Beauty Freak

a new play by James Clements

directed by Danilo Gambini

in a co-production with What Will The Neighbors Say?

Beauty Freak centers on Leni Riefenstahl during the creation and promotion of her magnum opus “Olympia,” a film about the 1936 Berlin Olympics commissioned by the Third Reich. Act I is set during the preparations for the Olympics, and Act II during her U.S. publicity tour in 1938, during which the events of Kristallnacht unfolded. As the regime that supports her artistic vision escalates their campaign of terror and commits increasingly flagrant atrocities, Riefenstahl and her colleagues are forced to reckon with their own complicity and responsibilities as artists.

featuring Baize Buzan, Sam Hood Adrain, James Clements, Peter Coleman, Luca Fontaine, Slate Holmgren, and Keith Rubin

scenic design | Suzu Sakai, costume design by Stephanie Bahniuk, lighting design by Yung-Hung Sung, sound design and original music by Liam Bellman-Sharpe, prop design by Samantha Tutasi, stage management by Isabel Criado