Nosejob invites you to light a candle.
Step into your fantasy.
You love it so much.
Right?
You do like your fantasy, don’t you?
It is yours, isn’t it?
Crossing medieval legend with American sexual politics, Nosejob tells the story of a 9th century abbey of nuns who cut off their noses to repel a pack of rapacious vikings, and a 21st century college where boys are “burying” their faces in girls’ cleavage as part of a schoolwide prank. At the center of this wicked satire is college student Devon Chase, a feminist in search of a fantasy life she can live with.
Nosejob charts the contours of consent, power, and fantasy to ask what has changed about rape culture in the last 13 centuries?
CREATIVE TEAM
Nosejob is presented by Lightning Rod Special as part of Sound Break
Co-Writers: Lee Minora and Scott R. Sheppard
Director: Nell Bang-Jensen
Co-Creators: Nell Bang-Jensen, Lee Minora, Matteo Scammell, Scott R. Sheppard
Performers: Cathy Ang, Melanye Finister, Annette Hammond, Lee Minora, Matteo Scammell, Scott R. Sheppard, Leah Walton
Sound Designer: Kathy Ruvuna
Creative Producer: Mason Rosenthal
Special thanks to The Drama League, and to Alex Bechtel, Mark Valenzuela, and Nathaniel Kent for their guest performances.
SOUND BREAK
Co-Directors: Mason Rosenthal, Scott R. Sheppard, Alice Yorke
Sound Supervisor: Jaechelle Johnson
Project Manager: Lawryn LaCroix
Graphic Designer: Jesse Armine
When the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically shifted the landscape of live performance in March 2020, Lightning Rod Special began experimenting with new forms of remote collaboration. The result was Sound Break, a series of stand-alone audio works that bring LRS’s explosive and trickster style into the audio medium. Sound Break is available online, free to all.
