They currently have commissions with Theatreworks Silicon Valley and ACT’s Youth Conservatory program and have collaborated on several pieces with nationally renowned playw right Lauren Gunderson. The Kilbanes collaborated with SF Shakespeare Festival on a musical version of As You Like It that played throughout the Bay Area. Eddie got its start at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and was featured at Theatreworks ’ New Works Festival. Their piece, Eddie the Marvelous, Who Will Save the World, was selected for the O’Neill National Music Conference in 2018. Weightless received the highest rating from the SF Chronicle as well as a Bay Area Critics Circle Awards nomination for Best New Music. Their rock musical Weightless ran at ACT after productions at the Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival and Z Space in San Francisco. The Kilbanes are a theatrical rock band led by married songwriting duo Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses. KATE KILBANE ( Author/Procne/Bass, She/Her) & DAN MOSES ( Author/Keyboard, He/Him).
The show was developed at TheaterSquared as part of the Arkansas New Play Festival. The world premiere of Weightless was developed and produced by Z Space (Lisa Steindler, Executive Artistic Director) and piece by piece productions in March 2018 at Z Space in San Francisco. Weightless was line produced by WP BOLD Special Projects Producer, Nidia Medina.įilmed under strict COVID guidelines at CalShakes’ Bruns Amphitheater, a spectacular outdoor performance space in the Bay Area, Weightless intertwines animation, live rock performance, and storytelling into a musical experience like no other. The creative team includes Video Editor Katherine Freer ( Lifespan of a Fact, The Band’s Visit), Title Designer Yee Eun Nam ( The Fall of the House of Usher), Cinematographer Peggy Peralta (award-winning documentaries Harana, and A New Color), Production & Costume Designer David Israel Reynoso ( Sleep No More) and Sound Editor Gregory T. Kilbane ( Procne/Bass) and Moses (Keyboards/Vocals) are joined onscreen by fellow performer/band members Lila Blue ( Philomela), Kofy Brown ( Iris/Percussion), Joshua Pollock ( Tereus/Guitar), and Dan Harris (Percussion). Inspired by a tale from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Weightless is a visual concept album-the band and the cast are one and the same-blurring the line between actors and musicians, between musical theater, video art, and rock concert, and between the virtual world and a world in which we can all hold and feel one another again. Weaving together ancient myth and indie rock, Weightless tells the tale of two deeply devoted sisters, Procne and Philomela, separated by circumstance, who must travel across worlds and make devastating sacrifices in order to reunite, and the god who shapes and is shaped by that journey. Weightless is an accomplished work, and an entertaining one.” “ Weightless has a well-crafted form, and its spoken dialogue melds beautifully with the propulsive score.
“Gorgeous music, ferocious performances and a dazzlingly original structure! The Kilbanes could fly endlessly into space on a single, hypnotically executed chord… To watch this show is to be reanimated with a childlike sense that our choices have magical origins and magical ripple effects.”
A theatrical concert film by The Kilbanes
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