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MORE OR LESS I AM
 More or Less I Am, May 18, 2019Brooklyn Public Library celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th Anniversary. Photographer: Gregg Richards |  More or Less I Am, May 18, 2019Brooklyn Public Library celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th Anniversary. Photographer: Gregg Richards |  More or Less I Am, May 18, 2019Brooklyn Public Library celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th Anniversary. Photographer: Gregg Richards |
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 More or Less I Am, May 18, 2019Brooklyn Public Library celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th Anniversary. Photographer: Gregg Richards |  More or Less I AmGovernors Island, July 15, 2017. Photographer: Zella Jones |  More or Less I AmGovernors Island, July 15, 2017. Photogapher: Zella Jones |
 More or Less I AmGovernors Island, July 15, 2017. Photographer: Zella Jones |  More or Less I AmGovernors Island, July 15, 2017. Photographer: Zella Jones |  More Or Less I AmPhotographers Stephen Bateman and Ben Pardo |
 More or Less I AmBand. Photographers :Ben Pardo and Stephen Bateman |  More or Less I AmGreenspace, September 2012. Photographers Stephen Bateman and Ben Pardo |  More or Less I Am |
 More or Less I AmAt Barge Music, 2011. Photographers: Stephen Bateman and Ben Pardo |
More Or Less I Am is a music- theater piece drawn from Walt Whitman's 1855 "Song of Myself" - conceived and directed by Karin Coonrod with original music by Colin Jacobsen, Kyle Sanna and Eric Jacobsen.
It involves a company of 13 - actors, singers and instrumentalists. MORE OR LESS I AM vitalizes Whitman's call to us, then and now, a declaration of interdependence , an awaking of the American consciousness. Here in full voice is our audacious poet laureate whose message so passionately articulates our enormous and creative diversity and seems to exhort us to get back to our soul and cut a deep mark together.
2019 Performances
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth, Compagnia De' Colombari presented a series of performances of this adaptation from Whitman's his first major work.
May 18, 2:30 PM
Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
May 26, 7PM
Ft Greene Park, Brooklyn
May 28, 1:00 PM (Closed to the Public)
Departmet of Corrections, Manhattan
May 28, 7:30 PM
Benefit Performance" 100% of proceeds to supporting
the missions of both Housing Works and Colombari.
Housing Works Book Store, SoHo, Manhattan
May 29, 9:30 PM
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, NoHo, Manhattan
May 30, 7:00 PM
Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island
May 31, 7:00 PM
Whitman Birthplace, Huntington Long Island
June 1, 2:30 PM FREE
The Reading Room, Bryant Park, Manhattan
CAST 2019
ARTISTIC/PRODUCTION
Director: Karin Coonrod
Composers: Colin Jacobsen, Kyle Sanna, Eric Jacobsen, Alex Sopp
Assistant Director: Rory O. Pelsue
Sound Designer: Ken Goodwin
Lighting Designer: Solomon Weisbard
Musical Director: Kyle Sanna
Stage Manager: Michelle Joy Navis
Assistant Stage Manager: Patrick Salerno
General Manager: Jennifer Newman
Company Manager: Jennifer Newman
Press Representative: Michelle Tabnick
Social Media and Marketing Manager: Ariana Albarella
ACTORS
Dietrice Bolden
Sarah Heltzel
Sandor Isaack
Ashlyn Isler
Giovanni Pucci
Frank Rodriguez
MUSICIANS
Jake Charkey – cello
Patrick Richardson Davis - steel pan drum
Grant Gordy - guitar
Andrew Rehrig - flute
Kyle A. Sanna - guitar
Skye Steele - violin
Kaoru Watanabe - flute
This piece has also been performed in numerous locations from 2010 to 2017:
Governors Island, July 2017
The Greene Space, New York (September 2012)
Pier 40 the Esplanade, The Old Stone House, Brooklyn Historical Society, Park Avenue Christian Church,
New York (September 2011)
Marcus Garvey Park, Joe's Pub, Ft. Greene Park, The Wadleigh School, Barge Music, Walt Whitman Birthplace,
Winter Garden World Financial Center, The Old Stone House,
New York (May 2010)
CAST 2012
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Karin Coonrod
Sound Designer: Tony Geballe
Music Director: Paul Vasile
General Manager: Monica Risi
Production Manager: Regina Vorria
Stage Manager: Ashley Zednick
MUSICIANS (in alphabetical order):
Colin Jacobsen
Eric Jacobsen
Kenny Rampton
Kyle Sanna
Alex Sopp
PERFORMERS (in alphabetical order):
Dietrice Bolden
Max Casella
Ayeje Feamster
Sarah Heltzel
Michael Potts
Giovanni Pucci
Michael Rogers
Jorge Rubio
Carlton Taylor
Cheyanne Young
Photographers: Stephen Bateman, Ben Pardo, Zella Jones, Zen Lael, Gregg Richards
Walt country: Musical ‘Song to Myself’ celebrates America’s diversity.
The Brooklyn Paper, May 9, 2019
Compagnia de' Colombari Celebrates Whitman's 200th
106.7 Lite fm (WLTW-FM)Podcast
(requires iTunes)
‘Whitman at 200:’ Brooklyn Public Library Pays Tribute to Brooklyn’s Bard
The BK Reader. May 7, 2019
Park Avenue Christian Church,
New York, 2011