The Company

• We're emerging artists and we believe it's important to support and work with other emerging artists. That means creating opportunities within our company for unheard, untried, untested voices.
• We believe that a play should be treated with as much respect as a person, and that it is only through examining a text from all angles that it will be able to truly able to stand up and walk on its own.
• We believe in creating the maximum theatrical experience with a minimum of material elements. 
• We believe there's room for everyone's story. We desperately want our work to reflect a broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and viewpoints that are underrepresented in modern theatre.
• We believe theatre should be, first and foremost, a product of and for the community. The work of Asterism is to reflect the joys and challenges of the communities we live in.

The People

Trey K. Blackburn, an Iowa native, received his MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama. An active member of the New York independent theatre community, Trey has appeared on stage in several plays during his five years as a New York City transplant. As an actor, his roles include:
Choir Member, The Christians (Playwright's
Horizons); Blue, Invasion (Estrogenius Festival,
Best Actor Award); Other Men, Janey Miller's
World Tour; Nicky, Millicent the
Magnificent (Speranza Theatre Company);
Kevin, Sperm (Strawberry Festival); Ronny, Two
Turtle Doves (reading, Rising Sun Performance
Company); Ismaelo, Oh Holy Mother of Quique
(reading, The Boom! Agenda); Casca, Julius
Caesar; Musician and First Gentleman,
Cymbeline (Accidental Shakespeare Company);
Rosencrantz and the Player King, Hamlet;
Ben, Aperture; Milk’s Friend, Execution of
Justice (New School for Drama); Desdemona,
Othello (New Ensemble Workshop). Online
Media: Gerald the Pizza Guy, We Are Stars
Episode 3 (We Are Stars, YouTube). 

Christie Marie Clark is a Brooklyn-based
creator, educator, and advocate of social change.
In 2013, she received her MFA in directing from
The New School for Drama. Christie was recently
chosen as a 2016 Drama League artist in
residence for her upcoming project L’appel Du
Vide. NYC credits include: Venus von Merkle
(Open Source Gallery), The Mermaid Won't Sing
and The Skull Beneath The Skin (440 Gallery);
G Train Exodus (Estrogenius Festival); They All
Know Me (Thespian Production Slam-a-Thon);
Clown Love (Strawberry One Act Festival); Clean;
The Spider and the Wasp; Marlee Saves the World; An Office Called Eden; Ruins and Radical Methods for Radical Heartbreak (at NSD). As Assistant Director: Trojan Women and Execution of Justice(NSD). She is most drawn to theatre that is bottomless: plays that reveal more with each reading, rehearsal or performance. Most of all, she is endlessly fascinated by theatre's capacity to prompt social epiphany and change.