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New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) is a 501(c)(3) experimental theater ensemble based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NPL collaborates with artists from a variety of disciplines, including web designers, visual artists, writers, philosophers, composers, and architects, as well as performers who work together to create interactive theater works.

History

New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) was founded to create surprising, meticulous, spiritually challenging, and wholly distinctive experimental theatre productions that investigate physical expression, on-stage and in life. These productions are assembled using collaborative creative processes developed by the company. The work tends to value wild humor, shock, a concern for history, a muscular visual sensibility, and a fascination with the utopian impulse. Furthermore, NPL uses the fruits of its experimentation to benefit the artistic and audience community as a whole.[1]


Founded in 1996 by Whit MacLaughlin, NPL has created an average of one original performance work each year since its founding. Their work has been presented as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival, the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Children's Theatre Company, and in residencies with universities all over the United States.

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A 2006 reworking of the hit "Prom" by New Paradise Laboratories, first produced in Minneapolis in 2004. The show was deemed Best Stage Production 2004.


Productions

Year Production Location Notes
2011 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Live Arts/ Philly Fringe participant
2011 FREEDOM CLUB New York, NY Off-off Broadway[2]
2010 FREEDOM CLUB With the Riot Group & Adriano Shaplin[3]
2009 FATEBOOK: Avoiding Catastrophe One Party at a Time Philadelphia, PA
2008 PROM Philadelphia, PA Barrymore Award nominee for Outstanding Choreography/Movement (Lee Ann Etzold and Whit MacLaughlin)[4]
2007 BATCH: An American Bachelor/Ette Party Spectacle Louisville, KY Humana Festival of New American Plays participant
2006 PROM Minneapolis, MN Children's Theatre Company (second production)
2005 Planetary Enzyme Blues Philadelphia, PA PECO Energy Award nominee for Outstanding Lighting Design (Mark O'Maley)[5]
2004 PROM Minneapolis, MN Children's Theatre Company
2004 Don Juan in Nirvana
2003 Rrose Selavy Takes a Lover in Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Barrymore Award nominee for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play[6]
2001 This Mansion is a Hole Philadelphia, PA Barrymore Award nominee for Outstanding Sound Design (Whit MacLaughlin)[7]
2000 The Fab 4 Reach the Pearly Gates New York City, NY Obie Award Winner
1999 Stupor Philadelphia, PA Barrymore Award nominee for Outstanding Choreography[8]
1998 Gold Russian Finger Love


Extremely Public Displays of Privacy

Opening during the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival, "Extremely Public Displays of Privacy" is an example of the interdisciplinary work of New Paradise Laboratories.

Description From the MAP Fund:

...a cross-media theater performance that takes advantage of new modes of communication to give audience members long-term access to an immersive, multilayered performance experience. The work will look directly at issues surrounding the value of privacy and anonymity in a culture that is increasingly obsessed with metaphors of inter-connectivity, social access, and “data-veillance.”
...New Paradise Lab will enact these EXTREMELY PUBLIC DISPLAYS surreptitiously in public spaces and videotape them beneath the eye of the population at large. Audiences will gain access to the piece 1) online, 2) through GPS-tagged video clips accessible in the public sites where the piece will be shot, and finally, 3) in a live theater piece that will be a more traditional theatrical expression. Audience will “attend” the piece in all of these sites. Ultimately, the piece will interrogate the value of anonymity, the social demand for disclosure, the therapeutic value of transparency, and the efficacy of public action."[9]


Company Members and Staff

  • Whit MacLaughlin Artistic Director of New Paradise Laboratories. He has conceived, directed, and designed 9 original performance works with the company since its inception in 1996. Since 1978, he has acting in, directed, or written over 100 theatre productions.[10]
  • Lee Ann Etzold [11][12]
  • McKenna Kerrigan
  • Jeb Kreager [13]
  • Mary McCool
  • Aaron Mumaw
  • Matt Saunders is a designer/performer for NPL. [14]
  • Inger Hatlen Managing Director has been with NPL since December 2006. She previously worked with Pig Iron Theatre Company[15] .
  • Emily Rea Production Manager and Dramaturg
  • Jorge Cousineau Video and Sound Design


Grants and Awards


References

  1. ^ "NPL Story". Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. ^ "New York Times: Theater". The New York Times Company. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Adriano Shaplin, Whit MacLaughlin: Freedom Club". The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  4. ^ "2008 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  5. ^ "2006 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  6. ^ "2004 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  7. ^ "2002 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  8. ^ "2000 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  9. ^ "MAP Fund". Multi-Arts Production Fund. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  10. ^ "Artistic Director: Whit MacLaughlin". New Paradise Laboratories. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  11. ^ "2007 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  12. ^ "NPL Story: Company Members". New Paradise Laboratories. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  13. ^ "2007 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  14. ^ "2007 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  15. ^ "NPL Story: Company Staff". New Paradise Laboratories. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  16. ^ "PW's Artist of the Year: Jorge Cousineau". Philadelphia Weekly. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  17. ^ "MAP Fund". Multi-Arts Production Fund. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  18. ^ "2007 Nominees and Recipients". Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  19. ^ "Best of Philly 2006 Theater Company". Philadelphia Magazine. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  20. ^ "MAP Fund". Multi-Arts Production Fund. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  21. ^ "Artist Roster: New Paradise Laboratories". Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  22. ^ Miriam Seidel. "At Obie Awards, A Philadelphia Winner". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 26 July 2011.



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