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FURRY!/LA FURIA

PERFORMER AND CO-TRANSLATOR

By William Burke and translated by Modesto Flako Jimenez and Mariela Regalado

Performed by Modesto “Flako” Jimenez and Olander “Big O” Wilson

Production design by Jeanette Yew

Costume design by Ásta Bennie Hostetter

Lighting design by Megan Lang

The English version of FURRY! was originally performed at JACK in 2013.

In a reworking of his 2013 work for one actor and a dirty Sesame Street Army, playwright and director William Burke is joining forces with Modesto “Flako” Jimenez and Brooklyn Gypsies Collective in a new and explosive Spanish/Spanglish/human translation of FURRY!/LA FURIA depicting the struggle of a pan handling Time Square Elmo. In order to care for his ailing son, a man dressed in his street Elmo best, attempts take over the blocks of 42nd - 46th street, using The Art of War, an army of Elmos and his deepest and most violent self. Naked Cowboy beware. When Elmo Close…Elmo appears Far. The army gathers.