TICKETS
$10

About Dark Fest

We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on.

FEATURED 2019 PERFORMANCES
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART, PART III in the 56

ROBERT AND STEVE IN THE MACHINE
Written, Directed, and Designed by Erin Perry
Robert (Katharine Loughery) and Steve (Allison Akmajian) exist in a video game. And they want to get out. Desperately. They grapple with their existence and their friendship as they die, are reborn, and play the game over and over. Will they make it out alive? Will their friendship survive? And when all is said and done, is the hell they know better than the one they don’t?

Music by Kendall Perry
Featuring Allison Akmajian and Katharine Loughery
Special Thanks to Ian Fraser for production advice

AND WHO WILL FOLLOW RACHEL?
Written and Directed by Andrew Plimpton
Set deep underground, this play concerns a closed community that is forced to reckon with the presence of an outsider.

Featuring Emma Welch, Denali Thomas, Katie Spurgin, Amanda Campbell (Actors Equity/SAG), Andrew Duff (Actors Equity), Nick DiLeonardi
Stage Managed by Abbey Starling

SURGE
Written by Tanya Perez
Directed by Rebecca Aparicio

SURGE is about a couple going through a divorce stuck in the very last place they thought possible: a Florida motel room in the middle of a vicious hurricane.

Featuring Daniel Harray and Lorraine Mattox

IN TRAINING
Written by Rachael Carnes

Welcome to your first day of on-the-job training, in this hilarious romp through workplace culture, starring Yulia Baskina and Phoebe Leonard, directed (for the FOURTH time!) by Gregg Pica. That is a whole lotta darkness.

TICKETS
$10

We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on. SHOT IN THE DARK is Dark Fest's variety show of work all done with no lights from our grid.

PROGRAM B

EXHAUSTED
Written, Designed, and Performed by Jon DeGaetano

What does it mean to take our resources to their very limit and beyond? What happens when that resource is our very own mind and body? Exhausted is the beginning of an exploration into how we over extend both fossil fuels and our own endurance.

VICTORY
Created and Performed by: Daniel Burns, Olivia Vaughn Hern, Eben Hoffer, Dana Weintraub

Abandoned by her father, a girl travels to the end of the earth to try get him back. Dreams and reality begin to blur as she finds herself dogged by a mysterious beast, and she finds herself on a different kind of journey than she ever could have imagined. Created by Daniel Burns, Olivia Vaughn Hern, Eben Hoffer and Dana Weintraub, VICTORY uses music, shadow, and puppetry to create an intimate and lyrical storytelling experience.

Sound Design by Eben Hoffer and Scott MacDonald
Accompaniment by Noah Singer

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$5

Darkness covers the land, the people fear for their lives, hope is all but gone. There is one thing the people cling to: a legend. A legend of a great hero who will rise up and vanquish the darkness. A hero who will be remembered forever in as the savior of our world. That hero, is you! The Saga of the Shining Emblem is a one-of-a-kind improvised story-telling experience. Each night, one audience member is selected to be the hero of that nights story. They are guided through a fantastical adventure with one actor serving as the narrator, supporting characters, and anything else our hero should encounter. Our intrepid hero has one goal; to seek the Shining Emblem! an object of unimaginable power capable of granting one wish to whomever should find it! How they find it (or if they even bother to quest it at all) is totally up to them! It's like Dungeons & Dragons, only way less dice and way more silly. All accompanied by a live score! Will you return the light to this world? Or join with the darkness? The choice is yours! 

Created and Performed by Matthew Schott
Music by Sam Kessler
Technical Direction by Dylan James Amick

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$10

About Dark Fest

We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on.

FEATURED 2019 PERFORMANCES
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART, PART II in the 56

Monsters Beyond the Midnight Zone
By Lindsay Partain

Two scientists exploring the depths of the Mariana Trench are attacked by a tentacled monster, leaving them to fend for themselves in total darkness.

Additional Credits:

Directed by Karin Crighton

Sound Design by Brennan Staffieri

Produced by Franky Gonzalez

Danielle Adams as Romy

Sophie Moshofsky as Lea

d.ark/ness

Created by Eli Schleicher

Eucalyptus is dying and candles are burning and clouds are hanging between these three people. They can’t convince each other of much of anything, but they keep looking for some way to talk to each other. Maybe they’ll figure it out and make us all feel better.

Cast: Steph Seiden, Derek Speedy, Carla Troconis

The Three S’s of Scaring (A DEDTalk)

By S.A. Weingarten

Lucky you -- Stephen is known as a master of the macabre, and tonight he's here to pass that knowledge to you! At Stephen’s DEDTalk you will learn the 3 S's of Scaring while also experiencing them. Think you’re immune? Think again.

Additional Credits:

Director & Sound Design - Andi Lee Carter

Makeup Design - Audrey Lasicki

Costumes/Props Design - E.L. Hohn

Airdrop
Playwright and Tank associate Artist Kev Berry investigates. He investigates how something that happened to him at work happened to him and he investigates what it means to feel embarrassed and he investigates why it felt like such a mountain when it was really just a molehill.

TICKETS

$10

We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on. SHOT IN THE DARK is Dark Fest's variety show of work all done with no lights from our grid.

PROGRAM A

PROGRAM A

Surface Tension
Created and Performed by Liz Oakley
A solo performance of objects, bodies, and illumination, Surface Tension uses movement and puppetry to explore encounters between the inside and the outside.

Voicemail Symphony
Created by Travis Amiel
Voicemail Symphony is an interactive composition featuring my actual voicemail archive. featuring performances from my family, friends, doctor's offices, and spam agencies.

The Delay
Written and Directed by Emma Gometz
The Delay is a play about two subway trains stuck on the tracks, wondering what's stopped them. It's also about anxiety, fear, how we try to control our lives, and how much of that control is just in our heads.

TICKET
$10

About Dark Fest

We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on.

FEATURED 2019 PERFORMANCES
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART, PART I in the 56

SEVEN SECONDS OF LOVE
Written by Jake Schick
Directed by Shoshana Ehrenkranz
Seven Seconds of Love is about two people sentenced to life in prison, who determine how to live the rest of their lives, knowing they'll never see the outside world again.

Cast: RJ Christian, Jake Robbins, Bella Maxwell, Kendrick Eckman

I NAME YOU*
Written and Co-Produced by Rebecca Kane
Directed and Co-Produced by Taylor Thomson
Angela and Sophia have kidnapped and blindfolded a frat boy named Chris to give him a punishment equal to the sexual assault he committed on someone close to them. The problem is, as the night goes on, they’re not entirely sure they have the right frat boy, the right crime, or a proper punishment.

Fight Choreography by Leo Giannopoulos
Featuring Korra O'Neill, Madrid Vinarski, and Dominic Mangiocco

*Trigger/content warning for violence and talk of sexual assault)

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'Hi Mom!' is a new project created to amplify the voices of "the characters" of the current Climate Crisis.

Selections from 'Hi, Mom!'

Activist by Laura Delhauer
Performed by Nino Gurgenidze

Eulogy of the Hydrocarbon by Reed Arnold
Performed by Reed Arnold

Mama by Reed Arnold
Performed by Laura Delhauer

Directed by Jonathan Zautner & Laura Delhauer