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A PLAY ON WORDS

Produced by Tribe Productions benefiting City Critters
Written and Directed by J.C. Svec
Strangers, strained relations and unique circumstances force people to “communicate” in three absurd one-act comedies. A bunny, stuffed in a duffle bag, confuses two individuals in The Guy. Four obnoxious individuals explore the ABC’s of standing in The Line. And The Body is just one big cliché.
Planet Activist Award: J.C. Svec, Playwright/Director of A Play on Words supporting City Critters

AMERICA: A PROBLEM PLAY

Produced by On the Square Productions benefiting The Woodhull Institute for Ethical LeadershipWritten and Directed by Deborah WolfsonIn modern Vienna, Duke Vincentio abandons his post, leaving crooked deputy, Angelo,as law enforcer. When Claudio is sentenced to death, his sister Isabella pleads his case- displaying how absolute power corrupts as hypocrisy clashes with justice. Incorporating The End of America and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, American : A Problem Play takes on a timely political urgency.
Planet Award for Outstanding Scenic Design: Zane Robert Enloe
Planet Activist Award: Jackie LaVanaway nd Rachel McPhee, Producers of America: A Problem Play supporting Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
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CAFÉ SUSTAINABLE & INSTANT HAPPY!

Café Sustainable – A Corcaigh Irlandese production benefiting EMBARQ and Endometriosis Foundation of Amerrica
Written by Corcaigh Irlandese
Directed by Nathan Brauner
Music by composer Stephane Wrembel (composer August 2008: USA Release of the Woody Allen movie Vicky Christina Barcelona, featuring Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson)

Instant Happy! 

Produced by Wildwire
Productions benefiting Citymeals-on-Wheels
Written by Mark William Butler
Directed by Richard P. Butler

Two playwrights, two collections. Corcaigh Irlandese’s Café Sustainable: “While NYC EMBARQs upon clean air, India embarks upon surrogate ware.” Nose Fob: a story w/ a certain air to it; and Low Rent Wombs: India – the mother of outsourcing. Featuring: musician name. And, Mark William Butler’s Instant Happy! presents three different couples, three different places, three crazy little comedies!

Planet Award for Outstanding Band, Orchestra and/or Musician: Stephen Wrembel for his live guitar from Café Sustainable
Planet Award for Outstanding Actress in a One-Act Production: Daina Schatz for various roles
Planet Activist Award: Mark Butler, Playwright/Producer of Instant Happy! supporting Citymeals-on-Wheels

CHILD OF HUNGRY TIMES

Produced by The New York Theatre Barn benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AidsWritten and Performed by Bridget BaileyBased on the works of Ludmila PetrushevskayaBridget Bailey performs the New York premiere of her poignant and funny solo show based on the controversial writings of Soviet dramatist Ludmila Petrushevskaya. Child of Hungry Times reveals and revels in the lives of six women through the humor and heartache of living under the Soviet regime. A powerful evening filled with music, potatoes, and Russian jokes.

Planet Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Solo Show
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DICKINSON

An American International Theater, Inc. production benefiting Safe Horizon

Written by William RoetzheimDirected by Al GermaniA well researched, enchanting story of a brilliant woman with a dazzling talent—and her struggle to evolve her personal, artistic and sexual identity, while battling inner and outer Demons.  A magical journey presented thru the one-night dream of a playwright struggling to write a play worthy of her genius.
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MEREDITH’S RING & ANONYMOUS

Meredith’s Ring A White Rabbit Theatre production benefiting CEDARS Kids
Written by Andrew Rothkin&Anonymous
Produced by Cuchipinoy Productions benefiting CEDARS Kids
Written by Rodney E. Reyes
This double-bill evening features two original short plays. In Anonymous, a girl goes to a police station to anonymously give up her newborn but what she receives is more than what she hoped to leave. In Meredith’s Ring, nobody seemed to understand Meredith, the strange new girl who showed up at school one day. But A.J. didn’t have to understand. He loved. And sometimes love is enough.
Planet Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Short Play, One-Act, or Monologue: Meredith’s Ring
Planet Congeniality Award: Rodney Reyes, Playwright of Anonymous

MONETIZING EMMA

A Thackeray Walsh, LLC production benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Written by Felipe Ossa
Directed by Leah Bonvissuto
Monetizing Emma follows a shy 15-year old who most days shuttles between bullies at school, a pushy mom and a fantasy life inspired by Jane Austen. But when investment bank Thackeray Walsh makes her its new profit center, she’s forced to trade reality for something scarier — and far more adult.
Planet Award for Outstanding Postcard and Playbill: Leah Bonvissuto
Planet Award for Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script of a Play: Felipe Ossa
Planet Award for Outstanding Direction: Leah Bonvissuto
Planet Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Janice Mann for the role of Colleen
Planet Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: James Arden for the role of Tony
Planet Award for Outstanding Overall Production
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NEW BEULAH

A Shelby Company production benefiting Democracy Now!
Written by Dan Moyer
New Beulah is a small town with big characters. Told through vignettes, an ensemble of eight actors play over thirty characters who struggle with the simple but overwhelming problems of daily life: love, loss, family, threatening conglomerates and Greenland. Tender, heartwarming and funny, this is a play you don’t want to miss.
Planet Award for Outstanding Actress in a Featured  Role of a Play: Marisa Lark Wallin for the roles of Discount Donna/Dana
Planet Award for Outstanding Ensemble: The Cast of New Beulah: Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Hadley Cronk, Emma Galvin, Carl Howell, James B. Kennedy, Nathaniel Kent, Emily Kenyon Scott and Marisa Lark Wallin
Planet Award for Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role of a Play: James B. Kennedy for the roles of Dirk/Ricky/Tithonus
Planet Congeniality Award: Nathaniel Kent – Actor/Producer of New Beulah
Planet Activist Award: Dan Moyer, Playwright of New Beulah supporting Democracy Now!
Click here to read the review by “One Producer in the City” for New Beulah AND Everybody Dies

SUCKERS

Produced by Cross-Eyed Bear Productions benefiting the Red Cross Blood Bank
Written and Directed by Duncan Pflaster
Romaine and Jeff meet some fun folks who run a late-nite suburban coffee house, but never suspect that they’re actually vampires. Romaine’s cunning captures the imagination of Elvis, the leader of the group – will they be devoured, the victims of the political schemes of the undead, or will Romaine become their Vampire Queen?

Planet Congeniality Award: Duncan Pflaster – Playwright/Director of Suckers
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TRUTH OR… CONSEQUENCES

A Hogan/Lopez production benefiting The Oasis Project

Written by Brianne Hogan and Carla Lopez
Directed by Ashley Beam

Three distinctive women from various social classes and backgrounds in a pre-9/11 world. When one of them begins dating a student named Amir, different hostilities are ignited within the women for different reasons, eventually unearthing tensions regarding prejudices, leading to devastating and horrific consequences.

WRESTLING THE ALLIGATOR

A Conflict of Interest Theatre Company production benefiting City Harvest

Written by Sergei BurbankDirected by Adam KarstenA professor of notorious behavior and diminishing renown is bolstered by his assistant (who does the lion’s share of the work). This delicate balance is upset when the professor meets his most vituperative critic—an undergraduate columnist—spurring a chain reaction of revelation and betrayal that spirals beyond anyone’s control.
Planet Award for Outstanding Scenic Design: Kina Park
Planet Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: James Ware for the role of Professor Ron Smith
Planet Congeniality Award: Sergei Burbank – Actor/Playwright and Ryan Mueller – Lighting Designer of Wrestling the Alligator

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CLEOPATRA – A LIFE UNPARALLELED

Produced by Crystal Theatre, Inc. and L2 Entertainment, Inc. benefiting Women for Women International
Book, Music and Lyrics by Cheryl E. Kemeny
Directed by Barbara Labbadia and Alexandrea Kemeny
Music Direction by Cheryl E. Kemeny
Choreography by Kari Ann Sweeney Cheryl E. Kemeny’s 
Cleopatra –A Life Unparalleled chronicles her life and times through music ranging from blues to rock to ballad.  In a time of “kill or be killed,” Cleopatra competed for dominance in a man’s world and used what she had (money, looks and charm) to get what she wanted!
Planet Award for Outstanding Lighting Design: Jessica Burgess
Planet Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical, Play with Music, or Musical Event: Jennifer Van Buskirk for the role of Fulvia
Planet Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, Play with Music, or Musical Event: Melissa Labbadia for the role of Cleopatra
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DESIGNER X, YOUR FACE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

Produced by The Mush-Room Performing Design benefiting SOS Children’s Villages: Venezuela
Written by Maria Alexandria Beech
Directed by Oscar A. Mendoza
This series of politically charged plays focuses on humanity within underlying social issues. In What Are You Doing Here, a woman finds her ex-boyfriend in the audience and questions their relationship among other subjects. In the age of scientific discovery and power to shape genetic makeup, Designer X explores one couple’s attempt to honor the past while shaping the future. In Your Face, drinks with a friend turns interesting when a stranger enters the picture.
Planet Award for Outstanding Performance in a Solo Show: Danielle Patsakos for the role of Womanin What Are You Doing Here?
Planet Award for Outstanding Overall Production of an Entire Evening of One-ActsPlanet Congeniality Award: Oscar A. Mendoza (Director) and Gabriel Comrie-Pepin (Designer) of Designer X, Your Face, What Are You Doing Here?
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EVERYBODY DIES

Produced by Edible Brains Productions benefiting Play for P.I.N.K.
Written by Molly Rydzel
Everybody Dies examines a love triangle that takes place during the commencement of a world-wide suicide pact.
Planet Award for Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role of a Play: Marek Sapieyevski for the roles of Jane’s Mom/Man 3/Cher
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HER KIND: THE LIFE & POETRY OF ANNE SEXTON

A Wild Child Presents production benefiting Safe Horizon
Written by Hannah Wolfe, featuring the poetry of Anne Sexton
Co-directed by Hannah Wolfe & Shanara Gabrielle
Discover Anne Sexton: one of the most celebrated and controversial American poets of the 1960’s and 70’s.Critically-acclaimed in the New York & San Francisco Fringe Festivals, Her Kind vividly explores Sexton’s life and work by weaving dance and video with tantalizing character twists. Are you one of Her Kind?
Planet Award for Outstanding Sound Design: Daneil Mintseris
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HOUND

Produced by HQ Rep. in association with Rachel Klein Productions benefiting RAINN
Written by John Patrick BrayDirected by Rachel KleinA detective has returned from the dead. An American becomes the heir of an estate after a mysterious death in the family.Sherlock Holmes’ faithful sidekick, a grieving widower, risks his very soul to find and battle the legendary creature that he believescan reunite him with his wife.
Planet Award for Outstanding Costume Design: Rachel Klein for the costumes, Anita Rundles for make-up
Planet Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play: Ryan Knowles for the role of Sherlock Holmes
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OUR COUNTRY

A Tony Asaro/Dan Collins Production benefiting GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
Book by Dan CollinsMusic & Lyrics by Tony AsaroOuted in a public restroom, humiliated and abandoned by fans; Country Music sensation Tommy Dautry has gone from darling to derelict overnight. But now, in a one night only engagement (in the back room of The White Swallow) Tommy is back and ready to prove that gay or straight, left or right…it’s Our Country too!
Planet Award for Outstanding Book Music & Lyrics of A Musical or Musical Event: Tony Asaro for the Music and Lyrics, Dan Collins for Book
Planet Award for Outstanding Band, Orchestra and/or Musician: Eric Day, Matt Hinkley, Jeremy Pasha, Justin Smith, and Arvi Sreenivasan
Planet Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical, Play with Music, or Musical Event: Justin Utley for the role of Tommy Dautry
Planet Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical, Play with Music, or Musical Event
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RESIGNATIONS

A Boann Books and Media LLC production benefiting China Tomorrow Education Foundation
Written by John Kearns
Directed by Erin Smiley
Joy and Grace sit in the cubicles of an absurd office.  Grace is growing content while Joy is getting restless. Over the course of a year, on five weekdays associated with five elements of Chinese medicine, the two Chinese-American friends struggle over their artistic dreams and their need for security.

THE IMAGINARY INVALID: BY PRESCRIPTION ONLY

An Aliza Shane production benefiting Hospice of New York
Based on Le Malade Imaginaire by MolièreWritten and Directed by Aliza ShaneShe’s got the symptoms… But her doctors are the real disease. Arganne is a wealthy, aging hypochondriac preyed upon by a gold-digging husband, a rebellious daughter and a chorus of drug-peddling incompetent doctors. Together, her maligned assistant and exasperated sister must figure how to get rid of the doctors and save Arganne’s life before it’s too late.
Planet Award for Outstanding Choreography (Fight or Dance): Chanda Calentine
Planet Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Ayelet Blumberg for the role of Angelique
Planet Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Revival/Adaptation
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THOSE WHISTLING LADS: THE POETRY AND SHORT STORIES OF DOROTHY PARKER

Produced by TimeSpace Theatre Company in association with Third Eye Theatre Company benefiting Safe Horizon
Adapted for the stage by Maureen Van TreaseDirected by Bricken SparacinoThose Whistling Lads brings five light-hearted stories and five satirical poems of Dorothy Parker to life, drawing you into the world of loves and friendships that inspired them, from newlyweds to break-ups and waiting for that telephone call. A member of the famed 1920’s Algonquin Round Table and a critic for The New Yorker, she was well-known for her stinging witticisms.
Planet Award for Outstanding Actor in a One-Act Production: Ethan Angelica for the role of He in Here We Are from Those Whistling Lads: Stories and Poetry of Dorothy Parker
Planet Activist Award: Maureen Van Trease, Playwright/Actress of Those Whistling Lads: Stories and Poetry of Dorothy Parker coordinated Three Poets charities and supporting Safe Horizon
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TWIN TOWERS

A Damian Wampler production benefiting ENACT
Written by Damian Wampler
Directed by Angela Astle
An Iraq war veteran returns to the Bronx after years at war in search of his childhood friend, also returned from years abroad. Twin Towers uses song, dance and action to tell of two best friends reunited and divided amongst the social and political turmoil of present day America.

WAGON WHEEL

A Sandusky/Kremmyda production benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Book & Lyrics by Robin Sandusky
Music by Erato Kremmyda
Directed by Robert Heller
Musical Direction by Mark Evans

A Romany community struggles against the constant threat of persecution and racism from the outside world while becoming corroded from within by the power of its own secrets. As the threads of their tight-knit society unravel, they are forced to rediscover the ongoing and unwavering strength of kinship that defines their way of life.
Planet Award for Outstanding Choreography (Fight or Dance): Claire Cook
Planet Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical, Play with Music, or Musical Event: Sam Pinkleton for the role of Bohdan
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WAIT OF THE WORLD

Produced by Peter and Matt’s Production Company benefiting the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation

Written by Peter Dagger
Directed by Jeremy Bloom
Art by Sean Ward
Scientists underestimate the pull an individual can have on the planet. Their estimations don’t take into account factors like heartbreak, loneliness, and longing. By my calculations, the Earth is far off its predicted orbit and will collide with the sun on precisely October 2, 2013.

Planet Award for Outstanding Direction: Jeremy Bloom
Planet Award for Outstanding Use Of Projections, Special Effects, AND/OR Multi-Media Event: Jeremy Bloom and Sean Ward for special effects
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READINGS @ THE ROBERT MOSS

HAPPY NEW YEAR, LADY LOU!

Presented by The Entertainment Agora benefiting MCC Homeless Youth Service –Sylvia’s Place
Written and Directed by David Gaard
Boozy, brassy drag king, Lou, is a beloved member of New York’s downtown club scene; a long hidden secret in his past makes nightmare problems in his present, his fellow desperadoes, divas, drag queens, trannies and dykes come to his rescue and create whole new meaning of the word FAMILY!

HERS

An Ashley Jacobson production benefiting Sanctuary for Families
*In memory of Patrice D’Onofrio
Written by Ashley Jacobson
Directed by Nadine Friedman

When their mother unexpectedly arrives at Steely’s doorstep, Steely is forced to confront her claustrophobic fears of daughterhood and the unusual symptoms of her mother’s breakdown. Meanwhile, her sister Dana begins to deteriorate from her loneliness. With wine, Sylvia Plath, and spiders, Hers shows us just how women in a family can love after the father has cast them aside.

HOWLING HILDA

A Berlin/Bleckner production benefiting Women’s Sport Foundation
Book & Lyrics by Anne Berlin
Music by Andrew Bleckner
Directed by Travis Greisler

Howling Hilda is a one-woman musical that tells the story of Hilda Chester, the greatest Dodgers fan.Thwarted from playing baseball because she was a woman, she spent a lifetime cheering. An institution at Ebbets Field she was notorious for her clanging cowbells, frying pan and iron ladle.
Planet Award for Outstanding Performance in a Reading: Lucia Spina as Hilda

SURFACING

A Julia Martin production benefiting Food Bank for New York City

Written by Julia Stirling Martin
Directed by Ellen Orenstein

Years after Mandy’s disappearance, she and her college boyfriend, Bobby, meet up by accident on a film set. Their encounter unleashes the questions of the past that hound their lives in the present. Sometimes funny, sometimes searing, Surfacing is a rollercoaster ride of blame, fear and, ultimately, intimacy.

THE 40-FOOT TALL JESUS STATUE & HATE MYSELF IN THE MORNING

The 40-Foot Tall Jesus Statue – Presented by Pistorius Productions benefiting Amnesty International

Written by Glory Bowen
Directed by Amber Gallery

Hate Myself in the Morning 

Presented by Pistorius Productions benefiting Amnesty International

Written by Duncan Pflaster
Directed by Amber Gallery

A Catholic, a Wiccan, a Hawaiian Mormon and a talking statue of Jesus result in a new understanding of the value of friendship. Hey, stranger things have happened. Here’s one: A police officer goes home with a woman he meets in a bar for some kinky fun. The next morning, he finds he’s in for much more than a simple one-night stand. Come find out why this is the stranger of the two stories!

THE JAMB

A Bowden Square Production benefiting Raising Malawi Academy for Girls

Written by J. Stephen Brantley
Directed by Jonathan Worman

Tuffer and Roderick are turning forty. While Tuffer smokes, snorts, and screws his way through Manhattan’s gay male population, Roderick goes straight for activism and martial arts. After another failed intervention, Roderick drags Tuffer and his latest boy-toy to rural New Mexico – and into a spiritual desert, almost somewhere, in the jamb.

Planet Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Reading