Stephen M. Cyr is a designer, technologist, and storyteller with a dash of absurdity. While collaborating on theatre, film, installations, museums, themed attractions, weird performance happenings, and other audience experiences of communication and placemaking, Stephen has also helped theatre companies and commercial clients build audience relationships through branding and marketing. Currently interested in finding the ritual in theatrical projects, and the theatrical that mediates daily life. An avid researcher of semiotics and excavator of liminal space, conjuring worlds that exist in the in-between, Stephen runs towards speculative stories bursting from the pedestrian that question the nature of reality, are full of empathy, and conjure a feeling of being alive with surprising, precious moments of transformation and magic. Also musicals.
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A magician's final brush with death. En Domstol. NYU Grad Acting. Photo: YiYuan Li
Mr. Mister's entrance, final scene. The Cradle Will Rock.
Musicans and magicians escape the elements, and wait. En Andersson. NYU Grad Acting. Photo: Joyce He
Reverend Salvation at the pulpit: "Thou shalt not...um..." The Cradle Will Rock.
A song, in a pub, in a transit terminal, in limbo. En Andersson. NYU Grad Acting. Photo: Ella Bromblin
An interrogation gone awry, and so a wedding march. En Domstol. NYU Grad Acting. Photo: Ella Bromblin
Sample distillation board for a class project: a dystopian tale to the music of Ben Folds
“Into here?…the road can’t be seen…how silver the tree trunks shimmer…I am afraid…” Erwartung.