ATM or this is [not] new york received it’s world premiere on November 11-13, 2010 at the Monty Arts Center in Antwerp, Belgium. It is a new play for interdisciplinary theatre that uses New Yorkers' interactions with our city's homeless population as a means to investigate shifting demographics and values under the ongoing financial crisis. It is presented in an installation art set design that simulates the automated teller sections of banks. For years, the city's homeless have masqueraded as "doormen" for bank patrons in return for change. A mixed cast of ten actors/dancers recreate a ritualistic routine of entrances, transactions, interactions and exits. Live cameras capture both spoken dialogue and a stylized physicality of pedestrian gestures. Words and movement are transmitted via close circuit television and multiple monitors, utilized during performance within a functional video design.

The project was being developed by Sponsored By Nobody throughout 2010 with crucial residency support from The Watermill Center, chashama, the Mabou Mines/Suite program, the Corporation of Yaddo and The Performance Project at University Settlement in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. SBN continued the collaborative research process employed in W.M.D. (just the low points) and Behind The Bullseye by investigating the converging issues of gentrification, homelessness, the financial crisis and what it means to be from New York or [not] from New York.

The world premiere production featured the following cast -- Caitlin Bebb, Keith Jamal Downing, Josh Edelmann, Megha Nabe, Sean O’Hagan, Hannah Louise Poston, Wheaton Simis, Sarah Stephens and Matthieu Sys -- with a technical and design team of Brendan Regimbal, Peter Mills Weiss and Kevin Doyle, who also directed the production.