The Brick Theater

The Brick Theater is a 70-seat[1][2] state-of-the-art[3] theater located at 579 Metropolitan Ave near the corner of Lorimer St in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[4] Housed in a brick-walled[3][5] former auto-body shop/former yoga center[3][5] on the first floor of a former industrial building,[1] a weathered[1] wooden garage door[4] announces the entrance to what Gothamist hails as “one of the city’s most reliable sources for smart, funny, and surprising performance.”[6] Founded in 2002 by co–Artistic Directors Michael Gardner and Robert Honeywell,[1][2][3][5][6] The Brick has become known for its co-producing model[4] and its “oddball,”[7] “tartly-themed”[2] summer festivals.[1][4][5][7] The Brick has presented works from artists including Debate Society,[2] Eric Bland’s Old Kent Road Theater,[4] and Eddie Kim,[4] as well as staff-produced offerings from Gardner,[2] Honeywell,[2] Piper McKenzie,[4] Gemini CollisionWorks,[2] and The Fifth Wall.

Staff

Michael Gardner, co–Founder/Artistic Director[8]
Robert Honeywell, co–Founder
Gyda Arber, Managing Director[9]
Ian W Hill, Technical Director[10]
Berit Johnson, Technical Director
Roger Nasser, Box Office Manager

Summer Festivals

The Too Soon Festival (2010)[4][11]
The Antidepressant Festival (June 5–July 4, 2009)[7][8]
The Film Festival: a Theater Festival (2008)[5]
The Pretentious Festival (2007)[5]
The $ellout Festival (2006)[5]
The Moral Values Festival (2005)[5]
The Hell Festival (2004)[4][5][6]

Recurring Festivals

The New York Clown Theater Festival[1][4][5][8]
Game Play[4][12]
Tiny Theater Fest[4]
The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee[5][8][10]
Fight Fest[13][14][15]
The CollisionWorks[16]

Other Festivals

The Havel Festival (2006)[17]

Past and Current Shows

Absence of Magic[5]
Action Jesus (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Adventures of Caveman Robot[18]
Afternoon Playland (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]
. . . And the Fear Cracked Open (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]
And the Spirit of Christmas Passed (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Assyrian Monkey Fantasy[1][5][19]
The Baby Jesus Conversation (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Babylon, Babylon[6]
A Bender Family Christmas (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Bethlehem or Bust (Fight Fest 2010)[15]
Bizarre Science Fantasy[5]
Blood on the Cat’s Neck (The CollisionWorks 2009)[16]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree[6]
Brick-a-Brac[5]
The Buccaneer (Fight Fest 2009)[13]
Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill! (Fight Fest 2009)[13]
Cabaret Terrarium (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]
A Christmas Carol (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury (Fight Fest 2009)[14]
Dandilion and the Bicycle-Powered Cloud Plane (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
Dar and Matey’s Christmas SpectaculARGH! (Fight Fest 2010)[15]
Dear Dubya (The Moral Values Festival)[1][5][19]
Death Is a Scream (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
Deck the Hallmans (Fight Fest 2009)[14]
Evolution (Fight Fest 2009)[14]
Exit, Pursued by Bears (The Antidepressant Festival)[7]
Fallout Follies[5]
George Bataille’s Bathrobe (The CollisionWorks 2009)[16]
Glee Club (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]
Grand Theft Ovid (Game Play 2010)[12][20]
The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice[21]
Greed: A Musical Love $tory[22]
Habitat[5]
Hack! An I.T. Spaghetti Western (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
Happily after Tonight (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
Hollow Hallow (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
In a Strange Room (based on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying)[5]
Infectious Opportunity (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]

Jeannine’s Abortion—A Play in One Trimester (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
Jenna Is Nuts[5]
The Kung-Fu Importance of Being Earnest (The $ellout Festival)[18]
Kool-Aid Man in Second Life (Game Play 2010)[20]
Last Life (Fight Fest 2009)[13]
Marshmallow World (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness[5][19]
Modal Kombat (Game Play 2010)[12][20]
Mother Mary Come to Me (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
My Year of Porn (The Moral Values Festival)[5][19]
The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam (The $ellout Festival)[18]
The Ninja Cherry Orchard (Fight Fest 2009)[13]
Notes from Underground[6]
Power Burn 3 (Fight Fest 2009)[14]
The Pragmatists[5][18][19]
Rapier Wit! (Fight Fest 2010)[15]
The Revellers (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
RIP JD—A Celebration of Death (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War[23]
Schaden, Freude and You: a 3 Clown Seminar (The Antidepressant Festival)[7]
Sincerely, Raven Harte (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Suspicious Package (The Film Festival: a Theater Festival; Game Play 2009)[7]
Suspicious Package: Rx (The Antidepressant Festival)[7]
The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot’s Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalk Circle (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]
That Old Soft Shoe (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
That’s Not How Mahler Died[19]
Theater of the Arcade (Game Play 2010)[12]
Third Person (The Moral Values Festival)[19]
Trayf (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
Tupperware Orgy[5]
Uncomplicated (The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee 2009)[10]
The Vigil or The Guided Cradle[24]
The Wedding of Berit Johnson and Ian W. Hill (The Too Soon Festival)[11]
Who Is Wilford Brimley?[5][19]
WILM 690: Pirate Radio (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]
World Gone Wrong (The Moral Values Festival; The CollisionWorks 2007)[5][19]
Your Lithopedian (The Antidepressant Festival)[8]

Awards

Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Production of a Play[25]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, Michael Dalto, Stephanie Wright Thompson, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Ensemble[25]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Stowe Nelson, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Sound Design[25]
The Vigil or The Guided Cradle, Crystal Skillman, 2010 IT Award, Outstanding Original Full-Length Script[25]
2009 Caffe Cino Fellowship Award[26][27]
Suspicious Package, ITBA Award, Best Off-Off Broadway Unique Theatrical Experience[28]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, 2007 IT Award, Outstanding Production of a Play[6]
The Present Perfect, 2007 IT Award, Outstanding Lighting Design[29]
2006 Village Voice Best of NY—Best Reason for Theater Haters to Buy Season Tickets[18]
2005 nytheatre.com’s People of the Year[19]
2004 nytheatre.com’s People of the Year[19]
In a Strange Room, Time Out New York Top Ten Plays of 2004

Nominations

Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Performance Art Production[30]
Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, Julianne Kroboth, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Costume Design[30]
Infectious Opportunity, James Comtois, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Original Full-Length Script[30]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Marc Bovino, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role [31]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Joe Curnutte, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role [31]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Stephanie Wright Thompson, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role [31]
Samuel and Alasdair: a Personal History of the Robot War, Lila Neugebauer, 2010 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Director [31]
The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice, Ivanna Cullinan, 2009 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role[32]
The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice, Ian W Hill, 2009 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Lighting Design[32]
Suspicious Package, 2009 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Production of a Play[32]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Aimee German, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Ensemble[29]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Eric Davis, Aimee German, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Original Short Script[29]
Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Eric Davis, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Director[29]
Greed: a Musical Love $tory , 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Production of a Musical[22]
The Kung-Fu Importance of Being Earnest, Qui Nguyen, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Choreography/Movement[29]
The Present Perfect, 2007 IT Award, Outstanding Set Design[29]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Production of a Play[29]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, Thomas Bradshaw, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Original Full Length Script[29]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, Barrett Doss, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role[29]
Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, Suzan Perry, 2007 IT Award nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role[29]

References

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