Sunday, December 10, 7:00 pm
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Ten Minute Play Festival
Mother Tree by Loretta Oleck
A passionate tree-hugger willing to sacrifice everything to save the redwoods is at odds with her sister about the importance of her priorities. Mother Tree, a short dramatic play, illuminates the choices and sacrifices made on individual/personal levels versus community/collective/global levels.
Loretta is a poet and playwright with work performed at The Westchester Collaborative Theater, The Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, The Up Theater, The Garrison Theater, The Tank Theater, and others. Lil Malinich (Director) Lil is a director, actress and acting coach. Nelia McNicol (Actor) is an actress, dancer and producer, graduating from Joffrey Ballet School with a BFA in Dance; Jordyn Cormier (Actor) is an actor, filmmaker, and dance artist with a BFA in Dance from the Boston Conservatory.
Lovers And Survivors by Almost Adults Productions
The history of queer liberation is explored through the friendship of Bruce and Jeffrey over 50 years as framed in three presidential administrations, from the late 60s, through the AIDS Crisis, and into the early 2000s.
Aaron Leventman (he/him; Author, Co-Producer) is a playwright, actor, producer, educator, and curator whose works have been performed and published all over the world and is the founder of Almost Adults Productions which has created virtual and actual LGBTQ+ theatre productions. Aaron Clark Burstein (he/him; Director, Light and Sound Designer) is an actor, director, and playwright located in Brooklyn, NY. Xavier Moses (they/them): "Jeffrey." Special thanks to friends, family, mentors, and the Aarons! Spence Logan (he/him) "Bruce," is an actor and director originally from Salem, OR and currently based in Manhattan.
Atlantics Pharmaceuticals by Sarah Congress
An old-school manager of a pharmaceuticals company accuses his new receptionist of stealing money from petty cash. In a world where appearances are taken for truth, subversion may be needed to bring understanding to the conference room.
Sarah Congress (Playwright): Her play Overdose won 2nd place for BEST SHORT in the 2023 Downtown Urban Arts Festival at Playwrights Horizon. She co-wrote the screenplay "I Can't Hear You" which received 2nd place in the AP in 3 Film festival in Asbury Park, NJ. James Bosley (Director) was a member of the Cut Edge Collective. He is grateful to everyone. April is a London trained, NY based actress and voiceover artist with biceps that will blow your mind. Ed is an actor and voiceover artist and can be seen in two upcoming productions with Knowledge Working Theater.
Apiary by Dylan Horowitz
Ada and David exist in a world where everyone has a shared consciousness - the ability to access each other's thoughts and memories. Ada has been cut off from this consciousness. Can she survive as a bee cut off from the hive? Can her relationship with David?
Dylan Horowitz (Writer/Director) is a Jewish, Genderqueer playwright and a member of the Dramatist Guild of America. Toi Howard (ADA) is an actor, singer, and model who has studied at NYU Tisch Drama and The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Yair Stein (DAVID) is a New York-based actor, writer, and filmmaker, currently studying acting at The Studio.
Hot Brick by Uma Incrocci
Two suffragists connect at the daily protest outside the White House in 1917. Idealistic Nellie faces the realities of the hard work it takes to make change.
Uma Incrocci’s (playwright) short plays have been produced all over the country, and her tv movies pop up sometimes on the Hallmark Channel. Erica Jensen (director) is a Casting Director (Calleri Jensen Davis), an acting teacher, a mom, and an occasional director living in Brooklyn, NY. Talley Gale (Nellie) is originally from Arkansas, holds an MFA from The Old Globe/USD, and mostly does period work. Hollis Maltby (Dora) is a SAG-AFTRA strong TV, film and stage actor, writer and audiobook narrator who plays powerful women, fights with swords and co-authors the epic fantasy series The Magic of Larlion with her mom, Dee Maltby.
Redshirts Musical Improv by Redshirts Improv Collective
Redshirts is the only all all-women, Star Trek inspired musical improv team in the known universe. For this show, we will create a comedic story and song, made up on the spot, based on a suggestion from the audience.
Susan O’Doherty (she/her) is an actor, writer, clinical psychologist, and founding member of Redshirts. Sloane Miller (she/her) is a singer, performer, author, licensed social worker, and a founding member of Redshirts. Julia Lunetta (she/her) is a professional geek, a semi-professional actor and musician, and an amateur human being. Heather Jewels Booth (she/her) trained in drama and musical theater at NYU, but her true form of a cat/chicken/octopus hybrid was hatched from the egg of a dusty vinyl called “TOTO IV” and ultimately led her to comedy. Melissa Parker Caron (she/her) is a versatile Asian-mixed-race actor, crafter, and voiceover artist, among many other creative accomplishments.