Dixon Place Presents: “No Need for Seduction” by Victoria Libertore

OPENING NIGHT:
Friday, May 10 at 7:30pm

ADD’L SHOWTIMES:
Saturday, May 11th @ 7:30pm
Friday, May 17th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May 18th @ 7:30pm
Friday, May 24th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May 25th @ 7:30pm

Our heroine has finally gotten her act together, or so she thought. She is on the romantic trip of a lifetime with the woman of her dreams . . . and she’s on the verge of destroying it all. “No Need for Seduction” takes us to the edge of our darkest selves with audacity, humor and passion.

Written & performed by Victoria Libertore
Direction & dramaturgy by Leigh Fondakowski
Set design & dramaturgy by Sarah Lambert
Lighting design by Steven Battaglia
Costume design by Christine Hillman-Love
Production images by Jennifer E. Koltun

VICTORIA LIBERTORE is an actress, writer, curator, emcee and teacher. She is the creator of six solo shows: “Camille: The Forgotten Artist”, “stalk(her)”, “The Should Dream”,”My Journey of Decay”, “GIRL MEAT” and “No Need for Seduction”. She has performed her original work throughout NYC in venues such as Carolines on Broadway, Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, Joyce Soho and PS122 as well as in Boston, Montreal, Philadelphia, Provincetown, Toronto and Washington, D.C. She has emceed throughout New York City in clubs as her incomparable, faux Liza Minnelli where she utilizes her improvisational skills to make “people laugh so hard that their faces hurt.” Her plays include “A Man with a Limp” (Dopplegäng Festival), “How Crazy Joe Met His Wife” (produced and published by Estrogenius) and “Monster and Lola” (Humana Festival Finalist). Libertore is passionate about encouraging other artists to create their own work. She has curated and produced performances showcasing the work of dozens of local and a few international artists (of all levels of experience) with backgrounds in performance, variety arts, music, comedy and dance in venues across the city. Libertore was a 2008 – 2010 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Theater Artist in Residence and she has a BFA in theatre from Otterbein College. She serves as a member on the board of New Dance Alliance. Currently, she is working on a screenplay with Ryan Kipp based on “GIRL MEAT”. www.howlingvic.com

LEIGH FONDAKOWSKI was the Head Writer of “The Laramie Project” and has been a member of Tectonic Theatre Project since 1995. She is an Emmy nominated co-screenwriter for the adaptation of “The Laramie Project” for HBO, and a co-writer of “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later”. Her play, “The People’s Temple”, has been performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Theater Company and The Guthrie Theater, and received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005. Another original play, “I Think I Like Girls”, premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco under her direction and was voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The Advocate. Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a 2009 Macdowell Colony Fellow, and a 2010 Imagine Fund Fellow and guest lecturer at the University of Minnesota. She recently co-directed “The Laramie Project Cycle” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has two current projects: “SPIL”L, a play and art installation (co-created with Reeva Wortel) about the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil disaster, and “Casa Cushman”, a new play about the 19th-century American actress Charlotte Cushman. Stories from Jonestown, her first work of creative non-fiction was published by the University of Minnesota Press in early 2013.

Photo by Michelle Carroll; painting by I Ketut Murktika (photo of painting: Sjaak van den Bos)