Carmen is currently airing as part of the Theater Times International Online Theater Festival May 16 - 31 — check it out here. For a discussion with performer India Carney, director Jay Scheib and festival artistic director Magda Romanska — May 28, 2 pm EST (NYC), 8 pm CET (Berlin) – Zoom Room Also livestream on Facebook
June 4, 2016, The National YoungArts Foundation presents Outside the Box: Jay Scheib’s Carmen — based on the opera of Bizet, with a nod to the adaptations of Godard and Preminger, through the lens of Hemingway. Jealousy and poverty and love-at-first-sight madness drive this environmental live cinema opera conceived for amplified voices, solo piano and two roving cameras mixed live to the side of a building in Miami..
FEATURING
CARMEN | India Carney JOSE | Aaron Casey ESCAMILLO | D’Angelo Lacy MICHAELA | Asia Stewart MORELOS | ROBBER Wes Goodrich
SOLO PIANO | Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner
SUPPORTING CAST
MUSIMELANGE | Anne Chicheportiche, violin and founder; Daniel Andai, violin; Chauncey Patterson, viola; Angela Maleh, cello; SINGER | Amanda Crider
CHORUS
DONNA LANE DOWNEY | Soprano C.J. BAIK | Soprano KAREN LOUISE FELLER | Soprano LINDA ANN DEIGHAN | Mezzo Soprano VERONICA FINK-MENVIELLE | Mezzo Soprano JULIA DEAN MCGUIRE | Mezzo Soprano LIEVENS CASTILLO | Tenor KUNYA K. ROWLEY | Tenor THOMAS BALL | Bass GIBSON DORCE | Bass
CREATIVE TEAM
MUSIC DIRECTOR | Myra Huang
SCENIC DESIGNER | Sara Brown
PROJECTION DESIGNER | CAMERA Josh Higgason
COSTUME DESIGNER | Rachel Dainer-Best
DIRECTION | Jay Scheib
PRODUCTION TEAM
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER/YOUNGARTS PRODUCTION MANAGER | Jane Rosenbaum PRODUCTION COMPANY | SRX Events / Mark Underwood COMPANY MANAGER/YOUNGARTS PROGRAMS COORDINATOR | Joey Butler VIDEO PRODUCTION COMPANY | Corner of the Cave/Brad Bernstein CAMERA HANDLERS | Brandon Dumlao , Daniel Kaplan VIDEO MIXER | Victoria Pike SOUND MIXER | Erick Aldrey SUBTITLES | Daniel Yankiver ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS | Amanda Ortega, Gonzalo Garcia-Castro
YOUNGARTS TEAM
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS | Esther Park COMMUNITY MANAGER | Lauren Winston YOUNGARTS FACILITIES | Ozzie Ortega, Gary Blake, Antonio Rivera YOUNGARTS IT TEAM | Holdrado Garcia, Claudio Sampaio, Michael Rahaman
https://www.youngarts.org/outside-box