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Scratch Night
Thursday, June 2nd
WHAT IS SCRATCH NIGHT?
An eclectic salon of works-in-progress from KC's most exciting generative artists, alongside a unique audience feedback framework.
AN EVENING OF SOLO PERFORMER-CREATORS
TONIGHT'S RUN ORDER:
Crutchie, Go F**k Yourself (Part One)
Created and performed by Will Porter
Run Time: approx. 20 minutes, plus audience feedback interlude
This Is How I'm Crazy
Created and performed by Kushi Beauchamp
Run Time: approx. 20 minutes, plus audience feedback interlude
LAUNDRY DAY
Created and performed by David Gomez
Run Time: approx. 20 minutes, plus audience feedback interlude
Feel free to stick around following the performances for a post-event mingle.
>> Are you an artist interested in applying for a future Scratch Series? Click here. <<
An eclectic salon of works-in-progress from KC's most exciting generative artists, alongside a unique audience feedback framework.
AN EVENING OF SOLO PERFORMER-CREATORS
TONIGHT'S RUN ORDER:
Crutchie, Go F**k Yourself (Part One)
Created and performed by Will Porter
Run Time: approx. 20 minutes, plus audience feedback interlude
This Is How I'm Crazy
Created and performed by Kushi Beauchamp
Run Time: approx. 20 minutes, plus audience feedback interlude
LAUNDRY DAY
Created and performed by David Gomez
Run Time: approx. 20 minutes, plus audience feedback interlude
Feel free to stick around following the performances for a post-event mingle.
>> Are you an artist interested in applying for a future Scratch Series? Click here. <<
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Crutchie, Go F**k Yourself (Part One) |
Created and performed by Will Porter
Extra Extra, the Newsies won the strike! Yay! But Crutchie has a new dream, a fresh start in Santa Fe with his forever best friend slash bedfellow Jack Kelly. After all, he’s been singing about it for long enough. What unfolds sucks for good old Crutchie, but ultimately leads to his own journey of self discovery, sexual awakening, and revenge on the Walt Disney Company for making him such an abysmally lackluster sidekick.
Extra Extra, the Newsies won the strike! Yay! But Crutchie has a new dream, a fresh start in Santa Fe with his forever best friend slash bedfellow Jack Kelly. After all, he’s been singing about it for long enough. What unfolds sucks for good old Crutchie, but ultimately leads to his own journey of self discovery, sexual awakening, and revenge on the Walt Disney Company for making him such an abysmally lackluster sidekick.
Will's questions for you
- Describe the piece in one word.
- TBD
- TBD
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This Is How I'm Crazy |
Created and performed by Kushi Beauchamp
A vulnerable and sharply honest solo show built from journal entries as I went through a life-changing break up several years ago. I move through four seasons of personal discovery, with a brief movement piece between each season. The epilogue reveals that the piece was rooted in my relationship with my menstrual cycle and discusses the stigma of speaking openly about our periods.
A vulnerable and sharply honest solo show built from journal entries as I went through a life-changing break up several years ago. I move through four seasons of personal discovery, with a brief movement piece between each season. The epilogue reveals that the piece was rooted in my relationship with my menstrual cycle and discusses the stigma of speaking openly about our periods.
Kushi’s questions for you
- Describe the piece in one word.
- TBD
- TBD
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Laundry Day |
Created and performed by David Gomez
A queer cycle of songs that tumble together as I attempt to iron out the details of faith, friendship, and forbidden love. Every song is inspired by a missing piece of clothing, a local legend, or a long lost lover. In this cycle of songs corrido-rancheros, boozy torch songs, and musica de plancha tumble together as I play and sing on accordion, keyboard, or drum machine. Join me as I start the cycle and attempt to recall and reclaim all the things that I lost in the wash.
A queer cycle of songs that tumble together as I attempt to iron out the details of faith, friendship, and forbidden love. Every song is inspired by a missing piece of clothing, a local legend, or a long lost lover. In this cycle of songs corrido-rancheros, boozy torch songs, and musica de plancha tumble together as I play and sing on accordion, keyboard, or drum machine. Join me as I start the cycle and attempt to recall and reclaim all the things that I lost in the wash.
David’s questions for you
- Describe the piece in one word.
- TBD
- TBD
About the Artists
Will Porter
Will is a first year graduate acting student at UMKC. He has been working primarily in national touring companies, regional, and off Broadway musical theatre productions around the country for the past decade. He is the choreographer and associate director of Never Sleep Alone, an Interactive Musical Seminar aboard The Scarlet Lady and The Valiant Lady for Virgin Voyages.
Kushi Beauchamp
Kushi is a Level 9 Goober. She cries every day, and she’s darn proud of it. She loves intersectional feminism, cancelling plans, and making new work. After receiving her BA in Theatre from Lewis & Clark College, Kushi has performed locally and abroad, recently appearing in and facilitating a bilingual production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Parrabbola) at the International Shakespeare Festival Craiova in Romania. Credits include Cymbeline (UMKC), The Chekov Symposium (Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble), and The Events (Third Rail Repertory Theatre). Kushi is currently pursuing her MFA in Acting at UMKC, and would like to pet your dog.
David Gomez
A Chicane theatre artist who hails from Kansas City, MO, David is currently developing Shoot For The Moon with John-Michael Lyles through support from the Dramatist Guild Fellows Program, and as one of Musical Theatre Factory’s MAKERS for 2021. Upcoming projects include the lyrics to Miss Havisham's Wedding, the libretto for Sugarplum, and the score to Laundry Day: a musical mural. In NYC, his music and lyrics have debuted at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Don’t Tell Mama, and Birdland. David received an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU in 2016. David is invested in continuing the tradition of rancheros y corridos which use lyrics and music to celebrate Latine stories.
Will is a first year graduate acting student at UMKC. He has been working primarily in national touring companies, regional, and off Broadway musical theatre productions around the country for the past decade. He is the choreographer and associate director of Never Sleep Alone, an Interactive Musical Seminar aboard The Scarlet Lady and The Valiant Lady for Virgin Voyages.
Kushi Beauchamp
Kushi is a Level 9 Goober. She cries every day, and she’s darn proud of it. She loves intersectional feminism, cancelling plans, and making new work. After receiving her BA in Theatre from Lewis & Clark College, Kushi has performed locally and abroad, recently appearing in and facilitating a bilingual production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Parrabbola) at the International Shakespeare Festival Craiova in Romania. Credits include Cymbeline (UMKC), The Chekov Symposium (Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble), and The Events (Third Rail Repertory Theatre). Kushi is currently pursuing her MFA in Acting at UMKC, and would like to pet your dog.
David Gomez
A Chicane theatre artist who hails from Kansas City, MO, David is currently developing Shoot For The Moon with John-Michael Lyles through support from the Dramatist Guild Fellows Program, and as one of Musical Theatre Factory’s MAKERS for 2021. Upcoming projects include the lyrics to Miss Havisham's Wedding, the libretto for Sugarplum, and the score to Laundry Day: a musical mural. In NYC, his music and lyrics have debuted at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Don’t Tell Mama, and Birdland. David received an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU in 2016. David is invested in continuing the tradition of rancheros y corridos which use lyrics and music to celebrate Latine stories.
About borderlandsKC
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A new cutting-edge live + digital arts incubator, borderlandsKC presents adventurous projects expanding Kansas City's spectrum for artistic invention. Led by Jay Gilman, recently-returned KC native, Jay previously spent more than a decade as a curator, producer, and civic practice artist in Minneapolis and Philly.
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