Photo by Ashley Kate Adams.
On January 17th at the Wild Project, Sean Gill's production company, Junta Juleil, celebrated its tenth anniversary. The program included the short play "Chainsaw Alley's a Helluva Place to Be at 3 O'Clock in the Morning, or at Any Other Time" (starring Jillaine Gill and Amanda Peck, directed by Joe Stipek); the dance piece "Killer Workout" from Stage Blood is Never Enough (starring Danielle Marie Fusco, Robyn Nielsen, Nicki Miller, Michael Porsche, Zahra Hashemian, Brian Rubiano, and Eric Schmalenberger, directed by Rachel Klein); a block of Sean Gill films (including excerpts from In Search of Wenders, Schizophrenic Love Cinema, The Tragedie of Admiral Cigarette, Mather Point, and Highly Confidential, and the complete versions of Escape from Staten Island, Thursday Night, Mustache Party, The Composition, Makin' a Martini, and The Everlasting Vintage); a celebrity roast of Junta Juleil by comic Kerryn Feehan; a reading of Sean Gill's "...And the Streets Ran Pink" by Joe Stipek; readings of "Barfly's Lament," "Selections from Ayn Rand's Film & Video Guide," and "The Quarry," by Sean Gill; a tribute to Go-Go Killers! (starring Elizabeth Stewart, directed by Rachel Klein); and a surprise Junta Juleil tribute by Rachel Klein, featuring all of the above cast in addition to Chris Cipriano, David F. Slone, Preston Burger, and Angela Harriel.
10 Years of Junta Juleil: "Take My Breath Away" from Sean Gill on Vimeo.
Sean Gill
Sean Gill's The Everlasting Vintage, as well as Girls Before Swine, his collaboration with Rachel Klein, will be screening this year as official selections at the 19th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan. The screening begins at 7:45 P.M. on Saturday, May 24, and the theater is located at 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets. This is a free event.
