FESTIVAL LINE-UP
All performances run approximately 60 minutes. "Double Features" are composed of two 30 minute pieces. Individual shows tickets are $15. All-Access Passes are available for $99. To reserve your All-Access Pass, email daredevilarts@electriclodge.org.
Please note that multiple shows will be running concurrently in different performance spaces, so make sure not to double-book your tickets!
DER GOLEM
BY PSYCHOPOMP DANCE
Sat, 7/12 at 11:00 AM
(Dance, Physical Theatre, Performance Art)
Over the course of this work, you will witness a community that has been pushed to the brink of extinction come together and against all odds partake in a mystical spell to create a Golem and ensure their survival.
EMANCIPATION MEMORIES / WORKS ON PAPER
BY JOEL SHAPIRO / DAVID LEONARD
DOUBLE FEATURE!
Sat, 7/12 at 11:00 AM & Sun, 7/13 at 8:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Performance Art, Immersive)
Emancipation Proclamation is a new performance art piece by Electric Lodge founder Joel Shapiro, exploring past memories and future eco-systems.
Works on Paper asks: what does it mean to grow a new self from the ashes of a love story? And how do we rewrite that story when the original draft has burned? This erotic comedy explores the intersection of technology, human folly, fatherhood, and fractured domesticity, using laughter and vulnerability as its driving engine.
DEAD MUSE
BY ADAM KERBEL + ALMANAC
Sat, 7/12 at 12:30 PM
(One-Person Show, Dance, Physical Theatre, Adult (18+)
Prepare to interact with the erotic, the spooky, and uncomfortably familial in this wry, visceral, new dance-theater spectacle. Erotic misadventures, ghostly encounters, and real family testimony weave with gripping audience interaction in a wry, visceral new dance-theater spectacle from Adam Kerbel + Almanac.
JOHN NEWSPAPER & FRIENDS
BY ATHENA REDDY
Sat, 7/12 at 12:30 PM
(Physical Theatre, Comedy, Clown, Musical, Adult (18+), LGBTQ+)
As we all know, John Newspaper invented the newspaper. But this play proposes that… maybe he didn’t? John Newspaper and Friends is a chaotic spectacle presented by a historian who’s uncovered new evidence. It begins on John’s wedding night with his wife, Edith Newspaper, and a mysterious ink accident that casts doubt on the official story. As John presents his invention the world, rivals like Wally Wikipedia, Eric Encarta, and the meddling muckraker Tommy Tabloid threaten to expose the truth.
ANIMAE MUNDI
MUSIC AND VIDEO BY ANDREA CENTAZZO
Featuring THE WEST COAST CHAMBER JAZZ TRIO
Sat, 7/12 at 2:00 PM
(Performance Art, Music / Musical, Multimedia, World Premiere)
Animae Mundi combines mesmerizing melodies, striking visuals, and thought-provoking narratives to foster a deep emotional connection, awaken empathy and ignite a sense of responsibility towards the environment.
THE SHAME OFFICES
BY FRANKIE HALBIGER
Sat, 7/12 at 2:00 PM
(Theatre, Dance, Physical Theatre, Performance Art, Clown, World Premiere)
A minimalist piece of physical theatre following the ongoing saga of a mime caught in a surreal landscape. This piece explores different aspects of "everyday life", heightened towards absurdity, exuberance, longing, and freedom. Intertwined within these themes is the ongoing saga of a mime caught in a surreal, Dada landscape.
WE GET TO GO BACK
BY KENNEDY NIYAH HILL
Sat, 7/12 at 3:30 PM
(Theatre, Physical Theatre, Performance Art, Drama, Immersive)
A Black reinterpretation of the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice unfolds as an older sister battles her way through the underworld, racing against time to save her little brother from eternal damnation.
BRAINWASHED
BY ALINA KONON
Sat, 7/12 at 3:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Performance Art, Clown, Adult (18+))
Brainwashed is a dark comedy based on personal experience growing up in Belarus. Through absurd humor and audience play, it explores how fear and propaganda shape identity under dictatorship.
THE BISCUITEATER
BY JIM LOUCKS
Sat, 7/12 at 5:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Drama)
Drawing on his Southern childhood, Jim Loucks tells the story of a small-town policeman, based loosely on his Granddaddy, who is haunted by his shooting of a man in the line of duty. As he nears the end of his life, he seeks redemption through teaching his grandson to respect life and to respect himself.
DR. HEAD FAKE
OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT RODMAN & NORTH KOREA
BY JOSH BERKOWITZ
Sat, 7/12 at 5:30 PM & Sun, 7/13 at 12:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Drama)
Performance artist Josh Berkowitz’s continuation of his sports series, where stream-of-consciousness poetry, contemporary dance, clown and psychodrama all merge. In the world of this performance piece, microcosmic infancy correlates to macrocosmic basketball history. Ultimately, the question of false memory and unreliable narration is Berkowitz’s favorite kind of autobiography, a love of rhythmic dissonance, that is equal parts precise, strategic, anarchistic and ridiculous.
STRANGERS AT THE VET (OR BACON GRIEF)
BY NATE ORR
Sat, 7/12 at 7:00 PM & Sun, 7/13 at 2:00 PM
(Theatre, Comedy, Drama, World Premiere, Adult (18+))
Through a chance encounter, two men commiserate over their dogs. Both pups have brought chaos to their lives and exposed each man’s most base nature, which threatens their familial stability. The answer is obvious: murder each other’s dogs. As the strangers continue down this path, they illuminate their deepest desires and unearth buried emotions. This dark comedy is a modern-day exploration of victimhood, masculinity, one’s purpose, and emotional eating.
OMI TUTU: COOL WATERS / WHEN THE CLOCK STOPS
DOUBLE FEATURE!
BY KIMBERLY MIGUEL MULLEN / BRANDON MAXWELL
Sat, 7/12 at 8:30 PM & Sun, 7/13 at 3:30 PM
One-Person Show, Dance, Performance Art, Immersive, World Premiere, LGBTQ+)
OMI TUTU: COOL WATERS is a dance performance that honors the sacred waters & divine feminine forces of the Yoruba Oricha tradition. This multi-sensory ritual performance is the first movement of a full-length work-in-progress exploring elemental forces, ancestral memory, and embodied spiritual practices of the African Diaspora.
When the Clock Stops is a powerful new dance work that delves into the complex relationship between human beings and time, navigating moments of stillness and chaos, reflecting the ways we measure, chase, and resist the passage of time.
PAIN IS MAN (PENIS MAN)
BY OSCAR FUENTES
Sat, 7/12 at 8:30 PM
(One-Person Show, Clown, Adult (18+))
A one clown show, exploring culture's obsession and shame and lizard brain need to breed. The main character is the embodiment of a ritualistic mating ceremony, dealing with the pain of losing his baby and just trying to get home to his wife and be a good husband.
REVOLUTION WITH RAMÓN:
JOY IS THE RESISTANCE
BY THE RAMÓN SHOW
Sun, 7/13 at 3:30 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Immersive, Family Friendly, LGBTQ+)
In a time of silenced voices, visibility is power. Join Puerto Rican Drag King Ramón for a joy-fueled comedy show that dares to speak up—and calls on us all to find our lane and werk! Louder than fear. Funnier than oppression. Joy is the resistance.
20/20 + Songs by Livia and Rose Reiner
BY Roxanne Steinberg
Sun, 7/13 at 5:30 PM
(Theatre, Performance Art, Music)
20/20 is a solo performance by Roxanne Steinberg, inspired by a memory of early wonder—a single book held close, a portal to a larger world. Surrounded by the weight we carry, bundled and shifting, nearly spilling, the work moves through memory, matter, and the quiet transmissions held in what we choose to keep.
Through accumulation and interruption, the performance offers inadvertent glimpses, flickering between visibility and invisibility, presence and disappearance. It meditates on the porous boundaries between past and present, clarity and blur, the seen and the felt. In a time when what we can touch is increasingly devalued—either burdened with excess or discarded without ceremony—20/20 lingers in the dilemma between having and vanishing, between substance and erasure.
Opening the show, sisters Livia and Rose Reiner share their original music.
LOST IN SYZYGEAN
BY NEOMA
Sun, 7/13 at 7:00 PM
(Dance, Performance Art, Music / Musical)
Syzygean is a night of after-earth fables presented by Neoma, a collective of musicians and butoh dancers. Each contributes an equal part to this tapestry of tales. The work is a meditative living book about a hollow earth, robbed of its insides. Flowing from one fable to the next, Syzygean explores the many spirits remaining after the dust has settled, once civilization has crumbled.
ALL THE BOYS I BLOCKED
BY CHANEL & THE CIRCUS
Sun, 7/13 at 7:00 PM
(Theatre, One-Person Show, Clown, Music / Musical, LGBTQ+)
Have you been gaslit? Do you want a song written about your ex? Are you clown curious? Then this is the show for you! Chanel & the Circus presents their solo clown musical, “All the Boys I Blocked,” an accordion driven rollercoaster of blocked exes, train-wreck relationships, and self acceptance. Highly interactive, audience members get to share their “blocked” stories and roleplay with Chanel live. "Their performance marries the unbridled queer joy of a Chappell Roan concert with the searing honesty, humor and timeliness of Bo Burham’s musical comedy" - Onstage Pittsburgh
THE CHRONIC CAUCASIAN
BY FELICIA ST. CYR
Sun, 7/13 at 8:30 PM
(Theater, Dance, Comedy, Drama, Clown, Music / Musical, Immersive, Adult (18+))
The Chronic Caucasian is a solo performance work that examines the emotional, cultural, and social impact of whiteness in America. Rooted in personal inquiry and generational reflection, this project uses my lineage as a St. Cyr—a name historically associated with war and martyrdom—as a point of entry to examine broader systems of whiteness. The Chronic Caucasian is a space for us to look closer, feel deeper, and question what we think we know about legacy, identity, and accountability. This is propaganda—are you willing to die for your truth?
TRIGGER WARNING: nudity, suicidal ideation, language, violence
TRANS MOM VS. FAMILY COURT:
JUSTICE SEES NO GENDER
Sat, 7/12 at 7:00 PM
Chronicling her transition to trans-mother while simultaneously fighting for custody rights in 1995 without an attorney. She is sharing her custody battle for the first time publicly to help reframe trans stereotypes and empower the community and allies against dishonest rhetoric and discriminatory legislation.
Her story highlights how transgender parents face discriminatory scrutiny in custody battles, where ‘best interest of the child’ is often weaponized against them based solely on gender identity.
