One of the aims of PopUp is to take advantage of all of the “4D-ness” of theater and for our Broken City trilogy, nowhere in the world sets a better stage than the streets of New York. After exploring the Lower East Side in 2014 and Harlem in 2015, we are now preparing to present the final part of our Broken City Trilogy, this time investigating Wall Street.  
We chose Wall Street because it is the core of the American Dream. The stories will focus on the human transaction with time and achievement, not only in terms of success, but also exploring how we move ourselves through this world anchored to our past, in search of our future and imminently missing our present moments.

Conceived by PopUP Theatrics partners Ana Margineanu, Tamilla Woodard and Peca Stefan, real life and theatre collide in our 'street immersive' that invites nine audience members per performance to navigate the broken trails of stories, following the characters who populate this neighborhood of Manhattan.  Broken City: Wall Street is our love letter to this place and these people.
Additionally for this installment, we are collaborating with UK’s Sign Dance Collective, pioneers of the art form of Sign Dance Theatre. Led by the deaf and physically disabled artistic team of Isolte Avila and David Bower, this innovative company fuses sign language with dance, theatre and live music to create electrifying performances all over the world. 

​BROKEN CITY Company
Isolte Avila, Rachel Bennett, David Bower, Kayla Brantley, Nicole Cardoni, Orietta Crispino, Meggan Dodd, Tjasa Ferme, Edna Lee Figueroa, Ilya Gerasimenko, Everett Goldner, Sita Johnson, Sarah Louise Kane, Alexandria King, O'mer Koren, Nick Koukas, Lionel MaCauley, Cameron Mitchell Mason, Kanae Miyahara, Riti Sachdeva, Calaine Shafer, Mayu Shirai, Rafael Silva, Krystal Sobaskie, Bilal Walker, Lauren White
Playwright - Peca Stefan
Directors  - Ana Margineanu and Tamilla Woodard
Guest Collaborators/Choreographers: Isolte Avila and David Bower/SignDance Collective
Production Designer - Deb O
Assistant Directors - DeVante Lewis, Camila Perez, Alex Sollitto
Production Stage Manager - Violet Tafari
Associate Choreographer - Chelsea Gregory
Assistant Choreographer - Kanae Miyahara  
Producer - Sorrel Barnard
Associate Producers - Carly J. Bauer and Mark Brystowski
Production Assistant - Sienna Metzgar

PAST SHOWS:

Broken City: Harlem 2015
Real life and theatre collide in our Street Immersive for 9 adventurous audience members at a time set in one of New York Cities most famous and fabled neighborhoods, HARLEM, USA!  
BROKEN CITY: Harlem was conceived by PopUP Theatrics partners, Ana Margineanu, and Tamilla Woodard in collaboration with playwright Peca Stefan. This production highlights artists from Harlem and welcomes guest Playwright Sandra A. Daley-Sharif (Liberation Theatre), Director Ebony Golden (Betty’s Daughter Artist Collective) and a partnerships with Rythmes over Beats and National Black Theatre.

"I got a very private, intimate preview of this last night. Ended up crying my eyes out while being turned into a ghost by an actress no less than a foot away from me, a picnic blanket in the middle of Marcus Gravey Park in Harlem. It is one of the gutsiest, strangest, and most moving love letters to New York"
Mona Nicoara, audience member

Broken Dream
By Peca Stefan
Directed by: Tamilla Woodard
Assistant Director: Megan Correia
With:
Megan Correia
Blaire O'Leary
Danny Wilfred
Ayana Workman


Broken Spell
By: Peca Ştefan
Directed By: Ana Margineanu
Assistant Director: Carly J. Bauer
With:
Danielle Click
Tayi Sanusi
Caitlin Zoz

Special Thanks:
Patrick Blake at Rhymes Over Beats, Neal Ludevig at Harlem Arts Festival, Jonathan McCrory at National Black Theatre, Artist & Craftsman Supply Harlem, Madiba Harlem, Grandma's Place Toy Store, James A. Tyler, Kiersten Franz, Félix Luis García, Chris Komer, Leanne Stella, Linda Walton, Catherine Coray,Dina Vovsi, Shannon Stowe, Melissa Maxwell.

Broken Identity
By: Sandra Daley-Sharif
Directed by: Ana Margineanu
Assistant Director: Skyler Belt
with:
Cristian Balint
Jeremiah Cothren
Kenny Mathieu
Liz Torres
Hannah Wolff

Broken Trail
By: Peca Ştefan
Directed By: Tamilla Woodard
Assistant Director: Camila Perez
With:
Inés Garcia
Ilya Gerasimenko
Sarah Elizabeth Hewitt
Robin Johnson
Sita Johnson
Cameron Mitchell Mason
Calaine Schafer

Broken Life
By: Sandra Daley-Sharif
Directed By: Ebony Golden
Assistant Director: Lucca Damilano
With:
Everett Goldner
Ramona Tim Kee
Lionel M. Macauley
Joyce Miller
Jak Watson
Lauren White

Chelsea Gregory - Choreographer
Rishauna Zumberg - Assistant Chroreographer
Cynthia McDonald - Costume Designer
Sienna Metzger - Production Assistant

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Broken City: The Lower East Side 2014
was  presented during the undergroundzero festival  as a pilot of PopUpPTheatrics' series of intimate urban explorations. In this people watching expedition through Manhattan’s Lower East Side, audiences choose their own adventure as they navigate the broken trails of stories left behind by the people and places of this fabled post-immigrant/post-working class neighborhood. 

BROKEN CITY: LES
with:Nico Meyer Allen, Emily Altschul, Carly J. Bauer, Tanya Bravo, Catherine Cela, Danielle Click, Kyla Deichl, Edna Lee Figueroa, Stefano Fossa, Sarah Hewitt , Jessica Kahler, Kim Rios Lin , Blaire O’Leary, Osi, Sahadev Poudel, Meagan Stevenson, Zahra Thomas, Lauren White, Hannah Wolff , Zhu Yi, James 'Face' Yu, Caitlin Zoz
Peca Stefan - Playwright
Tamilla Woodard - Director
Ana Margineanu - Director
Dana Katz - Choreographer 
Cynthia McDonald - Costumes
Molly Morris - Producer
Mark Brystowski - Stage Manager
JessDick - Assistant Director