A play about the humanity of Elephants and the Elephantness of humansAbout this Event
ElephantWoman tells the story of Nomi, a matriarch in an elephant herd, which is slowly being hunted down by poachers. She shines a light on the extraordinary emotional life of elephants, especially in love and grief. The play explores the humanity of elephants and the elephantness of humans as it examines the parts of ourselves that are on the verge of extinction.
Written and performed by Megan Metrikin
Directed by Simon Fortin
Associate Director - River Knight
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
All proceeds will be split between these two increible organizations:
Save The Elephants and Reteti Elephant Sanctuary
Doors open at 6:40pm
Rutgers Church is hanicapped accessable.
Assisted listening devices are available upon request.
Megan Metrikin was born in South Africa and completed her theater studies at the University of Cape Town. She recently performed the roles of Arkadina and Lubov in Adult Film Company’s Sea Gull and Cherry Orchard. Since moving to New York, she has written and performed two solo shows Elephantwoman and Finding Fellini, which won “Best Solo Show" at the Midtown International Theatre Festival and “Best Actress” at the United Solo Festival. Finding Fellini was performed at Theatrelab, La Mama, The New York Fringe and Frigid Festival. Megan also performed the Leading role in Sophiatown, designed by William Kentridge, which toured internationally. She worked extensively at Johannesburg’s Market Theater where credits include The Dybbuk, Flight, Speed the Plow, The Tempest, Cowboy Mouth, Hamlet, La Ronde, Exit the King, Love Story in Maputo, Calldewey Farce, Tooth and Nail (Handspring Puppet Company) and The Lulu Sex Tragedies. Megan worked for several years in Cape Town’s experimental Glass Theatre Company.Her film work has included performances in Shot Down, which won best film at the Mannheim film festival and The Howling Part IV.
Son and grandson of Canadian actors, Simon Fortin trained at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique du Québec, then at Drama Studio London. A member of both American and Canadian Actors’ Equity for the last 40 years, he has acted and sung in more than 80 professional stage productions in Canada, England and the United States. In Canada, he received many awards and distinctions: three best actor awards at the Prix de la Culture, one Felix award from the ADISQ, and many other nominations including The Dora Award for Best New Play in Toronto, and Best Actor in a Musical at New Hampshire Theater Awards (as Tateh in Ragtime). He has appeared in numerous television shows and films. He is the author of several plays and television dramas produced in both French and English and published in English and Romanian. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC/Radio-Canada) has produced and aired six of his works. In 2005, he received an MA in Shakespeare Studies from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Then he obtained a doctorate degree in English (Renaissance Studies) for his dissertation Dying to Learn, Learning to Die: The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama, from City University of New York, Graduate Center.
River Knight is an actor, writer, and director. Their recent directorial work includes Cowboy Mouth at Adult Film a Theater Company in Bushwick, and The King’s Men at the Waterfront Museum, in Red Hook. Two of River’s own plays have been featured at Twenty Something’s: A Thousand Dreadful Things and Gray Whale (in which they played Chris). They have been a professional theater maker for the last two years following their graduation from NYU where they studied at Stella Adler.
Event Venue
Rutgers Presbyterian Church, 236 West 73rd Street, New York, United States
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