“When I was a little kid, I really wanted to be a magician, because you could transform something…amaze the crowd. I just thought that was the best thing.” Leo Marks is a performer and writer here in Omaha who assisted with our play about homelessness, Stories: On the Brink, early in the process and has […]
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Updates for 2020 Season
First, a huge thanks to those of you who follow and support us as a new theatre company. We really cannot do this work without all the people who are part of this Anastasis family, which includes community members, professional theater-makers, financial supporters, collaborators and all the individuals that contribute in any way. Our way […]
The Anastasis Family: Brandi Smith
We as a theatre company couldn’t do what we do if it weren’t for the wider community that supports us. In particular, we have an incredibly talented pool of actors and actresses here in Omaha. We wanted to take a few posts to highlight and thank some of these wonderful people who we like to […]
Meet the Board: Olivia Johnson
Olivia is not only a board member, but she also lends her acting talents to our theatre company. She was part of Justice of Eating , our collaboration with the Stephen Center and the Benson Theatre B Side to bring attention to hunger in Omaha. She will also be in Stories: on the Brink this […]
Meet the Board: Andrea Padilla-Rosas
We’ve been lucky here at Anastasis to add some new and amazing individuals to our board. Without them, we couldn’t do what we do. Meet Andrea Padilla-Rosas! Andrea Padilla-Rosas was born and raised in Central California. Her immediate family still lives in California – her parents, older sister, twin sister, and younger brother. She moved […]
2020 in high gear
2020 has barely started and we’ve been kicking it into high gear in Anastasis-world. We’ve completed a draft of our play, Stories: on the Brink, our piece based on the stories of people in Omaha who have experienced homelessness, and have begun taking it around to shelters in town for feedback. On January 11th, we […]
Giving
It has been a whirlwind of eye-opening, fun and engaging work in 2019. We’ve teamed with the fantastic fellows of Opera Omaha, co-directed with Great Plains Theatre Conference on EPIC, held story circles at shelters all over the city, been blown away by the writings and performances of the guys at Nebraska State Penitentiary, presented […]
“Justice of Eating” presentation: Come join us!
On Friday, November 15th, at 7:30 pm at the B Side in Benson, Anastasis will be putting on a presentation/performance about hunger in Omaha. This is a collaboration with a great shelter in town, the Stephen Center, and Saving Grace, another excellent nonprofit working to end food waste and combat hunger in town. The show […]
All together in one room
We haven’t posted in a while, but for wonderful reasons…we’ve been busy! We’re continuing to work with the guys at Nebraska State Penitentiary (whose writings never stop blowing us away) and we recently had a public reading of our play about homelessness in Omaha, Stories on the Brink. Great Plains Theatre Conference , without whom […]
Souls in prison
“While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” ― Eugene V. Debs “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison.” HEBREWS 13:1-3 “All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals.” –Michelle Alexander In the Spring of 2018, I was in the […]