Banana Bag & Bodice is a Hudson Valley-based ensemble theatre company that creates original plays with a strong emphasis on text, music and design. They have performed at The Collapsable Hole, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, PS 122, The Brick Theater, Abrons Arts Center, American Repertory Theater, Joe's Pub,Bushwick Starr, and festivals in San Francisco, New York City, Montreal, Dublin, Edinburgh, Brighton, Bristol and Adelaide.
Company history
Founded in 1999 in San Francisco by Co-Artistic Directors Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe, Banana Bag & Bodice has created 12 original productions. The group is now based in the Hudson Valley NY, but maintains a strong relationship to New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Their rock musical Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, commissioned by the Shotgun Players, won the 2008 Will Glickman Award and a 2011 Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel, and continues to tour internationally.
Works
The Bastard Chronicles (1999)
A compendium of oddities
Number 2 (2000)
A drama about death and remembrance
GULAG HA HA (2002)
A study on prison deformation
Sandwich (2003)
A musical about killing animals
The Young War (2004)
A panel discussion on the death of love
Panel.Animal (2005)
A double feature of The Young War and Sandwich
The Sewers (2006)
An aborted living room drama play
The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen (2007)
A "making the band" pageant play
Beowulf- A Thousand Years Of Baggage (2008)
A Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay
Space//Space (play) (2009)
A claustrophobic container tale
The Perfect Play (2013)
The ultimate nativity musical
LongYarn (2016)
A tell tale told by an old doozy
Space//Space (film) (2023)
A claustrophobic container film
Interno Inferno (in progress)
A poetic posit on the afterlife
Artists
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Jason Craig (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director/Writer/Performer) Jessica Jelliffe (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director/Performer) Peter Blomquist (Performer) Mallory Catlett (Director/Dramaturg) Miranda k Hardy (Lighting Designer) Rod Hipskind (Director/Performer) Dave Malloy (Composer/Sound Designer/Performer) Heather Peroni (Performer) Zbigniew Bzymek (Video Artist for Space//Space)
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References
- Avila, Robert "Return to Deform". San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 7, 2009
- Zinoman, Jason "Sing Thee Out, Bespectacled Monster Slayer!". New York Times, March 25, 2009
- "ART Press Release". American Repertory Theater. Cambridge, MA.