Normandy Sherwood was awarded a 2024 OBIE Award for PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE — a special citation for concept and production design,
PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE collaborators were nominated for 2024 Henry Hewes Design Awards in three categories:
Lighting Design… Christina Tang!
Scenic Design… Normandy Sherwood and Daniel Allen Nelson
Costume Design… Normandy Sherwood!
We are so honored!
And if you want to keep up with PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE, it has its own website HERE !
Are you
...fatigued by "information"?
...distracted by the aggressive endlessness of content? (More like discontent!)
...living in a world that is disenchanted?
you may be in need of
PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE
which equips you to bear these and other common struggles like
...hauntings,
...drainings,
...possessions
...and other occult and overt manipulations.
The abstract, hallucinatory world of Psychic Self Defense—simultaneously a séance, a sculpture, and a live action screen saver—creates a space for you to recalibrate your attention. Psychic Self Defense invites you to experience mystery and mental spaciousness by way of that most basic of theatrical machineries—the curtain reveal.
PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE
running September 12–30, 2023
at HERE
145 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan
link to buy tickets
Tuesday–Saturday at 8:30pm
with late night performances at 11pm on Fridays
and 4pm matinees on Saturday and Sunday.
Psychic Self Defense is created, written, designed, and directed by Normandy Sherwood. It features composition and sound design by Craig Flanagin, scenic and rigging design by Daniel Allen Nelson, curtain and costume design and construction by Normandy Sherwood, and lighting design by Christina Tang. The creative team includes production manager Daniel Allen Nelson, sound engineer Travis Wright, and line producer Caitlin Adams. Conceptual collaborators include Craig Flanagin, Daniel Allen Nelson, Christina Tang, Nikki Calonge, and Ean Sheehy.
Psychic Self Defense is performed by Ean Sheehy, Nikki Calonge, Daniel Allen Nelson, Kate Brehm, Adrienne Swan, and Elyse Durand with musicians Craig Flanagin and Normandy Sherwood.
Following the performance on September 26, HERE will host a post-show discussion focused on design, object theater, and puppetry in performance. Guests Machine Dazzle and Tyler Gunther aka Greedy Peasant will join Normandy Sherwood in a conversation moderated by Moe Yousuf.
We made the front page of the Arts section! You can read the review here
Normandy was selected as one of the 2020-2023 HARP residents at HERE Arts Center to develop her project Psychic Self Defense!
