Avi Amon. Photo by Jeremy Mauriac.
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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.
Avi Amon: MOTHER/ROAD
MOTHER/ROAD is a multimedia musical meditation on grief, memory, and borders, using the cassette tapes my parents brought when they immigrated to this country... as keys to other dimensions. Examining that journey from Istanbul to the U.S. as the nexus between past and future generations, this piece seeks to dissect what things we carry with us; what fragments of identity we barely remember; and the weight of what is left behind. And hopefully, we’ll create pathways for our daughter to sing with her ancestors.
Avi Amon is an award-winning, Turkish-American composer and sound artist. Recent work includes music, songs, and sound design for projects at: Ars Nova, Disney, HBO, Hulu, The Kennedy Center, NYTW, Oregon Shakespeare, PAC, The Public, Target Margin, and Tribeca Film Festival, among others. Avi is the resident composer at the 52nd Street Project and teaches at NYU.
Additional Spring 2024 Starr Reading Series programs:
Tues, February 27 at 7 P.M.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott: WHILE WE'RE HERE
Weds, February 28 at 7 P.M.
Aeon Andreas: GODSPUNK
Thurs, February 29 at 7 P.M.
Utkarsh Rajawat: lil nagins: a photorealist rendering of the Tutor Time near Yardley, PA circa 1999
Weds, March 6 at 7 P.M.
Genevieve Simon: THIS BUG IS GAY