THEATER
Sara Lyons
I’M VERY INTO YOU
October 13-14, 16, 18, 21, 2018 at Think Tank Gallery
“Sara Lyons’s epistolary play, based on the published 1995 emails of the late Kathy Acker, is worth keeping an eye out for.” —American Theatre
In 1995, the late, great feminist author Kathy Acker powered up her dial-up modem and launched a heady, sexy email correspondence with media theorist McKenzie “Ken” Wark, following a steamy encounter. Their queer desire charged the air between San Francisco and Sydney with radical expressions of gender, politics, pleasure and power at the dawn of the internet age.
Director Sara Lyons gathers a local cast of feminist, queer and non-binary underground artists who embody Kathy and Ken from points across a wide gender spectrum. Their feverish digital exchange is interspersed with the ensemble’s own stories of gender slippage and online intimacy, examining how our connections have evolved over the last two decades—through the internet and through expanding queer expression.
By Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark
Adapted and directed by Sara Lyons
Produced by Sara Lyons with Andrew DG Hunt,
Elizabeth Stone, and Richard & Lisa Lyons
Performed by Jer Adrianne Lelliott, Robin Podolsky, Provvidenza Catalano, Paul Outlaw, Jennifer Jonassen, Elspeth Weingarten, Yves Agustin Armando, and Gina Young
Media design: Adam J. Thompson
Sound design: Aaron Landgraf
Stage Manager: Aaron Saldaña
Assistant Director: Shen Heckel
Created with the permission of McKenzie Wark and Matias Viegener/ The Kathy Acker Literary Trust.
In memory of Kathy Acker, 1947–1997.
Sara Lyons is a director and adapter working across performance disciplines including theater, adaptation, social practice, and new media. A recent transplant to Los Angeles, their work has been presented at Wild Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Fordham University, Culture Project, LaMaMa ETC, Dixon Place, Edinburgh Fringe, and more. Previous presentations of I’m Very Into You include OUTsider Fest (Austin) and Special Effects Festival (NYC). Sara holds an M.F.A. in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University; a B.A. in Theatre and Gender Studies from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and is an alum of the EMERGENYC program for political performance-makers at NYU’s Hemispheric Institute.
I’m Very Into You was made possible with the generous support of McKenzie Wark and Matias Viegener.
