Over 80 Years!
Equity
Library Theater
of New York
(and The Woodside
Players of Queens, The Fifth Avenue Theater of New York)
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Equity
Library Theater has been presenting short plays (comedy,
drama and musicals) by writers from around the globe, in association with the
NYPL, since 1943 as a sort of New York City roadshow, with performances
rotating among many theaters built during the Depression in branches of the New
York Public Library. Equity Library Theater won the Off-Broadway Theatre
Tony Award twice, in 1953, and in 1977. Today they present their works for all
to enjoy in person and in a virtual setting.
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Submissions are now being accepted for the Equity
Library Theater of New York Summer 2025 Play Festival. Seeking short plays (no
more than 10 pp/minutes), from playwrights from around the globe. Also seeking
monologues (no more than 4pp/minutes). Musicals welcome! One submission per
playwright. No submission fees. Please include name, address, telephone number
and email address on your submission. We do not produce your work; we provide a
venue for you to present actors performing your play. There are no costs
involved for anyone. Seeking actors and directors, too! Deadline: April 30.
2025. Performances will be Saturdays in August at the NYPL. Email: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
We are seeking actors! Click
here.
Watch “Across The Lake” with: Regina Y., Sasha H., Jonathan B., here.
Watch “The Therapy Session”, by Risa Lewak, here.
Watch “White Russian” by Joshua Danese, here.
Watch “Lenox Hill Neighborhood House – Senior Acting Showcase”, here.
Watch “The Comic Entertainer” compiled by Henry L. Williams (1902), here.
Watch “The Monologue
Table” at QED Astoria (11-10-24), here.
Watch “The Candle”, a new musical by Zach Alfred-Levow, here.
Saturday, November
30th at 1pm at the NYPL West 115th Street Branch!
“The Night Before the Night Before Christmas”,
a comedy by Cricket Daniel.
Lou has wrestled with a big ball of tangled Christmas lights for the last time! He is grabbing the sunblock, his Elvis in Paradise album, and his wife Carol, and hopping on the Pineapple Express to Hawaii! Escaping New Jersey, the freezing cold, his nutty family, and most of all the holidays is exactly what Lou plans to do. However, a freak snowstorm leaves the couple stranded in the airport and their dream of sipping Pina Coladas on the beach is in peril. Will a couple of unexpected characters help restore Lou’s Christmas Spirit in the St. Nick of time?
With: Regina Y., Gus
F., Noor M., Lydia C., Cynthia G., Johnny D.
2025 classes below!
All are welcome and
free to attend!
Acting and Theater Study for
Adults New York Public Library Riverside
Branch Fourth Saturday monthly 1-2:30 pm www.nypl.org
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Acting and Theater Study for Adults New
York Public Library George Bruce Branch First Saturday monthly 1-2:30 pm
www.nypl.org
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Acting and Theater Study
for Adults West End Collegiate
Church
77thSt b/w Broadway and
West End Third Thursday monthly 6-7pm
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Queens Public Library
Writing Workshop Queens Library Astoria
Branch Third Saturday monthly 1-2:30 pm www.queenslibrary.org
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Queens Public Library
Writing Workshop Queens Library
Steinway Branch Second Saturday monthly 1-2:30 pm www.queenslibrary.org
Now playing! “Theater
Studies” Acting and Theater Study for Adults
The third Thursday of every month starting December 19th, at
the West End Collegiate Church on the Upper West Side, at 6pm.
Contact us if interested in attending: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com. Free to attend.
The Woodside Players
of Queens is seeking actors for a May reading in Astoria.
The one hour performance on May 17th at 1:00 PM will
feature script in hand readings of short plays by Johnny Culver and friends!
Send
resume to: woodsideplayersofqueens@gmail.com
Fifth Avenue Theater of New
York is seeking readers for “More Tales from The Times - Selections from the
Metropolitan Diary.” Readers present short vignettes based on the popular and
often hilarious New York Times Saturday section. 1pm, April 27th
in Midtown. If interested, please send your resume and headshot to: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
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New York’s Equity Library Theater is seeking actors for a staged
reading (May 31st in Manhattan) of selections by writers from the Provincetown
Players. Send resume and headshot to equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
“Actors Free Co-op” meets
weekly (Sundays 8-10pm ET) on Zoom. It is a nurturing space to work on
monologues, cold reads, scenes, improv, exercises, commercial copy, get help
with self-tape setups, etc. - whatever the group wants.NO COST WHATSOEVER! FREE FOREVER! Actors of all levels are
welcome. It's OK to just observe. Attend often or occasionally. We'll have
rotating facilitators. (We encourage actors to step into this role
occasionally.) Bring your own material to work on or let the group assign
something for you. The email address of group is: actorsfreecoop@gmail.com. Folks can send their contact info to be on
our mailing list/get the Zoom link. We have an Eventbrite account in case
actors prefer to sign up for specific dates there:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/actors-free-co-op-79624123403.We also have a
Facebook page which has the link to Eventbrite signup and also has our email
address: http://facebook.com/actorsfreecoop.
Summer 2024 Virtual Play Festival!
Winners Below!
Park Benches – Darrin J.
Friedman
The
Institute of Love – Jack Rushton
Waiting
for the GYN - Helen Cheng Mao
At
the Clinic - Milton Coykendall
My Shayna Punim – Felix
Racelis (Winner - Best Actresses)
A Woman and a Lioness - Lee Roscoe
Coffee
With Pearl – Rachel Rubin Ladutke
My Ex-Wife's Wedding - Raechel Segal
The Giant Child - Taylor Wendell Lozano
Two Tickets to the Circle Line – Thea Flanzer (Winner - Best Production)
Rosemary Frisino Toohey - Seventeen
DON TALK #23 - Bryan Harnetiaux (Winner - Best Actor)
Crashing – Ashley Nicole Audette (Winner - Best Play)
Of Muppets and Vampires – Billy Jenkins
Oprah Hugs – Mark Sbani (Special Mention ”What
fun!”)
42nd Street Forever - Peter Rowan
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Just ended!
Equity Library Theater of New York
Summer 2024 Play
Festival!
August 3rd at 1pm at the NYPL Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library
203 W 115th St, New York,
NY 10026. Lisa Dixon is your host.
Featuring
Robin Blasberg – Hamstering.
With: Mark Baumgartner
Amends – Julia Genoveva. Director: KM Jones.
With: Kathy Tejada,
Anthony Castellano
The Caterpillar and The Human - Marjorie Conn.
With: Callie J. Cox,
Marjorie Conn
“Mrs. Sorken” - Renee Albert
What's Smokin' - Lex E. Rojas.
With: Garrett Bailey
& Santiago Molina
Dating is Haram! -
Noor Mondal.
With: Afia Kapadwala, Cindy
Farida, Parisa Garcia, Shifa Kapadwala
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August 10th at 1pm at the NYPL
Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library
203 W 115th St, New York,
NY 10026. Lisa Dixon is your host.
Long Story Short - John
DeBenedetto.
With: Zachary Fretag, Devon
Lawler, Matt Moschella
When Turtles Can Fly -
Sarita James.
With: Sarita James, Pushpom
James, Uma Garg, Nicholas Garg, Alex Garg, Rebecca Hornstein, Amanda Parsons
Shila Jones – Monologue
The Therapy Session – Risa
Lewak.
With: Johnny Culver, David
Mackler, Laurie Sammeth
At the Rihga Royal - Vicky
Devany.
With: Vicky Devany, Mark
Gering
Ann Fulton - Charles Lupia.
With: Susan Palmer Everly
An Imperfect Storm -
Stephen Joseph Olson.
With: Philip Gagliano,
Sandford Stokes, Marie Grace Seeba
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August 17th at 1pm at the Queens Library Astoria Branch 14-01 Astoria Blvd,
11105 (718) 278 2220. Baler Simmons
hosts. Read more here:
Reg & Jared -
Eugene M. Grygo.
Director: Rachael
Langton
With: Rick Benson,
Duane Ferguson
Stage Manager: Jackie Ivers.
Get Out of My
Head!!! - Youlim Nam
With: Alexandra
Anisman, Steph McIsaac.
White Russian - Y
Danese
With: Joel Roman,
Trevor Crane
I Ate the Divorce
Papers
With: Alexis Tandit.
Questioning
Authority? - Michael Chepiga
Director: Lillian
Thakuria
With: Jasmine
O’Donnell, Dianne Rothenberg, Lynn Mestel
Yellow Roses –
Robert Kirkendall
Spring 2024 Virtual Festival! Watch
over 30 entries below. Winners in red.
And God
Laughs – John Tierney (TIE BEST ACTOR)
All God's Children Got Equipment - John
Paul Porter
Louis and Clark – David Guaspari
Blue
Nightmare Vocation – Hunyah Irfan
The We
Heart Christopher H. Mahoney Through Time and Space Forever Club - Bailey
Jordan Garcia
Where’s This (play) Train Going? – Bruce Guelden (TIE BEST PLAY)
"Glass Child" - Sharisse
Zeroonian
Is Everything Okay – Samekh Resh
Model United Nations – Thea Flanzer
(TIE BEST PLAY)
Questioning Authority – Michael Chepiga
(TIE BEST PLAY)
Gub Gub Godmother Gaslight – Colleen
O’Doherty
Enkha Monologue From Fierce, A One-Act
Play - Mary Donnet Johnson (TIE BEST ACTOR)
I Am the Center of My Universe - Nora Louise Syran
Sadie Hawkins Dance – Ryan Vaughn
Dialogue with an Extrovert – Robert Csoma
Last Time I Saw Her - A short play by Jed Sutton
Who Needs A Playwright? – Helen Cheng Mao
Helter Shelter – Philip Way (TIE BEST PLAY)
The Ballad of Lulu and Dad - Festival Cut – Wayne Paul Mattingly
Beautiful Sludge – Gordon Blitz
Dancing Kitties – Sally Connors
AIDEN - A Short Sci-Fi Musical – Clay Herzberg (TIE BEST PLAY)
Call Me Your Queen – Ryan Vaughn
Little Kasia Meets the God of
Death – Andrea Berting
A Small Victory – Matthew Menendez
The Packsaddle Librarian – Benjamin Peel
The Dream People - Patrick McEvoy
For more free events
(theater, dance, workshops, readings, deals, etc.), in New York City, visit www.clubfreetime.com.
Please consider
becoming a member of the Episcopal Actors' Guild, visit www.actorsguild.org for more information. The mission of the Episcopal Actors' Guild
is to provide emergency aid and support to professional performers of all faiths and none
who are undergoing financial crisis. We are also dedicated to helping emerging
artists advance their careers through scholarships, awards, and performance opportunities. See their many events here: https://www.actorsguild.org/calendar.html
Past event! Sunday,
January 28th at 3pm,
“Back to The
Monologue Table”, @ QED Astoria
Equity Library
Theater of New York & the Woodside Players of Queens presented short solo
scenes by local actors. Cynthia Gale Valdes hosted. Watch here!
Click here for a video of our December 2023 performance.
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Equity Library Theater of New
York Summer 2023 Virtual and In Person Play Festival. Watch all submissions
below.
Sunset Phenomena – Linda Pallotta
The Actor Prepares – Donna Sisco
Lois Returns – John Minigan
(Special Mention – Acting)
Strangers in a City - Steph
Prizhitomsky
The Edge of Tonight – Parker
Jenkins (Tie Best Play)
Prodigal Son/Someone Saw Me
– Alexia Star
Coke? I Don't
Like Coke - John McDonnell Tierney (Tie Best Actor)
Boyfriend – Robert Kapler
(Tie Best Play)
If I Only Had No Heart –
Maripat Allen
The Bunker Thought – Peter Curry
Dog Therapy/Therapy Dog
- Stefan Diethelm
It’s a Dog’s Life – Fran
Handman
My Beau Brian - Rose-Mary
Harrington, performed by Penelope Grover
The Tale of Superfly@ Ball
State University – AJ Dorough
Irresistible Impulse –
Barbara Alfaro
From Train to Train - Steve
Duprey
The Sticking Point – Fran
Handman
Quantum’s Big Picture –
Begonya Plaza-Rosenbluth (Tie Best Actor)
Alone inside the Box – Nick Maynard (Special Mention –
Acting)
Guys in the Wild –
Felix Racelis (Tie Best Play)
Street Fight - David Malouf (Tie Best
Actor) (Tie Best Play)
The video contains
profanity and violent language.
The
history of Equity Library Theater can be read, here.
Visit the 2023 Secret Theater Summer One Act
Festival, here.
Visit
“Genoveva _Productions”, here.
Visit
Elmwood Community Playhouse, Inc., here.
Visit our
Community Partner, City Gate Productions, here.
Free Theater within the NYC Parks, here.
Writing by Johnny
Culver (here).
Links to other NYC area theater groups:
425 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011 Watch here!
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Exclusive Benefit Performance - July 30th @1pm in New
York City!
Equity Library Theater of New York presented a play by Johnny
Culver.
“The Bermuda Curse”
With:
Sasha Henriques,
Griffin Ostrowski,
Laurie Sammeth,
Cynthia Gale Valdes
Peyton Place, horses wearing blankets, the Flushing train, grouchy
Miss Rivas, John Wayne and more in this one-hour comedy!
Place: The Customer Service Office of a small New York publishing
company.
Time: A Monday in January. A few decades ago. Photos here!
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Past
Event! May 21 at 1pm, The Fifth Avenue Theater of New York presented
an afternoon of short new plays. @ 650 Fifth Avenue, lower level, enter on 52nd
Street.
Featuring
works by Sarah Congress, Michael Chepiga, Laurel Lockhart, Parker Cross, Denis
Meadows, Jen Ju, Julia Genoveva and more. Over 60 people attended the 90 minute
event.
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Recently…
“Hide and Seek”
A new play by Dena Levin
June 10th and 11th at 2pm at the New Stage Theater
“This is a play about
David, a sixteen-year-old, in the process of coming to terms with his
sexuality. Adolescence is a difficult
time for most teenagers, and it is for David. Sharing wonderful times with his
Aunt Liz, David becomes aware how people have overcome challenges in their
lives. He becomes enlightened and learns how he will navigate his life, even
with an obstacle, his father!” See photos here.
With: Sasha Henriques,
Griffin Ostrowski, Gus Ferrari, Noah Kleinberg, Julia Genoveva and Tess
Chadwick. Johnny Culver directed.
St. Mary’s Drama
Guild of Woodside presented
“The Sound of
Music”.
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VILLAGE PLAYWRIGHTS
OF NEW YORK
The Village
Playwrights presented staged readings of
short plays to celebrate Pride Month on Monday, June 12, 2023, from 7 to
9 pm. More info here.
Equity
Library Theater of New York/Woodside Players presented "Twelve from
Texas" an afternoon of short monologues by Christopher Woods.
Dramatist, poet,
short story writer, Christopher Woods has a knack that is hard to match for
getting to the heart of a character. Taken from his collection of brief fiction
stories, this cast of loveable unconventional characters are a delight to meet. “Like
streetcars – quaint vehicles – if one missed, there’ll be another one along in
a minute.” William Albright Houston Post Drama Critic. Watch here.
Now playing online, the Fifth Avenue Theater of New York presents a
virtual performance of (View here) “Tales from The Times - Selections from the
Metropolitan Diary”.
Actors perform short vignettes based on the popular and often
hilarious New York Times Saturday section.
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Equity
Library Theater of New York Spring 2023 Virtual Play Festival.
Watch all
selections below.
Winners in
RED!
L'appel du Vide
- Molly Kirschner - Winner - Best Actor(s) TIE
Demon Turkey – Kelly Morgan
- Lallo
UpLyft – Felix Racelis -
Special Mention!
Angelic Intervention –
Barbara Alfaro
Re-in-WHAT?!—Change is Good – Linda Pallotta
Ladies Not Waiting – Riley Yates - Winner -
Best Play TIE
Sorry I'm Late - Dana Hall
– Special Mention!
Sex in the Park – Jack
Rushton
Marriage Counseling –
William Zolla II - Winner - Best Play TIE
The Protest on Ninth Avenue - Jeffrey
Ashkin
Smashing Pumpkins – Steven
Carinci
The Mummy Speaks – Cynthia
Morrison - Winner - Best Play TIE
I Guess I Got Good at Hiding
– Josie Parrelli
You Will Not Replace Us –
Denis Meadows
Best Friends - Kareem
McMichael - Special Mention!
Dear Daughter Moon – Lenny
Hort
Socks – Dr. Mary E. Weems
- Winner
- Best Actresses(s) TIE
Just an Illusion: Zipper -
Gretchen C. O’Halloran
Forever and a Day – Jennifer Ju
The Pearl – Donald Falconer
– Best International
Submission!
Life of Shmuel – Ruby
Lowenstein
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Equity Library
Theater of New York presented:
“At Raygar’s”, a new play by John
McCloskey.
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Now Playing! Equity Library Theater of New York
Summer 2022 Virtual Play Festival. Watch all submissions below.
Aaron Leventman – Lovers and Survivors
Amy Engelhardt – The Woods of Exeter
Andy Mayo – The Connection
(Tie - Best Actors)
Barbara Alfaro – The Sirius
Interview
Brandon Fulk - The Four
Horseman
Brian Johnston - Tell It
Like It Is, Mary Louise Brown!, with Maille-Rose Smith. (Tie -
Best Actress)
Chris Ferretti – Between A
Rock and Port Authority
Christopher Woods – Salt Mine Exchange
(Special Mention)
Colette Cullen – Everyone’s
Sorry
Ed Friedman – The Price of
Progress
Eloise Coopersmith - My (unauthorized)
Hallmark Movie Musical
Felix Racelis – Love Bomb
(Tie - Best Play)
Fran Handman - The Sticking
Point
Gary Duehr - Johnny Depp
Vs.Amber Heard
Helen Cheng Mao – Stuck in
Limbo (Tie - Best Play)
Jaime Sheedy - The Effect of
Magic on The Death Of Will and Grace (Tie - Best Actress)
Janis
Butler Holm – Red
Josie Parrelli - Her
Confession
Lenny Hort – A Little
Something About My Powers (Tie - Best Play)
Leticia Arbelo –
Terapéuticas, Lectura dramatizada
Lettuce Eat with Suzanne
Ridgeway – Christmas 2021 (Special Mention)
Marjorie Conn telling a
story by Sophie Virgilio (Special Mention)
Mikki Gillette - We're Just
Talking, Okay?
Phylliss Shanken – Where is
Bunny Boy?
Rex McGregor – Swinging
Campers
Selma Hazouri – Miss
Elizabeth Taylor
Steven Carinci – Who Loves
You, Baby?
Stephen Joseph Olson - The Breakup King (Tie - Best Actor)
Wayne Paul Mattingly -
Anabel, in Barcelona, with Aliona Garcia
Meet our new community
partner! (Below)
Piper Theater in Brooklyn –
Free program for playwrights - Click here.
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Below, watch a virtual
reading of two comedies from the early 20th century; Aunt Maggie’s Will (Mary
Elizabeth Gale, 1910), and The Merediths Entertain
(Whitney Darrow, 1922).
Fifth Avenue Theater
of New York presented a free performance of “More Selections from Spoon River
Anthology” on June 11th at 2pm, in Manhattan at 650 Fifth Avenue (enter on 52nd
Street, down escalator)
Local actors
performed short excerpts from the collection of poems that collectively
narrates the epitaphs of the residents of the town of Spoon River.
With:
Alexis Tandit
Andrew Dinan
Betsy Cruz
Evangeline Johns
Fredda Tourin
Gus Ferrari
Heather Jeanne
Violanti
Heather Shore
Janice Kirkel
Joseph Ortiz
Luke Goldthorpe
Marjie Conn
Martha Morenstein
Mathilda Diaz
Stephanie Schwartz
Now
Playing! Equity Library Theater of New York Winter 2022 Virtual Play Festival.
Watch all 40+ submissions here!
Antionette’s
Duck – Wayne Paul Mattingly, Filmed in Spain and Riverdale, NYC
A Milkman’s Serenade – Mark Blickley (Tie,
Best Play)
Curses! Curses! - Elizabeth
Shuler, Performed by Charli Williams
Dakota - Sydnie Belousek,
with Ann DellaMonica
Dear Stella
– With Ronnye Halpern, Pam Trester, Susan McQuirk
Email!
– Dana Jaffe (Tie, Best
Monologue)
Enchanted Walhalla Ravine - Farzana Datta
Just a Yellow Cab in New York City – Youlim Nam
Lincoln’s Birthday – Peggy Terry
Lost Property – Robert Luxford
(Tie, Best Actor)
Out to Pasture – Alison Gilbreath (Tie,
Best Monologue)
Paramour - Rose-Mary
Harrington (Special Mention)
Property is Sacred – Mark Speyer
Rugged Individualism - Terry Smith (Tie,
Best Actor)
Slow
Dating – Adam Szudrich (filmed in New Zealand)
Soul to Squeeze – Meagan J. Meehan (Tie,
Best Play)
Stoned - Scott Carter Cooper
(Tie, Best Play)
Sweet Forgiveness - John
Bettis / Walter Afanasieff
Texual Abuse - Cindi
Sansone-Braff
The
Actor and the Funeral – Jack West
The Best Is Yet to Come –
Nancy Cohen Koan
The
Importance of Being Honest - Brian Johnston
The
Isle Of Wight Festival, Summer 1970 - Annette Perpinan
The Lucky Escape – Eamann Breen (Tie,
Best Actress)
The Time is
Ripe - Pamela Morgan
Two Peds are Stu Peds – S. Joshua Mendel
Waitress! – With Cynthia Gale, Robin Jacobson, Rebecca Marks
Walmart at Christmas-A Short Play – Marty
Maftess
Wrong Kind of Doctor – Beth Evans, with Emily Blake, Ben WIllis
(Tie, Best Actress)
You,
Me, and Marie Curie – Mary Crosbie, Jeanine Calleja (Special Mention)
Watch
Here! “In Swirly Letters”, a new play by Johnny Culver.
With Sarah-Ann Rodgers, Phyllis Cox, Bart DeFinna, Tom Morwick, Carolyn Quinn
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Past
Event!
Presenting works by and featuring:
Youlim Nam – “Just a Yellow Cab in NYC”, with
Nicole Lehrman, Ananth Padmasola, Dir. Sophia Treanor
Phil Blechman – “Morning Coffee”, with Hayley
Palmaer
Marjorie Conn – “Shopping with Magic Morningstar”
Christopher Woods – “The Pink Dress”, with
Danielle Patsakos
Beth Evans - "The Wrong Kind of Doctor",
with Emily Blake, Ben Willis
Tom Padovano – “Reflections”
Nancy Davidoff Kelton - "An Unveiling, a
Date, and a Shrink", with Sharlene Hartman, Angela Madden, Richard Toth
Daniel M. Wolpe – “Forever Intertwined”, with
Andrew Dinan
Emily Blake – “The Window: My Mother, The
Lockdown, and Me"
William Hugel - “You Don’t Want What I Got”, with
Benjamin Willis, Joseph Ortiz
If you have any questions, please contact fifthavenuetheatre@gmail.com.
The Woodside Players of Queens presented their
2021 virtual holiday performance, on Zoom, December 29th @ 7pm EST. Watch here!
“An
evening of short Vaudeville sketches by Harry L. Newton” (b. 1872).
Presenting: An Oyster Stew, When Johnny Comes
Marching Home, The Jumpkins Jumble, Strenuous Mame - the Bowery Girl, Fresh
Timothy Hay, A Jack and His Queen, The Secondhand Man.
Directed by Johnny Culver, Anne Hammond, Shelia
Spencer, Milton Coykendall.
With: Allison Fradkin, Andrew Dinan, Candy Brown,
Carolle U, Cynthia Gale, Gus Ferrari, Helen Yalof, Joseph Bowen, Marjie Conn,
Paul Jones, Regan Carmody, Robin Jacobson, Ronnye Halpern, Shelia Spencer,
Susan Neuffer, Ted Birke.
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Watch
“Daughter!” by David Gold, here. Recorded on
the streets of New York.
October 4th @ 7pm EST, Equity
Library Theater of New York presented a virtual presentation of “Excerpts from
Spoon River Anthology”.
A deluxe recording can be
viewed here.
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Watch here! The Woodside Players of Queens
present short American plays from 1900 to today![CJ1] Recorded August 20, 2021.
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The Equity Library Theater of New York Summer
2021 Virtual Play Festival! Links to over 60 plays/submissions are below.
Winners in Green.
A Bell Tolls – Monte D. Monteleagre
A Cheap Maid in
Chasteside – Craig Gustafson
A Soul to Squeeze - Meagan
J. Meehan
Amy in Belgrade – Edmund Wilkinson
Aunt Velma Considers
Changing Religion - John Arnold TIE
BEST ACTRESS
Barricade - Pamela Morgan
TIE BEST PRODUCTION
Bawdy Maudie - Vivian C.
Lermond TIE BEST PLAY
Cassidy’s Mourning – Triza
Cox TIE BEST ACTRESS
Cinderella and the 3 Bear
Witches – Susan Horowitz SPECIAL
MENTION
Dream Talk – Emma
Goldman-Sherman
Emotional Support Canadian –
Amanda Vick
Extremely Right – Glen
Dickson
Gentle Warren - Steven
Carinci
Get Out Of My Head! - Youlim
Nam TIE BEST ACTRESS
Glassblower – Judith Glass
Collins
Hurricane of Love – Maripat
Allen
Is My Truth the Lie? - David
T. Anderson
Jamie's Protest - Leonard D.
Goodisman
Life Under the Prairie –
Barbara Anderson TIE BEST
PRODUCTION
Meconium Aspirations - Mark Blickley
Park Bench Domain – John Corins
Plaque Kills - Dana Hall,
performed by John Madison TIE BEST
ACTOR
Prayer To Him - Yulidal
Hernandez Kin
Rita - Protective Shield -
Antonia Kleopa
Sarah Franklin for President
- Matt Sanders and Ariel Aliza Sanders
Scan to Begin – Monique
Herbert
Six Impossible Things Before Coronavirus –
Matt Cogswell
Telepathy – Brian Leahy
Doyle, directed by Kevin Michael Morin
The Neighbor - Selma Hazouri
- A man remembers a neighbor from the past TIE
BEST PLAY
The Night Watch – Mostyn
Lyndon Farr
The Pink Dress – Christopher
Woods, with Danielle Patsakos SPECIAL
MENTION
The Uninvited – Rose-Mary
Harrington
The Waiter - Claude Clayton
Smith
The Way That Sand Moves –
Rick Davis TIE BEST
ACTOR
Threesome (A Short Pandemic
Musical) - Zuker and Metz SPECIAL
MENTION
That’s All We Got – Logan
Rogers
Tony Defends A Friend – Dana
Jaffe
Training Wheels – Michael
Hardstark TIE BEST
ACTOR
Una Noche En Tejas: When
Beyoncé Met Selena - Kevin Ray TIE
BEST PLAY
Unpack:
Key Moments of Romania’s History in a One-Woman Show - Cătălina
Florescu
Visiting Dad - Marj
O'Neill-Butler, performed by Emma Merritt
What If Science Is Real? –
Judy Klass
Your Town – Donald Steven
Olson
Full length plays performed virtually
from the summer and fall of 2021!
Watch them below and text your favorite to 631 898
4205 - play, actor, actress.
This new play, written and directed by P.H. Lin,
and developed by Cate Cammarata’s Create Theater, made its online debut as part
of Create Theater’s Monday Night Reading Series on May 17, 2021 at 7pm EDT.
A one-act play by Marc Weiner, Cast: Kimberly J.
Yates, Sean Edward Evans, Jacob Lineberry, Crew: Ira Block, Shravya Kag, Filmed
at Playwrights Rehearsal Studios, New York City.
The Pot Boiler - A
Reimagining (1916) - based on a one-act satire by Alice Gerstenberg
Alice Gerstenberg’s “The Pot Boiler” is a satire
about the pretensions of conventional theater. This “reimagining” transplants
the humor into a modern zoom-age context. Cast: Marty Goldberg, Ted Birke,
Valerie O’Hara, Bill Barry, Perryn Pomatto, Meredith Sullivan, Sean Buckley,
Aleksandar Tasev and Shelia Spencer – directed by Shelia Spencer.
Jane, a 27-year-old woman with progressive
political views, undergoes brain surgery. The surgery is for the most part a
success except for the fact that she is now, suddenly, a rabid conservative
Republican. How do her loved ones cope with her new political identity? A
comedy that asks the question how much do our political beliefs shape our
lives? Cast: Jane - Brittney McHugh, Jack - Martin Downs, Lauryn - Andrea
Nelson, Bonnie - Vita Carnduff, Ryan - Michael May.
Directed by Vincent Mraz – “I will be working with
senior citizens across Manhattan teaching a virtual sketch comedy writing class
as a 2021
SU-CASA teaching artist.” Runs 80 minutes.
Ghosts From The Well – Jack West
A re-imagined rewriting of Val Burton, Walter
DeLeon and Bradford Ropes' 1946 Abbott & Costello comedy of two people
mistaken for traitors during the American Revolutionary War. Doomed by a curse
to be bound to earth forever, their ghosts now haunt a married couple on Long
Island, NY. When an eccentric ghost hunter and his odd, clairvoyant assistant
are brought in to rid the home of the spirits, the ghost hunter’s mistaken for
an old nemesis, there’s a wacky séance - and even bigger problems. Written by
Jack West. Performed by Jack West and Karen Corrado. © Jack West. All Rights
Reserved.
Godless – Jarrett Winters
Morley
'Godless' is a one act play that delves into the
origins of the human psyche between Adam and Eve, discusses the controversy
surrounding humankind's perception of a higher power, and how each of us
defines faith. Directed By: Jarrett Winters Morley. Cast: Eve: Lauren Curet,
Adam: Jarrett Winters Morley.
This is a reading of the play Garden Party by Judy
Klass, Directed by Alyssa Borg.
The Girl of my Dreams –
Carole Jackson
With Ted Birke, Richard Callender, Laurel
Lockhart, Susan Neuffer. The play follow Kathryn Coleman, a British girl, from
ages 10 to 37. Although her relationships with her father, grandmother, and
husband are important, it's her mother, Myrna, who is the constant in her life
- for better or worse.
Selections from "Trout Day" -
Peggy Terry
With:
Zoe Avery, Terri Bonica, Ted Burke, Andrew Dinan, Jennifer Finger, Ann Morelli,
Martha Morenstein, Tom Morwick, Olivia Rubrum, Alexis Tandit. In this comedy,
the first day of school goes all wrong when a frazzled parent tries to do away
with an mysterious small town tradition.
Mag
and Ryan, best friends since college, confront doom with Zoom, social
distancing with close-up romancing in a pandemic fatigued world.
Boyself/Girlself - Jack
Seamus Conley
A pre-transition transmasculine person (Girlself),
who is in the early stages of “coming” out and uncertain of what the
future may hold for them, receives a surprise visit from a future version of
their self (Boyself), who only has foggy memories of the exchange from the
“other” side. As they talk together about everything and nothing, both “selves”
learn something unexpected about who they are collectively. Directed and
written by Jack Seamus Conley, and starring Lea Hulsey (Girlself) and Chase Nuerge (Boyself).
This is my Block - Talara
Ruth
Originally
printed in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary, Talara reminisces about her
childhood neighborhood.
All Gummed Up
(Comedy 1921) - Harry Wagstaff Gribble
With
Ted Birke/Valerie O'Hara/Bill Barry/Perryn Pomatto/Maggi Veltre (dir. Shelia
Spencer). Shelia Spencer is savoring the serendipity of finding old plays,
dusting them off and giving them new life and vitality here on Zoom. She deeply
appreciates the talent she is connecting with today - as well as that from our
theatrical past.
The Census - Leonard D.
Goodisman
Directed
by Monica Hoyt. Director of Photography - Zack Bermack. Cast: Madison Hemings -
Ben Baez, Sally Hemings - Yvette Bedgood, Census Taker - Gabe Girson, Eston
Hemings - Cole Mackler.
Hippies, Housewives &
Watering Holes – D. M. Larson
Performed
by Long Island’s Afternoon Delight Players.
America's
Theatre presents Love Restor'd -- a haunted tale, a visitation in the dark
night. Our play features, in order of appearance: Len Bellezza as Tom, Susan
Horowitz as Becky, and Donna Wall as Susan.
Starring
Toni Tennille, Julie Cargill, and Trisha Tracy, “Out to Lunch” opens in a
quaint restaurant where the two main characters discuss their lives, dead
husbands and the couple seated next to them. Gloria and Lillian are lifelong
friends in their seventies. When the young server engages her customers, we are
all left to wonder if ‘Feminism’ is the new “F-Word”. Exploring themes of the
female bond, experience, and life-challenges, “Out to Lunch” rallies.
The Middle Of The Night -
Elizabeth Robertson Laytin
With
Danielle Patsakos, Carolle U. Elizabeth is a winner of a 2016 Frank McCourt
Memoir prize for her short story Black Sugar, published in Vol. X No.2
Summer/Fall 2016 of The Southampton Review.
Her novel Come Here Go Away for the young adult audience is available on
kindle, amazon.com, and at Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y. Short stories have also been published on
ducts.org, deadmule.com, and in The East Hampton Star.
Now playing! The Equity Library Theater of New
York Winter 2021 Virtual Play Festival. Links to over 70 performances are
below.
(formatted for desktop viewing, in alphabetical
order).
Winners, based on feedback, in red.
A Mother’s
Story – Patrice Hamilton
A Tale of
Stockbridge – Charles Gross
A Turkey is
NOT a Rooster – Jinna Kim (Tie – Best Play)
Across the
Lake – Johnny Culver
Avoiding Unwanted Pregnancy
-Rom Watson - performed by AnnaLisa Erickson,
Bill W and Jimmy K - Andrew
Matthews (Tie – Best Play)
But Did I
Leave The Oven On? – Jake Alexander (Tie - Best Actor Team)
Chuckles,
The Clown – David Lloyd
College
Without Walls - Matt Sanders & Ariel Aliza Sanders
External
Monitors - Richard Lyons Conlon
First Baby – Alex Perry
(Tie – Best Play)
Frenchie's Fate - Kannan
Menon
Give Me Something Good to
Eat - John Glass
Going
Up – Joseph Vitale, with Scott Cagney, Gary Glor. Directed by Will Budnikov
Happy
Funeral Day - David T. Anderson. with: Janice Kirkel, Alexis Tandit, Carolle U
Harlem
Top To Bottom – Jordan Young (Best Monologue)
How Did
Edward Lose his Accent? -Teddy Alexis Rodriguez, PhD
How to Survive from REMNANTS
– Hank Greenspan
Introducing
My Crazy – Marlo K. Shaw
Last Night
Bluey Died - Sam Affoumado
Mamet Mommies Soccer - Greg
D'Angelo
Millard, Is That You? –
Brian Leahy Doyle
Monologue
from “Illspoken” – Blaire Baron
Morning Coffee – Phil
Blechman
Museum Pieces (Monologue) -
Sherry Chiaroscuro
No Rest for a Soul
- Cindi Sansone-Braff
Phony on a Twig - Rex
McGregor
PhotontheTimesSquareShuttle
– Lawrence Rinkel
Remember
Me, Mr. Jones? - Christine Benvenuto
Santa and
Spock – Heidi Mae (Special Mention)
Scoundrel by Monte D.
Monteleagre, directed by Kevin Snyder
Spiritual
Counseling – Jack Rushen
Steely
Resolve – Alan Stoltzer
The Apocalypse Is Here But
Where's The Iron – Daniel McKamey
The Ballad Of Leslie - Lisa
Dellagiarino Feriend
The
Campaign – Hannah Williams
The Carpet Washers – Jack
West
The
Galloping Gourmet, based on The Lying Valet, by David Garrick
The Line Up
in the Time of Covid – Barbara Litt
Thomas,
Thomas – Leonard D. Goodisman
This Is My
Block, Part Two- Talara Ruth, with Anne Morelli
Two Ply –
Chef Rossi (Special Mention)
Unpack -Catalina Florina
Florescu
WABI SABI -
Rachael Carnes - Directed by Andra Hunter With Zoe Margolis, Max Gallagher
(Tie - Best Actor Team)
Well and On My Own - Ellen
C. Scherer
What’s in a
Name – Lee Franklin
Wise Old
Owl: A Trilogy – Phyliss Shanken
Without
Whom None of This Would’ve Been Possible - Kevin J. Miller
Zoom Mom – Greg Abbott
(Special Mention)
The Woodside Players of New York City 2021 winter season. One act plays*,
some from over 100 years ago, performed virtually. Watch them below!
(thanks to Shelia
Spencer and her actors)
Finders
Keepers – George Kelly – 1923 - Directed by Kevin Snyder
Suppressed Desires –
Susan Glaspell – 1914 - dir. by Shelia Spencer, with Hannah Abney, Farah
Diaz-Tello & Jacob Lineberry (over 1000 views)
Tickless Time - by Susan
Glaspell and George Cram Cook - 1918 - directed by Shelia Spencer
Sham - Frank G. Tompkins -
1920
The
Angel Intrudes – Floyd Dell – 1918
Illuminati in Drama Libre- Alice
Gerstenberg – 1922
Attuned
– Alice Gerstenberg – 1922 - with Shelia Spencer
*all free to read on
Google Books.
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Past
Event!
Over
thirty-five short plays.
Fifth
Avenue Theatre of New York Virtual Fall 2020 Play Festival
Winners
in red!
E Minor Seventh – Timothy Nolan
(Special
Mention)
Siggy
& Dolph at the Klaustenauer Cafe - by Fred Crecca
Shana The She-Pirate – Emily Battles
Coyotes – Steven Carinci
(Best
Play – tie)
Throne
of the Third Heaven - Philip Reissman
Glasses
– Barry M. Putt Jr. with Allison Fradkin (Best
Monologue – tie)
Who Let The Dogs Out? – Marian Rosin
Barren Landscape – Steve Gold (Best
actress – Alexis Tandit)
Wounded
Birds - Elaine Kuracina
Deeds Not Words - Rose-Mary Harrington
(Performer
Diana Kyle and Technical Director,
Elizabeth Gordon)
Lyre On The Floor – Jackson
Montana
The Waiting Place - Michael Cunningham,
with Regina Yeager (Special
Mention)
Invisible Foe -
Michele A Miller, PhD
Confessions:
The Hours - Natascha Graham (Best Monologue – tie)
The
Wiggle Room – George D. Morgan
How
I Spent My Quarantine – Ellen Abrams
It's
Not Haunted Real Estate - Sarah Congress (Best
Effects)
My
Turkey Redeemer Liveth – Loretta Wish (Best acting duo)
Fred
the Projectionist – Fred Pflantzer
Where For Art Thou, Dougnuts – Michelle
Glusto (Best
Play – tie)
Smarter
than You - Richard Bonte
Occupied
Countries - Jack Rushton
Tell Me
How I Did – Justin McDevitt
The United States of Huevos - Tavi Juárez & Stephen Tsimpides
(Best
Play – tie)
Frank and Rachel – Nancy Temple
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In
October 2020, Equity
Library Theater and the Instant Shakespeare Company presented a reading of
“Catherine and Petruchio” by David Garrick. Click here to watch.
Equity
Library Theater of New York presents a reading of a full length new play:
The
play is based on a book written by American author, Charles Brockden Brown
(publ. in 2 vols.1798 & 1815). It consists of a dialogue between Edwin
Alcuin, a Quaker schoolmaster, and Mrs. Carter, a widow, in Philadelphia
in 1798. Alcuin and Mrs. Carter argue about women's lack of voting rights,
their need for financial independence, and their inadequate access to education
and employment opportunities. Mrs. Carter speaks for all women, sharing her
insights about marriage and divorce as well as politics. As the two debate
these issues, they become friends and, eventually, lovers. The plot includes a
remarkable sequence in which Alcuin travels to a future utopia, The Paradise of
Women, where men and women are equals and where the word "marriage"
does not exist. Though their conversations are serious, there are many light
moments and a subtle romantic subtext.
Caterina
Nonis is
a director, theatre maker and actor from Milan, now based in New York. She has
collaborated with Page 73, The Habitat, The InHEIRitance Project, NYMadness,
Shotz! Amios, Theatre East, KIT, Stella Adler, Modern Shakespeare Project,
Match:Lit, among others. At the Venice Biennale, she studied different
approaches to theatre making with directors Thom Luz and Jakop Ahlbom. She is
an artistic associate of The InHEIRitance Project, and an SDCF Observership
18/19 Class member. BFA: NYU Tisch, Stella Adler & RADA. www.caterinanonis.com.
California
native, Dean Linnard is a New York based AEA actor, singer,
solo-performer, and puppeteer. He studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,
the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in
London. Since then, he has been associated with a number of
outstanding theater companies, such as the Portland Playhouse, Vermont
Shakespeare Company, and New Orleans Fringe Festival. Though he
specializes in classical material, his projects have ranged from Shakespeare to
experimental performance art, from children’s theater to Off-Broadway. In
2011, he developed a one-man adaptation of Hamlet which he performed
as a benefit for Young Actors Workshop in California and as part of Manhattan
Repertory Theatre’s New Work series. He is a Teaching Artist for
Broadway.com’s Broadway Classroom Series. www.deanlinnard.com.
Carolyn
Balducci’s publications
include fiction & non-fiction books, articles & reviews as well as
translations and poetry. Her plays include adaptations/translations of
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata; Renaissance comedies, La
Calandra and La Veniexiana; contemporary Italian
comedies; Alcuin: A Fierce & Elegant Plea for the Rights of Women;
and Chekhov in the Hamptons. Original works
include Maestro:Pirandello as Recalled by Ms. Marta Abba;
and Giovanni the Fearless, a commedia dell'arte musical (book and
lyrics by Carolyn Balducci; music composed by Mira J. Spektor). She is a
member of the Dramatists’ Guild, BMI and NYWIFT.
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Past
event!
“Five on
Fifth – 2020 Summer Play Festival”, Fifth Avenue Theater presents video
recordings of short plays by local writers! Click below to watch.
“Goth Principal: A Hunted
Man” By Alaina Hammond
Starring
Isaac Scranton as Jonny/Gothman
and
Alaina Hammond as Belinda.
“Waitress!”
with Shelia Spence, Alexis Tandit,
Regina Yeager.
“Generation Love” by Nick Bompart.
“Promises”,
by Shirley King, with Julia Genoveva.
“In The
Clair De Lune” - An Online Play, by JB Bruno.
(voted best play)
“All Kinds of Skin” – by Victoria Lau
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Past
event!
The Woodside Players of Queens Summer 2020 Play
Festival. Short plays by local writers in a virtual setting. Click below to
watch!
Baby
Bird On the Isle of Corona written by
Rossi (aka Chef Rossi)
with
Celeste Ciulla, Rossi and Charmaine Broad
The
Seal Wife – by Michael Cunningham
(special
mention)
Just a Little Mistake - by Mary Elizabeth Gale
Virgins – by Scott C. Sickles, with Elizabeth Carlsen and Kinga Nowak
The
Effect of Magic on The Death Of Will and Grace
– by Jaime Sheedy, directed by D.A.G Burgos (voted best performer)
Anonymous
Recipes - by Dane Rooney (voted
best play)
Past
event!
Equity
Library Theater’s Summer 2020 Virtual Play Festival.
Twenty
plays, and links to the performances are below!
The Dead Game, by Lisa Stratton, with Regina Yeager and Alexis Tandit
What Are You
Hiding? – by Elizabeth Shannon and Morgan
Southwell
Virgins – by Scott C. Sickles, with Reanna Armellino and Shay
Wisniewski
Book
and lyrics by Mark Evan Chimsky, Music by Zev Burrows
Two
legends meet in the afterlife -- who are they?
With
Jennine Cannizzo (Dot), Emily Iocovozzi (J), and Ross Neal (The Translator)
(tie for best play)
Gloval
Covid – by David T. Anderson, with Yvette
Bedgood
Two sisters torn apart
by politics, and a big secret.
With Friends Like That - by Bara Swain, featuring Betzabeth Castro
Welcome
Wagon – by Peggy Terry, with Regina Yeager,
Alexis Tandit, Elise Valderrama
On
Sacred Ground - by Susan Masters, With Yvette
Bedgood (voted best performer)
I Was Here – by Ellen Scherer (tie for best play)
Unmasked
– by Heidi Mae, with Jacob Lineberry, Farah
Diaz-Tello (special mention)
The Other Author – by Tom Misuraca
The Waltz of the Exterminator –
by Heather Violanti, with: Woman -- Taylor Lynne, Exterminator--Thomas J. Kane,
Mouse--Valerie O'Hara, Stage Directions and Video--Marialana K. Ardolino
It
Ain't Over 'Til the Pink Lady Sings - Written
& Directed by Allison Fradkin
Cast:
Nya Noemi as Marva, Emmy Carlyle Albritton as Francine, Briana Velazquez as
Winifred
Crummy – by Johnny Culver, with Elise Valderrama, Haneen
Arafat Murphy, Hannah Abney