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Set in 1859, the story follows an African American Madam in New York City who risks her life and livelihood to protect a wanted woman, throwing her entire world into chaos. The historical context is critical as it explores themes of resilience, identity, and sacrifice against a backdrop of an era often romanticized but rarely seen from our community's perspective.
Written & Directed by Frank Dunham Jr.
Co-Directed by Candace Sala Hewitt
Feb 12th-16th @ Theater Row
Tickets and info HERE.
past projects.
Maiden Voyage charts the first all-female patrol aboard a US submarine. We are spectators in these women’s lives, as mechanics and interpersonal relationships go awry. Motivated by a subconscious need to overcompensate for gender inequity, The Captain slowly chips away at her integrity in order to have a successful mission. This play explores the intersection between opportunity and marginalization and the mimicry of toxic masculinity to get ahead.
Written by Cayenne Douglass
Directed by Alex Keegan
March 2nd - 17th @ The Flea Theater
Tickets and info HERE.
This Pulitzer Prize winning play tells the story of Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. Emily, his wife, is white; she’s an artist, and her work is influenced by Islamic imagery. When the couple hosts a dinner party, what starts out as a friendly conversation escalates into something far more revealing that changes their lives forever.
Presented by American Stage Theatre
Directed by Sharifa Yasmin
May 31st through June 25th. More info and tickets HERE.
Sneak peek at First Rehearsals.
A series of five darkly (comedic) whimsical two-hander vignettes about the effects of death, grief, and trauma: whether it’s two preteens pondering the ramifications of being born, brothers who wonder if anyone else is as lonely, if and when revenge is justified, what happens to the people left behind after violence, or how older and younger siblings experience parents in different ways, Death in the Family let’s us in on the conversations we may never get to have.
A Dixon Place and In Full Color collaboration, directed by Benjamin Abraham.
More info HERE.
In some dystopian future, all homosexual people have been shipped off into space. From his hermetically sealed pod, the Boy looks down on a ruined, devastated Earth. He asks his last favour: a cassette tape containing messages from various people and influences he has known in his life.
Directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant, Columbia University MFA Directing Thesis.
LIVESTREAM performances tickets and info HERE.
Crumbling infrastructure, poison water, distant gunfire, political ads. What does the future hold, and who will be there to shape it? From award-winning Austin, Texas-based playwright Cyndi Williams comes a timely epic of survival and the fight for a better tomorrow.
Flickering lights, a family’s grief, and two strangers on a bridge. In this tightly woven story, a pair of sisters and their father grapple with loss while an unexpected friendship blooms between two people who realize they have more in common than they thought. Paula Vogel Prize Winner Charly Evon Simpson's bold new play makes its New York premiere and shines light on how we process traumatic experiences to ultimately find peace.
Directed by Hypokrit Theater Company Artistic Director Arpita Mukherjee.
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What if you took all the things that could have happened, and turned them round and round like a kaleidoscope, tethering unremarkable moments and half-memories into whole new narratives? This is the world of Then, Of Course, All The Things Happened.
One play, countless variations.
A workshop production of a new play by Max Reuben and directed by Shaun Peknic, as part of the Frigid Festival @ the Kraine Theater.
THE 44TH SAMUEL FRENCH OFF OFF BROADWAY SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL
GROUND CHUCK by Benjamin Carr, directed by Diane Chen @ the Vineyard's Dimson 15th St Theater.
“The piece draws on centuries of religious history, daring to explore Mary as a young woman faced with an impossible situation-not the gilded, pale mother who has been venerated throughout time. This play is an exploration of the real people behind the story; the people lost to time and to translation.” - Molly Houlahan, director
An original play written and directed by Molly Houlahan (Hypokrit Theatre Company) will debut as a workshop production at the Furnace Festival @ the Center at West Park.
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THE WOMAN / THE MAN is a theatrical double-feature comprised of two Obie-winning plays: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro and Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead. In this production, Natasha plays the role of Black Woman with Fried Drumstick.
This double feature Directing Thesis is headed by director and Emmy-nominated choreographer, Jeffrey Page, @ the Lenfest Center of Columbia University.
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Three friends gather to watch the solar eclipse and have no idea how their own lives are about to enter cycles of light and dark - a year of love lost, love found, and self-discovery. A dramedy about the bright and darker sides of relationships and all the brilliant shades in between.
Written and directed by Aileen Kyoko, as part of the 10th anniversary season of Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.
Men wage war and women suffer. That is the principal message director Ted Thompson found in Lynn Nottage’s first Pulitzer Prize winning play RUINED, @ The Heights Players.
“As Sophie, Natasha Hakata conveys a deep pain filled with a beautiful light deep inside that won’t die. Even in her state of suffering, her eyes are hypnotic and brighten when she sings. As Sophie, she demonstrates an inner will to survive that is beautifully engaging.” – Local Theatre NY
Texas expat singers and musicians in NYC cover songs exclusively written or performed by Texas-born/raised artists. A night of music and stories with 100% going to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas!
Organized by artist/performer Joshua Doss, @ The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at Signature Theatre.
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The story of Lou Salome, one of the first female psychoanalysts, an accomplished writer, poet, novelist and scholar of the psychology of female sexuality. Which follows her relationships with other great thinkers of the day, including Nietzsche, Rilke, and Sigmund Freud, and her search for identity and fight to claim her place in a world dominated by men. An all female cast comes together to reclaim her story, portraying these men through the mind and memory of the great Lou Salome.
A Theatre 4the People production of Haley Rice's LOU, directed by Kate Moore Heaney, @ The Paradise Factory.
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