BRITT GENELIN
AXIS COMPANY'S presents TWELFTH NIGHT
September 25-October 26
Randall Sharp brings Drama-Desk nominated Axis Company’s signature stark and (live) musical touch to Shakespeare’s most painful comedy, "Twelfth Night", in a streamlined adaptation.
Even in a season of the darkest calamities, does the human will to be happy ever surrender? Shall there be cakes, ale, dancing and love, as the darkness ever looms? Director Randall Sharp brings her signature stark and musical touch to one of Shakespeare’s most hilarious, yet heart-breaking tales of unrequited love. Sharp’s radical interpretation strips away much of the jovial excess of Shakespeare’s most-beloved play and places focus on the yearning for human connection.
AXIS COMPANY'S WASHINGTON SQUARE
Return Engagement March 1-April 1, 2023
"Catherine must figure out how to assert herself and direct the course of her own life. Genelin shows us how Catherine does this by adroitly transforming from doe-eyed dupe to worldly realist as we watch her gaze narrow and her smile fade while the invisible years pass." - Theatermania
"Catherine is clumsy but her clumsiness is endearing and her innate joie de vivre, played with open childlike perfection by Britt Genelin, has us all rooting for her." - Front Row Center
"Britt Genelin as Catherine was believably simple, but with an inner light that made you doubt every criticism of her." - StageBuddy
DINNER PARTY TONIGHT
HOLIDAY COUNTDOWN 2022
COCKTAILS WITH RANDY & BRITT
Catch Britt guest bartending with Randy throughout Dinner Party Tonight's 25 episode Holiday Countdown!
AXIS COMPANY'S WASHINGTON SQUARE
RETURNING TO THE STAGE MARCH 2023
"Catherine must figure out how to assert herself and direct the course of her own life. Genelin shows us how Catherine does this by adroitly transforming from doe-eyed dupe to worldly realist as we watch her gaze narrow and her smile fade while the invisible years pass." - Theatermania
"Catherine is clumsy but her clumsiness is endearing and her innate joie de vivre, played with open childlike perfection by Britt Genelin, has us all rooting for her." - Front Row Center
"Britt Genelin as Catherine was believably simple, but with an inner light that made you doubt every criticism of her." - StageBuddy
WASHINGTON SQUARE
October 5-29
Washington Square centers on Catherine Sloper, a wealthy young woman raised in a house of grief by a father bitterly dead to love. Surrounded by a society and family who perceive her as plain and soft spoken, Catherine remains steadfastly committed to her forward-thinking optimism. When Morris Townsend, a mysterious suitor, makes a bid for her heart, Catherine is torn between following her instincts or heeding the warnings of her cruel father and persistent aunt.
While the novel is set in a fashionable New York home during the late 19th century, Sharp’s radical interpretation strips away all of the excess of the time period to deeply focus on Catherine’s journey into becoming her own person. This sparse, actor-focused design heightens the psychological underpinnings of the story, building tension as the play hurtles towards its inevitable conclusion.
WORLDS FAIR INN
Running through June 19th
In this expedition into the subconscious, AXIS COMPANY reflects on the similarities between three men (Robert Oppenheimer, Dr. Frankenstein & HH Holmes), their tragic personal lives, failures and genius. WORLDS FAIR INN is an impressionist explosion revealing these three minds and the forces that worked on them. Also, it’s funny.
WHAT IS LOVE?
JENA IS LOVE
A game of Telephone featuring artists of many different mediums.
My name is Britt. This project belongs to my friends, a child named Jena, myself and all of you.
It started when my partner found this discarded Artist Supply & Activity Set on the street and brought it home knowing I would find a use for it. Neither of us could have predicted what was hiding inside. Tucked away in the kit I found a letter written by a child named Jena with lyrics to a song titled "What is Love?" written on the other side.
I decided to use these lyrics as a catalyst for a game of "Artistic Telephone" - a twist on the classic children's game of "Telephone". What began as an idea to inspire friends during Lock Down has turned into a vast web of art featuring artists of all different mediums.
Please follow along and feel free to jump around!
I hope this project brings a bit of levity to your day.
STRANGERS IN THE WORLD
March 13 - April 6, 2019
What happens when the values and morals of puritans are set against the grinding agony of starvation, the constant death of their children and the horror of murder? How can they choose between bonds of home, a godless southern city and the silent sweet promise of nothing?
SEVEN IN ONE BLOW
December 7-22
For the seventeenth consecutive season, Axis Company will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 7th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring Axis' signature blend of advanced technology and live performance. Children in the audience will be encouraged to participate in many of the Kid's challenges with singing and organized "shout outs." Appropriate for ages 4 and up.
IN YO MOUTH PODCAST
PRESENTS
"BAR WENCH BRITT GENELIN"
Episode 30
In this week’s boozy episode Munoz & Marie chat with professional actor/bar wench Britt Genelin!! Join these three service industry experts as they run down a windy road of crazy customers, yummy cocktails, and sexual harassment!
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HIGH NOON
BY AXIS COMPANY
Limited Encore Engagement
October 3-27
Axis Company presents the remount of High Noon, their adaptation of the screenplay for the 1952 Western film, devised by an ensemble led by Artistic Director Randy Sharp. The play returns October 3-27, following an acclaimed first run in January of this year. TheaterMania called it an “onstage anxiety dream [that] forces us to reexamine what really is the ‘right thing’” and “couldn't be timelier as we reexamine political authority and who has the legitimacy to wield it.” This Week in New York wrote that High Noon “transforms a classic American Western into an existential purgatory…Waiting for Godot meets Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter.” Arts Journal deemed it a “provocative, complicated nexus of ideas—the sort that’s possible off-off-Broadway.”