Living Room by Charles Mee, starring Tom Nelis

Living Room by Charles Mee, starring Tom Nelis

Stuck at home? Have a conversation with Charles Mee as he looks out his window onto the world he sees - or imagines.

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Pull a chair up to a window in your living room. Make yourself a cup of tea. Press play, and enjoy. Once you have the link, you can listen to this play any time of day.

Charles Mee has numerous plays, all of which are available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org. His plays have been performed at BAM, ART, NYTW, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, 2nd Stage, La Mama, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. He was honored with a full season of his plays at the Signature Theatre. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Award of Merit in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Obies, a Laura Pels Award, the Booth Award. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.

Tom Nelis is a founding member of SITI Company, with whom he performed and taught for 25 years. With This Is Not A Theatre Company, he played the role of Paul in Ferry Play. Nelis has appeared on Broadway in Girl From The North Country, Indecent, The Visit, Enron, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and Aida. Off Broadway he has been seen at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Signature Theater, Classic Stage Company, Theater for a New Audience and The Royal Shakespeare Company, New York Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mineta Lane, and Manhattan Theater Club. He has been awarded an Eliot Norton Award, and an OBIE. He earned his MFA at UC San Diego, and has served on the faculties of The University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Barnard College.’

Erin B. Mee is Founding Artistic Director of This Is Not A Theatre Company, with whom she has conceived and directed A Serious Banquet, Ferry Play, Subway Plays, Festival de la Vie, Versailles, Pool Play 2.0, Theatre In The Dark: Carpe Diem, Readymade Cabaret 2.0, Life on Earth, Play In Your Bathtub 2.0 and Tree Confessions, which have been performed in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, England, France, India, Italy, Nepal, Scotland, Russia, and the U.S. She has directed at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, The Magic Theatre, and The Guthrie Theater in the United States, and with Sopanam in India. She is the author and/or editor of four books, and has written numerous articles for various theatre journals. She is Assistant Arts Professor, Department of Drama, Tisch, NYU. www.erinbmee.com

Named one of the Top 5 Immersive Companies in NYC by Jonathan Mandell of tdf.org, This Is Not a Theatre Company creates site-based, immersive, multi-sensory, participatory dance-theatre that can be smelled, touched, and tasted as well as seen and heard. This theatre is not something to passively consume, but to co-create. With each production, This Is Not a Theatre Company asks the audience to perceive the world in new ways, to empathize in new ways, and to practice creativity. Visit www.ThisIsNotaTheatreCompany.com.

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This Is Not a Theatre Company creates site-based, immersive, multi-sensory participatory dance-theatre that can be eaten, touched, and smelled as well as seen and heard. Our theatre is not something to passively consume, but to co-create. With each production, This Is Not a Theatre Company asks the audience to perceive the world in new ways, to empathize in new ways, and to practice creativity.