Axis Company one of the Top Ten "People" of 2009

NYTheatre.com names Axis Company one of the top ten "People of the Year."

AXIS Company: Now celebrating their 12th year, AXIS Company, led by artistic director Randy Sharp and producing director Brian Barnhart, had a prolific 2009, with the 10th edition of their unique Hospital serial during the summer, plus the play Trinity 5:29, a return of their perennial holiday show Seven in one Blow, and the Edinburgh debut of their recent hit, Edgar Oliver's one-man play East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House. In the photo is a scene from Hospital 2009.


In 2010 AXIS will begin the development process of creating a new play based on the 1968 murder of Sylvia Likens. Taken in as a boarder by the Banezewski family, she was tortured to death over a three month period. One of the many extraordinary elements of Sylvia's story is that her protracted murder was carried out by an interchangable gang of normal neighborhood kids and that it was orchestrated by Gertrude Banezewski—the matriarch and only adult involved.

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