In Parentheses
IN PARENTHESES is a non-profit New York based company that has been
producing theater and film since 1999. We use theater, 16mm and digital film, sports, dance, live music, stop-motion animation, shadow play and puppetry to create new work.
We’ve received support from NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, Made in NY, Trust of Mutual Understanding, CEC ArtsLink, Etant Donnes, Laura Pels, the Dramatists’ Guild, Beaumarchais Foundation, Department of Cultural Affaires, The French Cultural Services, Troy, and Blaustein Foundation.
We’ve performed at Lincoln Center, Florence Gould Hall, the Ohio Theater, Here, the Knitting Factory, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 59E59 Theaters, and toured in Eastern Europe and France. We have screened films at more than 140 film festivals worldwide, including Ann Arbor, Palm Springs, DOC NYC, Hot Springs, STARZ, San Francisco Indie FF, and many more.
Our work received critical acclaim from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Bronx Times, Time Out, Theater Magazine, Theater Yale, Theater.com, & Blade, Le Monde, Liberation, Figaro, Korean Theatre Review, Chosun Ilbo (Korea), International Herald Tribune.
All contributions to our non-profit 501 (c)(3) company are tax deductible.
Founded by Irina Patkanian, Marion Schoevaert in 1994.
Iriną Patkanian (www.irinapatkanian.com)
Irina Patkanian is an award winning filmmaker, a Fulbright scholar, Professor of Film and Media Arts at Television, Radio and Emerging Media department of Brooklyn College/CUNY, and the President of “In Parentheses.”
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Irina Patkanian came to the U.S. in 1991 after graduating from the University of St. Petersburg. She was awarded an American Association of University Women International Fellowship to pursue the MFA degree in Film Production.
Irina Patkanian makes hybrid (fiction/nonfiction) films questioning history with poetry, memory with animation, performance with behavior. Irina’s films have screened at more than a 140 film festivals worldwide, winning more than 20 awards, incl. DOC NYC, Ann Arbor, STARZ Denver, Palm Springs, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and many others. Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from NYSCA, NYFA, Made in New York, Tow, Blaustein, Troy and Jerome Foundations; as well as artist residencies at the Obermann Center, MacDowel, the Millay Arts, Ucross Foundation and the Studios of Key West.
Marion Schoevaert (www.marionschoevaert.com)
Marion Schoevaert has been developing her own style of physical theater for 25 years in New York, Seoul and France. She has directed, produced and choreographed more than twenty theater shows, operas and shadow plays, blending dance-theater, rhythmic text and live music.
She works with artists from all disciplines and genres: painting, video, jazz, tango, hip hop, sports, martial arts, propaganda, graffiti, etc. to create visceral and raw emotional response from both actors and audiences.
Marion Schoevaert has done 33 shows for the Young People’s Concert with the New York Philharmonic.
She has produced the successful Koltès New York Festival (7 plays) in New York to present new translations of Koltès’s work to the American audience.
In Korea, she has directed a North Korean mass dance propaganda play with 2 orchestras and 100 actors, blending North and South Korean texts, music and style together.
She has created 3 theatre companies in New York, Seoul and France.