Aeon Andreas. Photo by Sharkey Weinberg.
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Co-Presented with The Bushwick Starr
Since 2010, The Bushwick Starr’s annual Starr Reading Series has cultivated a diverse group of writers at all stages of their careers, who approach writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways. Selected through an invited submission process by a rotating committee of curators – currently Jehan O. Young, Elizagrace Madrone, William Burke, and Machel Ross – the selected playwrights receive developmental support for a public staged reading of a new, usually unfinished, work. With The Bushwick Starr’s new permanent home currently under renovation, CPR is partnering for the fourth season to co-present this program, which unites the process-oriented missions of both organizations, and celebrates the incubation of new, experimental work in performance. The Starr Reading Series has previously supported new plays by writers including Whitney White, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Haruna Lee, and many more.
Aeon Andreas: GODSPUNK
GODSPUNK is a maximalist, experimental, transgender, transexual, gay, gothic farce. Our host is having a party! They didn’t know we were going to have a party. But as it turns out, we’re having one, whether you like it or not. This party has everything: uninvited guests, fabulous dancing, lots of gin, a tart, a pimple, a mysterious and strange mechanic (he was invited), a telephone with sentience, and abject faggotry. All we can do is wait for it all to spiral.
Aeon Wade Andreas (they/he) is a trans-masculine, trans-disciplinary, maximalist director/performer working in the fields of theater, film, dance, and drag. As a director and drag artist (named God Complex), most of their work focuses on queer transformation. Through the use of Presence, performed ritual, and faggotry, Aeon attempts to hold opulent darkness and abject joy in the same hand. Culturebot calls Aeon "Always Rapturous." Friends call them "hot and difficult."
Additional Spring 2024 Starr Reading Series programs:
Tues, February 27 at 7 P.M.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott: WHILE WE'RE HERE
Thurs, February 29 at 7 P.M.
Utkarsh Rajawat: lil nagins: a photorealist rendering of the Tutor Time near Yardley, PA circa 1999
Tues, March 5 at 7 P.M.
Avi Amon: MOTHER/ROAD
Weds, March 6 at 7 P.M.
Genevieve Simon: THIS BUG IS GAY