Traces by WaxFactory + Rachel Jendrzejewski

Concept by Ivan Talijančić, Co-created by Ivan Talijančić + Rachel Jendrzejewski

in collaboration with WaxFactory

Principal Investigators: Lisa Channer, Theodor Gabriel, Alana Horton, Erika Latta, Peter Morrow, Sara Ann Richardson

In collaboration with WaxFactory (New York), Traces is an immersive play inspired by French artist Sophie Calle, who often engages in controversial, “famously first-person” feats, such as impersonating fictional characters in real-life situations. In this experimental work, audiences will receive audio devices and be prompted to follow a performer through real public locations, recording and uploading their actions to a website where they can peruse and compare notes with the journeys of others.

Part of the Ruth Easton New Play Series

In partnership with the Network of Ensemble Theaters

This presentation is online only.

Rachel Jendrzejewski is an experimental playwright who frequently collaborates with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists to explore new performative vocabularies. Her work has been developed and/or presented by the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Public Functionary, In the Heart of the Beast, Padua Playwrights, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Tricklock Company, Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, The Wild Project, Rhode Island School of Design, A.R.T., and ICA/Boston, among others. Published texts include “In Which______ and Others Discover the End,” a collaboration with SuperGroup (Plays Inverse), “encyclopedia” (Spout Press), and “Amber” (in the anthology I Might Be the Person You Are Talking To: Short Plays from the Los Angeles Underground, Padua Playwrights). Honors include Playwrights' Center McKnight and Jerome Fellowships; residencies at the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study, Weisman Art Museum, and MASS MoCA; and project support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Network of Ensemble Theaters, Dramatists Guild Foundation, PEN America, National Endowment for the Arts, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Rachel is a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center and one of seven Artistic Directors at Red Eye Theater. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.