan), trained to be a ballerina, studied History and Archaeology in university and worked with people with disabilities for 14 years. Breast cancer survivor and advocate. Best actress winner at Planet Connections theater festivity, Midtown international theater festival and First prize at Secondo Theater festival (Zurich, Switzerland) multiple nominee and winner of New York Innovative Theater Awards. She has been a company member of Blessed Unrest, a teaching artist and will be going on tour with the critically acclaimed show “The Singing Windmills” written by Roman Freud. A VR immersive documentary about her life with cancer NORMAL DAY was internationally released in 2018. Tatyana discovered an illegal copy of “Master and Margarita” in the back of her parents’ bookcase when she was 12, read it and it has been her favorite book since. https://actresstatyanakot.com/
The Art of Training a Goldfish will be performed as part of the New York Theatre Festival