Building Houses On The Moon
PREMIERED 2001
This Award-winning touring production is described by InsideOut as an “Extraordinary theater piece that evokes both the isolation and the courage of GLBT youth in their struggle for identity and inclusion.”
The play is a tapestry of powerful, poignant, and sometimes hilarious vignettes inspired by the internet posts of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth from around the world and deals with gender and sexual orientation identity issues, the role of straight allies, homophobia, family and peer relationships, and inclusion and safety at school. Student groups and educators have embraced BUILDING HOUSES as a powerful tool for education and support.
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Artistic Team
DAVID CARSON
DIRECTOR
Jeffrey Solomon
Playwright
Jeff is the co-founder of Houses on the Moon Theater Co. Playwright: Tara’s Crossing (Tenement Theatre, NY), Building Houses on the Moon (City Theatre, Pittsburgh), and De Novo, which he also directed (New York Theatre Workshop/Next Door and 59E59 St. Theaters, Palacio Tecleño, El Salvador). Writer/Performer of MotherSON (HERE Art Center), Fourth Floor (Mumbai, India), The Barefoot Café (Colombo, Sri Lanka), The Cultural Center of the Philippines, New End Theatre and Oval House Theatre (London, UK), Edinburgh Fringe and Theater Works in Melbourne, Australia. Joseph Jefferson Nomination for Best Actor (Bailiwick Rep, Chicago). Audience Favorite, Best Playwriting, and Best Male Solo Performer (National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival). Best Male Performance (Absolut Gay Theatre Festival in Dublin, Ireland). Jeff’s other solo play, The Santa Closet (formerly Santa Claus is Coming Out), premiered at the Kirk Theatre on Off Broadway’s Theatre Row (Penguin Rep), revival Houses on the Moon Theater Co (Teatro Circulo). Diversionary Theatre (San Diego), Celebration Theatre (Los Angeles), and the Dublin International Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. The play received the Award for Best of the National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. Jeff wrote the Television pilot for Jim Henson’s CityKids, which received an Emmy nomination for Best Children’s Special and an Ollie Award for Excellence in Children’s Programming and was a staff writer for the same program. Jeff is a MOTH Grand Slam Champion and has been featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour. He is the host, director, and co-producer of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, available on all podcast platforms.
Andrew Ingkavet
Music
Many moons ago, Andrew Ingkavet helped found this company and continues to contribute music (and designed the logo!) With over 30 years experience as educator, designer, composer & entrepreneur, he was a VJ for MTV-Asia, an award-winning composer for theater & film and is currently CEO/Founder of the Musicolor Method® (https://themusicolormethod.com) a unique approach to music education, now taught throughout the world. Andrew holds a BA Music from NYU with post-grad studies at Mannes College of Music, ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring Workshop, SVA and The Juilliard School. Let’s continue to shoot for the moon with theater that awakens…
Cast
Carlo D’Amore
Cast
Carlo is an award-winning actor, a playwright, a Drama Desk Nominated director, a producer, as well as an experience designer and the creative director and founder of Live in Theater Productions (LIT LLC). The work of LIT has been experienced by hundreds of thousands in between New York City, Madrid, Spain, and Austin Texas.
BROADWAY ACTING CREDITS: “Summer and Smoke” The Roundabout Theater Company, directed by David Warren “Latinologues” Helen Hayes Theater directed by Cheech Marin.
OFF-BROADWAY ACTING CREDITS: The Lark, Urban Stages, Repertorio Espanol, Ensemble Studio Theater, Manhattan Playhouse, Lucille Lortel Theater, Rattlestick Theater, Intar, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, The Theater at Riverside Church, 59E59, The TBG theater, The NY-Historical Society, Houses On The Moon Theater Company, & Live in Theater.
REGIONAL ACTING CREDITS: San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theater, The Sacramento Theater Company, San Jose Repertory Theater, San Diego Repertory Theatre, The San Francisco Playhouse, Theater Rhino. Penguin Rep, Passages Theater Company.
FILM AND TELEVISION: When In Rome” by Touchstone Pictures, “I the Sinner” (Yo Pecador) in Bogotá, Colombia. “Fly Trap” & “The Tool” by Miles Kahn. “State Property 2” by Lionsgate Films. “Strapped” & “Beautiful Something” By Altar Boy Productions HBO’s “OZ”, “Pan Am” by ABC. “Kurt” by Polish cinematographer Łukasz Swaryczewski. DIRECTING CREDITS: “Voices From Guantanamo” for Actors and Poets Group. “De Novo” for Houses on The Moon, Central America tour. The interactive site-specific hits “The Ryan Case 1873”, “Lombardi Case 1975’, “The Murder of Venus Xtravaganza 1988”, “Fierce & Deadly 1988”, “The Pinkertonian Mystery”, “The Trial of Typhoid Mary 1915”, “J&K 1965 – An immersive love story” “Spirit of the Torch”, “Open Mind – A Simulife” for Meow Wolf, for SXSW Festival 2018.
Emily Joy Weiner
Cast
Emily Joy Weiner is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Houses on the Moon Theater Company. Since the company’s inception in 2001 she has been creating, developing, performing, producing and directing new works that explore the complex and sensitive issues of our time. Directing highlights include THE ASSIGNMENT (ART/New York Theatres), THE SANTA CLOSET (Teatro Circulo), and the touring storytelling production of gUN COUNTRY. Performance highlights include COMING THROUGH (American Place Theatre), OTHELLO (West End Theater), FEFU AND HER FRIENDS (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and DE NOVO (Next Door at NYTW). She penned and performed in SHARED SENTENCES which premiered in 2022 (Theater 122CC) and co-developed and toured a one-woman adaptation of Faulkner’s AS I LAY DYING with the late Wynn Handman. The League of Professional Theatre Women honored Emily with the Josephine Abady award for her work with Houses in the creation of multicultural works.