Autumn Widdoes

I am a playwright, poet, director and a performance artist whose work explores the multiple intersections between written/spoken language and physical movement/dance. I explore the nuance of language and social issues in my plays as well as in the transmission of memory, both cultural and personal, and its interconnections to environment and place.

I've developed work through The Field’s FAR Space Residency Grant, and I've shown or performed in work in NYC at Dixon Place, the Brick Theater, Grace Exhibition Space, Bowery Poetry Club, Galapagos, AUNTS is Dance, Inbred-Hybrid Collective, WAXworks @ Triskelion Arts Center, the 2009 Movement Research Festival (with AUNTS), the &Now Festival of Innovative Art & Literature (Buffalo, NY), The Poetry Cafe of the Poetry Society (London, UK)...

I am a playwright, poet, director and a performance artist whose work explores the multiple intersections between written/spoken language and physical movement/dance. I explore the nuance of language and social issues in my plays as well as in the transmission of memory, both cultural and personal, and its interconnections to environment and place.

I've developed work through The Field’s FAR Space Residency Grant, and I've shown or performed in work in NYC at Dixon Place, the Brick Theater, Grace Exhibition Space, Bowery Poetry Club, Galapagos, AUNTS is Dance, Inbred-Hybrid Collective, WAXworks @ Triskelion Arts Center, the 2009 Movement Research Festival (with AUNTS), the &Now Festival of Innovative Art & Literature (Buffalo, NY), The Poetry Cafe of the Poetry Society (London, UK), Subterranean Arthouse (San Francisco, CA), Okinawa Christian University (Okinawa, Japan), and at the Tampa Museum of Art (Five by Five 2014 and GASP! Festival 2015). I am the co-founder and artistic director of TASK 沖縄, a bilingual performance collective based in Okinawa, Japan. I received my Masters in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and my Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I've lived in Germany, England, Vietnam, and Japan and am currently based in Las Vegas.

Full-length plays:
Lame C(ity)++
The Half-Life of Eternity

Full-length dance theater texts for performance:
Echoes Through
A Trace of the Echo
I/Labyrinth

One Act plays:
Kenji and Ai

Short dance theater/movement theater texts for performance:
A Homecoming
Alice at the Edge of the Universe
"What Can I Do Now That I've Spent My Life Studying the Physics of Goodbye" (After John Yau's "Borrowed Love Poems")

Short dance films:
SIREN CALL (I will tell you something you don't want to hear)

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Scripts

LAME C(ITY)++

by Autumn Widdoes

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
satire,
verse

It’s 20XX and the global economy has finally destroyed everything, including itself. EMPLOYEE A (ANNIE) and EMPLOYEE S (SCOTT) work in the Lame City, a large corporate complex in Anywhere, USA. The Lame City is on the verge of collapse and A and S, along with several other employees, witness the catastrophic last days of corporate America. What rises from the wreckage finds its beginnings there.

It’s 20XX and the global economy has finally destroyed everything, including itself. EMPLOYEE A (ANNIE) and EMPLOYEE S (SCOTT) work in the Lame City, a large corporate complex in Anywhere, USA. The Lame City is on the verge of collapse and A and S, along with several other employees, witness the catastrophic last days of corporate America. What rises from the wreckage finds its beginnings there.