(A)Loft Modulation, by Jaymes Jorsling's Play, RECEIVES Four AUDELCO AWARD NOMINATIONS

Following a celebrated Off-Broadway run during the 2019-2020 season, (A)Loft Modulation, a play by Jaymes Jorsling has received four AUDELCO Award nominations including Charlie Hudson and Elisha Lawson for Featured Actor in a Play, Troy Hourie for Set Design, and Andy Evan Cohen for Sound Design. The AUDELCO (Audience Development Committee, Inc.) is an organization that acknowledges and honors Black Theatre and its artists in New York City.

(A)loft Modulation drops audiences into a gritty, dilapidated five-floor walk-up in Manhattan’s flower district — an after-hours refuge for musicians, artists, junkies, and prostitutes. It is the late 1950s and early ’60s, the last explosive heyday of jazz, when the fuse of American culture burned just beneath the surface. Night after night, the building’s inhabitants jam while a compulsive photographer obsessively documents it all on reel-to-reel tapes and photographs.

Inspired by true events at 821 Sixth Avenue between 1957–1965, the play traces the turbulent obsessions of artists and loiterers in their pursuit of purpose as social chaos threatens to upend American culture. It is angst versus contentment, selfishness versus generosity, artist versus layman — struggles refracted through the fractured lens of unlabeled reel-to-reel tapes stumbled upon sixty years after they were recorded.

Immersive in form and steeped in atmosphere, (A)loft Modulation is both a memory play and a jazz improvisation: a meditation on art, freedom, and survival at the boiling point of America’s cultural underground.

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