Amy Shoshana Blumberg

Recent collaborations & writing include:

Dramaturg for Seolh by SAXYN Dance Works (Thryn Saxon, Artistic Director) premiering in November 2024 at TRISK in Brooklyn. Tickets available HERE.

"READY, SET // a response to Esmé Boyce Dance’s creation of The Humbling or Chapter of Mama: Part 1" published on Culturebot (May 2024)

Dramaturg for When the Sky Separated from the Earth Directed and Performed by Ani Javian and Benjamin Roach, Queer Spaces Queer Faces Festival (March 2024, world premiere)

Associate Director for PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spellsby SLMDances(Sydnie L. Mosley, Artistic Director) June 2023 premiere at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater

“BAC Story: Baye & Asa” (Baryshnikov Arts Journal, September 2022) - a creative non-fiction response to choreographers’ Baye & Asa’s creative process for HotHouse

Dramaturg for ASSEMBLY by GREYZONE (Lindy Fines, artistic director and choreographer) world premiere at Oklahoma International Dance Festival (August 2021)

An interactive performance ritual for letting go of the things holding us back. Our Jane Fonda-esque Catharty Captains guide the community through an exorcism of objects from audience members’ lives.

Let’s Exorcise! A Community Catharty Party

Produced by the after-image

Conceived by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

Co-Written by Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Kate St. John in collaboration with devising company Nick Alselmo, Bryanna Bradley, Caroline Burkhart, Courtney Bryan Devon, Ciera Miller, and Zahydé Pietri

Direction by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

Creative direction by Kate St. John

Sound design by Nick Alselmo (AKA DJ Scenick Roots)

Photos by Olga Rabetskaya

Production History:

March 2024 // presented by the Movement Lab at Barnard College

April 2023 // world premiere at Caveat NYC performed by Nick Alselmo, Amy Shoshana Blumberg, Bryanna Bradley, Caroline Burkhart, Kate St. John, and Zahydé Pietri

February // 2023 workshop performance at Caveat NYC performed by Nick Alselmo, Amy Shoshana Blumberg, Bryanna Bradley, Ciera Miller, Kate St. John, and Zahydé Pietri

An interactive kinetic installation inviting us to envision new stories for ourselves by repurposing remnants from other peoples' pasts.

Flow Up! is the sister experience to Let’s Exorcise! A Community Catharty Party, though it can be enjoyed as a unique event. Flow Up! uses artifacts that audience members released at a recent Let’s Exorcise! to create new beginnings for things that appear, on their surface, to have already met their end.

Devised with students from 3 Barnard College courses.

Flow Up! The Catharty Quest Continues

Produced by the after-image

Conceived and Co-Written by Amy Shoshana Blumberg, Kate St. John, and Zahydé Pietri

Multimedia Design by Kate St. John

Sound Design by Nick Alselmo AKA DJ Scenick Roots

Teaching Artists: Amy Shoshana Blumberg, Caroline Burkhart, Zahydé Pietri, and Kate St. John

Photos by Nicolle Márquez

Flow Up! was created in collaboration with Barnard College and Columbia University students in Professor Camilla Sturm’s Secret Life of Stuff First Year Seminar, Professor Meredith Benjamin’s Feminism and the Politics of Anger First Year Seminar, and Professor Patricia Denison’s Modern American Drama and Performance, including:

Emma Biswas

Theresa Cullen

Eleanora Deemer

Samantha Elkins

Joao Santos

Daniel Shannon

Sheza Sheikh

Diana Viveros

and

Lynn Wilcox

This work was developed, in part, under the auspices of an Artist Residency at the Movement Lab in the Milstein Center of Barnard College.

Production History //

April 2024 world premiere at the Movement Lab at Barnard College

the after-image’s Spring 2024 residency was generously supported by: the Movement Lab at Barnard College, Barnard’s Digital Humanities Center, the Barnard College English Department, the Secret Life of Stuff First Year Seminar, and the Feminism and the Politics of Anger First Year Seminar.

An original dance-theater production about the fears, divisions, and nascent uprisings shaping the lives of Americans during the 1950s Red Scare. Behind closed doors and in front of the cameras, government officials, Hollywood stars, and powerless Americans grasp for an alternative ending to a story on repeat.

Inspired in part by House Un-American Activities Committee hearing testimonies from Paul Robeson, Judy Holiday, Lillian Hellman, and many others.

Produced by the after-image

Created and co-written by Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Kate St. John

with additional writing and material generated by devising company:

Bryanna Bradley, Caroline Burkhart, Tad Cameron, Zahydé Pietri, and Alyssa Virji

Direction and choreography by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

Creative direction and scenic design by Kate St. John

and

Lighting design by Yang Yu

Costume design by Sarah Constable

Sound design by Nina Field

Stage Management by Yoonie Yun and Dakota Silvey

Dramaturgy by Vida Manalang

Production history // March 2022 world premiere at Theater for the New City

All photos by Olga Rabetskaya

What if you were at a TED talk about chaos theory that suddenly went wildly off the rails?

A super serious lecture about Chaos Theory explodes into a series of interactive games and experiments inspired by the science of chaos theory, Jurassic Park, and the ultimate chaos: middle school crushes. Your guide, chaologist Dr. Genevieve Saoch, whose personal life continuously interferes with her objectivity as a chaologist, invites you to play through a series of multiplayer experiments modeled on the butterfly effect, fractals, and deterministic chaos, ultimately inviting you to apply the formulas that explain chaos *theory* to the chaos of your *actual* life. You've got nothing to lose but the illusion of order in your life!

CHAOS THEORY and CHAOS THEORY: DIGITAL EDITION written by Jessica Ellen Creane

PRODUCED by IKantKoan

CO-DIRECTED by Joseph Ahmed & Amy Shoshana Blumberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN by Evelyn Langley

PERFORMED by Jessica Ellen Creane

CHAOS THEORY PRODUCTION HISTORY // FringeNYC (world premiere, 2019) / HERE Arts (2019) / Caveat NYC (2019 - 2020)

CHAOS THEORY: DIGITAL EDITION PRODUCTION HISTORY //

Co-Presented by Curious Theatre Company (Denver, CO) + Caveat NYC (2020)

PHOTOS by Breese Pickel and IKantKoan Games

An original dance-theater production about how hate gets passed down from generation to generation. Crafted from familial histories real and imagined, RE: SHE unearths the colonial lineage of the Lost World genre and asks how we might contend with its repercussions.

CO-CREATED by Kate St. John, Amy Shoshana Blumberg, & the devising ensemble

WRITTENby Kate St. John & Amy Shoshana Blumberg

DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN by Kate St. John

SOUND DESIGNby Elizabeth Atkinson& Eliana Fabiyi

STAGE MANAGEDby Ash Tetreault & Jonah Reeder

DEVISED / PERFORMED by Marcus Barainyak, Hannah Brannau, Hannah Gold, Tariq Kanu, Vida Manalang & Jessica Money

PRODUCTION HISTORY world premiere produced by the after-image for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival // September 13 -15 & 20 - 22, 2019 // PlayArts

PHOTOS by Sarah Mackus & Dustin Pettegrew

An immersive movement-theater rendering of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.

Rooted in, but diverging from the original text, this production enlivens a world where men condone one another’s violence to shore up their own power. he called it cymbeline centralizes the stories of women who risk their safety to ask why they should bear the brunt of anyone’s brutality.  

In this experiential event, the audience cannot possibly see everything, and must decide for themselves who they believe and who they forgive.

CO-CREATED by Kate St. John & Amy Shoshana Blumberg

Based on William Shakespeare’s CYMBELINE

Additional text by Kate St. John, Amy Shoshana Blumberg, performing ensemble, & testimony from local sexual assault survivors

DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN by Kate St. John

PERFORMED by Joel David Apgar, Maggie Brennan, Cianna Castro, Noriani Estevez, Tariq Kanu, Matthew Levy, Annika Prichard, Isabel Robin, Jake Ropka, Kodiak Thompson, & Audrey Ward

PRODUCTION HISTORY world premiere produced by Temple University Theater Department at The Great Court at Mitten Hall // December 2018

PHOTOS by Kate St. John

THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK by Naomi Wallace

DIRECTED by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

SCENIC DESIGN by Fred Duer

LIGHTING DESIGN by Jason Norris

COSTUME DESIGN by Hannah Compton

SOUND DESIGN by Elizabeth Atkinson

PERFORMED by Christopher Fitting, Jonathan Hirsch, Avery Infranco, Matthew Levy, & Nichole Mottershead

PRODUCED by Temple Theaters at the Randall Theater // September 2018

PHOTOS by Kate Raines

WAITING FOR RAIN by Mark J. Costello

DIRECTED by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

SCENIC* & LIGHTING DESIGN by Dustin L. Pettegrew

COSTUME DESIGN by Kathleen Embrey

SOUND DESIGN by Michael Kiley

PERFORMED by Hannah Brannau & Jay Ritter

PRODUCTION HISTORY World premiere Produced by Temple Theaters at Randall Theater / January & February 2018

PHOTOS by Mark Garvin

*Back wall designed by Jonathan Mesich

I Used to Write on Walls by Bekah Brunstetter

DIRECTED by Amy Shoshana Blumberg

SCENIC DESIGN* by Fred Duer

LIGHTING DESIGN by Jason Norris

COSTUME COORDINATION by Ariel Wang

SOUND DESIGN by Lyell Hintz

PERFORMED by Mary Kate Foley, Kelly Holstrom, Ryan Mikles, Hannah Postlewait, Isabel Robin, Cassidy Sanders, Satchel Williams, Hannah Kathryn Young, Paxton Zeis

PRODUCED by Temple Theaters / October 2017

PHOTOS by John Flak

*Scenic elements designed by Jonathan Mesich