the Local Lab staged reading of
The Only house
created and performed by
JODY KUEHNER aka CHERDONNA SHINATRA
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Saturday, April 23, 2022 | 6 pm MT
Dairy Arts Center | Boulder, CO
IN-PERSON
TICKETS
Available to Season 11 Members in January, 2022
Available to non-members in February, 2022
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There will be a 20-minute talkback facilitated by Local Lab Co-Director Betty Hart directly following the reading.
SYNOPSIS
Goodnight stars. Goodnight air. Goodnight noises everywhere. Inspired by the iconography of Margaret Wise Brown's beloved children's book Goodnight Moon blended with the zeitgeist of the spaghetti western, Cherdonna inhabits both space and screen to explore life and death, propaganda, toxic masculinity, soft endings, and how we invest our worlds with meaning.
CREATIVE TEAM
JODY KUEHNER aka CHERDONNA SHINATRA
Creator & Performer
Jody Kuehner aka Cherdonna Shinatra uses dance, drag, theater, comedy, camp, pop culture, feminist traditions, absurdity and subversive commentary to make art. Cherdonna is a persona created by Jody to explore and question themselves and the world. Jody is a 2020 NEFA’s National Dance Project finalist, 2017 Artist Trust Fellowship recipient, 2017 Henry Art Gallery Artist in Residence, 2016 NEFA’s National Dance Project awardee, and 2015 Stranger Genius Award winner. She has been presented locally at On the Boards, Seattle Theater Group, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Henry Art Gallery, and the Frye Art Museum. She has been presented nationally at the USF in Tampa FL, the Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance in Ann Arbor, MI, The Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC, and FringeArts in Philadelphia, PA. DITCH, a three-month gallery exhibition, was presented at the Frye Art Museum and at The Momentary in Bentonville, AK. DITCH was featured in ARTnews, i-D Magazine and NBC's 12 must-see LGBTQ art shows around the world.
BETTY HART
Post-Show Facilitator
Betty has acted in Local Lab and has facilitated audience conversatioons and salons for Local Theater Company. In 2020, Betty directed Josh Kroenig’s Vroom Vroom for Local Lab, which audiences never saw due to the theatre wide shut down. In June 2021, Betty directed the one person play An Iliad for Creede Repertory Theatre (CRT) and in spring, directed a virtual offering of To the Moon by Beth Kander for CRT as well. In spring of 2021, Betty directed an original devised theatrical film for the University of Northern Colorado called 2020 Speaks. Upcoming projects include directing Polaroid Stories for Metropolitan State University, By the way, Meet Vera Stark for the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Once on this Island for Town Hall Arts Center and Blackademics for Vintage Theatre. In November of 2020, Betty gave a Ted Talk on compassion culture instead of cancel culture. You can view the talk here: go.ted.com/bettyhart
LOCAL THEATER COMPANY TEAM
Founding Artistic Director - Pesha Rudnick
Producer - Misha S. Zimmerman
Associate Artistic Director & Marketing Manager & Local Lab 11 Co-Director - Nick Chase
Development & Business Affairs - Alison Palmer
Local Lab 11 Co-Director - Betty Hart
Marketing Associate - Kevin Douglas
Resident Dramaturg - Jordan Lichtenheld
Land Acknowledgement
Every community owes its existence and vitality to generations from around the world that contributed their hopes, dreams and energy to making the history that led to this moment. Some of the people from the history of this spot were brought here against their will, some were drawn to leave their distant homes in hope of a better life and some have lived on this land for more generations than can be counted. Truth and acknowledgment are critical to building mutual respect and connection across all barriers of heritage and difference. We begin this effort to acknowledge what has been buried by honoring the truth.
Local Theater Company acknowledges, with deep respect, that we are located on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and Peoples. We pay respect to their elders both past and present. We ask that you consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration and settlement that bring us here today.
Appearing through an Agreement between Local Theater Company and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
