HAPPENING IN 2024
SPRING
March
Episode 3 of We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club premieres
April 12 + 13:
Part 2 of Morgen bin ich wieder da premieres as part of Brick Theater’s ?!:New Works Festival in Brooklyn, NY / Lenapehoking
SUMMER
August
The Bee in the Heart of Her by Sibyl Kempson premieres at ET in Berlin, Germany
FALL
November / December
The Stinking Nose: A Knofi-Mahlzeit (Collaboration with Brandon Woolf + Matt Korahais) presents a 3-night work-in-progress show (dinner included) in in Brooklyn, NY / Lenapehoking
JUST HAPPENED
On the edge of a city: Lottie the Librarian and her adoptive grandmother Tante Eunice Geld secretly live in their garden allotment. Witches sing night-time songs around the last sacred grove in the neighborhood in preparation of a death party. Teenage daughter Susi Schmidt schemes to finally join her long-lost father in America and Mama keeps a secret that is eating her from the inside out. An ancestral forest beckons, and Dietrich, child to Mom in the Moon, attempts jazz.
Featuring
Leonie Bell
Rawya El Chab
Lianne Elsouki
Marcella Murray
Julliette Holliday
+ Hanna Westi
In this matrilineal, dark humor landscape, the lonesome search for one another amidst the chaotic + mundane and the trees await a return. Choral song + pedestrian movement; performed in German, English, and Denglish.
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The Brick presents
SchmidtSmithSchmidt
Created by Leonie Bell with LOCAL GRANDMA
December 7 - 10 + 14 - 17* 2023
*Special live streaming performance on Sunday December 17 @ 2pm via The Brick YouTube Channel filmed live by Zanni Productions. (8 PM CET & 11 AM PST)
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cw: death, slow strobe
SchmidtSmithSchmidt was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mental Insight Foundation.
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Watch EPISODE TWO
of We Live To Die: The Grieving Widows Club
Created by Leonie Bell & LOCAL GRANDMA
A new dark humor mixed-media, mockumentary-style short film about grieving widows and their maids living in pseudo-Victorian times.
*Premiered online on January 31st, 2023 as part of the Exponential Festival 2023
View program here.