Ellen Ward relinquishes the physical world, falling prey to a war of obsession and dark sexuality with a man she has never met. Omen Road to Starrville is a psychological examination of our addiction to the Internet, the death of privacy, and artificial delusions of love.
Finalist, 2021 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards, Dartmouth College
Finalist, Ashland New Play Festival
Semi-finalist, National Playwrights Conference, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Top Ten, The Stanley Drama Award, Wagner College
Workshop / Staged Reading, Broadway Virtual; dir. Erik Champney
Workshop / Staged Reading, La MaMa; feat. Misha Osherovich, Sawyer Spielberg, Elizabeth Inghram; dir. Glory Kadigan
Concert Reading, NYU Tisch Asia; dir. Drayton Hiers
Workshop, NYU Tisch Asia; dir. Wesley Aroozoo & Erik Champney
Workshop and reading of the re-imagined version of Omen Road to Starrville, written and directed by Erik Champney for Broadway Virtual,
Rehearsal for the staged reading of Omen Road to Starrville, presented by La MaMa. It was written by Erik Champney and directed by Glory Kadigan.
Misha’s Kendle was malevolent. It was a cunning, stable performance, making it all the more clear the diverse choices an actor can make with this character. This Omen Road to Starrville was chilling.
Written by Erik Champney and directed by Glory Kadigan for La MaMa.
Rehearsal for the staged reading of Omen Road to Starrville, presented by La MaMa. It was written by Erik Champney and directed by Glory Kadigan.
Rehearsal for the staged reading of Omen Road to Starrville, presented by La MaMa. It was written by Erik Champney and directed by Glory Kadigan.
For a play as disturbing as Omen Road to Starrville, this company was having a jolly good time.
Written by Erik Champney and directed by Glory Kadigan for La MaMa, New York, NY.
Omen Road to Starrville, written by Erik Champney and directed by Wesley Aroozoo and Erik Champney. NYU Tisch Asia, Singapore.
This was a beautiful and unnerving workshop of Omen Road to Starrville. Experimenting heavily with projections and a tense soundscape, both created by the magnificent genius, Wesley Aroozoo, this was the first time the play started to reveal what it was capable of doing.
Written by Erik Champney and directed by Wesley Aroozoo and Erik Champney. Workshop at NYU Tisch Asia, Singapore.
Tori Keenan-Zelt always brings such a perfect, subtle harmony to every collaboration, which fit so well against this workshop’s unhinged backdrop.
Written by Erik Champney and directed by Wesley Aroozoo and Erik Champney. Workshop at NYU Tisch Asia, Singapore.
Omen Road to Starrville was workshopped off and on for more than a year in Singapore. Olivia Briggs delivered Ellen’s spirit and oceans of subtext. She was also gracious enough to play the role many, many times as Erik worked on the play. And, of course, when Ethan Chia took on Kendle, intense meaning was infused into those workshops.
Written by Erik Champney and directed by Wesley Aroozoo and Erik Champney. Workshop at NYU Tisch Asia, Singapore.
Omen Road to Starrville is dedicated to Ethan Chia. He wouldn’t learn this until late in his collaboration with Erik Champney, near the end of the rehearsal period for a concert reading. It would be the culmination of more than a year of working together.
Written by Erik Champney and directed by Wesley Aroozoo and Erik Champney. Workshop at NYU Tisch Asia, Singapore.
Omen Road to Starrville, written by Erik Champney and directed by Wesley Aroozoo and Erik Champney. Workshop at NYU Tisch Asia, Singapore.
Omen Road to Starrville, written by Erik Champney and directed by Wesley Aroozoo and Erik Champney. Workshop at NYU Tisch Asia, Singapore.