We’re all heroes when we work the Cheese Shift at the Park Slope Food Co-Op. There might be a corpse in the cooler, but we’re all too polite to talk about it. Part satire, part slasher, Homofermenters follows the Friday 6AM cheese shift as its members navigate co-operation, the collapsing planet, polyamory (kinda), and how to cut through a human-sized wheel of parmesan.
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Homofermenters Or, The Park Slope Co-Op Play will stream live from Ars Nova on June 25 @ 7pm on Ars Nova Supra. Following the live stream, you’ll be able to watch the show on-demand for up to a year. Get a cancel-anytime $15/mo subscription to stream live or on-demand.
Madison Fiedler is a Brooklyn-based playwright from North Carolina. Plays include SPAY (Concord Theatricals, 2024; world premiere with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, 2022; M. Elizabeth Osborn Award winner; Jeff Award for Best New Work and Blackburn Prize nominee; Kilroys List; Princess Grace and Jane Chambers Award runner-up) and SCREECH OWL (finalist: Leah Ryan Fund, Playwrights Realm’s Writing Fellowship, Theater J’s Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize). Recent work has been developed with Studio Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, BEDLAM, Atlantic Theater Company, and others. Residencies: Willapa Bay AiR, Roundabout, Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. BA: Northwestern University.
Francesca Sabel is a NYC-based director specializing in new play development. Her work tries to be easy to enter and difficult to leave, emphasizing off-kilter rhythms, uncanny architectures, and structural surprise. In addition to developing her own work at venues like the Atlantic Theater Company, BEDLAM, Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, and New York City Center, she has assisted (mostly on world-premieres) for directors including Caitlin Sullivan, Knud Adams, and Steve Broadnax. Previously, she led casting and community engagement as Studio Theatre’s Creative Producer. She is a member of the TAG, the Tank’s artist group. BA: Brown University.
Celebrating 42 years acting in all media. Member AEA, SAG-AFTRA, & The Actors’ Center. NY: Clubbed Thumb, Roundabout, Circle in the Square, MTC, Vineyard, WPA. Regional: 40 plays – resident company member at Trinity Rep in works by Durang, Ibsen, Orton, Shakepeare, Moliere, Ayckbourn & Feydaux as well as world premieres. Directors include Sam Pinkleton, Adrian Hall, Richard Jenkins, Oskar Eustis, Ann Bogart, Tina Landau, Chris Ashley, David Warren, Pam Berlin, Sean Peknic & Peter Gerety, Animation: Voice & spirit of hipster icon Judy Funnie on Doug (Nickelodeon, ABC/Disney). TV: Clickbait (Netflix), Orange is the New Black, Blacklist, Younger, New Amsterdam, Mrs Fletcher & Living With Yourself.
Annie Fang just played a monk in Usus (Clubbed Thumb). Other New York credits include Chairs (Clubbed Thumb), Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater), SHHHH (Atlantic Theater Company). Select regional: Jennifer Who Is Leaving (Round House Theatre), Thrive, Or What You Will and Twelfth Night (American Shakespeare Center), SHIP (Azuka Theatre), Man of God (InterAct Theatre). Her favorite cheese is currently Midnight Moon by Cypress Grove. IG: @thefatpecan. fang-annie.com
Kai Heath (she/her) hails from Harlem, New York. She has a deep passion for new plays and is excited to work with Ars Nova. Favorite Off-Broadway credits include: Soldier in Mary Gets Hers (The Playwrights Realm), Kofa in Amani (National Black Theatre), Leticia in Blooms (Ensemble Studio Theater), The Rowdy in On Sugarland (New York Theater Workshop, directed by Whitney White), Messenger (The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, directed by Kenny Leon). Regional credits: Sade in Furloughs Paradise (The Alliance Theater), Averie in Dot (People’s Light Theater, directed by Colman Domingo). instagram: Harlemkai
Merritt Janson is a NYC-based actor devoted to developing new work. She has originated roles in Robert Woodruff’s Notes From Underground and Autumn Sonata (Yale Rep, La Jolla, TFANA); Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine (Two River); Robert O’Hara’s Built (59E59); and Daniel Fish’s House for Sale (Transport Group), among others. An Off-Broadway regular, Merritt has also performed at TFANA (Julius Caesar, Sir Michael Boyd’s Tamburlaine the Great, Measure for Measure); The Public (Richard II w/WNYC, A Midsummer Night’s Dream); and Red Bull Theater (Coriolanus). Her screen credits include television series and films on Apple TV+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Showtime, NBC Universal, CBS and ABC.
Maaike Laanstra-Corn is a New York City-based actor. Recent credits include When The Other Mary Celeste Sank (WP Theater), Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California (The Tank), Button Lake Band Camp (Clubbed Thumb), Me and Who (LPAC Rough Draft Festival) and Ms. Lily (Clubbed Thumb). Additionally, she has had the pleasure of developing new work with/at Bedlam, The Brick, Clubbed Thumb, Workshop Theater, and more!! BA: Brown University, Instagram: @_mcorn.
Liva Pierce is a comedian and actor living in New York. They perform all over the city doing stand-up, sketch, and theater. Currently, you can see them perform with their sketch group called DUKES at Union Hall in Park Slope, right down the street from the co-op.
Jessie is a New York based scenic designer who loves finding new visual forms to tell dynamic stories through collaboration. Originally from South Florida, Jessie is a graduate of Northwestern University majoring in Theatre and Art History, in the Theatrical Design Module. She worked as a freelance scenic designer in Chicago before moving to New York. Jessie is motivated by curiosity, a passion for learning, and the thrill of collaboratively crafting striking images. Jessie is currently an MFA Candidate at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
Jonah Bobilin is a theatrical lighting designer originally from Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. They are fascinated by the spectator/performer encounter and stories that examine the important contradictions of our society, and which induce the audience to enact meaningful change after leaving the theatre. Jonah has designed at in Lighting Design from the Hawai‘i State Theatre Council. Jonah was the associate lighting designer for “Stereophonic” on Broadway, with additional associate/assistant lighting design credits at Seattle Rep, Playwrights Horizons, and others. Since 2021, Jonah has proudly served on the Executive Board of Design Action, an intergenerational coalition of BIPOC and white designers working to end racial inequities in the North American Theatrevenues including the Hawaii Theatre, Queens Theatre, and Mānoa Valley and has received two Poʻokela Awards for Excellence.
Michael Rogerson is a sound designer, director, and producer — he’s the founder of Silencio, a company producing site-specific theatre projects. With Silencio, he directed Simon Longman’s Gundog (produced in partnership with CultureLab LIC), Marius von Mayenburg’s The Dog, the Night, and the Knife (produced in partnership with Fulton Street Collective), and produced the Chicago premiere of Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion. He graduated from Northwestern University, trained with SITI Company, and has worked with Albany Park Theatre Project, Third Rail Projects, and Steep Theatre, among others. During the pandemic, he directed All the Way Down this Time, his first short film.
Maddy Rosaler is a producer, costume designer, and stylist based in Brooklyn. Credits include: The 24 Hour Plays at The New Victory, Cooking With Kathryn at The Elysian, OFFICER SCOTT: Too Much Isn’t Enough at Brooklyn Art Haus, The Object Movement Puppetry Festival at The Center at West Park, Three Scenes In the Life of a Trotskyist at The Tank, The 24 Hour Plays: Broadway, The Old Man and the Sea at ASU Gammage, The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, Trade/Mary Motorhead at LA Opera, and The Old Man and The Sea at MASS MoCA. @maddyrosaler
This show will take place at Ars Nova, located at 511 W 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Seating is general admission and first-come first-served. So, the earlier you arrive at the theater, the more choice you’ll have about where you sit! (Bonus: cheapest drinks in Midtown are at Bars Nova!)
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Tix to this show are Name Your Price starting at $5, meaning you decide what you pay! Best of all, when you name your price, 100% of the single ticket revenue is passed on directly to the show’s lead artists! You can learn more about What’s Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price Tix by visiting our How We Do It page.
If a performance is sold out, you can join a standby line for day-of-show tix made available by minute cancellations and no-shows. Standby will begin 1 hour prior to curtain and will form outsideFolks from the standby line will be admitted into the show on a rolling basis as availability is confirmed. Standby tix are name-your-price starting at $5 + fees.
Additionally, Supra is never sold out! If you can’t make the show in-person, you can always stream online for only $15/mo, which gets you unlimited streaming access to performances from the last year. You can cancel your membership anytime by emailing contact@arsnovanyc.com.
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We ask that you stay home if you aren’t feeling well or are awaiting the results of a COVID test. Please let us know prior to your ticketed performance, and we will work with you to find a solution if you’re unable to attend.
We welcome and encourage mask-wearing to protect yourself and others. However, as mask mandates have lifted and city, state and federal guidelines have changed, we will not be requiring them at performances.
We no longer require proof of vaccination, but we strongly encourage all audience members to get vaccinated and boosted in accordance with public health guidelines.
Our staff will clean and sanitize the theater and common areas and we’ll continue to provide hand sanitizer for your personal use.
Signage is posted in all spaces encouraging washing or sanitizing hands frequently.
Ars Nova is uncensored. We provide content advisories — to the best of our ability — to inform audiences when shows contain racial violence, racist language, sexual violence or nudity. We provide information about this type of content in advance, based on our core values, so that each audience member can make an informed decision about if and how they’d like to engage with that content. We welcome artists to share additional information about their shows based on their own core values.
Ars Nova is wheelchair accessible. If you wish or need to remain in your wheelchair throughout the show, our staff will remove the theater chair. This can be done by letting us know your needs/plans in advance; just email Declan Zhang. It can also be done without prior notice when you arrive! If you wish to transfer to the theater seat from your wheelchair, we are happy to store your wheelchair or motorized mobility aid in the lobby during the performance. The House Manager will return your mobility device to you at the end of the performance as this show has no intermission.
About 25% of the seating is on the ground floor of the theater and does not require using stairs to access. There are five six-inch steps to get into the building.
All remaining seats require no less than one and no more than three steps to access.
Licensed service animals (any dogs that are trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities) are welcome at Ars Nova. They must rest in your seating area throughout the performance and are unable to occupy the aisle. Please bring proof of certification or a license for your service animal and be prepared to present it to the House Manager upon request. You can send advance notice to Declan Zhang, which is appreciated, but not required.
Our bathrooms are stalled, all gender restrooms – everyone is welcome to use any bathroom of their choice. We have two single-person restrooms in the lobby; with the wheelchair accessible option located right outside the theater on the first floor (doors 7 feet 10 inches x 3 feet 10.5 inches).
We have space that can be made to offer privacy for feeding should you need at any time. See the House Manager onsite and they will arrange a comfortable space, with storage and refrigeration for your materials.
The audience seating locations could be in, around and throughout the playing area. Performers will be within 3’ of you.
The seating is a combination of chairs.
Black Chairs with back: 19” wide x 32.25” high x 21.75” deep with a 500lb capacity
Black Counter height: 16.5” wide x 38” high x 18” deep with a 500lb capacity
The doors for entry into the building are 7 feet 10.5 inches x 3 feet 7 inches (external) and 7 feet 10 inches x feet 10.5 inches (internal).
Box Office height is 3 feet 6 inches and the Bar height is 3 feet 8.5 inches.
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