Written and directed by James Benson
Chip needs $20. After receiving his DNA results in the mail, he discovers he is related to the infamous billionaire Sackler Family and travels to ask them for a few bucks.
An exploration of performance and self takes the form of an acting reel.
Conceived and produced by James Benson & Sarah Willis.
Directed and edited by James Benson.
There’s a ghost in this hallway. Can you see him?
Written and directed by Brett Potter.
Sasquatch Rituals was developed over the course of three years at Abrons Arts Center and Mt. Tremper Arts. It premiered at The Kitchen in April 2018.
The piece is a cycle of performance rituals installations initiated by Sibyl Kempson that tracks and responds to her spiral-shaped experiences as an investigator for the Bigfoot Field Research Organization. It begins with the patterns of language Americans use on the internet to describe something they can’t explain.
Helen Shaw named Sasquatch rituals her favorite show of the decade in her Decade in Theater roundup in Vulture.
Photos by Paula Court
12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens is a ritual cycle consisting of 12 one-day performances at the Whitney Museum of American Art, written and conceived by Sibyl Kempson.
Each performance occurred on the Spring and Fall Equinoxes and Summer and Winter Solstices, beginning in March 2016 and going through December 2018.
Ralph Lemon recommended 12 Shouts in the August 2016 issue of Art in America.
Fondly, Collette Richland was written by Sibyl Kempson in collaboration with Elevator Repair Service Theater Company. Kempson's play features twelve ERS performers and the work of ERS' award-winning design team. Music for the play was composed by ERS performer Mike Iveson, who also accompanied the production on live piano. The piece was directed by ERS Artistic Director John Collins.
*Sarah Willis shared the role of Cat Butler/Clotilde with Susie Sokol, performing in twelve shows throughout the run.
Photo by Joan Marcus
New York Times review by Ben Brantley
American Theatre feature on Sibyl Kempson and Fondly, Collette Richland by Eliza Bent
This play was the inaugural production of Kempson's theater company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr & Perf Co. and premiered at Abrons Arts Center in April 2015.
Sarah Willis originated the role of Sarah in the production's world premiere.
Set in the Great Depression, Sibyl Kempson's Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag is a story of an extended family of sharecroppers who are visited, interviewed, and photographed by two live-in reporters from the "Big City" and also possibly by an ancient Mesopotamian sage. An irrational musical contemplation of the ethical pitfalls of poetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag is inspired by the work of James Agee and Walker Evans as well as Sontag's essay 'On Photography,' the journals of Symbolist painter Odilon Redon, The NEW American Machinists' Handbook, the Ancient Assyrian mythological seals in the JP Morgan Collection, and a couple of Broadway musicals. Featuring music by Ashley Turba and staging by David Neumann.
Photo by Maria Baranova and play cover by Peter Serling.
Purchase a copy of the play here, via 53rd State Press
VULTURES was written and directed by Sarah Willis. This was her first full length play and premiered at Dixon Place in June 2014.
Contact Sarah Willis for inquiries.
Written and directed by Bernardo Britto, Jacqueline (Argentine) premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2016 as part of the NEXT category.
Jacqueline (Argentine) had its official theatrical release on October 21, 2016 at Syndicated in Brooklyn, NY. It is currently available on iTunes, Amazon, and other VOD platforms.
PLAYGROUND premiered as a workshop performance at Dixon Place in September 2013. In August 2014, it played a two-weekend run at The Brick in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Sarah Willis originated the role of Kayley in this production.
Written and directed by James Benson and Bernardo Britto.
Danny gets kicked out of his college dormitory a month before graduating and moving to LA with his roommate Cameron, where they have secured jobs as writers on a reality TV show. He spends his last few weeks in New York couch surfing as he and Cameron prepare to leave behind girls and their two best friends, Doug and Doug.
Written and directed by James Benson and Bernardo Britto
James and Rob are in a band. Together with their ex-drummer and his younger sister they go on tour to NYC to meet with the label that might put out their first album.
