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Creative Minds 2025: Elevator Repair Service Residency

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 6:30–7:30 PM
  • Location
    Wolfe Center for the Arts, Thomas B. and Kathleen M. Donnell Theatre
  • Description
    Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is a New York City–based company that creates original works for live theater with an ongoing ensemble. The company’s shows are created from a wide range of texts that include found transcripts of trials and debates, literature, classical dramas, and new plays.Founded in 1991, ERS has created an extensive body of work that includes upwards of 20 original pieces. These have earned the company a loyal following and made it one of New York’s most highly acclaimed experimental theater companies. The company is best known for Gatz, its award-winning verbatim staging of the entire text of The Great Gatsby. ERS has received numerous awards and distinctions, including Lortel awards, a Bessie award, and an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence, as well as a Guggengheim Fellowship and Doris Duke Performing Artist Award for Artistic Director John Collins.
  • Website
    https://events.bgsu.edu/event/creative-minds-2025-elevator-repair-service-residency

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