[Brooklyn]

Performances by Constance DeJong & David Greenspan
December 13, 2016, 7:00 pm
at Bam Fisher, Sharp Lower Lobby

Wendy’s Subway is pleased to partner with BAM this fall for Next Wave Art, offering audiences the chance to read, write, and engage with selections from our extensive collection of historical and contemporary print publications. The Reading Room will include works on theater, dance, performance theory, and contemporary poetics and showcase titles curated by Next Wave artists performing in the BAM Fisher building, rotated monthly. Constance DeJong is an American artist, writer and performer, producing fiction texts and language/image based work for performance and theater, audio and video installations. She has permanent audio installations in Beacon, NY, London and Seattle.  DeJong has twice collaborated with Tony Oursler on live performances; was a collaborator on Super Vision, A Builders Association production (2005); librettist for the opera, Satyagraha, composer Philip Glass. Her current work includes NightWriters a performance and book project with Triple Canopy and Radios, a series of digitally rei-engineered vintage radios that play ten tracks performed by DeJong, Jim Fletcher and others. Her first book, Modern Love, will be re-issued in spring 2017 by Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse. David Greenspan has performed solo renditions of Barry Conners’ 1925 comedy The Patsy (Transport Group), Gertrude Stein’s lecture Plays (The Foundry Theatre), a program of Stein lectures and a playlet Composition...Masterpieces...Identity (Target Margin Theater) and his solo plays Jonas (Transport Group), The Myopia (The Foundry Theatre) and The Argument (Target Margin Theater).  He has acted in his plays Dead Mother (NYSF/Public Theater), She Stoops to Comedy (Playwrights Horizons), Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons) and I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees (Abrons Arts Center).  Additional acting credits include premieres by David Adjmi, Sarah Ruhl, Adam Rapp, Terrence McNally, Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman – and his association with the work of director David Herskovits at Target Margin Theater.  He enjoys close collaborative relationships with directors Leigh Silverman and Jack Cummings III and is the recipient of Guggenheim, Lortel and Fox fellowships, Alpert and Lambda Literary awards and five OBIES. More info here.