Now Playing at FringeNYC 2009:

1-900-SELFPLEX

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Dial into the imagination where the self is as slippery as the myriad stories constructing it. In 1-900-SELFPLEX, a 40-year-old writer/"sexpert" finds herself - and subsequent worldwide celebrity - by assuming the identity of a transgendered, teenage boy.

Who We Are

Based in New York/New Jersey and producing off off Broadway since 1999, Elixir Productions Theatre Company is committed to developing plays and performances about gender, sexuality, and the impact of sexual identity on society, human relationships, and our selves. Made from equal parts tradition and experimentation, we aim to create a uniquely queer experience where our voices can reach new possibilities and summon new power in shaping our culture.

Elixir Productions is: Jody P. Person (Director), Alex DeFazio (Playwright), Faye Rosenbaum (Producer) & Inga Meier (Dramaturg)

For a complete list of company members, visit our website!

The Critics

on | To Be Loved:

"This is a play about the worship of strange beauty, something I am thrilled with..."
- Perry Brass, White Crane Journal

"Playwright Alex DeFazio has created a complex and perverse web of indebtedness, guilt, responsibility, and power..."
- Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com 12/10/06

"Full of remarkable sensitivity and wit. This is an impressive young writer."
- Theresa Rebeck, Playwright (The Scene, Spike Heels)

"Astonishing, trenchant, extremely relevant..."
- Michael MacLennan, Playwright & former Co-Executive Producer, Queer As Folk

"A haunting reworking of a Kabuki play, examining love and reincarnation in a new light."
- Mark Bly, Senior Dramaturg, Arena Stage

"Very bold and oddly beautiful..."
- Cheryl Katz, Director of Play Development, Luna Stage

on | Radium:

"A mass of pure radium weighs less than the same amount of uranium but is over a million times more radioactive. Alex DeFazio's RADIUM is both heavy and phosphorescent, as five gay men, each dysfunctional, self-loathing, and privately falling apart, strive to create and maintain meaningful relationships. A talented cast and innovative staging - especially the use of the sole female role - make for a nuanced, powerful production that yields, instead of catharsis, unanswerable questions about the half-life of everyone's personal fissile material."
- Danial Adkison, The Village Voice

"One sees in RADIUM the hallmarks of a playwright who bears watching."
- Andy Propst, American Theater Web

"A hauntingly beautiful new play..."
- Michael Niederman, offoffonline.com

"Vividly demonstrates the difficulty we often have connecting with one another....Certainly informed by DeFazio's sharp observations of the gay world..."
- Sean Kennedy, HX Magazine

"Spare and tight, featuring commendable direction by Jody P. Person."
- Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com

"RADIUM glows! This production is off off Broadway's best-kept secret."
- Barry Z, The Barry Z Show

Other praise:

"A theater of talismans and symbols that initiate us into the mysteries of self-transformation and rebirth. Lyrical, imaginative, intriguing..."
- Philippa Wehle, reviewer for The New York Theatre Wire, on MIRROR OF MONSTERS