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Theater Work

With Casual FreyDay
  • Containertopia!
Collaboratively written, designed, and composed by Julia Frey and Sam Day Harmet, Containertopia is a 21st-century take on vaudeville that looks at the ever-shrinking living spaces that New Yorkers submit themselves to. With synthesizer-heavy Weimar cabaret tunes, original music, and projection-based set design, this multimedia cabaret explores and exposes the popular trend of tiny living.  Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, April 2017. Philly Fringe Festival, September 2017.

  • A People's History of Silicon Valley
A synth-pop send-up of techno-utopianism and start-up bros. This byte of multimedia music-theater skewers and scrutinizes the inequalities and myopia of the tech world, based on the book by Keith Spencer. Connecticut College's Ammerman Symposium (February 2018), Live Composition Festival at Gemini & Scorpio Loft in Brooklyn (May 2018), Ars Nova ANT Fest (June 2019)

With Irondale Ensemble
  • Brecht in Exile Pt. 1: Galileo
​Part one of a cycle of Brecht plays written during Brecht's exile from Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Galileo is a reexamination of the classic play about Galileo's struggle for truth against the Catholic church with a new original score by Sam Day Harmet that nods to the original Hanns Eisler score, but lives largely in the 21st century with abundant electronic sounds mixed with banjos and clarinets. Irondale Center, Brooklyn, NY, Winter 2019.

  • Brecht in Exile Pt. 2: Good Soul of Setzuan
​Part two of a cycle of Brecht plays written during Brecht's exile from Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. The parable follows Shen Tei, the kind-hearted, penniless prostitute, found by a trio of Gods to be the only decent person in the city. With an original score from Sam Day Harmet drawing inspiration in equal parts from Hanns Eisler, Turkish psych music, and Portishead. Irondale Center, Brooklyn, NY, Winter 2020.

Other
  • Gifts (for Letter of Marque Theater Company)
A contemporary reinterpretation of the Gift of the Magi story with gypsy jazz-inspired underscoring composed by Sam Day Harmet.  Played by a four piece band with violin, accordion, upright bass, and mandolin.  Access Theater, Dec 2014

  • The Tarot Show (for Opera Nouveau)
A chance-infused story using the archetypes of the tarot.  Featuring a quartet (clarinet/cello/guitar/percussion) conducted by Sam Day Harmet with a responsive score using Soundpainting, a live composition gesture-based language.  HERE Arts Center, Sep 2015

  • Molly Murphy Meets Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Our Last Day on Planet Earth (an Ars Nova feature)
A comical synth-pop oriented musical with music direction by Sam Day Harmet.  Ars Nova Theater, June 2015

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