For the Love of Friends

A story about the life and work of Brent Nicholson Earle

Writer/Stage Director/Projections Designer/Producer

Music: Salomon Lerner lyrics: Brent Nicholson Earle From “For the Love of Friends: A story about the life and work of Brent Nicholson Earle” Performed at West End Theatre at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew in New York in January 2020. Cast Brent Nicholson Earle Aaron Casey Kristin Christman-McCarty Mario Diaz-Moresco Kathleen Grace Fiori Christian Adam Jacobs Sarah Misch Written by Cara Consilvio & Brent Nicholson Earle Directed by Cara Consilvio Music Director/Pianist Gordon Schermer Stage Manager Cynthia Hennon Marino Lighting Designer: Abigail Hoke-Brady Assistant Lighting Designer: Daniel Schreckengost Costume Designer: Anthony Paul-Cavaretta Projections Designer: Cara Consilvio Projections Operator: Lauren Gismondi Stage Designer: Alex Charner Cinematographers Greg Emetaz Abe Halpert Sound Capture: Ben Young, Red Cottage Audio Editor: Alex Charner
In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance and fear, he returns home to his own HIV diagnosis. Though the run finishes, Brent’s activism never stops. In January of 2020, as part of the production of our documentary film "For the Love of Friends," we will stage a theater show in New York's West End Theatre. I mean, I was obviously destined to a life in the theater from the time I did my first puppet performance on my front porch at the age of five. -Brent Nicholson Earle Years before his historic run around America, Brent was drawn to New York by his passion for theater. In our interviews for the documentary, the conversation often turns to the world of New York theater. Brent speaks eloquently and extemporaneously about the past fifty years on-and-off-Broadway. He speaks warmly about great artists with memorable careers and too many whose light shone too briefly. So many of Brent's stories and diary entries sparkle with a playwright's sense of action. Our director, Cara Consilvio, will stage these stories from Brent's life with artists from the worlds of dance, theater and opera. Your contribution will help us tell Brent's story. Make a donation at: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/for-the-love-of-friends Performances Friday, January 24, 2020 8 PM Saturday, January 25, 2020 8 PM Sunday, January 26, 2020 2 PM Location The West End Theatre 263 West 86​th Street New York, NY 10024 Learn More: http://hupproductions.com/for-the-love-of-friends
 

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Hup! Productions

Music Director: Gordon Schermer
Set: Alex Charner
Lighting: Abigail Hoke-Brady
Projections: Cara Consilvio
Costumes: Anthony Paul-Cavaretta
Stage Manager: Cynthia Hennon-Marino

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Photo: Alex Charner