Lists of Promise
Created by Ildiko Nemeth & Lisa Giobbi with Marie Glancy O’Shea
Lists of Promise is an original work created by Ildiko Nemeth and Lisa Giobbi that combines classic theatre and ungrounded aerial movement elements in a powerful meditation on the history of women in the world. It is inspired and informed by texts including When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone and “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf and original writing by Marie Glancy O’Shea. It invokes the lost goddesses of ancient civilizations as it explores what Woolf called the “accumulation of unrecorded life” – the immemorial anonymity of women who have “sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated with their creative force.” In a series of scenes by turns beautiful, funny, and moving, a Contemporary Woman questions the expectations and judgments placed on women. Her journey across origin stories, past eras, and present crises is ultimately a quest to find a meaningful vision of hope.
DIRECTION
Ildiko Nemeth
AERIAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Lisa Giobbi
COSTUMES
Tamar Mogendorff (in collaboration with Jessica Mitrani)
SET DESIGNER/SCULPTURES
Tamar Mogendorff
LIGHTING DESIGN
Frederico Restrepo
PERFORMERS
Sarah Lemp
Lisa Giobbi
Rebecca Magazine
Lainey Mackinnon
Jacob McKee
Tatyana Kot
Renee Erikson
Amanda Langberg Hermansen
Elena Lozonschi
Elizabeth Foster
AERIAL OPERATORS
Benny Oyzone
Abe Meisel
Jacob McKee
Manny Mendoza
LIGHTING OPERATOR
Rodney Perez
STAGE MANAGERS
Chris Adams and Nora Butler
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
Nonoka Sipos Judit
March 13-29, 2025
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 3pm
Location:
Johnson Theater
155 1st. Ave.
New York, NY 10003
Lists of Promise is presented by The Long Point Fund and Bill and Maura Haney.
The program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. The program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
