
We’ve been commissioned to create FLIGHT,
a new production adapted from Williams’ text for the prestigious Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival,
and…
we need your help to manifest its full potential!
About FLIGHT
This highly visual solo show delves deep into the dreams and desires of a secret poet who yearns for creative freedom amidst the machinations of a soul-crushing job and a toxic upbringing. The discovery of a hidden door leads him to the roof of the twenty-five-story Continental Shoe Factory, where open space and the energy of the free-flowing Mississippi infuse him with the power to take a leap of faith.
MB Adaptors company is honored to have this opportunity to create a brand new production adapted from Williams’ short story, “Stair to the Roof or Episodes in the Life of a Clerk.” Directed by Kari Margolis, featuring Jarod Hanson as performer, Tony Brown as composer and multimedia artist, and Angela Kiser as technical director and lighting designer.

Help us Take Flight
The Festival is helping us produce FLIGHT, but we need your help to cover additional production costs, travel expenses, and per diem.
FLIGHT will premier at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, from September 26-29 at Gifford House.
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival celebrates its 19th season of offering an unmatched range of performance and scholarship all in one place. The festival explores Williams’ avant-garde spirit and evolving international importance, presenting his classic plays and experimental work, the achievements of his peers, and new work inspired by Williams’ creative vision worldwide.
FLIGHT Creative Team
MBA’s powerhouse team will breathe new life into Williams’ potent language to create a theatrical adaptation with the hallmarks of the company’s work: dynamic physicality, poetic imagery, innovative storytelling, and evocative sound & multimedia.
Kari Margolis (Director)
As co-artistic director, Kari has conceived and directed seventeen award-winning productions for the company that have toured nationally and abroad, as well as several site-specific events for such places as the Brooklyn Museum and the Beach at Coney Island NY.
Over the last 40 years, Kari has developed an internationally recognized approach to theatre training and creation (Margolis Method) that merges the skill sets of the actor, director, and playwright.
Kari has been a guest artist for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival for fourteen years and has created several original works at universities.
Kari conducts residencies and lecture demonstrations internationally. She is a keynote speaker, playwright, freelance director, and published author. Her book “Walking The Artistic Path” will be available this fall.
Jarod Hanson
(Actor)
Jarod contributed to and performed in seven MBA repertory productions. He co-created Overtime: Men at Work with Jonathan Beller for MN Fringe. His short play SWEVEN was a semi-finalist KCACTF Region.
He is Lead MM Faculty and received his MFA from Towson, where he was a Fellow for the Center for Intl Theatre Development. He was the Graduate Student Rep for the Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) and is currently the organization’s Treasurer.
Jarod is an Acme Corporation theatre company member in Baltimore and Die-Cast in Philly. He is currently the Movement Director for Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production of MACHINAL and most recently co-directed a new opera entitled THE LIGHTS WENT OUT BECAUSE OF A PROBLEM with Acme at the Voxel theatre.
Tony Brown
(Sound & Multimedia Designer)
Tony is co-artistic director and an award-winning performer in his own right receiving accolades for his performances that include a “Best of the Twin Cities” and an “Arizoni.”
Along with composing original songs and creating all the sound scores and multimedia imagery for the company’s seventeen productions, Tony created multimedia for Galt MacDermot’s (Hair) newest musical GODDESS WHEEL performed at Snug Harbor in Staten Island NY.
He has created sound scores for commercials and multimedia for such performance companies as Shapiro and Smith Dance and the Minnesota Chorale.
He helped design the media center for the University of Minnesota’s Theatre Department where he also taught media and acting classes.
Angela Kiser
(Technical Director & Lighting Designer)
Angela is a core MBA ensemble member and the company’s Program and Communications Director, graphic designer, and MM full-time faculty. She is presently developing a new solo work directed by Kari Margolis and was a contributing editor to Kari’s book “Walking The Artistic Path.“
She helped develop and performed in MBA’s repertory production Headshot! in New York and Barcelona. She has a BFA from WWU, and has presented her own performance and design work in Bellingham, Seattle, Wisconsin, New York, and Barcelona, Spain.
She was a principal collaborating artist of Kuntz and Company, the co-founder of On the Precipice Productions, and co-host of the theatre performance podcast, Stage Hackers.
*Special thanks to Jennifer Restak of the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre for her early dramaturgical research. Script adapted in part from her research.