Looking for your big break? Auditioning over and over again? Sending out tons of feeler e-mails? Feel like you’re spinning your wheels, waiting for someone to notice your talent?
F*** it. Go out and make something yourself.
That’s the motto, and of course the inspiration for the name, of F*It Club. And it’s the kind of motto that GSAS! can get behind. The company is currently producing their annual Spring Fling of new short plays, this year around the theme of Crush.
Listen in as the company’s Executive Director and festival producer (as well as actor in the show) Allyson Morgan and Associate Producer/fellow actor Mara Kassin discuss audacity, finding themes, finding collaborators, finding solutions to last-minute casting issues, and treating short form work with respect.
“…what F*It Club was founded on is this idea of, ‘why are we waiting for people to give us work? Eff it, let’s make our own work,’ of being audacious and asking people whose work we really admired, whose work we really wanted to be a part of, to work with us…”
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F*It Club presents
Spring Fling: Crush
plays written by Krista Knight, Stephanie Del Rosso, Ariel Stess, Seth Moore, Kevin Artigue, Catya McMullen, and Gregory S. Moss
directed by Matt Dickson, Jaki Bradley, Benjamin Kamine, Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Jessi D. Hill, Jenna Worsham, and Anne Cecelia Haney
thru May 8, 2016
IRT Theater
154 Christopher Street, 3rd Floor
Manhattan
tickets: $18, available via BrownPaperTickets
photos by Crystal Arnette