2014 Festivity Archive
*DENOTES A PRODUCTION THAT FEATURES ARTISTS WHO HAVE WON OR BEEN NOMINATED FOR A PLANET CONNECTIONS AWARD.
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Living Room Theater
“Stories from a bathhouse, Craiglist, foxtrotting Democrats, murderous mathematicians and Asians gone bad in an experimental explosion in 29 parts..”
Benefiting: GLAAD
Written and Directed By: Marcus Yi
A Line In The Sand
Gemini Productions
“Columbine. 15 years and more than 180 school shootings later. Have we learned anything?”
Benefiting: New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
Directed by: Padraic Lillis
Written by: Adina Taubman
Allie’s Appendix*
“Is truth the kindest medicine?“
Benefiting: Project Unbreakable
Directed by: Sarah M. Chichester
Written by: Robin Rice Lichtig
Bubba
Black Angus Productions in association with New Light Theater Project
“Everybody loves a winner.”
Benefiting: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Directed by: Melissa Firlit
Written by: Michael Thomas Walker
“Using humor as well as pathos, “But for the Grace…” makes us realize that the time for action is now.”
Benefiting: Food Bank For New York
Written and Directed by: David Eliet
“When the going gets tough, the tough get laid!”
Benefiting: GLAAD
Written by: Brian Paul Mendoza
Musical Direction by: Andrew James Hall
Diary of a Catholic School Dropout
“Dear diary, forgive me for I am about to sin…today is a good day to die.”
Benefiting: RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
Written and Directed by: Layon Gray
“The Return of the Hip Messiah!“
Benefiting: Democracy Now!
Written and Directed by: Oliver Trager
Donkey
Rising Sun Performance Company
“Coffee served hot with a big side of small town politics.”
Benefiting: ASPCA
Directed by: Tim Errickson
Written by: John Patrick Bray
Downward Facing Debbie
Project Y
“A comedy of manners, morals and compromising positions. Namaste.“
Benefiting: Off the Mat and Into the World
Directed by: Andrew Block
Written by: David Caudle
“Honey is sweeter than blood.”
Benefiting: SAMAR
Written and Directed by: Shubhra Prakash
“This May, let’s find out just how much we can get away with on stage.”
Benefiting: Democracy Now!
Written by: Justin Cornell
Directed by: Christina Balkovic
“In politics, never let them see you bleed.”
Benefiting: Safe Horizon
Written by Planet Connections Activist Award Winner: Tom Slot
Directed by: Tom Edmond Evans
Hazard A Little Death
THEATRE 4the PEOPLE
“When love dies, it’s a little death.”
Benefiting: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
Written by: Sara Fellini
Directed By: Isaac Byrne
“Delusion and denial are the only survivors of a lifetime in The Home.”
Benefiting: Alzheimer’s Association
Written by: Gabrielle Fox
Directed by: Anthony Valbiro
Interpreting Her Martyr’d Signs
For Love & Duty Players
“Can vengeance be pursued further than death?”
Benefiting: Safe Horizon
Directed by: Rachel Alt, and Movement Direction by Emily Desana
Written by: Noelle Fair and Lisa LaGrande
Leashes For Dinosaurs*
“Darling, the Hypsilophodon destroyed the neighbor’s lawn again. Should we call the trainer?”
Benefiting: Amnesty International
Written and Directed by: Valerie Graham
Life In Plastic
Voyage Theatre Company
“When does it get fantastic?.”
Benefiting: Urban Justice Center
Directed by: Rebecca Cunningham
Written by: Tessa Flattery
Lucy
Small Pond Enterprises, Daydream Theatre Company
“The rise and fall of a comedienne through memory.”
Benefiting: NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Written and Directed By Planet Connections Award Winning Playwright: Lenny Schwartz
“Where brutal husbands get what they deserve.”
Benefiting: RAINN
Directed by: Gretchen Cryer
Written by:Talie Melnyk
MOM BABY GOD
Smartt Productions, LLC
“An undercover look into activism, adolescence, and abstinence in the pro-life movement.“
Benefiting: New York Abortion Access FundWritten By: Madeline Burrows
Directed by: Emma Weinstein
“She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s pretty, and she’s…hairy.“
Benefiting: NOW (National Organization for Women)
Directed by: Mario Giacalone
Written and Performed by: Siobhan O’Loughlin
Produced by Danny Yeo
“6 steps to stereotypes“
Benefiting: Amnesty International
Directed by: Elizabeth de Roza
Produced by: Danny Yeo
PIECES Violet Productions
“She can’t remember. But they can’t forget.“
Benefiting: TU Foundation’s Top DD Study
Book and Lyrics by: Kristen Penner and Lorelei Mackenzie
Music: Kristen Penner, Lorelei Mackenzie, and Joni Ernst
Directed by: Nick Radu
Selling Off Secrets
Lauren Ritter
“She may not remember your name, but she knows who you are.”
Benefiting: Second Wind Dreams
Written by: Joseph Mosso
Directed by: Janet Bentley
“Let the games begin.”
Benefiting: Sivananda Yoga Ranch Solar Project
Written by: Hope Weiner
Directed by: Samantha Kozloff
“Fall through the Rabbit Hole. Land in Hades.”
Benefiting: The Door
Written By: Gina Inzunza
Directed by: Marcus Yi
The After Dinner Joke
Presented by the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Interns
“Doing good is easy. Charity is hard.”
Directed and Choreographed by: Graydon Gund
Written by: Carol Churchill
“Ah, to be young and black—The Lost of a lost generation.”
Benefiting: GLAAD
Written by: Keelay Gipson
Directed by: Rebeca Rad
“Journey to another home with most familiar aliens.“
Benefiting: Pajama Program
Written and Directed by: Scott Kesselman
The Picture (of Dorian Gray)
The Gravity Partner
“How far would you go to get everything you wanted?”
Benefiting: GLAAD
Written and Directed by: Neal Utterback, adapted from Oscar Wilde
The Quest Of The Hero*
C.A.G.E. Theatre Company
“Save the Princess. Become a Hero. Get Laid.“
Benefiting:Safe Horizons
Written and Directed by: Michael Hagins
Trading Races: From Rodney King to Paula Deen
BrainSpunk Theater
“All the world’s race issues solved in 60 minutes.“
Benefiting:Ali Forney Center
Directed by: Christopher King
Written by: Michelle T. Johnson
Vacation – All I Ever Wanted*
Bricken and Birch Productions and Planet Connections Theater Festivity
“Sun, Fun, Barf-Bags-Vacation- All, I Ever Wanted!“
Benefiting: Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Written by: Bricken Sparacino
Directed by: Lori Kee
Virus Attacks Heart
Pull Together Productions
“They were both running away from something, until they ran into each other.”
Benefiting: New York Blood Center
Directed by: Brian Gillespie
Written by: Shannon Murdoch
Why Bother?*
“Friends. Family. Sex. Therapy. *not necessarily in that order.”
Benefiting: Safe Horizon
Directed by: Andrew Block
Written by: KEEPING PACE by Robin Rothstein
CRAZY AT HEART by Planet Connections Award Winning Playwright Mark Jason Williams
ILLUMINATI by John Pollono
DOLL PLAY by Tony Glazer
Why Don’t I Have A Girlfriend?
Dangerlion Productions
“Love is blind. So is he.”
Benefiting: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Book, Music, and Music Direction By: Balint Varga