undergroundzero festival 2009
The undergroundzero festival is an experimental theater festival curated by Paul Bargetto and produced by East River Commedia in association with Collective:Unconscious. Now in its third year, the undergroundzero festival has given producing artists a laboratory where risk is encouraged and innovation can flourish. This year the undergroundzero festival will present a fascinating collection of over twenty experimental theater companies and artists at the legendary downtown performance venue Performance Space 122, July 7-26.
 
The undergroundzero festival was founded to create a flying repertory dedicated to radical play and brave experimentation. At the heart of the festival is a question that is asked of every participating artist: What secret dream would you bring to the stage if you could make anything?  Every year we have presented plays that have gone on to have successful lives including The Flying Machine’s Journey to the End of the Night, Michael Yates Crowley’s Ted Haggard Monologues, terraNOVA Collective's Feeder a Love Story, East River Commedia’s Jamal Lullabies, and many more.  In addition, the festival itself has gone international with a presentation of new plays in Germany entitled Voices from undergroundzero that presented the work of Sheila Callaghan, Anne Washburn, Saviana Stanescu and Thomas Bradshaw among others. 

Artists featured in this year’s undergroundzero festival will showcase 15 mainstage productions and 5 readings of new plays. Companies & performers include Dangerous Ground * The South Wing * Wolf 359 * Blessed Unrest * Pinchbottom * Nu Classic Theater * Christine Witmer & Nora Woolley * Thinking Person’s Theatre * East River Commedia * Columbia University School of the Arts * Coffee Cup (a theater co.) * Hoi Polloi * Saviana Stanescu * WaxFactory / EDS collaboration * and more.

Buy tickets at PS122.org