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Tina Satter

TINA SATTER  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    AO International  represented by Antje Oegel


Tina Satter has been described as a "rising experimental star" by the New York Times and named a 2011 Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch by Time Out New York. Upcoming commissions include Soho Rep and Richard Maxwell's New York City Players. She has written and directed six plays that have been curated into seasons at various venues in New York City including PS122, the Prelude Festival, Incubator Arts Project, Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, and the 2010 Ice Factory Festival. Her play In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL was named a Top 10 Show of 2011 by Paper magazine, among other honors, and Family was named a Top 10 show of 2009 by Time Out New York. Her other full-length plays include Seagull (Thinking of you), Away Uniform, The Knockout Blow and Nurses in New England. Additionally she has been invited to show smaller pieces and works-in-progress at Envoy Gallery, Dixon Place and CATCH! performance series. She is the artistic director of the performance company Half Straddle, a co-curator of Little Theatre at Dixon Place, and a featured director at Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival. Tina attended Mac Wellman's graduate playwriting program at Brooklyn College and received a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Reed College.

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below is a list of Tina Satter's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Away Uniform         Family         In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL         Knockout Blow, The         Nurses In New England         Seagull (Thinking of You)

Away Uniform

Synopsis:
Tina Satter and Half Straddle present a preview showing of Away Uniform, an unexpected companion piece to and darker heartbeat of the critically acclaimed In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL. Using her poetically tinged approach to the language and feelings of sports as a textual layer, Tina creates an even more abstracted, but potent world out on the Plains to consider teammates, family, and belief in something more.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Incubator Arts Project
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003    06 Jan 2012

Organisations:
Half Straddle

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Family

Synopsis:
A single Mum and her two artistically-troubled daughters, Lily, age 20 and Frarajaca, age 18, live in faded decadence and isolation off the coast of. . .somewhere. In their rambling home, tension builds as Lily accepts that she will finally have to be artificially inseminated with the deceased Rudolf Nureyev's frozen sperm to please her mother. Frara works on staging a 'beautiful gangbang'iż˝ at the upcoming Art Fair, and Mum doesn't want to deal with any more goddamn idiots. Frara's four best friends-a brash gang of overeducated Art Girls-help plan for the big Fair. Set over several days in the family's house, Family is about the disturbing, hilarious and complicated core of unconditional love. And trying to make art
- press release

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In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL

Synopsis:
The Bushwick Starr and performance group Half Straddle present a new piece, In The Pony Palace/FOOTBALL. Half Straddle artistic director Tina Satter claims the traditionally male construct of athletics and team sports, as embodied in American football, and reframes it for a female paradigm in the company's new piece. Mixing the specific language, aesthetics, and dynamics of football with Tina's incisive and tweaked reinterpretation of high school-speak, Half Straddle creates the world of the Pony Palace where girls play football in full pads, cheerleaders still have all the power, and riding on the bus after the game feels like the most amazing moment ever. Half Straddle composer Chris Giarmo and musician Bobby McElver create the score for this singular high school landscape with mashups of the forgotten Rolling Stones album Black and Blue and obscure Lady Gaga songs played live with the Pony Palace marching band.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
The Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street, 4, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11237    10 Feb 2011

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Half Straddle

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Knockout Blow, The

Synopsis:
Three actresses inhabit an infectiously weird and dissonant, yet raucously sing-along world where the story of a contemporary werewolf explores conveyance, connection, and saying really stupid things when you want to say the most important thing of all. Featuring original songs, favorite theatrical traditions, and back-up singers
- press release

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Nurses In New England

Synopsis:
This is part of Ice Factory 2010. Female head of surgery Dr. Shepherd has a broken down pick-up, a booze cruise fling that just re-surfaced and a nursing staff with attitude. Featuring soul-searing songs, cryptic medical-speak and the occasional Coors Light. Hearts are buried deep here. A hospital show re-configured as a live musical dramedy Half Straddle-style.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012    28 Jul 2010

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Half Straddle

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Seagull (Thinking of You)

Synopsis:
Writer/director Tina Satter draws on Chekhov's letters, translations, and perverse sense of comedy to consider anew the darkness, beauty, and history of Chekhov's iconic play The Seagull and its resonances with her Half Straddle ensemble. Seagull (Thinking of You) is a personal look at performance, failure, and attempted love -- ultimately an unexpected meditation on why we ever try to say something out loud. With a Russian folk metal-influenced score.

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1st Produced:
New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, Ste. 1E, New York City, NY 10014    09 Jan 2013

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