Adil Mansoor
KST Presents
Amm(i)gone
Co-presented with The Performance Project @ University Settlement
Thursday & Friday, January 12 – 13
8:00pm
Saturday, January 14
11:00am (there will be limited floor seating for available for purchase at the door)
Speyer Hall at University Settlement | 184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Pay What Moves You: $20 – $35 (Masks Required for Audience Members)
Kelly Strayhorn Theater is delighted to collaborate with The Performance Project @ University Settlement for this special presentation of Adil Mansoor‘s solo performance work Amm(i)gone. Mansoor explores queerness, the afterlife, and obligation using Sophocles’ Antigone, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations between him and his mother in a touching performance about love across faith.
Amm(i)gone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is an apology to and from a mother.
Creator and performer Adil Mansoor explores queerness, the afterlife, and obligation using canonical texts, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations between him and his mother. Since discovering his queerness, Mansoor’s mother has turned towards her faith in an attempt to save her son in the afterlife. In an effort towards healing, Mansoor has invited his mother to join him as dramaturg and co-conspirator. In reading, discussing, and translating various adaptations of the source play, together they mine Greek tragedy, Islamic traditions, and their own memories to create an original performance locating love across faith. Can prayer substantiate care? Can care manifest as artistic methodology and inquiry? Can Mansoor and his mother contend with Antigone’s fate?
Amm(i)gone is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater in partnership with The Theater Offensive and NPN/VAN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org. Amm(i)gone is additionally supported by the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier; the Point Foundation’s Andrew A. Isen Internship; The Heinz Endowments’ Small Arts Initiative; Opportunity Fund; PNC Charitable Trust; A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation; Arts, Equity, Reimagined Fund; and Dreams of Hope.
Photo Credit: Kitoko Chargois
- ABOUT THE ARTIST
- CREDITS
Adil Mansoor is a theatre maker and educator centering the stories of queer folks and people of color. He has developed new work with New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, The Poetry Project, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, The Theater Offensive, NYU Tisch, and PearlArts Studios.
In addition to his own practice, Mansoor also directs new and contemporary plays including “Daddies” by Paul Kruse (Audible), “Gloria” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Hatch), “Kentucky” by Leah Nanako Winkler (Pittsburgh Playhouse), and “Plano” by Will Arbery (Quantum). Mansoor is a founding member of Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective and the former Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope, an LGBTQA+ youth arts organization. As an educator, he has worked with Sarah Lawrence, Middlebury College, The Mori Art Museum, The Warhol and others.
Mansoor has been an NYTW 2050 Directing Fellow, a Gerri Kay New Voices Fellow with Quantum Theater, and an Art of Practice Fellow and Community Leader with Sundance. He was part of the inaugural Artist Caucus gathered by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Woolly Mammoth. Mansoor received his MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon. adilmansoor.com
Artistic and Production Team:
Creator and Performer: Adil Mansoor
Media Systems Designer: Joseph Amodei
Projections Designer: Davine Byon
Assistant Director and Administrative Support: Pria Dahiya
Co-Director: Lyam B. Gabel
Stage Manager: Leslie Huynh
Sound Designer: Aaron Landgraf
Video Designer: Bleue Liverpool
Scenic / Lights: Xotchil Alyss Musser
“Alif Lam Meem”
Co-composed by Shahzad Ismaily and Aya Abdelaziz
Vocals by Aya Abdelaziz
Arranged by Aaron Langraf
Developed with:
Creative Consultant: Sharlene Bamboat
Slide Film Consultant: Caldwell Linker
Translation Consultant: Ned Moore
Video Narration: Abid Mansoor and Luke Niebler
Photo Embroidery: Rebecca Harrison
In-process Stage Manager: Pixie Colbert
Virtual In-process Stage Manager: Ferdinand Moscat
Virtual In-process Board Operator: Erin Roussel