Selected Theater Projects

Airj Fist Airj Fist (1999)
Peer Gynt inverted
Featuring: Casey Spooner, Mot Filipowski, Magica Bottari, Elanit Kayne
The Forgery The Forgery (1998-1999)
Featuring: Casey Spooner, Magica Bottari, Ford Wright, Amy Galper
Bathe Me! Bathe Me! Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights! (1996)
Musical by Jon Langford of the MEKONS with Bobby Conn, Marianne Potje, Amy Galper, Ford Wright, Jim Skish
Dear Dear (1995)
Featuring: Casey Spooner, Ford Wright, Jim Skish, Marianne Potje, Amy Galpe
Akogari No Pari Akogari No Pari (1994)
Third part of Japanese trilogy.
Based on the Takarazuka Revue.
Featuring: Casey Spooner, Marianne Potje, Jim Skish.
Throes Throes (1994)
Based on Oshima's film The Cruel Story of Youth.
Featuring: Amy Galper, Casey Spooner, Marianne Potje and Jim Skish
Second part of Japanese Trilogy.
Hardhead Flair Hardhead Flair (1993)
Part Two of the Walter Abish project based on his short story In So Many Words.
Featuring: Amy Kerwin, Casey Spooner, Jim Skish, Lisa Perry, Marianne Potje
The Most of Shave Doorika
THE MOST OF SHAVE (1993)
Based on Walter Abish's short story In So Many Words.
Featuring: Amy Kerwin, Casey Spooner, Jim Skish, Lisa Perry, John Dooley and Marianne Potje
Satellite Babushka Satellite Babushka (1992)
19th Century Russian literature meets 20th century American Television.
Featuring: Casey Spooner, Lisa Perry and Marianne Potje

Doorika

Doorika was a performance arts collective based in Chicago and New York City from 1990-1999. It was a collaborative group with a mix bag of visual artists, performers, non-actors and musicians who worked on developing multi-media theater projects. It was co-founded by John Dooley and Erika Yeomans in 1990. Some of the artists that contributed and worked on the shows were Eric Koziol. Jon Langford, the Aluminum Group, Casey Spooner, Lisa Perry, Doug Huston, Amy Galper, Ford Wright, Marianne Potje, Deborah Shirley, William F. Wright, Tamara Wasserman, Jim Skish, Celia Bucci, Mot Filipowski, Magica Bottari, Ken Weaver - among others. Titles of main works: In A Way It Was A Crisis, Parlando, North of the Lake, Hardhead Flair (also exists as a short art film), Dear, Throes, Akogare No Pari (the Paris of Our Dreams), Bathe Me; Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights! and The Forgery (also exists as experimental video and shot by video artist Ken Kobland). Doorika made a benefit cd entitled DIG THIS in 1996 by Sweet Pea Records.

They performed at PS 122, Ontological Hysteric Theater, Ohio Theater's Ice Factory Series, Chicago Filmmakers, Bailiwick Repertory, Links Hall, Vineyard Theater among other venues in New York and Chicago.

Selected Bibliography

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