ALL MY LITTLE WORDS goes to Philly!
After great shows in both Bellingham and Portland, I’m so excited to be taking ALL MY LITTLE WORDS to Philadelphia to be part of the Cannonball Festival/Philadelphia Fringe!
ALL MY LITTLE WORDS will be performing at the Living Room at the Fidget space (1714 N Mascher St) on September 24th @12:30pm, 26th @5pm, and 27th @9:30pm. Get your tickets here!
Social Sciences Productions and Granmo+Bron present an evening of two solo shows. Longtime collaborators and friends Ashely Hollingshead and Devon Wade Granmo share the stage with their respective solo shows, ALL MY LITTLE WORDS and (untitled human composting play) for a special two night Portland engagement at The Headwaters Theatre.
Tickets
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ALL MY LITTLE WORDS: A Performance Lecture on Art and Failure
Created and performed by Ashley Hollingshead
I’m afraid of being an artist who doesn’t make art.
In 2004 Ashley met Nate while they were both undergrads. They became best friends and life long artistic collaborators…or that was the plan anyways.
In ALL MY LITTLE WORDS Ashley uses Nate’s unfinished graduate playwriting thesis as a jumping off point to explore the concepts of artistic failure, practice, and success. All the while examining their changing relationship with Nate and with their own artistic practice in this interactive performance/lecture/essay.
ALL MY LITTLE WORDS has been performed as part of The Third Mask Festival, The Rhino Festival, and been presented at Western Washington University, and The New Prospect Theatre.
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(untitled human composting play)
Text & Performance by Devon Wade Granmo
Direction & Design by Stephen Bron
Let’s Talk About Death. Let’s Sing the Song of Decomposition and Dance the Dance of Shuffling Bones. Let’s Parley With A Fungal Network. Let’s Turn Into A Flower. An Informational How-To on Human Composting interspersed with Nostalgia Death Trip Tangents, Indie Folk Songs Played on Cracked Organ, and Exuberant Dances, all contained within a world of Watercolor Mushrooms and Overhead Projector Silhouettes, (untitled human composting play) is a meditation on Death, Decomposition and How To Live When NOW IS ALL YOU HAVE.
(untitled human composting play) premiered at Brick Aux for the Exponential Festival in January 2023. Devon Wade Granmo (he/him) is a writer, performer & theater artist who hails from the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest and now lives and works in Brooklyn. In addition to his own work, he frequently performs and collaborates with other Brooklyn-based theater artists. He received his BA in Theatre from Reed College in 2006 and from 2007-2015 was an artistic producing company member of Action/Adventure Theatre, a theater
collective and performance venue which he co-founded in Portland, OR.
Stephen Bron (he/him) is a painter living and working in Brooklyn. He received his BFA in painting at The Cooper Union in 2015, and received his MFA in Painting at NYU in 2017.
devonwadegranmo.com stephenbron.com
ALL MY LITTLE WORDS: A Performance Lecture on Art and Failure
Created and Performed by Ashley Hollingshead
SPRING 2023 PERFORMANCES!
I’m afraid of being an artist who doesn’t make art.
In 2004 Ashley Hollingshead met Nate Harpel while they were both undergrads at Western Washington University. They became best friends and life long artistic collaborators…or that was the plan anyways.
In ALL MY LITTLE WORDS Ashley uses Nate’s unfinished graduate playwriting thesis as a jumping off point to explore the concepts of artistic failure, practice, and success. All the while examining their changing relationship with their collaborator and with their own artistic practice in this interactive performance/lecture/essay.
SPRING 2023 PERFORMANCES!
4/7 @ 7:30pm Old Main Theater Bellingham, Wa – Free & Open to the public!
4/8 @ 7:30pm New Prospect Theatre Bellingham, Wa – Tickets here
5/6-5/7 @ 7:30pm Headwaters Theatre, Portland, Or – With Devon Granmo’s Untitled Human Composting Play
DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION: Emma Goldman’s American Years is a new play written and directed by Ashley Hollingshead based upon the feared and famed Anarchist’s life. Starting with her infamous misquote “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” and ending with her deportation, DDR explodes the idea of Goldman: revolutionary Anarchist, free-love advocate, and “the most dangerous woman in America”.
A mash-up of contemporary dialogue, pop music, and the text from some of Goldman’s greatest speeches combine to explore the enduring concept of how to live your ideal when the world seems stacked against you. Of course, there will be dancing.
Featuring Cosmo Reynolds, Austyn Stone, Virginia Thayer, and kd sweaney
Written and Directed by Ashley Hollingshead
With Stage Management by Talle Selhorst
Projection Design by Tamara Carroll
Costume Design by Debra Muir
Light design by Sophina Flores
Social Sciences Productions 