Graveyard Shift

Overview

Andy Cohen presents his latest immoral reality tv venture, the Graveyard Shift! In this prime time game show our contestant Emma must find a job, and keep it for a whole calendar year, in order to win Job Sponsored Health Insurance!

In this solo performance, Emma McGill tries to make sense of the surreal experience of grief through As Seen On TV commercial, monologue, puppetry, burlesque, roller skating, and more! How does the Human-Feeling-Body grieve while surviving the workplace?

McGills darkly quirky and spontaneous humor is both captivating and jarring -The Front Row Center.

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About the Artist

Emma McGill is a girl actor, theater maker and visual artist from Brooklyn. Previous solo performance includes Graveyard Shift (Off-Broadway, Chain Theater Festival) and Isabella Stewart Gardner is Back From Hell! (Emerson College.) Acting credits include TV: Damages, BlackBox and the Equalizer. Theater credits include Kiss (ArtsEmerson) and Much Ado About Nothing (Brown Box Theater Project.) She graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Acting, where she won the Nicole duFresne Award for excellence in Acting and Playwriting. She aspires to be a menace to high-budget art that commodifies revolutionary aesthetics. Her work is for Bethany Frankel, moss, and queers (especially Sam.) Sam Lane - is a Brooklyn based artist who directed the first iteration of The Graveyard Shift at the Chain Theater Festival. Sam also made their off Broadway debut acting in Rachel Blooms Death Let Me Do My Show and has assisted in the production of off-Broadway hits such as KATE, Alex Edelman: Just For Us, Jes Tom: Less Lonely, and Alison Leiby: Oh God A Show About Abortion. Love to Emma, always.

Will Schwartz (video director/editor) is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He previously directed the award-winning short films “Lessons in Red” and “Empathy.” His passion lies in telling darkly absurd stories that have an earnest core. instagram: @ohnoheswillschwartz