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Equity
Library Theater
of New York
(and the Woodside
Players of Queens, and The Fifth Avenue Theatre)
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The Woodside Players
and Fifth Avenue Theatre join forces for a reading of short plays by local
writers. February 26th @12pm 650 Fifth Avenue, lower level. Free
admission, masks must be worn (and coats, too!) This event may become virtual
if need be.
Now Casting!
Fifth Avenue Theater of New York is presenting More Selections
from Spoon River June 4th at 12pm, in Manhattan at an outdoor private
location. If interested in performing a selection of your choice, email: fifthavenuetheatre@gmail.com.
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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.
Watch all submissions here! Text your favorite (play,
performer, effects
) to 631 898 4205.
Lincolns Birthday Peggy Terry
Out to Pasture Alison Gilbreath
Rugged Individualism - Terry Smith
Slow
Dating Adam Szudrich (filmed in New Zealand)
Soul to Squeeze Meagan J. Meehan
Sweet Forgiveness - John
Bettis / Walter Afanasieff
Texual
Abuse - Cindi Sansone-Braff
The
Actor and the Funeral Jack West
The Isle Of Wight
Festival, Summer 1970 - Annette Perpinan
The Lucky Escape Eamann Breen
Two Peds are Stu Peds S. Joshua Mendel
You,
Me, and Marie Curie Mary Crosbie, Jeanine Calleja
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Join the Woodside
Players 2022 Online Creative Sessions!
Come share your work and discuss the
writing process. All genres welcome! Free for all.
Second Friday of each month 1-3pm EST
1/14/22 to 7/14/22.
Join
here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82914117199?pwd=UDZyRUVSWHZWVVplcEQwNDAvUW9kdz09
Meeting ID: 829 1411 7199
Passcode: 303084
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.
Casting!
Equity Library Theater of New York is seeking
actors for their spring performance of Aunt Maggies Will by Elizabeth Gale
(1910, gender neutral casting) and The Merediths 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.
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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
Cassidys 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
Thats All We Got Logan
Rogers
Tony Defends A Friend Dana
Jaffe
Training Wheels Michael Hardstark TIE BEST ACTOR
Una Noche
En Tejas: When Beyoncι Met Selena - Kevin Ray TIE BEST PLAY
Unpack:
Key Moments of Romanias 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 Cammaratas Create Theater,
made its online debut as part of Create Theaters 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 Gerstenbergs 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 OHara, 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
hunters mistaken for an old nemesis, theres a wacky sιance - 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 Islands 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 Mothers 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
Whats in a Name Lee Franklin
Wise Old Owl: A Trilogy Phyliss Shanken
Without Whom None of This Wouldve 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 Juαrez & 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 NYUs 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 childrens 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 Theatres New Work series. He is a Teaching Artist for Broadway.coms Broadway Classroom Series. www.deanlinnard.com.
Carolyn Balduccis 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 Theaters 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 Jazzberrys
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 Shakespeares 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 Smiths 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 Jazzberrys
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 Shakespeares
New Contemporaries, and a semifinalist for the Baltic Writers 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 ONeill
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 Daniels 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 - Daniels Lost Virginity Tour is a theatrical treat that should
be performed in theatres 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!
Lincolns 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 Maggies 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. Rachels previous acting credits
include Tulon in Red Noses and Titania in A
Midsummer Nights 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 Condons
Orphans of the Digital Era, and in George Morgans 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
hes 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 Maggies 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. Were 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 Im 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
- Dont 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 1950s,
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 Im 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
Kennedys 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.