Fresh Ground Pepper NYC

<div style="text-align: left;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">‘Twas in the Autumn of 2008! Jaclyn Backhaus and Andrew Neisler, having recently graduated from New York University, embarked on a theatrical workshop with Naked Angels to further develop a play about Peter Pan they first presented in their senior year. The workshop and subsequent reading held no pressure of impending production, thus it encouraged the sense of experimentation in process usually under-prioritized in a post-collegiate and commercial theater-making environment. Neisler and Backhaus, determined to continually foster that same energy in the community of emerging artists that surrounded them, decided to create a recurring reading series for theatrical artists in process that would allow for the sharing of unprecious and unfinished work to a supportive audience that would offer feedback. Backhaus named it “Fresh Ground Pepper,” after the celebrated ingredient rendered useful by cooks and diners alike. After all, the age-old restaurant offering of Fresh Ground Pepper to a taster of its food is just another way to employ feedback immediately in craft. Joined on staff by fellow NYU alums Karina Martins, Andrew J. Scoville, and Jenny Beth Snyder, Fresh Ground Pepper became a small group devoted to cultivating and curating art in process in spaces across Manhattan and Brooklyn.</div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Now in its fourth year, Fresh Ground Pepper has expanded beyond theatre artists to feature work by musicians, choreographers, filmmakers, puppeteers, visual artists, comedians, media designers, buskers, chefs, and creators of sport. We have developed recurring series like PlayGround (our annual reading series) and The Clash (a collaborative onsite mashup of two artistic genres) in addition to our thematically-curated monthly events. We have continued partnerships with other emerging artistic companies around NYC (such as Pipeline Theater Company, Room 404 Media and Magic Futurebox), and we have presented work that has gone on to 59E59, &nbsp;3LD Arts and Technology Center, The New York International Fringe Festival, ArsNova, the HOWL Festival, as well as national tours, publication, and YouTube fame.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">As Fresh Ground Pepper moves forward, we continue to build our community of artists and audience members as we continue to sow the seeds of developing works and present them in a fashion unique to their process.&nbsp;</p></div><div style="text-align: left;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; "><b><font face="verdana">Fresh Ground Pepper is a monthly event series for the development of emerging art.</font></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; "><b><font face="verdana">We seek to provide a forum for artists of all mediums to experiment, collaborate and grow within a supportive community.</font></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; text-align: center; "></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; "><b><font face="verdana">FGP creates shifting guidelines and obstructions through which artists can explore fresh ideas, discover alternative styles and invent new forms.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div>

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