2015 Festivity Archive
“What happens after death will kill you!”
Benefiting: National Disaster Search Dog Foundation
Written and Directed by: JC Svec
“What’s your average belle-turned-East-Village-ladyboy to do on Christmas Eve?”
Benefiting: Gay Men’s Health Crisis
Written by: J.P. Makowski
Directed by: Danny Gorman
“When I told you to suck it up, I didn’t mean the whole world!”
Benefiting: Natural Resources Defense Council
Written by: Katherine Brann Fredricks and Paul Edward Nelson
Directed by: Katherine Brann Fredricks
“The storm shut the city down, but can they weather each other?”
Benefiting: Planned Parenthood
Written by: Melissa Skirboll
Directed by: Lori Kee
Buddha’s Are Screaming In China
“A play about love, luck, loss, and Elephants.”
Benefiting: Big Life Foundation
Written and Directed by: Maggie Surovell
Choreographed by: Jill Echo
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy
Benefiting: Democracy Now
Written by: Anthony P. Pennino
Directed by: Alberto Bonilla and Elizabeth Inghram
“A genetically re-engineered, trans-textual, hybrid play about us all.”
Benefiting: Democracy Now
Adapted and Directed by: Neal Utterback
“Home is where Our Town is.”
Benefiting: WIN [Women in Need]
Written by: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Directed by: Gemma Kaneko
“The truth is behind you.”
Benefiting: To Write Love On Her Arms
Written by: Sarah Kane
Directed by: Sarah M. Chichester
“A play about finding hope in the darkest corner. “
Benefiting: NIDA The National Institute of Drug Abuse
Written and Directed by: Lenny Schwartz
Cygnus ISA Summer Con5t3ll4tion
“I wasn’t here for a new avatar on the black market, or some darker purpose, I was here for the cold noodles.”
Benefiting: World Wildlife Foundation
Playwright: Steven Mark Tenney
Co-Director: Steven Mark Tenney
Co-Director: Susan Tenney
“A romantic comedy about what you want from the ones you want.”
Benefiting: Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation
Written by: Paul Weissman
Directed by: Fred Backus
“Forgiving and Forgetting is Easier Said Than Done”
Benefiting: The Hunker Down INNitiative
Written by: Paul DeSena
Directed by: Kristen Penner
“A child no more am I.”
Benefiting:
Music and Lyrics: Jamen Nanthakumar
Book and Lyrics: Liana Wright-Mark
Directed by: Katherine Wilkins
“Pride, Lust, and Memory make a cocktail the mean streets of Brooklyn ain’t never seen. Watch your back.”
Benefiting: Wounded Warrior
Written by: Tim Errickson
Directed by: Brian Gillepsie
“These kids are going nowhere- they’re just hopeless.”
Benefiting: The Children’s Aid Society of New York City
Written and Directed By: Vinny Eden Ortega
In Our Own Voice: Women Veterans Tell Their Story
“The hardest part is coming home.”
Benefiting: Women for Women International
Written by: Beverly Coyle
Directed by: Colleen Britton
“A look back at today with the hindsight of tomorrow.”
Benefiting: Coalition for the Homeless
Written by: Secondhand Theatre Company
Directed by: Secondhand Theatre Company
“It’ll put hair on your chest.”
Benefiting: Alzheimer’s Association
Written by: Laura Scruggs
Directed by: Emmi Hilger
Searching For Connection: A Tom Slot Musical Theatre Review
“Love. Pain. Rock n’ Roll”
Benefiting: ASPCA
Written by: Tom Slot
Directed by: Tom Slot
“Where is your window, what do you see?”
Benefiting: Democracy Now
Written by: Aya Aziz
Directed by: Aya Aziz
“Sometimes the Daddy who taught us to dance, must dance to the beat of his own drum. Sometimes love must be enough. Sometimes Gay Means Happy.”
Benefiting: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Written and Directed by: Angela Theresa Egic
“From the everyday struggles of motherhood to some of the most important social justice issues of our time, Taking Flight is an inspirational journey of hope for a better future for us all.”
Benefiting: Standing on the Side of Love
Written by: Sarah Jebian
Directed by: Robb Hillman
Tech Support: Circe and J Train
“Humanity: is there an app for that?”
Benefiting: The Candle Lighters NYC
Directed by: Melissa Meli
Circe, Written by: Michael Hagins
J Train, Written by: Dianna Tucker Baritot
“Sexuality, politics and darker comedy mesh cabaret, performance-art and film to tell a tale of a shattered American dream.”
Benefiting: THE LIT Fund
Written by: Mario Fratti
Designed and Directed by: Roi Escudero
“This Ain’t no High School Musical… This is Your Life… This is Your Child’s Life… This is Your Job… This is Education.”
Benefiting:
Produced by: MCVTS Theatre and Pegasus51/Theatre
Directed by: Maria Aladren
“He will protect her…at all costs.”
Benefiting: Rebuilding Together
Written by: Michael HaginsDirected by: Emily DeSena
“Everybody has a heart, except some people.” – Bette Davis, actor
Benefiting: God’s Love We Deliver
Written by: Roderic Wachovsky
Directed by: Roderic Wachovsky
“Bon voyage, champagne and caviar!”
Benefiting: World Wildlife Foundation
Written by: Glory Kadigan
Directed by: Eric Mercado
“The Wackiest Safari In the History of the World”
Benefiting: Animal Kind
Written By: Hope Weiner
Directed By: Sarah M. Chichester
“For years these guys thought they were on a sinking ship. Turns out it was a lifeboat.”
Benefiting: SAGE Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Elders
Written by: Michael Boothroyd
Directed by: Michael Boothroyd
“Two lovers cross paths eleven years later.”
Benefiting: City Meals on Wheels
Written by: Julie Hays
Directed by: Rod McLachlan
2015 Staged Readings
“When the whole world goes to hell in a handbasket only the rising of Atlantis might be enough to save humanity from ourselves, but is it real?”
Benefiting: Rainforest Alliance
Written by: Cecilia Copeland
Directed by: Joan Kane
“How do you move forward when all you can do is wait?”
Benefiting: Homeboy Industries
Written by: Monet Hurst-Mendoza
Directed by: Katherine M. Carter
“How far will a provocateur go?”
Benefiting: Amnesty International
Written by: Natalie Menna
Directed by: Joan Kane
“Can two star crossed souls ever find each other?”
Benefiting: Women for Women International
Written by: Penny Jackson
Directed by: Joan Kane
“What wakes when you sleep?”
Benefiting: RAINN
Written by: Scott Kesselman
Directed by: Scott Kesselman
“A woman’s political choice. The trauma of captivity. And what memory will finally come to hold. Starring Kimber Riddle and Steve Guevara.”
Benefiting: Girls Scouts of NYC
Written by: Catherine Filloux
Directed by: Stan Cahill
“On the night before she leaves him forever, can Thad win Jean back from the arms of her department chair?”
Benefiting: The Actors Fund
Written by: Charles Gersham
Directed by: Dan Dinero
Something Sudden 5wept 0v3r Me
“Like a great, dark wave arriving – or some starship from the future. She was going places. And I wanted to go along.”
Benefiting: World Wildlife Foundation
Playwright: Steven Mark Tenney
Co-Director: Steven Mark Tenney
Co-Director: Susan Tenney
“A dark comedy about day jobs.”
Benefiting:
Written by: Stephen Aubrey
Directed by: Jess Chayes
“Have you ever fantasized of being a third-tier comic book character?”
Benefiting: Hospice of New York
Written by: Joshua Young
Directed by: Lucia Bellini