2011 Groundbreakers Reading Series
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH INCUBATOR ARTS PROJECT GROUNDBREAKERS READING SERIES LAUREN FELDMAN, ANDREW KRAMER & LEAH NANAKO WINKLER PLAYED FEBRUARY 10-12 2011@ the Incubator Arts Project Join us February 10-12 at the Incubator Arts Project (131 East 10th Street at 2nd Avenue), for the second tier in the Groundbreakers Playwrights Group, a five month long program in which playwrights work on a specific script with intent to create a completed draft. Through its three-tired process of table reads, staged readings and main stage productions terraNOVA Collective has cultivated some of the best emerging playwrights in New York City.  |
DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK
Written by Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by Mallory Catlett
Featuring Jenny Gomez, Nicole Hodges*, Emily Kratter*, Jen Kwok, Lauren Marcus*, & Rachel Radenberg
February 10 @ 8pm
Mean Girls with bite. Heathers with fangs. Death for Sydney Black follows Nancy, the frumpy new girl at Northeast Valley High as she maneuvers her way through an absurdist deconstruction of a familiar movie genre. Props fall from the sky and original songs on ukulele frame this wacky world, but a truth about the way girls – and ultimately women – treat each other rises from the extreme imagination of Leah Nanako Winkler. This all female ensemble of five portray girls with ambition, girls aimlessly searching, girls with pom poms, girls with lipstick, and the boys who love them.
WHALES AND SOULS
Written by Andrew Kramer
Directed by Tom Wojtunik
Featuring Jackie Chung*
February 11 @ 8pm
A Creature emerges from the lake in a small, rural town to warn the villagers of an impending doom. This one-woman fable delves into the way we relate to the environment and the choices we make to free ourselves from the shackles that bind us to the place called "home".
A PEOPLE
Written by Lauren Feldman
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Featuring Dacyl Acevedo*, Ben Beckley, Nick Choksi*, Laura Esposito*, Zack Fine*, Lanna Joffrey*, Jon Levenson*, Franny Silverman*, Tiffany Rachelle Stewart*, & Chris Tramantana*
February 12 @ 8pm
A magical, lyrical journey into heritage, tradition, religion and humanity. Through vignettes, music and monologues, Lauren Feldman holds up a mirror to 4000 years of Jewish history, reminding us that we're all descendents from somewhere, and we choose to embrace our lineage, deny it, or wrestle with it. Hilarious and terrifyingly honest, A People gathers a tight ensemble of ten performers, taking on a mass of old and new world personalities to create snippets of life the way we see it, the way we want it to be, and the way it is.
SIDNEY AND LAURA
Written by Halley Feiffer
Directed by Kip Fagan
Featuring Steven Boyer*, Maura Malloy*, Marylouise Burke*,
Lisa Emery*, Zach Rand*
March 22, 2011
This reading took place at HERE in NYC
Sidney loves Laura. Laura loves Sidney. Mother loves Sidney. And then there’s the nosy next door neighbor, Lorraine. Beneath the polished veneer of this super sweet couple lays a dark secret. Halley Feiffer’s absurdist comedy curiously uncovers how lies, loss and love combine creating a recipe for redemption, forgiveness and baked sea shells.
* Member Actor's Equity Association
Groundbreakers Playwrights Program is supported, in part, by:
Written by Leah Nanako Winkler
Directed by Mallory Catlett
Featuring Jenny Gomez, Nicole Hodges*, Emily Kratter*, Jen Kwok, Lauren Marcus*, & Rachel Radenberg
February 10 @ 8pm
Mean Girls with bite. Heathers with fangs. Death for Sydney Black follows Nancy, the frumpy new girl at Northeast Valley High as she maneuvers her way through an absurdist deconstruction of a familiar movie genre. Props fall from the sky and original songs on ukulele frame this wacky world, but a truth about the way girls – and ultimately women – treat each other rises from the extreme imagination of Leah Nanako Winkler. This all female ensemble of five portray girls with ambition, girls aimlessly searching, girls with pom poms, girls with lipstick, and the boys who love them.
WHALES AND SOULS
Written by Andrew Kramer
Directed by Tom Wojtunik
Featuring Jackie Chung*
February 11 @ 8pm
A Creature emerges from the lake in a small, rural town to warn the villagers of an impending doom. This one-woman fable delves into the way we relate to the environment and the choices we make to free ourselves from the shackles that bind us to the place called "home".
A PEOPLE
Written by Lauren Feldman
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Featuring Dacyl Acevedo*, Ben Beckley, Nick Choksi*, Laura Esposito*, Zack Fine*, Lanna Joffrey*, Jon Levenson*, Franny Silverman*, Tiffany Rachelle Stewart*, & Chris Tramantana*
February 12 @ 8pm
A magical, lyrical journey into heritage, tradition, religion and humanity. Through vignettes, music and monologues, Lauren Feldman holds up a mirror to 4000 years of Jewish history, reminding us that we're all descendents from somewhere, and we choose to embrace our lineage, deny it, or wrestle with it. Hilarious and terrifyingly honest, A People gathers a tight ensemble of ten performers, taking on a mass of old and new world personalities to create snippets of life the way we see it, the way we want it to be, and the way it is.
SIDNEY AND LAURA
Written by Halley Feiffer
Directed by Kip Fagan
Featuring Steven Boyer*, Maura Malloy*, Marylouise Burke*,
Lisa Emery*, Zach Rand*
March 22, 2011
This reading took place at HERE in NYC
Sidney loves Laura. Laura loves Sidney. Mother loves Sidney. And then there’s the nosy next door neighbor, Lorraine. Beneath the polished veneer of this super sweet couple lays a dark secret. Halley Feiffer’s absurdist comedy curiously uncovers how lies, loss and love combine creating a recipe for redemption, forgiveness and baked sea shells.
* Member Actor's Equity Association
Groundbreakers Playwrights Program is supported, in part, by:
