Since 1999, DMTheatrics has been at the forefront of the independent theater scene in New York City, mounting over two dozen productions in venues throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, to rave reviews from The New York Times, Backstage, Time Out New York, NYTheatre.com, the Village Voice, and others. From Ed Wood to Shakespeare, from classic burlesque to classical theater, from riotous comedy to challenging drama, the sheer range and scope of modern indie theater's most notorious production company is unmatched anywhere. If you're looking for a quick overview of our history, you'll find all you need on this page. If you'd like to escape down the rabbit hole and lose yourself in photos, videos, and synopses of past productions, hie thee to a desktop or laptop to see our full site. To contact us, scroll down to the bottom of this page or click the link above. For info on our best-known work, Bitch Macbeth, click here.
The Stranger (2001)
DMTHEATRICS HISTORY
ORIGINAL WORKS
WORKS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY FRANK CWIKLIK UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
*Girls' School Vampire, Greenwich Street Theater, 1999; Todo Con NADA, 1999
*Amazons in Chains, Todo Con NADA, 1999 (two productions)
*Twenty, Todo Con NADA, 2000; The Red Room, 2004
*Bitch Macbeth, Access Theater, 2001; Kraine Theater, 2003; The Brick, 2008
*Sugarbaby!, The Red Room, 2003
*Who in the Hell is the Real, Live Lorelei Lee?, The Red Room, 2003
*Nevada Territory, The Red Room, 2004
*The Wild, Wild Women of Wakky-Nunu!, The Red Room, 2008
*0109 (10th Anniversary Retrospective), Kraine Theater, 2009
Bible and Wine: The Music of Eric Matthews (2011)
DMTHEATRICS HISTORY
ADAPTATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
WORKS DIRECTED BY FRANK CWIKLIK UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
Salome, by Oscar Wilde, Todo Con NADA, 2000
The Sinister Urge!, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, Todo Con NADA, 2000; The Red Room, 2006, 2012
Jail Bait, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, dir. Michele Schlossberg, Todo Con NADA, 2000
Bride of the Monster, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, dir. Bryan Enk, Todo Con NADA, 2000;
dir. Frank Cwiklik, The Red Room, 2012
The Fugitive Girls!, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, Todo Con NADA, 2000; Under St. Marks, 2002
The Violent Years!, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, dir. Ian W. Hill, Todo Con NADA, 2000;
dir. Frank Cwiklik, The Red Room, 2012
Orgy of the Dead!, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, in association with Mountebanks, Surf Reality, 2001; The Red Room, 2005
Quicksand, by Robert Smith and Irving Pichel, Under St. Marks, 2002
Kookamonga Falls, by Todd Miller, dir. Michele Schlossberg, The Red Room, 2002
House of Trash, by Trav S.D., The Red Room, 2002
Bride of the Monster, by William Shakespeare, The Red Room, 2003
Taking Liberties: An Evening of Elvis Costello, The Brick, 2009
Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare, The Brick, 2009
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, by Adam Bertocci, Kraine Theater, 2012
Plan Nine From Outer Space!, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, The Brick, 2010
Bible and Wine: The Music of Eric Matthews, co-directed/choreographed by Shiloh Klein, Kraine Theater, 2011
The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, The Red Room, 2011
Night of the Ghouls, by Edward D. Wood, Jr, The Red Room, 2012
Hot Ice!, by A.C. Stephens and Edward D. Wood, Jr., The Red Room, 2012
FRANK CWIKLIK
PLAYWRIGHT/DIRECTOR
In a nearly twenty-five year career in NYC theater, DMT artistic director FRANK CWIKLIK has directed, written, and/or produced dozens of shows in many of the best-known downtown theater venues, including the late, lamented Todo con NADA, the Kraine, the Brick, and the Red Room. Named to Indie Theater Now's NYC Theater Hall of Fame in 2010, his best-known original work, Bitch Macbeth, is one of the few non-Broadway productions whose working papers are permanently archived at the prestigious Billy Rose Theater Collection at Lincoln Center. His work has been praised in the New York Times, Time Out New York, NYTheatre.com, Backstage and others, and has won several OOBR Awards. His staging of the notorious Two Gentlemen of Lebowski broke box office records for downtown New York theater and attracted audiences from across the US and Canada, as well as Germany, the UK, and Australia. He has worked as a sound designer and lighting designer for the Coney Island Sideshow, the Ice Festival, La Mama, and the Brick. His play Sugarbaby! was published in NYTE's Plays and Playwrights 2005, and has been used as course material in theater and playwriting classes at the college and high school level. His brash, assertive, cinematic style, which leans heavily on sound and lighting design and locale to establish storytelling, mood, and setting, has proven both ahead of its time and highly influential, and his pioneering use of cinema and pop culture as theater texts predicted the rise of mashup culture by decades. Visit frankcwiklik.com for full resume, voiceover reels, and contact info.
The Taming of the Shrew (2011)
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