REB + VoDKa + ME

We're all just humans missing other humans.

Words Gordon Leary

Music Julia Meinwald

Director Benjamin Kamine

a part of 
The Civilians R&D Group
FINDINGS, A series of new works.

ABOUT THE SHOW:

September 11, 2014 would have been Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold’s 33rd birthday and the Tumblr community of his fans, known as Columbiners, spent the day thinking of him. The mourning was interrupted when Chardon High School shooter T.J. Lane escaped from prison that evening, throwing the true crime community into a frenzy. REB + VoDKa + ME follows a girl through the events of that day, her own eighteenth birthday, exploring the quest for community and understanding of the misunderstood.

PRESENTED AT:
520 Eighth Avenue
in the Bruce Mitchell
New York, New York

This is the sixth season of The Civilians R&D Group, a year-long collaboration where a group of select artists develop new pieces of theater through creative investigations of topics chosen by each artist.

All the works in this series are FREE but are presented only once. Reserve your ticket to ensure a seat as space is very limited!

Learn more about The Civilians R&D artists here.

Gordon Leary (Words) is a Brooklyn-based bookwriter and lyricist. With Julia Meinwald, musicals include PREGNANCY PACT (2012 Weston Playhouse, 2011 NAMT, 2011 YIMT), I LOVE YOU, ANITA BRYANT (2015 UArts Polyphone Festival, 2014 Ars Nova OutLoud), and DISAPPEARED (2009 LCT Directors Lab.) Other musicals include CHEER WARS (2009 Richard Rodgers Award, 2015 York Theatre Co.) and ACROSS THE RIVER (2013 Seoul Musical Festival, 2009 Daegu International Musical Festival.) Gordon was a member of Ars Nova’s Uncharted and the Dramatists Guild Fellows program. Vassar College/NYU GMTWP. omfgordon.com

Julia Meinwald's (Music) musicals with Gordon Leary include PREGNANCY PACT (2012 premiere production at the West Playhouse, 2011 NAMT conference and Yale Institute for Musical Theatre selection), I LOVE YOU, ANITA BRYANT (2015 workshop production at Philadelphia's UARTS, 2014 OutLoud reading with Ars Nova), GALAXY COMICS (2014 United Airlines in-flight programming), and DISAPPEARED (2009 Lincoln Center directors Lab). Julia was a participant in the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Development Program, a Dramatists Guild fellow, a resident artsit with American Lyric Theatre, and an Uncharted writer at Ars Nova. She holds a BA in Music from Yale and an MFA from NYU's GMTWP. www.juliameinwald.com

Benjamin Kamine (Director) is a Manhattan-based stage director. Recent credits include the world premiere of CARLYLE by Thomas Bradshaw (Goodman Theatre); New York premiere of WASHER/DRYER by Nandita Shenoy (Ma-Yi Theater Company); Thomas Bradshaw’s JOB and Christopher Oscar Peña’s A CAUTIONARY TAIL (The Flea Theater); PIED! by Julia Meinwald and Gordon Leary (Polyphone Festival, University of the Arts); and SAMSARA by Lauren Yee (Chance Theater). Mr. Kamine is an associate artist at The Flea Theater and a resident director at the Jewish Plays Project. He was also a member of the 2014/2015 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and a 2014/2015 LABA Fellow.