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This is the official “Dark” teaser trailer for “Unending Repetition”. It is called “dark” to obscure some of the more graphic elements of the trailer. The play premieres in NYC on Saturday, August 19 at noon with several other one-act plays, including our other play “Treason.”
The video is viewable on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/u2JwzqKsIEE
K. Orozco-Verderber in “Unending Repetition”
Here is a teaser photo of Katherine Orozco-Verderber as “Orion” in our new Main Stage production “Unending Repetition” premiering in New York City in collaboration with the Equity Library Theatre. The play, written and directed by Michael Verderber, will have a one-time performance on August 19th in New York while a Texas performance will be scheduled for the future. Dramaturgy and co-direction by Julio Martinez and a score by Robert Trujillo.
Glad you asked! Here is a quick roadmap of the shows we have done since our last few updates. Reminder, much of our up-to-the-minute updates can be found on our Facebook page.
Here are the production numbers and what they were:
106 – NEVERLAND LOST Dark Tour, ties several fairy tales together
107 – CHRISTMAS OFF THE SHELF holiday film, available on YouTube and Facebook
108 – A NIGHT AT THE OPAL Dark Tour. A noir musical Dark Tour set in gangland Boston
109 – ALICE IN CIRCUS Prom, two simultaneous performances at two proms. One staged in a carnivalesque style and another set in Wonderland.
110 – SONNET 147 “My love is as a fever…” poetry video, available on Facebook
111 – SONNET 130 “My mistress’ eyes…” poetry video, another chapter in an on-going series of Shakespeare videos that work individually, but collectively tell one story. Available on Facebook and YouTube.
Here are the collection of “Neverland Lost” flyers that have been used to promote the show! From top to bottom, these flyers feature actresses Ryann Haese as Sleeping Beauty (bloody face), Amy Ziyad as Pied Piper (hair in face), and Katherine Verderber-Orozco as Vasilisa (with doll head).
And be sure to check out the Zero Untitled Facebook to see out official trailer and the promo video “One Minute In Neverland: Meet Vasilisa”!
Zero Untitled is diving into new territory with our first ever audio-play “Empathy a Mom Blog”! Listen to it here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lBDNhGuKUaM
Our flyer for upcoming auditions for TWO Dark Tours. Titles have been withheld at the moment, but both plays have been written and chosen. Find out more soon.
Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/657895864366655/
Katherine Orozco-Verderber leading class
Following are successful Education classes in previous years (Mimes, Grace, etc), we introduced our two latest one-day class workshops focusing on global accents: “British Accents” and “Irish and Russian Accents” over a two day period.
On Monday July 18th, ZU Main Stage Director Katherine Orozco-Verderber and Michael Verderber team-taught a three-hour session on utilizing the British accent. Actors introduced themselves and created dialogue while practicing accents. Afterwards, the actors watched film clips for mimicry and tongue-placement practice and performed in an improv game to test their newfound abilities.
On Tuesday, July 19th, both Verderbers team taught Irish and Russian accents. The class began with Michael Verderber teaching Irish accents, with a heavy focus on tongue placement. As before, the class used conversational dialogue and learned terminology to aid in the learning process. Katherine led the Russian class, also utilizing clips and language to assist. By class’s end, the class was split into two groups and were challenged to play improv games in the accent they felt weakest in.
Set List:
“Do Robots die and go to Heaven?” / Poem – Julio Martinez
“The Vanishing Heart” / prose by Michael Verderber
“By The Numbers” Premature Punchline (feat. Elie, Verderber, and Julio)
OPEN MIC – “Violent Eyes”, “To The Shore”, “Era in Disguise” and “Untitled” / poems by Nicholas Sollitto
“Still Lingers” poem by Michael Verderber
PLAY – “The Suppressed” (written and dir. by Michael Verderber)
Waitress – Rebekah Ramos
Ophelia – Ryann Haese
Yoel – Robert Trujillo
“Orlando” poem by Katherine Orozco-Verderber
OPEN MIC – “Casual Tragedy” and “Didn’t” / poems by Andrea Lorin
“Middle School Dating Game” Premature Punchline (feat. Robert, Elie, Beth, and Drea)
“Reskin” Poetry by Julio
“Poems by Marlowe” / read by CJ Lillie
PLAY – “The Legacy I Want To See” (written by Julio Martinez, dir. Andrea Lorin)
Claire – Beth Marie Cantu-Castillo
John – Robert Trujillo
SONG – “Tonight, You Belong To Me” (perf. by Andrew Saldivar and Beth Marie Cantu-Castillo)
“Molting” Poetry by Julio
“Quoteline” Premature Punchline (feat. Julio, Verderber, Robert, Elie, Drea, and Beth)
PLAY – “Seeing is Misbelieving 2” (written by Verderber and dir. Robert Trujillo)
Professor Ford – Julio Martinez
Cory – Andrea Lorin
Emily – Beth Marie Cantu-Castillo
Juanita – Elie Andrade
SONG – “The Name Song” Michael Verderber
Zero Untitled has so many assorted ideas and bits, that we often run out of places to do/perform them. Thus, the brainchild project of Katherine Orozco-Verderber, #ZeroLife was born. Essentially, #ZeroLife (our 101st production) is the culmination of several of our bits, clips, outtakes, songs, and other assorted goodies that don’t quite fit in our lineup. Although the releases are still coming, here is what has been released thus far. All of these can been seen on the Zero Untitled Facebook page. So far, this is a summer project, but more projects will be released in the next few months.
Check them out here: https://www.facebook.com/Zero.Untitled/
ZERO-101.1 – Hamilton “Satisfied” cover (recreational cover song)
ZERO-101.2 – ZU Blooper reel
ZERO-101.3 – “Poodle Insults Verderber” (behind the scenes)
ZERO-101.4 – “I Wanna Try That!” (short film)
ZERO-101.5 – “Tonight, You Belong To Me” (live cover at Textual Overture)
ZERO-101.6 – “Middle School Dating Game” (live performance by PrePunch)
Our 99th, that’s right ninety ninth production is out! We are one show shy of our 100th. That, of course, does not include the myriad one acts we’ve done before which actually puts our show total to somewhere in the mid 160s.
But enough bragging, please enjoy the book trailer for co-Mainstage Director Katherine Orozco-Verderber’s “Gumball Badges” available now on Amazon.
Here is a link to the Facebook page that the film is currently viewable on: https://www.facebook.com/Zero.Untitled/
Or here: https://youtu.be/P5fIUgp9k5k
