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and Melissa Meola\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\">August 2025 &amp; February 2026<\/p>\n<p><b>About <em>REVEAL<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lift the Veil<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slip behind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find the unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REVEAL is an immersive performance and art party celebrating the progress of Torn Space&#8217;s transformed theater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s Menswear Spring\/Summer 2025 Fashion Show in Milan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Praise for Mike Parker: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"ttfmake-testimonial\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s a Grand Master, a pioneer who had influenced a whole subgenre of techno. His music doesn\u2019t age and that\u2019s the true mark of a genius\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MEDULLA OBLONGATA &#8211; DJ, PRODUCER, FESTIVAL STAGE MANAGER, HEAD OF THE COLLECTIVE TR\u00caVE<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is no quiet sit-down\u2014 REVEAL is part spectacle and part fever dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This piece is a celebration of what has been built, and a speculation of what is to come.\u00a0 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\u2014a space where audiences are fully present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REVEAL blurs the lines between audience and performer, building and art. The use of symbols\u2014the Stag, Serpent, Tiger, Hawk, and Slash\u2014are not just markers, but portals into different facets of the evening. Audiences are encouraged to move, to observe, and to create their own path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember: &#8216;You are the ceremony. This is the ritual.&#8217; Embrace curiosity and allow the space to reveal itself. Your presence completes the work.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melissa Meola and Dan Shanahan, Directors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Performed by\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lounge.<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Justin Leis, Christine Turturro<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Back Bar<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Becky Globus<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Green Room<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Matt Rittler, Kalub Thompson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Studio.<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Tim McPeek, Carmen Swans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dance of the Seven Veils<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Nikiya Garza<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Production Team<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Co-Directors<\/strong> &#8211; Dan Shanahan, Melissa Meola<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Facilities Manager<\/strong> &#8211; Daniel Toner<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Production Manager<\/strong> &#8211; Carly Kulak<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Stage Manager<\/strong> &#8211; Sarah Foote<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Stage Manager<\/strong> &#8211; Mary Margaret Keenan-Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Assistant Stage Manager<\/strong> &#8211; Jeremy Catania<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Audio Engineer<\/strong> &#8211; Dan Neveu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Front of House and Box Office Manager<\/strong> &#8211; Jennifer Carter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Assistance Box Office\/Front of House<\/strong> &#8211; Salem Browning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Construction Coordinator<\/strong> &#8211; Sean Kulak<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Design Team<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Props Design &amp; Fabrication<\/strong> &#8211; Thea Duskin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lighting Design<\/strong> &#8211; Groupwork<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Video Design<\/strong> &#8211; Brian Milbrand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>DJ &amp; Link Sound Installation<\/strong> &#8211; Mike Parker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Composer<\/strong> &#8211; Justin Rowland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Special Thanks:<\/strong> The Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle, Torn Space Theater&#8217;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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Torn Space campus renovation has received accolades for design work by architect Christopher Romano, Director, Studio North Architecture:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Light Station (Phase I):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2018 AIA Buffalo\/WNY Small Project Award<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2018 AIA Buffalo\/WNY Design Award<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3.2019 Architect&#8217;s Newspaper Best of Product Award, Facades Category<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hidden\/Identities (Phase II):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2022 AIA Buffalo\/WNY Merit Award, Interior Renovation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REVEAL Written and Directed by Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola\u00a0 August 2025 &amp; February 2026 About REVEAL Lift the Veil Slip behind. 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