About
Visitors to NIGHTMARE: SUPERSTITIONS enter a surreal insane asylum. The patients have voluntarily admitted themselves, seeking protection from the danger they perceive is awaiting them because they broke a superstition. They feel they’re safe behind padded walls, and that they can be set free if NIGHTMARE patrons break these superstitions and accept bad luck themselves. They have to…it's the only way out!
FUN HOUSE, a smaller, equally demented haunted attraction, is the second component of this year’s NIGHTMARE. Here, the inmates are truly running the asylum in a twisted carnival-style event that visitors walk through before they experience the main attraction.
NIGHTMARE: SUPERSTITIONS runs from September 24 through November 6.
Yes, it’s scary.
Creatives
Timothy Haskell
Timothy Haskell (Director) recently co-curated and produced the first ever Fight Festival at The Brick Theatre premiering his new work Last Life, which later transferred to the Ohio Theatre. Other recent credits include the Off-Broadway hits Stitching (The Wild Project and The Elephant in Los Angeles), The Jaded Assassin (Ohio Theatre), Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy starring Corey Feldman at the Classic Stage Company, Corporate Rock by Will Bennett (Blue Heron Arts Center) and the Paris Hilton spoof I Love Paris by Doug Fields, also at the Blue Heron Arts Center. At 13 months, I Love Paris was one of the longest-running solo shows in Off-Broadway history. He is perhaps best known for creating and directing the cult hit Road House: The Stage Play, which transferred from Off-Off Broadway to Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. Mr. Haskell is the creator and director of the annual Nightmare: New York's Most Horrifying Haunted House. The most recent installation was Nightmare: Vampires in in 2009.
John Harlacher
John Harlacher (Co-director, NIGHTMARE: SUPERSTITIONS & creator and director NIGHTMARE: FUN HOUSE) is an actor and director. Recent acting work includes the indie feature Love Simple, directed by Mark von Sternberg; Off-Broadway’s Dog Day Afternoon, adapted by Francisco Solorzano; and the revival of Israel Horovitz’s Rats. Both stage productions were produced by The Barefoot Theatre Company, of which he is a member. Recent directing work includes Penetrating The Space and Callous Cad, at Dixon Place, the Miami version of NIGHTMARE: GHOST STORIES, New York’s NIGHTMARE: VAMPIRES created by Timothy Haskell and the feature film Urchin, which he also wrote. Released theatrically and distributed worldwide, Urchin was banned in Malaysia as a “threat to culture.”
Candice Thompson
Candice Thompson (Costume Design) is a Brooklyn-based artist, costume and dancewear designer. Her designs for theatre have been featured in venues such as HERE Arts Center, the Ohio Theatre, the Player's Theatre, the 45th Street Theatre, the American Place Theatre, the Brick Theatre, the Crown Point Festival, the NY International Fringe Festival and the Williamstown Theatre Festival and her designs for dance have been seen at such varied companies and places as the New Chamber Ballet at City Center Studios; Laura Peterson Company; Philippa Kaye Company's Humorphous; Milwaukee Ballet company, James Sewell Ballet, ad hoc Ballet, Owen Marks, SUNY Purchase, Harvard and the Rock School for Dance Education. Her leotard designs for LOLAstretch are worn by professional dancers and students in dance companies around the world, including the popular show So You Think You Can Dance?
Justin Haskell
Justin Haskell (Art Direction and Special Effects) is currently attending the Pratt Institute's Fine Arts program with a specialty in painting. This is his sixth year working with NIGHTMARE: NEW YORK'S MOST HORRFYING HAUNTED HOUSE. He heads the art direction department with Aaron Haskell and the Brooklyn Art Department (B.A.D.) team. Under the aegis of B.A.D., he has also done set design, set dressing and been propmaster for theatre productions. He is five feet ten inches with blue eyes and dusty blond hair.
Aaron Haskell
Aaron Haskell (Specialty Props) is one of the NIGHTMARE&rsquos original designers. He started Brooklyn Art Department (B.A.D.) with Aaron Haskell. At B.A.D. he focuses on creating new performance pieces and specialty design for theatre and film. His show, Wake Up, You're Dead which is being created for La Mama’s Puppet Series 4 involves puppetry, dance, and aerial acrobatics will premiere Halloween 2010. For more on B.A.D. visit BrooklynArtDepartment.com and visit us on Facebook.
Garin Marschall
Garin Marschall (Lighting Design)Mr. Marschall has designed lighting and/or scenery for numerous Off-Broadway and way-off Broadway productions. He has worked with Mr. Haskell and the NIGHTMARE team on houses dating back to 2007. He now works for an architectural lighting firm, ONELUXstudio. Mr. Marschall recommends you check out recently released book/project, Suspicious Anatomy, written by his brother, also a Mr. Marschall.
Paul Smithyman
Paul Smithyman (Scenic Designer) A 15 year veteran of Off-Off, Off Broadway and Broadway. Works as a director, producer, scenic designer and production manager. Resident designer for NIGHTMARE for the past six years. Design credits include Ruin Those Pretty Hands by Carla Sarr, Roadhouse created by Tim Haskell, Illumination Rounds by Josh Liveright, 33 to Nothing by Grant James Varjas, Viva Patshiva by David Jenness, Alternative Methods by Patricia Davis and Last Life by Eric Sanders. Directing credits include Triggers by Gerald Cosgrove & Paul Smithyman, The Memory of Love's Refrain by Brett C. Leonard, Lapis Blue Blood Red by Cathy Caplan, Illumination Rounds by Josh Liveright and Viva Patshiva by David Jenness. Was Co-Artistic Director of The Interart Development Series from 1994-2004 with over 30 productions produced. Has over 100 production credits at Lincoln Center Theater including South Pacific, Coast of Utopia and Contact.
David Hinkle
David Hinkle (Props Head) is a painter, writer and director. After three years working as a scenic painter for Seaside Music Theater, he moved to New York to attend art school. As recent graduate of Pratt Institute he has done set design, and set dressing for theater and film productions. He is a member of Hurt Prone Productions, which produces short experimental films.
Eric Sanders
Eric Sanders (Horror Playwright, Guest Artist) is the author of the hit “fightsical” Last Life at the Ohio Theatre and Brick Theater, directed by Timothy Haskell. Other shows include The Wendigo, Ixomia, fuckplays, Dread Awakening, Oblivia, Faint, Heartless, The Hillside, and It's a Dry Heat. Eric was the Associate Producer on the hit musical Xanadu on Broadway, as well as the hit indie-rock musical Hostage Song. He is currently working on his first feature film, Night of the Long Knives, and the religious rock opera Original Innocence with musician Dave Nuss of Sabbath Assembly. FunInTrouble.com
Bobby Ferrara
Bobby Ferrara (Former Patron, Guest Artist) is 47 years old and has been married more than 20 years; four kids. Born and still resides in The Bronx, operates a Snapple route in Westchester. Been an over-the-top home haunter for many years and enjoys anything scary or haunted. Travels every year to different haunts around the country—and sometimes outside the country, including Europe. His son, Bobby, is 22 and works as a graphic artist for a company in Tarrytown. Been going to haunts since he was six and loves them; always wanting to lead the group. As much as he loves summer, he looks forward to September and October.
Ariella Goldstein
Ariella Goldstein (Former NIGHTMARE Performer, Guest Artist) is an individual who truly takes pleasure in the act of creating. Be it editing a film or building a set, her varied background and wide range of expertise give her an advantage in tackling any task. Ariella is currently IT Director/Webmaster at Puppet Heap, a wonderful puppet-building workshop in Hoboken, NJ—but when her hands aren't demolishing a keyboard, they are probably covered in paint.
Ventiko
Ventiko (Guest Designer) is a New York-based artist whose photographic work has appeared at various galleries across the country including The Dean Johnson Gallery, The Harrison Center and The Red Room, is part of numerous private collections and the permanent collection of The Kinsey Institute. This is her third large-scale public installation, the first two being part of the annual juried art show in Indianapolis Indiana: Oranje.
Chip Meyrelles
Chip Meyrelles (Producer/Executive Director) has produced theater on and Off-Broadway. His credits include The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening, Bug and Orson’s Shadow. He is the executive director of Art Meets Commerce.(www.artmeetscommerce.net)
Psycho Clan
Psycho Clan (Producer) is a division of Art Meets Commerce LLC, an entertainment company dedicated to special events, theatrical productions and new media marketing and advertisement. Its principals are Chip Meyrelles, Ken Greiner, Timothy Haskell, Jim Glaub and Laurie Connor.