Flea Fridays

By & Co-created by Liz Morgan; Produced by Annie Perales
Directed by & Curated by Michael Raine
March 20 - March 27, 2020
Tickets are $18*
The Pete
Each ticket includes a free drink!

Are you free?

Performances begin at 5:30pm, but feel free to come at 5pm and have a drink!

FLEA FRIDAYS is an immersive cabaret in residence in The Flea’s indoor/outdoor theater The Pete. Each one features some of downtown’s most daring artists, who invite audiences to engage with our most pressing social questions.

Curated and directed by Resident Director Michael Raine.
Written & Co-created by Liz Morgan, Produced by Annie Perales 

FLEA FRIDAYS features acts from guest artist Dennis Stowe and Bats Caroline Banks, Conor Bell, Rora Brodwin, Brendan George, and Dorothea Gloria and is hosted by The Fridays, Auberth Bercy, Sophie Gorai, Amber Jaunai, and Katryna Williams.

*All tickets include an additional $2 Theater Restoration Fee, which keeps the lights on in our new digs.

Playwright

Liz Morgan

Liz Morgan  (Friday & Writer/Co-creator) was brought up on oxtail, rice & peas.  As an artist raised by two Caribbean doctors, she has maintained a dedication to healing and a taste for all things spicy.  Her full length, The Clark Doll recently premiered in New York at The New Ohio as part of the SHE Creates Festival and was previously a Drammy Award nominee for Best Original Script after its west coast premiere with Syde-Ide Collaborations. She’s been published in the Huffington Post and has developed new stage work with The Fire This Time Festival, The Lark, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Fresh Ground Pepper, The Mitten Lab, Liberation Theatre Company, Judson Arts, Amios, Rising Circle, JACK, NY Madness, POTPOURRI! World Women Works Series, and of course SERIALS @ The Flea. Honors include the Torchbearer for Black Theatre Award, I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency (Finalist), Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship (Semi-Finalist) and the New Works Lab at Stratford (Semi-Finalist).  Liz currently works with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC facilitating forum theatre, legislative theatre and other creative advocacy projects. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree and an MFA in Acting from Brown University, where she received the Davis Wickham Prize for Excellence in Playwriting and once twerked the toga off of a frat boy. Catch her this summer at the Quick Silver Theatre Company’s Playwrights of Color Summit performing in her original solo show, Deep $h*t.  www.LizMorganOnline.com

Director

Michael Raine

Michael Raine is thrilled to be back at The Flea, having been a Resident Director in the old space on White Street from 2014-2015. During that time, Michael directed a dozen episodes of #serials and adapted and directed the Grand-Guignol classic The System which was remounted for an encore run as one of the audience-favorites from the series. Michael will be directing and choreographing the full-length version of the long-running #serial Locked Up B*tches this spring in The Siggy. Written by frequent partner in crime, playwright Catya McMullen, they have put up short plays together for E.S.T./Youngbloods, #serials@theflea, Atlantic Stage 2, The Tank and the People’s Improv Theater.  Also a choreographer and teacher, Michael’s choreography has been seen regionally and around New York, including Yale Rep, Joe’s Pub, Theater for a New City, NYMF, and the Folksbiene, as well as five seasons at the Weston Playhouse and the Japanese tour of Rent. Michael has choreographed productions for Juilliard Drama, CAP21, Brooklyn College, University of Miami, and NYU’s graduate acting program, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2008.