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Chance D Muehleck

CHANCE D MUEHLECK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Chance D. Muehleck is the author of more than two-dozen plays, including Spokes, the Honeypot Redux, the Invisible World, and System Eternal, and has recently completed a screenplay adaptation of Albert Camus' the Guest. His work has been developed or produced at Theatre Artists of Marin in California, and at Circle Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Present Company in New York. Primary Stages commissioned him to write a short play on the American experience, which was then presented Off-Broadway. He is the recipient of the John Golden Award for ExcEllence in Playwriting and was a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award. His play Tagging April was selected for the Twelfth Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference, led by Edward Albee. He's studied with Tina Howe and Arthur Kopit at Hunter College, and has taught playwriting at Hampshire College and Point Park University. Chance has also written reviews for the New York Theatre Experience and served as an adjudicator for the New York International Fringe Festival. As a Dramaturg he assisted Tammy Ryan with her play Baby's Blues at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Two of his monologues appear in the Audition Arsenal series published by Smith & Kraus. His memberships include the Dramatists Guild, Inc. and Circle East, and he is Co-Founder and Literary Director of LIVE Theater Company/the Nerve Tank.

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         Attendants, The         Available Space         bauhaus the bauhaus         Gathering, A         Honeypot Redux, The         Live/Feed         Maiden, The         Opal         Our Father's House         Pitch! (or something sexy)         Rasputin's Beard         System Eternal         Tagging April

Attendants, The

Synopsis:
Two people move in a transparent cube. the fourth wall of the cube is a storefront window looking out on 42nd street. there is music. there are video monitors. Wireless message devices allow audience members to communicate with the performers. Inspired by questions of confinement and virtual connectivity, the Attendants seeks to upend certain conventions and confront the viewer in a different way.
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the Nerve Tank

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Genre:
performance installation Piece

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Available Space

Synopsis:
Mexican choreographer Ofelia Loret de Mola and her company of 10 dancers collaborates with the Nerve Tank, two composers, and a visual artist to transform a narrow swath of City Hall Park into a carnival in Available Space. Inspired by the chess tables in City Hall Park, acrobats, jugglers, tight rope walkers, and a bearded lady evoke the grit and cheap sparkle of a Mexican circus. Together these characters perform a series of acts illustrating the political subtext in a game of chess. Led by a marching band, the audience travels with the performers from the west side of City Hall Park to the Brooklyn Bridge. Musicians perform alternative and punk rock. Exploring space and social interaction, Available Space uncovers the fantasies and secrets of our society.
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1st Produced:
City Hall Park, Park Row And Center Street, Ny    2008

Organisations:
Danscores and the Nerve Tank

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  dancers

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bauhaus the bauhaus

Synopsis:
Modernism! Utopia! Architecture! Sit-upons! the Nerve Tank explores the Bauhaus, the seminal German school of design that operated from 1919 until 1933, when the Nazi regime shut it down. bauhaus the bauhaus is a fully immersive research and performance experience, where collective action meets mass production to form a stylized dream of progress. Are the ideals of the Bauhaus alive and well today? Or have they been concealed, co-opted, and Ikea-d to death? This project is a multimedia assembly of music, video, movement, and language. Henry Ford, Tom Wolfe, Walter Gropius, and Andy Warhol all make appearances. the company is collaborating on its creation with German Dramaturge and director Lutz Kessler
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1st Produced:
Brooklyn Lyceum, Ny    09 Oct 2009

Organisations:
LIVE Theater Company/the Nerve Tank

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Gathering, A

Synopsis:
A dark, metaphysical thriller that questions the nature of identity and bodied presence. As three people hide from an unseen threat, narratives break down and language spirals out of control. the piece fuses movement theatre, spoken word, and immersive design to take the audience on a unique and layered journey. A Gathering features a rotating cast of Nerve Tank company members. It's been developed in residence at the Brooklyn Lyceum in their Downstairs theatre, a 4,000 square-foot performance venue and former public bath. Drinks will be served at a cash bar after each show
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1st Produced:
Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Ny    2009

Organisations:
the Nerve Tank

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Honeypot Redux, The

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Live/Feed

Synopsis:
the Cold War meets the War on Terror. Bodies meet the floor. Live/Feed is a movement theater mashup that focuses on the actors' physical relationships with each other and with the performance space. the text becomes a navigational tool for these discoveries. Inspired by an apocryphal quote ("May you live in interesting times"), the project deals with issues of control in a violent and chaotic landscape. Featuring original music and immersive, site-responsive design.
- nytheatre.com

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LIVE Theater Company/the Nerve Tank

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Genre:
Piece

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Maiden, The

Synopsis:
A contemporary reboot of the myth of Persephone featuring found text, live music, and choreographed movement.

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Genre:
one act 55 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  3

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Opal

Synopsis:
Opal is an overlapping performance text for five voices that explores memory and role play in a fractured family dynamic. Certain archetypes emerge: Mother, Father, Son, Daughter. the piece is staged as a dissonant chamber music, with each speaker representing a distinct physical and vocal instrument. It incorporates modulated voice, choreographed movement, and immersive design.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Incubator Arts Project
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003    28 Apr 2011

Organisations:
the Nerve Tank

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Genre:
Piece

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Our Father's House

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1st Produced:
Screaming Venus, Ny    2002

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Genre:
Satire

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Pitch! (or something sexy)

Synopsis:
Looking for love? Friendship? Or maybe just a good time? Pitch! (or something sexy) is a patented Nerve Tank assembly devised especially for you! Four performers use found text, scored movement, and minimal design to make a self-contained live-action gift box about how we pitch ourselves and our ideas to total strangers. It's a blind date meets the Player by way of Match.com. And it all takes place right there in the room, right in front of your eyes!
- nytheatre.com

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LIVE Theater Company/the Nerve Tank

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Piece

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rasputin's Beard

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Genre:
Ten Min

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System Eternal

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Genre:
Drama/Music

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tagging April

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
En Avant, Ny    2003

Organisations:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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