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Enchanter
Featuring a Special Surprise Guest
BY: Rowan Chappell, Monica Dailey and Ryan Conroy
Join the team behind viral found-footage horror sensation, Flat Circle Pictures, for the theatrical debut of Enchanter, the latest, greatest, and most mind-bending entry in the duo’s boundary pushing oeuvre. In their near decade long collaboration, Chloe Caldwell and Roco DeLuca have honed an inimitable style, spinning delightfully twisted tales from the threads of their own contentious relationship, the terrifying worlds of their creation, and that which lies beyond it all. If their work till now has been a weaving, Enchanter asks, what happens when we tug at the threads that bind our reality, and pour our unblinking attention into those dark, fathomless spaces between? Stick around after the show for a live Q+A!
We didn’t mean for it to get in. We didn’t mean for it to get this bad- it’s in the walls and it’s started taking people. If you see something f̷l̵i̶c̷k̶e̸r̵i̶n̴g̵ in the corner of your eyes or if you hear something at the back of your eustachian tubes or if you feel that creeping gnawing tingle at the back of your spine, it’s already too late. Please let house management know immediately.
Showtime
60 min | R
Saturday, Oct 17 7:30pm
Content Warning: Fog, flashing lights, loud sounds, blood
Bios
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Director/Performer
Rowan Chappell is an actor, writer and now director based in Portland. As a member and graduate of PETE’s recent ICP cohort, Rowan focused on work exploring the interactions of genre film and live theater. Though his artistic projects can skew strange and conceptual, Rowan’s highest aspiration is quite grounded -- generate meaningful passive income by playing Dungeons and Dragons on camera while moonlighting as a goth club go-go dancer.
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Creator/Performer
Ryan Conroy is an actor, writer, and deviser based in Portland. A recent graduate of PETE’s Institute of Contemporary Performance, they’re excited by performance that upsets conventional notions of theatre. They’ve trained extensively in Grotowski techniques, including with Raïna von Waldenburg (NYU/Simon Fraser) in her I Am One Who approach. They also love contact improv and experimenting with all sorts of dance and movement.
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Creator/Performer
Monica Dailey (she, her) is a queer Okinawan-American artist and lover of laughs. She’s a happy li'l' clam when writing, performing, directing, and editing weird sh*t for the stage 'n' screen. You prolly don’t recognize Mo from the HUMP! films she’s created, but mayhaps you’ve seen the rando commercials, web series, and short films she’s been in and produced. Mo is a 26’ graduate of PETE’s Institute of Contemporary Performance training program and has been getting freakier ever since.
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Haunted House Manager
Nathalie has been press-ganged into working as the house manager for the Stage Fright Festival at least once a year since the Festival began, and she has put that knowledge into her own studies. As a horror scholar, a synthesist, and a person who has to regularly clean up messes at Portland Center Stage, Nathalie is well equipped to deal with whatever entity may-or-may-not have snuck in through the side entrance of CoHo. Or die trying.
Her instagram is @weirdthingsforimaginarypeople, in case you see anyone with backwards hands. Or too many knees. Or a face made of static.