SPONSORED BY NOBODY is a Brooklyn-based theatre company committed to developing new work that is relevant to contemporary America. Founded in January 2005, SBN has established a reputation in New York for presenting abrasive, engaging theatre while refusing to relinquish the idea of art as a catalyst for social change. While rooted in theatre, SBN incorporates multiple disciplines in our work -- borrowing from dance, film, music and installation art -- while employing both found-texts and original writing. SBN remains committed to a collaborative development process and operates with a sense of urgency in what we undertake as a company.
Since 2005, SPONSORED BY NOBODY has developed seven original works for the theatre -- BEHIND THE BULLSEYE -- COMPRESSION OF A CASUALTY -- FOX(y) FRIENDS -- THE POSITION -- NOT FROM CANADA -- THE AMPUTATED YEARS -- and -- "W.M.D. (just the low points)". Our inaugural work THE POSITION received three productions in New York and Massachusetts -- including the 2005 Ice Factory Festival at the Ohio Theatre (NYC). The complete text of THE POSITION was published in the annual New York anthology PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS 2006 and THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2006. SPONSORED BY NOBODY has presented work in New York City at Collective Unconscious, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 3LD Technology Center, the Brick Theater, the American Living Room (HERE), the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Chashama and the New York International Fringe Festival. In Europe, we have been presented at the Kunstencentrum Monty (Antwerp), the Beursschouwburg (Brussels), the Braakland/Zhe Bilding (Leuven), De Balie Center for Culture & Politics (Amsterdam), and at the Kunstencentrum Vooruit -- site of the stunning annual international arts festival The Game Is Up! -- where the world premiere of "W.M.D. (just the low points)" was presented at the 2009 installment of the festival -- "How to Save the World in 10 Days."
The company remains under the guidance of Artistic Director, Kevin Doyle; designers Brendan Regimbal and Garret Savage; actors Scott Miller, Paul Newport, Sean O’Hagan, Sarah Stephens, Jessa Wildemeersch, Josh Edelmann, Mike Carlsen, Kate Moran, Mayra Castro, Sauda Jackson, Keith Jamal Downing, and Hannah Louise Poston; and managers, Patrick Clancy (USA), Vicki Thomson (U.K.) and Wilson McGrory (USA).
During 2010, Sponsored By Nobody will premiere their next large-scale work -- "ATM or this is [not] new york".
The Broken West. Yo La Tengo. Neil Young. Cat Power. Say Hi To Your Mom.
Movies
Songs From The Second Floor. The Thin Red Line. Elephant. Volver. The Banishment.
Television
PBS Frontline.
Ken Burns' THE CIVIL WAR.
MAD MEN.
Books
Cormac McCarthy. George Saunders. Don DeLillo. Thomas Frank. David Berman. Nathalie Sarraute. James Kunstler. THE BAFFLER - "the best magazine in America"
Heroes
Neil Young. Roger Waters. Le Tigre. ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE's mounting of GATZ in '05 at The Performing Garage and at The Walker in '06. Richard Maxwell's HENRY IV, Part I at BAM and Oliver Py's REQUIEM FOR SEBRENICA at BAM. Robert Cantarella's production of Michel Vinaver's 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 at CalArts in '05 and in Paris in '06. Pascal Rambert's PARADIS at DTW in Dec '05. NeedCompany's ISABELLA'S ROOM at BAM in late '04 (??) -- we can't remember because the afterparty at Doyle's was too much. The work of SUPERAMAS -- especially Big Episode #2 & Big Episode #3. The work of the Flemish theatre company Abattoir Fermé, specifically "Mythobarbital" -- it is a masterpiece of suburban iconography that needs to be seen in America.
There was this production of "Snufflouse Dustlouse" by the Irish puppet troupe FAULTY OPTIC that was presented at P.S. 122 back in one of the earlier versions Jim Henson International Puppet Festival. It was a stunner.
Michel Vinaver. Vaclav Havel. Samuel Beckett. Friedrich Durrenmatt. Slawomir Mrozek. Anna Schuleit. George Saunders. David Wojnarowicz.
Giacometti. Klee. Rothko (not the band, not the bar).
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Who I'd like to meet: We would love to meet the following people:
1. A good sound artist from the John Collins School of Sound Design.
2. A costume designer who knows how to keep it real.
3. Any leads on a Medieval Knight costume. The real deal, not the tacky plastic.
4. Any leads on a deserted warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront.
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We no longer have any single women in the company -- everyone is married now, officially -- but when we did they were interested in meeting men with disposable income reserved for French restaurants and the super-duper high-priced handling surcharge at the St. Ann's Warehouse Box Office.
We still have single men in the company -- although their numbers have dwindled considerably. The last holdouts are still interested in beautiful redheaded real estate agents or professional dancers looking for an outlet from the self-referential American dance scene.
Next sunday (Aug 30): Chloë & The Lonesome Cowboy at Café Den Hopsack (Grote Pieter Potstraat 24B, 2000 Antwerpen) - 5PM.
More shows on Sept 10 & Sept 28, in Antwerp and Brussels!
Welcome :)
I've juste taken 5 pictures that day but you can see them om my profil..
Yes..black and white is beautiful. Only green is better :)
Are you going to make more videos with swedisch bands in next time?
Hi Friend. Just wanted to let you know that we're playing in New York on March 28th at Mercury Lounge
Hope to see you... Much love from all of us.
Complete US Tour and links: http://efterklang.net/home/concerts
arrf, seeing these videos make me wish i'd seen your show on saturday. darn tired feeling! come to brussels again!! greetz to sarah, jessa and all the others from Cris
Thanks a lot for your appreciation! We play a try-out (we just started to play toghether) in Antwerp om the 28th of march. Feel free to come and meet us.
the voorspel event is a small event for local crowd in the bar 'Jezuiet' close to the academy and the university of Antwerp. The evening has three sessions; one with an instrumental jam (open for everyone), one with dutch poetry performances and one electronic jam, afterwards I will be spinning some tunes (myspace. com/dustrickx) the tunes on the myspace will be used for the installation and the premiere in May... I am now working @Monty at the communication office, so feel free to come say hi whenever you want :) good luck on the play and I'll probibly come check it out!
That sounds really good. Malmö is a fine city. Very clean one too! Well next time you visit Copenhagen, please don't hesitate to contact me. Then I can show you around in Copenhagen. YEAH!
