Ann Marie Dorr. Photo by Megan Culton.
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Theatermaker and playwright Ann Marie Dorr curates OPEN STUDIOS, thinking through how we can bring the outside or the inside-out parts of our practices to light. They have invited Kate McGee, Jacqueline Scaletta, and Daphne Silbiger to share works inspired by this notion, to see what kinds of conversations can emerge.
PROGRAM
Kate McGee: Girl Mode
A meditation on absence as an essential texture of transness, using video game engines and audience participation.
Jacqueline Scaletta: Sublimation
A performance of desperation, exploring doom, the desire to dissolve, and the afterlife through sound, text, and light.
Directed by Coral Cohen.
Daphne Silbiger: Brain in a Box
What can a human do that a machine cannot? What can a machine do that a human cannot? Does a machine ever long for messy reality, and what does it mean that humans show more and more desire to fuse with machines? Is it hot? A question about the grotesque with music, improvised text, and projection. Co-created with Beatrice Hirsch.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ann Marie Dorr is a theatermaker and playwright. Their work has been presented at The Exponential Festival, Life World, Atlantic Stage 2, NACL, The Brick, Soho Rep, and The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, TX). Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 17/19. Associated Artist of Target Margin Theater. Brooklyn College Playwriting MFA ‘25.
Kate McGee (Lighting Designer, she/her) is an Obie Award winning lighting designer, new media artist, and deviser of theater works. She recently concluded a years long world tour as Lighting Designer for Esperanza Spalding and off brand gods dance. Recent Off Broadway – Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater), The Beastiary (Ars Nova), I’m Revolting (Atlantic Theater Company), Snatch Adams, and Notes on Killing... (Soho Rep), The Hang (Here Arts), and Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey (La Mama). She was a 2022/2023 artist in residence at Soho Rep where she developed the VR piece Girl Mode, since seen at Fabric Arts Workshop and the ASU’s MIX Center. Kate devised and designed several pieces with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey that have premiered in Europe and NYC, including while you were partying at Soho Rep and prottec//attac at the Deutschesschauspielhaus Hamburg. katemcgee.xyz
Jacqueline Scaletta is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer and performing artist. Her design work has appeared in New York at The Brick Theater, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Target Margin Theater, HERE Arts Center, Life World, 3 Dollar Bill, The Tank, MITU580, CultureLab LIC, Loading Dock Theater, Lenfest Center for the Arts, as well Le Mondo in Baltimore, MD. She is the technical supervisor of Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg and a current board member of What Will the Neighbors Say? theater company. She cares about spectacle. jacscalettalighting.com | @jacqueline.scalett
Daphne Silbiger is a playwright, musician, and visual artist. Her plays include Language Party (in development), Very Blue Light (Tank Core Production), Attempts (Salon @ Life World), O The Humanity (Brick/Aux), Dirtbag Stacks (Crashbox), Pound (Relentless Award Semi-Finalist), and Six Years Old, which has been performed at theaters and colleges around the country. Daphne plays bass in the multidisciplinary band Go Home, with whom she performs regularly around the city, produced Uncle John and the Demon of the Wood (ANT Fest 2025) and is working on a second full-length record. She recently performed John Cage’s Telephones and Birds with Trisha Brown Dance Company (BAM). Daphne is also a teacher, working recently with School of Making Thinking on a course focused on the intersection of playwriting and new economic theory, and has collage work listed in the Kolaj Magazine International Artist Directory. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, The Sitka Fellows Program, and The Center for International Theatre Development. She is the academic advisor to Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU Tisch, and earned her MFA in Playwriting from UT Austin.