tomorrow’s Mother’s Day. it’s 1996 and it’s 2022 and it’s 2023. two women invent space through diary. all of this actually happened.
Texts:
Diana’s Diary
The Artists’ Way Morning Pages Journal belonging to Madonna Sheridan (1960-2022).
12 minutes
Performed by
Diana Schlossberg
Sound by Declan Zhang
Created in collaboration with
Ray Bryan
Declan Zhang
Noah Mairéad
Content warning: grief, addiction and recovery
Diana Schlossberg is a diarist, director, designer, and performer. Her evening-length solo performance work, On Diary, was presented at Bowery Poetry Club in collaboration with CH-V. In 1950, after 15 years and over two-dozen films with the studio, MGM released her amid a series of personal struggles that prevented her from fulfilling the terms of her contract. She lives in Bushwick. (dianab.diary@gmail.com)
Ray Bryan is a Dance Moms historian based in Bushwick.
Noah Mairéad is a writer and artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Declan Zhang is a writer, director, and producer. They hold a Bachelors of Music in Percussion Performance from New York University. They are the host and showrunner of Survivor Bushwick.
Max Stroeher (Lighting Designer) is a lighting designer for theatre based in New York City. His design credits include, Head Over Heels, and Good News at the Theresa Lang Theatre, A Sleepless Play, Houston We Have a Problem at The Tank, Seven Days to the End of the World at Dixon Place. His assistant design credits include Fortuity at The Public, Newsies at the Dalton School, Nine, Twelfth Night, and Bye Bye Birdie at MSM. He would like to thank his partner for their support in all things.
Find his work at maxstroeher.com
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