NO RESERVATION
conceived, written, & directed by Elizabeth Hess
Diverse global goddesses
crash a dinner party
celebrating false gods.
The four goddesses have been underground for centuries but now rise up, sensing receptivity to their presence ‘at the table.’ This multidisciplinary performance piece moves forward from second wave feminist artists who took
on the patriarchy through works like The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago, Some Living American
Women Artists/Last Supper by Mary Beth Edelson and the dinner scene in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill.
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ARTISTS
AKIKO AIZAWA (Performer)
Akiko Aizawa is a New York based theater actor and teacher. As a long-time member of the SITI Company she appeared in shows such as; The Bacchae (BAM), The Trojan Women (Getty Villa), Culture of Desire (NYTW), and Radio Macbeth (NYU Skirball Center), all directed by Anne Bogart. As a former member of the Suzuki Company of Toga she appeared in The Trojan Women, Dionysus, and Hatekon, among others. Other credits: Oedipus (dir. Ianthe Demos), Hanjo (dir. Leon Ingulsrud), Suicide Forest (dir. Aya Ogawa), and Sleep (dir. Rachel Dickstein). She is currently a member of One Year Lease Theater Company, SITI Emeritus Artists, and American Physical Theatre Company. Originally from Akita, Japan, she brings a rich cultural background to her work in the arts.
NINOSHKA DE LEON GILL
(Performer)
Ninoshka De Leon Gill is happy to be making her personal debut with The Hess Collective’s third co-pro with LaMaMa! What a gift to work with such an inspiring cast and crew.
Selected Credits include: NYC Stage: SPOILED (Dixon Place), Meshahnye (Polya, Theatre for a New City), Dracula (Lucy Westenra, Morris-Jumel Mansion), Cabaret (Lulu, The Secret Theatre), The Wishing Tree (Ayse, Signature Theatre). Regional: Dracula and the Theatre of Doom! (Van Helsing, Tarrytown Music Hall), Sleepy Hollow Meets the Headless Horseman (Katrina, Pancake Productions), The Music Man (Maud Dunlop, Sharon Playhouse). NYC Labs: The Wave (Ars Nova), Counting Sheep (3LD Art and Technology Center), Amelie (Lyric Theatre). Film/TV: SPOILED: The Film Project (La Mama online platform), Foreign Nationals (Cristina, Foreign Entertainment, LLC), Love My Roomie (Leslie, Yhá Wright Productions). Voiceover: Too Hot to Handle Germany (Laura, Netflix & IDC NY) Ithaca College B.S. Environmental Science, Dance
SCHUYLAR JOHNS
(Performer)
Schuylar Johns is a community-engaged artist from the DMV area. She is a graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama and Applied Theatre. She has studied with Leseberg Tanzschule, through the Finest! Performance Troupe in Pinneberg, Germany, with the Experimental Theatre Wing and Atlantic Theater Company in New York City, and with the International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As an artist, she challenges herself to be a part of something that is greater than the individual by engaging in and creating collaborative work that explores a variety of realities and identities. She uses her art to collaborate with communities whose voices are historically disenfranchised and help create a platform for people’s stories to be heard loudly and clearly. She strives to combine activism and art and take theater beyond the stage to see how it can change communities’ daily lives.
ELIZABETH HESS
(Performer)
Elizabeth Hess is a performer, playwright, director, Arts educator and Artistic Director of The Hess Collective - produced at La MaMa, Dixon Place, TheaterLab. She has developed multidisciplinary projects with The O’Neill Theater Center, NYU, The New Group and The Lark. Her book, ACTING & BEING: Explorations in Embodied Performance (Macmillan) is based on her approach to global performance practices honed over 20 years of teaching primarily at NYU and international workshops. Ms. Hess’ acclaimed solo work has been performed around the globe, in New York, Off-Broadway and at the UN Conference on Gender Violence. Other acting credits include work with The New Group, Women’s Project, Irish Rep, MTC and NYTW in New York, as well as extensive regional theaters. TV credits: Clarissa Explains It All; Law & Order; All My Children and Another World. Film credits: Handsome Harry; Italian Lessons; Buddy & Grace and Soldier’s Heart.
Writer & Director
THC Managing Director & Associate Director
Stage Manager & Producing Associate
Producing Intern
Sound Designer
Set & Props Consultant
Dramaturg
A Co-Production with La Mama ETC
CREATIVE TEAM
Elizabeth Hess
Miriam Grill
Vivian Farahani
Maya Mays
Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed
Cathy Shaw
Begum Inal
SPECIAL THANKS
La MaMa ETC