When Lighting The Voids by Jon Bernson
Part of Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018, presented by Playwrights Foundation
July 22 at 2pm
Buy tickets at playwrightsfoundation.org
About the play
The dangers of working in the voids on massive ships are well known but often ignored by the titans of industry, the government, and even the workers themselves. An investigation into the causes of a tragic explosion at a Gulf Coast shipyard in 2009 revealed how blatant and systematic the disregard for human life can be. When Lighting The Voids is a commission by StoryWorks: a documentary theater project from the Center for Investigative Reporting which experiments with new approaches to the portrayal of factual events.
Director: Lauren English
Dramaturg: Roweena Mackay
Producers: Jean and Fergus Bordewich
About Jon Bernson
Jon Bernson is a playwright, musician and interdisciplinary artist from San Francisco. He is a former artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum and a current member of the RPI program at Playwrights Foundation. Bernson’s prolific and varied works tend to be site-specific and exploratory. In Distant Future Symposium, he fuses science fiction, live music and repurposed YouTube footage. PDX to OAK is an interactive play, written for six actors and fourteen passengers on an overnight train trip from Portland to Oakland. Bernson’s StoryWorks play Overnighters is Over re-imagines Jesse Moss’s Sundance award-winning film as an immersive multimedia experience. Exray’s Logbook is an audiobook which is comprised of twelve pirate broadcasts that interrupted the programming of international television stations between 1986 and 2009.
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Part of Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018, presented by Playwrights Foundation
July 22 at 2pm
Buy tickets at playwrightsfoundation.org
About the play
The dangers of working in the voids on massive ships are well known but often ignored by the titans of industry, the government, and even the workers themselves. An investigation into the causes of a tragic explosion at a Gulf Coast shipyard in 2009 revealed how blatant and systematic the disregard for human life can be. When Lighting The Voids is a commission by StoryWorks: a documentary theater project from the Center for Investigative Reporting which experiments with new approaches to the portrayal of factual events.
Director: Lauren English
Dramaturg: Roweena Mackay
Producers: Jean and Fergus Bordewich
About Jon Bernson
Jon Bernson is a playwright, musician and interdisciplinary artist from San Francisco. He is a former artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum and a current member of the RPI program at Playwrights Foundation. Bernson’s prolific and varied works tend to be site-specific and exploratory. In Distant Future Symposium, he fuses science fiction, live music and repurposed YouTube footage. PDX to OAK is an interactive play, written for six actors and fourteen passengers on an overnight train trip from Portland to Oakland. Bernson’s StoryWorks play Overnighters is Over re-imagines Jesse Moss’s Sundance award-winning film as an immersive multimedia experience. Exray’s Logbook is an audiobook which is comprised of twelve pirate broadcasts that interrupted the programming of international television stations between 1986 and 2009.
When Lighting The Voids by Jon Bernson
Part of Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018, presented by Playwrights Foundation
July 22 at 2pm
Buy tickets at playwrightsfoundation.org
About the play
The dangers of working in the voids on massive ships are well known but often ignored by the titans of industry, the government, and even the workers themselves. An investigation into the causes of a tragic explosion at a Gulf Coast shipyard in 2009 revealed how blatant and systematic the disregard for human life can be. When Lighting The Voids is a commission by StoryWorks: a documentary theater project from the Center for Investigative Reporting which experiments with new approaches to the portrayal of factual events.
Director: Lauren English
Dramaturg: Roweena Mackay
Producers: Jean and Fergus Bordewich
About Jon Bernson
Jon Bernson is a playwright, musician and interdisciplinary artist from San Francisco. He is a former artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum and a current member of the RPI program at Playwrights Foundation. Bernson’s prolific and varied works tend to be site-specific and exploratory. In Distant Future Symposium, he fuses science fiction, live music and repurposed YouTube footage. PDX to OAK is an interactive play, written for six actors and fourteen passengers on an overnight train trip from Portland to Oakland. Bernson’s StoryWorks play Overnighters is Over re-imagines Jesse Moss’s Sundance award-winning film as an immersive multimedia experience. Exray’s Logbook is an audiobook which is comprised of twelve pirate broadcasts that interrupted the programming of international television stations between 1986 and 2009.
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Part of Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018, presented by Playwrights Foundation
July 22 at 2pm
Buy tickets at playwrightsfoundation.org
About the play
The dangers of working in the voids on massive ships are well known but often ignored by the titans of industry, the government, and even the workers themselves. An investigation into the causes of a tragic explosion at a Gulf Coast shipyard in 2009 revealed how blatant and systematic the disregard for human life can be. When Lighting The Voids is a commission by StoryWorks: a documentary theater project from the Center for Investigative Reporting which experiments with new approaches to the portrayal of factual events.
Director: Lauren English
Dramaturg: Roweena Mackay
Producers: Jean and Fergus Bordewich
About Jon Bernson
Jon Bernson is a playwright, musician and interdisciplinary artist from San Francisco. He is a former artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum and a current member of the RPI program at Playwrights Foundation. Bernson’s prolific and varied works tend to be site-specific and exploratory. In Distant Future Symposium, he fuses science fiction, live music and repurposed YouTube footage. PDX to OAK is an interactive play, written for six actors and fourteen passengers on an overnight train trip from Portland to Oakland. Bernson’s StoryWorks play Overnighters is Over re-imagines Jesse Moss’s Sundance award-winning film as an immersive multimedia experience. Exray’s Logbook is an audiobook which is comprised of twelve pirate broadcasts that interrupted the programming of international television stations between 1986 and 2009.
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