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The Brick Theater is a 70-seat^[1]^[2] state-of-the-art^[3] theater located at 575 Metropolitan Ave near the corner of Lorimer St in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.^[4] Housed in a brick-walled^[3]^[5] former auto-body shop/former yoga center^[3]^[5] on the first floor of a former industrial building,^[1] a weathered^[1] wooden garage door^[4] announces the entrance to what Gothamist hails as “one of the city’s most reliable sources for smart, funny, and surprising performance.”^[6] Founded in 2002 by co–Artistic Directors Michael Gardner and Robert Honeywell,^[1]^[2]^[3]^[5]^[6] The Brick has become known for its co-producing model^[4] and its “oddball,”^[7] “tartly-themed”^[2] summer festivals.^[1]^[4]^[5]^[7] The Brick has presented works from artists including Debate Society,^[2] Eric Bland’s Old Kent Road Theater,^[4] and Eddie Kim,^[4] as well as staff-produced offerings from Gardner,^[2] Honeywell,^[2] Piper McKenzie,^[4] Gemini CollisionWorks,^[2] and The Fifth Wall.

Staff

Michael Gardner, co–Artistic Director^[8]
Robert Honeywell, co–Artistic Director
Hope Cartelli, Associate Artistic Director^[4]
Jeff Lewonczyk, Associate Artistic Director^[4]
Ian W Hill, Technical Director^[9]
Berit Johnson, Technical Director
Gyda Arber, Outreach Director^[10]

Summer Festivals

The Too Soon Festival (2010)^[4]^[11]
The Antidepressant Festival (June 5–July 4, 2009)^[7]^[8]
The Film Festival: a Theater Festival (2008)^[5]
The Pretentious Festival (2007)^[5]
The $ellout Festival (2006)^[5]
The Moral Values Festival (2005)^[5]
The Hell Festival (2004)^[4]^[5]^[6]

Recurring Festivals

The New York Clown Theater Festival^[1]^[4]^[5]^[8]
Game Play^[4]^[12]
Tiny Theater Fest^[4]
The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee^[5]^[8]^[9]
Fight Fest^[13]^[14]^[15]
The CollisionWorks^[16]

Other Festivals

The Havel Festival (2006)^[17]

Past and Current Shows

Absence of Magic^[5]
Action Jesus (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Adventures of Caveman Robot^[18]
Afternoon Playland (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]
. . . And the Fear Cracked Open (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]
And the Spirit of Christmas Passed (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Assyrian Monkey Fantasy^[1]^[5]^[19]
The Baby Jesus Conversation (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Babylon, Babylon^[6]
A Bender Family Christmas (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Bethlehem or Bust (Fight Fest 2010)^[15]
Bizarre Science Fantasy^[5]
Blood on the Cat’s Neck (The CollisionWorks 2009)^[16]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree^[6]
Brick-a-Brac^[5]
The Buccaneer (Fight Fest 2009)^[13]
Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill! (Fight Fest 2009)^[13]
Cabaret Terrarium (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]
A Christmas Carol (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury (Fight Fest 2009)^[14]
Dandilion and the Bicycle-Powered Cloud Plane (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
Dar and Matey’s Christmas SpectaculARGH! (Fight Fest 2010)^[15]
Dear Dubya (The Moral Values Festival)^[1]^[5]^[19]
Death Is a Scream (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
Deck the Hallmans (Fight Fest 2009)^[14]
Evolution (Fight Fest 2009)^[14]
Exit, Pursued by Bears (The Antidepressant Festival)^[7]
Fallout Follies^[5]
George Bataille’s Bathrobe (The CollisionWorks 2009)^[16]
Glee Club (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]
Grand Theft Ovid (Game Play 2010)^[12]^[20]
The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice^[21]
Greed: A Musical Love $tory^[22]
Habitat^[5]
Hack! An I.T. Spaghetti Western (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
Happily after Tonight (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
Hollow Hallow (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
In a Strange Room (based on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying)^[5]
Infectious Opportunity (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]

Jeannine’s Abortion—A Play in One Trimester (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
Jenna Is Nuts^[5]
The Kung-Fu Importance of Being Earnest (The $ellout Festival)^[18]
Kool-Aid Man in Second Life (Game Play 2010)^[20]
Last Life (Fight Fest 2009)^[13]
Marshmallow World (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness^[5]^[19]
Modal Kombat (Game Play 2010)^[12]^[20]
Mother Mary Come to Me (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
My Year of Porn (The Moral Values Festival)^[5]^[19]
The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam (The $ellout Festival)^[18]
The Ninja Cherry Orchard (Fight Fest 2009)^[13]
Notes from Underground^[6]
Power Burn 3 (Fight Fest 2009)^[14]
The Pragmatists^[5]^[18]^[19]
Rapier Wit! (Fight Fest 2010)^[15]
The Revellers (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
RIP JD—A Celebration of Death (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War^[23]
Schaden, Freude and You: a 3 Clown Seminar (The Antidepressant Festival)^[7]
Sincerely, Raven Harte (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Suspicious Package (The Film Festival: a Theater Festival; Game Play 2009)^[7]
Suspicious Package: Rx (The Antidepressant Festival)^[7]
The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot’s Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalk Circle (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]
That Old Soft Shoe (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
That’s Not How Mahler Died^[19]
Theater of the Arcade (Game Play 2010)^[12]
Third Person (The Moral Values Festival)^[19]
Trayf (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
Tupperware Orgy^[5]
Uncomplicated (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)^[9]
The Vigil or The Guided Cradle^[24]
The Wedding of Berit Johnson and Ian W. Hill (The Too Soon Festival)^[11]
Who Is Wilford Brimley?^[5]^[19]
WILM 690: Pirate Radio (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]
World Gone Wrong (The Moral Values Festival; The CollisionWorks 2007)^[5]^[19]
Your Lithopedian (The Antidepressant Festival)^[8]

Awards

Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Production of a Play^[25]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, Michael Dalto, Stephanie Wright Thompson, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Ensemble^[25]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Stowe Nelson, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Sound Design^[25]
The Vigil or The Guided Cradle, Crystal Skillman, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Original Full-Length Script^[25]
2009 Caffe Cino Fellowship Award^[26]^[27]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, 2007 IT Award, Outstanding Production of a Play^[6]
The Present Perfect, 2007 IT Award, Outstanding Lighting Design^[28]
2006 Village Voice Best of NY—Best Reason for Theater Haters to Buy Season Tickets^[18]
2005 nytheatre.com’s People of the Year^[19]
2004 nytheatre.com’s People of the Year^[19]
In a Strange Room, Time Out New York Top Ten Plays of 2004

Nominations

Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Performance Art Production^[29]
Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, Julianne Kroboth, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Costume Design^[29]
Infectious Opportunity, James Comtois, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Original Full-Length Script^[29]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Marc Bovino, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role ^[30]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Joe Curnutte, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role ^[30]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Stephanie Wright Thompson, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role ^[30]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Lila Neugebauer, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Director ^[30]
The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice, Ivanna Cullinan, 2009 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role^[31]
The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice, Ian W Hill, 2009 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Lighting Design^[31]
Suspicious Package, 2009 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Production of a Play^[31]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Aimee German, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Ensemble^[28]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Eric Davis, Aimee German, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Original Short Script^[28]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Eric Davis, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Director^[28]
Greed: a Musical Love $tory , 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Production of a Musical^[22]
The Kung-Fu Importance of Being Earnest, Qui Nguyen, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Choreography/Movement^[28]
The Present Perfect, 2007 IT Award, Outstanding Set Design^[28]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Production of a Play^[28]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, Thomas Bradshaw, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Original Full Length Script^[28]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, Barrett Doss, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role^[28]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, Suzan Perry, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role^[28]

References

External links

Official Website

[nymag-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h http://nymag.com/listings/attraction/Brick-Theater/

[tony-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/118678/the-brick

[metromix-3] ttp://newyork.metromix.com/theater/theater/the-brick-theater-east-williamsburg/214977/content

[lmag-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/inspecting-the-brick-theaters-foundations/Content?oid=1666960

[visitbrooklyn-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z http://www.visitbrooklyn.org/_webapp_1075687/The_Brick_Theater,_Inc

[gothamist-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g http://gothamist.com/2008/03/13/michael_gardner.php

[nytimes-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/theater/10webtheater.html?pagewanted=5

[ooo42-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l http://www.offoffonline.com/article.php?ArticleID=42

[ooo1245-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ http://www.offoffonline.com/archives.php?id=1245

[10] ttp://www.nytesmallpress.com/pp10/pp10int_arber.php

[nypost-11] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/our_weekly_events_calendar_QPmhgMnJukRIhpvnj8TjFL

[nytimesgp-12] ttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/theater/16video.html

[tonyff1-13] ttp://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/upstaged-blog/108809/fight-fest-roundup-part-1

[tonyff2-14] ttp://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/upstaged-blog/108802/fight-fest-roundup-no-2

[nytimesff-15] ttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/arts/28weekaheadweb.html

[blood-16] ttp://theater.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/theater/reviews/13blood.html

[17] ttp://www.villagevoice.com/2006-10-17/theater/foreign-intelligence/

[bestofny-18] ttp://www.villagevoice.com/bestof/2006/award/best-reason-for-theater-haters-to-buy-season-tickets-494159/

[poy-19] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/poy.php

[wired-20] ttp://www.wired.com/gamelife/tag/the-brick-theater/

[21] ttp://gothamist.com/2008/12/07/opinionist_the_granduncle_quadrilog.php

[timessquare-22] ttp://www.timessquare.com/Video/Theater/Off-Off-Broadway_Theatre_Gets_Innovative/

[23] ttp://www.villagevoice.com/2010-04-13/theater/samuel-and-alasdair-a-personal-history-of-the-robot-war/

[24] ttp://theater.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/theater/reviews/01vigil.html

[it180-25] ttp://www.nyitawards.com/news/newsitem.asp?storyid=180

[26] ttp://www.nyitawards.com/news/newsitem.asp?storyid=93

[27] ttp://www.nyitawards.com/news/newsitem.asp?storyid=97

[2007itawards-28] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j http://www.nyitawards.com/anr/2007honorees.asp

[playbill-29] ttp://www.playbill.com/news/article/141317-2010-New-York-Innovative-Theatre-Award-Nominations-Announced

[itnom2010-30] ttp://www.nyitawards.com/news/newsitem.asp?storyid=177

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