WATSON ARTS

A RESIDENT COMPANY OF LA MAMA E.T.C.


 ORIGINAL INNOVATIVE THEATER WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON WOMEN      

             artistic director: Mary Fulham                                   

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COMING SOON!

BRAZIL NUT

STARRING 

SUSAN JEREMY

CANADIAN SUMMER TOUR 2009

MONTREAL TORONTO WINNIPEG

Selma, an obsessively neat, die-hard soccer fan from Brazil and Jackie, her dog-walking, activist girlfriend from Brooklyn, live together in a tiny studio apartment in New York City with a cat. When a government crackdown on illegal immigrants threatens deportation for Selma, Selma marries Ron, a friend of a friend who works as a go-go boy at a gay disco and has dreams of publishing of a high-end ass magazine for men. The three of them are drop kicked into the gay Bermuda Triangle of Immigration from which they may never return.
A new comedy from the Just For Laughs award-winning writing team of Mary Fulham and Susan Jeremy.

BEST IN SHOWS PARTY

We laughed! We cried! We ate! We drank! We wrote checks! at the benefit for WATSON ARTS on Tuesday night, September 23rd, 2008 at La MaMa ETC.

It was packed!Mila Tewell and Tamsin Rachofsky

Buck Henry and Lisa Ebersole

Emily Roberts Negron, Abigail Gampel and Sharon Farrell 

Ken Telljohann and John Rhodes

Blair and John Rubinstein

The stars of the show! from L to R: Dana Vance, Susan Murphy, Deborah La Coy, Sharon Farrell, Michael Rader, Abigail Gampel, Kim Cea, Eva Mantell and Ellen Foley



COMING, APHRODITE! is a love story about a man, a woman, and a dog that explores the pursuit of art and the nature of success. Painter, Don Hedger and his dog, Caesar, live in a one-room apartment. Their daily life is upended when Eden Bower, an aspiring actress who likes to sing show tunes and exercise in the nude, moves in next door.    

Coming, Aphrodite!, based on the novella by Willa Cather, is written and directed by Mary Fulham, with music by Mark Ettinger, lyrics by Paul Foglino; choreograpjy by Heidi Latksy; costumes by Ramona Ponce; set by Jim Boutin; sound design by Tim Schellenbaum; Puppetry by Spica Wobbe. Huge thanks to Mike Riggs and everyone who worked so hard to make this production so beautiful!

Three Innovative Theater Award Nominations!

Trophy Wife, Mary Fulham’s new musical based on Chekhov’s, “Anna on the Neck” played to packed houses for two weeks at La MaMa in April 2007 and got three IT (Innovative Theater) Award Nominations. Terry Waldo and Paul Foglino for Best Score; Heidi Latsky for Best Choreography; and Ramona Ponce for Best Costumes! Selected from more than 40,000 artists working Off Off Broadway (OMG! – no wonder there’s no grant money), this is the second year straight that a Watson Arts Project got nominated. Balletto Stiletto got the 2006 nom for Best Performance Art Production.

Teatro Del Carretto In American Debut

The legendary Italian company performed Pinocchio and Biancaneve, two of its most important works, January 10 - 27, 2008 at La MaMa E.T.C. The critics raved!“…A unique and somehow familiar dream world of great intensity and beauty!” –Backstage "...Their Pinocchio is physical theatre at its finest–alternately hilarious and horrifying with an ensemble that is so in tune and energetic as to leave you breathless." -NYTheatre.com

 

THANK YOU!  We wish to thank all of our supporters and theatrical colleagues who make this work possible, particularly the Watson Arts Benefit Committee, Ellen Stewart and all the staff at La Mama E.T.C.!

Watson Arts production history through the ages is at:
watsonartsproject.googlepages.com

WATSON ARTS INC BOARD OF DIRECTORS: 

Mary Fulham, Gregg McCarty, Sarah Lederman, Polly Parker,   Tim Fulham, Irene Ramp, Buck Henry