By Jordan Tannahill
Directed by Dmitri Barcomi

Showtimes
Thursday, March 23, 8pm
Friday, March 24, 8pm
Saturday, March 25, 2pm
Saturday, March 25, 8pm
Sunday, March 26, 2pm

Columbia University School of the Arts presents Botticelli in the Fire, a directing thesis production by current student Dmitri Barcomi.

“They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you.”

Playboy painter Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear – and the wife – of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as Florence's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo.

While working on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival.

Content Warning

Violence, Nudity, Homophobia, Filthy Queer Sex

Run Time

2 hours, with intermission

Featuring

Noah Pizyk – SANDRO BOTTICELLI
AJ Dresdale – CLARICE ORSINI / MADRE MARIA
Logan Clingan – LORENZO DE MEDICI
Mari Moriarty – LEONARDO DA VINCI
R. Jahan – POGGIO DI CHULLU
Adin Lenahan – GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA
Nancy Nogood – VENUS

Production Team & Crew

Director Dmitri Barcomi (current student)
General Manager Zhiwei Ma
Production Stage Manager Sage Spitz
Assistant Stage Manager Morgan Grant
Company Manager Ruby Wang
Scenic Designer Mengyi Liu
Costume Designer Karen Boyer
Lighting Designer Willem Hinternhoff
Sound Designer Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Video Designer Andrew Freeburg
Props Designer Seth Majnoon
Court Composer Dexter Driscoll
Fight Director/Choreographer Calvin Atkinson
Venus Choreography Jorge Guevara

Props Run Crew Srujanee Mishra
Light Board Operator Calvin Atkinson
Wardrobe Anastasia Ellis
Backstage Dacyl Acevedo
Sound/Video Board Operator Yejia Sun (current student)

About the Artist

TBD