Spotlight on Works-in-Progress in Emerging Artists’ first annual
ILLUMINATING ARTISTS - NEW WORKS SERIESApril 27th - May 17th, 2009
EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, Paul Adams, Artistic Director, and Derek Jamison, Associate Artistic Director, present the
Illuminating Artists- New Works Series, for three weeks at TADA Theatre. Performancesbegin Monday, April 27, 2009, and continue through Sunday, May 17,2009.
For EAT’s
Illuminating Artists - New Works Series, EAT provides artists of different disciplines an opportunity to present their work-in-progress and get feedback from an intimate talk with the audience. The artists present their work at whatever stage they are at in their process for one night.
Illuminating Artists - New Works SeriesTADA Theatre 15 West 28th St, 2nd Floor, Between Broadway and 5th Avenue
Monday, April 27th – Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Monday – Thursday at 7:00pm
Friday – Saturday at 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Sunday at 6:30pm & 8:30pm
All Tickets $10
http://www.eatheatre.org/Each evening includes a brief talkback with the artists afterwards.
Artistic Director: Paul Adams+
Production Coordinator: Stacy Mayer+
Stage Manager: Alison Carroll+
Assistant Stage Manager: Julie Feltman+
“Notes from a Page”
A developmental series for ensemble musicals
Festival Curator: Paul Adams+
Co-Curator: Derek Jamison+
“One Man Talking”
A developmental series for one-man shows
Festival Curator: Andrea Alton+
Co-Curator: Alexandra Zabriskie+
“One Woman Standing”
A developmental series for one-woman shows
Festival Curator: Stacy Mayer+
Co-Curator: Jessica Carr Phillips+
“Well Noted Shorts”
A developmental series for Short Musicals
Festival Curator: Jonathan Warman+
Co-Curator: Troy Miller+
Tuesday, April 28th at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
The VoiceEveryone has demons. Want to hear what one sounds like?
Written and performed by Alexandra Zabriskie+
Directed by Janelle Lannan+
Searching for SoulaChildhood friends learn you have to live your life balls out or the Buddha is going to make you come back and do it again-especially in NYC.
Written and performed by R. Marisa Petsakos
Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
Life in ¾ TimeA comedic piece about aging gracefully.
Written and performed by Susan Laubach
Directed by Gretchen Cryer
The Make Out QueenMake-out, breathe each other in, connect; whatever happened to magic saliva and kissing like a horny teenager...except as an adult?
Written and performed by Bronwen Prosser
Directed by Christine Miller
Friday, May 1st at 7:00pm
Notes from a Page
The Amazing Journey of Juan DiegoA 20-song contemporary musical overflowing with pop, ballads, rock, mariachi, flamenco and based on the ancient Mexican story of Aztec/Christian peasant Juan Diego.
Music & Lyrics by Luce Amen
Saturday, May 2nd at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
corporisAn interdisciplinary invitation: what would you most like to get rid of?
Written and directed by the real kim harmon and you
American RefugeeA typical suburban family is changed forever when Uncle Sam crashes in.
Written and Performed by Meg Renton
Directed by Carol Fisher
Saturday, May 2nd at 9:00pm
One Woman Standing
Love in the Time of ChlamydiaA semi-autobiographical tale about one woman's search for love in aworld filled with absent fathers, premature ejaculators, alcohol, and venereal disease.
Written, directed, and performed by Nicole Pandolfo
Sunday, May 3rd at 6:30pm
One Woman Standing
Old Dog AprilA woman's four-footed friend might be imagined or could be heart-breakingly real.
Written and performed by Emily Jon Mitchell*+
Directed by Jenny Lee Mitchell+
Harem.comCan Sylvia face life on the street if she can’t face what she sees in the mirror?
Written by William Powers
Performed by Amanda Bruton
Directed by Irene Carroll
Sunday, May 3rd at 8:30pm
Well Noted Shorts
Bad ReceptionA couple reunites in a forest clearing after a decade apart. Is she a ghost, or his delusion?
Written by Alan Gordon and Mark Sutton-Smith
Directed by Stephen Amato
The Little Drummer and Rocky's First ChristmasThe Little Drummer Boy and Rocky the Rockette are set to spend their first Christmas together, but the ghost of Bing Crosby has other plans for the star-crossed couple.
Written by Anne Cohen and Andy Berlin
Directed by Valentina Fratti
DMVA fun-filled laugh-a-minute frolic in that amazing place everybody who is anybody wants to be: The Department of Motor Vehicles!
Written by Gregg Pasternak+ and Deborah Skydell
Johnny InfamousAll the girls in school want Johnny Infamous but when the school bully challenges Johnny, will he come through…or will he succumb to his peccadilloes?
Written by Matt Casarino+
Directed by Ian Streicher+
Monday, May 4th at 7:00pm
One Man Talking
PoundThe poet Ezra Pound on trial, with the audience as the jury.
Written and directed by William Roetzheim
Artistic Director Alix Steel
Performed by Jeff Berg*
Tuesday, May 5th at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
Jai Gagne!The story of Josephine Baker’s complex and emotional rise to stardom from St. Louis to Paris.
Written and performed by Cheryl Howard*
Directed by Maggie Maes
Wednesday, May 6th at 7:00pm
One Man Talking
American SideshowThe New American Eugenics Movement is in full swing, and two contestants are left on America's favorite reality show, America's Next Top Freak.
Written and performed by Nic Grelli
Directed by Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly
Thursday, May 7th at 7:00pm
One Man Talking & Well Noted Shorts
Crime and Punishment: The MusicalThe bookwriter of a musical based on Dostoyevsky’s classic welcomes the audience to the first performance.
Written, directed and performed by Dan Berkowitz
NeddComing to terms with a friend who spent 30 years in an institute for the criminally insane.
Written and performed by Richard Ploetz+
Directed by Ian Streicher+
The Divine Will of Ryan MorganRyan Morgan struggles to find his identity in a world made up of equal parts religious devotion, musical aspiration and teenage rebellion.
Written and Directed by Terra Vetter+
Music/Lyrics by Mike Levine
Choreography by Alison Carroll+
Performed by Julie Feltman+, Markus Paminger, Kirk Bixby and Anna Cordova
Friday, May 8th at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
Everyday GhostsA young woman haunted by her past lives.
Written and directed by Megan Lohne
Performed by Tawny Sorensen
Anywhere YouThe Life of Lotte Lenya with the Music of Kurt Weill.
Written and performed by Elizabeth Mutton*
Accompanied by Brett Kristofferson
Friday, May 8th at 9:00pm
Notes from a Page
Stand Clear of the Closing DoorsA man and a woman caught on the subway take us on a musical journey through their lives – come along for the ride.
Written and composed by Richard S. Rose
Performed by Sarah Matteucci and Richard Seth Rose*
Conducted by Paul Berman
Saturday, May 9th at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
I want to be...........!!??A Japanese slapstick physical comedy.
Written and performed by Mariko Iwasa
Black and TanThe emotionally conflicted daughter of an Irish woman and an English man thinks her heritage is the reason why she's at war with herself.
Written and performed by AB Carney
Developed with and directed by K. Elson
Saturday, May 9th at 9:00pm
One Man Talking
Te BuscoA young man struggles to grow into his destiny: to be the next matriarch of his loving, lively Mexican-Israeli family.
Written and Performed by Amir Levi
Directed by Portia Krieger
Choreographed by Megan Sipe
Composed by Jesse Soursourian
Sunday, May 10th at 6:30pm
One Woman Standing
The Saint Therese Kiss
A young girl prepares for her first kiss as she struggles with her life-long desire to become a saint.
Written and performed by Terri Campion*
Etude – Gathering
7 Veteran Actresses with 7 Unique Voices write 1 Thought Provoking Play.
Written and performed by
Writers@7: Jane Altman*+, Blanche Cholet*+,Laura Fois*+, Michele Fulves*+, Lué McWilliams*+, Vivian Meisner*+,and Jacqueline Sydney*+
Sunday, May 10th at 8:30pm
One Man Talking: Monologue Night
CutA formerly overweight college student embraces a fitness routine to turn his life around but can't seem to draw the line between healthy and "manorexia”.
Written by Mark Lambeck+
Performed by Tim Seib+
Directed by Kevin Brofsky+
Last WordsYou have less than seven minutes to say what you have to say, to fill the final bowl with a memory of you.
Written & directed by Richard Ballon
Performed by Adam Petkus
Pillow TalkJoey Pandorico hates pillows. He won’t have them in his apartment.
Written by Richard Ballon
Directed by Peter Bloch
Performed by Russell Jordan
Send In The ClownsRemember the kid who sat next to you in Fourth Grade?
Written and directed by Tulis McCall
Performed by Rick Lohman*
The Circle GameIn or out of the covered wagon, life pushed you forward and if you survived, you remembered it all.
Written and directed by Tulis McCall
Performed by Rick Lohman*
The Wedding SermonFather Gallagher stands before yet another couple whom he is about to dispatch into marital bliss … and finally tells the happy couple and his congregation what he really thinks.
Written by James McLindon
Directed by Jonathan Warman+
Performed by Terrence Keene
Tuesday, May 12th at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
Love is in the AirCathy, the Budget Wedding Planner, shares her tips for creating the perfect wedding for twenty five dollars or less.
Written and performed by Andrea Alton*+
Directed by Daryl Lathon
DreamlessA comedy about the "tragedies" of Motherhood.
Written and performed by Cheryl Smallman
Directed by Cheryl King
Wednesday, May 13th at 7:00pm
Notes from a Page
Megillah – A musical based on the Book of EstherMegillah is a tuneful re-telling of the story of the reluctant queen who must choose between who she thinks she must be and who she knows she truly is.
Words and Music by John Sebastian DeNicola
Performed by Yael Ester Gonen, David Perlman*, Jason Law*, BrianHoover*, Eva Rebane*, Johnny Deem, Desiree Justin, Lauren Ruff, Taylor Simon and Damon Thomas.
Thursday, May 14th at 7:00pm
One Man Talking
The Bitter PoetHilarious, satirical and painfully honest romp about searching for true love and the strippers you meet along the way.
Written and performed by Kevin Draine
Thursday, May 14th at 9:00pm
One Man Talking
My Life as a FrogA walk though Hell's Kitchen that allows you to see three generations of an Irish American family for who they are "warts and all."
Written and performed by Bobby Spillane
Directed by Colin Quinn
Saturday, May 16th at 7:00pm
One Woman Standing
Oufda and the AnthraxA tale of a mother's "How To's", a daughter's "What If's," and a killer's "Who Cares."
Written, directed and performed by Lué McWilliams*+
Saturday, May 16th at 9:00 pm
Notes from a Page
Sleep with MeIn Hollywood in 1938 Louis B. Mayer wants Shirley Temple to play Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, but Louis hasn't figured on Beulah Mudd and her very talented daughter Melody.
Written by Jim Shankman
Sunday, May 17th at 6:30pm
One Man Talking
Frankenstein’s MuseInspired by an interview with an African Shaman.
Written and performed by Steve Bellwood
Musical accompaniment by Adam Fehlberg (didgeridoo), Linda Richmond(stand-up bass), Ed Flynn (electric guitar)
Sunday, May 17th at 8:30pm
One Man Talking
Three Peters - Rants in temporal timeA recital for Tuba, Testosterone, and a bowl of Vichyssoise.
Written by Ted LoRusso+
Performed by Jeff Auer and Ryan Hilliard*+
* AEA Member+EAT Ensemble Member
EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE provides a dynamic home for playwrights and artists to develop their work from an idea to fully realized production. In the past 16 years, Emerging Artists has premiered over 275 new works and also: garnered a Drama Desk nomination; received the American Theatre Wing award for Commitment to Excellence in Theatre; and was named Best Off Off Broadway Theatre Company in NYC for Actors To Work With by Backstage Magazine. In the last 5 years alone, Emerging Artists has provided opportunities for over 1500 diverse artists (who did not have the resources themselves) to see their work developed and premiered.
Illuminating Artists Festival 2009 shows Monday, April 27th – Sunday, May 17th, 2009; TADA Theatre is located at 15 West 28th St, 2nd Floor, between Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Closest subway: N, R to 28th Street.
Tickets are $10, available at 866-811-4111 or
http://www.eatheatre.org/.
