LOVE UNPUNISHED

About the Show

A hypnotic movement-theater work about the thin line between life and death. Set on twenty feet of escape stairs, this mostly-wordless piece imagines the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center. Stumbling bodies move into a ghost world that is visually arresting, fragile and tender.

Creative and Production Team

Pig Iron co-founders: Quinn Bauridel & Dito van Reigserberg

Hinako Arao

Jordan Deal

Makoto Hirano

Jenna Horton

Jaime Maseda

Wendy Staton

Kyle Vincent Terry

Key Artists

Concept & Direction: Dan Rothenberg

Choreography & Co-Director: David Brick

Set Design: Mimi Lien

Lighting Design: Tyler Micoleau

Costume Design: Oana Botez

Sound Design & Additional Composition: Sadah Espii Proctor

Original Composition: Troy Herion & Sean Mattio

Consulting Playwright: Deborah Stein

Assistant Director: Zaina Dana

Production Stage Manager: Adam Swez

Stage Manager: Leslie Ann Boyden

Assistant Stage Manager: Steph Smith

Audio Consultant: Toby Petitt

Lighting Supervisor: Elliot Konstant

Technical Director: Flannel and Hammer & Seth Thomas Schmitt-Hall

Production Management Intern: Ian Morales Gaskin

Photo by Johanna Austin

About the Artists

The mission of Pig Iron Theatre Company is to expand what is possible in performance by creating rigorous, unusual, ensemble-devised works.

Founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, Pig Iron has created over 30 original works and has toured to festivals and theatres in England, Scotland, Poland, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Italy, Romania, Sweden and Germany, among others, with stops at the Under the Radar Festival, the Humana Festival, TR Warszawa, Woolly Mammoth, Dance Theater Workshop, and the Tokyo Performing Arts Market. The many creative residencies that have incubated the company’s work include Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Public, La Jolla Playhouse, the Orchard Project, EMPAC, and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.

Pig Iron has no “house style,” and the company has made a name for itself with creations that range from site-specific works to hybrid cabarets to works of clown-theater and of visual spectacle. Notable collaborators include legendary director Joseph Chaikin; composers Troy Herion and Cynthia Hopkins; playwrights Toshiki Okada and Will Eno; and ensembles such as the Crossing, Contemporaneous, Sweden’s Teater Slava, and the indie rock band Dr. Dog. Pig Iron’s current core company is Mimi Lien, Jenn Kidwell, Mel Krodman, Dan Rothenberg, Dito van Reigersberg.

The company has won two OBIE Awards, and has been nominated for 2 Helen Hayes awards and 39 Barrymore Awards, winning 10. Pig Iron’s staging of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (2011) was nominated for ten Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, winning four, and enjoyed sold-out performances at Philadelphia Theater Company and later at Abrons Art Center in NYC (2013). Pig Iron has been named Theatre Company of the Year by Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia City Paper.

In 2011, Pig Iron launched a 2-year graduate program in physical and devised theater at a new home in North Philadelphia. In 2015, the company partnered with University of the Arts to offer both a Graduate Certificate and an MFA in Devised Performance.

Supporters

The William J. Cooper Foundation, Swarthmore College

Independence Foundation Puffin Foundation West. 

Original support for Love Unpunished was provided to Pig Iron Theatre Company by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

Festival Executive Producers: Bill & Joyce Kunkle

Photo by Johanna Austin

About FringeArts

FringeArts is Philadelphia’s home for contemporary performance, presenting progressive, world-class art that expands the imagination and boldly defies expectation. Our programming exposes audiences to genre-defying dance, theater, and music performances by accomplished and emerging innovators who push the boundaries of art-making and redefine the artistic landscape worldwide. The lineup for our 2019 Fringe Festival this September is now on sale at FringeArts.com.

The Philadelphia Fringe Festival is a 4-week long, city-wide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance. Each September, the Festival explodes into every nook and cranny of Philadelphia with more than 1,000 artistically daring performances, including national and international performances curated by FringeArts, and works that are produced by independent artists and promoted by FringeArts.

FringeArts Staff + Board

FRINGEARTS STAFF

Nick Stuccio, President & Producing Director
Zach Blackwood, Artistic Producer
Zoe McNichols, Associate Producer
April Rose, Fringe Festival Coordinator

Carolyn Schlecker, Senior Adviser Operations
Melissa E. Bridge, Director of Finance
Margaux Cattelona, Finance Associate
Alexa Teves Mani, Office Manager & HR Assistant
Mary Menchel, Client Services Manager
Genevieve Chapin, Donor & Volunteer Coordinator
Marissa Both, Box Office Manager
Claire Frisbie, Marketing and Communications Director
Isabella Raposa, Marketing Manager
Amy Kurzban, General Manager
Keighty McLallen, Director of Production
Kelly Orenshaw, Associate Production Manager
Evelyn Swift Shuker, Master Electrician

Joanne Marder, Senior Director of Development
Anna Buller, FEASTIVAL Development and Event Coordinator

Fringe Festival Box Office:
Becca Bernstein
Cecily Chapman
Jill Chiaro
Alaina Clune
Kaela Dudek
Anna Fiscarelli-Mintz
Courtney Giugliano
Jamie Hafner
Tiffany Hall
Marion Horowitz
Mads Klemm
Leslie Miller
Emma Noel
Brianna Peguero
Cinco Placensia
Shawn Porter
Dan Shade
Joey Tabasco

INTERNS

Rachel Adler, Marketing
Siani Beckett, Artistic Programming
Sarah Bhalla, Development
Maria Dragone, Photojournalism
Kaela Dudek, Marketing and Communications
Anna Fiscarelli-Mintz, Fringe Festival Guide
Courtney Giugliano, Guide Information Management
Kevin Grace, Graphic Design
Jamie Hafner, Marketing and Communications
Ryan Henry, Podcast Production
Ayouni Kromah, Artistic Programming
Haven Ogbaselase, FEASTIVAL
Hansel Quezada, Podcast Production
Abi Sanie, Artistic Programming
Joey Tabasco, Venue and Patron Services

BOARD

Richard Vague, Chair
Jennifer Bohnenberger, Vice Chair/Secretary
Lisa P. Young, Treasurer

Donald Baines
Juliana Carter
Mark Dichter
Denise DiSimone
Tony P. Forte
David Hoffman
Kevin Kleinschmidt
Kathy Lentini
David Lipson
Tom Lussenhop
Clement D. Pappas
Jake Reardon
Darryl Ridgeway
Michael Solomonov
Stephen Starr
Nick Stuccio
Audrey Claire Taichman
Max Tuttleman
Paul Wright