Three years in the making, Newtown Odyssey - an open-air opera on, for & about a creek received its World Premiere on Newtown Creek Sept. 9 & 10, 2023. Funded by grants from the NEA, Creative Capital and the Puffin Foundation, writer Dana Spiotta, artist Marie Lorenz and Kurt Rohde worked an exceptional team of artists creating this one of a kind open-air production on the famed Super Fund site.