NEW NOISE is a performance ensemble from New Orleans, LA. We make new plays.

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Rm. 209 at the Studio at Colton

After the war We saw the wreckage from above Heard the faint strains of fiddles bowed Echoes carried in the smoke A high and lonesome sound Not a bulldozer Not the low rumble of earthmovers moving earth The earth is moved The earth is unmoved The war is over Due for production winter of 09.

As theater artists, so often we build pieces in isolation, away from the eyes of an audience. How strange, since our art exists only in public, only when it is seen and shared. Sound Off! is an opportunity for a few local theater artists to share their work while it is still in development—to expose it to those prying public eyes so that it might grow richer and fuller in their reflection. The evening will be composed of four performance excerpts, 10-15 minutes a piece, each followed by structured feedback. Ideally Sound Off! will be a ground for cross-pollination. By bringing the work out into the open, we can find excitement and opportunity in each other's ideas and collaborative potential. Sound Off! An Evening of Works-In-Progress Monday, July 13th, 2009 Convergence Center for the Arts 6100 Canal Blvd. Participating artists to be announced soon!

State of the Nation is an annual art and performance festival that brings together artists from across the United States who are committed to addressing social, political, and economic issues facing the Gulf South and the country-at-large. The 2009 festival explored the intersection of art and activism around the specific theme of a tipping point. It featured more than 100 artists from the Gulf Coast, Baltimore, D.C., Maryland, California, Hawaii, New York and beyond. NEW NOISE was a first-time organizer on the festival. We got to work with ArtSpot Productions, Creative Forces, Junebug Productions, Mondo Bizarro, M.U.G.A.B.E.E., Patois: NOIHRFF, The Renaissance Project and the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center. As part of the festival, NEW NOISE member Joanna Russo performed Mudbeef Anthem, an original series of short poems, and Phil Cramer appeared in Lisa Shattuck's Kiss the Spoon. More info at www.sonfestival.org

Maybe You Can't Tell is a raucous, experimental new performance that deals with the dissonance between colliding bodies, all pitched out of tune and searching desperately for a common song. Told in rules, apologies and snapshot encounters, interspersed with the story of a lost, wandering God, Maybe You Can’t Tell could even be called an introduction to life on earth. Premiered March 6-15 2009 The Old Ironworks, Piety at Chartres New Orleans, LA Featuring: Will Bowling, Vignette Ching, Kat Johnston, Chris Kaminstein and Andrew Vaught Written by Anna O'Donoghue and directed by Joanna Russo Design by Phil Cramer, Selena Poznak and Austin Riotte We developed Maybe You Can't Tell beginning in September 2008. A workshop performance, titled For You to Find, was given on December 5th at Fringe/Prospect.1 venue On Piety. Over 50 visitors braved the cold and then stayed afterwards for Jambalaya and music. After an extensive feedback session and a month off for reworking, we began again on what would become Maybe You Can't Tell.

Vigils is an original play about living in the frozen moment of disappearance. Visually stark and yet striking, lyrically beautiful and yet brash - Vigils plays fast and loose with classical mythologies, weaving them together into a bold new story. Penelope waits for Odysseus' return as her city flees and her walls crumble and bleach like dried bones. Her servants circle and peck, subsumed into their daily routine. A lost-at-sea goddess lurks in their telephone booth. Death sails the eroding seas, waiting for his moment. And a prophet arrives - the death-defying Enoch - in a final disappearing act that leaves nothing as it was before. Premiered August 7-17, 2008 Convergence Center for the Arts, Magazine at Jackson New Orleans, LA Featuring: Jaki Bradley (Penelope), Elizabeth Bryant (Serving Girl), Conner Marx (Ferryman), Austin Riotte (Enoch), Joanna Russo (Athena), Jonathon Slaughter (Death) Directed by Phil Cramer Assistant Directed by Zoe Hyman-Levy Video on Vimeo. Review by David Cuthbert August 15 in the Times-Picayune.