New Ohio Theatre to Conclude 30-year Run

Final Ice Factory Festival June 28 – August 12

The Obie Award-winning New Ohio Theatre has announced that it will conclude its acclaimed 30-year run with the last ever Ice Factory Festival, featuring Artistic Director Robert Lyons’ ULTRA LEFT VIOLENCE as the final show.

ULTRA LEFT VIOLENCE reunites Lyons with director/performer Daniel Irizarry, whose Fall 2022 hit My Onliness was called “a welcome gust of weird” (New York Times) and “the most insane show now playing in New York City” (TheaterMania).

The festival will once again be a hybrid model that includes live in-person performances, as well as livestreams and on-demand. Ice Factory 2023 features seven new works over seven weeks, June 28–August 12, at the New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City.

For ticket and performance details visit newohiotheatre.org.

The Ice Factory summer festival offers emerging and established companies a prime platform to develop their work. Ice Factory prides itself on maintaining extraordinary aesthetic diversity along with an unequaled standard for intelligent, imaginative theater.

ICE FACTORY 2023 IN-PERSON & ON-DEMAND SCHEDULE

June 28 – July 1
DEADCLASS, OHIO
Devised by The Goat Exchange, original text by Eliya Smith, live music by Sasha Yakub and directed by Mitchell Polonsky and Chloe Claudel.\

July 5 – 8
ZEBRA 2.0
Written by Saviana Stanescu and directed by Jeremy Goren, with contributions from data scientist Dr. Niki Athanasiadou. Co-produced by AnomalousCo, a predominantly queer/woman-led, feminist, transdisciplinary performance collective, and Wistaria Project.\

July 12 – 15
ON THE CRANIAL NERVES OF BARBARIANS II: A CARP SANCTUARY
Created by PPL. Conceived and co-directed by Esther Neff, Noah Ortega, 3dwardsharp, with Victoria Bray, Irina Virina, Thea Little, Jessica Bathurst and Mia Destiny.

July 19 – 22
here i fall up
Written and composed by Beth Golison. Directed by Annabel Heacock and Maiya Pascouche. Music directed and orchestrated by Kyle Brenn.

July 26 – 29
gerstl took the easy way out
Written by Lydia Blaisdell, directed by Ashley Olive Teague and developed and produced with Notch Theatre Company.

August 2 – 5
HOW I DISAPPEARED
Directed by Tianding He. Produced by CHUANG Stage.

August 9 – 12
ULTRA LEFT VIOLENCE
Text by Robert Lyons and directed by Daniel Irizarry. An anti-capitalist dialogue / lecture / manifesto run amuck. With live music.

The New Ohio Theatre serves New York’s most adventurous theatre audiences by developing and presenting bold work from today’s vast independent theatre community. Located in the West Village’s historic Archive Building, the New Ohio provides a high-profile platform for downtown’s most mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish and profound theatrical endeavors.