A multi-faceted meditation on spirituality and the past year, asking all of us to consider the ways God has shown up in our own lives.
Feel the Spirit, by resident artist Noelle Viñas & directed by Elizabeth Carter (Eureka Day, 2019).
Gabriela, a young, queer pastor new in her post, is struggling to navigate her new congregation’s shift to online worship due to COVID-19. As seasons change outside and the flat timeline of quarantine continues, the church fights to maintain a practice that rotates around fellowship and community across generations and cultures when they can’t hug, cook, or sing together. Feel The Spirit pushes against the isolation of virtual engagement by inviting audience members to turn their cameras on, and engage in moments of real-time reflection. This communal experience is a multi-faceted meditation on spirituality and the past year, asking all of us to consider the ways God has shown up in our individual and collective humanity.
A made-for-Zoom play commissioned by Shotgun Players.
FEEL THE SPIRIT will be livestreamed on THURSDAY, JULY 1 at 8pm ET. The performance will then be available to view until 11:59pm on TUESDAY, JULY 6th, 2021. All tickets must be purchased before 10pm on MONDAY, JULY 5th.
The funds raised from this reading will go directly to the artists participating. If you'd like to support Colt Coeur and our ongoing programming, please consider making a donation in addition to your ticket purchase.
Please note: each patron will receive a unique link that cannot be shared. This will be a livestream which will be available for viewing until 11:59pm on TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2021.
We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS & SAG-AFTRA, through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.
Credits:
Playwright: NOELLE VIÑAS
Director: ELIZABETH CARTER
Cast: NIKKI CALONGE, LYNNE LIPTON, RAMI MARGRON, ROGER Q MASON, VANESSA PERÉDA, & MORE.
Produced by COLT COEUR
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Elizabeth Carter (Feel the Spirit director, she/her) is a director and actor based in the SF Bay Area who was seen in Eureka Day at Colt Coeur in 2019. Her directing includes San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 2020 groundbreaking virtual King Lear, Bondage (Honorable Mention for the Relentless Award), Every 28 Hours Plays and A Place to Belong with American Conservatory Theatre, for colored girls….(Broadway World Best Local Play and TBA nominee Best Ensemble) with African American Shakespeare Co. and Participants (TBA Best Anthology) for TheatreFirst. She has directed for California Shakespeare Theater Conservatory and is the Associate Director of the Theatre Dept. at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Bridging the Gap Grant and a Director’s West 2019 Alum.
Noelle Viñas (Feel the Spirit playwright, she/her) is a playwright, educator, and theater-artist from Springfield, Virginia and Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a resident artist at Colt Coeur and a member of The Civilians ' 2020-2021 R&D Group. Her play Derecho (2019 John Gassner Playwriting Award, 2019 Jane Chambers Honorable Mention) was workshopped as part of the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Recent commissions include Weston Playhouse for her short play Zoom Intervention (NY Times Critic's Pick), Every Time I Feel The Spirit for Shotgun Players, Lauren Gunderson's New Now Commission, and the book for The Long Horizon, a space musical for Imagination Stage's Speak Out Onstage Ensemble. Previously, she was part of Playwrights Foundation's four-year Resident Playwrights Initiative and a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi. Viñas resides in Brooklyn and will be graduating with her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College in spring 2021.