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Sati: Goddess Incarnate Concert at 54 Below

On July 1, 2023 at 9:30pm, we will be presenting Sati: Goddess Incarnate to the public for the very first time! Join us at 54 Below to experience our world for the very first time. To purchase tickets, please follow the link below.

Use code SATI5 for $5 off Main Dining Room and Bar Rail seats.

Sati: Goddess Incarnate

In a rural village in India, an 18-year-old girl was burned alive on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. The townspeople all stick to the same story: the girl went willingly and was touched by the Mother Goddess, Sati. She was chosen to do this. Sati: Goddess Incarnate is loosely inspired by the true story of Roop Kanwar, the last recorded case of the practice of sati—widow burning—in India, and tells a story that is yet to be told: Roop’s story.

A headstrong and defiant girl, Roop is constantly at odds with what is expected of her. But she discovers a connection with Goddess Sati during the Navratri festival and sends her village into a frenzy. What happens when the people who laud you as a goddess turn against you? With a score based in Carnatic, Western classical, and music theatre styles featuring Bharatnatyam as the primary dance language, Sati: Goddess Incarnate investigates a central question: what happens when the stories we tell ourselves begin to affect our reality?

Vaibu Mohan

VAIBU MOHAN (she/her) is an Indian-American multi-hyphenate artist based in New York City. She comes from a family full of artists and was surrounded by art even before she was born. She began her artistic journey as a Bharatanatyam dancer under the tutelage of her mother, Dr. Srimathy Mohan, at Silambam Phoenix in Phoenix, AZ. For the past twenty years, Vaibu has trained as a student and now serves as Silambam Phoenix’s resident director, associate choreographer, dramaturg, and vocalist.

Vaibu received her BM from Arizona State University in Musical Theatre Performance and her MFA from New York University in Musical Theatre Writing where she met her better half, Zachary Catron and began developing Sati: Goddess Incarnate. He work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Rattlestick Theatre, Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, The American Opera Project, 54 Below, and Greenroom 42. She was also a 2021 Write Out Loud Fin

As a producer, Vaibu has made 54 Below her producing home and has produced over a dozen shows there. She began the Work In Progress series in 2021 to give young writers a place to showcase their experiments in a safe and kind environment. She has also produced various 54 Sings shows, solo cabarets, and new musical presentations.

Vaibu recorded and released her first album, Nayika Mixtape, in 2021 alongside Raiah Rofsky, Mario Yniguez, and Greg Paladino. Nayika Mixtape is a musical theatre song cycle inspired by the Ashtanayikas, eight heroines from Indian literature and their thoughts and opinions on love. Her debut EP, Pure Brown Noise co-written with Greg Paladino, is slated for release on March 13, 2023 with a release party on March 12 at 54 Below. This will be her debut as a solo artist in New York City. For more information and to get in touch with Vaibu, visit the link below.

Zachary Catron

ZACHARY CATRON (he/him) is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and performer who bridges the gap between new opera and musical theatre. New York City premieres include: the ballet Training in Love (Rovaco Dance Company), the string quartet Lessons Learned (JACK Quartet), Growing Pains (commissioned by clarinetist Francesca Gray), incidental music for Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation (The New School for Drama), the chamber opera Tin Man (NYU/AOP Opera Lab), and the full-length musical The Battle, Not the War. The Battle, Not the War received its concert premiere at Feinstein’s/54 Below in June 2019 as part of NYC WorldPride, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

Catron received his off-off- and off-Broadway songwriting debuts in the Spring of 2022 with WAR STORIES at The Tank NYC, and Village Songs at the Rattlestick Theater (in collaboration with the Tenement Museum). He has recently composed for film and TV, including the indie film La Dame de Monte-Carlo (Arthouse Film Festival 2021 Official Selection) and an unannounced animation pilot. Catron was accepted into the 2023 NYU Tisch/American Opera Projects Advanced Opera Lab, for which he is composing a 30-minute opera to be performed this coming spring.

A composer of many styles, Catron released his first J-pop single, “Tokimeki (Heart Pounding)”, as part of the East-Meets-West project, with lyrics by Momo Akashi and vocals by Joo Won Shin (Squid Game). As a collaborative pianist with a passion for choral music and arts education, Catron often plays for youth choruses throughout NYC. He recently left his role as a substitute and staff pianist for Brooklyn Youth Chorus, where he was playing since 2017. He currently works at Roundabout Theatre Company, fundraising for their education programs.

In May 2022, Catron received his M.F.A. from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of ASCAP.