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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
RUN ORDER
Crutchie, Go F**k Yourself (Part One), created and performed by Will Porter
Audience feedback interlude
This Is How I'm Crazy, created and performed by Kushi Beauchamp
Audience feedback interlude
LAUNDRY DAY, created and performed by David Gomez
Audience feedback interlude
All performances run approximately 20 minutes. Feel free to stick around following the performances for a post-event mingle.
Lighting Designer & Technician: Austin VanWinkle
>> Are you an artist interested in applying for a future Scratch Series? Click here to apply! <<
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
RUN ORDER
Crutchie, Go F**k Yourself (Part One), created and performed by Will Porter
Audience feedback interlude
This Is How I'm Crazy, created and performed by Kushi Beauchamp
Audience feedback interlude
LAUNDRY DAY, created and performed by David Gomez
Audience feedback interlude
All performances run approximately 20 minutes. Feel free to stick around following the performances for a post-event mingle.
Lighting Designer & Technician: Austin VanWinkle
>> Are you an artist interested in applying for a future Scratch Series? Click here to apply! <<
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Crutchie, Go F**k Yourself (Part One) |
Created and performed by Will Porter
Directed by JT Nagle
Costume Design by Kestrel Jurkiewicz-Miles
Accompanist: Caleb McCarrol
Singers: Dri Hernaez, Kushi Beauchamp, Collin O'Connor
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.
Directed by JT Nagle
Costume Design by Kestrel Jurkiewicz-Miles
Accompanist: Caleb McCarrol
Singers: Dri Hernaez, Kushi Beauchamp, Collin O'Connor
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... or noise.
- I haven’t written the rest of the play. What do you want to see happen next?
- Share words, phrases, or a moment that stuck out.
- What question(s) are you left with after seeing my piece?
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This Is How I'm Crazy |
Created and performed by Kushi Beauchamp
A seasonal journey of self discovery in the seemingly empty vacuum of a breakup. Is it possible to be your own soulmate? Would you like yourself enough to attempt it? Take a deep breath and lean in; you may encounter destruction, grief, hope, joy, and a little tiny voice that could help us survive the whole ordeal. * Audience members shouldn’t attempt to derive a hidden meaning from this story …period.
A seasonal journey of self discovery in the seemingly empty vacuum of a breakup. Is it possible to be your own soulmate? Would you like yourself enough to attempt it? Take a deep breath and lean in; you may encounter destruction, grief, hope, joy, and a little tiny voice that could help us survive the whole ordeal. * Audience members shouldn’t attempt to derive a hidden meaning from this story …period.
Kushi’s questions for you
- Describe the show in one word.
- How do you think your gender identity affected your ability to connect to the piece?
- What is one image or moment that will stick with you from this piece? Write or draw the moment.
- What's something -- a line, a story, a piece of information -- that you'd want to see added to this piece? What might help it to feel more complete?
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Laundry Day |
Created and performed by David Gomez
LAUNDRY DAY is a 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. Corridos, Racheros, and Pop Songs combine as I attempt to recall and reclaim all the things that I lost in the wash.
LAUNDRY DAY is a 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. Corridos, Racheros, and Pop Songs combine as I 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.
- Did any song feel like a singular story that could stand on its own? Which one(s)?
- Did any memory, thought, or feeling wash over you? Please feel free to share with me.
- How did the use of Spanish in the piece affect your experience?
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
A new cutting-edge live + digital arts incubator, borderlandsKC presents adventurous projects that expand 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.
Special Thanks
The staff and board of Charlotte Street Foundation, including Amy Kligman, Pat Alexander, Hope-Lian Vinson, Laura Blumenberg, and Boi Boy; Reel & Event Videographer Anna Walters; Kyle Mullins; Ahafia Jurkiewecz-Miles, Brad Cox, Katie Crawford, Andrew Cotlar; UMKC Theatre Department
Applications still open for August & October Scratch Nights
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