What is Burning House?
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Founded in 2018, Burning House is a non-profit production company in NYC dedicated to brutally reinventing classic plays and the development of urgent new works. In a world progressively getting harder to live in, Burning House has a particular interest in modern stories that set gender, class, and the environment on fire. With an emphasis on great acting and barebones aesthetic, our productions are intimate, roguish and often uncomfortable.
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/ Theatre Production
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CHERRY JAM
This new adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is conceived and directed by women, and pares down the cast to six while focusing on issues of class, money, inaction as action, and impending climate disaster. It appeared in a three-week residency at IRT theatre in the West Village from September-October 2022.
Synopsis: Varya is losing her mind trying to stave off disaster, but there’s absolutely no more money left and her adoptive mother Lovey won’t stop fritting away what little they have left. To pay off the debts, will the older generation agree to sell the family orchard, or will they continue to do absolutely nothing? And when will they realize that not doing anything at all is still a choice? Burning House presents CHERRY JAM, a play on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Opening fall 2022, CHERRY JAM is a spirited and brisk one-act adaptation that features six actors and focuses on class conflict, problematic shared history, and the impending climate disaster.
Featuring: David De Almo*, Kelli Ruttle*, Joseph Franchini*, Kelly McCready*, Megan Medley*, & Connor Wilson
* Actor appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association.
Synopsis: Varya is losing her mind trying to stave off disaster, but there’s absolutely no more money left and her adoptive mother Lovey won’t stop fritting away what little they have left. To pay off the debts, will the older generation agree to sell the family orchard, or will they continue to do absolutely nothing? And when will they realize that not doing anything at all is still a choice? Burning House presents CHERRY JAM, a play on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Opening fall 2022, CHERRY JAM is a spirited and brisk one-act adaptation that features six actors and focuses on class conflict, problematic shared history, and the impending climate disaster.
Featuring: David De Almo*, Kelli Ruttle*, Joseph Franchini*, Kelly McCready*, Megan Medley*, & Connor Wilson
* Actor appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association.
SAINT JOAN
We will be producing a four-actor, one-act adaptation of Shaw's Saint Joan, set to open in Spring 2023.
DARWIN'S REPTILIA
We produced a developmental reading of Darwin's Reptilia by Charlie Falkner, writer of Sex Object. The reading was held on October 3rd at IRT in the West Village during the run of Cherry Jam.
OUR WORKS
Founded By
David De Almo is a writer/actor/producer in New York City. Television: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls5Eva. NYC Theatre: The Trade Federation (IRT Theatre), Sex Object (The PIT), Hedda Gabler (Ophelia Theatre Group), Barefoot in the Park (MidCity Productions), The Proust Virus (HERE Arts Center), The Berkeley Dissolve (Don’t Tell Mama). Favorite regional credits include Michael in Dancing at Lughnasa, Phil in Hurlyburly, and Bishop Cauchon in Saint Joan. AEA. www.daviddealmo.com IG: @daviddealmo |
Kelly McCready is a writer/actor/director in New York City. Television: Extrapolations (AppleTV+). Stage: Sex Object (PIT Loft), The New Morality (Mint Theater Off-Bway), Bigger Than You Bigger Than Me (Theatre Row Off-Bway, The Execution of Mrs. Cotton (spit&vigor), The Tempest (Ophelia Theatre Group), Radical & Abandon (Obie Award Metropolitan Playhouse). Directing: She Is A Shipwreck (PVD Fringe Festival & OOTB Theatricals), The Immaculate Deception (The PIT Loft), Does This Woman Have A Name? (Greenhouse Ensemble), Hedda Gabler (original adaptation at Ophelia Theatre Group). Graduate of Case Western Reserve University (2013) and Moscow Art Theatre Program (2011).
AEA. www.kellymccready.com IG: @kellyraemac |
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Brutal reinventions
of classics & urgent new works for a world on fire. |
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