PRESS
Germantown playwright brings his productions home this week
by Len Lear
//What do the three plays that will be performed from Sept. 14 to 17 have in common?
“They arise from life in the USA,” answered Moritz. “They have jokes that make you laugh and abruptly stop laughing. They have poetry language in service of character and action. They have surprise, surprise, surprise, and actors who inhabit these works with vividness and power.”//
The mysterious 5 Locks 5 Keys from the even more mysterious N1 premiere @ Philly's Fringe
by A.D. Amorosi
//Where thoughtful, provocative, funny, relentless paragraphs are concerned, Moritz states, that unites these three plays so seamlessly, comes down to the DNA of the USA.//
Three Short Plays Showcased in ‘5 Locks, 5 Keys’
by Eden Elizabeth
"In all of the three pieces the poetry is obvious and exceptional. There were places where the message started strong and would wear on a little but not too long to lose the point or the audience! Thanks to the brilliant performances, the writing will likely resonate with you. If you look for theatre that makes a connection, and delivers a message, this is definitely a show for you!"
“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.” ― Anton Chekhov
About The n1 founders
Dennis Moritz
Playwright/Director/Producer, Founding N1 Partner, Artistic Director N1 CrawlSpace) writes a lot of plays. His work appears on mains tage and in improvised spaces. Producers include The Public, Painted Bride, Freedom Theater, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, St Marks, Bowery Poetry Club, Sticky, Theater Double, N1, Theatre Ariel, HERE, Boog. He prefers to work in bars and art galleries. His scripts have been published in theater magazines and poetry magazines Angel Hair/United Artists, the longtime poetry press, published two collections of his theater works: the only plays in that catalogue. He earned an MFA in theater writing atTemple University. Dennis grew up on the Lower East Side of New York where he absorbed quick change rhythms and visuals. He feels at home with the intense personalities of that neighborhood. Interior breakdowns and vulnerability contrast to an aggressive exterior, a duality that informs many of his plays.
Robert Craig Baum
Co-Founding Artistic Director/Executive Producer/Director/Curator/ Sound Designer/Composer, RCB has served as dramaturg, literary manager, director, and collaborator with Dennis Moritz since the December 2011 founding of N1Theatre in Quechee, VT. He is the author of Itself (Atropos, 2011), Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga (punctum, 2016), and the forthcoming They Fade, The Words Fade: On the Metabolic Theatre of Dennis Moritz (2024). N1Theatre/Lab will premiere his monologues The Last Notebook of Laufen Geberit, Zen Cohen’s Return, and A Naughty Night to Swim In, as well as workshop his three-act play Turtles (with direction and dramaturgy by Clinton Turner Davis). Baum's complex, operatic, and cinematic approach to theatre involves working inside improvised, non-traditional raw spaces such as rural cafes (Limerick Irish Eatery in Quechee, VT), non-traditional museum spaces (Main Street Museum in White River Junction, VT), urban art galleries (iMPeRFeCT Gallery in Germantown, Philadelphia). He was awarded a doctoral degree in Philosophy and Media Studies from the European Graduate School. He served as an August Wilson Fellow in Dramaturgy and Literary Criticism at UMN-Twin Cities and Penumbra Theatre with additional assignments at The Guthrie, Red Eye, Doug Anderson's Théâtre du Vieux Nez, Chris Danowski's Theatre in My Basement, Soap Box, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Moving Company). He received his MA from Dartmouth College and BA from Catholic University.
At Dartmouth, 1996-1998 and then until 2005 Robert was mentored by
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson.
About Us
Mission/Vision
International theatre, performance, and experimental media project founded by Robert Craig Baum in Vermont, USA with programming dedicated to the
work of Dennis Moritz.
We now also develop new talent, scripts, and new media projects including theatre, film, streaming, and intermedia arts.
N1Academy (academic courses) and N1Press support our
mission and vision.