Join us for this staged reading of company member Kelsey Mesa’s brand new play.
Join us for this staged reading of company member Kelsey Mesa’s brand new play.
March 7th, at 8:00pm
at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
545 7th Street SE, WDC 20003
March 7th, at 8:00pm
at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
545 7th Street SE, WDC 20003
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Oversteegen sisters joined the Dutch Resistance at 16 and 14 years old. Truus and Freddie Oversteegen became spies, saboteurs, and assassins. Their staggering story of bravery against impossible odds inspires all who hear it.
Taffety Punk has been workshopping this play with our company members for half a year, and we invite you to join us on this next important step to hear it aloud. Additionally, we've invited designers to work with us and let he story inspire conceptual designs for set, lights, costumes, and sound.
Taffety Punk's Generator project exists to give our company members the time and space they need to dream, workshop, and create new works. Generator #26 is a new play by Kelsey Mesa (author of the award-winning La Salpêtrière.)
Company member Kelsey Mesa is a playwright, director, and she is very active in the development of new talent across the country. Her play, La Salpêtrière, was produced by Taffety Punk Theatre Company and directed by Danielle A. Drakes in October 2023. It won a Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Production of a Play. Kelsey’s directing credits include Crimes of the Heart at Catholic University, Fefu and Her Friends at the University of Maryland, College Park; The Pavilion, The Magi, and Wish List at the Hub Theatre; and Othello, Antigonick, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, Riot Grrrls The Trojan Women, Charm, and dREAMtRIPPIN’ at Taffety Punk Theatre Company and many many more.
Playwright Kelsey Mesa
March 7, 8pm
Feb 12—28
Taffety Punk brings you the story of Beowulf as it was meant to be told - in the mead hall. Like the bards of old, Marcus Kyd narrates this heroic saga in a pop-up bar.
Directed by company member Chris Curtis, the evening's minimalism yields epic depth in this retelling of our oldest surviving English story.
Beowulf, A Retelling is approximately 90 minutes long, with no intermission.
Doors open at 7:15pm for evening shows.
Doors open at 1:15pm for matinees.
at the
Feb 12—28
Taffety Punk brings you the story of Beowulf as it was meant to be told - in the mead hall. Like the bards of old, Marcus Kyd narrates this heroic saga in a pop-up bar.
at the
Beowulf, a Retelling is approximately 90 minutes long
Directed by company member Chris Curtis, the evening's minimalism yields epic depth in this retelling of our oldest surviving English story.
Beowulf, A Retelling is approximately 90 minutes long, with no intermission.
Doors open at 7:15pm for evening shows.
Doors open at 1:15pm for matinees.
Beowulf, a Retelling. Marcus Kyd as the Storyteller. Production photos by Olivia Weise.
Beowulf, a Retelling. Marcus Kyd as the Storyteller. Production photos by Olivia Weise.
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A love story like no other.
Often emulated, never equaled.
Taffety Punk presents the story of a hero who fights for right, defends the weak, and inspires all to see and take delight in the beauty of the world. This is the hero Edmond Rostand gives us in Cyrano de Bergerac, a master of swords and words, plucked from the deep bench of classical French history to thrill audiences the world over.
Director Lise Bruneau brings this uplifting epic to life with just five actors. Kimberly Gilbert plays the titular hero.
at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
545 7th Street SE, WDC 20003
Sep 25 — Oct 11
There will be no late seating for this event.
If you do not arrive by the time the show starts,
you will not be able to get in.
Starring Taffety Punk company members Kimberly Gilbert, Tonya Beckman, Dan Crane, with guest artists Fabiolla da Silva, and Gary DuBreuil. With lights by Elijah Thomas; costumes by Elizabeth Morton. Sound design by Matthew Nielson. Fight choreography by Lorraine Ressegger-Slone.
Heads up: there will be some pre-show activity in the lobby. The fun begins five or ten minutes before curtain. If you miss a bit of this, or cannot see all of it, please do not worry; it is not crucial and designed to be sporadic. The actors will then usher you into the Black Box Theatre where the actual show begins.
A love story like no other.
Often emulated, never equaled.
Taffety Punk presents the story of a hero who fights for right, defends the weak, and inspires all to see and take delight in the beauty of the world. This is the hero Edmond Rostand gives us in Cyrano de Bergerac, a master of swords and words, plucked from the deep bench of classical French history to thrill audiences the world over.
Director Lise Bruneau brings this uplifting epic to life with just five actors. Kimberly Gilbert plays the titular hero.
at the
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
545 7th Street SE, WDC 20003
Sep 25 — Oct 11
There will be no late seating for this event.
If you do not arrive by the time the show starts, you will not be able to get in.
Starring Taffety Punk company members Kimberly Gilbert, Tonya Beckman, Dan Crane, with guest artists Fabiolla da Silva, and Gary DuBreuil. With lights by Elijah Thomas; costumes by Elizabeth Morton. Sound design by Matthew Nielson. Fight choreography by Lorraine Ressegger-Slone.
Heads up: there will be some pre-show activity in the lobby. The fun begins five or ten minutes before curtain. If you miss a bit of this, or cannot see all of it, please do not worry; it is not crucial and designed to be sporadic. The actors will then usher you into the Black Box Theatre where the actual show begins.
✰ ✰ Bring some punk work home. ✰ ✰
original works by our company members
✰ Bring some punk work home. ✰
original works by our company members
Company Member Teresa Spencer’s book is out now!
Company Member Teresa Spencer’s book is out now!
TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING:
Prose Poems to My Almost Loves
is a collection of love poems to catcallers, followers home, pervs online, and other sundry unsavory types.
Alongside pinup-style illustrations by Sydney Schwindt, each poem is based on real encounters between women and harassers and gives the lie to the excuse, “It was only a joke.”
In this collection of hilarious meet-cutes, the joke is on the jerks.
is a collection of love poems to catcallers, followers home, pervs online, and other sundry unsavory types.
Alongside pinup-style illustrations by Sydney Schwindt, each poem is based on real encounters between women and harassers and gives the lie to the excuse, “It was only a joke.”
In this collection of hilarious meet-cutes, the joke is on the jerks.
“Too Like the Lightning is a dark delight. Spencer writes like a vampire bites — with fanged and ferocious wit."
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Too Like the Lightning is a dark delight. Spencer writes like a vampire bites — with fanged and ferocious wit."
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
COMING SOON
Check out these works from our Company members:
Taffety Punk & Mudroom Films present
The Surround
Directed by Emily Marquet, Movement directed by Erin Mitchell Nelson
Performances by Omar D. Cruz with Ben Ashworth, Sam Boo, De”R”ray “Ravo” Brown, Erika Brosnihan, Omar D. Cruz, Rafael A. Escobar, and Adrian Kamal. Choreography by Erin Mitchell Nelson with Omar D. Cruz. Music by Ryan Nelson. Director of Photography: Emily Marquet, 1st Assistant Camera: Jack Salmon, Gaffer: Colegrove Heller,Key Grip & Colorist: Peter Chun. A massive thank you to Andy and Amy Neal, and to Ben Ashworth and Finding a Line.
a short film by Emily Marquet & Erin Mitchell Nelson
The Surround
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Company members Chad Clark and Erin Mitchell Nelson are featured on Bandcamp Daily. Read and listen here.
A comprehensive and thorough look at their work throughout the pandemic, Erin and Chad discuss Beauty Pill’s creative drive and last year’s three releases, including the score for Taffety Punk's dance play suicide.chat.room: Sorry You’re Here.
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This is a project we come back to from time to time. And it is a great preview for what is to come. Stay with us. There will be more and more soon.
Tulips
by Sylvia Plath
Read by Lise Bruneau
Choreography by Erin Mitchell Nelson
Music and sound by Marcus Kyd
Directed by Joel David Santner
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