February 10–12, 2017

Leeds Theatre

Written by Beth Nixon ’18 MFA

Directed by Addie Gorlin ’19 MFA

Presented as part of Writing is Live 2017

Get your tickets to The Ferry to the Isle of Wight and climb aboard with a friend, you might need them. The tour guides are lively. The Captain has been trained. The snack bar is stocked. There are exactly the right number of personal flotation devices… just in case we go off course… and encounter festering caves, slippery cliffs, toxic vapors, and a quivering mountain of scar tissue. Who will save us from ourselves?

Beth Nixon ’18 MFA builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist. She creates plays, puppets, parades, pageants, clown acts, suitcase theaters, and cardboard spectaculah- on her own, and in collaboration with other humans of all ages, abilities, and persuasions. Her performances and installations occur in galleries and garages, on street corners and stages. She’s been an artist-in-residence at museums, schools, senior centers, and addiction recovery and mental health programs. She enjoyed an Arts Mentoring Fellowship at New Urban Arts from 2012 to 2014 and has been a wrangler of artist/activist partnerships for Providence’s last four PRONK parades. Beth is currenty in her 2nd year of Brown University’s MFA Playwriting program. She parents a 7 year old, co-facilitates the Anti-Racism Working Group for White Parents at Gordon School, and organizes with The White Noise Collective and Standing Up for Racial Justice, RI. Beth believes in the transformative power of libraries, tide pools, queer dance zones, utopian performatives, and snacks.
www.ramshackleenterprises.net.