Jared Mezzocchi

Take a look here at BROADWAY WORLD’S story on me and my design perspectives, appoinment with the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies faculty at UMD, and recent Princess Grace Award.

 

 

We opened A TRIP TO THE MOON last night and it was a thilling delight to finally step away from the programming and watch what has become a magical journey in outer space. It’s an exhausting process that keeps us all in experimentation and in flux up until opening, but it’s a responsibility of the design team to keep up with the changes in hopes to stick to our guns with the nuanced interactivity that this show requires. A real victory was had last night and I’m proud to be a part of such a remarkably timed show.

Happy opening to a stellar team of “luna”tics! Onward to the run all month long!

 

Check out these nice write ups about the show:

WASHINGTON POST PREVIEW by Lavanya Ramanathan

WASHINGTON THEATER INTERVIEW WITH NATSU AND I by Jojo Ruf

 

FOR TICKETS TO THE SHOW: GO TO SYNETIC THEATER’S WEBSITE!

 

Cast

Ensemble:
Colin Analco
Ben Arden
Victoria Bertocci
Katrina Clark
Zana Gankhuyag
Pasquale Guiducci
Francesca Jandasek
Karen O’Connell
Renata Veberyte Loman
Narrator/Voiceover: Guy Spielmann

Designers
Director: Natsu Onoda Power
Choreographer: Irina Tsikurishvili
Set Design: Giorgos Tsappas
Costume Design: Kendra Rai
Lighting Design: Andrew F. Griffin
Composer: Konstantine Lortkipanidze
Multimedia Design: Jared Mezzocchi
Props Design: Suzanne Maloney

 

This is a selected scene from YOU ARE DEAD. YOU ARE HERE. in which collaborators Joseph Megel, Christine Evans, and Jared Mezzocchi explore the use of Virtual Iraq as a practical hardware and software within the performance. You see Michael  (performed by Anthony Gaskins) move his head to manipulate the perspective of the video while simultaneously using a joystick to move left/right/forward. By placing the software inside the performance, we are faced with new storytelling challenges.

 

This footage comes out of documentation of a workshop at 3LD in lower Manhattan this past summer to identify and embrace what it’ll take to create the landscape for the show.

 

Special thanks to Skip Rizzo and Brad Newman at ICT for allowing us to use and work within Virtual Iraq softwares and create virtual worlds to work with the poetry of Christine Evans’ text.