Jesse Jae Hoon has been announced as one of the cohort members of the Orchard Project’s 2022 inaugural Adaptation Lab with his adaptation of Emily Guendelsberger’s On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did To Me and How It Drives America Insane. Excerpt from the BroadwayWorld report:
The Orchard Project (www.orchardproject.com) today announced its 2022 Lab programs as well as the names of participating artists and companies. The OP selected 38 projects or artistic teams from a competitive group of 1,417 applicants to participate in this year's programs. This year includes the official launch of a new Orchard Project Adaptation Lab - supporting innovative adaptation works in playwriting, performance art, and transmedia dramatic storytelling - as well as the continuation of the OP's existing labs supporting artists creating new work for theater, audio, and TV. The Orchard Project's Performance Lab will transition back to in-person work in Saratoga Springs, NY, while other labs will be hybrid and split between virtual and workshops in NYC and Los Angeles, allowing the Orchard Project to accelerate the work of innovative playwrights, screenwriters, and theater companies from a breadth of geographic locales while keeping staff and artists safe during the ongoing pandemic.
"The performing arts world has unfortunately lost some of its greatest resources devoted to supporting new artists, project development, and encouraging creative risk taking over the past two years. During this time, the Orchard Project has worked tirelessly to meet our artists' changing needs, and we are proud that - rather than shutting down or scaling back - we have actually increased our programs and are now supporting even more inventive artists and diverse voices. We are excited to embark on a year that mixes in-person residencies with hybrid labs - and we can't wait to see what this wonderful group of artists creates."
2022 ADAPTATION LAB
"This year's inaugural OP Adaptation Lab will focus on performance projects from an aesthetically diverse cohort of artists working in playwriting, technology, and transmedia storytelling. Through their distinct voices, this group of artists expands the definition of adaptation by reinventing, recontextualizing, and cross-pollinating existing source materials, dramatic and beyond. For us, these six projects are united by their rigorous and transgressive artistic interrogations, which are baked into every project on a conceptual level."
- Sam Max and Xiaoyue Zhang, Orchard Project Adaptation Lab Facilitators
JESSE JAE HOON, ON THE CLOCK: Adapted from journalist Emily Guendelsberger's gripping nonfiction account, On the Clock is a nonlinear nightmare that explores the unending mental torture of low-wage work in America.
ADAM KASSIM AND MONA KASRA, DREAMING IN EXILE: is an experimental adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters and Strindberg's A Dream Play through the lens of modern-day Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigrants, which will incorporate digital and immersive media.
SAM MAYER, poolboy3: the rat wife: poolboy00 is an obscure internet micro, micro celebrity. Ibsen is the father of realism. Both are fame hungry clout chasers with a terrible, explosive secret.
DAN O'BRIEN, BORGES AND ME: A stage adaptation of Jay Parini's acclaimed "novelistic memoir," Borges and Me takes us back fifty years, when Parini finds himself driving the famed Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges on a tour of the Highlands.
LIQING XU, SKINLESS: A re-imagination of the Chinese legend The White Snake as a queer gender-bending fairytale.
GARRETT ZUERCHER, PHILOCTETES: Performed in a hybrid of spoken English and American Sign Language, this adaptation of Sophocles is radically framed through the lens of Deaf culture to provoke dialogue about Disability politics and cultural appropriation.
This inaugural lab will be facilitated by Sam Max and Xiaoyue Zhang.