Very Blue Light

Very Blue LightSeptember 10th-October 4th

Isabelle Chirls (Producer) Daphne Silbiger (Playwright)Emily Moler (Director)

Marfa, Texas. Two women reunite with their childhood best friend, only to find that his politics have gone askew. With uncertainty defining both the present and future, Angela faces the temptation of adopting her old friend’s conservative lifestyle, while Magna seeks (and finds) some certainty about her way forward when she and a lifelong Marfan encounter the mysterious Marfa Lights.

Very Blue Light is a play about people caught in the conflict between emergent technology, our networks, and the natural world, and asks: what does it mean for a chosen family to try to balance those forces?

Emily Moler is a New York based multidisciplinary director of theater, film, and voice over performance. Selected theatrical credits include: Constellations (Rogue Theater Company), Wad (American Lives Theater), The Grown-Ups (Baby Teeth), Bitch Boxer (Krank Brooklyn), Minor Character and The Winter Guard Play (Skidmore College), Dance Nation, Nonna Kills the President, Promithes Promithes, Uncle Vanya, As You Like It, Men on Boats, End Days, and Ironbound (UCSD); And We’re Live, and Coffee Break (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Chamber Music, Untitled American Flag Craft Project, and Good Cry (self-produced). She has directed voice over performances for Riot Games and Square Enix. Emily is a New George's affiliated artist and a Drama League alum. She has developed new plays with The New Harmony Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Orchard Project, Chautauqua Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, The Associates Theater Ensemble, Joe’s Pub, Chance Theater, IAMA Theatre Company, SITI Company, The Duplex, Geffen Playhouse, The Tank, and Pipeline Theatre Company. B.S Skidmore College. M.F.A UCSD.

Jiahao (Neil) Qiu 邱嘉皓 (he/him) is a Chinese-born Theatre Collaborator and Lighting Designer. His recent design credits in the United States: The Wilderness (Time Theatre Collective), Redemption Story (The Associates Theater Ensemble), Two Takes: The Peony Pavilion – Bloom (LMCC), Seven Cousins for a Horse (Thrown Stone Theatre), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Critics Circle Award). @neilqiu_design

Elijah Thomas (Co Lighting Designer) is a New Jersey-based lighting designer whose work spans theatre, dance, and opera. An alumnus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts' Lighting Design and Technology program, his recent design credits include: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella with Charlottesville Opera, Awaken with Circus Evo, Aladdin with Macholah Escuela de Danza at the National Theatre of San Salvador, Cyrano de Bergerac with Taffety Punk Theatre Company, and Associate Lighting Designer with Opera Delaware's production of Tosca.

Ari Cleveland is an Ohio-born multimedia artist specializing in sound design, A/V production, and direction.