REVEAL
Written and Directed by Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola
August 2025 & February 2026
About REVEAL
Lift the Veil
Slip behind.
Find the unknown.
REVEAL is an immersive performance and art party celebrating the progress of Torn Space’s transformed theater.
From the main stage to secret rooms, bars to back hallways, the building itself becomes the performance- up-close encounters, hypnotic soundscapes, and bold architectural activations.
Featuring internationally-acclaimed ambient techno pioneer Mike Parker with a site-specific sound installation for the new audience entranceway and rare stateside DJ sets. Mike Parker has been credited as the inventor of hypnotic techno. His influential sound was recently featured in Prada’s Menswear Spring/Summer 2025 Fashion Show in Milan.
Praise for Mike Parker:
“He’s a Grand Master, a pioneer who had influenced a whole subgenre of techno. His music doesn’t age and that’s the true mark of a genius…”
- MEDULLA OBLONGATA – DJ, PRODUCER, FESTIVAL STAGE MANAGER, HEAD OF THE COLLECTIVE TRÊVE
This is no quiet sit-down— REVEAL is part spectacle and part fever dream.
REVEAL is not just a performance; it is an invitation. An invitation to explore the unseen, to find what connects us, and binds us together. Inspired by ideas of love: love as the thing we seek, love as the thing that can cause us to try to change, conceal, and transform ourselves, and love as universal consciousness, REVEAL attempts through interaction, introspection and performance to bring these often concealed perspectives to the surface.
This piece is a celebration of what has been built, and a speculation of what is to come. The building itself is a collaborator, a character with its own story. The Adam Mickiewicz has always been a place for experimentation and reinvention. REVEAL is an experience where the architecture, the sound, and the movement all coalesce to tell an immersive narrative. In a world of increasing digital separation, this is a physical and sensory experience—a space where audiences are fully present.
REVEAL blurs the lines between audience and performer, building and art. The use of symbols—the Stag, Serpent, Tiger, Hawk, and Slash—are not just markers, but portals into different facets of the evening. Audiences are encouraged to move, to observe, and to create their own path.
Remember: ‘You are the ceremony. This is the ritual.’ Embrace curiosity and allow the space to reveal itself. Your presence completes the work.
- Melissa Meola and Dan Shanahan, Directors
Performed by
Lounge.……………………………………………Justin Leis, Christine Turturro
Back Bar………………………………………………………………….Becky Globus
Green Room……………………………………..Matt Rittler, Kalub Thompson
Studio.………………………………………………Tim McPeek, Carmen Swans
Dance of the Seven Veils……………………………………………Nikiya Garza
Production Team
Co-Directors – Dan Shanahan, Melissa Meola
Facilities Manager – Daniel Toner
Production Manager – Carly Kulak
Stage Manager – Sarah Foote
Stage Manager – Mary Margaret Keenan-Brown
Assistant Stage Manager – Jeremy Catania
Audio Engineer – Dan Neveu
Front of House and Box Office Manager – Jennifer Carter
Assistance Box Office/Front of House – Salem Browning
Construction Coordinator – Sean Kulak
Design Team
Props Design & Fabrication – Thea Duskin
Lighting Design – Groupwork
Video Design – Brian Milbrand
DJ & Link Sound Installation – Mike Parker
Composer – Justin Rowland
Special Thanks: The Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle, Torn Space Theater’s Board of Directors and in particular Jeannine Yager-Aiello for her expert oversight of the construction project along with project architect Studio North and construction manager Peyton Barlow.
The Torn Space campus renovation has received accolades for design work by architect Christopher Romano, Director, Studio North Architecture:
Light Station (Phase I):
- 2018 AIA Buffalo/WNY Small Project Award
- 2018 AIA Buffalo/WNY Design Award
3.2019 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Product Award, Facades Category
Hidden/Identities (Phase II):
- 2022 AIA Buffalo/WNY Merit Award, Interior Renovation