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Updated 7/24/2023

The EPs

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    CT

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

The EPs are a creative partnership of ten years, primarily focused on making music theater at the intersection of fine and folk art. With a do-it-yourself ethic rooted in the intimacy of oral tradition and an embrace of neuroqueer practices and aesthetics, we tell stories in active conversation with our audience and with the world around us. We believe that theater is a fundamentally empathic art form, uniquely capable of helping us to better understand ourselves and each other. Our work has been called:

  • “Bracingly original, astonishingly resourceful, and daringly theatrical;”
  • “a rasping hoot…coarse, abrasive and a little bit brilliant;”
  • “an intimately affecting laboratory;”
  • and “a joy to listen to…a beautiful tapestry of sound.”

Our co-founders are:

Sam Plattus is a neuroqueer and non-binary artist whose work embraces liminality and muddle, celebrates queer minds and bodies, and encourages audience complicity; they believe in revealing how the magic trick is done, eliminating the barrier of spectacle, and allowing the audience to wonder at the story rather than the effect. They are a director, actor, and producer; a graduate of Bowdoin College with a BA in English & Theater; and an alum of the Advanced Directing Program with the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Sam studies filmmaking with the Take Action Workshop. www.samplattus.com

Jay Eddy is a disabled genderqueer person with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Complex Trauma breeds a queer temporality (meaning: a non-linearexperience of time), and so their work as a generative artist is rooted in a trauma-informed Weird Futurity (meaning: predestined sense of what-is-to-come as a repeating pattern of what-has-been). They are a writer, composer, and performer; a recent composer-in-residence at Yaddo, Jonathan Larson Grant finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, and Connecticut Office of the Arts fellow. They earned their BA in Stage and Screen Studies (self-designed) from Bowdoin College and their MA in Music Theatre from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. www.jayeddy.com

Find Me

Sam Plattus
Job Title: Co-founder
Address:
New Haven, CT 06511

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Partnership

Year Founded:

2014

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Partnership

Year Founded:

2014

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Theater - Musical

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • General Public
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • People with Disabilities

Geographic Reach:

  • Multi-State Region

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