ATM or this is [not] new york

Kevin Doyle and his company Sponsored by Nobody are developing ATM or this is [not] new york, a new play that investigates New Yorkers' interactions with their city’s homeless population and the shifting demographics and values these encounters reveal. The piece will be an installation that simulates the automated teller sections of banks, where the city's homeless have long masqueraded as "doormen" for bank patrons in return for change. A mixed cast of ten actor-dancers will recreate a ritualistic routine of entrances, transactions, interactions and exits. Live cameras will capture dialogue and the stylized physicality of pedestrian gestures. The words and movement comprising the performances will be transmitted via closed-circuit television and multiple monitors.

Kevin Doyle is a writer and director of theater and film from Brooklyn. Since 2005, he has served as the founding Artistic Director of Sponsored By Nobody, which is based in the borough. In 2004, Doyle’s plays Styrofoam (Feed The Herd) and Compression of a Casualty (Golden Thread) premiered in New York City and San Francisco to critical acclaim. Since then, he has written and/or directed seven original plays, while working as a music video director in France, Sweden, and New York City. A recipient of the 2008-2009 Thornton Wilder Fellowship at The MacDowell Colony, Doyle has been supported by the Puffin Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; the East End Arts Council (NY); The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange; two Incubator residencies at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater; and a 2009 USArtists International Award from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Recent plays include not from canada, Fox(y) Friends, The Amputated Years and Behind the Bullseye. His play The Position was published in Plays & Playwrights 2006 and The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2006, after premiering at the Obie Award winning Ice Factory ’05 festival at the Ohio Theatre (NYC). His work has been translated into French, Dutch, and Romanian and produced in Belgium, The Netherlands, Canada, and the United States.

Sponsored by Nobody is committed to developing original work that is relevant to contemporary America. SBN has established a reputation in New York and Europe for presenting abrasive, engaging theater while refusing to relinquish the idea of art as a catalyst for social change. While rooted in theatre, SBN incorporates multiple disciplines in their work—borrowing from dance, film, music and installation art—while employing both found-texts and original writing. SBN remains committed to a collaborative development process and operates with a sense of urgency in each project they undertake as a company.