Thursday, June 6th, 2024  |  7pm
Friday, June 7th, 2024  |  7pm
Saturday, June 8th, 2024  |  7:30pm
Saturday, June 15th, 2024  |  5:30pm
Wednesday, June 19th, 2024  |  7pm
Friday, June 21st, 2024  |  7:30pm
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024  |  8:15pm
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024  |  8:15pm

Blake and Selam appear to be a perfect couple—but that harmony is put to the test when they prepare for their families to meet for the first time. During a tense cook-off, subtle and startling revelations are made about their respective identity, Black heritage and views on the diaspora, creating a divide that might be too great to overcome.

Banna Desta is an Eritrean and Ethiopian-American writer for the stage and screen. She crafts stories about and for the African diaspora. Her work for the stage has been supported and developed by SPACE on Ryder Farm, Audible Theater, Rattlestick Theater, Project Y Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, National Black Theater, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU where she currently teaches undergraduate students

Antu Yacob is an Oromo, U.S. raised artist. Her onscreen credits include Rob Peace (written/directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor), "Inventing Anna", "The Other Two", Night Comes On, "Daredevil", "Gypsy", "Law & Order: SVU", Adieu Lacan, Signs of Aging. Theater credits include work with The Fire This Time Festival, American Slavery Project, Primary Stages, Sheen Center, Goodman Theatre, Luna Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pangea World Theatre. As a Project Y Theatre Associate Producer, she curates the All Hands on Deck series. Under The Philly Cycle play commission, she’s slated for a 2025 world premiere. MFA:MGSA/Rutgers University.

Landon G Woodson is a native of Passaic, NJ. He attended Rutgers-New Brunswick where he earned an MFA in Acting. Previous theater credits include Too Heavy for Your Pocket (George Street Playhouse) The Whistleblower (The Denver Center) To Kill a Mockingbird (Syracuse Stage) The Mountaintop (Kitchen Theatre Company) Intimate Apparel (Sierra Repertory Theatre) Back to the Real (Crossroads Theatre)  and Mud Row (Premiere Stages) Film Credits include The Blacklist (NBC) and B-Boy Blues (BET Plus/AmazonPrime) www.LandonGWoodson.com

Celestine Rae is a director, actress, dancer, and educator. Her artistic journey began as a modern dancer in her hometown of Philadelphia where she studied dance at Philadanco!, Koresh, and Soliloquy in Motion Dance Studios. Her training in various forms of dance grew into a deep passion for the theatre. Celestine is a graduate of The William Esper Studio where she studied under Terry Knickerbocker. 

Celestine has directed for The United Solo Festival, Project Y Theatre, Keen Teens, The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, and various staged and private play readings. She was also the co-creator and co-artistic director of The Naked Expedition Project, a play reading series dedicated to showcasing underrepresented voices and stories in theatre.  She also served as Artistic Director of Keen Teens Festival of New Work in their 16th & 17th seasons. 

Celestine teaches acting at Pace University, New York University- Experimental Theatre Wing, The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and Primary Stages.

As an actress, Celestine has performed in various off Broadway shows and regional theatre. Most recent TV & Film Credits include: Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC), The Blacklist (NBC), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), The Mysteries of Laura (NBC), Law & Order SVU (NBC), Eye Candy (MTV) and many independent films. 

Sydné Mahone, dramaturg, is the editor of two books: Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African American Women; and With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together. She consults as the Genesis Festival director at Crossroads Theatre, and as advisor to the Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions. Recent academic posts include the University of Iowa and Princeton University. 

Sunday, June 9th, 2024  |  12pm
Sunday, June 9th, 2024  |  2pm
Wednesday, June 12th, 2024  |  7pm
Saturday, June 15th, 2024  |  12pm
Saturday, June 15th, 2024  |  2pm
Thursday, June 20th, 2024  |  7pm
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024  |  7pm
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024  | 7pm

What happens when the adults of the town ignore the wisdom of children? This new and exciting version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Amina Henry tells the age-old story with a twist, as the worlds of children and adults just can't seem to come together. Filled with song, dance, and rats - lots of RATS!

Ideal age: 8-12 years old

Amina Henry is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Productions include: The Animals, Ducklings, Hunter John and Jane and The Johnsons, all at JACK (Brooklyn, NY), P.S. produced by Ars Nova (New York, NY), Little Rapes at Long Island University, Troy produced by HERO Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), The Great Novel produced by New Light Theater, Happily Ever at Brooklyn College, Bully produced by Interrobang Theater (Baltimore, MD), Clubbed Thumbs 2019 Winterworks, and SUNY Purchase, among other venues, An American Family Takes a Lover, produced by The Cell: a 21st Century Salon and presented by Theatre for the New City (New York, NY), Water and Rent Party produced by Drama of Works (Brooklyn, NY), Cindy and Sleeping Beauty produced by Project Y Theatre. Her work has been produced, developed by and/or presented by: The New Group, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, Page 73, Project Y Theatre, National Black Theater, Little Theater at Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Generator, The Brick, Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 2013 Black Swan Lab Series (Ashland, OR), Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX), The Brick, HERE Arts Center, and The Cell: a 21st Century Salon, HERO Theatre. Her work has been featured on The Kilroys List. She has been a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group, Page73’s writers group, and the 2017-2018 Ars Nova writers group. She was a 2017-2018 recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Space Residency and is a 2018 recipient of a space residency at Dixon Place. She is a 2020 recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award and is an affiliate artist of New Georges. 

Michole Biancosino is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company, where she has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C., New York City and internationally over the past 25 years. With Project Y, she has led various professional productions, as producer, director, creator and writer.  Credits included the long-running shows, Trump Lear (co-created and directed) and the award-winning, David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet (co-created and directed), both of which toured regionally and performed at Edinburgh Fringe, as co-productions with Richard Jordan Productions (UK), The Pleasance, and Underbelly.  She directs solo artist Peter Michael Marino’s long-running solo shows, Show Up Kids! now running in Spanish- and Japanese-language versions.  Her most recent ventures in digital theatre-making and hybrid theatre can be seen at tinybarntheatre.com. Other work includes both the digital and on-stage versions of the Infallible Award-winner PLANET OF THE GRAPES LIVE FROM NYC (Zoo Venues, Edinburgh 2021) and the cosmic raga opera, Waves of Gravity with Neel Murgai (LaMama CultureHub). She currently performs Lia Romeo’s Yoga With Jillian and is a producer of Project Y’s yearly Women in Theatre Festival. Recipient: SDC Gielgud Fellowship for classical directing.  Her work has been supported by grants from The Puffin Foundation, ART/NY, NY Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), The Dramatists Guild, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Middlebury College. For more information: www.micholebiancosino.com

Evan Vines is currently a rising Senior at Carnegie Mellon getting his BFA in Acting. He’s most recently performed as David in Love and Money and Berowne in Love’s Labour's Lost. He is grateful for his friends and family for all of their support.

Saran Bakari  is a native of Washington, D.C.  She attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts SHS and is a 2020 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama (CMU). She is signed with Stewart Talent and Authentic Management. Saran has performed at The Goodman Theatre(Relentless), Third Avenue Playworks Door County(The Book Club Play),  Milwaukee Repertory Theatre(Seven Guitars), and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park(Seven Guitars). She is beyond excited to be returning to Project Y Theatre as a member of their Women in Theatre Festival. Asante Sana ancestors, Mama, and Baba. Asé

Emily Ma is an Asian American actor born and raised in New York City. She most recently performed at the Chain Theatre in a new short play titled Chickadee by Leon Lone. Her theatre credits also include 300 Bones by Leon Lone (Chain Theatre), Middle C by Erin Mallon (Project Y Theatre), and Tom Stoppard's Cahoot's Macbeth (Atlantic Stage 2). Last summer, she acted as the lead role of an indie feature film titled All for One by Paul Chau, currently in post-production. She has previously worked at the Manhattan Theatre Club as a Literary Intern and received her bachelor's degree in Theatre & Political Science from Middlebury College.

Annalisa D’Aguilar A born and raised Brooklynite, Annalisa is a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama with a concentration in acting. During her years at CMU, she wrote three plays and a book of poetry. She is thrilled to be joining Project Y for a third time. She was last seen playing B in Passage by Christopher Chen. Annalisa finds herself enjoying a plethora of hobbies which include, but are most certainly not limited to boxing, bouldering, drinking tea, eating mangoes, enjoying punk music and being silly. @annalisadaguilar on Instagram. 

Liane Grant recently appeared as the lead role in the Industry Reading of Half me, half you, her award-winning writing debut, which ran Off-Off Broadway (The Wild Project) where it won the Fresh Fruit Festival’s ‘Outstanding Play Award’, before multiple Off-West End runs (Tristan Bates Theatre, London), and which critics called "Spectacular!" (Outerstage, New York). Other recent theatre credits include: Victims (Drayton Arms Theatre, London); Spectra (Etcetera Theatre, London), Body Politic (White Bear Theatre, London); Twelfth Night/Richard II (Drayton Arms Theatre, London); Taken in Marriage (Waterloo East Theatre, London); a happy side as well (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Doubt (Corpus Playroom, Cambridge). Film credits include: Gypo (MEDB Films), The Parasite (DC Productions). Liane will be shooting her next feature film later this year. Radio credits include: The Leenane Trilogy (CamFM); Disney Pyjamas and Mini Eggs (London Theatre Podcast). Voiceover credits include: Girl From Nowhere (Theatre 503). Liane is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. www.lianegrant.com

Caitlyn Marr is originally from Miami, FL and is a New York-based actor and director. Recent credits include Vinegar Tom (Potomac Theater Project), The Wolves (Zoetic Stage), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Toms River Shakespeare), and Pair (Columbia University). TV: "American Dynasty" (FOX). She is co-artistic director of PAUL, an artists’ collaborative with the goal of developing and producing new dramatic works from bold theatrical voices. @we_are_paul

Chelsea Melone is thrilled to be back performing with Project Y Theatre after appearing in Amina Henry’s adaptation of The Sleeping Beauty in 2019. Chelsea, a New York City-based artist, is currently completing her Master’s Degree in Dramatic Arts at Harvard Extension School. Trained in classical ballet and voice, she teaches dance classes for both adults and children. She is grateful to everyone at Project Y for their continued support of new artistic work. Off-Broadway: Pentecost, Vinegar Tom. B.A. in Theatre from Middlebury College. @chelseamelone

Nate Kelderman is thrilled to be making his New York debut with Project Y. Homegrown in the PNW, Nate began his career at Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. In high school, he served on the board of Young Americans Theatre Company, which is a fancy way of saying he made theatre with friends in a dusty black box they rented themselves. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama where he recently played Dance Teacher Pat in Dance Nation and R in Passage. Acting aside, Nate is an avid hiker, skilled violinist, and spirited young carpenter. 

Lukas Jarvi is delighted to make his Project Y debut and to work with such a talented and creative cast.  Lukas is a proud acting graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. His theater credits include: Orion and the Goatman (Logan), King Lear (Edgar), A Doll’s House (Torvald), Marisol (Homeless Man), Machinal (Lover/Prosecution Lawyer) and Passage (S).

Miller J. Kraps is an artist from Louisville, Kentucky who studied musical theatre at the Youth Performing Arts School (Louisville) and Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama (Pittsburgh) before moving to Brooklyn. Some favorite shows include Mamma Mia! (The Muny), Bright Star (Front Porch Theatricals), and Newises! and A Chorus Line (The Lexington Theatre Company). Miller has also been seen at the Kentucky Opera and the International Championship of Collegiate Accapella as a winning soloist! You can usually find Miller axe-throwing or tap dancing (not exclusively in that order). Insta: @millerjaykraps

Summer Lee Jack (Costume Design) Recent New York theatre credits include: Baghdaddy (Off Broadway) at St. Luke’s Theatre; The Tower at HERE Arts Center; The Elephant in Every Room I Enter at La Mama and NYTW; Romeo and Juliet at New York Classical Theatre; Sonata 1962 at Acorn Theater / New York Musical Festival; and The Feigned Courtesans at The New School. Additional theatre credits include Bossa Nova at Yale Repertory Theater; A Christmas Carol and Nevermore for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Small Town Story and A Good Farmer at SOPAC. Major Barbara, Mary Poppins, Skin of Our Teeth, Awake and Sing! at Quintessence Theatre. 

YOGA WITH JILLIAN

by Lia Romeo
Directed by Andrew W. Smith
Performed by Michole Biancosino
Produced by Project Y Theatre and Richard Jordan Productions (UK), in association with the Pleasance

July 26, 27, 28 at 59E59 Theaters
as part of the East to Edinburgh Festival

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In this immersive play, yoga teacher Jillian plans to take the audience through an amazing, incredible, fantastic, one hour yoga journey. But the past couple years have been tough, am I right? As Jillian tries to teach again in our changed world, the shiny, happy yoga teacher attempts to keep the class, and herself, from completely imploding. 

Audiences – feel free to bring your mat or watch from your seat! Yoga is encouraged but never required. We promise you’ve never seen a play like this before.

Yoga With Jillian was developed at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, VT, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington, VT, and at Pittsburgh City Theatre as part of Momentum Festival 2022, premiered at A.R.T./New York Theatres in June 2023 as part of Project Y’s 8th Annual Women in Theatre Festival, and toured internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Lia Romeo (Playwright) is a playwriting fellow at Juilliard. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway at 59E59 and regionally around the country, and have been developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Lark, and elsewhere. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith & Kraus. She is the associate artistic director with Project Y Theatre Company, and she teaches playwriting at Primary Stages/ESPA and in the M.A. program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She earned her B.A. from Princeton and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers/MGSA.

Michole Biancosino (Jillian) is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company, where she has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C., New York City and internationally over the past 25 years. With Project Y, she has led various professional productions, as producer, director, creator and writer.  Credits included the long-running shows, Trump Lear (co-created and directed) and the award-winning, David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet (co-created and directed), both of which toured regionally and performed at Edinburgh Fringe, as co-productions with Richard Jordan Productions (UK), The Pleasance, and Underbelly.  She directs solo artist Peter Michael Marino’s long-running solo shows, Show Up Kids! now running in Spanish- and Japanese-language versions.  Her most recent ventures in digital theatre-making and hybrid theatre can be seen at tinybarntheatre.com. Other work includes both the digital and on-stage versions of the Infallible Award-winner PLANET OF THE GRAPES LIVE FROM NYC (Zoo Venues, Edinburgh 2021) and the cosmic raga opera, Waves of Gravity with Neel Murgai (LaMama CultureHub). She currently performs Lia Romeo’s Yoga With Jillian and is a producer of Project Y’s yearly Women in Theatre Festival. Recipient: SDC Gielgud Fellowship for classical directing.  Her work has been supported by grants from The Puffin Foundation, ART/NY, NY Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), The Dramatists Guild, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Middlebury College. For more information: www.micholebiancosino.com

Andrew W. Smith (Director) is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company, where she has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C., New York City and throughout the Unites States.  With Project Y, he has served as Producer, Company Manager, Director, Technical Director, and Actor over the 25 year producing history of the company.  He is a professional Actor and Director whose work has been seen throughout New York City, regionally, and internationally.    Selected regional acting work includes: Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Roundhouse Theatre, Potomac Theatre Project, Ars Nova, Studio Theatre, and Olney Center for the Arts. He toured with The National Players on their 50th anniversary as Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac. Filmwork includes Lucid, Shooting Script, Death of a Nation (Winner:  Best Short, IndieFest 2011; Best in Show, Best Shorts Competition 2011), Under-Ground. Television work includes GONE, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Guiding Light.   With Project Y, he has received grants funding for work from New York State Council on the Arts, New York Department Cultural Affairs, Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Puffin Foundation.   Andrew is currently an Associate Professor of Acting at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.  He is also graduate of the MFA Acting program at the University of California, San Diego, from which he received the Teaching Excellence Award upon graduation. www.smithandrewwilliam.com.

Monday, June 10th, 2024  |  8pm

Aimed at reclaiming and celebrating the history of women in theatre, these plays are commissioned adaptations of a play by the first woman playwright, 10th century abbess, Hrosthwitha of Gandersham. This is part of a 5 year project to adapt all 6 of these historical plays and bring more awareness to this unknown female writer who deserves a place in theatre history.

Leon Lone is a New York-based playwright originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her plays, including those presented under another name, have previously been featured at the Chain Theatre, PTP/NYC: After Dark, and Pittsburgh City Theatre, and Off-the-Wall Theater Company's 3rd Street Gallery series. She is a co-artistic director of PAUL, a theater artists' collaborative; and the founder of The Dovecote, a monthly reading series for new dramatic works. Get in touch at www.wearepaul.org

Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based, Arab-American playwright and educator from Upstate, NY. Her play The Newlywed Game will receive its World Premiere at B Street Theatre in June 2024. She is the 2024 Playwright-in-Residence at SPARC New Voices and was a 2022/23 Writing Fellow at the Playwrights Realm. Her work has been developed at NYTW, the Athena Project, Art House Productions, and more. She is the Company and Community Manager at Target Margin Theater. MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. alyssahaddad.com

Elinor T Vanderburg is a Black-American writer born in Washington, D.C. She writes plays for and about misfits, creating landscapes of solace nestled within dark humor and even darker themes.  She is a Co-Creative Director of Fresh Ground Pepper, the Art Director of SheNYC Arts, and one half of the illusory theater company, underlords.

Divya Mangwani is a writer, director, and dancer from Pune, India, based in New York. She creates reimaginings that question our perception of narrative truths and shared mythologies. 

Divya was the founder and Artistic Director of Moonbeam Factory Theatre, where she wrote, directed, and produced plays that were staged in India, Singapore and the UK. In New York, her work has been developed with UNICEF, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Bushwick Starr, Gingold Theatrical Group, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Civilians, Mabou Mines, Hypokrit Theatre, The Flea, Project Y, Astoria Performing Arts Centre, Pipeline Theatre, Theatre East, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Governors Island. 

Selected plays: Elements of Change (United Nations Climate Change Week and touring NYC schools), Yes, Uncle (finalist, Leah Ryan Prize), and One, Two, Three (winner of best script, director, play and audience vote, international Short+Sweet Festival). 

Divya is a current member of The New Victory Theater LabWorks and The New Georges Jam, commissioned by EST/Sloan, and was a recent fellow of Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, Gingold Speakers Corner playwright, New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Artistic Fellow, The Civilians’ R&D Group, Hypokrit Theatre Tamasha playwright, Project Y Writers Group playwright

Maya Macdonald’s plays include brunch, which was an Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award, a Finalist for O’Neil Playwrights Conference, and a Semi-Finalist for Theatre503’s Playwriting Award in London and was developed with The Playwrights Realm as part of their writing fellowship program. Three and a Half Anne Franks (Finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Raw Pasta (Semi-Finalist, The O’Neil and Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), Leave the Balcony Open (Finalist, Princess Grace Award) and Mind Your Beehive (Semi-Finalist, O’Neil). As a TV and screenwriter Maya has developed work for Fishladder Productions and is currently developing an animated series for Titmouse.  Maya teaches both Screenwriting and Playwriting.  Currently she teaches Playwriting at Molloy University. She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from Hunter College where she studied with Annie Baker, Brighde Mullins, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and received the Irv Zarkowr Award for Excellence in Playwriting. 

Aliza Shane (she/her) is a proud Jewish director, playwright and producer. Aliza was Co-Artistic Director of 3V Theatre which produced multiple staged reading events, as well as Mein Uncle, an absurdist fairytale about the seeds of inhumanity, written and directed by Aliza.  Also written/directed by Aliza: Are You There Zeus? It’s Me, Electra, (PCTF Awards), The Imaginary Invalid: By Prescription Only (PCTF Awards), and The Three Sillies, (NYIT Award).

Recent directing credits: Herd Immunity by Meron Langsner (International Human Rights Art Fest), Nothing But Thunder by Duncan Pflaster (Theatre for the New City), Nothing Human by Duncan Pflaster (Fringe- BYOV), and t as multiple radio plays for Living Radio (Kraine Theater/ Under St Marks). Aliza has also directed many shows and readings for various theatres and festivals in NYC, including The Bechdel Group, Spotlight On Fest, Project Y, The Dirty Blondes, Urban Stages, Abingdon Theatre, Fresh Fruit Festival and more.

Toni Anderson: Born in South Carolina, polished at Harvard, distilled by New York City.  Toni A. continues her journey to becoming the artist of her dreams, acting, writing, and occasionally directing to capture some of her southern, army brat, craft maven, sci-fi-geek-girl experiences for the boards.  She has challenged her artistic boundaries most recently by producing for and acting in a short film, The Right One.  toniaanderson.net

Tuesday, June 18th, 2024

The Difference Between Big Girls and Little Girls
by Serena Berman
directed by Rachel Dart

Miriam is living in New York City and writing feminist essays online when she finally comes to terms with a dark childhood memory. Returning to her small East Texas town, she realizes this may be nothing compared to the potential experiences of the childhood best friend she left behind. Can she help? Should she help? Or does the isolation of trauma and the loves we sacrifice to heal create a barrier too thick to cross?

Serena Berman is a writer, performer, and producer based in NYC. Her plays have been developed with Ars Nova, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Fuller Road Artist Residency, Fault Line Theatre, Less Than Rent, The Hearth, The Corkscrew Festival, Refracted Theatre Company, Flying V, and more. She was a member of Ars Nova’s Play Group (2019-2021), a finalist for the Princess Grace Award (2021), a semifinalist for the 2020 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, and a two time finalist at the Samuel French OOB Festival. She is repped by Writ Large Management as a screenwriter. Serena is a producer with The 24 Hour Plays and was Co-Director of Performance at LES gallery Chinatown Soup from 2016-2020, where she produced theatre and organized artist-led political activism. As an actor, favorite credits include Set it Up (Netflix), Diaspora (NY Premiere), Murder at the Gates (Steven Sater), and Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales (Voice of Lucy – ABC). BFA NYU Tisch. www.serenaberman.com

Rachel Dart: Recent credits include Coming Soon: A New Rock Musical (world premiere at Z Space–SF Chronicle's Best of Theater 2022); Dance Nation (regional premiere, Nashville Story Garden); Adam Szymkowicz’s The Christmas Tree Farm (world premiere, Mile Square Theatre); and two Princeton University Triangle Club shows (McCarter Theatre Center). New plays, musicals, and classics at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre503, Edinburgh Fringe, Ma-Yi, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Berklee NYC, and Philly Fringe, among many others. Associate and assistant directing includes The Vineyard, BAM, Roundabout Theatre Company, and on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club (most recently Summer, 1976). Rachel has been an artist in residence at Hundredth Hill (2022) and New York Theatre Barn/Fire Island Pines Arts Project's Barn on Fire residency (2023). She is an alumna of the Williamstown Directing Corps and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Professional Training Company, and a proud member of SDC. www.racheldart.com

Wednesday, June 20th, 2024  |  8:30pm

A NICE MOTHERLY PERSON:
by Lia Romeo

Lia Romeo (Playwright) is a playwriting fellow at Juilliard. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway at 59E59 and regionally around the country, and have been developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Lark, and elsewhere. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith & Kraus. She is the associate artistic director with Project Y Theatre Company, and she teaches playwriting at Primary Stages/ESPA and in the M.A. program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She earned her B.A. from Princeton and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers/MGSA.