WAMFest: Words, Arts, and Music Festival
FDU School of the Arts Presents
WAMFest 2024
“Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets!”
Books and Lyrics by Matt Chiorini
Music by Matt Chiorini and Travis Newton
Directed by Alan Muraoka
Wednesday, December 4 at 2:30 PM, DREYFUSS THEATER
Thursday, December 5 at 7:30 PM, DREYFUSS THEATER
“Delivers in talent, sincerity, and pizzazz!” -Broadway World
Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for two shows only, “Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets!” is skittering to WAMFest 2024! One morning, Gregor Samsa awoke to discover he’d caught the musical theatre bug. With puppets! Scuttle to this silly, surreal take on Kafka’s paranoid, mystifying masterpiece to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death. Featuring puppetry, shadowplay, unforgettable music, and surreal meta-humor, “Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets!” has delighted swarms of audiences from New York to Scotland.
Adult content, viewer discretion advised.
FREE TICKETS – BUT PLEASE RESERVE IN ADVANCE
RUNNING TIME: 1 hour; no intermission
Following each show is a live intro and demo of the hottest new VR game METAMORPHOSIS with the CEO of Black Sun Productions, Corbin Chase. A bold reinvention of the award-winning PC game, available now on Meta Quest!
The Platform – ARTS By The People
Wednesday, December 4 at 7:00 PM, THE ORANGERIE (MONNINGER CENTER)
Featuring a workshop led by Paul Rabinowitz of ARTS By The People, an open mic for original poetry and prose, and a sneak peek of What Love Is: Book One by David Daniel and George Cochrane.
Celebrating its fifteenth year, ARTS By The People is an educational organization creating arts opportunities for the general public, with their mission to “empower individuals through collaborative acts of self-expression”. They are bringing their open mic and writing workshop The Platform to WAMFest! Highlighting the theme of “What Love is”, ARTS founder and executive director Paul Rabinowitz will lead a workshop to explore writing about love. There will also be an open mic, where first-time readers, early career writers, and seasoned published poets and authors are all welcome to share their original poetry or prose, with a maximum of one piece or 4 minutes per artist. The Platform will also feature a sneak peek of What Love Is: Book One, an illustrated volume of poetry by David Daniel and George Cochrane.
Sign-ups to read will start at 7:45 PM. For questions, please email info@artsbythepeople.org.
To learn more about ARTS By The People, please visit https://www.artsbythepeople.org/.
For more information about What Love Is: Book One, please visit https://niralapublications.com/2024/03/27/upcoming-nirala-release-what-love-is-book-one/.
An Annual Festival
WAMFest is an annual series of readings, interviews, talks, and performances hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s School of the Arts. WAMFest brings successful artists of various art genres to the campus to inspire and inform students and the community. Past guests have included Bruce Springsteen, Robert Pinsky, Roseanne Cash, Eugene Mirman, Jonathan Demme, Talib Kweli, Mark Morris, Kevin Smith, Ice-T, Sean Astin, Chita Rivera, Laverne Cox, and Andre Braugher.
WAMFest was created by poet and creative writing professor David Daniel with the hope of bringing together writers, songwriters, visual artists, dancers, musicians, actors, comedians, and filmmakers to create conversations and collaborations that bridge the gap between ‘the people’s art’ and the ‘art of the academy,’ and to create a model for teaching and celebrating the arts across the country.
Past WAMFest Highlights
WAMFest has been made possible in part by funding from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to FDU Trustee Robert and Patricia Pures.