Category: New York New Works Theatre Festival

NY New Works Theatre Festival: Meet Lance Ringel & In Love with the Arrow Collar Man

Name: Lance Ringel

What is your current project?

In Love with the Arrow Collar Man

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

My play will have its world premiere when an excerpt from it is presented in the New York New Works Theatre Festival in September.

What’s next for you?

Deep in rehearsals right now for the premiere in September. But in between, I am off to Uganda for a performance of a concert piece for which I wrote the original narration, directed by John Caird. It features the talents of orphaned children from Uganda and Japan, as well as American college students.

Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

Probably my spouse, Chuck Muckle. He not only is directing Arrow Collar Man in the festival but also is directing a musical that he composed which is also included in the festival, called Mourning Becomes Ridiculous. Plus September marks our 40th anniversary(!).

Want More?

Facebook: Facebook.com/ArrowCollarMan

Lance Ringel’s play In Love with the Arrow Collar Man will receive its world premiere on September 7 at the New York New Works Theatre Festival. Ringel was principal writer of two theater pieces created for Vassar College. Vassar Voices, a staged reading highlighting 150 years of the college’s history, premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The cast featured Meryl Streep, Lisa Kudrow and Frances Sternhagen. It toured across America and to London. At Home in the World, directed by John Caird, spotlights talented young performers. It has been staged in Japan, Uganda and America to sold-out houses. Collaborating with director-actor-composer Chuck Muckle (his spouse of 40 years), Ringel wrote Animal Story, a short musical for young audiences that received its New York premiere earlier this year. Ringel’s reputation as a writer of gay historical fiction was established with the critical acclaim accorded his 2014 novel Flower of Iowa (Smashwords), about an American and British soldier in World War I who fall in love. Kirkus Reviews called it “accomplished, touching historical fiction,” adding, “Ringel packs a remarkable amount of flavor and detail into this debut work.” Actor, author and director Stephen Fry tweeted, “Reading a truly wonderful WW1 novel. … So truthful and touching.” Ringel and Muckle divide their time between New York City and Poughkeepsie.

Show information (venue, dates, ticket info)

New York New Works Theatre Festival, Elektra Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street, September 7 at 7 pm. Tickets: http://www.nynwtheatrefestival.com/

TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTRE
300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 – 2nd Floor
AT 7PM sharp.

*Disclaimer: Please be aware shows performing after 8:30pm may not be suitable for younger audiences. No children under the age of 4 are permitted.

** Please note that tickets can be purchased after 3pm the day of the show at the door are $25.

Click HERE for tickets and other festival participants

 

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NY New Works Theatre Festival: Meet Adrian Miranda & A Chronic Line

Name: Adrian Miranda

What is your current project?

A Chronic Line: A new musical about chronic pain

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

New York New Works Theater Festival. It is a great place to showcase new work to industry experts.

What’s next for you?

NYNW at the Elektra Theatre

Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

Lin Manuel, we grew up in the same neighborhood. And, well, the rest is obvious.

Want More?

Website: www.adrianmiranda.net
Twitter: @adrianmpt
Facebook: facebook.com/adrianmpt

Adrian Miranda graduated Ithaca College in 2006 with a degree in physical therapy. Adrian grew up in Washington Heights playing and loving sports but fell into the arts accidentally in college where he started dancing. Then in 2012 he found theater. He performs with a group called the Heights Players in Brooklyn, NY. After learning a lot on stage and learning more about voice he realized he had so many stories to share from his patients in the clinic that he could share with the rest of the world in order to help people improve their physical health.

SHOW INFO:

TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTRE
300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 – 2nd Floor
AT 7PM sharp.

*Disclaimer: Please be aware shows performing after 8:30pm may not be suitable for younger audiences. No children under the age of 4 are permitted.

** Please note that tickets can be purchased after 3pm the day of the show at the door are $25.

Click HERE for tickets and other festival participants

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NY New Works Theatre Festival: Meet Marissa Kohn & Blindsided Date

13876478_1859832470911427_6194512369714231947_nName: Marissa Kohn

What is your current project? Blindsided Date

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

The NYNW Theater Festival. It’s a topical piece about gun control and Tinder dating that this audience will appreciate.

What’s next for you? 

I have a few projects in the works. One is an expansion of this play as a musical with Zack Redler (Memory Play). Another is an animated “text” book titled, Sex Cults of the 1800’s.

Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

My year old son. I feel like I’m a more confident well rounded artist since surviving the first year of his life. He’s taught me how to be present and enjoy the moments I’m in.

Want More?

Twitter: @blindsided_date
Instagram @blindsided_date

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blindsideddate/

Marissa Kohn is Utah native now living in New York City. She’s married and has an adorable, hilarious, one year old boy who gives her endless material as a standup comedian and playwright here in the city. Most recently her play Do Me A Little, which she also starred in, was performed at the 16th annual New York International Fringe Festival. Do Me A Little is a will-they-won’t-they marriage-consummation-comedy-tragedy about two wide-eyed virgin Mormons on their wedding night. She is currently working on a musical about an elementary school teacher and mass shooting survivor who, while running a marathon, lets her mind entertain itself and examines why she’s always running.

Show information (venue, dates, ticket info)

NAME OF SHOW: Blindsided Date

NAME OF WRITER: Marissa Kohn

CAST MEMBERS: Autumn Hurlbert, Devon Goffman

PRODUCED BY: Jack Lane, Judy Kent, Karen Nielson

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Carter Thompson

An elementary school teacher, Karen, and an accountant, Mack, meet up for a seemingly innocuous Tinder date. A simple question, “Where are you from?” launches them both into a passionate conversation about gun reform. Can this mass shooting survivor and this card carrying NRA member find common ground?

TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTRE
300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 – 2nd Floor
AT 7PM sharp.

*Disclaimer: Please be aware shows performing after 8:30pm may not be suitable for younger audiences. No children under the age of 4 are permitted.

** Please note that tickets can be purchased after 3pm the day of the show at the door are $25.

Click HERE for tickets and other festival participants

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NY New Works Theatre Festival: Meet Tasha Nicole Partee & In a Vision, or in None

Name: Tasha Nicole Partee

What is your current project?

A new drama with comedy called In a Vision, or in None

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

The play is making its world premiere at the New York New Works Theatre Festival on August 31st! I am really excited for the piece to take its first steps with the amazingly supportive and talented artists involved in this festival. In fact, it was the positive experiences of past participants that initially inspired me to submit to NYNWTF. Ultimately, I’d like to expand this short play into a full-length piece, but my hope is that it will provide a thought-provoking, meaningful experience to NYNW Theatre Festival audiences in its current form.

What’s next for you?
 
It has been an exciting and busy summer. I am about to wrap up a run of my first full-length play, Mrs. Schrodinger’s Cat, in the New York International Fringe Festival, while at the same time preparing In a Vision, or in None for its debut with NYNWTF. I am really looking forward to setting some time aside for processing the tremendous learning that has taken place through these experiences. I would like to think the end of the festivals does not mean the end of the road for the work. I plan to seek a mentor in playwriting and continue developing them!
Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

My husband Peter is my biggest inspiration. He has been the greatest supporter of my work and dreams and encourages me every day. He is always the first person with whom I share an idea or draft, and he even reads them aloud with me, taking on every role from a valley girl to a grandmother. He is a trooper! I am also greatly inspired by all the people who have joined me on my journey as a writer: the actors who have given of themselves so completely in lifting my characters from the page, the friends and family who have lent their hearts and wisdom to the development of my plays, and the many, many people who have taught me throughout my life.

Want More?
Website: https://inavisionplay.squarespace.com
Twitter: @Mrs_S_Cat_Play

Tasha Nicole Partee’s writing has been featured by the Hudson Guild Theatre Company and Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and her first full-length play, Mrs. Schrodinger’s Cat, is currently running in the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival. A native of Richmond, Virginia, she was a founding member of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Women’s Project, providing opportunities for women in theater since 1997. A former NFL cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens, she has danced in New York productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty and choreographed productions of Midsummer Night’s Dream with Onomatopoeia Theatre Company and Frankenstein with Hudson Guild Company, where she also recently played the role of Cora in The Iceman Cometh. She has directed over thirty plays and musicals and currently serves as Director of Upper School Theatre at Lawrence Woodmere Academy. She holds an MA in Educational Theater from NYU and a BFA in Theatre Education (VCU). Tasha is thrilled for it to be part of the 2016 New York New Works Theatre Festival!

SHOW INFO:

TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTRE
300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 – 2nd Floor
AT 7PM sharp.

*Disclaimer: Please be aware shows performing after 8:30pm may not be suitable for younger audiences. No children under the age of 4 are permitted.

** Please note that tickets can be purchased after 3pm the day of the show at the door are $25.

Click HERE for tickets and other festival participants

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NY New Works Theatre Festival: Meet Natalie Lovejoy & Deployed

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Name: Natalie Lovejoy

What is your current project? Deployed

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

New York New Works Festival. It is the right fit because the festival allows us to showcase an excerpt from the show to producers and investors who will be able to take it forward for a full production. Deployed is an important piece about the effect the non-stop wars of the 21st Century has had on our troops and their families that needs to be seen by more people, and the producers on the NYNW panel have the ability to make that happen.

What’s next for you?

Hopefully Deployed getting a full production regionally or Off Broadway. I’m also currently writing three other musicals, one of which – about women in Afghanistan who dress as men – will have its first reading in the fall.

Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

No one person in particular, but I’ve been spending some time in Nashville lately and I’m totally inspired by the caliber of musicians and songwriters there. Their talent is pushing me to step it up and inspiring me to incorporate new styles into my musical theater sound.

Want More?

Website: http://www.natalielovejoymusic.com
Twitter: @natalie_lovejoy
Instagram: natalierebeccalovejoy
Facebook: facebook.com/natalielovejoymusicpage

Natalie Lovejoy is a Texas-born, Maryland-raised composer, lyricist, and bookwriter whose work has been heard in New York at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, The Duplex, Laurie Beechman Theatre, The Flea Theatre, and Greenwhich Music House, as well as in San Diego, LA, and Nashville. She wrote the music, book and lyrics to Deployed, which she began writing when she was married to a soldier who deployed to Iraq in 2008. A workshop of Deployed premiered off-off Broadway at the Abingdon Theatre Company in November 2013 and played again at the Gene Frankel Theatre in January 2014 to sold-out audiences. It was featured in the Musical Theater Factory’s 4×15 and at the Gallery Player’s Overtures New Work Series in 2015 and continues to be developed. Other work includes: Hall Pass (“Flyers and Fryers,” Rancho Bueno Visto High, produced by Blake McCarthy), The Big C (songs, Dramatists Guild), “Performance Anxiety” (music/lyrics, The Flea Theatre, Raw Impressions Musical Theatre Marathon), The Music of Natalie Lovejoy (The Duplex), and “Movement to Contact” (score, Veteran Artist Program PSA). Natalie is also an author, and her short-story “Two Roads” was published in the anthology Incoming (So Say We All Press) which examines the transition from military to civilian life. She is listed in The Directory of Contemporary Musical Theatres Writers at Contemporary Musical Theater.com. Education: NYU Steinhardt (MM in Music Composition), Catholic University (BM in Musical Theater), the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and the Johnny Mercer Musical Theatre Project at Northwestern University. Professional Member: ASCAP, the Dramatist Guild.

SHOW INFO:

TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTRE
300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 – 2nd Floor
AT 7PM sharp.

*Disclaimer: Please be aware shows performing after 8:30pm may not be suitable for younger audiences. No children under the age of 4 are permitted.

** Please note that tickets can be purchased after 3pm the day of the show at the door are $25.

Click HERE for tickets and other festival participants

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NY New Works Theatre Festival: Meet Ryan Vincent Anderson & Most Likely To

Name: Ryan Vincent Anderson

What is your current project? Most Likely To

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

New York New Works Theatre Festival. This festival looks to give aspiring writers and performers a chance to be recognized by many people including an extraordinary panel of broadway producers, writers, and people of the industry who are looking to give back. It’s a great place to showcase my work since I have recently moved back to NY to kick my theater career into high gear.

What’s next for you?

The beauty and the scary things about what’s next is that it is unknown. I am currently wrapping up narration on the newest James Patterson “Alex Cross” audiobook titled Cross The Line. I hope to do more stage, TV and voice work in the near future, here in NY. I am also thirsty to travel overseas with my work.

Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

Honestly I think my biggest inspiration right now are the many friends and colleagues I have that are still in this business. Some of them have seen some very major successes recently from Tony awards to series regular roles on TV. Others, like myself, have seen smaller victories but, no matter what, they don’t give up, because this difficult calling of being an artist is not to be taken lightly. I am inspired by the people around me that put their head down, clench their fists, and trudge forward, despite the punches and setbacks we receive.

Want More?

Website: www.ryanvanderson.com
Twitter: @ryanvanderson

Other social media
http://www.facebook.com/ryanvanderson

Ryan Vincent Anderson is a native New Yorker from Rosedale, Queens. He studied architecture and drama at Carnegie Mellon University, and received a masters degree in acting from CalArts. Theaters: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Independent Shakespeare Company, Antaeus Theatre Company, A Noise Within, PCPA, LATW, Theatre Row, and others. Film: Feeding Mr. Baldwin. TV: Scandal, The Young and the Restless, General Hospital, Eagleheart. VOICEOVER: World of Warcraft, Diablo III. AUDIOBOOKS: Cross The Line (the Alex Cross series) by James Patterson, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, and others. Visit his website for more info http://www.ryanvanderson.com

SHOW INFO:

TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTRE
300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 – 2nd Floor
AT 7PM sharp.

*Disclaimer: Please be aware shows performing after 8:30pm may not be suitable for younger audiences. No children under the age of 4 are permitted.

** Please note that tickets can be purchased after 3pm the day of the show at the door are $25.

Click HERE for tickets and other festival participants

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NY New Works Theatre Festival: Meet Amy Oestreicher & Gutless and Grateful

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Name: Amy Oestreicher

What is your current project? Gutless and Grateful

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

I had always loved musical theatre and was always fascinated by how the art of song and story could be so seamlessly woven together to share a universal message and to inspire others. Coming out of a coma just as I was supposed to be entering my freshman year of college was disorienting. Suddenly, the career path that had seemed apparent to me my entire life was pushed to the wayside while I fought for my life.

Although I had lost my ability to speak for a while, I committed myself to arts that I could express – I lost myself in the world of painting and mixed media and mounted three professional art shows. The Today show heard about my story and my art, and on their segment, I met David Friedman, a kind soul and a talented composer. I approached him with the idea of working together on a cabaret act. Two years later, using excerpts from my thousands of journal entries, and (some original) songs Gutless & Grateful premiered in New York.

Theatre has always been my first love and felt like natural medium to tell my story. I had experienced years of setbacks, triumphs and frustrations in isolation. I didn’t appreciate the full scope of what I had undergone, and the impact it would have on others, until I got my story out there. As a performer, I long to connect with my community and share a message that will inspire others – that is the power of theatre. This was the first time I was telling my story in my own words as opposed to news coverage or word of mouth. It was my way of reclaiming my identity as a performer, and reclaiming the stage with an even stronger message.

Helping yourself is a reward in one respect, but to know that your own struggles can heal others is transformative and uplifting.
I’m so excited to be performing at New York New Works Theatre Festival. This is a perfect fit for me, because I’ve been touring the show for five years and it’s touched the hearts of audiences nationwide. Now, I long to take my show on an even bigger scale, and show this amazing panel when I’ve been up to!

What’s next for you?

Since it’s premiere, I’ve been performing it in theatres, hospitals, and groups in need of any kind of inspiration and encouragement. When I realized how combining powerful firsthand experience could transform lives, I developed my little-show-that-could into a mental health advocacy and sexual assault prevention program for students. Nearly losing my life at 18 years old, I’m now reaching out to students at that same pivotal point in their own lives. I hope to keep touring it internationally and eventually find a home in a small off Broadway Theatre. Hoping to tour more cities, a small extended engagement in NY, and also work on my full length drama, Imprints, which just had its first staged reading in NYC in May! Follow me and subscribe at amyoes.com for updates…

Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

My older brother Matt, who is a jazz musician and so much more.. He has shown me that you can create art and be an artist, but still be successful and business savvy without “selling out.” He somehow achieves an amazing balance between work, life, play, creativity, and zen. He’s lived in India and gone on silent meditations, taught yoga, and is very into Eastern philosophy, and on the other end he’s producing up a storm with his music, he’s in the house band for Amateur Night at the Apollo in Harlem, and he’s even making his Broadway Debut in Smokey Joe’s Cafe this Fall! And he just got married! My brother Matt shows me you can do it all…while still taking care of yourself!

Want More?

Website: www.amyoes.com/gutless
Twitter: @amyoes

Other social media
instagram.com/amyoes70, youtube.com/amyoes70, patreon.com/amyo, linkedin.com/in/amyoes, facebook.com/amyoestr

Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright, sharing the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the creator of the Gutless & Grateful, her one-woman autobiographical musical, she’s toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. Her original, full-length drama, Imprints, premiered at the NYC Producer’s Club in May 2016, exploring how trauma affects the family as well as the individual. To celebrate her own “beautiful detour”, Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. “Detourism” is also the subject of her TEDx and upcoming book, My Beautiful Detour, available December 2017. As Eastern Regional Recipient of Convatec’s Great Comebacks Award, she’s contributed to over 70 notable online and print publications, and her story has appeared on NBC’s TODAY, CBS, Cosmopolitan, among others. Learn more: amyoes.com and support her work at patreon.com/amyo.

SHOW INFO:

TIMES SQUARE ARTS CENTRE
300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 – 2nd Floor
AT 7PM sharp.

*Disclaimer: Please be aware shows performing after 8:30pm may not be suitable for younger audiences. No children under the age of 4 are permitted.

** Please note that tickets can be purchased after 3pm the day of the show at the door are $25.

Click HERE for tickets and other festival participants

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Meet Abby Judd and the New York New Works Theatre Festival

NYNW 2016 POSTERName: Abby Judd

What is your current project?

General Manager – The New York New Works Theatre Festival 2016

Where are you performing it and why is it the right fit for your piece?

The New York New Works Theatre Festival takes center stage from August 29th – October 5th, at the Times Square Arts Center. Exposing talented writers to enthralled audiences, and a panel of Broadway Producers, Emmy and Tony Award Winners, it was only natural to choose an Off-Broadway theatre in the heart of New York’s Theatre District, the theatre capital of the world!

What’s next for you?

My agency, Bear In Mind Creative, is working with an multi-award winning film writer to produce and brand his latest project!

Who is your biggest inspiration right at this moment and why?

I have two: My business partner, Melissa Gordon. Every time I present her with a challenge she comes back with something which exceeds anything I could have imagined. Her mind works beautifully. She is so creative and loving, it delights me every day. Kenny Bell, the booking manager at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. He genuinely cares about every performer who walks through his doors, and is so supportive of developing great art and talent. He’s made his theatre a home. Working with him is an honor.

Want More?

Website: http://www.nynwtheatrefestival.com/
Twitter: @NYNWTheatreFest
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nynwtheatrefestival/

Abby Judd is a partner in Bear In Mind Creative, a boutique agency operating in both the USA and UK, specializing in branding, web design and marketing, as well as General Management and Production for Theatre, TV and Film: http://www.bearinmindcreative.com Abby is also the resident light/sound designer at the Laurie Beechman theatre on 42nd Street. She has stage managed and designed for numerous productions and festivals internationally, and was recently nominated for the MAC award for ‘Outstanding Technical Direction’. Some of her favorite projects include: Multiple events with the charity Lady Parts Justice; The Puppet Shakespeare Players ‘Titus Andronicus’; and ‘Hotel California’ at New York New Works Theatre Festival 2015.

Show information

PRELIMINARY ROUND: AUG 29, 30, 31 & SEP 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 | SEMI FINALS: SEP 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 | FINALS GALA: OCT 5 2016 Book Tickets Here – http://www.nynwtheatrefestival.com/book-tickets

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NYNW Theatre Festival: Meet Sandhi Santini & Eartha – The Last Chanteuse

LOGO_BUG+TYPE-resized-2-1_blkbg (1)A dramatic solo performance work which highlights the lows, peaks and challenges endured by entertainer Eartha
Kitt during her journey from a South Carolina cotton plantation to international fame and stardom.

Born on Edisto, a remote barrier island situated between Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA, Sandhi Santini is a Gullah–a descendant of the storytelling griots of West Africa. A New York-based cabaret performer/playwright, she received her B.A. in Journalism from the Howard University School of Communications, Washington, DC. Subsequent studies were obtained in Human Rights from Columbia University’s Graduate School of International
and Public Affairs, NYC; The Playwriting Program at Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre, NYC; and Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), NYC. She is a member of The Society For The Preservation of Theatrical History; an Associate member of The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW); Associate Artist of NY Live Arts Fiscal Sponsorship Program; and SAGAFTRA. Sandhi has performed as a cabaret singer throughout the USA, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa.

PERFORMANCE: August 25th at 7:00 PM

LOCATION: The Times Square Arts Center, 300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036.

TICKETS: Click HERE to purchase tickets.

The NYNW Theatre Festival is located in the world’s premier theater district at The Elektra Theatre in the Times Square Arts Center, and is a short play competition where the audience casts their votes to select the best play of the season.

Playwrights from all over the country will present their shows and have the chance to move from the First Round to the Semi-Finals, and then the Finals, where a winner will be selected.

The First Round of the NYNW Festival shows will be presented August 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th. The Semi-Final rounds will be August 31st and September 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The Finals will be held September 16th.

http://www.nynwtheatrefestival.com/

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NYNW Theatre Festival: Meet Deanna Hartog & A Flicker of Light

LOGO_BUG+TYPE-resized-2-1_blkbg (1)“A Flicker of Light”, Deanna Hartog’s debut stage play, portrays a man’s life just prior to his death. Based on true experiences, this story depicts the honest and emotional interactions between a father and son as they attempt to mend their broken relationship. The inspiration for this play first came to Deanna as she was flipping through an old photo album, and came across a photograph of her grandfather, who led a life of pure generosity and great success. However, his success also forced him to make compromises in his life, which inevitably impacted his relationships with his family and friends. Deanna’s passion for writing began as a young child writing fictional stories, and has now evolved into a passion for playwriting. In her spare time, Deanna’s love for theatre continues on the stage, performing in many local theatrical productions.

What is your hometown? Westport, Connecticut.

What was the last show that you worked on and where? I am currently performing in Irena’s Vow as Fanka Silberstein, which is being performed in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Why submit to a Festival like this? As a young and aspiring writer, it is so important to gain exposure to my writing and allow myself to make connections with both other writers and people in the business. My goal in participating in this festival is to build these relationships and allow my work to be seen. Plus, seeing my writing come to life on stage and hearing my words spoken aloud is something that every writer dreams of.

PERFORMANCE: August 25th at 7:00 PM

LOCATION: The Times Square Arts Center, 300 W 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036.

TICKETS: Click HERE to purchase tickets.

The NYNW Theatre Festival is located in the world’s premier theater district at The Elektra Theatre in the Times Square Arts Center, and is a short play competition where the audience casts their votes to select the best play of the season.

Playwrights from all over the country will present their shows and have the chance to move from the First Round to the Semi-Finals, and then the Finals, where a winner will be selected.

The First Round of the NYNW Festival shows will be presented August 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th. The Semi-Final rounds will be August 31st and September 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The Finals will be held September 16th.

http://www.nynwtheatrefestival.com/

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