We are devastated to inform you that Mind The Art Entertainment’s ACEDIA will not be able to complete their run at The Brick due to a case of COVID-19. It was a difficult decision, to say the least.
Along with the personal, artistic, and emotional toll this is taking, it is also taking a financial toll on MTAE. If you are able to donate to MTAE and support their bright and beautiful future, please do. They will also update their site regarding news about the future remount of ACEDIA and all upcoming projects.
The Brick & Mind The Art Entertainment Presents
ACEDIA: An Apocalypse Trilogy
by Christian De Gré Cárdenas
Directed by Brian Freeland
OPENING NIGHT NOW APRIL 16 530pm!
ACEDIA: An Apocalypse Trilogy. A cheery exploration of the morose and existential. A theatrical experience. A celebration of apocalyptic turmoil and the collapse of the inner self. Fun. Painful. A question. Three plays that stand alone or can be experienced as a collective. Acedia: the lost name for the emotion we’re all feeling. A state of listlessness or torpor. An inert state without pain or care.
This April join The Brick in welcoming three plays that make-up
Mind The Art Entertainment’s award winning Apocalypse Trilogy.
***Be the First to Reserve Your Seats for ACEDIA***
***For a Limited Time, Use Code ACEDIA25 for $25 Tickets***
Sappy Tales for a Frozen Heart (ACEDIA: Part 1)
Fish Food for Feelings (ACEDIA: Part 2)
Ampathy: miscreated by a non-writer (ACEDIA: Part 3)
or see all three!
As Kent / Terran / Lint: Tyler Andrews
As Theo / Maris / Listener: Christian De Gré Cárdenas
As Bart / Dr. Feels / Tuft: Mark Dessaix
As Finnigan / Solana / Dandelion: Bethany Geraghty
As Katia & Magda / Blaise / Wisp: Caro Guzmán
As Killian / Sensum / Traveler: Jules Murtha
Robert Moreria, Stephanie Heitman and Justin Anselmi as the Gods of Acedia
Playwright / Composer / Producer: Christian De Gré Cárdenas
Director / Production & Scenic Designer: Brian Freeland
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Fok
Costume Designer: Zoë Allen
Sound Designer: Andy Cohen
Make-up Designer: Kate Marley
Additional Lyrics: Joseph Reese Anderson
Stage Manager: Lenyn Hernandez Marcia
Asst. Director / Asst. Stage Manager: Noah Grannum
Creative Producer: R. Patrick Alberty
Associate Producer: Thomas Michael Culhune
Marketing Director: Sue Conover Marinello with KT World Communications
Company Photographer: Ze’ Castle
Developed at
The Alchemists
SPACE on Ryder Farm
Yaddo Colony
The National Opera Center
FRIGID NY
and The Brick
A self-taught composer/playwright, De Gré Cárdenas has written and produced 30 original award winning plays, musicals, operettas, operas and song-cycles in New York City at world renowned organizations like Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Feinstein’s/54 Below, HERE Arts, and La Mama E.T.C. He has been commissioned to write music for The Discovery Channel, The Drama Desk Awards, The United Nations, The Alchemists, and The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
De Gré Cárdenas has trained activists in Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and the Americas as the Global Outreach Theater for Social Change Partner of the United Nations International Y-Peer Network. Other projects include fine art exhibitor at the 69th Regiment Armory (Time-Out New York: Photo of the Week) and published poet in “Story Time with Mr. Buttermen: Fables for Adults Living in a Modern World” (available on Amazon).
He is an alumnus of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Broadway League’s Commercial Theater Institute and is a member of the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. He is a Yaddo Colony and a SPACE on Ryder fellow.
Having served as the General Manager and Director of Operations at The New York International Fringe Festival for five years and as Artistic Director of Mind The Art Entertainment for over a decade, De Gré Cárdenas has overseen the opening of over 1,000 new theatrical productions. In 2018 he was appointed Director of The National Opera Center in New York City and is currently serving as Chief Operating Officer for OPERA America, and Resident Artistic Director for Mind The Art Entertainment’s “The Alchemists” program, where he is developing 25 original works.
www.cdegre.com
As a multi-hyphenate artist working with a live performance vocabulary, Freeland’s work builds highly stylized community-considered events and stories. Using overlapping disciplines, his work creates layered, aesthetically focused works, often centering around social and normative challenging subject matter.
In addition to his creation work, he has been an advocate for artist-led place-making and has shepherded the creation and management of multiple independent arts venues.
Mr. Freeland is currently in development for the new works, hung + burned (a mythology of power and politics) and well as half/life (a multi-media exploration around the life and work of Marie Currie).
Direction and design credits include works for The LIDA Project, Curious Theatre Company, The Brick, Mind The Art Entertainment, Ping Chong & Co., Universes, The Public Theatre, The 52nd Street Project, Countdown to Zero, THEATREWORKS, About Face, Catamounts, Littleton Town Hall, Lone Tree Arts Center, The Avenue Theatre, The Aurora Fox, Paragon Theatre, Su Teatro, and Shadow Theatre Company.
In 1995, he founded The LIDA Project the regionally acclaimed performance art ensemble, where he served as artistic director until 2015. In 2007, he co-founded with Julie Rada, Countdown To Zero, a political theatre collective.
