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Jason Nodler

 

Jason Nodler is the artistic director of The Catastrophic Theatre. His original plays include Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood, Life is Happy and Sad, Speeding Motorcycle, Meatbar, King Ubu is King and In the Under Thunderloo. He has directed more than 40 productions in Houston, Austin, Atlanta, Providence, Pittsburgh and New York. For Catastrophic he has directed Anna Bella Eema, There Is A Happiness That Morning Is, Crave, Bluefinger, The Designated Mourner, Our Late Night, Life is Happy and Sad, Hunter Gatherers, Spirits to Enforce, The Strangerer and Big Death and Little Death. Jason is a NEA/MacDowell Colony fellow, a four-time MAP Fund grantee and the recipient of an individual artist grant from Creative Capital.  Jason received his degree in playwriting from New York University. He was artistic director of Infernal Bridegroom Productions for ten years.

Last Updated: 
Feb 14 2012

Shows

 

American Falls

Miki Johnson

5/25/12 to 6/9/12
DiverseWorks
 
 

Endgame

Samuel Beckett

2/17/12 to 3/3/12
DiverseWorks
 
 

Anna Bella Eema

Text by Lisa D'Amour
Music by Chris Sidorfsky

12/2/11 to 12/23/11
DiverseWorks
 
 

There Is a Happiness That Morning Is

Mickle Maher

9/24/11 to 11/19/11
The Catastrophic Office
 
 

Crave

Sarah Kane

5/20/11 to 6/4/11
DiverseWorks
 
 

Bluefinger

Songs and concepts by Black Francis, created by Jason Nodler from an idea by Josh Frank

11/12/10 to 12/18/10
DiverseWorks
 
 

Hunter Gatherers

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

6/25/10 to 7/17/10
DiverseWorks
 
 

The Designated Mourner

Wallace Shawn

5/14/10 to 6/5/10
The Catastrophic Office
 
 

Our Late Night

Wallace Shawn

3/19/10 to 4/3/10
DiverseWorks
 
 

Life is Happy and Sad

Words and Music by Daniel Johnston, Adapted by Jason Nodler

12/2/09 to 12/19/09
DiverseWorks
 
 

Hunter Gatherers (2009)

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

4/1/09 to 4/11/09
Stages
 
 

Spirits to Enforce

Mickle Maher

12/10/08 to 12/20/08
Barnevelder
 
 

The Strangerer

Mickle Maher

10/16/08 to 11/8/08
DiverseWorks
 
 

Big Death and Little Death

Micky Birnbaum

4/3/08 to 4/19/08
Quintero Theatre
 

Press

Review: Samuel Beckett’s "Endgame"

Abby Koenig
Arts+Culture Magazine
Thu, 03/01/2012
Original Article

Catastrophic’s production of the very funny and terribly unhappy “Endgame” is another masterpiece in the company’s ever-mounting stack of successes.

Your weekly guide to Houston: Cinderella as a modern woman, J.J. Watt as a cowboy & bees as friends

Joel Luks
culturemap
Fri, 02/24/2012
Original Article

Nancy says: "'You're on earth, there's no cure for that,' Hamm says to to Clov. Beckett is back thanks to those wonky word geeks over at Catastrophic Theatre with their uber tight production of Endgame, starring Greg Dean as Hamm, Troy Schulze as Clov, Joel Orr as Nagg and Mikelle Johnson as Nell. Directed by Jason Nodler, Endgame's title says it all. If you love language, wordplay, divine banter and humor with a falling off a cliff edge, this is a play for you.

Catastrophic’s ENDGAME is Ingenious Masterwork

Buzz Bellmont
Chron Commons
Fri, 02/24/2012
Original Article

No one in Houston creates this multilayered, nonlinear type of theatre better than The Catastrophic Theatre.

I think it helps that Catastrophic’s Artistic Director Jason Nodler, who directs here, is a goddamn genius by every definition of the word.Only a genius can take the complexly simple Endgame and make it sing, dance, and soar to new heights, exploding into so many pieces simultaneously, satisfactorily, and splendidly that we marvel at its many magnificent manifestations.

Castastrophic’s Endgame: Does Beckett get any better?

Everett Evans
Houston Chronicle
Mon, 02/20/2012
Original Article

Catastrophic Theatre’s stark, unflinching production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame demonstrates exactly why this company and its artistic director Jason Nodler are so important to the city’s cultural life.

The Magnificent Endgame Gets Magnificent Treatment from Catastrophic Theatre

D.L. Groover
Houston Press
Mon, 02/20/2012
Original Article

If man's wretched existence ever needed a finer hand to paint comic despair, look no further than director Jason Nodler with his quartet of superlative interpreters all in the service of the apocalyptic vision from Samuel Beckett.

MasterMinds One Year Later: Catastrophic Theatre's Jason Nodler on Batman and Samuel Beckett

Brittanie Shey
Houston Press
Mon, 12/19/2011
Original Article

In the year since Catastrophic Theatre was named a MasterMind, the experimental theater company has added an additional production to its schedule, discovered a whole new audience, and artistic director Jason Nodler has even stopped smoking.

Bluefinger on Broadway?

D.L. Groover
Houston Press
Wed, 11/24/2010
Original Article

Catastrophic Theatre's magnificent world-premiere production of Bluefinger: The Fall and Rise of Herman Brood, written and directed by Jason Nodler, and featuring a blistering performance by Matt Kelly in the title role, could easily be the next smash hit on Broadway. Bluefinger is a once-in-a-lifetime, invigorating magical mystery tour of rock's most quintessential wild man. Catastrophic Theatre has outdone itself.

World Premiere of BLUEFINGER at Catastrophic Theatre is Ingeniously Conceived Masterpiece

Buzz Bellmont
Chron Commons
Tue, 11/16/2010
Original Article

Sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll Dutch-style pretty much sums up the monumentally epic life and times of Herman Brood and Bluefinger, boldly and masterfully brought to the stage by visionary Jason Nodler, artistic director of The Catastrophic Theatre.

Bluefinger is so good that it could and should run for years, whether here or Off-Broadway or both.  It is better than American Idiot, which I reviewed on opening night, and could make a huge splash in a smaller New York venue.

Photos

American Falls first rehearsal

Photographer: 
Jessica Janes
Friday, 13 April 2012
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