Visiting Artists: Nicolas Noreña / The Million Underscores residency showing

Seconds is an intermedia exploration of suspension of disbelief and a study of staged death through the lenses of comedy, horror, the grotesque, tragedy, ritual, and dance. Deconstructing performative language from sportscasters, Noh theater, Tennessee Williams, and masked funerary rituals, the performance moves through the eight tibetan stages of death, and invites the audience to join in a contemplation of the delicate line between life and death, connecting us with the ancient roots of theater as a spiritual act of collective unbecoming.

Residencies: September/October 2024 and Mar 24 to Apr 12, 2025

Public Showing | Fri & Sat | Apr 11 & 12 | 8PM

Tickets: $10/$3 (students)

The Million Underscores is an experimental theater company based in Brooklyn under the artistic direction of Nicolas Noreña. Founded in Summer 2013, the company has developed alongside a qualitative study of numbers and experiments in aesthetic drive, abstract composition, and collaborative writing.

NICOLAS NOREÑA is a Colombian theater maker and performer based in Brooklyn, his work explores interrogates and bends the architecture of languages that compose theater. 

He is the artistic director of THE MILLION UNDERSCORES, an experimental theater company founded in 2013, through which he has developed, produced, directed and designed over fifteen original productions that have been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, The Exponential Festival, Movement Research, The Brick Theater, The Clemente Center, Triskelion Arts, Target Margin Theater, O.D.C San Francisco, as well as galleries and public spaces around New York City. 

Nicolás studied, performed and worked with Mary Overlie for twelve years. Under her tutelage he learned how to teach her work. He currently teaches at  the Experimental Theater Wing in New York University where Mary taught for 40 years. He has also taught at Playwrights Horizons, MIT, TK Studios, and Universidad de Los Andes among others. He is the director of the Mary Overlie Archive.