Rob Reddy

Citizen Arts and Education in partnership with Seed Artists is holding a benefit performance on November 6, 2016 at South Oxford in Brooklyn, NY, to directly support our April 2017 work-in-progress showing of INTERRUPTION! at BRIClab. It will include music composed by Rob Reddy and performed by members of the INTERRUPTION! orchestra as well as recitations by Oliver Lake of his original poetry and an invigorating discussion of the project and its origins.INTERRUPTION! is a cross-genre performance project that meditates on some of the key issues facing the United States today, including voting rights, economic inequality, and racial injustice. Co-created by Rob Reddy, Oliver Lake, and Meg Araneo, INTERRUPTION! was inspired by a July 2015 sermon by the esteemed Rev. William Barber II, President of the NC NAACP and co-organizer of North Carolina's powerful Moral Mondays Movement. INTERRUPTION! directly engages Barber's powerful ideas through its dramaturgical integration of Rob Reddy's original compositions with a libretto by Oliver Lake.*If you can't make it but would like to support the project, you can purchase a ticket and donate the seat to a student who otherwise could not afford to attend. Refreshments will be served!*INTERRUPTION! was awarded a 2016 MAP Fund grant, a program primarily supported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. MAP is an affiliate program of Creative Capital. INTERRUPTION! was also awarded a BRIClab residency & the project will be in residence there from April 3 – 14, 2017.