Upcoming Projects
Metamorphosis (or How To Stop Your Child from Ruining Your Great Uncle’s Funeral)
Krymov Lab NYC/LaMaMa
Dramaturg
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Krymov Lab is developing a brand new show! We workshopped last spring, and open at LaMaMa in March 2025.
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Recent Projects
The Marriage
LaMaMa ETC, Polish Tour
Dramaturg
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“Whenever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland there I must commit some indecent act.” said Gombrowicz. Indecent acts at this point of unlimited time and space - in dreamland – reveal themselves with upside-down flags, Hoots fingers and Hooters Girls, a bloody insurrection and a declaration! How language brings things into being, how utterance makes ideas material, and who has the power to dictate reality and truth. Distorted! Destroyed! Dislocated! A nightmare! Inflated! Revolt in a scale!
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September 26 to October 6, 2024
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Argia Coppola's
Cursed: A New Jazz Play
Dramaturg
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Cursed is a new solo performance based on Joyce Carol Oates 2001 novel Blonde, adapted for actress and singer Annie Hägg. In Cursed, Annie portrays the triptych of the icon Marilyn Monroe, her alter ego Norma Jeane Baker and her mother Gladys. The story also explores her absent father, and many other male and female characters in Monroe's life through music and text. It’s a unique, fast-paced piece that depicts the life of the Blond Actress as never seen before. This adaptation is bold, breathless, tragic, and timely. It’s a play for an actress and a four-man jazz band, in which music becomes a character in and of itself.
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We ran at HERE Arts as part of their Sublet Series Co-Op from August 15 to 18, 2024.
Limonov: The Ballad
Cannes 2024
Assistant to the Writer/Technical Advisor for 70s NYC
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A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator and a novelist who wrote of his own greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America and Europe during the second half of the 20th century. Based on the novel Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère.
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"Limonov doesn’t alternate between attractive and repulsive but straddles an uneasy erogenous zone in the middle. Hilarious, terrifying, absurd, pathetic, and impetuous... " --Little White Lies
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Eugene Onegin: In Our Own Words
Krymov Lab NYC/LaMaMa, Under the Radar Festival
Dramaturg and Translator
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Every Russian grows up knowing Eugene Onegin, Aleksandr Pushkin’s landmark novel-in-verse. The work and its poetic images form part of the national consciousness. For In Our Own Words’ first staging in Moscow, Krymov created a children’s play in which four non-Russians explain their deep love of Pushkin to a room full of children. Now, in the face of the war in Ukraine, the way the world looks at Russian literature and art has changed.
In Krymov Lab NYC’s production, four immigrant Russians desperately try to communicate the value of an untranslatable classic to us, a New York audience. Why should we care about a story about a shallow Byronic hero, a deep teenage girl, and a less-than-successful birthday party? And is there still a place in today’s world for Dostoevsky, for Tchaikovsky, or even for Pushkin?
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Photo by Steve Pisano
Three Love Stories Near the Railroad
Krymov Lab NYC/LaMaMa
Dramaturg
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What is a love story? Most people think of love stories as romance, but there are many kinds of love: romantic, parental, or humanistic; love of beauty, of the land, of God; love for theatre, and love for hard work. There is love that is being born, love that goes sour, and love that dies away. These kinds of love stories are the result of the inevitable collisions between people with different wants and needs.
Three Love Stories Near the Railroad emerged from three classic American tales. In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," a couple grapple with the consequences of an unexpected pregnancy. In "Canary for One," three families hurtle towards uncertain futures and a parent's love turns destructive. In Desire Under the Elms, Eugene O'Neill's Americanized Hippolytus, a father, stepmother, and son struggle to find understanding and home in a land as hard and unforgiving as they themselves are. While the originals are known for their terseness and psychological realism, Krymov Lab NYC explores what lies beneath the words.
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Photo by Steve Pisano