Associate Producer
Piano Tales
Piano Tales is James and Jerome's ongoing celebration of storytelling, music, and the freedom that comes from not having a plan.
An old woman on her death bed asks two musician-storytellers to tell her a few tales in her final hour. The audience chooses which three tales will be told (out of a possible 10) that performance and in what order, by selecting objects from a trunk. Then James and Jerome tell those tales in a different way than they ever have before, discovering a totally new show right along with the audience.
Piano Tales Nos. 18-20 were performed in the living room of a private brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; fleursBELLA, a flower studio in the East Village; and New York Theatre Workshop's Rehearsal Studio in Noho. Each location informed that evening's selection of tales and inspired drinks and snacks created especially for Piano Tales by Lot 2 (Owner/Chef Daniel Rojo and Owner/Bar Manager Dawn Kinstle).
Written, composed, and performed by James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis. Directed by Andrew Scoville. Production Design by Marika Kent. Assistant Production Design by Elizabeth Stewart. Produced by Madeleine Foster Bersin.
Piano Tales
Piano Tales is James and Jerome's ongoing celebration of storytelling, music, and the freedom that comes from not having a plan.
An old woman on her death bed asks two musician-storytellers to tell her a few tales in her final hour. The audience chooses which three tales will be told (out of a possible 10) that performance and in what order, by selecting objects from a trunk. Then James and Jerome tell those tales in a different way than they ever have before, discovering a totally new show right along with the audience.
Piano Tales Nos. 18-20 were performed in the living room of a private brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; fleursBELLA, a flower studio in the East Village; and New York Theatre Workshop's Rehearsal Studio in Noho. Each location informed that evening's selection of tales and inspired drinks and snacks created especially for Piano Tales by Lot 2 (Owner/Chef Daniel Rojo and Owner/Bar Manager Dawn Kinstle).
Written, composed, and performed by James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis. Directed by Andrew Scoville. Production Design by Marika Kent. Assistant Production Design by Elizabeth Stewart. Produced by Madeleine Foster Bersin.
PIANO TALES No. 18 from Madeleine Bersin on Vimeo.