capricorn 29

capricorn 29

by Alex Hare and Julia Izumi
directed by Alex Hare
co-produced with Sami Pyne and
The Tank


HELD OVER until JUNE 16!

Purchase a $25+ ticket on or after June 11th and receive a download link to the Capricorn 29 album of original songs

Graphic design by Britannie Bond.

more about the project

On the eve of her 29th birthday, a Very Online millennial stumbles upon a curious conspiracy theory: the powers-that-be have initiated a new capitalist plot to eliminate unsuccessful 30 year olds. What sounds at first like the byproduct of someone watching too many dystopian films from the 1970s quickly proves harder to dismiss. And as the countdown to 30 begins, surviving and saving a generation may be the opportunity one young-ish adult needs to finally fulfill her rapidly fading potential.

Unfolding in the form of a hallucinatory YouTube wormhole, CAPRICORN 29 is a micro movie musical that wrestles with the tyranny of age-based milestones.



details of participation

Audience members may start streaming the project at any time between Thursday, May 20th and Wednesday, June 16th and will have 48 hours to finish once started. The run time is approximately 50 minutes.


Audience members will receive a physical birthday card if they purchase tickets on or before May 10; those who purchase tickets after May 10 will be able to view and download it online.


Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can scale ranging from $10 - $100. Please make sure to check your ticket confirmation email for important instructions to complete your reservation.


For more info, visit https://thetanknyc.org/capricorn29.

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creative team

Cast | Kalyne Coleman, Brendan George, and Lindsey Steinert, featuring Adrianna Aguilar, Amanda Centeno, Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Yonatan Gebeyehu, Michael Alan Johnson, Grace Oberhofer, Jenny Nguyen Nelson, Elyse Steingold, and Adam Weppler 

Original Songs | Laura Galindo, Daniel & Patrick Lazour, Stompcat, and Storm Thomas
Cinematography | Chun Fung Kevin Chiu

Editing | Alex Hare and Lowell Thomas
Sound Design | Megumi Katayama

Audio Mixing/Mastering | Robin Buyer
Costume Consultant | April M. Hickman

Digital Graphics | Victoria Ungvarsky

Animation | Aiden Berglund
Birthday Card Design | Lexy Ho-Tai
Promo Artwork | Britannie Bond

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creative team


Alex Hare (director/ co-writer) is an NYC-based theatre director focusing on new musicals and music-driven storytelling. With Zhailon Levingston and Nehemiah Luckett, he is developing A Burning Church through Musical Theatre Factory’s MAKERS cohort, New Ohio/IRT’s Archive Residency, and a fellowship with A Blade of Grass. He received the SDC Foundation’s 2020 Charles Abbott Fellowship for early-career musical theatre directors. Assistant credits: School of Rock, Side Show (Broadway), Emma (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Alex has worked frequently as an assistant and researcher for film director Bill Condon. He studied American Studies at Columbia University. http://alexhare.nyc



Julia Izumi (co-writer): Julia Izumi's work has been developed and presented at MTC, Clubbed Thumb, Bushwick Starr, WP Theater, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Barn Arts Collective, NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights' Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, CAATA’s National Asian-American Theatre ConFest, Pork Filled Productions, and Corkscrew Theatre Festival. Honors for her work include O’Neill Theater Center’s NPC Finalist, Kilroys List Hon   orable Mention, and KCACTF’s Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award. She is a 2020 New Georges Audrey Resident and an upcoming New Dramatists member. MFA: Brown University www.juliaizumi.com


Sami Pyne (producer) is an independent producer based in New York City. Most recent producing credits include Kyk Hoe Skyn die Son created by Keenan Tyler Oliphant at Clubbed Thumb, Columbia School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival curated by David Henry Hwang, 2020 & 2019’s Prelude Festival at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, and Twenty-six Seconds by Kate Pressman in Lynn Nottage’s open studio at the Park Avenue Armory. She’s worked with wonderful folks at HERE Arts Center, TDF, PlayCo, Aged in Wood Productions, and Signature Theatre. Sami holds a BFA from Shenandoah Conservatory and an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University School of the Arts. www.samipyne.com

Laura Galindo (songwriter) is a Colombian theatre and music maker. In the last year, she’s been a resident with Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, BarnArts in Maine, and The New Victory Theatre’s Labworks Program. Her one-woman-and-her-band musical, Annie Aspen’s Musical Space Spectacular! was featured in Ars Nova’s 2019 ANT Fest. It’s a love for connection that brought her to music and theatre; both in the ways that the disciplines intersect and the potential they have to communicate profoundly with others. She’s also ramping up for a year of new music with her bandmates, starting with her new single 'Last Place', available for listening everywhere. 


STOMPCAT (songwriters) is a band/religion dedicated to making music that will directly impact the lives of you and your loved ones. They have performed at venues across America, including the Skylark Lounge (Denver), the Mr. Roboto Project (Pittsburgh), Plush (St. Louis), The Way Station (Brooklyn), 54 Below (Manhattan), and Ars Nova (West Manhattan). www.stompcat.com does not work right now.


Daniel and Patrick Lazour (songwriters) are brothers and music theatre writers. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. It premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in May 2019 directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Their new musical community project about cancer treatment, patients and caretakers was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and is being developed with the American Repertory Theater. Patrick and Daniel were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. Most recently, they were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo and are teaching artists at Lincoln Center Theater. They perform their songs live at the Boiler Room in New York City. @frereslazour

Storm Thomas (songwriter) is a black-mixed trans/gnc writer, drummer and multi-hyphenate artist from Los Angeles who plays many instruments (drums, guitar, piano, mandolin, midi, etc.) and writes experimental, process-based, afro-futurist musicals: Notes on the Past (Trans Theater Fest), Ancient Future (in-house production, Polyphone Festival), and Be Like Bone (in progress). Storm is a co-founder of the performance collective Theater, But Dance. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College; undergraduate, UC Santa Cruz & CUNY Empire State. Proud member of Rainbow Theater & The African American Theater Arts Troupe (UCSC). Performances: Heather Christian’s Animal Wisdom Album Recording, Streep Show (Connelly Theater), Individual World Poetry Slam (Finals Stage), The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA), Futurity (Soho Rep/Ars Nova), Obie Awards 2017, Lexus Verses & Flow Season 3 Episode 1 feat. Jill Scott, guest speaker at The Immersive Design Summit on Participation and Agency (Associate Director, The Universe is a Small Hat). Storm is currently in residence with Musical Theater Factory Cohort II.

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