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. SPONSORED BY NOBODY was a co-recipient of a 2007 Performance Development Award from chashama and the National Endowment for the Arts for -- W.M.D. (just the low points). Projects developed by SPONSORED BY NOBODY have subsequently been presented from California to New York and from Québec City, Canada to Belgium. The company has evolved to include international members while collaborating with designers across a wide spectrum of disciplines.
SPONSORED BY NOBODY plans to build upon our success and be recognized as a permanent force in the New York theatre community. Our goals are to expand as an organization to support emerging New York theatre artists who are trying to create their own work in a culture where there is little support. The company remains under the guidance of Artistic Director, Kevin Doyle, and Company Members Scott Miller, Paul Newport, Sean O’Hagan, Brendan Regimbal, Garret Savage, Sarah Stephens, Jessa Wildemeersch, Mike Carlsen and Wilson McGrory.
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The Broken West. Yo La Tengo. Neil Young. Cat Power.
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 -- we can't wait to see EMPIRE in the future. And most recently the work of the Flemish theatre company Abattoir Fermé, specifically the piece entitled "Mythobarbital" -- it is a masterpiece of suburban iconography that needs to be seen in America.
A production of "Snufflouse Dustlouse" by the Irish puppet troupe FAULTY OPTIC that was presented at P.S. 122 back in either 2000 or 2002 as part of the Jim Henson International Puppet Festival. It remains one of the most incredible works of theatre ever in recorded history.
Michel Vinaver. Vaclav Havel. Samuel Beckett. Friedrich Durrenmatt. Slawomir Mrozek. Anna Schuleit. George Saunders. David Wojnarowicz.
Giacometti. Klee. Rothko (not the the band & not the bar).
Who I'd like to meet: We would love to meet the following people:
1. An innovative Set Designer -- with an interest/focus more in Installation Art than your usual fourth wall hotel room design.
2. A good sound artist from the John Collins School of Sound Design -- possibly a talented gent like Ken Urban when he's not sequestered away during a semester.
3. A costume designer who knows how to keep it real.
4. Any leads on a Medieval Knight costume. The real deal, not the tacky plastic.
5. Any leads on a deserted warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront that would prove an ideal live/work location for a blossoming theatre/production company.
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The single women in the company are always interested in meeting men who are either sculptors or welders with disposable income reserved for French restaurants -- brave, husky, fearless men who are not fazed by the super-duper high-priced handling surcharge at the St. Ann's Warehouse Box Office.
The single men in the company are always interested in beautiful redheaded real estate agents or professional dancers who looking for a way out of the self-referential dance scene.
However, several of us are married now and only a precious few remain single.
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!
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