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Meet Sean Tecson & Poor Boys’ Chorus (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

Poor Boys

Name: Sean Tecson

What is your current project?  Poor Boys’ Chorus

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

Poor Boys’ Chorus is one of twenty plays selected from more than 200 submissions for Broadway Bound Theatre Festival’s inaugural season at the 14th Street Y Theater. The play reimagines the traditional Greek chorus as a trio of orphans telling the tragically romantic story about the town’s richest girl and an orphan boy falling in love through movement, light, and a little bit of magic. The chorus of orphans act as a traveling troupe of performers who are telling this story to different audiences in different venues every night, giving the play a pop-up performance feel that is perfect for a festival setting.

What’s next for you?

At the end of 2016 I accepted the A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fellowship and have been working at the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York supporting their development department and fundraising for the organization’s various programs that serve over 370 nonprofit theatre companies in New York City. I will be entering the second and final half of my fellowship where I will be delving into institutional fundraising and a re-branding project for our department.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Miss Saigon

Any advice for your peers?

Don’t forget that it’s just theatre. We’re not curing cancer or conducting brain surgery. At the end of the day, we’re working on something that we love and we should never forget that. It’s a lot of work, but no one is going to die if a small mistake is made here or there. Do your best and remember that we’re all humans doing this weird theatre thing.

Want More?

Website: about.me/seantecson
Twitter: twitter.com/seanohfour
Instagram: instagram.com/seanohfour

Sean Tecson is a NYC-based director and arts administrator. He has worked with several nonprofit theatres in NYC including Ma-Yi Theatre Company and the National Asian American Theater Company and was the assistant producer for a FringeFAVE production in the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival. He is currently the Development Fellow at the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and helps fundraise for the organization’s various programs that serve over 370 nonprofit theatre companies in New York City. He received a B.A. in Theatre & Dance from The University of Texas at Austin.

Show Information:

Poor Boys
TUE AUG 15 @ 4:00PM
FRI AUG 18 @ 7:30PM
SUN AUG 20 @ 3:00PM

14TH STREET Y THEATRE
344 EAST 14TH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10003

 

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Meet Mark Adrian Ford & Keys (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

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Name: Mark Adrian Ford

What is your current project?

My new play “KEYS” goes up at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival this summer 2017! Directed by Alison Preece

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

Performances of KEYS are taking place at the 14th Street Y Theatre in NYC. The simple space, large stage, 130 tiered seats and marquis create an ideal canvas for our play. The location is fantastic too! (344 E 14th St, New York, NY)

What’s next for you?

After the Broadway Bound Festival I’ll be visiting my big sister in Alberta. She’s having her first baby!

What is the name of the last show you saw?

I recently saw my friend perform in The Book of Mormon. I hadn’t seen it before and it changed my life forever.

Any advice for your peers?

Deep breaths. Don’t procrastinate in any area of production. Enjoy the hard work as well as the easy fun. Get to know your teammates and always be respectful.

Want More?

Website: www.MarkFord.ca
Facebook: @KEYSthePlay
Instagram: @KEYSthePlay / @markyfordo

Mark Adrian Ford is an Albertan bred, award-winning actor and writer currently living in Toronto. He received a BFA with honours from the Hart School Actor Training program at the University of Hartford (class of 2012). He started acting at the age 9 and has since performed in several countries across the world. Mark enjoys all mediums and has credits in classical, musical & contemporary theatre as well as film and television. Along with creative art his interests include makin’ friends, jamming, going dancing, playing sports, video gaming and adventuring on mountains. http://www.MarkFord.ca

Show Information: 

Bone on Bone
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Meet Marylou DiPietro & Bone on Bone (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

Bone on Bone

Name: Marylou DiPietro

What is your current project?

Bone on Bone by Marylou DiPietro

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

Broadway Bound Theater Festival, 14th Street Y, NYC

What’s next for you?

Reading of my play, Black Butterflies: based on the life Rose Williams, at The Road Theatre, LA.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Beyond The Wall

Want More?

Website: http://www.maryloudipietro.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoneOnBone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarylouDiPietro

After receiving an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, DiPietro moved to New York City where she studied poetry and playwriting with, among others, Galway Kinnell and Arthur Miller, and acting at HB Studio with Carol Rosenfeld. She received her master’s in Theater Education from Emerson College where her play, Cold Water Flat, won the Playwrights’ Festival. Her play, Sugar, was a winner in the Kennedy Center College Playwrights’ Festival and was produced at Brandeis University.

Off-Broadway staged readings of Black Butterflies, DiPietro’s play based on the life of Rose Williams, Tennessee Williams’s sister and muse, took place at the Abingdon Theatre and the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The short, one-act version of her newest play, Bone on Bone, was produced at Manhattan Repertory Theatre in November, 2016.

In April, 2017 an off-Broadway reading of the full-length version of Bone on Bone, directed by Emmy Award winning director, Mary Lou Belli, took place at the The Road Theatre in Los Angeles. The first full production of Bone on Bone will be produced at the Broadway Bound Theater Festival in August 2017.

Show Information: 

Bone on Bone
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Meet Craig Donnelly and Adam & Brian (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

Adam and Brian

Name: Craig Donnelly

What is your current project? Adam & Brian

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

At Broadway Bound Theatre Festival which is being lead by Lenore Skomal. The reason I chose BBTF for the world premiere of Adam & Brian is because Lenore and all of the panelists are putting the playwrights in charge and letting us produce the vision we created on the page, with ample amounts of guidance and resources.

What’s next for you?

I will continue to work on my web series, Living The Dream, while promoting my play work (including Adam & Brian) for future productions.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Sweat

Any advice for your peers?

Playwrights have a responsibility to ask the questions that no one else wants to ask. To push the boundaries that help guide humanity to a better and more profound existence. Keep asking those questions and pushing those boundaries!

Want More?

Facebook: facebook.com/craigdonnelly9
Instagram: craigls9
You Tube: Living The Dream

Craig Donnelly is a creator, writer and performer who has had the privilege of traveling all over the continent, with the international tours of A CHORUS LINE (U/S Mike, Mark & Larry) and CATS (Swing). His regional theater performing credits include THE WIZARD OF OZ (Westchester Broadway Theater), WEST SIDE STORY (Gateway Playhouse), CATS (Theatre By The Sea & Tuacahn Amphitheater), TARZAN (Tuacahn Amphitheater), CRAZY FOR YOU (Tuacahn Amphitheater), MARY POPPINS (North Shore Music Theatre & Theatre By The Sea), SHE LOVES ME (CLOSBC), OKLAHOMA! (CLOSBC) AND SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL(CLOSBC). His series, Living The Dream, can be found on YouTube and Facebook.

Show Information:

Adam and Brian
Broadway Bound Theatre Festival: August 7th (12:30pm), 9th (7:30pm) and 13th (3pm)

 

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Meet Shane Howard & In Pursuit of Peace (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

In Pursuit of Peace

Name: Shane Howard

What is your current project? In Pursuit of Peace

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

The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival

What’s next for you?

I will keep writing

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Three Can Keep A Secret – Hollywood Fringe Festival

Want More?

Website: http://www.shaneallenhoward.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InPursuitofPeaceplay/
Instagram: @shanhoward

Show Information: 

In Pursuit of PeaceAugust 5th, 12PM | August 8th 4PM | August 10th 7:30PM | The Theater at the 14th Street Y – 344 E 14th St, NY, NY 10003, USA | https://www.broadwayboundfestival.com/book-online

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Meet Riley Thomas & Convicted (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

Convicted

Name: Riley Thomas

What is your current project? Convicted – A New Play

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

“Convicted” is being performed with the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. It’s a perfect fit because it’s a world-premiere, and BBTF is committed to cultivating and celebrating new works. The platform of a festival is a great way to try your hand at a show that takes a few risks, challenges audiences and plays a bit with structure, all of which “Convicted” does to – hopefully – great success.

SYNOPSIS:
After discovering one of her subordinates has been accused of a brutal murder, Amy, the local director of an LGBT advocacy organization, must help the detectives piece together what happened. Once the circumstances start to unravel the one question left to answer is how far would you go for what you believe?

It’s a gripping one-act play that flies back and forth through time, with the feel of a fleshed-out Law & Order episode. Anyone who likes crime drama, whodunits & whys, and theatre made to challenge, will enjoy “Convicted”.

What’s next for you?

There are many irons in the fire, which one gets struck depends heavily on who gives me what hammer.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Noises Off at Shadowland Stages.

Any advice for your peers?

Keep on keepin’ on.

Want More?

Website:  http://www.rileythomaswriter.com
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/RileyThomasWriter/
Twitter:  @mindplusmusic

Having been compared to Jonathan Larson, Jason Robert Brown, and Jeanine Tesori, Riley Thomas has developed his unique sound of contemporary musical theatre influenced by pop, rock and jazz. A champion of alternative characters, ethnic integration and using theatre for evolution, Riley Thomas continues to challenge the audience perspective by exploring stories that are often overlooked in favor of glitz, glamour and fluff.

Riley Thomas is a New York based playwright/composer. He is a member of ASCAP, a 2016 Weston Playhouse Invited Artist, recipient of the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant and Johnny Mercer Songwriter’s Certificate. His musicals Stuck and Wearing Black have collectively won five awards at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Stuck has since gone on to be produced as a full length Hollywood feature film starring Giancarlo Esposito, Amy Madigan and Ashanti. His work has been performed all over the country and in NYC, notably at famous venues such as Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Feinstein’s/54 Below, the Metropolitan Room, the Laurie Beechman and the Duplex.

Convicted
WHERE/WHEN:
Theatre at the 14th St. Y
344 E. 14th St.
New York, NY 10003
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Friday, August 4th 12:30PM
Friday, August 11th 7:30PM
Monday, August 14th 4:00PM

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Meet Gary Morgenstein & Saving Stan (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

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Name:  Gary Morgenstein

What is your current project?

Saving Stan, about friendship, greed, love and death,

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

We’re part of the wonderful new Broadway Bound Festival and we’re fortunate to play at the 14th Street Y, which is a terrific space.

What’s next for you?

Well before Saving Stan, my musical Mad Mel Saves the World premieres at the Midtown International Theater Festival (July 18-23). After Saving Stan, my new sci-fi novel A Mound Over Hell will be published by BHC Press in March 2018. In between I’ll try to sleep.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me

Any advice for your peers?

Keep writing, no matter how much it hurts because in the end, it won’t.

Want More?

Facebook:
Gary Morgenstein
Twitter:  @writergary

Gary Morgenstein wrote the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock musical The Anthem, and his dramatic works range from A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx and Right on Target to Ponzi Man and Saving Stan, premiering August 3 at the Broadway Bound Festival. His new musical Mad Mel Saves the World will premiere July 18 at the Midtown International Theater Festival. Morgenstein’s novels include A Mound Over Hell, a baseball-science fiction story set in 2098 following America’s defeat in World War Three. The first book in The Dark Depths trilogy, A Mound Over Hell is scheduled to be published by BHC Press in March 2018. His other novels include Jesse’s Girl; Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman; Take Me Out to the Ballgame and The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees. Morgenstein is the creator of the Marradia brand which includes a radio series, musical and the Ancient Aliens books.

Show Information:

Saving Stan
Saving Stan performances will be Thursday, August 3 at 12:30pm; Friday, August 4 at 4pm, and Monday, August 7 at 7pm at the 14th Street Y. Tickets are available at broadwayboundfestival.com

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Meet Juan Ramirez, Jr. & The American Dream (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

The American Dream

Name:  Juan Ramirez, Jr.

What is your current project? The American Dream

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

The play will be performed at the 14th Street Y. The East Village neighborhood supports work that embraces a truer perspective of our community.

What’s next for you?

After three festivals and a workshop, I am going to continue the preproduction work on a web series.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

My show, Truck Stop Queen!

Any advice for your peers?

Don’t be afraid of change and stay hydrated.

Want More?

Website:  JuanRamirezJr.com
Twitter: @JuanMRamirezJr
Instagram: Juanmanuelramirezjr

Juan Ramirez, Jr. is an internationally produced writer, actor and director. His latest play to be seen on stage is Truck Stop Queen, part of the LIC One-Act Festival and published in an anthology with the Secret Theatre. Honor Among Thieves was selected for the 2017 Downtown Urban Arts Festival and presented at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Love Diplomats was produced by the Raíces Theatre Company’s 2016 Desde El Puente. It was also selected for 2016 Short + Sweet International Festival Top 80 in Sydney, Australia and performed at the Top 10 NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center. Love In All The Right Places produced at Ophelia Theatre Group and Manhattan Repertory Company, There’s A Wolf At The Door also at Manhattan Rep, The Safety of Strangers, a one-act festival of his various work at Theatre Row, At The Corner of Francis and Wolf with The Bronx Repertory Company and Red Light at Lehman College’s SUMMERWORX. Pro And Cons made Abstract Sentiment Theater Company’s Block and Talk series in October 2014, 2016 Fall 10 Minute Play Series and 2016 Playwright’s Showcase with Manhattan Repertory Company. His one-act play JUMP! was part of Lehman’s first annual playwright’s festival. American Culture was produced at NYU’s Blink of an Eye one-act festival. Dad & Son was produced at 2013 and To Speed Or Not To Speed at 2014 Gi60 One minute play festival in Halifax, UK. The play will be part of a published selection with Routledge next year. The American Dream is a semi-finalist for 2016 Stage Left Theatre’s Downstage Left residency, Walk The Bronx is a 2015 Downtown Urban Theater Festival Finalist, Villa Of Life is a NYU 2014 Graduate Screenplay Finalist and Jimmy’s Tab is a 2011 Princess Grace semi-finalist. Stroke Of Madness is part of the 2016 and Wall with 2017 Cimientos Play Program with IATI Theater. He is honored to have the opportunity to produce The American Dream in the inaugural Broadway Bound Theatre Festival this summer. He received his B.A. from Lehman College and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch.

Show Information: 

The American Dream
The 14th Street Y
Wednesday, August 2nd 12:30PM
Sunday, August 6th 6:30PM
Thursday, August 10th 4PM
Tickets:
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Meet Erin Moughon & Snow White Padded Room (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

Snow White

Name: Erin Moughon

What is your current project? Snow White Padded Room

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

The 14 St Y. The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival is so supportive and encouraging, and they have found this incredible space. I cannot say enough wonderful things about this festival! It is perfect because it is a space with the ability to transform, which is exactly what my piece needs.

What’s next for you?

I’m doing a show with Equity Library Theatre, and I’m writing new works.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Julius Caesar

Any advice for your peers?

Keep writing! And then write some more. And don’t be afraid of feedback!

Want More?

Website: http://www.erinmoughon.com
Twitter: @emoughonsmith

Erin Moughon is an NYC-based playwright and teacher with an MFA from Columbia. Plays: Survived By (New Plays Now, 3LD), Slip Her a Mickey (Schapiro Theatre), Pretend That You Owe Me… (Schapiro Theatre) Short plays: Many. See erinmoughon.com for complete list.
Semi-finalist for both the Princess Grace award (‘10) and the National Playwrights Conference (‘12 and ‘14) She completed 31 Plays in 31 Days every year and participated in 365 Women a Year every year so far. She is published in The Best Ten Minute Plays of 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017. She is proud member of the Dramatist Guild.

Show Information:

Snow White Padded Room

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Meet Thaddeus McCants & In the Room, Waiting (Broadway Bound Theatre Festival)

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Name:  Thaddeus McCants

What is your current project? In the Room, Waiting.

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

In the Room, Waiting is being performed as part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in NYC. I am so thrilled to be a part of a festival that puts playwrights and their work front and center and it couldn’t be a better fit for myself as a playwright and for the show as a whole. I am so excited to produce this story that is so near and dear to me as a person with such an incredible group of Actors of Color. I know audiences will love this originally told, heartfelt and funny script that questions fate, choice, and when the right time to bring a life into this world.

What’s next for you?

I am currently Acting in Lobby Hero @UNO, which was co-produced by myself and the University of New Orleans. I will be return to my home base in Brooklyn in July to begin rehearsals for In the Room, Waiting.

What is the name of the last show you saw?

Sweat on Broadway.

Any advice for your peers?

Create the art you want to see in the world.

Want More?

Website:  thaddeusmccants.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IntheRoomWaiting/
Instagram: @Sugarthaddy

Thaddeus McCants is Brooklyn based Actor and Writer originally from Madison, Wisconsin. As an Actor worked Broadway, and Regionally including working with Disney Theatricals on their newest musical, Freaky Friday. On the small screen and as a comedian he has worked with HBO, Comedy Central, and MTV. His web-project Fakers, has been a selection in several Webfests worldwide.

Show Information: 

In the Room, Waiting

Venue: Theatre @ the 14th St. Y, (14th and 1st Ave.)

Tuesday, August 1 / 4 PM
Thursday, August 3 / 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 6 / 3 PM

Tickets:
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