June 2026 · Gothic chamber thriller · Voice cast · chamber musicians · live video
The Curiosity Cabinet presents a new gothic chamber thriller after Robert Louis Stevenson: a story of desire, doubling, and the self that starts answering back.
Adapted, composed, and sound designed by Whitney E. George, The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde runs June 10–13, 2026 at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture. Co-directed by George and Attilio Rigotti, the production fractures identity across body, image, voice, and sound through chamber music, voice acting, live videography, projection, lighting, and theatrical sound design.
Rather than treating Hyde as a simple embodiment of evil, this adaptation imagines him as something more dangerous: seductive, shame-free, and terrifyingly alive.
“Hyde is terrifying because he is also seductive: appetite without shame, impulse without apology, the self released from the performance of being acceptable.”
— Whitney E. George
What begins as a familiar story of transformation becomes a contemporary chamber work about repression, performance, surveillance, and the dangerous pleasure of becoming unrecognizable to oneself.
Wed, Jun 107:30 PMSheen Center for Thought & Culture
Thu, Jun 117:30 PMSheen Center for Thought & Culture
Fri, Jun 127:30 PMSheen Center for Thought & Culture
Sat, Jun 131:30 PMSheen Center for Thought & Culture
Adaptation, composition, sound designWhitney E. George
Co-directionWhitney E. George and Attilio Rigotti
Projection & set designOrsolya Szánthó
Lighting designSierra Shreves
ProducerThe Curiosity Cabinet
Dr. Jekyll / Mr. HydeKyle Decker Pitts
Utterson / CarewAttilio Rigotti
Lanyon / Enfield / Inspector NewcomenBlake Friedman
Poole, Narrator, Woman, Landlady, Apothecary, Servants, and additional rolesMaayan Voss de Bettancourt
The Curiosity Cabinet is a New York-based performance collective creating immersive, interdisciplinary works that bridge chamber music, theater, opera, sound design, and visual media. Founded in 2009 by Whitney E. George, the ensemble transforms traditional concert formats into theatrical and experiential worlds.
II — Artists
Kyle Decker Pitts is a performer whose work spans theater, voice, and character-driven performance. In The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, he takes on the dual role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde, embodying the production’s central fracture between social restraint and forbidden release.
Maayan Voss de Bettancourt is a voice actor, performer, and opera artist working across voiceover, acting, audio drama, and live performance. Based between New York and Los Angeles, they bring a background in opera and theater to a wide range of vocal work, including commercial, animation, video game, and narrative projects.
Attilio Rigotti is a Chilean performer, director, technology artist, and game designer whose work explores the intersection of live performance, interactive systems, and digital media. He holds an MFA in Game Design from the NYU Game Center and has developed work across theater, games, installation, and hybrid performance. Along with Orsolya Szánthó, he co-founded GLITCH, a company devoted to new forms of storytelling that combine physical and digital worlds.
Cited by the New York Times for the “plummy fullness and dusky hue” of his voice, tenor Blake Friedman is known for his “talent for a wide range of musical needs” (Chicago Reader). A versatile artist, Blake has appeared on operatic, concert, and musical theater stages across the nation, with credits including The Dallas Opera, Anchorage Opera, Opera Southwest, Chicago Opera Theater, Chautauqua Opera, St. Pete Opera, and others.
Orsolya Szánthó is a Brooklyn-based Hungarian multimedia designer, filmmaker, and creative producer working across theater, live performance, installation, film, and interactive design. Her practice investigates the relationship between the organic and the digital, creating emotionally immersive environments through projection, scenography, motion, and visual systems. She is also a co-founder of GLITCH, where her work often bridges live bodies, digital space, and new modes of storytelling.
Sierra Shreves is a New York City-based lighting and video artist working across theater, dance, music, live events, and immersive performance. Their design practice approaches light as an active theatrical material: shaping atmosphere, focus, architecture, and emotional tension in real time.
Whitney E. George is a composer, conductor, and interdisciplinary artist whose work moves between opera, chamber music, installation, theater, and immersive performance. She is the founder and artistic director of The Curiosity Cabinet, a New York-based ensemble formed in 2009, through which she creates large-scale, site-responsive, and multimedia works.
Alice Jones is a flutist, composer, educator, and arts administrator whose multifaceted career welcomes new listeners into the world of music through performance, teaching, composition, and community engagement. Raised in Austin, Texas and based in New York, she is active in contemporary, chamber, theatrical, and interdisciplinary performance.
Adam von Housen is a New York City-based violinist whose work spans classical performance, contemporary music, chamber collaboration, and interdisciplinary projects. A winner of the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition, he made his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2013.
Christie Echols is a double bassist, electric bassist, composer, and vocalist specializing in contemporary music, extended technique, live electroacoustic performance, and cross-genre collaboration. Her work moves between orchestral, chamber, musical theater, jazz, and experimental settings.
Tamika Gorski is a New York City-based percussionist and advocate for contemporary music. An active performer in orchestral halls, chamber settings, and interdisciplinary projects, she has commissioned and premiered numerous solo and chamber works and has appeared with ensembles including the New Millennium Ensemble, Anagram Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, The Chelsea Symphony, and The Curiosity Cabinet.
