• Donate & Help Preserve the Arts in Dallas •
Public funding for the arts is limited. It is only with your generosity that we ensure theater in Dallas continues to flourish. Help Undermain fund the regional premier of Really, by Jackie Sibblies Drury.
Undermain deserves our support. Not only does Undermain
produce innovative and experimental theatre that engages and challenges its
audience, but they also provide a great service to the artist community. The Undermain is passionate about providing livable wages to its company of artists and about providing a supportive and nurturing environment for the development of new talent.
But the Undermain can’t do this without your support! Public funding and grants provide a portion of what the Undermain needs to accomplish its mission. But it is people like you who care deeply about the arts, enough to click on our page and donate, that really keep the Undermain in business. Great things happen when we all pledge a little.
Our goal is to raise money to offset some of the costs associated with the production of Really, helping the Undermain continue to cultivate theater in Dallas.
Please dig deep for our cause. Then come see the fruits of your labor! Everyone who donates $25 or more will be listed in a program insert. You’ll be famous and everyone will know how generous you are. Or donate anonymously, knowing that you’ve helped a worthwhile organization.
• About Really •
If someone snapped a photograph of you right this moment, what would it say about you? Would it fully articulate who you are as a human being?
The play Really by Jackie Sibblies Drury investigates that question. The play follows three people’s lives and how they intertwine. Through the art of photography, they search for the truth of their common history.
Really is more than a night out at the theatre, it’s a fulfillment of Undermain’s values to foster a home for local artists. Undermain has always worked to represent Dallas’ diverse range of artistic talent and by choosing this play in particular it gives voice to minorities, women, and artists across generations.
The play will open April 12th and run until May 6th.
• Things People Are Saying About Undermain & Really •
“The Undermain extends most boundaries. Other theaters are timid, scared, and aesthetically landlocked. The Undermain is not that.” - Blake Hackler, Director/Actor
“In her pre-show curtain speech at the Undermain, director Owens expressly pointed to Brecht’s relevance today in terms of immigration and the international refugee crisis.” – Jerome Weeks, Art & Seeks Producer-Reporter in an interview with Justin Martin
This vibrant production will engage your mind and ignite your sense of ethics. - Marta Heimberg, Theatre Jones
Wacky, wild, wonderful: Undermain's '10 out of 12' captures exasperation and joy of putting on a show. – Nancy Churnin, Theatre Critic
Undermain Theatre has an uncanny knack for producing plays that combine the surreal with the actual, the fantastic with the everyday. Strangeness freely mingles with the ordinary. – Christopher Soden, Insightful Theatre Critic
“As a young female artist it resonates with me when I get to watch two women on stage negotiate who they have been told they are and who these women want to be. This play forces us to take a look at the way gender, race and privilege are defined by society, and also how they define our identity.” – Carson McCain, Director
• Who We Are •
Undermain Theatre was founded in 1984 by a group of artists who transformed a warehouse basement under Main Street in Dallas into a unique performance space and began producing new and experimental plays. Its mission is to educate and challenge audiences and artists through its production of innovative theater with particular interest in poetic and language-driven work.
Find out more about the Undermain at http://www.undermain.org/
Click HERE to Like us on Facebook
• The Playwright •
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, Photo: Piotr Redlinski
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn based playwright. Her plays include We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915, Social Creatures, and Really. Jackie’s plays have been presented by Soho Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Matrix Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Available Light, Company One, and The Bush Theatre in London. Her work has been developed at Sundance, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, A.C.T., The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, PRELUDE.11&14, The Civilians, The Bushwick Starr, The LARK, The Magic Theatre, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The MacDowell Colony. Jackie was a dramaturg for Zero Cost House by Pig Iron Theatre Company & Toshiki Okada and The Garden by Nichole Canuso Dance Company. She received the 2012-2013 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, and was the inaugural recipient of the 2012-2014 Jerome Fellowship at The LARK. Jackie is a NYTW Usual Suspect and is currently a member of The Writer's Room at Manhattan Theatre Club and Ars Nova.
• The Director •
Director Carson McCain, Photo by Erin Patterson
Carson McCain is a director and theatre artist based in Dallas, TX. She is a 2014 graduate of Southern Methodist University, where she studied acting, directing, and playwriting. There she received a Meadows Exploration Grant to develop and produce the world premiere of Michelle with Wet Eyeballs by Claire Carson. She has previously worked with Second Thought Theatre on The Great God Pan by Amy Herzog (Director), Belleville by Amy Herzog (Asst. Director), and Booth by Steven Michael Walters (Asst. Director). She most recently served as associate director on Dallas Theatre Center's 2016 production of A Christmas Carol and as assistant director on Kitchen Dog’s Production of I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard. Other directing credits include Middletown by Will Eno (Hardin Simmons University), Delirium by Enda Walsh and Theatre O (SMU), and the world premiere of Ophelia Underwater by Janielle Kastner (The TRIBE).