Cathleen Carr, performer
Cathleen is an actor/improvisor whom you can see regularly in New York with here two woman show, TWO GIRLS FOR FIVE BUCKS. She trained at the Second City and Annoyance Theaters in Chicago, where she was also a company member with WNEP Theater.

Stephanie Taylor, performer
Originally from Texas, Steph first came to NYC to get her BFA from NYU. She then moved out to San Francisco where she landed at Theatre Rhinoceros, The Next Stage, The EXIT, The Noh Space, Word for Word, The Shelton Theatre, The Jon Sims Center, and Della in the SF Cult Featurette The Day I Shot President Kennedy, among others. She also toured nationally with the Obie and Tony Award winning SF Mime Troupe and did the physicalization of the animated character Princess Fiona in the Academy Award winning PDI/Dreamworks film, Shrek. Her return to NYC has landed her at The American Globe Theatre (directed by Dyana Kimball), The Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, WOW, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Producers Club, and a workshop production of The Sister Wall by Sara Moore at the Barrow Street Theatre.

Information on the others who contributed to this project, including the director, can be found here.

If you didn't get a chance to come to one of the launch performances, or if you did and you loved it so much you want to reflect on it some more, you can read a couple of items that were written about the piece and the performance project that we took part in:

From The New York Times, 15 Sept. 07
"Among the clichés of New York life is that the city’s streets are their own kind of theater, that there is a certain visual poetry in the millions of iPod wearers, cellphone talkers, street hawkers, office workers, tourist gawkers and other pedestrians making their way somewhere each and every minute of every day. But this week, on a block in front of City Hall, the theater of the streets became quite literal for a few hundred uncynical customers and those gawking passers-by who happened past." Read more here.

From Minus Spine, 7 Sept. 07
"...the first issue of New Acquisition, a literary pamphlet (that's also online). This issue is all about apocalyptical goings-on, and has got a deadpan essay by Alexis Clements called “Your Own Personal Apocalypse” and a funny, tongue-in-cheek poem by Beth Royer called “Sure Signs of the Apocalypse.” If you are in NYC, check out the New Acquisition performances that seem to combine readings, videos, artwork and chicken farming. Yes, that’s right. Chicken farming." See the original post here.

What: Directly from the One Million Forgotten Moments website:

One Million Forgotten Moments is a public-spectacle- showcase-festival-celebration-performance which features a lineup of 100 of New York's most talented artists from the legendary to the ridiculous, to the bizarre, to the insane, to the totally mindblowing.

When:(each show is one hour long, our project is one of many participating in each hour)
Please note that 11 Sept show has been cancelled
Wednesday, 12 September, 2007, 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Thursday, 13 September, 2007, 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Friday, 14 September, 2007, 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Saturday, 15 September, 2007, 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Sunday, 16 September, 2007, 7:00pm & 9:00pm

Where: One Million Forgotten Moments Project, 38 Park Row, New York, NY

What: We will be launching the first issue of the pamphlet in the first week of September with a performance and installation at one of the spaces operated by Chashama, who is providing us with residency support. Stop by and pick up your copy of the pamphlet at also experience the world of Your Own Personal Apocalypse, get help predicting when your Personal Apocalypse will happen, meet and speak with the woman who discovered that they exist, and experience all manner of other tomfoolery.

When: (performances will be ongoing, drop by for any portion)
Thursday, 6 September, 2007, 1:00-6:00pm
Friday, 7 September, 2007, 1:00-6:00pm
Saturday, 8 September, 2007, 1:00-6:00pm

Where: Chashama, 217 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY

Collective PAST at chashama has provided residency support for the creation of New Acquisition. chashama is a NYC arts organization whose mission is to support artists of all genres. chashama "adopts" vacant properties that are donated by their owners and converts them into theaters, galleries, studios, and window performance sites; chashama then regrants this space for free or at heavily subsidized rates. Since 1995, chashama has transformed more than 20 vacant properties and has given more than 5,000 artists access to space.