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Meet Philip Santos Schaffer & The Anthropologists Save The World!

Save the WorldName: Philip Santos Schaffer
What is your current project? The Anthropologists Save The World!
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?
 
I am so excited to be working with The Anthropologists on this show! Within an hour of meeting for the first time, Melissa and I were discussing how we both recently had shifted to vegetarianism. My theatre education and experience is largely based in political theatre, and I am always looking for new ways that theatre can intersect with political action. I believe this show achieves that, on top of being a great night of theatre!
What’s next for you?
I am getting ready to go into my thesis year in Columbia’s MFA Dramaturgy program, looking at a fall that will hopefully include a lot of traveling, and working with my own theatre company, WalkUpArts.
What is the name of the last show you saw?
The Hunger Artist
Any advice for your peers?
 
Many of the best things I know, I learned from my peers, so I don’t know if I can give so much advice. Get a loft bed and keep your phone below it, so you have to get out of bed to turn the alarm off. I stayed in a job I hated for two years because I didn’t know what else I would do, and I wish I hadn’t done that.
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Instagram: @pillypeng
Philip Santos Schaffer (AD/associate producer) is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist. Philip is one fourth of the creative team behind WalkUpArts, which he co-founded in 2013. WalkUpArts credits include Alone With Living Creatures (adapter, director), The Life of the Theatre (adapter, director), and A PLAY ABOUT DREW CAREY (playwright). Philip is an artistic associate, associate archivist, and ensemble member with The Living Theatre, since 2013. Producing and associate producing credits include Between the Seas, a Mediterranean theatre festival, HAIR (Columbia University and WalkUpArts), and Burning The Living (The Living Theatre). Other credits include God Likes You (playwright), Os Confederados (director), and Genius, Inc. (adapter). Philip is currently in his third year in Columbia University’s MFA Dramaturgy program.

Show Information:

New OHIO’s Ice Factory July 26 – July 29 at 7pm
New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street; Buzz 1 + 5 + Enter to enter from sidewalk
Between Greenwich and Washington Streets
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Meet Alexandra Bonesho & The Anthropologists Save the World!

Save the WorldName: Alexandra Bonesho

What is your current project? THE BLACKOUT (as part of Save the World!)

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

New Ohio Theatre- intimate space for important material

What’s next for you?

THE GOOD LIFE with Xavier Theatre Company

What is the name of the last show you saw?

A DOLL’S HOUSE: PART 2

Any advice for your peers?

“The DREAM is free, the HUSTLE is sold separately!” Just keep going…read, see, ask.

Want More?

Website: www.alexandrabonesho.com
Facebook: Alexandra Bonesho
Twitter: @AllieBonesho
Instagram: alexandrabonesho89
You Tube: AlexandraBonesho

Show Information:

New OHIO’s Ice Factory July 26 – July 29 at 7pm

New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street; Buzz 1 + 5 + Enter to enter from sidewalk

Between Greenwich and Washington Streets

Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/dept/1499

 

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Meet Brianna Kalisch & The Anthropologists Save the World!

Name: Brianna Kalisch

What is your current project? The Anthropologist Save The World
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?
 
New Ohio Ice Factory Festival – Supports new/different kinds of theatre!
What’s next for you?
Not sure – open to suggestions! 🙂
What is the name of the last show you saw?
Cuisine and Confessions by 7 Fingers a Montreal-based contemporary circus company
Any advice for your peers?
 
Playing – being in a space to create – whether its kept and immortalized on stage or lives only its moment and space, is important and life giving. Find a way to do it.
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Twitter: @beekalisch
Instagram: @wandertheblue
Brianna’s is excited to reprise her role as Edda and work with The Anthropologists again! She has worked internationally in both Australia and the UK performing circus and theatre. Most recently she played Seline in the premiere of Anna Jordan’s new play (writer of Yen recently at MTC) A Serious Case of the Fuckits. She’s also recently worked on multiple acts for 360circus at Streb. And has worked with The Queens Theatre, The Garage Theatre Group, MN Shakespeare and Company, and others. She received her MA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Show Information:

New OHIO’s Ice Factory July 26 – July 29 at 7pm
New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street; Buzz 1 + 5 + Enter to enter from sidewalk
Between Greenwich and Washington Streets

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Meet Arisael Rivera & The Anthropologists Save the World!

Name: Arisael Rivera

What is your current project?
  
The Anthropologists Save the World!
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?
We’re performing at New OHIO’S Ice Factory and it’s an excellent fit because they’re all about producing independent and awesome theatre.
What’s next for you?
In post-production of a new web series I created with my friend Bethany and currently filming another web series I did not create, but which is also awesome. Both should be out after August 🙂
What is the name of the last show you saw?
Last show I saw was a workshop production of “Superstar!” the Musical. Hilarious.
Any advice for your peers?
Auditions are your job. So go do your job. Rock on!
Want More?
Website: whatupari.wix.com/arisaelrivera
Twitter: @ari_sael_riv
Instagram: @arisael_riv
Arisael Rivera was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx. He received his MFA in Acting from The New School. He’s had the privilege of working with various theatre companies in NY including The Working Theater, The Secret Theatre, Shadowland Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre Company, and New York Theatre Workshop. He was most recently part of the Ensemble in Shakespeare in the Park’s “Julius Caesar.”

Show Information:

New OHIO’s Ice Factory July 26 – July 29 at 7pm
New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street; Buzz 1 + 5 + Enter to enter from sidewalk

Between Greenwich and Washington Streets

Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/dept/1499

 

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Meet Shannon Stowe and New Dance Theatre & Asylum

Name: Shannon Stowe / New Dance Theatre

What is your current project? Asylum

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

Access Theater in Tribeca. We have been in residency with Access this year and we have been offered this opportunity for co-production as part of the Darkroom Developed series in which projects are seen from development to completion. Access Theater’s mission as a cost-effective curated arts venue seeking innovative, not-for-profit producing organizations devoted to new works in the Off-Off Broadway community makes them a perfect match. The Gallery Space is also a space that we just loved as being perfect for our needs. The people are right, the place is right, and we really fit into their programming.

What’s next for you?

I personally will be working with Strange Harbor on a devised piece about Italian Baroque Painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. With New Dance Theatre, there are a few things lined up including a showcase featuring short works created by the company members and guest choreographers, our take on Shakespeare, and further development of a movement play written by company member Ilan Ben-Yehuda.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Cabaret at the New School for Drama

Any advice for your peers?

Risk. Don’t be afraid to let go. Try everything to find what works. Work from a place of truth and belief in your work, not having to prove your creative vision is “right” or “correct.” These are things I’ve been reminded of during our creative process.

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Website: www.newdancetheatre.com / www.shannonstowe.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NewDanceTheatre
Twitter: @NewDanceTheatre
Instagram: newdancetheatre

New Dance Theatre is a movement based theatre company formed in 2012 as a collaboration of New School for Drama alumni led by Artistic Director Shannon Stowe. The company seeks to create choreography that is inspired primarily by the actor’s impulse, allowing for storytelling that is both expressive and physical. The mission of New Dance Theatre is to utilize a wide variety of dramatic forms for telling old and new stories, looking for where the pedestrian and profound collide. Past productions include Stricken (New School for Drama, Emerging Artists New Works Series), A Date for the Evening (Emerging Artists New Works Series, The Frigid Fringe, and the San Francisco Fringe Festival) and Lamia (Westbeth Theatre). Shannon Stowe (Artistic Director) has an MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama where she is also on faculty. Prior to living in New York City, Shannon was an actor and professional choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Favorite roles include Nora (A Doll’s House), Billie Dawn (Born Yesterday), Pegeen Mike (Playboy of the Western World), various turns as a Kit Kat Girl (Cabaret), Natasha (Three Sisters) and more. Favorite shows among the many she choreographed include Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Full Monty, and Nine. In New York, Shannon has choreographed for Wizard Oil Productions, Ego Actus, Theatre Uzume, and Off-Broadway for Masterworks Theatre Company. She served as choreographer and assistant director for the Classics Studio productions the New School from 2011-2017. She has a background in Ballet, Musical Theatre and Jazz. In addition to teaching dance technique, she also teaches a variety of dance fitness classes and is a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor. Shannon received a certificate from the Yale Professional Directors Training Program and is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and ATME (The Association of Theatre Movement Educators).
Show Information: Dates/Venue/Ticket URL

Show Info:

WHEN: July 13 – 30, 2017, 8 pm Thursday – Saturday, 7 pm Sundays

WHERE: Access Theater, Gallery Space, 380 Broadway, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10013

RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes with no intermission

TICKETS: Tickets are $18 online/$20 at the door (cash at the door). visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2955379 or http://www.newdancetheatre.com

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BASTARD JONES Now through July 16

IMG_0047.PNG“Randy yet ingenuous; it’s like a very bawdy Disney movie, with hummable pop music to match… smartly plotted and irrepressible.” — Time Out

“High-spirited… its nonjudgmental approach to sex and disability, and its brash desire to entertain, are winning. ” — The New York Times

“If I could fill this review with synonyms for ‘brilliant’ it still wouldn’t be enough, or do justice to just how good ‘Bastard Jones’ is…Run now, before you have to go on a wait list to see it on Broadway where it will surely find a deserving, long-term home.” — Stage Buddy

“Full of sexual innuendos, talented singers, and debauchery, Bastard Jones is a heck of a good time… This a wonderful way to spend an evening.” — Theater Is Easy

“Incredibly clever, zany and sexy… will bring such joy to your heart and a ‘tingle’ to everywhere else.” — BroadwayWorld

“I was impressed, delighted and amused by this highly creative, bawdy and effervescent musical… as much or more fun than most Broadway fare including ‘Hello Dolly.'” — eMusings

nancy manocherian’s the cell (Artisitic Director, Kira Simring) announces an extension of the World Premiere of BASTARD JONES, a rock musical comedy based on Henry Fielding’s bawdy 18th century novel, The History of Tom Jones. With book, lyrics, & direction by Marc Acito (Broadway’s Allegiance); music & lyrics by Amy Engelhardt (Grammy nominees The Bobs); and choreography by Joe Barros (Hard Times), performances will continue through July 16 at the cell.

BASTARD JONES is a rollicking adventure of deception, misunderstanding and bed-hopping. It centers on Tom Jones, a bastard-born charmer with a heart of gold and a knack for trouble who’s looking for love in all the wrong places. Tom gets banished from the only home he knows simply for expressing his true self, leading him to conscription in the army, a half-naked romp at a country inn and a stint as the boy-toy to an aristocrat whose machinations make Dangerous Liaisons look like child’s play.

The groundbreaking, diverse nine-member cast of BASTARD JONES stars Evan Ruggiero in the title role. Ruggiero, who was recently featured on “Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and starred in The Toxic Avenger at Pittsburgh CLO, becomes the first amputee to star in a musical in New York. The production also features Elena Wang, who went on for Lea Salonga in Allegiance; newcomer Alie B. Gorie, who is legally blind; Crystal Lucas-Perry (Little Children Dream of God at Roundabout), Rene Ruiz (Toxic Audio); Cheryl Stern (Broadway’s La Cage Aux Folles opposite Kelsey Grammer); Tony Perry (National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene’s Shpiel! Shpiel! Shpiel!), Matthew McGloin (CasablancaBox) and Adam B. Shapiro (The Golden Bride). The production team features Matthew Liu (musical director), Gertjan Houben (lighting), M. Florian Staab (sound), Siena Zoe Allen (costumes), Bethany Mullins (costume associate), Louisa Pough (production stage manager), Kayla Santos (assistant stage manager), and Chris Steckel (production manager).

Because BASTARD JONES is about young people being banished simply for being themselves, 100% of the production’s proceeds will benefit Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund. To support the fundraising campaign, please visit http://www.gofundme.com/celljones.

BASTARD JONES runs through July 16; Tuesday – Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 4pm & 9pm and Sunday, July 16 at 2pm.

the cell is located at 338 W 23rd St, between 8th & 9th Avenues — accessible from the C & E trains at 23rd Street. Tickets are $40 for general admission, $60 for reserved seating, available at 800-838-3006 or http://www.thecelltheatre.org.

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Riant Theatre Sets Juicy Lineup for 2017 STRAWBERRY ONE-ACT FESTIVAL July 13th – July 30th

The Riant Theatre (Van Dirk Fisher, Artistic Director) — the Audelco Award-winning nonprofit providing a nurturing developmental environment for playwrights and theatre creators of diverse cultural backgrounds — proudly presents THE STRAWBERRY ONE-ACT FESTIVAL. A celebration of cultural diversity, THE STRAWBERRY ONE-ACT FESTIVAL will be presented at the Theatre at St. Clement’s (423 West 46th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues, NYC) Thursday, July 13th through Sunday, July 30th, 2017.  This summer’s festival marks the 30th Season of The Riant Theatre’s renowned short play competition, and also will feature the premieres of three full-length one-act plays.  Reflecting the diversity written into the mission of its presenter, THE STRAWBERRY ONE-ACT FESTIVAL has produced over 1,500 one-act plays since it began in 1995 (in recent years, the festival has often been presented biannually due to demand from artist submissions and audiences alike).

Tickets for all performances during THE STRAWBERRY ONE-ACT FESTIVAL are priced as follows: General admission – $25 advance/$27 at the box office, Premium seating – $30 advance/$35 at the box office.  Tickets are on sale now through www.therianttheatre.com or by calling 646-623-3488. Festival Pass discount packages are also available upon request.
A dark comedy that combines the intricacies of interpersonal relationships, the supernatural and the apocalypse. 7/13 at 7pm, 7/15 at 7pm, 7/16 at 9pm & 7/20 at 7pm
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Fri, July 14 at 7pm / Sun, July 16 at 7pm / Sun, July 23 at 5pm / Mon, July 24 at 9pm
The world mourned for a few days, but these women will mourn for eternity.
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Wed, July 19th at 7pm / Sat, July 22nd at 3pm / Sat, July 22nd at 9pm / Mon, July 24th at 7pm
The first time taking a new path can change your journey forever.
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The Strawberry One-Act Festival runs from July 13th – July 30th www.therianttheatre.com
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Friday, July 21st at 7:30pm / Friday, July 28th at 6:00pm / Sunday, July 30th at 4:30pm
Two strangers, an affluent, middle-aged divorcee and a sardonic, gay Mexican American stylist, volunteer at a West Hollywood suicide hotline.  Unqualified and without guidance, they are forced to fend for themselves.  Despite ostensible contrasts, they somehow find an intimacy between them as they tackle increasingly dire phone calls, as well as their own existential crisis.

Playwright Robert Ellsworth, a Boston native, graduated cum laude from UCLA with a BA in Creative Writing and an MFA from Cal State Los Angeles. A former journalist, his writings have appeared in Elle, US Weekly, FHM, Vogue, the Boston Globe, The National Post and Movieline.  Ellsworth has also sold three feature film screenplays to such major studios as Touchstone, Village Road Show and Warner Brothers. He has worked for Paramount Pictures, Shonda Rhymes and ABC Studios. Ellsworth’s script, The Sect, was the 2016 recipient of the Best Feature Screenplay Award for the 25th Annual California Media Arts Festival. He currently teaches Media Ethics and Journalism at Cal State Los Angeles and is working on his second play.

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Click Here to check out the workshops we are offering for Actors, Singers, Spoken Word Artists.  Improv Workshop & Performance, Creating Vision Boards, Auditions Essentials for Singers & Actors, Movement Classes, Acting For Stage, Screen & TV and Having a Career in Media, Work with a Life Coach. Spoken Word & Performance Workshop.
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JULY EVENTS AT  FRIGID NEW YORK @ HORSE TRADE

 
Thank You, Robot Photo credit: KL Thomas
The Long Miserable Journey to Happiness
Sunday, July 2 @ 5pm & Wednesday, July 19 @ 7pm 
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $12
Fringe 2011’s Best Newcomer Nominee Paul Valenti is going back to Edinburgh. This time on a casual quest for Universal Truth. Put yourself in Paul’s hands while he clowns, cajoles, charms, flips, falls and flops his way to discovering what exactly—if anything—makes us truly happy. Paul invites you to leave your baggage at the door and join him on a quest for the unseekable: Happiness.
Category: Solo Show; Clown
Stand Up and Take Your Clothes Off!
Sunday, July 2 @ 8pm $10 in advance; $15 at the door
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
Stand Up and Take Your Clothes Off! features NYC’s funniest female comics and sassiest burlesque acts. Past performers have been featured in films, seen on TV, and perform at venues all over the world. This is a fast paced sexy show, exploding with talent.
Category: Comedy; Burlesque
The Open Mic Downstairs 
Hosted by Dan Ricker & Mike Milazzo
Every Tuesday @ 9pm $4 at the door
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
At The Open Mic Downstairs the focus is the stage! Sign-ups get seven minutes to try anything in one of the most supportive rooms in New York. Whether it’s a performance art piece, comedy, music, storytelling, dance, or something entirely off the top of your head, you’ll find a home in the attentive welcoming community at UNDER St. Marks.
Category: Open Mic; Variety 
FEAST: A Performance Series
Wednesday, July 5 @ 7pm $15
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Feast: A Performance Series invites you to the table for a fresh and delicious three-course performance series. Co-curators Conrad Kluck and Alex Randrup offer an evening of performances from the worlds of theater, music, dance and poetry, including a new work-in-progress staged reading by our monthly-featured playwright. We’re cooking up new works every month!
Category: Variety; Play Development 
Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret
Wednesday, July 5 @ 9:30pm $15
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret is Gotham’s Premiere Variety Show: Comedy, Music, Burlesque, Vaudeville, and More! Hosted by Canadian import Jillian Thomas; featuring Bill Chambers and Gregory Levine – and a rotating cast of the entertainment cream of NYC, America and Canada. Created and Produced by Rob Dub and Gregory Levine.
Category: Variety; Comedy; Vaudeville 
 
CHALK
Saturday, July 8 @ 2:30pm $15; $5 for kids under 12
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
CHALK is a playful and poignant one-man show guaranteed to delight audiences of all ages. Chalk invites audiences into a hand-drawn world where imagination is made real and anything can happen. Charlie Chaplin meets Harold and the Purple Crayon in this feel-good romantic romp sure to “Draw You In.” Category: Solo Show; Kids; Family Friendly 
A Brief History of Beer
Saturday, July 8 @ 10:30pm $12
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
A Brief History of Beer is a one hour drinkeractive comedy where the audience travels through time with William Glenn and Trish Parry, all the way back to Ancient Sumeria, through to today, on a mission to save beer from a mysterious nefarious person! Each month has a different theme so you can always come back and fill your cup with beery knowledge and fun!
Category: Comedy; Food & Drink
Cabaret Showdown: Winners Showcase
Sunday, July 9 @ 5:30pm $10
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
Join last month’s winner of the Cabaret Showdown as they star in their own show!
Category: Cabaret; Music
The Cabaret Showdown
Hosted by Mark McDaniels 
Sunday, July 9 @ 7pm  $12 (includes a free drink)
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) 
Do you have what it takes to be a cabaret champion? Contestants compete for the chance to star in their own show or cabaret. Come out and join the fun! Whether you are a contestant or in the audience you are guaranteed to have a blast. Category: Cabaret; Music; Game Show
The Adam Wade Show
Featuring Moth StorySLAM Champion, Adam Wade
Tuesday, July 11 @ 7pm $10
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
Adam Wade (Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, NPR regular), a staggering 20-time Moth Story Slam winner, has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for this special monthly show. No two shows are the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off.
Category: Comedy; Storytelling
Sketch Block 
Wednesday, July 12 @ 9pm $10
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Sketch Block is a comedy showcase that gives sketch troupes an opportunity to perform without the pressure of bringing in an audience. Also, Sketch Block does not force their audience to pay for drinks. We believe that it’s your choice to drink or not. It’s about the comedy. Sketch Comedy meets Block Party. This monthly show features a guest host comedian, three guest sketch troupes and drinking. Come meet, mingle, and perform!
Category: Comedy; Sketch Comedy
Pretty Bad
Thursday, July 13 @ 10pm $15
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
Pretty Bad is a show that pairs professional models with professional comedians to make imperfect improv under perfectly funny circumstances.
Category: Comedy; Improv
Lo-Fi NYC
Saturday, July 15 @ 10:30pm $10
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
LO-FI NYC is a live taping of the comedy show you always dreamed of. Recorded only on iPhones and a 10-year-old Sony handicam, this fast-paced trash heap of a show features the best sketch, stand up, hammer giveaways and musicians from the big apple and beyond. It’s like The Muppet Show, but there aren’t any puppets and everyone is drunk.
Category: Comedy
Caribbean Nights Concert Series
Thursday, July 20 @ 10:30pm $15
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) 
This is gong to be one exciting show of artists sharing the stage with Reggae and Hip Hop music that no doubt will get you out of your chairs! Featuring E.M.M.P. Inc Feddy Jones from Puerto Rico, Binky from the USA, Floydy Wonder from Jamaica, Grey Mann from Trinidad, and Cavell Simms aka DJ NUKID from Jamaica.
Category: Music; Reggae; Hip Hop
Thank You, Robot
Friday, July 21 @ 10:30pm $5
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
A showcase for independent and established improv teams. For each show, two teams join Thank You, Robot to perform sets of unscripted comedy, never seen before and never to be seen again. Category: Comedy; Improv
The Torchlight Series
Presented by Cave Theatre Company
Wednesday, July 26 @ 7pm $10
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
It is within caves that the first art appeared – tales of humanity carved or painted on the rock walls. Our ancestors walked deep into the earth away from all light and created stories with paint, with fire, with song. We now venture into the dark as our ancestors did and strive to do the same.
Category: Play Development
The Varietal Hour
Friday, July 28 @ 10:30pm $10
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
The Varietal Hour showcases a diverse collection of talent from around the city. Host and two-time Tony Award rehearsal attendee Lucas Womack splits a bottle of wine with guests as they perform anything from stand up to soft shoe, from storytelling to juggling, and very little in between. Or maybe all of it. Join us as we celebrate variety and varietals!
Category: Variety; Food & Drink
Comic Sutra Saturday
Saturday, July 29 @ 10:30pm $10
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) 
Join us on an endless journey, where desire meets dick jokes, all under the guise of Eastern mysticism. Allow us to re-open those chakras deep inside you and be embraced by our tantalizing, tantric tales and tunes. Comedy. Music. The Unknown. Only at COMIC SUTRA SATURDAYS! Category: Comedy
New York Madness
Sunday, July 30 @ 8pm $10
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
Madness: is a raw and unpredictable show of short plays by an ensemble of playwrights presented fully staged with scripts in hand. Each night has a Theme, which is given out a week before the event. The collective works in an evening kaleidoscope that cultural moment. It is a snapshot of where we are politically, culturally, and artistically. A Madness is a forum for all writers to explore the boundaries of modern theater.
Category: Short Plays; Staged Reading
FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade is a theater development group with a focus on new work that produces a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater every season. FRIGID’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. FRIGID New York grew out of the annual FRIGID Festival, the first and only festival of its kind in New York City to offer artists 100% of their box office proceeds, and Horse Trade Theater Group, a self-sustaining theater development and management group.
 
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Broadway Bound Theatre Festival: Meet the Playwrights

20 Playwrights. One Festival. One Month.

Adam and Brian

Bedlam

Bone on Bone

Convicted

Image

In Pursuit of PeaceIn the Room, Waiting

Keys

Mine

Must Win

Out There

Poor Boys

Running for My Life

Saving Stan

Skeletons

Small Town Confessions

Snow White Padded Room

Sympathy in C

The American Dream

2 Years of Eternal Joy

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Meet Victoria Medina & One Nation, One Mission, One Promise

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Name: Victoria Medina

What is your current project? One Nation, One Mission, One Promise

Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?

The Steve and Marie Sgouros Theatre, under The Players Theatre Artist in Residence program. The Team at The Players Theatre are just amazing. Everyone is supportive and caring about the work that is being produced. The location is amazing, right in the heart of Greenwich Village, surrounded by the most beautiful and historic buildings and landmarks. One Nation, One Mission, One Promise brings the best of our history alive and the neighborhood around the theatre breathes life into our history and creates new memories everyday.

What’s next for you?

One Nation, One Mission, One Promise opens on July 8, 2017. We are excited to hear from the audience after the show during our talk back. The next step will be to re-stage the show based on our audience at The Steve and Marie Sgouros Theatre. In 2018 we look forward to growing into the main stage theatre, so stay tuned, because each performance will be its own unique experience.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Groundhog Day

Any advice for your peers?

Read Sam Mendes 25 Steps to be a director. Many of his suggestions I think apply to all positions in theater production.

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Website: http://www.onenationonemissiononepromise.com/ and http://www.victoriamedina.com/

Facebook: https://https://www.facebook.com/onenationonemissiononepromise/ and www.facebook.com/victoriamedina001

Twitter:  @vmedinatweets

Instagram: @onenationonemissiononepromise

You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWFUyddc1BVk8Iodh6equtQ

Victoria Medina, Playwright, Director, Producer

Victoria has been invited to participate in The Players Theatre Artist In Residence Program. For over twenty years she has dedicated her life to her three passions: photography, writing and performing. This theatrical journey, One Nation, One Mission, One Promise, represents the climactic 3rd stage of this project which includes all three disciplines along with speaking engagements. She is so excited to see her trifecta of photos, writing and theater come to full fruition!

It began life as the photographic art exhibit, American Spirit, and was then developed into an Amazon best-selling book entitled One Nation, One Mission, One Promise, featuring exhibit images alongside her original poetry and prose plus quotes from famous and not-so famous Americans. Images from the American Spirit exhibit were also featured in the debut stage production of the award-winning show, Zuccotti Park – The Musical.

Victoria is also delighted to have joined the Song of Solomon: A New Musical producing team. She has also produced Latinos and the Business of Acting at the Public Theatre, and has been on the production team of several independent films in Los Angeles.

Show Information:

When: July 8, 2017 @7:00 pm
Where: Steve and Marie Sgouros Theatre
115 MacDougal Street
1 block from West 4th Street Subway
212-475-1449

http://www.theplayerstheatre.com/home.html
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