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Schein On
For the past forty years, working with artists ranging from Whoopi Goldberg to Guillermo Gomez-Peña to street performers in Ethiopia, David Schein has created over 25 original theater works ranging from solo pieces to 60 person operas to "straight plays" to audience-based improvisations to language based performance poems.
In November 2015, at Off Center for The Dramatic Arts in Burlington, Schein, will preview a retrospective selection of past works which will include songs, monologues, and scenes from Chismo (1974), Trucking in One Place (1975), Dick Jones (1979), The Bog People (1980), Out Comes Butch (1981), Life is Not a Country-Western Song (1981), The Last Word (written with Whoopi Goldberg -1983), TOKENS; A Play on the Plague (music composed with Candace Natvig English 1985), Ozball: The Musical (1986), Border X Frontera (written with Guillermo Gomez Peña 1986) The Return of the Jewish Woman ( written with Pit Harmann, Barbel Kemmler -1989), Pagans (1990) Stones (1990) My Murder and Other Local News (1997), My Murder and Other Local News (2003) MYethiOPIA (2005) Infarcation (2013) and Hotball (written with Geof Hewitt - 2014).
Performances will be Friday through Sunday November 27-29 at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, 295 N. Winooski Ave, Burlington, 8PM on Friday and Saturday, and 2PM on Sunday. Admission $8 student, $15 adult, information/reservations at Brown Paper Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com or 716-640-4639 or dafschein@gmail.com.
David Schein has written and performed ten solo shows, as well as authoring many plays, musicals and performance poems. His 70-person opera "TOKENS, a Play on the Plague" won 3 San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics Awards & 3 Hollywood Dramalogue awards. He wrote for & toured with Whoopi Goldberg and worked in Tijuana creating radio for American Public Radio with "Border Brujo" Guillermo Gomez Peña. He has performed his solo, Out Comes Butch throughout the USA, Canada and Europe for the last 30 years. He is the co-founder of One Love AIDS/HIV Awareness Theater which performs shows about AIDS and gender equality in market places throughout Ethiopia. His article about founding that theater, "Incident in Awassa," was featured in The American Theater Reader. He has been a guest teacher at Brown University, Naropa Institute, Middlebury College, Maison De Culture in Rennes, France, and at the New England Young Writer's Conference at Breadloaf. David recently completed a musical about global warming, Hotball, written with Vermont poet, Geof Hewitt. He is just back from a West Coast tour where he performed his solos, Out Comes Butch, Infarcation and Distraction and created and performed a new piece with longtime collaborator, Robert Ernst The Jewthuran Beatnik Baby Shower. His book of performance poems, My Murder and Other Local News, was recently published by Fomite Press and he currently working on a novel about Ethiopia and America The Adoption. For more information about David go to davidschein.com.
Schein On is part of OC@OC (Original Content at Off Center), a collaboration of Vermont theater companies and artists who have joined together at Off Center for The Dramatic Arts in Burlington to create a diverse season of completely new work in 2015. OC@OC's mission is to incubate brave, original theater and to grow the breadth and scope of Vermont's artists, audiences, and enthusiasts.
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LocationThe Off Center for the Dramatic Arts (View)
294 North Winooski Avenue # 116
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
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