Wyck Live!
August 21 | Gates Open at 6pm | Performance begins at 6:30
FREE – Registration Required
WYCK LIVE! is an immersive experience combining elements of theatre, dance, live music, and visual art. Audiences will encounter characters and installations throughout Wyck’s beautiful grounds. Each area of Wyck offers its own stories to engage with, and no two audience members will see the same performance.
This is not a historical reenactment – WYCK LIVE! is overflowing with original characters, stories and theatrical moments inspired by history, nature, and a joyful sense of wonder.
This immersive theatrical event at Wyck will be a fantastical offering to our Germantown community and an opportunity for our neighbors to develop a personal, intimate relationship with this special historical landmark right in their backyards.
Created by theatre artists Kyle Metzger and Ryan Pater, this production was devised on site through a series of community workshops and developed with performers from the Pig Iron School at the University of the Arts and the Philadelphia theater community at large.
This production is made possible with funding from the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and the Young Friends of Wyck. Registration for this free event can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wyck-live-tickets-165411916495
For more information or questions, please contact Kyle Metzger at kyletmetzger@gmail.com
About the creators:
Kyle Metzger is a theatre director, producer and educator. Recent directing credits include Murder for Two (Playhouse on Park – Hartford CT), Of Mice and Men, The Game’s Afoot (Monomoy Theatre – Chatham MA) Macbeth, Twelfth Night (Stages on the Sound, NYC). As Producing Artistic Director of The Glass Eye theatre company, Kyle has directed and produced new plays and touring Shakespeare productions. Other directing projects include work at the Signature (Columbia Stages), terraNOVA Collective, Culture Project, Tenement Street Workshop, Theatre Row, New Georges, Ugly Rhino, Flying Carpet, Stages on the Sound, Caps Lock Theatre, Perchance to Dream, and Network Theater Co. Kyle holds an MFA in Directing from UNC Greensboro and a BFA in Music Theatre from The Hartt School. As an educator Kyle has taught acting, directing, and script analysis courses at UNCG, and led Shakespeare workshops with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company and Stages on the Sound. Kyle currently teaches theatre at Rowan University. kylemetzger.com
Ryan Pater is an actor, devisor, and musician based in Philadelphia. He holds a BFA in Drama from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is pursuing an MFA in Devised Theater at the Pig Iron School at University of the Arts. He has performed at acclaimed theaters in NYC; Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center Education, 14th St Y, and Signature Theater. His original clown work has been featured at Lincoln Center Education, the Lincoln Center Atrium, Dixon Place, and on city streets around the world. He is a songwriter and guitarist with music released under the name Lion and Spaniel.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this production are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Wyck Association