Announcing Zoomlets, our new series of virtual table reads that invite you to be a “fly on the wall” at a virtual first rehearsal.
The series offers a look inside the process of how a director and actors work together. You will see directors share their vision for the play and give the actors a few words of inspiration. Then, the actors will embark on the journey of reading the play together for the first time. Finally, the actors and director will discuss their reactions to the text and what their next goals might be.
Past Zoomlets:
A Broken String
By Lynne Kaufman| Directed by Louis Parnell
Streamed Monday, September 14 2020
Starring Courtney Walsh and Cathleen Riddley.
Ann, a writer, visits Margo, a concert harpist, who is dying of pancreatic cancer. Once closest friends but long estranged, they are meeting for a final farewell.
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Two Pigeons Talk Politics
By Lauren Gunderson | Directed by Tracy Ward
Streamed Monday, September 7 2020
Starring El Beh and Nic A. Sommerfeld.
Two pigeons, Alex and Jesse, sit on a wire over 9th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, and talk politics.
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The Bacchae
By Euripides | Directed by Carey Perloff
Streamed Monday, August 24 2020
Starring John Douglas Thompson and Anthony Fusco.
Dionysus, the god of wine, prophecy, religious ecstasy, and fertility, returns to his birthplace in Thebes in order to clear his mother’s name and to punish the insolent city state for refusing to allow people to worship him.
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The Mommy Assumption
By Geetha Reddy | Directed by Kimberly Ridgeway
Streamed Monday, August 17 2020
Starring Damion Clark and Cathleen Riddley.
The Mommy Assumption, a short experimental play that asks: How much can we really blame our parents?
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Two Friends, a Toothbrush, and a Sense of Urgency
By Cleavon Smith | Directed by Elizabeth Carter
Streamed Monday, August 10 2020
Starring Ron Chapman and Jared Corbin.
A down and out dude meets up with his straight-up-no-chaser best friend, and in between seeing and being seen, a course of action is set.
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The Star of Bethlehem
By Suzanne Bradbeer | Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Streamed Monday, August 3 2020
Starring Joe Estlack and Ayelet Firstenberg.
Midnight. A man digs a grave, with no one to bear witness. Suddenly his new neighbor appears, practicing a dance routine in the quiet and the dark. Neither expects to be seen, and yet here they both are…
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Night Vision
By Dominique Morisseau | Directed by Margo Hall
Streamed Monday, July 27 2020
Starring Tristan Cunningham and Joseph Pendleton.
Margo Hall directs a reading of this short play by Dominique Morisseau.
REPLAY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO REBROADCAST RIGHTS (SORRY!)
Great to See You
By Theresa Rebeck | Directed by Bill English
Streamed Monday, July 20 2020
Starring Susi Damilano, John (JW) Walker, and Pamela Gaye Walker
Bill English directs a reading of this short play by Theresa Rebeck.
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Walls Come Tumbling Down
By Genevieve Jessee | Directed by Darryl V. Jones
Streamed July 13, 2020
Starring Dwayne Clay, Leigh Rondon-Davis, and Kenny Scott.
Darryl V. Jones directs a reading of this short play by Genevieve Jessee.
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The Forgotten Place
By Jeff Locker | Directed by Jeffrey Lo
Streamed July 6, 2020
Starring James Seol and Jomar Tagatac
Jeffrey Lo directs a reading of this short play by Jeff Locker, winner of the 2018 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival.
REPLAY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO REBROADCAST RIGHTS (SORRY!)
Rules of Comedy
By Patricia Cotter | Directed by Jessica Holt
Streamed June 29, 2020
Starring Jeremy Kahn and Avanthika Srinivasan
Jessica Holt directs a reading of this ten-minute play by award-winning playwright Patricia Cotter (The Daughters). Rules of Comedy was first performed at the Humana Festival in 2015.
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Where 101 Becomes the 101
By Ruben Grijalva | Directed by Susi Damilano
Streamed June 15, 2020
Starring Bobak Bakhtiari and Katrina McGraw
Susi Damilano directs a reading of this new play by up-and-coming playwright Ruben Grijalva (Anna Considers Mars, Value Over Replacement).
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