Rady&Bloom - Collective Playmaking

Since 2006, Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady have developed new and innovative theater projects originally in Chicago, and for the past four years in New York. Joint work includes La Boheme (Spoken), a full length spoken version of Puccini's libretto at The Flea and at The Cell, adapted by Rady, and conceived and directed by Bloom; The Green Knight at 45 Bleecker, an original play by Brian Rady based o

n the myth of Sir Gawain, directed in pink by Bloom; Anchor Women, an under-the-covers study of television's ladies created by Rady, directed by Bloom; Live Mermaids Live, adapted and directed by Bloom, performed with songwriting by Rady; and most recently The Orange Person written and developed by Rady&Bloom with banjoist Laura Dunn. We have established a recognizable manner of staging familiar narratives in a stripped down, efficient manner, with high energy and a sense of visual lyricism. We are drawn to modern mythology - stories that ask us to believe in something bigger than ourselves, in the possibility of the mystically inexplicable. Among a diverse and ever-growing ensemble, we devise music and words directly from and designed for the performers, building roles and characters to the eccentricities of specific group dynamics. Distilled from personal experience, we plan to cultivate a mood, an assertive and complex yet welcoming cultural texture - party meets epic meets chorale meets ethnography.