2018 Festivity Archive
4 $tages
A tale of greed, corruption and revolution.
By Anthony J. Piccione
Benefiting Our Revolution
The 11th DIMENSION
Sometimes to get to paradise you have to journey through hell.
A Roi Escudero vérité tale
Benefiting The Indie Theater Fund
A Hand Across the Bridge
It’s College: when the days were easy, but the nights got complicated.
By Jonathan G Galvez
Benefiting Cohen Esophageal Cancer Initiative
A Man’s Man
Men bare all…their emotions.
By Mark Jason Williams
Benefiting NYC Anti-Violence Project
Arabella
We live in paradise and it’s too late.
By Jamie Semel
Benefiting GRID Alternatives
The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear
Tonight a legend gives back.
By Larry Phillips
Benefiting The Actors Fund
Birthday Boy
What can a little boy say when all he knows is taken away?
By Brett Roelofs and Jack Donahue
Benefiting La Jornada
Blood / Sugar
What do you do when one of the interconnected systems which malfunctions is your own?
By Diana Wyenn and Guy Zimmerman
Benefiting Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Broken Pieces
We are the Broken Pieces. And we can be put back together again.
By Mateo Moreno
Benefiting Planned Parenthood
The Brutes
By Casey Wimpee
Benefiting Southern Poverty Law Center
BT: Master of Return
By Elyssa Nicole Trust
Benefiting UJA Federation of New York
Close Your Eyes and Sleep
We’re all trying to wake up.
By Aaron Johnson
Benefiting Trauma Survivors Foundation
Dead Brains
Art is Dangerous.
By Erik Champney
Benefiting Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
Éléphant
Are you ready for escaping?
By Eva MeiLing Pollitt
Benefiting Polaris Project
Girl Inside the Mirror
I am the fire.
By Nicoletta Mandriotti
Benefiting Women in Need
Happy If Happy When: A Family Musical
The farm they bought had a mind of its own.
By Kimerer L. LaMothe
Benefiting Marc DeGarmo Dance
The Head Hunter
A screenwriter and his mobster cousin are forced to deal with the family issues that tore them apart.
By Mark Borkowski
Benefiting St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
The Hunting Season
By Magaly Colimon-Christopher
Benefiting The Lambi Fund of Haiti
The Inside of His Severed Head
Sometimes you have to raise the stakes!
By Lenny Schwartz & Duncan Pflaster
Benefiting New York Blood Center
Man Frog and Other People
If you are green, the royals are out to get you.
By Brothers Grimm, adapted by Necessary I.T.E.M.S.
Benefiting Actor’s Theatre Workshop: Builders of the New World
The Nuclear Plays
In a nuclear war, there are no winners only survivors.
By Anthony P. Pennino
Benefiting Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
Pregnant Pause
First role on Broadway – Or the baby she didn’t ask for.
By Kathleen Jones
Benefiting Women in Need
Raft of the Medusa
Hope would never be silent.
By Joe Pintauro
Benefiting Planned Parenthood
Ruby
Why is it, whenever I go to a restaurant, I always get the table next to a crying baby? I would never want one of those… or would I?
By Susan Gross
Benefiting Through the Heart
Rusalka
A little party never killed nobody…
By Erika Phoebus
Benefiting Women for Women International
SHINKA
A story of a living being.
By Ren Gyo Soh
Benefiting World Wildlife Fund
The Sundogs
A human story about an alien.
By Robert Gelberg
Benefiting Human Needs Food Pantry
Surfacing
A bit of advice: don’t open with your botched suicide attempt on a first date.
By Mike Poblete
Benefiting The Jed Foundation
Tales with Teeth: Five Nigro Nightmares
Guaranteed to Terrify your Inner Child
By Don Nigro
Benefiting Brooklyn Public Library
This Stretch of Montpelier
By Kelley Nicole Girod
Benefiting Gulf Restoration Network
Two Sides
Can two sides ever tell the whole story?
By Alexandra Siladi
Benefiting Planned Parenthood
Umbilical
Man. Static. Woman. Static. Don’t get attached.
By Michael Landes
Benefiting Lifeway Network
When I Recall Her
We recall; we begin; we begin again
By Éamon Boylan & Company (Devised)
Benefiting The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
WYSIWYG the Musical
Logout and Login to Life
By April Alsup & Evan Duggan
Benefiting Ackerman Institute for the Family
The Year of the Solar Eclipse
Who are we when the sun goes dark?
By Aileen Kyoko
Benefiting Planned Parenthood
You Hold a Pole Every Day
It’s in your hands.
By Laura Sisskin Fernandez
Benefiting Girls Inc.
2018 Staged Readings
Featured Readings
Demafelis
By Erik Ehn
Benefiting Filipino Advocates for Justice
Temptation and Other Sins
By Lyle Kessler
Benefiting International Association for Suicide Prevention
The Imperfect Love Song of Delilah and Venezio
By José Rivera
Benefiting Rainforest Alliance
2018 PCTF Readings
DEHAAN or What the Butler Didn’t See
Being deviant ain’t what it used to be.
By Roderic Wachovsky
Benefiting Gilda’s Club NYC
Eulogy Turnstile
Can I say goodbye or am I in an endless turnstile?
By Barry Lee Sheppard
Benefiting The Joyful Heart Foundation
Group Therapy
Let it all out, it’s safe here.
By Janelle Lawrence
Benefiting Hudson Valley Mental Health
The Irish Goodbye
Home is where you depart from.
By Allan Staples
Benefiting Planned Parenthood
The Island of No Time (A Timeless Tale)
By Kristen Lowman
Benefiting The Retreat
Last Will and Testament
By Jennifer Houlton
Benefiting International Association for Suicide Prevention
The Listening Room
By Michaela Jeffery
Benefiting Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The Handmaid’s Dianetics
Sometimes, you have to face the darkness…to let in even more darkness.
By Joyce Miller
Benefiting The Aftermath Foundation
ray gun say0nara
Tell me, in your own words, what you now recall of the planet’s surface.
By Steven Mark Tenney
Benefiting World Wildlife Foundation
Sal and Dean
Behind the road, behind the drugs and the booze and the drugs and the women, there was only Sal and Dean.
By Paul DeSena
Benefiting The Hunker Down INNitiative
She Started It
Sure it’s a school. But they like their kids stupid.
By Jerry Polner
Benefiting Alliance for a Greater New York
Stars Out of Balance
By Lynda Crawford
Benefiting Kids in Need of Defense