Open Call: Kyle Dacuyan

The artist Kyle Dacuyan lies on a folding table during a performance. The table is positioned on a dark stage between two sparring dummies. Kyle wears light-colored clothing and lies on his back holding a microphone up to his mouth. — Kyle Dacuyan, *Dad Rock*, 2024, performed as part of *Open Call* at The Shed, June 26, 2024. Photo: Eileen Meny. Courtesy the artist.

Kyle Dacuyan performs on stage, seated at a table with a microphone held to his mouth. He reaches one arm out across the table in front of him. Behind him looms a sparring dummy. — Kyle Dacuyan, *Dad Rock*, 2024, performed as part of *Open Call* at The Shed, June 26, 2024. Photo: Eileen Meny. Courtesy the artist.

About this commission

You’re driving. You’re flying.
You’re working. You’re listening.
To WBXI 104FM. Hi stranger.
Hi caller. You heard it here first.
This one’s just for you.

Dad Rock is an episodic monologue featuring poetry, movement, and music. Across a series of inquiries into language and gesture, Kyle Dacuyan disassembles cultural constructions of masculinity—heroes, fathers, and empires. What experiences of threat, harm, isolation, and trauma do these figures and structures arise from? What speech, songs, and choreography are they made of? What patterns of violence do they perpetuate? Libidinal and tender, volatile and introspective, Dad Rock swaggers from the personal into the geopolitics of the present.

Creative Team

Kyle Dacuyan

Kyle Dacuyan is a poet and performance-maker based in NYC. He is the recipient of the 2023 Cy Twombly Award In Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021 NEA Fellow In Creative Writing, a 2021 finalist for The Jerome Foundation fellowship, as well as other support from Poets House, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and Sewanee. Past performance work has been presented at Ars Nova, PARTICIPANT, Dia Art Foundation, and elsewhere. From 2018 – 24 he served as executive director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s. His first book, INCITEMENTS, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.

Kate Campbell is a NYC-based set designer and artist. Recent set design credits include Annapurna, Sanctuary City (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (NYU); Zero Grasses (National Sawdust); Set and Reset/Reset (Purchase College, Conservatory of Dance); and Romeo and Juliet, Stupid Fucking Bird, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (NYU3 Festival). KateCampbellDesign.com

Michael Costagliola is a New York-based sound designer and composer. His work has been heard in New York in productions by The Public, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, La MaMa, Rattlestick, Page 73, and Ars Nova among others, as well as regionally at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Yale Rep, St. Louis Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and at various other theaters across the US and abroad. Costagliola holds a BA in music from Brown University and an MFA in sound design from Yale School of Drama. MichaelCostagliola.com

Tess Dworman is a New York-based choreographer, performer, and audio describer. Her choreographic work has been presented by numerous New York venues including the Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Art Center, and New York Live Arts. In 2020, Dworman was honored as an Outstanding Breakout Choreographer by the Bessies New York Performance Awards. As a performer, Dworman has most recently appeared in the works of Juliana F. May, Ryan McNamara, and Kayla Hamilton. More info at TessDworman.com.

Kate McGee is a transdesigner and new media artist. Off-Broadway: *My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Theater), The Infinite Love Party (Bushwick Starr), while you were partying, Notes on Killing …, Snatch Adams (Soho Rep), I’m Revolting (Atlantic Theater), Pay No Attention to the Girl (Target Margin Theater), The Hang by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray (HERE/Prototype Festival), 50/50 Old School Animation, protac attac, Open Mic Night (Under the Radar Festival), Early Plays (New York City Players/Wooster Group). International: protec/attac (Deutsches Schauspielhaus - Scenery, Costumes, Lighting), Emily’s D+ Evolution, songwrights apothecary lab, and Off-Brand gOdds tours for Esperanza Spalding. Regional: An Iliad, A View from the Bridge (Long Wharf), Life of Galileo and Julius Caesar (Playmaker’s Rep), and A Tale of Two Cities (Trinity Rep). She was a 2022/2023 Project Number One artist in residence at Soho Rep, where she used her year to develop a VR experience called Girl Mode. McGee is a close collaborator with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey, with whom she designs and devises “somehow literary” works that engage with questions of authenticity, spectatorship, violence, coercion, and comedy. kateisalightingdesigner.com

James Rutherford (they/them) is an international theater director, third-generation New Yorker, and founder of the theater company M-34. New York credits include Franz Kafka’s Letter to My Father (twitch.tv quarantine stream), Salomé (Irondale Center), The Constitution: A Secular Oratorio (Vertical Player Repertory), As You Like It (Classic Stage Company), Hymn to Life (FiveMyles), Sweat & Tears (JACK), All That Dies and Rises (IATI), The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway (Access Theater), and 4.48 Psychosis (Magic Futurebox). Rutherford has been a protégé of Peter Brook, Richard Foreman, and Andrei Serban. Proud scion of Columbia University’s MFA Directing Program. James-Rutherford.com

Anne Troup is a theater and film producer. Credits include Incomplete (Hulu), The Snakes (HBO Max), Others (Slamdance FF), Swimming (Out on Film), Human Interest (SeriesFest); Scene Partners (The Vineyard Theatre), The Thanksgiving Play (Broadway), The Gold Room (HEREArts) and Grownup (Theater Mitu). Troup also works as an actor. She has a BA from Brown University and an MFA in acting from NYU.

Isaac Van Curen is a theater and visual artist based in Brooklyn. He has worked in many facets, designing custom stage wear, painting large scale canvases, and performing as a drag queen (Isaac Miss Isaac). His work has been at the Lungs Harvest Art Festival, The Human Impact Institution, NY Theatre Festival, HERE ARTS, The Tank, Stella Adler, Playwrights Horizons, and many more. Van Curen has a BA from Ithaca College and a MA from NYU.

Get to know the artist

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In The Studio with Kyle Dacuyan

about 2 months ago

In The Studio with Kyle Dacuyan

about 2 months ago

In The Studio with Kyle Dacuyan

Alex Poots, Artistic Director
Darren Biggart, Director of Civic Programs
Dejá Belardo, Assistant Curator, Civic Programs and Visual Arts
Daisy Peele, Open Call Producer (Associate Producer at The Shed)
Christal Ferreira, Program Manager, Civic Programs and Visual Arts
Ben Young, Production Manager

Special thanks to Public Assembly (Tamara McCaw, Maggie MacTiernan, and Annabel Thompson) and to former program team colleagues who facilitated the call for proposals and selection process for the third edition: Solana Chehtman, Sarah Khalid Dhobhany, Alessandra Gómez, and Andria Hickey.

Stephen Arnold, Open Call Production Manager
Michael Ruiz-del-Vizo, Scenic Coordinator
DJ Potts, Sound Coordinator
Vittoria Orlando, Lighting Coordinator
Hao Bai, Video/Projection Coordinator
Cynthia Caridad, Stage Coordinator
Caren Celine Morris, Stage Coordinator
Ariana Michel, Stage Coordinator
A. Sef, Accessibility Consultant

Artist Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the following friends who have supported and encouraged this work: Eloisa Amezcua, Doug Cattie, Keith Fox, Amelia Golden, Deepali Gupta, Kaleem Hawa, Kate Liebman, Sam Max, Tavia Nyong’o, Hussein Omar, Christopher Pennington, Leslie Shipman, Michael Sugarman, and Arden Wohl. An initial draft of Dad Rock was developed in collaboration with Antigravity Performance Project, with direction from Michael T. Williams. The piece was rehearsed in M-34’s space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Location and dates

This event takes place in The Griffin Theater.

Thursday, June 27 and Saturday, June 29
7:30 pm

Friday, June 28
8:30 pm

The Shed’s Griffin Theater is located at 545 West 30th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues. View The Shed on a map.

For information about accessibility and arriving at The Shed, visit our Accessibility page.

Details

Running time: 75 minutes
This production includes strobe effects.
This production includes strong language, including around sexual themes.
Not recommended for audiences under 16 years old.
Late seating is at the discretion of house management.

Accessibility

Seating

The Shed’s Griffin Theater has accessible seating. Please contact us in advance to discuss your needs and available options by emailing accessibility@theshed.org or calling (646) 455-3949.

Assistive Listening

Visitors may check out assistive listening devices at the entrance to the theater. A driver’s license will be held to check out the device.

ASL Interpretation

ASL interpretation will be available at the Friday, June 28 performance. There will be a reserved section of seats if you would like to sit in proximity to an interpreter. To find the seats, look for the Reserved signs in the theater or ask an usher for help.

Audio Description

Audio description will be available at each performance. Audio description is delivered via the free Listen Everywhere app on your personal device with your personal earphones or headphones. To use the app, you must download the app and connect to The Shed’s free Wi-FI network, TheShedFreeWiFi. To find instructions on how to download and use the app, visit the Accessibility page.

Purchasing Tickets

The Shed’s online ticketing system includes the option to submit accommodation requests beyond the access points detailed here.

Contact Us

For questions or other requests, visit the Accessibility page, email accessibility@theshed.org, or call (646) 455-3494.

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