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Freshworks: Pria Dahiya

KST Presents

You and Me and the End of the World

Friday, October 6 (Sold Out) & Saturday, October  7, 2023
7:30pm

KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25

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You and Me and the End of the World is a digitally sick, nauseatingly young, and fearfully queer play-adjacent performance project about first love, first loss, and a thoroughly annoying pandemic. Embodying the disconnect between the bewildering psychological excess of living online and the frightening reality of living offline, this performance in progress explores the relationship between alienation, desire, mortality, and the internet.

*No late seating.

*Warning: This performance contains flashing lights and images that may trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Audience discretion is advised.

Photo Credit: Pria Dahiya


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Freshworks: Andraya Rand-Mathis
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Friday & Saturday, December 1 – 2, 2023
7:30pm

KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25

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Pria Dahiya is a director, visual artist and writer exploring internet culture through literary adaptation, movement and media design. Pria has spent twenty-one years being biracial, bisexual, and chronically online. Her work touches on the absurd code-switching and constant alienation of this duality, and how the internet can hide, broadcast, and manipulate these conflicting identities.Her recent work, “Anything Good Makes Me Want to Die”, was an evening of two short, surreal plays adapted from Otessa Moshfegh’s short stories. These self-produced plays inaugurated her theater company the New Modern Product Theatre, an avant-garde company centering the realities of being raised online.

20 year old Yin Raquino (they/them) writes sonnets with their right hand and cracks the knuckles of their left. They return to Pittsburgh bruised, sober, and eager to devise art that is aligned with their integrity, intuition, and newfound definition of inquisitiveness. They believe it is imperative that we refuse to assemble a museum exhibit of loose threads in our denim pockets. We cannot afford to tear each other down anymore when ecstasy does the unraveling for us. They’ve made an oath to their Filipino ancestors to sustain virginity in their drinks, but never their mouth.

Rory Janney (she/her) is a writer, actor, playwright, costume designer, theatre & community maker based in Pittsburgh. Her work explores alienation, community, trauma, loneliness, and grief through all things human, fantastic, absurd, and grime. She likes tchotchkes, bric-a-brac, knick knacks, women, horror stories, sunscreen, monsters, soft-yolky insides of hard and ugly things, hard-snarly insides of pretty polite things, chasing grace, embracing ugly, pirates, bats, and therapy. Having been a part of New Modern Product Theatre’s baptismal piece, “Anything Good Makes Me Want to Die,” she is excited to continue the work to make this happen.

Rowan Acadia Dunlop is a proud Cajun from the back pastures of Vermont. As a writer, dramaturg, visual artist, and founding member of New Modern Product Theatre, Rowan’s work revolves around the rural experience, the study of the past for the sake of the future, and holding hands. Rowan works on war dramas and good old fashioned love stories, and has worked with the DOD as a scriptwriter for President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition, with the U.S. Army War College, researching/devising WWII case study exercises, and with StoryWarrior Media Capital, producing children’s animation. Rowan also enjoys working with goats.

davine byon (she/her) is a performance artist, theatre designer, and digital hoarder. her work visualizes the media landscapes that hold our silly and shameful collisions, offering that they might also be precious, even sublime. she is traumatized by brutal anonymous internet behavior and charmed by the hope that none of it matters.davine’s recent work has been featured at Kelly Strayhorn Theatre, Rivers of Steel, Quantum Theatre, the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pao Arts Center, Lenfest Center for the Arts, the New Hazlett Theater, City Theatre Company, and The Andy Warhol Museum.