2013 Festivity Archives
2013 Staged Readings:
*DENOTES A PRODUCTION THAT FEATURES ARTISTS WHO HAVE WON OR BEEN NOMINATED FOR A PLANET CONNECTIONS AWARD.
9mm: America*
Girl Be Heard
“A Theatrical Uprising Against Violence”
Benefiting: Moms Demand Action and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
Written and Devised by: Girl Be Heard
Directed by: Ashley Marinaccio
Schedule: June 1 @ 6:30 / June 2 @ 6:30 / June 4 @ 8:00 / June 7 @ 4:30 / June 9 @ 5:00 / June 19 @ 8:00
Artaud…mon mômo*Roi Escudero’s
ETdC Projects’ Lab
“The lucid madness of a beloved genius.”
Benefiting: The LIT Fund
Written, Designed and Directed by:
Roi Escudero
Schedule: June 11 @ 4:00 / June 12 @ 9:00 / June 15 @ 9:00 / June 17 @ 9:00 / June 21 @ 7:00
Attempts On Her Life*
Black Note Theatre
“She is all you ever wanted.”
Benefiting: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Directed by: Scott Kesselman
Written by: Martin Crimp
Schedule: May 29 @ 5:oo / May 31 @ 9:00 / June 2 @ 8:00 / June 4 @ 7:00 / June 10 @ 6:30 / June 15 @ 6:30
Catch the Spider*
True False Theatre
“Believe what you want to believe.”
Benefiting: The Ali Forney Center
Directed by: Joe Raik
Written by: Sara Ilyse Jacobson
Schedule: May 30 @ 6:00 / June 2 @ 3:45 / June 3 @ 7:00 / June 6 @ 6:00 / June 12 @ 5:00 / June 18 @ 7:00
Dangersparkle and the Lion: A Post-Apocalyptic, Time Traveling Tribal Romp Through the Ages
Dangersparkle and the Lion
“A time-traveling musical tale of demented love through the ages.”
Benefiting: The Sacred Earth Program at the World Wildlife Fund
Written by: Harry Stanton Einhorn and Lia Barcellona Tamborra
Schedule: June 5 @ 7:30 / June 7 @ 9:00 / June 8 @ 7:30 / June 9 @ 9:30 / June 14 @ 5:30 / June 22 @ 3:00
Dragon
Articulate Theatre Company
“Would you trade your wings for love?”
Benefiting: Urgent Pets on Death Row, Inc
Written by: Jenny Connell Davis
Directed by: Cat Parker
Schedule: May 29 @ 4:30 / June 2 @ 4:30 / June 6 @ 7:00 / June 9 @ 3:00 / June 10 @ 4:00 / June 17 @ 7:00
Eurydice
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
“Fall through the Rabbit Hole. Land in Hades.”
Benefiting: World Wildlife Fund
Written by: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Rebecca Cunningham
Schedule: June 22 @ 1:00 / June 23 @ 11:30am
Farewell To Sanity And Other Irrational Constructs (Or I’m Not Crazy, But My Shrink Thinks I Am)
Original Binding Productions
“He’s got a prescription for crazy.”
Benefiting: ASPCA
Written and Directed by: Tom Slot
Schedule: June 1 @ 5:30 / June 5 @ 5:30 / June 8 @ 8:00 / June 11 @ 4:00 / June 16 @ 2:30 / June 21 @ 8:00
Fix Number Six
Radical Gags Weekly
“Foreign intrigue. Excitement. Danger. Your life has none of those things. So FIX IT.”
Benefiting: Blue Green Alliance
Directed by: Michael Criscuolo
Written by: Jerry Polner
Schedule: May 29 @ 7:00 / May 30 @ 4:00 / June 3 @ 9:00 / June 11 @ 7:00 / June 13 @ 4:30 / June 15 @ 12:30
“He must never lose control.”
Benefiting: TBD
Directed by: Megan Jeannette Smith
Written by: Jara Jones
Schedule: June 8 @ 2:30 / June 11 @ 9:00 / June 20 @ 7:00 / June 22 @ 1:00
Hit and Match*
C.A.G.E. Theatre Company
“Killing is easy. Dating is hard.”
Benefiting: Suicide Prevention International
Directed by: Kristen Penner
Written by: Michael Hagins
Schedule: June 7 @ 4:30 / June 8 @ 6:30 / June 12 @ 9:30 / June 18 @ 5:30 / June 21 @ 4:30 / June 22 @ 3:00
Infectious
Provincetown Phoenix Theater
“You can’t escape your fate.”
Benefiting: The Actor’s Fund
Directed by: Eddie Lew
Written by: Eric Christopher Hoelle
Schedule: June 1 @ 8:30 / June 3 @ 4:30 / June 7 @ 8:30 / June 9 @ 8:00 / June 10 @ 8:30 / June 15 @ 8:30
Marina
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company
“The heart of another is a dark forest.”
Benefiting: Breast Cancer Awareness
Written by: Don Nigro
Directed by: Ivette Dumeng
Schedule: June 15 @ 3:30 / June 17 @ 5:00 / June 18 @ 7:30 / June 19 @ 6:00 / June 21 @ 9:00 / June 22 @ 6:30
Mata Hari
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company
“At the conclusion of the dance, I offer myself up to the god, and all is revealed.”
Written by: Don Nigro
Directed by: Ivette Dumeng
Schedule: June 15 @ 3:30 / June 17 @ 5:00 / June 18 @ 7:30 / June 19 @ 6:00 / June 21 @ 9:00 / June 22 @ 6:30
Miss Nowhere Diner
Akadēmeia Theatre
“The power of faith. The lure of deceit.”
Benefiting: NAMI: The National Alliance on Mental Illness
Written by: Kathleen Potts
Directed by: Lydia Fort
Schedule: June 13 @ 4:30 / June 14 @ 7:00 / June 20 @ 5:30 / June 21 @ 5:00 / June 22 @ 8:30 / June 23 @ 1:30
Not Without My Gallbladder*
Merkins, Daniello & Sons
“Don’t forget to wash your hands”
Benefiting: National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation
Created and Directed by:
Sean Daniels & Eric Mercado
Schedule: May 29 @ 8:30 / May 31 @ 9:00 / June 6 @ 9:00 / June 8 @ 9:00 / June 12 @ 4:30 / June 16 @ 12:00
“For Sale: Nuclear Warhead. Slightly used.”
Benefiting: Democracy Now!
Written and Directed by: Justin Cornell
Schedule: May 29 @ 9:00 / May 31 @ 7:00 / June 1 @ 3:30 / June 6 @ 4:00 / June 9 @ 3:30 / June 18 @ 9:00
“15 characters. 5 choices. 1 exhilarating evening of theatre.”
Benefiting: New York Cares
Directed by: Joanna Strange
Written by: Sharon Cooper
Schedule: June 1 @ 9:00 / June 5 @ 9:00 / June 8 @ 2:00 / June 10 @ 9:00 / June 14 @ 9:00 / June 15 @ 7:00
Something Sudden 5wept 0v3r Me*
Gluon Night Productions
“Telepathic. Beautiful. Alien. They’re here to save the world.”
Benefiting: Rainforest Aliance
Directed and Choreographed by: Susan Tenney
Written by: Steven Mark Tenney
Schedule: June 5 @ 6:00 / June 8 @ 4:00 / June 9 @ 11:00am / June 10 @ 7:30 / June 11 @ 9:30 / June 16 @ 2:00
Straight Faced Lies*
Loretta Michael Productions
“On Thanksgiving, there’s nothing to fear but family itself.”
Benefiting: Visible Ink
Directed by: Melissa Skirboll
Written by: Mark Jason Williams
Schedule: June 2 @ 9:00 / June 3 @ 6:30 / June 4 @ 4:00 / June 7 @ 7:00 / June 9 @ 7:30 / June 22 @ 4:30
Subject 62*
Daydream Theatre Company
“What memories and people can we take with us?”
Benefiting: Huntingtons Disease Society of America
Written and Directed by: Lenny Schwartz
Schedule: June 14 @ 7:00 / June 15 @ 2:30 / June 16 @ 12:30
Tauris
New Pilgrims
“How do we keep the planet without losing each other?”
Benefiting: New York Loves Mountains
Directed by: Jenny Fersch
Written by: Sarah Moon
Schedule: June 1 @ 4:00 / June 3 @ 4:00 / June 6 @ 4:30 / June 9 @ 12:30 / June 12 @ 6:30 / June 13 @ 8:30
“Two exes are not better than one.”
Benefiting: Kacey Rose Foundation
Written and Directed by: Mim Granahan
Schedule: June 4 @ 6:00 / June 5 @ 4:00 / June 7 @ 2:30 / June 14 @ 2:00 / June 22 @ 11:00am
The Greatest Pirate Story (N)Ever Told!*
Off Sides Entertainment Inc.
“A pirate adventure with the audience at the helm!”
Benefiting: RESCU Foundation
Written and Directed by: Christopher Leidenfrost
Schedule: June 10 @ 6:00 / June 11 @ 8:00 / June 14 @ 4:00 / June 15 @ 5:30 / June 18 @ 9:30 / June 20 @ 4:00
The Holy Cows of Credence, South Dakota
Mark-Eugene Garcia
“Sometimes the answers come from out of left field.”
Benefiting: WIN [Women in Need]
Directed by: Rodrigo E. Bolaños
Based on the Play “Holy Cows” by: Carolyn Lardinois English and Royal Crane
Schedule: June 2 @ 12:30 / June 3 @ 8:30 / June 8 @ 5:30 / June 13 @ 6:30 / June 18 @ 5:30 / June 19 @ 4:00
The Living Room
The Brewing Dept.
“Love your furniture and it may love you back.”
Benefiting: NY Public Library
Directed by: Thomas Kapusta
Written by: Jenny Vallancourt
Schedule: June 8 @ 4:30 / June 9 @ 1:30 / June 13 @ 9:00 / June 19 @ 7:00 / June 20 @ 9:00 / June 22 @ 4:30
The Procedure
Living Room Theater
“Torn between love and liberty.”
Benefiting: Amnesty International
Written by: Marcus Yi
Directed by: Marcus Yi and Sonia Nam
Schedule: May 31 @ 5:00 / June 4 @ 9:00 / June 8 @ 12:30 / June 14 @ 9:00 / June 17 @ 4:30 / June 20 @ 5:00
Unbirth
Proletarian Productions
“She’s making art out of WHAT?!!”
Benefiting: Women for Women International
Directed by: Jim Fagan
Written by: Charles Gershman
Schedule: June 4 @ 4:30 / June 5 @ 8:30 / June 7 @ 6:00 / June 10 @ 4:00
Velvet Rope
The Celestine ProJect
“Would you go undercover as a stripper?”
Benefiting: Women for Women International
Written and Directed by: Celestine Rae
Schedule: June 12 @ 7:00 / June 13 @ 6:30 / June 14 @ 4:30 / June 17 @ 6:30 / June 19 @ 4:30 / June 22 @ 8:30
Walden
Bert Draesel and Katherine Brann Fredricks
Love isn’t the only thing they’re hiding.
Benefiting: The Union of Concerned Scientists
Directed by: Brian Maschka
Written by: Katherine Brann Fredricks
Composed by: Bert Draesel
Musical Direction and Additional Arrangements by: J. Oconer Navarro
Schedule: May 29 @ 6:30 / May 30 @ 4:30 / May 31 @ 7:00 / June 2 @ 2:30 / June 11 @ 6:00 / June 15 @ 1:30
What Do You Mean*
Ego Actus
“Is it hard to write a festival play or can you just rely on [insert meta theatre here.]”
Benefiting: New York Theatre Experience, Inc
Directed by: Joan Kane
Written by: Bruce A! Kraemer
Schedule: June 15 @ 4:30 / June 17 @ 9:00 / June 19 @ 9:00 / June 21 @ 6:00 / June 22 @ 6:30 / June 23 @ 11:00am
a.k.a. M/S*
Girl Be Heard
“A feminist adaptation of Marat/Sade”
Benefiting: Feminist Majority Foundation
Directed by: Mahayana Landowne
Written by: Girl Be Heard Company Members: Noelia Mann, Kayla Irizarry, Leah Siesfeld, Melanie Thompson, Mariaisabel Zweig
Schedule: June 2 @ 1:30
“Knowing you’re going to kill yourself can take a lot out of a person.”
Benefiting: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Directed by: Kent Burnham
Written by: Mateo Moreno
Schedule: June 7 @ 2:30
“We’re all cannibals at heart.”
Benefiting: Wide Horizons for Children
Directed by: David Lamberton & Alexandra Hall van Schie
Written by: John T. Hall
Schedule: May 31 @ 4:00
Dig Infinity!
Apocalypso Theatre Collective
“There’s only one way straight to the road of love.”
Benefiting: Democracy Now!
Written and Directed by: Oliver Trager
Schedule: June 13 @ 11:00
Good Friday*
Off Sides Entertainment
“No better place to unbury family secrets than your mother’s grave.”
Benefiting: The Long Island Crisis Center
Written and Directed by: Rick Leidenfrost-Wilson
Schedule: June 21 @ 2:00
Good Shape*
Co-Op Theatre East
“Do you dare to love yourself?”
Benefiting: Brecht Forum
Directed by: To Be Determined
Written by: Ashley Marinaccio and Brady Amoonclark
Schedule: June 15 @ 11:30am
In Loving Memory
Sarah M. Chichester and Paige Strothmann
“Can time really heal all wounds?”
Benefiting: Suicide Prevention International
Directed by: Sarah M. Chichester
Written by: J.E. Phelan
Schedule: June 14 @ 2:00
Nature’s Trace
The Immediate Family
“Learn how to survive in the woods… Before it’s too late.”
Benefiting: Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics
Directed by: Aaron Rossini
Written by: Scott Raker
Schedule: June 14 @ 11:30am
Oil
MTWorks
“A provocative new play by one of the most interesting young playwrights in Italian theatre.” -La Nazione
Benefiting: GLAAD
Directed by: Glory Kadigan
Written by: Marco Calvani
Schedule: June 20 @ 7:30pm
Presented as part of Planet Connections’ LGBT Night!
Porter’s Will*
Good Works Productions
“What do you want to leave behind; an act of revenge, or an act of love?”
Benefiting: Hospice of New York
Written by: Monica Bauer
Directed by: Jerry James
Schedule: June 8 @ 11:30am
Snow Orchid*
Anne Berlin
“Sometimes home is the scariest place of all.”
Benefiting: The Italian American Museum
Written by: Joe Pintauro
Directed by: Valentina Fratti
Schedule: June 7 @ 12:00pm
“Neither is how he appears to the other…”
Benefiting: Food Bank for New York City
Directed by: Katelynn Devorak
Written by: Lee Ann Hoover
Schedule: June 1 @ 11:00am
The Ultimate Weapon
Me & She Productions
“It’s Lystistrata–only the war is the one on women.”
Benefiting: WIN (Women in Need)
Directed by: Cynthia Dillon
Written by: Kathryn Paulsen
Schedule: June 13 @ 2:00
The Way to the Moon
The Truth Urban Theater Group
“What would you sacrifice to keep a promise?”
Benefiting: WIN [Women in Need]
Written and Directed by: Shadrack Boakye
Schedule: June 20 @ 1:30pm
While You Were Out
Lark Productions
“Time Out! When you lose hope, you’ll believe in anything.”
Benefiting: St. Jude’s Research Hospital
Directed by: Richard James Porter
Written by: Jeanne Chenault Porter
Schedule: June 1 @ 1:00