About this Event
Mammelephant is a musical epic following the first “mammelephant” as they try to make a hopeful future in a place where everything– knowledge, ancestry, even the ground beneath their feet– is unstable. The play is inspired by the Pleistocene Park geoengineering experiment, the Colossal de-extinction project, and an ancient Yakutian song-poem.
Journey with us to the Sakha Republic, where an experiment is brewing to resurrect the woolly mammoth and prevent the worst of climate change. The Indigenous Yakut people are already experiencing homes sinking and roads buckling from the thawing land.
What can one genetically-engineered creature teach us about resilience to crisis and adaptation in the face of collective loss?Written by Lanxing Fu
Directed by Nana Dakin
Performed by Jen Anaya*, Imani Russell, Izzy Sazak, and Zhanna Zakharova
Production Design by Alejandro Fajardo
Music Composed by Trevor New
Additional Song Composed by Treya Lam
Sound Design and Engineering by Trevor New
Additional Sound Design by Eva von Schweinitz
Costume Design by kindall houston almond
Crankie and Puppet Design by Lexy Ho-Tai
Music Direction by Erika Ji
Creative Produced by Jem Pickard
Stage Managed by Rachel Denise April
Graphic Design by Alexandra Kwiatkoski and Lanxing Fu
Photos by Rio & Kenny Che
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
Anticipated run time: 90 minutes
Photos featuring cast member Zhanna Zakharova playing the khomus, a traditional Yakutian instrument.
SUPERHERO CLUBHOUSE creates theater to enact climate and environmental justice, cultivate hope, and inspire a thriving future. We are an eco-theater company that makes original performances and offers creative resources for communities and collaborators from all walks of life: students, scientists, artists, organizers, teachers, policy-makers, and more. Our artistic processes bring people together across differences to model a regenerative society in response to the climate crisis. Our work is joyfully rooted in ecological knowledge, relationship to the land, and imagination as a powerful tool of future-building. Superhero Clubhouse is based in Lenapehoking (New York City), the occupied home of the Native Lenape people, whom we honor for their stewardship. www.superheroclubhouse.org
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
122 Community Center, 150 1st Avenue, New York, United States
USD 10.00 to USD 60.00