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Rae Mariah MacCarthy:
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Saturday, August 10th at 7:00pm
Sunday, August 11th at 7:00pm
LOCATION: Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) | 421 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Tickets: $15.00
JACK, in partnership with BAX, presents Mass, a secular, communally-created reimagining of a Catholic church service. Your priest for the evening is Rae, a genderqueer witch and part-time slut who played “church” as a kid. But the content of this mass is up to you. Come with a reading (your favorite poem, the text you sent your Dad), or a hymn (that dance track you can’t stop listening to, the lullaby your grandma sang to you as a kid). Or don’t, and just enjoy other people’s offerings. This is not a show; it’s an experiment. All faiths and lacks thereof enthusiastically welcomed. Let’s redefine sacred.
Rae Mariah MacCarthy (they/them) is an award-winning writer, a performer, and a birth mother. Their first novel, Squad, was published in Spring of 2019 by FSG. Their plays have been performed and developed all over the world; venues and incubators include EST, Culture Project, Rattlestick, Primary Stages, Edinburgh Fringe, Know Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, New Dramatists, La MaMa, HERE, Dixon Place, The Brick, Atlantic Stage 2, Fringe NYC, subway stations, and various apartments. Plays include Honors Students, Baby Mama, Magic Trick, The Foreplay Play, The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret, and Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story. The New York Times called their immersive party play, Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion “a lot of fun.” Awards: The Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award; Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences; PoNY nominee. They live in Astoria with their cat, Sophie.
Kacey Anisa Stamats (Acolyte) is a multidisciplinary artist working in film, theatre, and photography. Her photos appeared in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Edinburgh Evening News and her short films have shown at collaborative art gatherings and theatrical events Acts of Whimsy, SPARK: Dance Forum, GreenCard Wedding (in-concert), Speed Killed My Cousin and more. She has Stage-Managed at The Kennedy Center, Ashland Theatre Festival, Here Arts Center, La Mama, 59E59 and for site-specific theatre. But that isn’t happening anymore. Director credits: Assumptions, Or The Man in the Bear Suit, NYC Icon Plays, A Relationship's Beginning in 10 Acts, OpenLoveNYC, The Consequences of Happiness, Washington D.C. Black Theatre Festival. Associate Director: J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files.Upcoming Cinematography includes works by Grace Connolly, Storm Garner, Keith Eric Chapelle, and personal experimental shorts Rhubarb and Orange Thief. Kacey lives with her familiar, Artemis, and these creatures @twocatsdoingthesamething
Sunday, August 11th at 7:00pm
LOCATION: Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) | 421 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Tickets: $15.00
JACK, in partnership with BAX, presents Mass, a secular, communally-created reimagining of a Catholic church service. Your priest for the evening is Rae, a genderqueer witch and part-time slut who played “church” as a kid. But the content of this mass is up to you. Come with a reading (your favorite poem, the text you sent your Dad), or a hymn (that dance track you can’t stop listening to, the lullaby your grandma sang to you as a kid). Or don’t, and just enjoy other people’s offerings. This is not a show; it’s an experiment. All faiths and lacks thereof enthusiastically welcomed. Let’s redefine sacred.
Rae Mariah MacCarthy (they/them) is an award-winning writer, a performer, and a birth mother. Their first novel, Squad, was published in Spring of 2019 by FSG. Their plays have been performed and developed all over the world; venues and incubators include EST, Culture Project, Rattlestick, Primary Stages, Edinburgh Fringe, Know Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, New Dramatists, La MaMa, HERE, Dixon Place, The Brick, Atlantic Stage 2, Fringe NYC, subway stations, and various apartments. Plays include Honors Students, Baby Mama, Magic Trick, The Foreplay Play, The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret, and Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story. The New York Times called their immersive party play, Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion “a lot of fun.” Awards: The Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award; Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences; PoNY nominee. They live in Astoria with their cat, Sophie.
Kacey Anisa Stamats (Acolyte) is a multidisciplinary artist working in film, theatre, and photography. Her photos appeared in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Edinburgh Evening News and her short films have shown at collaborative art gatherings and theatrical events Acts of Whimsy, SPARK: Dance Forum, GreenCard Wedding (in-concert), Speed Killed My Cousin and more. She has Stage-Managed at The Kennedy Center, Ashland Theatre Festival, Here Arts Center, La Mama, 59E59 and for site-specific theatre. But that isn’t happening anymore. Director credits: Assumptions, Or The Man in the Bear Suit, NYC Icon Plays, A Relationship's Beginning in 10 Acts, OpenLoveNYC, The Consequences of Happiness, Washington D.C. Black Theatre Festival. Associate Director: J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files.Upcoming Cinematography includes works by Grace Connolly, Storm Garner, Keith Eric Chapelle, and personal experimental shorts Rhubarb and Orange Thief. Kacey lives with her familiar, Artemis, and these creatures @twocatsdoingthesamething
