THE MILLION UNDERSCORES is an experimental theater company based in Brooklyn under the artistic direction of Nicolas Noreña. Founded in Summer 2013 the company has developed alongside a qualitative study of numbers, and experiments in aesthetic drive, abstract composition, and collaborative writing.
We make highly visual and physical eccentric theater works that interrogate the action and the form of theater.
We value every element of performance as an independent voice. Through density, multi-directionality and juxstaposition we generate fields for the audience to notice, think and reify modes of perception, organization and understanding.
NICOLAS NOREÑA (Artistic Director) is a Colombian theater maker and performer based in Brooklyn. He has worked with Richard Foreman, Mary Overlie, The Talking Band, Jess Barbagallo, and Object Collection among others. He is the founding member of morningtomorning.org, and is the artistic director of THE MILLION UNDERSCORES. Through this company he has developed, produced, directed and designed over ten original productions that have been presented in spaces such as The Museum of Modern Art, FringeNYC, The Exponential Festival, The Brick Theater and Target Margin Theater among others.
He was a LEIMAY fellow 2015-2020, LAB artist with Target Margin Theater in 2019 and was a resident artist with MABOU MINES 2015-2016.
Nicolas currently teaches at the Experimental Theater Wing in New York University, and is the archive director of the Mary Overlie Legacy Project.
TIMOTHY SCOTT (Associate Artistic Director) is a Brooklyn based performer and a founding member of THE MILLION UNDERSCORES. He has worked with Richard Foreman, Mary Overlie, Ernesto Pujol and Jess Barbagallo. In the past years he has been traveling and assistant teaching Six Viewpoints and Floor Barre with Mary Overlie. He currently holds a residency at LEIMAY. Timothy is a graduate from NYU-Tisch having studied at the Experimental Theater Wing and Stella Adler studio for Acting
PRESENT AND PAST COLLABORATORS:
Tanya Marquardt
Allesandro Magania
Paul Langland
Sophia Treanor
Ryan Williams Downey
Yuki Kawahisa
Alenka Kraigher
Madeline Barr
Marija Kovacevic
Johana Stone
Daniel Allen Nelson
Runn Shayo
Caitlin Hargraves
Jade Fusco
Lizzy Denning
Jon Fusco
Heather Thiry
Aryan Rad
Kelsey Larsen
Lizzie Kehoe
Kiley Olsen
Gili Nir
Thomas Skea
Michelle Uranowitz
Russell Peck
David Bernstein
Austin Thompson
Annick Marie Dall
Maggie Mcdowell
Marija Kovacevic
Cecilia Leal
Rebecca Kushner
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
Sam Lassiter
Hudson Rhotenberry
Sophie Bossart
Derya Celikkol
Zachary Luke
Isabella Uzcategui- Matos