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Equity
Library Theater
of New York
(and the Woodside Players, and The Fifth Avenue Theatre)
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The Woodside Players of Queens are presenting
their 2021 virtual holiday performance, on Zoom,
December 29th @ 7pm EST.
An evening of short Vaudeville sketches by
Harry L. Newton (b. 1872).
We will be 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.
If interested in attending, please email: woodsideplayersofqueens@gmail.com.
The Fifth
Avenue Theater of New York presented a virtual evening of short plays by
regional writers John Corins, Steven Carinci and
Christopher White.
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Watch “Daughter!”
by David Gold, here. Recorded
on the streets of New York.
Casting!
Equity Library Theater of
New York is seeking actors for their spring performance of “Aunt Maggie’s Will”
by Elizabeth Gale (1910, gender neutral casting) and “The Meredith’s Entertain”,
by Whitney Darrow (1922, 2M, 4W) and “Human Nature”, by Floyd Dell (1922, 3M,
1W, open to alterations). The live performances will be held at Studio 353 in
the Theater District on April 30th, 2022. You can read the scripts
on Google Books. If interested, please send resume and headshot to equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
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.
Attention Playwrights!
Submissions are now being accepted for the Equity Library Theater
of New York Winter 2022 Virtual Play Festival. Seeking short plays (no more
than 15 pp/minutes), from playwrights from across the globe. Also seeking
monologues (no more than 4pp/minutes). Musicals
welcome! We post your YouTube link of the performance to the festival site for
voting. 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: March 30. 2022. Email: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com.
We will begin posting videos for viewing on January 1st, 2022.
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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 Red.
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
REAL(I)TY - Kat Agudo SPECIAL
MENTION
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
Renown
- Rose-Mary Harringtonn
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
Faustus and
the Soliloquy - by Dane Rooney
Putting Up The Shed - by Leonard Goodisman, with Jacob Lineberry, Benjamin Willis
In The Toilet – by Madison
Mayer
The Dancer – by William Jess Russell (special
mention)
Humanity at
a Standstill – by Bryan Myers
Real
Friends Help You Move – by KK Gordon
Ann
Fulton – by Charles Lupia,
with Susan Palmer Everly
“The
Last Bag” – by Tain
Leonard-Peck
Past Best
Plays from the Equity Library Theater Summer Play Festival!
2020 - I
Was Here – by Ellen Scherer/J. & Dot
Book and
lyrics by Mark Evan Chimsky, Music by Zev Burrows
2019 –
Tina – TJ Harland
2018 -
Paige Esterly - Eve and Adam
2017 -
Michael Verderber - Unending Repetition/Treason
2016 -
Michael Maiello – Looking Through the Glass
2015 -
Hello Mom – Lauren Snyder/Driving Herd – Sam Graber
2014 -
John Ladd – Ashes to Ashes (Drama)/ Scott Haskell – Womanhood (Comedy)
2013 -
Liza Bulos - Attention Shoppers
Past
event!
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Congratulations to the Woodside Players of Queens!
The 2019 Josie Performance Award for best Director
of 2018
Best Director: Kate Remelius
– “Epitaph by Moonlight”
Past
event and returning on Zoom (view here)
Equity Library Theater and the Gingerbread Players
of Forest Hills present a staged reading of the 1921 comedy
"The
Dover Road" by A. A. Milne.
Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 2 PM – 4 PM
New York Public Library 53rd street Branch 18 W
53rd St, New York, NY 10019
Leonard and Anne are two lovers travelling on the Dover Road
when their car breaks down. They are taken to a hotel, which turns out to be
the private residence of the eccentric, wealthy, and reclusive Mr. Latimer.
Leonard and Anne soon discover that they are not the only couple to have been
waylaid on the road. What does the mysterious Mr. Latimer have in store for
these couples?
With: Andrew Dinan, Mike Miller, Kinga Nowak, Suzanne Schick,
Debbie Smith, Johnny Tyrone and Bart DeFinna. Johnny
Culver directs.
More info 631 898 4205. Free admission. Seating is limited.
Past
Event!
This
fall, a new theater group begins work in Manhattan, The Fifth Avenue Theatre of
New York!
Our
first event will be a reading of new short plays by local writers, in a casual,
free setting, November 9th @12pm in the atrium on the lower level at 650 Fifth
Avenue. Enter on 52nd Street. No admission fee.
Featuring:
St.
John - Lloyd Pace
The
Wonderer - Lynda Crawford
Scary
Mom – Nancy Davidoff Kelton
And
Everything Was Perfect – Monte D. Monteleagre
Lunchtime
- Johnny Culver
More info, contact us at: fifthavenuetheatre@gmail.com.
Past Event
November
16, 2019 @12pm, NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium
203 West 115th Street
Equity
Library Theater presents a reading a reading of a new play
EXTRACTED
by Dwayne Yancey, Directed by Alexandra Scordato.
A truck
driver sleeping in his cab in southern California is awoken by someone banging
on his door. He opens it to find two teen-age girls who say they desperately
need a ride back to New York -- Sam says she's rescued her sister Libby from
drug gangs in Los Angeles and needs to get her home to her family. Thus begins a strange, cross-country journey full of
mysterious characters -- and a dark allegorical tale about modern politics and
immigration.
Runs
about 90 minutes. Free admission. More info 631 898 4205.
Past
Event.
The
Woodside Players of Queens present
“Miss
Molly”, a 1918 comedy by Elizabeth Gale!
December
21st, 2019 @2pm Queens Library Forest Hills Branch,
108-19
71st Ave, Forest Hills, NY 11375
A
simple case of mistaken identities in the home of a "crabbed old
misogynist" provides much laughter and mayhem in this short two act play.
Reginald - Johnny Culver
Julian - Frankie Wang
Joe - Charles Huang
Annie - Shelia Spencer
Molly - Cheryl Bear
Cissie – Samantha Whitmore
Pearl
- Alexis Tandit
Miston – Regina Yeager
Director - Jake Dunham
Free admission. Seating is limited. More info 631 898 4205.
Great for groups!
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Past Event!
Equity Library Theater Summer 2019 Play Festival
Part
One - August 3rd, 2019 @12pm, ,
NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium 203 West 115th Street
Tina by F.
J. Hartland (best play)
Directed
by Paula D'Alessandris, w/Alex Etling
The
Soldier Returns - Lionelle Hamanaka
Directed by Nicholas Leung, w/ J.R. Carter, Selear Duke
Rosemary -
Charles Lupia
Directed by Charles Lupia,
w/ Susan Palmer Everly
Father
Figure - Liz Amberly
Directed
by Leslie Kincaid Burby , w/ Maggie Horan, Fred Velde
Attention
Shoppers - Barbara Blumenthal
Directed by Valeria Canigla,
w/ Jacob Linberry, Pilar Adara, Cheryl Bear
Valentine
Shrugged - Wayne Paul Mattingly
With Quinn Warren, Emily Mervosh
HOA -
Laura Huntt Foti
With Kristin Samuelson, Rew
Starr
Meaning -
Tommy Nichols
With Clare Casey
Part Two -
August 10th, 2019 @12pm, NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium 203 West 115th Street
Questions
- Rob Dames
Directed by Ted Thompson, w/ Martin Goldberg,
William Barry
The
Divorcee Shower - Lavinia Roberts
Directed by Dianna Garten, w/ Brittney Jo Sowards
Going to
the Dog - Barbara Litt
Directed by Conrado
Falco III, w/ Sarah Quane Smyth, Gamal ElSawah
Doctor Penington - Steve Capra
With Oliver
Conant, Beth Griffith, Justyna Kostek
Service
Not Rendered – Ray Vagge
With Bridget Sweeney, Donna Ross
Find the
Mole - Ken Langer
Directed
by Naman Gupta
Free Admission – More info: 631 898 4205.
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Links to other well respected theater groups:
PAST
EVENT!
Equity Library Theater presents:
"Princess Jazzberry’s
Wild Ride"
NYPL 53rd Street Branch
18 West 53rd Street, New York
Saturday, July 13 2019
@12pm
With:
Stephen Zuccaro - Del
Trevor Jones - Mason
Bec Everett - Liz
Christopher Trindade - Ted
Evelyn Dumont - Stage Directions
Written
and Directed by Kyle A. Smith
Kyle A Smith is
a dramatist living in Brooklyn, NY. He has an MFA in Dramatic Writing
from NYU where he was a recipient of the TSOA fellowship. His plays have
been produced or workshopped at The Queen's Theatre, The Tarragon Theatre, The
Goldberg Theatre, The Emerging Artist's Theatre, The Secret Theatre, and The
Bad Theatre Fest. His screenplays and short film have won multiple awards
across the United States. He was recently a finalist for the Princess
Grace Award and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Residency, and a semifinalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries. His short
play Don was published in 2018. Kyleanthonysmith.com. He holds an MFA in
Dramatic Writing from NYU where he was a recipient of the TSOA fellowship.
Also
presenting “Soo Zoo Me”, by Mark Blickley,
a solo performance by Irish actress Maeve
Price. A tale of interspecies romance at the Congo Gorilla Forest in the
Bronx.
Past
Event!!
Woodside
Players of Queens Summer Play Festival
Saturday,
June 15, 2019 at 2 PM – 4 PM
Queens
Library 37-44 21st St, Long Island City, NY 11101
Short
plays by local authors.
Wild Weekend Fernando Buzzar Segall
Time to A Phantom
Zachariah Ezel (winner)
Ocean Front Tom
Cavanaugh
Polly
Scott Cohen
Alzheimer's Diary Steve Gold
Breakfast Alan
Stolzer
Unstoppable Ed Adomatis
Your Digital Past Tanya
Sharma
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Past Event!
Equity Library Theater presents an afternoon of
short plays by Kyle A. Smith.
Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 12 PM – 2 PM
Ailey Auditorium Harry Belafonte-115th Street
Library 203 West 115th Street, New York.
"Missed Connections"
The plays are:
Frisky
Miss Direction
Intrusive Thoughts
Miss Conduct
Don
Miss Education
Free admission. More info 631 898 4205.
Kyle Smith’s plays have been produced and workshopped at The Goldberg
Theater, The Tarragon Theatre, The Secret Theater, The Emerging Artists
Theatre, The Treehouse Theater, The Robert Moss Theater, and Shetler Studios.
His plays include Unstuck in Time, Princess Jazzberry’s
Wild Ride, Whiteout, The Part of Me (Princess Grace Finalist), Blinded
(Goldberg Play Prize Finalist), The Correctable, Inherit the Earth, Revolution,
Don, Frisky, Squashy (selected for Best of Night, Bad Theatre Fest). He was
recently a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, a finalist for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Residency, a semifinalist for Shakespeare’s
New Contemporaries, and a semifinalist for the Baltic Writer’s Residency.
His screenplays include Higher Education (1st place festival-wide Chicago Genre
Screenplay Competition, 1st place for comedy at Chicago Genre Screenplay
Competition, 1st place for comedy Las Vegas Screenplay Contest, Runner-up best
screenplay Portland Comedy Film Festival, Silver Award Winner at North American
Film Festival, Finalist Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition, Semifinalist LA
Cinefest, official selection Focus International Film
Festival, Houston Comedy Film Festival, LA Live Film Festival), A More Perfect
Union (Winner, Best Historical Screenplay, iHolly
Film Festival, 2nd place for historical screenplay at Las Vegas Screenplay
Contest, Finalist Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest, Finalist Twin Falls
Sandwiches Film Festival, semi-finalist LA Cinefest),
Hair of the Dog (Winner of Dark Comedy Award Avalonia Film Festival, official
selection Bad Film Fest, official selection Portland Comedy Film Festival,
Frostbite International Film Festival, Hellfire Short Film Festival), and
Probert Bound (Winner Best Short Screenplay Laugh or Die Comedy Festival,
official selection Austin Comedy Short Film Festival).
His pilot, The Blackout Menace, won the award for Best Half Hour Comedy
Original Pilot at The Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition, is a finalist at
the Austin Revolution Film Festival, and an official selection of the Finish
Line Script Competition.
His short play, Don, has an expected publication in 2018 as part of the Act
One: One Act Anthology from Top Secret Books.
He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU where he was a recipient of the
TSOA fellowship.
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Past Event!
The Woodside Players of Queens presents their
spring 2019 production of five rare one act Broadway comedies from 1910 by
Clare Beecher Kummer and Irving Dale.
Saturday March 9th at 2:30pm
Queens-Forest Hills Library (108-19 71 Avenue,
Forest Hills, NY 11375
E F R to 71st Avenue)
Clare Beecher Kummer - The Robbery
Clare Beecher Kummer - The Choir Rehearsal
Irving Dale - Too Much Salt
Irving Dale – Tickets Please
Irving Dale - The Way of a Woman
Local actors perform these short plays. Suitable for the entire family
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Past Event
Saturday,
March 16, 2019 at 2 PM – 3 PM
14-01
Astoria Blvd, Astoria, NY 11102, United States
The
Woodside Players of Queens present local performing artists!
The
Woodside Players of Queens present local artists in a coffeehouse setting for a
casual afternoon of theater, poetry, music, comedy and more! Free admission.
More info 631 898 4205. Great for groups
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Past
Event!
The Woodside Players of Queens Fall Play Festival!
Saturday November 10th@2pm
Queens
Library - Astoria
14-01
Astoria Blvd.
M60,
Q100, Q69, Q19 or N train to Astoria Blvd.
Presenting
short plays by these writers:
The Border - Tony Manzo
With
Isaac Conner, Jane Park
Ventroquilist - Marjie Conn
With
Ms. Crow
Willie - Donald Loftus
With
Rosina Fernhoff, Joanne Halev,
Jeff Knapp
Drama Should Stay on the Stage - Lavinia Roberts
Directed
by Karen Crighton, with Kaitlyn Farley, Sonseray Reed
Sailboat 12 - Greg Driscoll
Don - Kyle Smith (Best Play)
With
Michael Bradley, Chris Trindale
The Will - Glenda Frank
Directed
by Susanna Miller, with Rhonda Addams, Daniel Blankenship, Esq.
Chew on This - Ellen O’Neill
Epitaph by Moonlight - Michael Verderber
Reina – Joseph Bulvid
With Aram Hovsepian,
Alissa Simmons, Antonio Silva
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December 1st @12pm
NYPL 53rd Street Branch 18 West 53rd Street
Equity Library Theater presents: The Lost Virginity Tour, a reading of a
play by Cricket Daniel
“Cricket Daniel’s ‘Lost
Virginity Tour’ is one of those finely-written evenings of theater that both
moves you to tears and has you laughing until your face hurts!
Funny-as-all-heck dialogue, great female characters that any theatre performer
would chomp at the bit to play, all wrapped up in a wonderful atmosphere of
melancholy - Daniel’s ‘Lost Virginity Tour’ is a theatrical treat that should
be performed in theatre’s everywhere!” - Dennis T. Giacino.
With: Terri Bonica-Matassov, Penny Gaston, Debbie Smith, and Linda Vega. Daniyel Hunt narrates, Johnny Culver directs.
Runs 90 minutes. More info 631 898 4205. Seating is limited. Free Admission.
Past event!
The Woodside Players presents:
Rare Short Plays from Early 20th Century Broadway
November 3
@ 12pm, NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium @1pm
203 West 115th Street (B C 2 3 to 116th Street)
(212) 666-9393
Private Boarding – 1878 – William Courtwright
Director. Andy Scott
Jason
Ballew, Kevin Buiocchi, Johanna Lee, Caitlin McQuade,
Emma Miller.
The Motor Bellows – 1877 – William Courtwright
Director. Graydon Gund
With:
William Burns, Nathaniel Edward, Luda Millias, Greg
Prosser.
The Great Look – 1912- William Faydon
Director. Jacob Dunham
With:
Charles Baran, Nathaniel Dolquest, Melanie Gettler, Elizabeth McBryde.
The Second Hand Man - 1903 - Harry Lee Newton
With: Ron
Crawford, Kevin David Thomas.
Is It Raining? - 1903 - Harry Lee Newton
With: Ron
Crawford, Sutton Thomas.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home 1903 - Harry Lee Newton Director. Johnny Culver
With: Daniyel Hunt, Laurie Sammeth.
More info:
631 898 4205.
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Past event!
“Lincoln’s Birthday”
With: Andrew Dinan, Penny Gaston,
Mike Miller, Tom Morwick, Alissa Simmons
Goofy inmates, Larry and Carl,
scheme to get their favorite show tunes record into their hands, with no help
from a Hollywood legend!
July 26, @ 6:15pm, July 27, @
6:15pm, July 29, @6:15pm
Hudson Guild Theater 441 W 26th
St, New York, NY 10001.
Tickets here:
http://newyorktheaterfestival.com/lincolns-birthday/
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Past event!
The Equity Library Theater
Playwriting Summer Festival 2018
Part One
August 4th @12pm
New York
Public Library – George Bruce Branch Auditorium
518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027-3407
Presenting:
John
Cannatalla – Restless in Limbo
Marlin
Thomas – Speak Gods English
Samantha Fox – Cardiomyapathy
Vivian Lermond – Call It Karma
Joshua
Charmatz – Cactus
Maia Henken – Beheld
Paul
K. Smith – A Day of Promise
Arthur Lundquist – Explorers of the Sky
Glenda Frank – Head of House
Matt Haldeman - Sir Edmund Walter…
Spangler's
Spring - Jason Boies
Part Two
August 11th @12pm
NYPL Harry
Belafonte Auditorium
115th Street Branch
203 W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
Presenting:
Lizzie Guest – My Berenstein Life
Josiah Mullins – My Mother Is What?
Wayne Paul Mattingly - Worlds Apart
Kyle Smith – Don
Ian Cohen - Old Wounds
Nathan Smith – Monologue
Gary Beck - Clown Show
Paige Esterly - Eve and Adam (winner best play!)
Gordon
Rizzo – How to Get Ahead in Business
Margo
Krasne – Monologue from “Til Death…”
Past
Event!
Space Race presents for the first time to American
audiences the spine-tingling truth behind mankind's greatest adventure.
Experience daring thrills as you hurtle through the terrifying void of endless
space. Enjoy lavish accommodations on the ONLY exospheric vessel with five-star
concierge service! Discover strange new romance on the lunar countryside. Space
Race is science-fiction and comedy in one easy-to-swallow tablet. Space Race
reveals how man actually got to the Moon. Space Race
is available only in limited qualities at select locations.
NYPL Harry Belafonte Library Alvin Ailey Auditorium
Free Admission.
Runs about an hour. More info 631 898 4205.
Past Event!
Woodside Players of Queens
Summer Play Festival 2018
Voted best plays!
Brysen Boyd - Elephant
Nancy Kelton - Finding Mr. Rightstein
June 2nd, 2018 2pm
Queens Library Astoria Branch Auditorium
14-01 Astoria Blvd.
Astoria NY 11105
Free admission
This performance repeats
June 16th at the Steinway Reformed Church
41st and Ditmars, Astoria,
at noon. Bring lunch!
Nelson Diaz-Marcano - El Yunque In English
Lane Northcutt - Secretary
Ludovic Coutaud - Look At Me
Just like the Movies –
Peter Scarpinato
Brysen Boyd - Elephant
Nancy Kelton - Finding Mr. Rightstein
Gordon Rizza – How to get
ahead in Business
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Past Event!
The Woodside Players of queens presents:
“Aunt Maggie’s Will”
A
1910 comedy by Elizabeth Gale
The
Woodside Players of Queens and Equity Library Theater of New York present a
staged reading of: Aunt Maggies Will, a comedy by
Elizabeth Gale.
"Madeline is getting married, and
is due to inherit a large sum of money, only if she can prove herself an
excellent housewife!"
The cast of ten recreates this comedy from 1910, fully staged
and costumed.
May
12, 2018@12pm
NYPL
Harry Belafonte Library
Alvin
Ailey Auditorium
203
West 115th Street
Between
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. and Frederick Douglas Blvd
With:
Tiffany Darden, Hailey DePoto,
Kate
Hoffman, Saturday Lawson,
Malinda
Logan, Kinga Nowak, Lil Rhee, Phylis Rossi, Dakota Wollmer
Johnny
Culver directs
Free
Admission
More
info: woodsideplayersofqueens@gmail.com
Past Events!
The Retreat: A Comedy by Enzo Gattuccio.
March 3rd @2pm
NYU Playwright Enzo Gattuccio's
The Retreat tells the scary story of a girl who has been ill for sixteen days.
The play features stress, insanity, Swedish
literature, Swedish meatballs, disgust, social media influencers, and a small,
totally non-threatening corporate retreat center tucked in the woods of the Bay
Area.
Starring Kelsey Ann Wacker.
This event takes place at:
NYPL George Bruce Theater
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Past Event!
January 20th @ 12pm
NYPL Alvin Ailey Auditorium
Harry Belafonte-115th
Street Library
203 W 115th St, New York,
New York 10026
A staged reading of “Hyacinth Goes Camping” based upon
“Keeping up Appearances” by Roy Clarke.
In this re-imagined version (by Carole Jackson) of the BBC
comedy, “Keeping up Appearances”, Hyacinth is as conniving as ever, as one can
be at 30 plus years old. The gang is back, Richard, Emmett, Liz, Rose, Daisy
and Onslow as they suffer through another one of Hyacinths attempts to shove
herself into society.
"The telephone rings
at the Bucket Residence. Rose's latest gentleman friend, the Earl of Crawford
(!) has invited the whole family to go camping on his estate. Glowing with the
possibilities for social advancement this brings, Hyacinth commandeers Richard
to buy the necessary camping accoutrements and off they go, dressed for the
occasion. Now, if only everything goes according to plan..."
With Kinga Nowak, Scott Haskell, Sonya Rice, Mike
Miller, Debbie Smith, Andrew Dinan, Terri Matassov, Bart DeFinna.
Directed by Johnny Culver.
Also being presented, three new short comedies: "Oh
Mother!" by Sarah Galvin, "Goodnight Irene" by Jean Tessier and
"Love of Life" by Johnny Culver.
Free admission. For the entire family!
Past event!
Equity Library Theater of New York presents a
reading of:
“The Night
before the Night before Christmas”,
A comedy play by Cricket
Daniel.
December
2nd at NYPL George Bruce Branch
518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027-3407
@2pm
&
December
9th at NYPL West 53rd Street Branch
18 W
53rd St, New York, NY 10019
@12pm.
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! However, a
freak snowstorm leaves the couple stranded in the airport and their dream of
sipping Pina Coladas on the beach is in peril!
With:
Johnny Culver
Deborah Smith
Kinga Nowak
Alexa Doggett
Chris Robertson
Directed by Jean Tessier
Free admission,
runs about 90 minutes. For the entire family!
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EQUITY LIBRARY
THEATER
OF NEW YORK
PRESENTS:
A reading of
“Be
Calm, Camilla”
a 1918 Broadway comedy by Claire Kummer.
November
18th @12pm
NYPL
Harry Belafonte Library
Alvin
Ailey Auditorium
203
West 115th Street
Between
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. and Frederick Douglas Blvd.
With:
Camilla Hathaway - Alone in the City - Lydia Kalmen
Bill Slattery - A piano mover – Clinton Schreck
Alma Robbins - Haley Klausmeyer
Baxter Pell - Of Fifth Avenue - Tom Meade
Celia Brooke - A Lady of Leisure - Rachel Deutsch
Jo Gibbons - Another mover – Julian Cano
McNeil Brownlow, "Mac" - A Waiter - Tim Mills
Gus Beals - of Broadway - Mark Brystowski
Junius Patterson - Owner of the car - Rasik Ohal
Directed
by Johnny Culver
A
review from 1918...
“BE CALM, CAMILLA” AT THE ALCAZAR THEATRE
“Be Calm Camilla," airy, witty, romantic
fairy tale of Broadway, at the
Booth Theatre this witty, whimsical comedy, by Claire Kummer, ran for months. It is smart,
snappy, up-to-date,
This adroit, epigrammatic writer knows Broadway life to its core. Her
humorous fancy finds wide swing in the droll story of the artless Wisconsin
girl who went to the big cynical city to challenge fame and fortune as a
pianist. "Be Calm” is Camilla's motto, whether in a dismal
little side street hotel, or in a lovely white hospital room after the
automobile has bowled her over, or at the bungalow in the woods where she
convalesces. Everybody is good to Camilla, because she is artless and
unsophisticated, from the burly piano movers, who come to seize her old rattle
trap instrument, and the bibulous old waiter who smuggles food to her, up to
the repentant, but careless, millionaire motorist.
A gay and carefree play this, with blend of
crackling humor and tender pathos. It has delightful character types, including
Belle Bennett, as the heroine; Walter P. Richardson, as the Tin pan alley song
writer; Thomas Chatterton, as “the sixth richest man in New
York"; Clifford Alexander, as a Fifth avenue lizard; Henry Shumer and
Rafael Brunetto,
as the piano movers; Al Cunningham, as the philanthropic waiter; Emily Pinter,
as a “lady of leisure," and the first appearance of Jean Oliver, as the
sophisticated, amusing little hospital nurse. The scenic environment is most
picturesque!
Free Admission. Runs about 90 minutes
Who
We Are…
Mark Brystowski - Off-Broadway: Every 28
Hours Plays (LAByrinth Theater Co.), God
of Vengeance (Theater at St. Clements). Other NY
credits: Private Disclosures (Shetler Bridge), Le Cygne(Manhattan
Repertory Theater), Fear Festival (AlphaNYC/Roebuck Theater).
Film/TV: Rotten! (Netflix), Zenith (dir. Ellie Foumbi), Lulu Loves Brooklyn (dir. Gretchen Zufall). Mark recently line-produced the off-Broadway
and touring premiere of Bamboo in Bushwick and The
Nose. Thank you Jackie and Roman for your love
and support.
Rachel
Deutsch - a recent
graduate of NYU (2016) earning a BFA in Drama. Rachel’s previous acting credits
include Tulon in ‘Red Noses’ and ‘Titania’ in ‘A
Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at The New Studio on Broadway. Her directing credits include, ‘Science Fair’ at Theater Row and ‘Aliens Coming’
at The Pit. She is also a film actor and a yoga teacher.
Tom Meade -
born and bred and still resides in NYC. Produced and hosted Rant n Rave TV on
MNN for over 10 years. Tom appeared the role of The Bartender in Jack Condon’s
“Orphans of the Digital Era”, and in George Morgan’s “The Wiggle Room”. As well
as a number of short films and plays. Recently Tom
played the role of Sam in the feature “Thru” which opened The NYC Independent
Film Festival. He is currently working on getting his original screenplay
"The Slip" made.
Timothy
Mills – after
graduating from George Westinghouse High School, Tim took a Business of Acting
class with Mark Stolzenberg in 2015. He worked on a
project called The Hard Candy Kid, where Mills was featured as a Berlin Wall
crusader, which solidified his passion for the craft. Since then
he’s been working on his craft through various films & theatre, Mills is
actively working on new projects!
Rasik Ohal - For the
last few years, Rasik has been working mainly in film
and television. Highlights include, The Comedian, Mr. Robot, and Master of
None. He is making an effort to get back into theatre.
Highlights include, Comedy of Errors, Drunkle Vanya,
and The Springfield Boys.
Lydia Kalmen - an
actor, dancer, model, and member of SAG-AFTRA. Recent credits include Lady
Caroline in Enchanted April, Juror 10 (the bigot) in 12 Angry Women, The Diary
of Anne Frank and I Remember Mama.
Claire
Kummer – (1873 –
1958) Composer, songwriter ("Dearie"), playwright and author,
educated at the Packer Institute and in private music study. She wrote the
Broadway stage scores for "90 in the Shade", "One Kiss",
"Annie Dear", "Madame Pompadour", and "The Three
Waltzes". Joining ASCAP in 1934, her chief musical collaborators included Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern, and her other popular-song compositions include
"Egypt", "Other Eyes", "Blushing June Roses",
"Somebody's Eyes” and "Lover of Mine". Today is for you, Claire!
Coming Up!
December 2nd at NYPL George Bruce Branch
(West 125 Street) @2pm &
December 9th at NYPL West 53rd Street
branch@12pm.
“The Night before the Night before Christmas”, a
comedy by Cricket Daniel.
With: Johnny Culver, Deborah Smith, Kinga Nowak, Alexa
Doggett, Chris Robertson, Directed by Jean Tessier
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January 20, 2018, at NYPL Alvin Ailey
Auditorium@12pm
A reading of “Hyacinth Goes Camping!”, by Carole
Jackson
based upon the BBC series “Keeping up Appearances”
by Roy Clarke. (“Oh Mother!” and “Love of Life”
will also be presented)
“The
telephone rings at the Bucket Residence. Rose's latest gentleman friend, the
Earl of Crawford (!) has invited the whole family to go camping on his estate.
Glowing with the possibilities for social advancement this brings, Hyacinth
commandeers Richard to buy the necessary camping accoutrements and off they go,
dressed for the occasion. Now, if only everything goes according to plan...”
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March 3rd, 2018, at NYPL George Bruce Branch
(West 125 Street) @2pm
“The Retreat”, a comedy by NYU playwright Enzo
Gattuccio.
June 9th, 2018, at NYPL Alvin Ailey
Auditorium@12pm
A reading of the 1918 Broadway Comedy, “The Wrong
Mr. Wright” by George Bradford.
(Read
it on Google Books, if interested in performing with us)
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Equity Library Theater and The Woodside Players of
Queens are seeking actors for their spring production of “Aunt Maggie’s Will”,
a 1910 play by Mary Elizabeth Gale, to take place in May,
2018. The script calls for 10 females, but we are open to gender blind casting
in this comedy. Please send resumes and headshots to woodsideplayersofqueens@gmail.com. You can read the play on Google Books.
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To learn more about Equity Library Theater, please
visit: www.equitylibrarytheater.info. Leave us a message at 631 898 4205, or
email: equitylibrarytheater@gmail.com. We’re also on Facebook!
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Use of library space by Equity Library Theater for
this program does not indicate endorsement by the NYPL. *Some actors appear
courtesy of Equity/AEA. The recording/photographing of any of the performance
is permitted, only with prior approval.
Thanks Ms., Davis!
Past event!
The Woodside Players of Queens Fall Play Festival.
Short plays by local writers.
November 4th at Queens Library Astoria@1pm
14-01 Astoria Blvd.
N/W
Q19/Q69 to Astoria Blvd
Amy Oestreicher – I’m A Woman…
Allan Yashin – The Name Game
William Coyle - Living Room
Clinton Shreck – It Had To Be You
Alan Stolzer - Mrs. Killebrew
Confesses
Kevin Chu – Avengers
Sarah Galvin - Oh Mother! (selected best play)
Ellen O'Neill - Chew On This
Sinead Ward – Rub Some Dirt in It
Camille Schmoeker
- Don’t Go under the Apple Tree
Bring a bag lunch!
Past Event!
Equity Library Theater of New York presents
a reading of
“Miss Belle”
A Southern comedy by Texas playwright
Bill Logan.
Saturday,
October 28th 12:00 p.m.
NYPL Harry
Belafonte/115th Street Library
Alvin
Ailey Auditorium
203 West
115th Street
Between
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. and Frederick Douglas Blvd.
In the
vein of novelist Fannie Flagg (Fried
Green Tomatoes), Bill Logan takes us to a small Texas town in the 1950’s,
where secrets wait to be uncovered!
Free admission, runs about 90 minutes. More
info, call 631 898 4205.
The Equity Library Theater Playwriting Summer
Festival 2017
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August
5th – 12pm
New
York Public Library – George Bruce Branch Auditorium
518 West 125th Street (at Amsterdam Ave.)
New York, NY 10027-3407
George Morgan – The Wiggle Room
Directed
by Johnny Culver, with Tom Meade, Mike Miller, Tom Morwick, Max Wingert, John
Zion
Lora Danley – A Midnight Rose
Directed
by Lora Danley, with Wendy Lazarus, Devon Marra,
Frances Vignali
Linda Kampley – The Lamp
With
Carla Brandberg, Richard Craven
Susan Masters – Going Home
With
Nikole Rizzo
Rosemary Frisino Toohey
– Grace Goes To Sea
With
Steve Lichtenstein
Steve Fogelman – The Glove
Directed
by Steve Fogelman, with Joseph Rose, Vicki Winters
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August
12th – 12pm
NYPL
Harry Belafonte Branch
203
W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
Pamela Robbins – Great Strides
Directed
by Pamela Robbins, with Jennifer James Davies, Pia Finnigan, Johnny Culver,
Heather Jeanne Violanti
Amy Oestreicher – I’m A
Woman…
Serena Cates – Five Silver Five Gold
Lynn Marie Macy – Sister Resisters
Matt Sanders – Happy Halloween, Harry Houdini
Emilio Iasiello – Under The Big Top
Seth McNeill – That Bee Gees Song
Vivian Lermond - Beach Wedding
With
Craig Myers, Kelly Taylor
Jack Gilhooey –
Kennedy’s Acolytes
Peter Linari – Guys
Directed
by Peter Linari, with Jon Scott Freda, Lou Martini,
Jr.
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August
19th – 12pm
NYPL
Harry Belafonte Branch
203
W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
Erin Moughon-Smith – For
Mr. Cuddles
Directed
by Erin Moughon, with Kendra Auguatin,
Emily Long, Sarah Teed
Dana Jaffe – No Good Deed
Directed
by Dana Jaffe, with Andrew Benjamin, Dawn Bianco, Dan Bubbeo,
Eric Leeb Michele Rattray
Katherine Orozco – Treason
Directed
by Ashley Vega, with Rose Gutierrez
Amy Bernstein – The Sacrifice
With
Amy Bernstein
Matthew Ballistreri –
Baby Book
Steve Burton – Close Enough
Directed
by Ruth Alesovsky, John Patrick Hart, with Gerry
Kelly, Debra McNulty, Daniel P. Stravino
Shirley King – Authenticity
With
Christy Donahue
Sam Plotkin – Microcosm
Jack Rushton – Theater People
Michael Verderber - Unending Repetition
Directed
by Michael Verderber, with Katherine
Orozco-Verderber
Jim Gordon – A Stranger Calls
With
Sonya Rice
Anghus Houvouras – Penmanship
Directed
by Rachel Deutsch, with Will Carry, Ram Kanneganti
Free admission to all.
The final votes, via text responses, over three weeks,
are in, for the ELT 2017 summer festival!
Best
comedy. Anghus Houvouras -
Penmanship.
Best
Drama. Katherine Orozco – Treason/Michael Verderber - Unending Repetition (We
considered both short pieces as one unit).
Past “Best plays”
2016 - Michael Maiello – Looking
Through the Glass
2015 - Hello Mom – Lauren Snyder
2014 - John Ladd – Ashes to Ashes (Drama)/ Scott
Haskell – Womanhood (Comedy)
2013 -
Liza Bulos - Attention Shoppers
The
Woodside Players and Equity Library Theater of New York is seeking actors for
their fall production, a staged reading of Be Calm, Camilla, by Claire Kummer.
This comedy opened at the Booth Theater (New York)
Oct 31, 1918 and ran until January 1919.
The Woodside Players and Equity Library Theater
will present the reading in November at the NYPL Alvin Ailey Theater on West
115th Street and the George Bruce Theater on West 125th Street. You can read
the script here:
https://archive.org/details/becalmcamillacom00kummrich
Characters are:
Camilla Hathaway
Bill Slattery
Alma Robbins
Baxter Pell
Celia Brooke
Jo Gibbons
McNeil Brownlow, "Mac"
Gus Beals
Send resumes and headshots to
submission@pineyforkpress.com
Thus fall, we are presenting a free Actor/Writer
workshop at the Queens Library Astoria branch (14-01 Astoria Blvd).
Biweekly
at noon – September, 2017 thru May, 2018. All genres
welcome. Call 718
278 2220 for more info.
December
2nd at 2pm, at the NYPL George Bruce Theater, we present a reading of a
terrific holiday comedy, “The Night before the Night before Christmas”, by
Oregon playwright, Cricket Daniel. The performance will be repeated December 9th
at the NYPL 53rd Street
branch at noon. Free admission.
The Woodside Players of Queens
Present a selection of rare short plays from 19th
century New York and beyond.
These staged readings, directed by Johnny Culver
and Pamela Robbins, include vaudeville, comedy and
farce. Suitable for the entire family!
Saturday June 10th 12pm
Queens
Library - Langston
100-01 Northern Blvd.
Saturday June 17th 12pm
Queens
Library - Astoria
14-01
Astoria Blvd.
Presenting
short plays by these (seldom heard) writers:
Human
Nature – Floyd Dell, 1913, New York
I’m
Going – Tristan Bernard, 1915, Paris
Private
Boarding – William Courtright, 1874, New York
A
Lady to Call – Carl Webster Pierce, 1918, New York
The
Motor Bellows – William Courtright, 1873, Indianapolis
With:
Mark Brystowski, Lauren
Butler, Johnny Culver, Scott Haskell, Lydia Komen, Gary Krigsman, Kinga Novak,
Pamela Robbins, Sonya Rice, Laurie Sammeth, Pamela Tabb
Thanks
to Doris Jones!
ABOUT THE
AUTHORS
William Courtright was an vaudeville writer
and American film actor. He worked with D. W. Griffith and in his later career at the Hal Roach Studios, where he appeared in several early Laurel and Hardy comedies. His best-known role was Oliver Hardy's wealthy Uncle Bernal in That's My
Wife (1929).
His last film, the Our Gang comedy Teacher's
Pet, was also
his first sound film. He was born in New
Milford, Illinois. His wife
was actress Jennie Lee, with whom he appeared in Intolerance.
Floyd
James Dell was an
American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. Dell has been called "one of the most
flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters of the first
third of the 20th Century." As editor and critic, Dell's
influence is alive in the work of many major American writers from the
first half of the 20th century. A lifelong poet, he was also a best-selling
author, as well as a playwright whose hit Broadway comedy, Little
Accident (1928),
was made into a Hollywood movie.
Tristan
Bernard was a
French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. After his first publication in La Revue Blanche
in 1891, he became increasingly a writer and adopted the pseudonym Tristan. His
first play, Les Pieds Nickelés (Nickel-plated Feet), was a great success and
was representative of the style of his later work (generally humorous). He
became known especially for his writing for vaudeville-type performances, which were very popular in
France during that time.
Carl
Webster Pierce was an
American playwright. Many of his comedies appeared on Broadway in the early
20th century, including the original version of “Oh, Kay!” In 1927.
ABOUT US
Scott
Haskell has
appeared in film, television and theatre, and has
studied acting at NYU. He has appeared
as Andrey in The Gingerbread Players production of Three Sisters, and in Pamela
Robbins original production of Deep in the Woods of Old with the St. Jean’s
Players.
Gary
Krigsman is
honored to have this unique opportunity to perform with The Woodside Players.
Thank you Johnny! Gary has appeared in several
community theater productions over the past 17 years in Queens, Nassau and the Bronx. Favorite roles include Frank (Over
the River and Through the Woods), Sam Nash (Plaza Suite) X3, Mr.
Dussel (The Diary of Anne Frank) and most recently The Old Man (Prelude
to a Kiss).
Laurie
Sammeth (Cook/Steakpounder, Lady) is delighted to be making her Woodside
Players’ debut. Recent NYC productions: Is That All They Wrote (St. Jean’s
Players), When Rodney Met the Vikings and Halls of Importance (Thespis
Festival), 28 Marchant Avenue, Shades of Blue,Lilliom
(Beautiful Soup Theater).
Lydia Kalmen is an
actor, dancer and model. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA,
recent credits include the complicated Lady Caroline Bramble in "Enchanted
April" and a restless ghost in "A Haunting".
Sonya Rice is delighted to join Woodside Players after
recently working with Johnny Culver and Pamela L. Robbins at St. Jean's Players'
Winter One Acts Festival. Opera credits include La Boheme,
Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel, Aida, and The Barber of Seville.
Mark Brystowski is
delighted to be playing with such a lovely ensemble. Off-Broadway: God
of Vengeance (Theater at St. Clements), Every 28 Hours
Plays (LAByrinth Theater Co.). Other NY
credits: Private Disclosures (Shetler Bridge), Le Cygne (Manhattan Repertory Theater), Fear Festival
(AlphaNYC/Roebuck Theater). Mark recently line-produced the off-Broadway and
touring premiere of Bamboo in Bushwick for Working Theater and a short
film, Zenith. Thank you Jackie and Roman for
your love and support.
Coming in July…
July 22 @12pm
NYPL 115th Street Branch
203 W 115th St, New York, New York 10026
(212) 666-9393
Equity Library Theater presents a staged reading
of:
“Lil’ Miss Spitfire-the Musical”
Book
by Samantha Talmage, DGA
Music and Lyrics by Robert Winthrop Talmage ASCAP
This is the inspiring untold story of Annie
Sullivan, the Irish-American immigrant and eventual
teacher of blind-deaf Helen Keller.
A cast of 18 brings to life young Annie’s journey
of courage and perseverance. Sadly, early in her life, she endures the
loss of her mother, Alice and younger brother, Jimmie to tuberculosis.
Her father, Thomas becomes overwhelmed and gives the children away first
to family members, then to the Massachusetts State Asylum. Annie
suffers from trachoma and is functionally blind and unable to read even the
simplest of texts.
Along the way, eight eye surgeries are performed
on this young girl and finally, she can see well enough to make sense of the
printed page. Annie now fully devotes herself to the rigors of learning
and becomes class valedictorian at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston.
It is there, Dr. Anagnos, the headmaster offers
her a truly unique position to teach a rebellious blind-deaf girl from Alabama.
Runs about 90 minutes, free admission.
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Past
Presentations…
February
11th 2017, 12pm