Sentenced to this Vessel

Sentenced to this Vessel

A new play written, composed and performed by Anzi DeBenedetto and Nate Sassoon

Full original sound track. Genre: magical realism/escapism.

Catrin Ody- Producer and Assistant Director

Theater at St. Jean

150 East 76th Street

New York, NY 10021

Two shows on October 30th, 2021

3:00 pm and 7:00 pm

Each show runs between 100 and 115 minutes with a 15 min intermission included. Children under 6 will not be admitted.

Tickets for children under 15 (inclusive), $15.00. You need to email [email protected] with requests for children’s tickets. Limited number of children’s discounted tickets.

Post performance receptions:

1. Refreshments and soft drinks will be served after 3:00 pm show

2. Soft drinks, appetizers and snacks will be served after 7:00 pm show. (More food after 7:00 pm show)

Open bar with wine and cocktails will be available after both shows and during intermissions.

Sentenced to this Vessel strives to explore the things we cannot help but do, feel, and say. When these behaviors are examined through the lens of performers, the lines between off and on-stage start to blur. To love, to risk, to put yourself out there— this is what it means to live. We have no choice but to invite you all: point and laugh at us, with us. Watch us watch you live and perform.

Genre: Magical Realism

Two friends write and compose a play, intending to clarify where performance ends and reality begins. Things get sticky, the narrative starts to crumble, and they must fight to piece everything together before the ending. Join us in Sentenced to this Vessel, a story of two ones becoming a two.

This multimedia play contains live music (piano, guitar, cello, voice), projections, and prerecorded original hyper pop, hip hop, jazz and classical.

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/sypiBZz8y7AGxXuy8

Anzi DeBenedetto graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama. He was born in New York City, lived in Shanghai, and went to Phillips Exeter Academy. With theater training from the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and film training from Stonestreet Studios, he has appeared in Will Eno’s “Thom Pain: Based on Nothing”, CBS’s “FBI”, and voiceover campaigns for Ubisoft and The Edge. He is very excited to share Sentenced to this Vessel, a project he wrote, directed, and is acting alongside with Nate Sassoon. He also speaks Chinese, is learning Italian, and does Yoga.

Nate Sassoon graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Music. Nate was born in New York City and went to Phillips Exeter Academy. He is a classical pianist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer/music producer who creates and performs music in a wide variety of genres. In 2020, he released two albums, Umba and Cold Shadows and Warm Rays, which included songs influenced by dubstep, progressive metal, synthwave, plainchant, jazz, electro house, 18th century classical music, hip hop, noise, among other genres. His latest choral piece “The Windows” was premiered in March 2021 by the Exeter College Chapel Choir at Oxford. Nate also played Keys/Keytar in the Oxford based band Dot’s Funk Odyssey. He has done many recitals of classical piano improvisation in the US and in Russia. Among venues are stages of Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Baker’s Mansion (Russian Sinod), Art and Music center on Nevsky (St. Petersburg), Andrei Makarevich Club (Moscow), and Scriabin Music Hall. Nate studied piano with E. Leonova, J. Sakata and A. Tilbrook. Nate studies classical voice with Vladimir Chernov. He is very excited to share Sentenced to this Vessel, a project he composed, directed, and is acting alongside with Anzi DeBenedetto. Nate speaks Russian.

The two met in kindergarten and reunited in high school. This is their first artistic collaboration.

Catrin Ody, the Producer and Assistant Director, was born and raised in London before moving to New York to study Theatre, Producing and Film at NYU Tisch. She started producing for feature films in her junior year as an Associate Producer at BOTEP alongside her acting training. Now she directs, produces, and acts for film and theatre. She also co-hosts a comedy podcast called “Sleeping With Your Friends”. She considers herself an artist above all.

Main poster on the front page created by Lorian De Sousa. Marketing visuals created by Lorian De Sousa and Lou Lorencin

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