a strange life in a small logging town

WHAT IS?

Aberdeen is first-person musical storytelling performance from Matt Sheehy (Lost Lander, EL VY, Matt Berninger's Serpentine Prison) inspired by his travels as a forester in the rural Pacific Northwest. Aberdeen has toured in the US and Germany with a New York premiere at The Public Theater. It’s for anyone who has ever re-started a life, lost a loved one, or felt the gravity of having children of their own. It's an experience that is part indie-rock concert, part The Moth, and part The Twilight Zone.

The show will be adapted specifically for livestream and will use the limitations of the medium to its advantage. It will feature animated projections by Stefan Nadelman (Tiger King, The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling) that provide exposition and evoke a sense of place. The livestream will be co-directed by Julian Acosta (What Bitch) and Pat Moran (Action/Adventure Theater) with cutaways to live-action sequences. Music will be performed live by Lost Lander.

“Aberdeen isn’t a place. It’s a thing that happens to you” - Andy Flood