Embrace the tangle

Remote Theater Project (RTP) develops work with international artists whose voices are not often heard in the U.S. Their productions are human-to-human exchanges and culture-to-culture dialogues intended to promote empathy, especially between groups in political conflict. RTP also works with young people, refugees and asylees in NYC and in the US, to create community performances in public spaces.

Alexandra Aron commissioned, developed, and produced GREY ROCK by Amir Nizar Zuabi which premiered at La MaMa Theatre in 2019 and toured major US venues and in Australia.  She produced A MESSAGE FROM FAR AWAY a 2-day festival in Portland, Maine in 2021 celebrating by and interacting remotely with THE WALK. A long-time theater director, she founded RTP to generate meaningful intercultural artistic work.

Jenny Romaine is a director, designer and puppeteer and co-founder/artistic director of the OBIE winning Great Small Works visual theater collective. She is music director of Jennifer Miller’s CIRCUS AMOK.  Romaine/ Great Small Works performs, teaches, and directs in theaters, schools, parks, libraries, museums, prisons, street corners, and other public spaces, producing work on many scales, from gigantic outdoor spectacles with scores of participants, to miniature shows in living rooms.  Jenny was a sound archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for 13 years and for several decades has drawn on Yiddish/Pan Jewish primary source materials to create art that has contemporary meaning. Her /Great Small Works projects include  Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls about Yiddish puppeteers Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler,  The Sukkos Mob (featured in the film Punk Jews), community Purim Shpiln with the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee in cahoots with JFREJ.

I-Chen Wang is an international stage director and projection designer based in NYC. Her directorial view ties closely to her observation and personal experiences of navigating national and gender identities as a Taiwanese woman. She creates through various forms, including new plays and experimental operas. She holds a BA from the National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) and an MFA in directing from the New School of Drama. i-chenwang.com

Taiwanese, a scenic and production designer, Yi-Hsuan (Ant) Ma is interested in exploring the relationship between human beings and the environment, involving the audience’s participation immersively in storytelling. Coming from a different culture and background of literature training, her approach to design is interdisciplinary and inclusive.

The Tenement Museum tells the stories of working-class tenement residents, who moved to New York City from other countries and other parts of the country. Their work helped build the city and nation, and their stories help us understand our history. The Museum shares these stories through guided tours that explore historically recreated 19th and 20th-century tenement apartment exhibits, walking tours of the historic Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, and interactive virtual tours and public programs.