ENDLESS VIEW

ENDLESS VIEW

By Theresia Walser

Translated from German (Endlose Aussicht) by Neil Blackadder

Directed by Wayne Maugans

Featuring Tessa Flannery

Video Design by Susan Shaw

Sound Design by Luke Hofmaier

Jona’s sister gave her the present of a 10-day Caribbean cruise, but thanks to a worldwide pandemic, she has been confined to her windowless cabin and has been for a while. Is it two weeks now? Three? Any sense of time dissolves in these exotic waters. Jona has become an inmate in a luxury J*il where everyone must get used to their new, monstrous normality. But the food is slowly running out. And Jona doesn’t know if, should she ever make it back home, she’ll still have a job…

Theresia Walser (née 1967) is a German playwright. She started out as an actress and had her debut as a dramatist in 1997. Her play King Kong’s Daughter (1998) was a considerable success and has had more than twenty productions. Theresia Walser was voted Best Upcoming Playwright 1998 and Best Playwright in 1999 in the critics’ poll of the magazine Theater heute. She has been given numerous awards and grants, amongst them the Förderpreis des Schiller-Gedächtnis-Preises 1998 and the BHF-Bank-Foundation Grant 2006.

Neil Blackadder (Translator) retired in 2019 as Professor of Theatre at Knox College, where he had taught since 1998. He began translating drama and short fiction in 2002. In 2004, he was certified as a German to English translator by the American Translators Association. Neil is also the author of Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience (Praeger, 2003). In spring 2023, Neil held the position of Translator in Residence at Princeton University. Neil received a 2022 NEA Translation Grant to translate Anne Weber's Ahnen/Vaterland. In 2011, he was awarded a fellowship from the Howard Foundation (Brown University) and a PEN Translation Fund Grant to translate plays by Lukas Bärfuss. His work has often been supported by the Goethe-Institut, as well as by the Consulate General of Switzerland and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

Wayne Maugans (Director) is the Founding Artistic Director of Voyage Theater Company, where he has directed seven mainstage productions and dozens of staged readings. As an actor, Wayne has appeared on Broadway in August: Osage County. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Manhattan Theater Club, Signature Theater, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, The Cleveland Playhouse, Capital Rep, Primary Stages, 7 Stages, Two River Theatre and Yale Rep. TV: Sinking Springs (upcoming Apple+), FBI: Most Wanted, Jessica Jones, The Blacklist, Nurse Jackie, multiple Law & Orders, etc. Wayne holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and The Fence.

Tessa Flannery (Jona) is a performer, writer, and producer based in Brooklyn. Her work lives at the intersection of feminism, sexuality, and comedy. She is a writer/performer on Magnet House Sketch team Breakfast Martini, is a writer/producer at Girl Tales - the Gotham/Variety-awarded, Webby-winning, Kennedy Center “Next 50” kids’ podcast, and is an artistic associate with Voyage Theater Company. www.tessaflannery.com

Susan Shaw (Production Designer) is a 2010 recipient of a Wexner Center Art & Technology residency, and a Puffin Foundation grantee for Videos on Broadway. She has received two New York State Artist’s Fellowships and the Kaleidoscope Award from the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Shaw was a 2013 and 2007 recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency.

Public collections include: The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, The International Museum of Photography and the The Israel Museum.

Luke Hofmaier (Sound Designer) Luke is a theater-maker from New York City, and recently earned his MFA Degree for Acting at Columbia University. Luke most recently appeared in Austin Pendleton's production of Orson's Shadow at Theater for the New City. He has designed sound for After The Revolution by Amy Herzog at the Morningside Players Theater Company.

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