Theaterlab Presents | Sylvia Milo | Dec 5, 2026

THEATERLAB PRESENTS

Two Saints : a work in progress showing

Created and performed by Sylvia Milo

Two Saints : work-in-progress showing from the creators of The Other Mozart and 7 Magdalenes. Who are the figures who emerge as guiding lights in one’s life? For one girl growing up under a totalitarian regime in 1980s Poland, two people had a profound influence: Popieluszko (a young priest of the Solidarity movement) and Elvis.

Two Saints grapples with the existence of light and darkness in our lives, of earth, flesh and spirit, of homeland, dreams and immigration.

Who are your Saints?

Written, performed, and directed by Sylvia Milo with music composed and performed by Nathan Davis. Their Little Matchstick Factory creates music theater that connects characters, archetypes and narratives from the past with pivotal issues of our time. LMF’s work is built with extensive research, the centering of primary sources, the integral use of sound, and the incorporation of ritual.

Content disclosure : contains verbal descriptions of violence and injury.

This project is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) through the Support for Artists Grant.

PERFORMANCES

Saturday, December 5th @ 7:00pm

Run Time – 60mins

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Each year, we invite a select few works into our loft that push the theatrical medium forward.

THEATERLAB PRESENTS pinpoints artists working at the very edge of what’s next in performance and fosters audiences moving toward the future.

MEET THE ARTISTS

SYLVIA MILO (Creator/performer)

An award-winning theatre artist, actress, playwright and director, an immigrant from Poland, based in New York City. Milo wrote, starred in, and self-produced (crowd-funded) her one-woman play, THE OTHER MOZART, which had a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run at HERE Arts Center, and received Drama Desk and Off Broadway Alliance (Best Solo Performance) nominations, 2 New York Innovative Theatre Awards (incl. Outstanding Solo Performance), and 8 nominations (incl. Outstanding Full Length Script). The play has had over 400 performances to date, in 32 US States and 10 countries including in London at St. James Theatre, in Munich at the Pasinger Fabrik, in Vienna and Salzburg at the Mozart apartments (at the invitation of the Mozarteum Foundation), in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Cultural Center and in China at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center.

Milo was commissioned by The Guardian to write an article about THE OTHER MOZART and its cultural impact, which in turn inspired the creation of the PBS / Mediastockade documentary, “Mozart’s Sister.”

Her latest play, 7 MAGDALENES, was developed at fellowships at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and the Baryshnikov Arts Center, with performances at PS21in Chatham, NY, at Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, at Theaterlab in NYC, premiering Off-Broadway at HERE Arts.

NATHAN DAVIS (Composer/Sound Designer)

Kahbia-Asaaj Sada Inspired by nature and narrative, Nathan Davis writes music that deals deftly and poetically with timbre and sonority” (NY Times). His concert works have premiered at Lincoln Center, BAM, Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and the Park Avenue Armory, to name a few. Working frequently in theater, he won a NYIT award for music for THE OTHER MOZART, for which he also received a Drama Desk nomination. With Sylvia Milo, he co-created the music-theatre piece 7 MAGDALENES.

An Aaron Copland Fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation, Davis received awards and fellowships from the Camargo Foundation, New Music USA, NYSCA, Meet The Composer, Fromm Foundation, Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, MATA, and ASCAP.

Also an active percussionist and longtime member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, he has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and Nagoya Philharmonic. Nathan is a graduate of Rice, Yale, and the Rotterdam Conservatory, which he attended as a Fulbright Fellow. He currently teaches composition and creative technologies at Mannes / The New School.

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