Death Is My Lover…Happy Day!
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Synopsis:
Death is My Lover… Happy Day! is a meditation on our individual existential struggles coming out of the last couple years of fragmented and isolated living.We waited on policies and/or societal readiness to reengage and as we try to muster up the will and courage to reconnect.We have taken inspiration from writers such as Caryl Churchill, Charles Mee, Samuel Beckett, and Sarah Kane to channel our multitude of feelings and dealings into this evening of reckoning. A bold and risky glimpse into the many more moving engagements of the heart, brain and community in this new world and open this new communal theater space! Conceived and Compiled by Jill Kathleen Hoiles with Eugene MaPerformed by Jill Kathleen HoilesDirected by Eugene Ma
Bio: Jill Hoiles
Jill began her studies in theatre at Syracuse University, before getting her BFA from California Institute of the Arts. She studied abroad at the Moscow Are Theatre School and went on to L’ecole Internationale du Theatre Jacques Lecoq, Manifesto Poetico and Philippe Gaulier in Europe, the Suzuki Company of Toga, the Michael Chekhov Institute and SITI Company in the USA. She has worked in Los Angeles, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, France, Korea, Moscow, New York City, Dublin and the UK. She also has a degree in Cinematography from the International Film School Sydney.
Bio: Eugene Ma
Born in Canada, raised in Hong Kong and trained in the United States, Eugene Ma is an international multidisciplinary theatre-maker, educator and artistic director of Deliberate Collision! Performance and Cultural Research. Primarily a director, he has helmed works ranging from linear plays and musicals, to the more experimental and interdisciplinary; and has developed new works with Lisa Clair, Cherry Lou Sy, Mike Lew, Shane Sakhrani, Ella Rose Chary and Sooyeon Lee, and helmed existing works by Franz Xaver Kroetz, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Thornton Wilder, Moliere, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill and Saviana Stanescu etc. From 2016 to 2018, he was appointed a resident director at the Flea Theatre (NY). As an actor, Eugene performed under directors like Tony-winning Mary Zimmerman and auteur Stan Lai at venues such as Theater for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep and the Wallis Annenberg Center in LA. Eugene Ma is also a Drama Desk-nominated composer and a lauded acting teacher. He apprenticed at the Yale School of Drama and at the Juilliard School under Christopher Bayes. Eugene has served on faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate Acting Program, Yale School of Drama and Harvard TDM; and has coached on a number of movies and series in Asia. More recently he has been teaching at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) in Toronto and at the Hong Kong Baptist University. NYU Tisch Alum. Proud AEA and CAEA member.