The Mill

🇺🇦 Join us for Lucky Breaks Oct 20th for a talkback following the 5 pm performance at The Brick Theater! 🎟 https://bit.ly/Luckyinfo 🇺🇦 In partnership with LMDA, featuring Katie Walker, Talkback Facilitator and NYC Metro-Regional VP for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and Jennifer Wilson, Staff Writer for The New Yorker, PHD in Slavic Language and Literature.

Lucky Breaks is adapted from the collection of short stories by Ukrainian Author Yevgenia Belorusets. Darkly comic, haunting, and mysterious the extraordinary stories depict the effects of the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine on the lives of ordinary women. An expressionistic physical score accompanies the poetic language of each brief story, bending reality into a series of movements and gestures, creating evocative imagery that defies the typical war narrative and exposes the mundane, horrific, and absurd.

🇺🇦 Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets October 11-27 at The Brick in NYC 🇺🇦 https://bit.ly/Luckyinfo

aclyn Biskup (Adaptation and Director) is a Chicago-born, NYC-based director and producer with over two decades of experience working in theatre, television, and film. She received an Emmy nomination and was a Peabody Finalist for her work on the digital series The Secret Life Of Muslims and currently works as the Interim Managing Artistic Director at The Brick. She was the assistant director to Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro on the Broadway productions of The Minutes (Tracy Letts) and Straight White Men (Young Jean Lee). As the founding artistic director of The Mill, she has directed and produced over 20 productions including the NYC premieres of The Employees (Olga Ravn), Come Here to Me (Dianne Nora), Worse Than Tigers and the Chicago premieres of Venus (Suzan-Lori Parks) and The Private Of Lives Of Eskimos (Or 16 Words For Snow) (Ken Urban). Her work has been seen at New Ohio Theatre (where she also served as Creative Producer), Theaterlab, MCC Playlabs, New Dramatists, Rattlestick, Dixon Place, Town Stages, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. Jaclyn has assisted on productions at Steppenwolf, The Public, and The American Musical Theatre Workshop. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and a first-generation college graduate with a BA in Theater from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Directing and Theatrical Production from Northwestern University. www.jaclynbiskup.com

Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky
Adapted by Jaclyn Biskup & Sara Farrington
Directed by Jaclyn Biskup
Production Stage Manager Sam Kersnick
Scenic Design by Nora Smith Marlow
Costume Design by Kristy Hall
Lighting Design by Jackie Fox
Sound Design by James Worth Bennett

Featuring Hanna Datsko, Monica Goff, Jennifer McClinton, Kara Jackson*, and Katie Broad.

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