If You Can Get To Buffalo

By Trish Harnetiaux

Review in DC Metro Theatre Arts:
‘If You Can Get To Buffalo: An Exploration of a Rape in Cyberspace’ at Acme Corporation

Rachel Monroe’s interview with playwright Trish Harnetiaux in Baltimore Fishbowl:
New Baltimore Play Tackles “Totally Weird” 1990s Cyber Culture

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Skeleton Hearts

3 Short Plays:
Heart Happens by Lola B. Pierson,
Killer’s Head by Sam Shepard,
Rockaby by Samuel Beckett

“Best on Baltimore stages in 2013”

Killer’s Head — "This 10-minute monologue captures the final stream — make that torrent — of consciousness from a man in an electric chair. Presented in an almost uncomfortably intimate setting, the production (also directed by Nunns) features a performance of virtuosic nuance and arresting intensity from Chris Ashworth."
~ Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun (Read more.)

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Play

By Samuel Beckett

“Best Play - 2013” Baltimore City Paper

2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the first production of Beckett's seminal text, which presents three characters trapped in a Purgatory-like situation. In Acme's version, we take Beckett's stage direction—"repeat play"—at the end of the script literally, and the piece ran repeatedly for 12 hours starting at 12 p.m. on March 15 (concluding at 12 a.m. on March 16), and 24 hours starting at 12 p.m. on March 22 (concluding at 12 p.m. on March 23). Audience members could come to the performance anytime during the 12- or 24-hour run of the piece.

Video by Thomas Kessler

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Office Ladies

by Lola Pierson

"Best Playwright - 2013" ~ Baltimore City Paper

"Top 10 Stage Productions - 2012" ~ Baltimore City Paper

Read Robert Obrien’s interview with Alex Scally about the music in Office Ladies:
Beach House’s Alex Scally Writes Some “Really Rotten Office Music” for New Lola Pierson Play

Office Ladies The Acme Corporation in The Baltimore Sun:
Acme Corporation premieres 'Office Ladies'

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Thr3e Zisters

by Anton Chekhov

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Kaspar

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The World is Round

Adapted from the Gertrude Stein book by Lola Pierson

"If you have yet to experience Baltimore's alternative theater scene, this would make a great introduction. On just about every level, "The Word is Round" is a remarkable little gem. It lasts only about 45 minutes, but leaves a much longer glow."
~ Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun Read more...

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Stranger Kindness

Adapted, arranged, and directed by Stephen Nunns and Lola Pierson

"Best Play - 2017" ~ Baltimore City Paper

"Acme offers up probably the most radical and punk rock art thing happening in the city right now. And yet, it's faithful to the Williams play in the ways that matter—namely, mood, message, and atmosphere."
~ The Baltimore City Paper

"The whole experience is uncanny, difficult, and exhilarating."
~ Abraham Burickson, Odyssey Works

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Follow No Strangers to the Fun PLaces

Written by Lola Pierson, Directed by Lola Pierson and Stephen Nunns

"Best Play - 2018" ~ Baltimore Magazine

"[Follow No Strangers] is next-level stuff. And it’s brilliant."
~ Cassandra Miller, DCMetroTheaterArts

Follow No Strangers To The Fun Places explores the attempts of the artists creating it to manufacture beauty and meaning. One of the directors said this description is rather "workman-like," but even though the other director (who is also the playwright) is sick, the first director wouldn't take on the simple task of writing a one-sentence description of this show. The great work begins.

“...if there’s one thing Acme doesn’t do is odd and weird for its own sake. There’s an intentionality behind every element of the presentation… if you allow it, this Acme production encourages you to start thinking about everything else you consume in different ways. Take the red pill.”
~ Bret McCabe, Bmore Art

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Putin on Ice (that isn't the real title of this show)

Written by Lola Pierson, Directed by Yury Urnov

“I’m a pretty intelligent person, but I still don’t get it.” ~ JV Torres, MD Theatre Guide

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The Institute for Counterfeit Memory

Written & Directed by Lola B. Pierson

Starring Molly Cohen, Megan Livingtston, Bob Norman and Kaya Vision

Sound Design: Cricket Arrison

“Its ministrations so impressed me that when I turned over the final cue card instructing me to applaud, I actually did.” Peter Marks, The Washington Post

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The First Thing That Happens

Libretto by Lola B. Pierson

Score by Horse Lords (Andrew Bernstein, Owen Gardener, Max Eilbacher, and Sam Haberman)

Directed by Lola B. Pierson

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Introduction to Margolis Method Workshop

The Acme Corporation, Baltimore's premier experimental theatre company, and The Voxel, a new performance laboratory and incubator, are teaming up to present a free introductory workshop in the Margolis Method this August. Taught by Jarod Hanson (Lead Margolis Faculty), the class will meet once a week on Monday evenings for four weeks. Classes are free and open to the public (with advanced registration). Because the work will be cumulative we highly recommend attending all 4 classes if you can. No prior experience necessary.

Margolis Method merges vocal and physical expression and brings together the skill sets of the actor, director, and playwright. Explore an embodied approach to creation that offers practicable exercises to hone your craft as a storyteller. This series will introduce solo and ensemble structures as well as tools for both devised and pre-scripted work. Unleash your creativity in a dynamic, challenging yet supportive environment that will leave you inspired, energized, and empowered.

Jarod Hanson is a theatre artist and educator working in Baltimore and Philadelphia. He is a certified Margolis Method teacher and serves as Lead Faculty at the Margolis Method Center Int’l in upstate New York as well as a member of the MB Adaptors theatre company. He recently attained his MFA in Theatre from Towson University where he focused on further developing his pedagogy and practice of creating empowering, actor-centered theatre. He has taught and toured theatrical work internationally and has collaborated with Baltimore’s Acme Corporation, Single Carrot, and Truepenny Projects, as well as Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre and Die-Cast company. www.jarodhanson.com

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He Do the Police in Different Voices

An album musical
based on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

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Cast

Tom..................................................................................................................................... Ruben Del Valles

Vivienne..................................................................................................................................... Molly Cohen

Tiresius......................................................................................................................... O’Malley Steuerman

The Typist........................................................................................................................ Morgan Wenerick

Madame Sosostris/Woman in the Pub................................................................... Deirdre McAllister



Drum programming, synthesizers, recording engineering....................... Alexander MacSween

Guitar, bass, electric sitar, lap steel, keyboards, synthesizers................................ Stephen Nunns

Lyrics adapted from T.S. Eliot

Music composed and arranged by Stephen Nunns

Album mixed by Alexander MacSween

Produced by Stephen Nunns

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Acme needs your help!

Have you ever wanted to be part of a really cool organization that does some of the best experimental work in Baltimore? This is your lucky day! The Acme Corporation is looking for volunteers—folks to help out in all sorts of ways. Check out our list of needs below.

Contact us at contact@acmecorporation.org to let us know how you can help!

Pre-production:

• Fundraiser help: Currently we do all of our fundraising ourselves. We would be happy to have any volunteers at all help in any capacity.
• Hanging up posters: We can always use help with this!
• Help during tech: We always need extra hands during tech!
• Help with load-in and set construction: Possibly light crew too, though Eric’s style of designing on the fly doesn’t make this terribly useful...
• Setting up and overseeing ticketing: Events have to be input into our ticketing system manually. It takes a bit of time to learn (about twenty minutes), but then a person could do it for every show.
• P.R.: It would be great to have someone deal with contacting press (well in advance), writing press releases, etc. It would also be great to have someone help us post things to social media, which we are bad about!
• Childcare: In an effort to be more inclusive we would like to start offering free childcare whenever possible.
• Getting drink donations to sell at fundraiser and for shows: Typically Pen & Quill donates wine to us.
• Getting food donations: We have never done this, but we would like to try to start.

Running the shows:

• Volunteer organizer: Someone to find people to fill the roles outlined below.
• Box office workers: People who come just for the night of the show to sell tickets and check people in. Commitment level- 2 hours.
• Bar workers: People who work the bar for us before the show. Commitment level- 1 hour.
• House manager: We’ve never had anyone to do this, usually Lola or Stephen does it or they do it in tandem. It would be great to have a person who can consistently manage the box officer and bar person. Ideally this person could also do things like get ice for the bar, pick up change for the box office and bar, etc. This person would know the deal ahead of time and wouldn’t need to be trained on the night of. Commitment level --hard to predict, but maybe an hour of training ahead of time and then an hour and a half before each show.

General Admin:

• Board meetings: Scheduling board meetings.
• Dealing with merch: Ordering T-shirts, getting things made/printed.
• Finances: General bookkeeping, reimbursements and payments for artists after the shows.

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