J’ROYCE JATA
Quartz Live: The Concert

FEBRUARY 24 & 25, 2022

The live experience of J’royce’s sophomore EP.

Please note this piece will use a hazer.

I wrote Quartz as a road map for an isolated mind back to its highest self. As I heal myself I heal the world. Crystal and Gem energy has become highly popularized. My Indigenous ancestors of this land (Blackfoot & Seminole Tribes) call them “brain cells of the Earth”. Remember to cleanse your crystals, gems, and stones and energize them in the sun or moonlight. Just like the crystal Quartz, we are conduits of energy and must harness, protect, and offer our gifts wisely as we enter into the New World.

Direction
J’royce Jata

Performers
J’royce Jata
Kirsten Leigh
Khaila Marie

Music Producer
Lee Lara

Set Design
Stephanie Vézina

Lighting Design
Conor Mulligan

Sound Design
Heather Bey

Projections
Paco May (Editing by Stephanie Vézina)

Costumes
House of Yes & Abraham D Levy

Style Consultant
Beatriz Lanceta

Dancers / Actors
Kirsten Leigh
Khaila Marie

Dance Captain
Kirsten Leigh

Original Co-Choreographer
Tweet X

Concept / Lyrics / Choreography
J’royce Jata

J’royce Jata, the Brooklyn based multifaceted artist, has crossed many barriers as a young performer and continues to use their unique perspective to create thought provoking performance art.

Popularly recognized from Terence Nance’s ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ on HBO and the queer cult classic ‘Killer Unicorn’ as Collin. J’royce has been writing music on tour buses for years before recording their first musical project produced by Arashi Supanova, ‘Soft’ in 2020 followed by the latest ep, ‘Quartz’ produced by Lee Lara. Several of J'royce's visually stunning music videos directed by Patrick Arias and the legendary Princess Donna [Director of Quartz Visual EP] can be viewed on YouTube.

Selected credits include:
PRINT: Vogue (with Billy Porter), Ugg (LadyGunn Magazine) TV/FILM: Killer Unicorn as Collin, Gossip Girl, And Just Like That, Random Acts of Flyness OFF BWAY: Endangered
NAT’L TOURS: Dirty Dancing (Tito Suarez u/s), Fame (Tyrone Jackson), Memphis (Swing / Black DJ u/s) DANCE: Garth Fagan Dance (Company Dancer) NYC: Elsewhere, 3DollarBill, Sony Hall, BwayCon, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Kitchen, House of Yes.

EXCINC is the imprint under which New York based, Canada born and life schooled multi disciplinary intuitive artist and performer Stephanie Vézina operates. See more of their work at EXCINC.com @exc.inc_art @st_vezina

Paco May is an artist and illustrator who seeks to highlight fabulousness wherever he sees it. He has worked with J’royce on many projects and is gagged to be part of bringing his vision to life. Stream Quartz!

Conor Mulligan (Resident Lighting Designer) Credits include: NEW YORK: The Giant Hoax, (Theatre Row), KonverjdansIII (The Mark O’Donnell Theater), Jumping Mouse (Museum of Jewish Heritage), BalletNEXT (NYLA), National Children’s Chorus (Carnegie Hall), Satellite Collective’s Echo & Narcissus 2018 (BAM Fisher), Adam Minus Josh, (Theatre Lab), Start From Hello A New Musical (Hudson Guild Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Smith Street Stages), Lambs For Slaughter, The Overcoat, The Master and Margarita, Lady With A Lap Dog, The Three Sisters, Crime and Punishment (The Russian Arts Theatre & Studio), The Phillie Trilogy, Do You Dream In Spanish, (Fresh Fruit Festival 2017), The Commuters (Calendar Boys Productions). REGIONAL: PIRIRA, Old Love New Love (Luna Stage, NJ), On Golden Pond (Bristol Riverside Theatre), This Is Our Youth (Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre, MA), E2, The 39 Steps, Sweeney Todd, All She Must Posses, The Other Place (REP Stage, MD), Columbinus, Fly By Night (1st Stage, VA), Manuel Vignoulle – M/Motions (Tulsa Performing Arts Center), The Effects Of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds [Winner of the Craig Noel award for Outstanding Lighting Design 2018], Fool For Love, True West (Cygnet Theatre, CA), Lesson 443 (MOXIE Theatre, CA), Thrill Me (Diversionary Theatre, CA). INTERNATIONAL: Cirio Collective: In the Mind, The Fourth Way, Parting Thoughts (Despertares Impulsa 2019; Guadalajara, MEX). Conor is a proud member of USA 829. More at www.conormulliganld.com

Immense gratitude to my beautiful family, Ancestors and Elders, Stephanie for being an oracle and so much more, and the entire Trisk team for supporting this dream. Who run the world . . . ? Rachel and Hannah! You two are staples in this community. Onward and upward.

Thank you so much BB, House of Yes, Abraham, Emmett, Paco, Materials for the Arts, Satine, Surburbia, Lee for such brilliant bops, Tweet for the additional movement, Kirsten for being so intellectually fab, Princess Donna for the encouragement and honestly.

To all my new friends who found me at my loneliest in the middle of the dance floor. This era is for us.

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