LEAP Artists LIVE! Cast LEAP Artists LIVE! is a touring performance arts collective, whose members are Teaching Artists within the arts education organization, LEAP. Marcus Beckett - TITUS Kartier Conway - MO Lawrence Dandridge - MALACHI Clifford 'CJ' Holmes - SAM Khari Hughes - …
PRODUCTIONS 2020 FALL/WINTER FESTIVAL
Productions 2020 Fall/Winter Festival
Featuring all shows at the Fall/Winter Theater Festival in New York 2020 Listing of all plays, musicals and other productions on stage during the 2020 festival season.
LONESTAR
by Jared Chambers . Alex, when her unborn child is diagnosed with Spina Bifida and given a low chance for a healthy birth, decides to have an abortion. It is legal in her state of Texas but a funeral must be held for the fetus. What should be a routine procedure becomes infinitely more complex …
THE TRIAL OF MARILYN MONROE
by Amie Nemeth . What happens after Marilyn Monroe commits suicide and tries to get into heaven. She has to show that she is worthy of entry. She was a woman's libber and not just a blonde bombshell. She was on the casting couch and met Harvey Weinstein types. But she succeeded in …
MICHAEL ME AND THE DOE
by Anne Pasquale . This anti Teacher Carry play highlights an Art Teacher's antics grappling with her greater angels as she struggles to suppress a student's claim of abuse. The Play is 14 minutes long and will be presented in a 5 bill night together with another …
RUNAWAYS
by Karen Rae Levine . Two strangers running away from their hurt and anger run into each other at a remote farmhouse. Reluctant at first to share their feelings, they develop an unexpected connection. The Play is 15 minutes long and will be presented in a 5 bill …
SUBTEXT
by Reagan Gwen Seiler . Nat and Rachel are best friends who are catching up during Easter break of their last semester of college. They are frustrated by various relationships with friends and exes and each other as sounding boards to express their frustrations. As they continue to …
FIREBEETLES!!!
by Yaroslava Bondar . Mina is a 12 year old girl with SO MANY questions (What is a penis? How to boil a frog? Is the world ending?) but very little answers. With her older sister off to college and her best friend in a relationship, she is left with just her stuffed animals to talk …
THE JUNKIES STOLE THE CLOCK
by Jesus-Papoleto Melendez . The play follows a group of South Bronx youth as they enter the world of serious intravenous drug use during the late 1960’s. This new adaptation presents a collection of scenes which center on the drug-dependent relationship of the two young lovers, CANDI …
THE WEEKEND IN BELLPORT
by Eugene A. Lefkowitz . After the funeral of the 94 year old patriarch of the Preisley family, his long-absent son, Phil, arrives. Phil's cautious but curious nephew, Christopher, tries to learn about his mysterious uncle and, ultimately, to develop a relationship with him. He finds …
GENTLE HANDS FOR THE GENTLEMAN
by Fred Rohan-Vargas A wife addresses the audience about her unexpected 15-year relationship with her husband that takes them to a new level of sexual bliss. The Play is 20 minutes long and will be presented in a 6 bill night together with another 5 …
THE MAGICAL HEALING PROPERTIES OF MANY THINGS, INCLUDING SALT
by Gaia Malin . A pair of demon hunters find themselves separated from their group and stranded in a closet, where a startling revelation changes everything. . The Play is 15 minutes long and will be presented in a 6 bill night together with another 5 plays. . March 11, 2020 @ 4pm March …
A THIRD
.: Musical Festival :. by Lily Citrin . The play is a modern tale of college romance. A graduation, a breakup, and a threesome bring together Maya, an anxious and cynical queer woman; Ally, her eternally-optimistic girlfriend; and Nick, a stereotypical “frat bro.” Misunder-standings abound …
STRAIGHT TO THE HEART OF LOVE
by Lauren Dietzel . Chuck and Mary are have a movie night with friends. Little do their guests know that Chuck is about to show them the greatest film of all time: The Country Bears. . The Play is 10 minutes long and will be presented in a 6 bill night together with another 5 plays. . March …
FORTUNE COOKIE
by Glenda Frank . In this comedy, Khrystina and Ivan, in their 80s, are nervous about entering a Chinese restaurant. They are Russian agents on a mission and know if they blow this, they are fired and Khrystina needs a new bridge. Play was inspired by Paula Vogel's "The Oldest …
SUNSET CLOTH
by Sean Welch . Does Vincent convey any realities of life? Will Violet find peace and continue transitioning? Or, will they both get swallowed up in “LA-LA Land” where delusion is apoplectic. Vincent and Violet challenge their faith at the behest of society. Many people today don’t know, or even …
USED
by Lauren Fleishman . Mick is a rich privileged banker with no consequences in life who hires Amanda, a high end escort for the weekend. What they have in common is, they’re both getting used… Used dives into the philosophy of relationship- with self, others and environment. Can we …
THE MYTH OF FORGIVENESS
by Vince Goodman . In 1968, A New York City Psychiatrist determines the fate of a murderer who happens to be her own brother whom she never met before. The Play is 10 minutes long and will be presented in a 3 bill night together with another 2 plays . March 10, 2020 @ …
EXALTED
by Madison Fiedler . A man paints a naked woman; a naked woman sits on a man’s bed, her life in pieces. They have forgotten each other's names, and they are at war. Madison Fiedler’s fifteen-minute tragicomedy Exalted investigates the politics and power of nudity. The …
THE CATHOLIC GIRL’S GUIDE TO SEX
by Annie Hendy . Lizzy Stephens, 35, has only had sex with one man, her husband, but after a decade of >marriage it sadly ends. Lizzy learns that unless she's gets an annulment (proving her marriage was invalid) in the church's eyes she's a big fat sinner. Not wanting to annul her …
GIRL
by Yuval Vine . The play follows two relationships in the life of a teenage girl. Our play jumps between her relationship with Tom, her long-time love, and Mark, a new guy who she just met. We follow the transformation of the girl who learns more about herself, and either finds herself, or loses …
A YAQUI SPRING MUSICAL
.: Musical Festival :. Music Lyrics Book by Linda Evans A Yaqui Spring Musical Out of the Arizona desert from a unique Yaqui native tribe comes a story of the Spring Miracle, rejuvenation for a diverse world. Gloria, an immigrant, graduating from Harvard in Botany takes a scraggly …
ASSISTED LIVING
by Ilene Starger . At an assisted living facility in Florida in the latter part of the twentieth century, Doris, a non-resident, and George, a resident, reflect separately on life. The Play is 25 minutes long and will be presented in a 2 bill night together with another …
A PLAY ABOUT LUCAS HNATH, BUT NOT BY LUCAS HNATH, BUT WRITTEN IN THE STYLE OF LUCAS HNATH
by Jack McManus . Written to spoof the writing style of Lucas Hnath, the play tells the story of Hnath himself trying to write "A Doll's House, Part Two" and all of the personal and artistic struggles he faces along the way. . The Play is 40 minutes long and will be presented in a 2 bill night …
WHERE ART THOU, FREDDY MAC
by Carolina Ordonez . Fannie, the Evangelical Preacher's wife comes on to liven up the crowd before her husband comes on to preach. As he continues to be MIA, she must vamp to entertain the live audience until he's found. Eventually, it is leaked that he has been embezzling the …