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Meet Jonathan Evans & Aliens Coming The Musical

pasted image 0Name: Jonathan Evans
What is your current project? Aliens Coming: The Musical
Where are you performing your show and why is it a good fit for your production?
 
The PIT is a very unique venue in that it is primarily an improv theatre. This gives us a lot of ‘play’ room even with a pre-written script. The music and actors can have fun on stage and really enjoy themselves, creating a unique performance every night.
What’s next for you?
I am working on my own musical with my writing partner, very different in tone and far more ‘contemporary’. Other then that – grad school!
What is the name of the last show you saw?
‘The Great Comet.’ It was incredible.
Any advice for your peers?
 
Do everything! Never pass up on an opportunity no matter how out of your comfort zone it is. You never know where it might lead.
Want More?
Website: http://www.evansj.co
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alienscomingthemusical/
Instagram:  @jdapevans
Jonathan Evans is a recent NYU graduate and the Music Director of ‘Aliens Coming’, as well as one of the show’s composers and a producer. His previous credits include Producing and Music Directing ‘She’s Totally Dead’ at the 13th Street Theatre and extensive work as a Creative Producer and Music Supervisor in New York.

Show Information: 

 

WHERE: The People’s Improv Theater’s Striker Mainstage – 123 E. 24th St. NY, NY

TICKETS: Tickets can be purchased here for only $10

WHEN: 

  • Thursday, 8/17 at 8pm
  • Friday, 8/18 at 9:30pm
  • Saturday, 8/19 at 9:30pm
  • Thursday, 8/24 at 8:00pm
  • Saturday, 8/26 at 9:30pm
  • Thursday, 8/31 at 9:30pm
  • Tuesday, 9/5 at 8pm
  • Saturday, 9/9 at 9:30pm
  • Tuesday, 9/12 at 8pm
  • Monday, 9/18 at 8pm
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Meet Madeleine Rose Parsigian & The Untold Yippie Project

Name: Madeleine Rose Parsigian

What is your current project? The Untold Yippie Project

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

Access Theater, because a) it allows us to be intimately in the round and b) is easily accessible from the subway!

What’s next for you?

I am hoping to mount The Untold Yippie Project in a larger space for a longer run!  The goal is to get as many people as possible to see this important American story.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Little Foxes

Any advice for your peers?

Directing is an act of facilitation, not dictation.  Meaningful communication is the most important ingredient to positive collaboration.  In my opinion, this is the best way to create a piece of theater.

Want More?

Website: http://www.sunglassesafterdark.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/145659755987743/

Twitter: @untoldyippieproject

Instagram:  @theuntoldyippieproject

 

MADELEINE ROSE PARSIGIAN (Director) is the artistic director and co-founder of Sunglasses After Dark, a performing artists’ collective dedicated to challenging their audience through deconstructing stereotypes with color and gender-blind casting.  The Untold Yippie Project’s premiere production marks her and Schlossberg’s 12th Director/Playwright collaboration, a journey that enriches tremendously with each new chapter.  Other Sunglasses After Dark highlights include recently appearing as effortlessly cool and constantly stoned, Lakey, in our original web series 4and20; and directing the collective’s first film Punches, as well as their critically acclaimed sold-out run of 3boys.   Additionally, Madeleine is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute in Brooklyn, NY and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt University.

Show Information:

WHERE: Access Theater, 380 Broadway, NYC

WHEN: AUG 3 – AUG 19, 2017
Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm
Sat (8/12) at 1pm & 8pm
Sun (8/13) at 2pm & 8pm
Sat (8/19) at 2pm & 8pm

TICKET INFO: $18.00 (Students $12.00 & Wednesdays are FREE)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3019803

 

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Meet Nicole Orabona & The Untold Yippee Project

YippiePoster1_v2Name: Nicole Orabona
 
What is your current project? The Untold Yippie Project

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

We’re at the gallery space at Access Theater. It’s a big, open empty space that’s perfect for our show because we transform it into several venues. Our ensemble becomes many characters in many locations, so having an empty, raw space is ideal. The audience gets to fill in the rest of the details with their imaginations.

What’s next for you?

Heading on a cross country tour for the month of September with my partner, Nathan, who is a musician.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Million Dollar Quartet at Berkshire Theater Group
  
Any advice for your peers?
 
Don’t compare yourself to others.

Want More?

Website: http://www.nicoleorabona.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/norabona
Instagram: @knuckle_sando

Nicole Orabona is a New York based actor, collaborator, and cat lover who lives on a boat. With a focus on interactive theatre, she has recently worked with Live In Theater, Interactive PlayLab,The Sterling Renaissance Festival, Playing with Reality, 8Players and the Night Circus. Recent credits: The Aurora Project (The Navigators), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Jenny Wiley Theatre), world premiere Rocking Dead: Bedlam (Feast Productions), The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Repertory Theater), Stella, Streetcar Named Desire (Danny Peterson Theater).

Show Information: 

WHERE: Access Theater, 380 Broadway, NYC

WHEN: AUG 3 – AUG 19, 2017
Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm
Sat (8/12) at 1pm & 8pm
Sun (8/13) at 2pm & 8pm
Sat (8/19) at 2pm & 8pm

TICKET INFO: $18.00 (Students $12.00 & Wednesdays are FREE)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3019803

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Meet Becca Schlossberg & The Untold Yippie Project

Name: Becca Schlossberg

What is your current project? The Untold Yippie Project

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

Access Theater – we needed a big, wide open space for the dynamic staging we do.

What’s next for you?

Probably gonna work a solo show of mine, Blood Memory, in the upcoming year.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Really Rosie and NY City Center!

Any advice for your peers?

Give yourself permission to write the worst shit in the world.

Want More?

Website: http://www.beccaschlossbergplaywright.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.schlossberg

Twitter: @schlossbossfun

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schlossbossfun/

Becca’s play Just Like I Wanted, a drama about teen suicide, has been performed throughout the United States and the world.  Her one act, 3boys, published by Original Works Publishing, received a 4-star review by Time Out magazine for its an 2010 NYC Fringe production.   Other plays include Hands (produced by City Theatre), Unkempt (produced at the Sam French Off Broadway Play Festival), Cal & Grey (produced at Thespis Theater Festival and the NYC International Fringe Festival), Guidance, All We Are, and Brightly Shone The Moon. Becca’s newest play, The Untold Yippie Project, will be produced summer 2017 by Sunglasses After Dark, where she is co-founder. (Tickets can be found here.) She is a proud alum of Page 73’s Interstate Writer’s Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, and a current member of The Amoralists’ Wright Club.  Becca is also featured in Playscripts’ Actors Choice Monologues for Teens, Vol 2 and Scared Silly: 10 Hauntingly Hilarious Short Plays.  When not writing, Becca likes to perform, and can be seen in her solo show, Blood Memory, and her short feature, Punches. She lives in Brooklyn where she also makes bad fan art. (follow her @beccasbadfanart) MFA: New School for Drama.  B.A. Drew University.

Show Information:

WHERE: Access Theater, 380 Broadway, NYC

WHEN: AUG 3 – AUG 19, 2017
Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm
Sat (8/12) at 1pm & 8pm
Sun (8/13) at 2pm & 8pm
Sat (8/19) at 2pm & 8pm

TICKET INFO: $18.00 (Students $12.00 & Wednesdays are FREE)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3019803

 

 

 

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Meet Darien LaBeach & The Untold Yippie Project

Name: Darien LaBeach

What is your current project? The Untold Yippie Project: A new American play by Becca Schlossberg

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

Access Theater. Not only do they support innovative work, but the Gallery Space in which our show takes place allows the greatest creative freedom to transform into whatever is necessary. Theater in the rounds makes the show more immersive and personal which is a core message of the story.

What’s next for you?

Standup comedy around the city and preparing for performances at the first ever fundraising gala for Brunch Theatre. They are a theatre company serving millennials what they love best: fresh entertainment and fresh brunch.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

War Paint. I was fortunate enough to see my friend Tally Sessions perform in this captivating production at the Nederlander Theatre. Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole were also fantastic!

Any advice for your peers?

Surround yourself with people who inspire both on and offstage – in front and behind the camera. It’s when you get to know your fellow creators as people you build deeper levels of understanding. And if what they are doing outside of your shared work inspires you, and vice versa, you find that you can exist in stillness with one another because you KNOW who they are and what they’re about.

Want More?

Website: http://www.darienlabeach.com

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

Twitter: @dlabeach

Instagram: @dlabeach

Darien LaBeach is a Brooklyn-based actor and comedian daylighting as a digital strategist at a global marketing agency. He’s been seen in The Unfringed Festival, the Broadway Comedy Club and regularly performs standup comedy with A-list pros from Letterman, Tonight Show, and Conan in Character Flawed: New York City’s marquis standup event at the Dangerfield’s Comedy Club.

Show Information:

WHERE: Access Theater, 380 Broadway, NYC

WHEN: AUG 3 – AUG 19, 2017
Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm
Sat (8/12) at 1pm & 8pm
Sun (8/13) at 2pm & 8pm
Sat (8/19) at 2pm & 8pm

TICKET INFO: $18.00 (Students $12.00 & Wednesdays are FREE)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3019803

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Meet Audrey Alford & A Real Boy

Name: Audrey Alford

What is your current project? A Real Boy by Stephen Kaplan

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

59E59 is the perfect fit for this intimate piece. We have turned Theatre C into a Kindergarten classroom with the audience up close and personal in alley seating. Watching it from different angles really does change the way you understand a character, as well as the puppets.

What’s next for you?

I’m a member of the SDC Observership Class so hopefully I will be working under an established director very soon. Otherwise, I’ll continue to keep my eye out for projects that fit with my personal mission.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Waitress

Any advice for your peers?

Create a space where everyone is able to fail. Some of the best moments come from someone in the room trying something zany.

Want More?

Website: http://www.Ivytheatre.com

Facebook: Ivy Theatre

Twitter: @audrey_directs

Instagram: Ivytheatre

You Tube: Audrey Alford: Sharing My Crazy

Audrey is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Ivy Theatre Company. Her Off Broadway production of Donkey Punch, by Micheline Auger, was a Time Out New York’s Critic’s Pick, and the Off Off production was nominated for 3 NYIT Awards, including Best Premiere Production of a Play. In 2013, she was nominated for Best Director in the Midtown International Theatre Festival for Black Ice, by Lezlie Revelle. She has directed in New York, Charlotte, Seattle, and New Orleans. She is a proud feminist and is working toward a theatrical community inclusive of everyone’s stories.

Show Information:

WHERE: 59E59 Theaters, 59 E59th Street, NYC

WHEN: AUG 2, 2017 – AUG 27, 2017/Tue, Wed, Thu at 7:30, Fri at 7:30, Sat at 2:30 & 7:30, Sun at 3:30

TICKET INFO: $25.00 (59E59 MEMBERS $20.00)

For groups of 10+ please contact: GINGER DZERK, Director of Ticketing Services P 646.892.7986 | GD@59e59.org
http://www.59e59.org/moreinfo.php?showid=293

 

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Meet Katie Braden & A Real Boy

Name: Katie Braden

What is your current project? A Real Boy by Stephen Kaplan

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

59E59 Street Theaters; this is an amazing fit for our show, because they present such innovative, thought-provoking work from all over the world! I’m thrilled that we’re included in this season!

What’s next for you?

I’m taking classes for a graduate degree, so I start my next course 3 days after closing!

What is the name of the last show you saw?

A Brimful of Asha, part of the Soulpepper festival at The Signaure Theatre

Any advice for your peers?

I’ve found that I’m a better actor when I have balance in my life of work, fun, and family. I think it’s important to find the right ratio on an individual level, so don’t feel like you have to fit into someone else’s timeline or expectations. There are lots of ways to be happy in the theatre, and it may not be the way you expect!

Want More?

Website: http://www.KatieBraden.com

Facebook: Katie Braden

Twitter: @bradenkatie

Instagram: @bradenkatieactor

Katie Braden is a co-founder of Ivy Theatre Company and a proud member of WorkShop Theater. Ivy Theatre: Mill Fire, Reach, Outside/Inside, Incongruence, Black Ice, Like Poetry, and The Perfect Wife. Other NYC:  Romeo and Juliet,  The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mrs. Warren’s Profession.

Show Information:

WHERE: 59E59 Theaters, 59 E59th Street, NYC

WHEN: AUG 2, 2017 – AUG 27, 2017/Tue, Wed, Thu at 7:30, Fri at 7:30, Sat at 2:30 & 7:30, Sun at 3:30

TICKET INFO: $25.00 (59E59 MEMBERS $20.00)
For groups of 10+ please contact: GINGER DZERK, Director of Ticketing Services P 646.892.7986 | GD@59e59.org
http://www.59e59.org/moreinfo.php?showid=293

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Meet Eric Wright & A Real Boy

Name: Eric Wright

What is your current project? A Real Boy

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

59E59 is a great venue for showcasing new and innovative forms of theater, as well as very traditional forms, like the marionettes in our show, in exciting ways.

What’s next for you?

At my company, Puppet Kitchen Productions, we’re always working on projects that connect people to puppetry. From live shows to film and TV, we blend style and engineering to bring characters to life.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

The Play That Goes Wrong

Any advice for your peers?

Strive toward Shameless Enthusiasm. Take your work seriously, but never take yourself too seriously.

Want More?

Website: http://www.puppetkitchen.com

Facebook: @puppetkitchen

Twitter: @puppetkitchen

Instagram: @thepuppetkitchen

You Tube: @puppetkitchen

Puppet Kitchen Productions has been designing, building, performing, directing, and teaching puppetry since 2008. Recent projects include: The Little Mermaid (MUNY), The San Diego Zoo’s Centennial Celebration, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (AUS, NYC, UK) The King and I and The Wiz (Maltz Jupiter Theater), and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (TWUSA). PKP has workshops for the public, and creates original programming for all ages.

Show Information:

WHERE: 59E59 Theaters, 59 E59th Street, NYC
WHEN: AUG 2, 2017 – AUG 27, 2017/Tue, Wed, Thu at 7:30, Fri at 7:30, Sat at 2:30 & 7:30, Sun at 3:30
TICKET INFO: $25.00 (59E59 MEMBERS $20.00)
For groups of 10+ please contact: GINGER DZERK, Director of Ticketing Services P 646.892.7986 | GD@59e59.org
http://www.59e59.org/moreinfo.php?showid=293

 

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Meet Chuck Muckle & Running for My Life (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

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Name: Chuck Muckle

What is your current project?  RUNNING FOR MY LIFE

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

Broadway Bound Theatre Festival – it’s the first time the play is ever being done, and the feedback has helped in rewrites to make it a better show. It’s a timely piece about dealing with loss and expectations, family and relationship, and moving on.

What’s next for you?

Some projects in pre-production planning, including ANIMAL STORY (the musical) and IN LOVE WITH THE ARROW COLLAR MAN; both premiered in other festivals last year.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Hmm…a community theatre production of OLIVER! I had never seen it before onstage. A friend was in it.

Any advice for your peers?

Don’t let anyone ever discourage you! As Eleanor Roosevelt says, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Want More?

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

Chuck Muckle (director/playwright/actor/composer) directed IN LOVE WITH THE ARROW COLLAR MAN and MOURNING BECOMES RIDICULOUS at the New York New Works Festival last year. MBR was previously chosen as one of four finalists in the Manhattan Theatre Mission’s second annual musical showcase, where it won awards for best book, lyrics, actor and actress. He appeared in the National Tours of SOUTH PACIFIC and CAMELOT with Robert Goulet, the Eastern Tour of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with John Astin, and was in the feature film THE NIGHT BEFORE with Seth Rogen.

Show Information: 

Running for My Life

Friday, August 18, 4PM; Saturday, August 19, 7PM; Sunday, August 20, 11:30AM, 344 E. 14th St. https://www.broadwayboundfestival.com

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Meet Jack Rushen & Image (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

ImageName: Jack Rushen

What is your current project? IMAGE at BBTF

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

Theater at the 14th st. Y

What’s next for you?

Working on two play which are in development

What is the name of the last show you saw?

RED

Any advice for your peers?

Spend all your time in front of your laptop.

Want More?

Website: www.jackrushen.com

Jack first fell in love with the theatre at sixteen years old, with a stellar portrayal of “Dead Man #2” in OUR TOWN, that they are still talking about at the Polka Dot Playhouse in Bridgeport, CT. He went on to play one of the thirty-seven soldiers in HENRY V at the American Shakespeare Theatre, and his claim to fame was quickly being fired for upstaging Christopher Plummer (for which he claims innocence).

Since then his life has been a whirlwind of generous mentors and like-minded artists.
His travels have taken him to the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS, after which he found himself in the ensemble of such wonderful companies as LONG WHARF, HARTFORD STAGE, THE KENNEDY CENTER, AND THE HARTMAN THEATRE, to name a few.

Since taking a hiatus from acting, Jack has had great success with playwriting. He recently won the “Julie Harris Competition for excellence in playwriting” with IMAGE, which will be produced at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in August. IMAGE has been seen in staged readings around the country in such theaters as THEATRE 40 in Los Angeles, ARTEMESIA THEATRE in Chicago, POWERHOUSE THEATER in New Canaan CT, WORDSMITH THEATRE in Houston, EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE in New York City, and at the DRAMATIST’S GUILD in their FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTLIGHTS series.

Other full-length plays include MATTERS OF FAITH, MEANS TO AN END, TAMING THE LION, CHAPPY IN PARADISE, and WHAT IT TAKES.

Other honors include many awards and accolades for his short play, TESTIMONIAL in the “East/West Theatre Festival,” the “Arts and Letters Prize” at Georgia State University, “The Boston Theatre Festival,” “Princeton Theatre Group” and recently, “Stage Door Productions” in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

His favorite theatrical expression is, “Ensemble is everything, ” because we can’t make good theatre alone.

Show Information:

Image

IMAGE Monday, August 14 @ 12:30pm, Thursday, August 17@7:30 pm, Saturday, August 19th@3:30pm Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, Theater at the 14st Y, 344 East 14th St. NYC, http://www.broadwaybound.com

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