Z Space New Work

New Work

Z Space always has several new works in various stages of development. Our behind-the-scenes work with every project is unique and continues over the course of several years, ensuring that the stage is set for a successful world premiere. We facilitate the artists’ exploration of their own creative paths and encourage their investigation of expanded possibilities for their visions. Our hope is that no matter what the end product is we have learned something new in the process and the result will inevitably be a more richly textured and exhilarating piece of theater.

NOW IN DEVELOPMENT: A collaboration with Marcus Shelby and Margo Hall! PREMIERING Fall 2013!

For full schedule, fees and enrollment please visit the University of Chicester's Website

Theatre Performance Making Intensive

A Two-Week Workshop for Artists

June 24 to July 6, 2013

A project of the University of Chichester Department of Performing Arts, UK, in association with Z Space and CounterPULSE

This is the first such intensive offered in the USA by the University of Chichester Department of Performing Arts, renowned in the UK for its unique specialization in Theatre Performance Making processes.

The intensive is open to all interested emerging or established artists committed to generating new work. The program will culminate in a public sharing of work made during the intensive.

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At Z Space's second venue, Z Below, at 470 Florida St. This is a FREE event. RSVP now by following the ticketing link.

Unfinished Business (Bay Area Edition)

Jul 6 7:00 PM

Participants in the University of Chichester Performance Making Intensive share new work and new ideas in this one-night-only micro-festival. Free.

This is one in a series of dynamic events anticipating the International MFA in Theater Performance Making, soon to be established in San Francisco by the renowned University of Chichester Performing Arts Department (UK) in partnership with Z Space, CounterPULSE, and other Bay Area arts and education organizations.

This event takes place at Z Below at 470 Florida St. $5 suggested donation.

Written by Kathy Rucker
Directed by Tracy Ward
Cast - Emilie Talbot, Molly Noble, Rachel Rios, Bessie Zolno, AJ Davenport and Susan Shay

Crystal Springs

A Reading of Kathy Rucker's new play

Jul 22 7:00 PM

Z Space proudly supports the development of new work in the theatre as a core value of the organization, by staging readings of works-in-progess and providing artists with a venue to experiment.

Crystal Springs is a story about two girls, two moms and bullying. It does not end well. In fact, you could call it a tragedy. And, like many good tragedies, it begins with a kiss.

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Photo by RJ Muna

Hush

A Co-Production with Joe Goode Performance Group

Sep 26 - Oct 5

Building on their hugely successful June 2012 co-production, When We Fall Apart, Joe Goode Performance Group and Z Space are teaming up again in September 2013 for Hush. A collaboration with sound effects artist Sudhu Tewari and musician/composer Ben Juodvalkis, Hush combines personal stories, dance, visuals, and innovative ambient sound techniques drawn from Foley filmmaking to explore the various ways in which we are “hushed” by society.

Marcus Shelby and Margo Hall

Title and Dates TBA

Coming November 2013

Z Space New Work is currently working with jazz composer / bandleader Marcus Shelby and actress Margo Hall on a theatrical work based on Hall's childhood growing up in Detroit. This work-in-progress will draw on on Hall's fathers work as a bandleader and feature original compostions by Shelby, with a live, on-stage score from The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra.

Starring and Featuring
the Music of The Bengsons

Anne Kaufman - Director
Kate E. Ryan - Playwright
Eric Shimelonis – Sound Design / Musical Arranger
David Neumann – Choreographer
Lisa Steindler – Producing Director

Hundred Days

An Indie-Rock Musical featuring the Bengsons

Coming February 2014

Hundred Days is an original indie-rock musical by the talented and critically acclaimed duo The Bengsons being developed by the Z Space New Work program. The Bengsons fuse genre-bending energetic and melodic indie-rock influences to create a journey filled with humor, intensity and emotion.

The work is a beautiful, heartbreaking story of a young couple falling in love at first sight, marrying and soon learning that one of them is terminally ill. They find raucous adventures, pain and sorrow, true solace and eventually peace through their passionate commitment and new “lifetime” of memories.

This mixed-media production will feature a live band and will include state-of-the-art video projection, lighting and sound design.

The Z Space Technical Development Residency Program gives artists uninterrupted time and a professional space to explore ideas, create, and rehearse in order that their work might achieve its greatest potential. The technical residecy includes access to a fully equipped 42' by 64' stage with quality lighting, sound and projection equipment, technical staff, design resources, artistic support, project management and consultation as needed with Z Space senior staff on resource development and fundraising. Although a Z Space technical residency may or may not include a performance of a work-in-progress to the public, they are integral to Z Space’s mission of supporting new work. Our hope is that no matter what the end product is we have learned something new in the process and the result will inevitably be a more richly textured and exhilarating piece of theater.

Past Recipients of Z Space technical residencies include Marc Bamuthi Joseph (for Red, Black & GREEN: A Blues), LEVYdance (ROMP), Stacey Printz, Bad Unkl Sista, Joe Goode Performance Group, Sara Shelton Mann, and Sarah Wilson & Catch Me Bird (for Off the Walls).

If you have question about The Z Space Technical Development Residency Program, please contact Production Director Drew Yerys at dyerys@zspace.org.

Finding partners and collaborators in all sectors will enhance and strengthen our commitment to our community, which is crucial to the success of creating great art.

We are proud to partner with other organizations in the Bay Area and around the globe. These partnerships take on all shapes and sizes, from artistic development and co-production to community engagement and technical or financial support.

Our doors are open to those eager to be challenged and experience art at its highest artistic level and are driven by the exploration of new forms. 

Some of Z Space's partner organizations:

Recognizing the invaluable fruits of an informal relationship with a broad array of artists, Z Space Artistic Associates provide an invisible arena where the seeds of transformative new works may germinate far from the pressure to produce.

As Artistic Associates, these people contribute to the development of new work at  Z Space. They are the foundation of the creative work that is happening behind our doors.

Z Space's Artistic Associates:

Adam Bock
Mark Jackson
Beth Wilmurt
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Abigail Nesson Bengson
Shaun Bengson
Nina Ball
Gabe Maxson
Michelle Maxson
Shelley Carter
James Faerron
Marcus Shelby
Margo Hall
Steve Yockey
Drew Yerys
Cristobal McKinney
Frances Lee McCain
Anne Galjour

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Big Art Group Sep 2011 Outdoor Live Theater/Real-Time Video Event in Front of Z Space In collaboration with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts more	Artists Caden Manson & Jemma Nelson Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	View Gallery	N/A	Download PDF
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American $uicide Feb 2007 American $uicide is an eagerly anticipated world premiere satire written and directed by Mark Jackson (The Death of Meyerhold, The Forest War). This razor-sharp... more	Directed by Mark Jackson	View Gallery	N/A	N/A