I Love That For You
By Paul Budraitis
I Love That For You is an intimate solo performance that invites its audience to notice what death might teach us about living. Simple, direct, empathetic, the production offers a compelling shared experience that speaks to the ways that our acceptance of the end can bring us into greater presence in our relationships and in our world. At heart, I Love That For You is not about death. It is an honest and engaging community offering that hopes to help generate more life from the lives which we are already living.
Paul Budraitis was last seen at La MaMa in The Indigo Room, which he co-created with his colleagues Timothy White Eagle (lead artist) and HATLO. The Indigo Room premiered in The Downstairs at La MaMa, and then moved upstairs to the Ellen Stewart Theater, where it was shown as part of Under the Radar 2023.
Photo by Sebastian Pollin
Creator, director, performer: Paul Budraitis
Lights, Sound, Music: Evan C. Anderson
Scenic design: Simona Biekšaitė
Production consultant: Lennart Labarenz
Dramaturg: John Kendall Wilson
Evan Anderson - lights, sound, and music
Evan is a lighting designer and musician based in Brooklyn. Lighting: The Winter’s Tale, It’s A Wonderful Life (Hartford Stage); The Plot (Yale Repertory Theatre); Scenes With Girls (Theater Lab); Happy Life (The Hearth); the other shore (zoe | juniper); One Small Step (New Ohio); Every Five Minutes, The Motherfucker with the Hat (Washington Ensemble Theatre); The Realistic Joneses (New Century Theatre Company); The Holler Sessions (ACT); Caught, Grand Concourse (Seattle Public Theater). Music: The Slow Dance (59E59); the other shore, Clear and Sweet (zoe | juniper); She Will Come On Her Own (Lilach Orenstein). Evan is an alumni of Seattle rock bands Heavy Petting, Leatherdaddy, Merso, and Livingston Seagull. MFA: Yale School of Drama.
Simona Biekšaitė - scenic design
Simona Bieksaite is Berlin based visual artist, art director and spatial designer, working at the intersection of contemporary theatre, film and digital media. Her works have been shown at BAM, Berliner Ensemble, and a number of EU National stages. https://simonabieksaite.com/
Lennart Labarenz - production consultant
Lennart Laberenz is a historian, author and filmmaker. As a freelance journalist, he works for DIE ZEIT, DER FREITAG and 11FREUNDE, among others. As a filmmaker, he has worked, among other things, as a cameraman for the film “Crackling of Time” by Christoph Schlingensief.
John Kendall Wilson - dramaturgical consultant
Professor emeritus John Kendall Wilson retired from Cornish College of the Arts after a remarkable, 32-year career teaching theater history, dramaturgy, technical arts, and the history and theory of performance art. During his academic career, he became a champion of working collaboratively across disciplines. For him, the success of his career has been the success of the people he worked with. Most recently, he provided in-depth dramaturgical support as a member of the performance group Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle, as well as for the solo performance work of Paul Budraitis.