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Scale of fear
a collaboration
Performance Art by Jennifer Ortega
Costume Design by Moira Shaughnessy
Project Description:
“Each day I will be wearing clothing based on the color of the Homeland Security system’s color-coded advisory warning. By creating fear, the current Administration was able to mobilize us to war. Fear controls our lives and affects how we think and react.
The project will pose questions for the general public to ponder, react to, agree or disagree with. The questions and statements will come from the Bush administration and the press.
The project began on Tax Day, April 15, 2004 and ended on Election Day, November 2nd, 2004.”
FUR
by Migdalia Cruz
Directed by Jennifer Ortega
Production Design by Spencer Evans
Costume Design by Kari McKahan
Sound Design by Curtis Curtis
Dressmaking by Bianca Moreno
CAST: David Anzuelo, Mary Perez, Susanna Guzman
Presented at: The Iron Belly @ The Underbelly, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 4-26, 2001
Beneath a pet shop in the arid California desert, this “Beauty and the Beast” retelling investigates the surreal poetry of unrequited love, human lust and carnal desire.
(In)complete Woman
by Piia Mustamäki
Directed by Jennifer Ortega
Set Design by Teemu Loikas
Costume Design by Melissa Feldman
Lighting Design by Laura Penney
Sound Design by Curtis Curtis
CAST: Addie O'Donnell, Browne Smith, Michelle McCall, Doug Brandt, Veronica Newton, Kevin Mockrin, Jason St. Sauver, Suzannah Mackintosh, Amanda Goodman
Presented at: Center Stage, NYC, November 1999
(In)Complete Woman or A Dissected Detective Story is a comical farce revolving around the discovery of a castrated corpse by three of the corpse’s lovers. This twisted whodunit invites us into a surreal world of multidimensional characters and bizarre situations. Fulbright scholar Piia Mustamäki adroitly weaves a satirical tale of suspense, sex and scandal which becomes cohesive under the suspension of disbelief.
Planet of Three People
by Piia Mustamäki
Directed by Jennifer Ortega
Set Design by Teemu Loikas
Lighting Design by Douglas Filomena
Costume Design by Jennifer Ortega
Makeup by Colette Draut-Diggs
Sound Design by Curtis Curtis
CAST: Veronica Newton, Steve Sherling, Jason St. Sauver
Presented at: New York International Fringe Festival, NYC, August 1998
Welcome to the postmodern planet where Beckett meets Ed Wood. Characters are lost in a world of individualism guided only by a haunting voice. A thought provoking sci-fi world of sleezy music, mime and dance acts where roles are literally tags on your chest.