Presented by Inter Poets Theater 

& Torn Page​

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2/3/2025

Torn Page, NYC

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This event sold out.

 

Voyages is about the short life of Modernist poet Hart Crane as he attempts to create a “mystic synthesis” of American culture in his writing while dealing with debilitating familial psychodrama and the dangers of loving men in a homophobic society. Careening through the Prohibition years in Cleveland, New York City, Hollywood, and the Gulf of Mexico, the drunken author challenges and attempts to transcend the moral order of his time and place. Surviving privation, humiliation, and the wages of vagabondage, Hart Crane negotiates the foibles and prejudices of literary friends and historical luminaries. Openly queer and with a penchant for sailors, Crane’s sex life is as scandalous and radical as his baroque, mythical, and yet strongly modern American verse. Exhaustively researched and full of linguistic pyrotechnics, Voyages animates the world of Hart Crane as never before. Join the poet on his voyage to discover Atlantis!

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This is a script reading for a work in development.

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Starring:

Dante Fuoco

Tony Torn

Hilary Dennis

Rezarta Seferi

Ry Cook

Lambert Tamin

Stu Watson

Kit James

Cecilia Corrigan

 

Written and Directed by Lonely Christopher

Produced by Lonely Christopher and Tony Torn

 

Production History:

South Street Seaport, NYC, Classics Downtown,

April 2023 (excerpt)

La MaMa Galleria, NYC, Experiments Play Reading Series, December 2018

 

Cast and Crew Bios

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Lonely Christopher is a multidisciplinary queer experimental writer of poetry, fiction, and drama for stage and screen. He is the author of five books, most recently the poetry collections In a January Would and the 10th anniversary reissue of Death & Disaster Series. He is the founding creative director of Inter Poets Theater, managing director of the Segue Foundation, and an editor for Roof Books. His plays have been presented in Canada, China, and the United States. His film credits include several international shorts and the feature MOM, which he wrote and directed. He has worked for a decade in the field of HIV treatment and prevention for homeless youth, at the Ali Forney Center and elsewhere. He has lived in Brooklyn for two decades.

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Ry Cook is a Brooklyn-based poet/performer who was recently awarded the Belladonna* Nonbinary Poetics residency. They have a BA in acting through International Performance Ensemble program at Pace University. Their work has been published by or is forthcoming in the New Republic, Brooklyn Rail, Iterant, Spiral Editions, Tupelo Quarterly, Rain Taxi, Archway Editions, No Dear, and others. Their first chapbook, ASUSHUNAMIR is coming out early spring through Blue Bag Press.

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Cecilia Corrigan is a writer and performer. As an actor, she has appeared in both film and theatrical roles, most recently in the 2023 independent film Mirror Moves. Her upcoming theater projects include a contemporary queer adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope, which Bedlam commissioned her to act in and adapt. Recent residencies include Marble House Project, where Corrigan was a 2024 Artist in Residence. As Issue Project Room’s 2016 Artist in Residence, she created and developed Motherland, a play and video series featured in Bomb magazine, which went on to run at The Brick in 2017.  As a poet, she was awarded the Madeline P. Plonsker Prize for her first volume of poetry, Titanic, published by Northwestern University Press in 2014. She is also the author of the chapbooks Cream (Capricious, 2016) and True Beige (Trafficker, 2013). Corrigan also writes for TV and film, with several original projects currently in development.

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Hilary Dennis is a conservatory-trained actor and producer based in NYC and Northampton, MA. Past theatre credits include Hamlet (New York Circus Project), 750% (The Secret Theatre), Timeshare (IHRAF), As You Like It (Junkyard Shakespeare), Misconceptions (Blessed Unrest), Hamlet (La MaMa ETC), The Winter's Tale (Rude Grooms), and numerous productions with Elsewhere Shakespeare. Last year, she founded Junkyard Shakespeare, "unprocessed theatre" that prioritizes paying actors a living wage. Before pursuing acting professionally, she was an organic farmer. @hilarygdennis @junkyardshakespeare

 

Dante Fuoco is a queer multidisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His theater work has been produced at Under St. Marks, Dixon Place, Brick Aux, and Moss Arts Center, among other places. Their poetry and non-fiction writing is published in (or forthcoming from) Split Lip Magazine, Foglifter, DIAGRAM, Poets.org, MAYDAY, and other places. Beyond art, Dante is an educator, restorative justice facilitator, avid swimmer, and girl about town.

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Kit James (He/Him) is thrilled to be cast in one of Lonely Christopher’s plays, whose work he’s been a fan of since he was Lonely’s assistant director 15 years ago. Kit began his acting career at the age of 8 at The Children’s Theater Company and Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis. He studied dramatic writing and theater at The Pratt Institute. His recent theater roles include the leading role of Dmitry in Snow Bird (a play about cis men, starring an all-transmasc cast), Billy Justin in Smoke, and Guy in Dancing for Brigid. His recent film credits include Liam in Let’s Dance and George/Transformed Tristan in The Stelion Lumineer. He is the 2nd-ever trans man in the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, for whom he’ll be directing and hosting the upcoming Trans Day of Visibility Concert at Cooper Union. His next film project will be leading as Charlie in Straight Talk.

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Rezarta Seferi is an actor and producer living in Brooklyn. She made her stage debut in the 2024 production of Cave Zero.

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Lambert Tamin recently wrapped production in a supporting role on the film WYAIH (working title) playing opposite Marc Menchaca (Ozark, The Sinner, Manifest, and The Outsider). Stage credits: the NYC premier of HOODED: Or Being Black for Dummies by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm at 59E59 Theaters, Taylor Mac’s world premiere of The Fre at The Flea Theatre, Mac Wellman's Bad Penny and Southern Promises (The Flea Theater), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), Naisula (Guild Hall, John Drew Theater), In Mysterious Ways (Theater at St. Clements), etc. Other film: Idea (by Itamar Moses), the Juilliard School's Thresholds (by Nathan Alan Davis), On The Floor, N.ot W.ithout A.lonzo, The Ballad of Bobby Carr. Lambert won a scholarship to study at the British Academy of Dramatic Art in Oxford, England and recently graduated with his MFA in drama from the Juilliard School. 

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Tony Torn is an actor and director based in New York. His more than 100 stage and screen credits include “JG Connell Senior” in Life and Trust with Emursive, “Lear/Oswald” in King Lear, directed by Karin Coonrod, "Ubu" in Ubu Sings Ubu (also adapted and co-directed), “Paul Swan’ in Paul Swan is Dead and Gone at Torn Page, "Cyclops/Mother" in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus at The Signature Theater, "Rusty Trawler" in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway, “Falstaff”, “Panderus” and “Caliban” in Oregon Shakespeare Company’s Play On! series.

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Stu Watson is a writer and artist who lives in Brooklyn. His previous theatrical work includes roles in Alien Suns and The Outsider by Rachel Mason and The Hostess Never Lies by Agathe Snow.

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Special thanks to Artists Space, Teddy Ednie, and Don Yorty.