Concert readings of experimental plays
at La MaMa La Galleria
George Ferencz, curator
EXPERIMENTS '08
VIAGRA FALLS
Monday, September 17, 2007at 7:30pm
by George Birimisa
Directed by Daniel Haben Clark
"Viagra Falls" is about the self hatred that is instilled in Old Georgie by the virulent homophobia of a pre-Stonewall society.
THE LOST CITIES OF ASHER
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 7:30pm
By Adam Kraar
Directed by Lorca Peress

"The Lost Cities of Asher" is a memory play about how the legacy of exile and loss is passed from generation to generation. Eva, daughter of a Holocaust refugee, strives to overcome her family’s dark past by raising her daughter in a way that will allow her to be spiritually free. Can Eva rescue her daughter from a jungle of family myths and ancient guilt without losing her mind?
Featuring:
John FitzGibbon, Mikel Sarah Lambert, Melissa Kraus, Valorie Niccore,
Tanya Perez and Patricia Randell
LOVE LASTS ON MYRTLE AVENUE
Monday, December 10, 2007 at 7:30pm
A romance interrupted by a bombing
by jimmy breslin
directed by george ferencz

featuring: joe gioco,nell gwynn,leslie ann hendricks, cam korman, peter mccabe, chuck montgomery, susan patrick, jim seaman, jenne vath, t.d. white and chris zorker
A Talk-Back with the author will follow the reading
jimmy breslin was born in Jamaica, Queens. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986. His critically acclaimed books include The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez, Table Money,several anthologies, and a memoir. He lives on Broadway, the Big Street, in New York City. His new book, The Good Rat, comes out in January 2008.
MARLA AND HER PRAYERS
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 7:30pm
By Kim Merrill
Directed by Lauren Rosen

A mother pressured to forgive the killer of her son. Can love heal? Who knows.
BABA AND THE TREE OF LIFE
Monday, Feburary 11, 2008 at 7:30pm
by Edgar Nkosi White
Directed by Danna Manno
The Life and Times of the African drummer/musician/teacher Babatunde Olatunji, who introduced the concept of polyrhythms to American music and influenced Santana and Max Roach.
Featuring Gerald Asbell Jr., Camille Gaston, Chénana Manno, John Andrew Morrison, Solomon Tosin and Jenne Vath
LINCOLN ON HESTER STREET AKA 1911
Monday, April 14, 2008 at 7:30pm
by Lu Hauser
Directed by George Ferencz

Poetry or Pretzels?
Poor Ruthie. Her immigrant Russian Jewish parents want her to marry and get a job selling pretzels and she has discovered poetry. Watch Ruthie struggle and decide on a third choice.
Featuring:
Marilyn Chris, Jason Howard,
Cam Kornman, Will Rhys and Jenne Vath
LUCKY PATRON FOR THE ARTS
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 7:30pm
by C. S. Hanson
Directed by George Ferencz
Mimi’s obsession with the long-lost Etruscan culture strains her marriage, gets her fired from her job as a museum curator, and leads to criminal acts. In the romantic comedy Lucky Patrons of the Art, Etruscan ghosts inspire lessons about love, marriage, work and the difficulty of letting go.
Featuring:
Rajesh Bose, Jason Howard, LeeAnne Hutchinson, Pete McCabe, Carolina McNeely, John-Andrew Morrison, Allen Lewis Rickman and Jenne Vath
SINGIN IN THE ER
Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7:30pm
Written & directed by Ruby Lynn Reyner

Hilarity and Song in an Emergency Room complete with the Clueless Doctor, the Bitchy Nurse, the Drooling Junkie, the Anti-Social Social Worker and the Wacky Patient
Featuring
Alan Crosby, Dr. Albert DeFabritus, Jenny Horn, Susan Lampert, Michael Quinn, Ruby Lynn Reyner and Susan Young
JUMEAU'S MAMA
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 7:30pm
Written by Daisy Dumas-Featherstone
Directed by Jasper McGruder

As one spouse searches for truth in a Caribbean homeland, the other strives to quell a revolution. Betrayal leads to inner and outer revolution.
Featuring: Alvin Alexis, Inga Ballard, Rashad Farmer, Tony Jackson, Sharon McGruder, Lea Pearson, Xavier Rice and Yashika Williams
EXPERIMENTS '07
BROKEN SOUL
By A.B. Asher
Directed by Zishan Ugurlu
The Club
October 9, 2006 at 7:30pm

Image by Stefano Imbert
What price freedom? That is the question that animates this story of a
young mother's desperate response to racism in violence-torn Detroit
and informs her shocking response. The choice she makes leads to a
sequence of events in a family drama that unfolds in urban Michigan and
rural New York from 1967 to 1981.
A.B. ASHER (Playwright) is a native of the Bronx. He has completed a
cycle of full-length plays, Competing Narratives, Pedestrian Crossing,
Gibeah, Revelation, and Broken Soul, which received a 2006 Pilgrim
Project Play Development Grant. He has also completed shorter pieces
including two one-acts, Animum Reflectere and Hermanos, and four
ten-minute pieces, Candid Date, P.O.C., Play Ground, and Flight.
THE REST OF OEDIPUS
Monday, November 13, 2006 at 7:300m
by Robert Montgomery
Directed by Susan Einhorn
Music by Robert Montgomery

Re-telling of Oedipus at Colonus.
He killed his father and slept with his mother –
something ev'ry boy dreams of.
But he rose from that hell on lightning –
how does that song get sung?
THE LAST ROMANTIC
Monday, December 11, 2006 at 7:30pm
by Saul Zachary
Directed by George Ferencz

THE LAST ROMANTIC, a dark, edgy tale of sex and coming of age in the wake of 9/11, is the story of Henry Krisel, a brainy reclusive l5-year-old whose obsession for a porn star compels him to leave New York City bound for LA in search of his true love. The play deals with Henry's struggle to keep his dreams alive as the world around him collapses.
Featuring Arthur Adair, Tom Dooley, Cam Cordman, Nell Gwynn, Jim Seaman and Jessica Marie Smith.
KAFKA'S QUEST
Monday, January 15, 2007 at 7:30pm
by Lu Hauser
Directed by George Ferencz

Young Kafka's adventures with the Savoy Cafe Yiddish Theater in 1912 Prague.
Featuring Jamie Ansley, Nick Denning,
Timothy Doyle, Cam Kornman, Jerry Matz, Jim Seaman and Jenne Vath.
THE SOUL ASCENDING
Monday, February 12, 2007 at 7:30pm
by Fernando Rivas
Directed by George Ferencz

Portaits of passengers on a plane about to crash in the ocean.
Featuring:
Felipe Bonilla, Charles Britt, Sheila Dabney,
Allison Hiroto, John-Andrew Morrison, Lucas Van Engen and Jenne Vath
GURU'DE AWAKENING
Monday, February 26, 2007 at 7:30pm
by Lisa Ferber

In this clever new satire, sisters Alice and Shira encounter comedic scandals and surprises at a spiritual retreat. A diva yoga teacher, a charismatic monk, and a guru who may or may not be who he says he is add to the hilarious high-jinks.
Featuring Joe Gioco, Ken Perlstein, Erin Raftery, Alyssa Simon, Jenne Vath and Chris Zorker.
DEIRDRE
Monday, March 5, 2007 at 7:30pm
by Margaret McCarthy
Directed by George Ferencz

Based on the heroine of Irish myth, Deirdre is a classic Celtic adventure tale of a woman who defies the prophecy made at her birth and runs off with the man she chooses, the warrior Nye, instead of the King Conchobor.
Featuring
Robert Fitzsimmons, Candace Reid, Jenne Vath and T.D. White
THE STRANGE CASE OF GRIPPO THE APE MAN
Monday, March 12, 2007 at 7:30pm
by Trav S.D.
Directed by George Ferencz
An ape man with an elephant's memory who can play Chopin but has no thoughts of his own.
Featuring Michael Arian, Charles Britt, Bob Jewett, Cam Kornman and Jim Seaman.
THE WAR ZONE IS MY BED
Monday, April 9, 2007 at 7:30pm
by Yasmine Rana
Directed by George Ferencz

Playwright Rana has woven two of her one acts about personal relationships and spiritual struggles in war torn Sarajevo and Kabul into a full length play.
Featuring: Alex Alioto, Rajesh Bose, Jason Howard, Sheila Dabney, Candace Reid and Jenne Vath
TOO FAST WALTZ
Monday, May 14, 2007
by Debra Greenfield
Directed by Adam Kidd

A drama with music, ocean and sky
Two men on the edge of life share a hospital room for 24 hours: a punk-rocker-would-be-suicide and a once-hallowed-thespian-now-septuagenarian on his deathbed.
Featuring Michael Graves, Theo Stockman & Christina Purcell as the nurse
Experiments'06
THE WAR ZONE IS MY BED
By Yasmine Rana
Directed by George Ferencz
The Club
September 26, 2005 at 7:30pm
 
"The War Zone is My Bed" consists of two one acts, one
in bombed-out Kabul, the other in bombed -out Sarajevo, which deal
with personal relationships in a war-zone. Featuring Arthur Adair,
Sylvia Roldan Dohi, Christopher Zorker and Jennie Vath.
Yasmine Rana (Playwright) has had productions and staged readings
at theaters including The Looking Glass Theatre, HERE, Second Stage's
DestiNation America Project, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey,
Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the UK, the International Women
Playwrights Festival in Athens, Greece. Memberships include PEN,
The Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America, East. Yasmine received
her MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School
of the Arts. She has clinical certificates in Creative Arts Therapies
and International Trauma Studies. Yasmine is a Registered Drama
Therapist and has worked with refugees in Bosnia, The Republic
of Georgia, and Switzerland. Last spring her play Returning had
a concert reading at La MaMa as part of Experiments '05.
SANSKRIT
By Ranbir Sidhu
Directed by George Ferencz
The Club
November 14, 2005 at 7:30pm
Featuring Rajesh Bose, Helen Hanft, Sirisha Nandi, Jim Seaman and
Bina Sharif
Directed by George Ferencz
When Anu and Hari married, they were determined not to live by
the rules of their parents the conformity of middle-class India
in America. Four years later, it's his birthday. Dinner is Wendy's
takeout. She buys the sex toys, he gets the pot. For two years
they've been trying to have a baby. The doctor tells her tonight
is the night.
THE HOBBYIST
by Saul Zachary
The Club
December 12, 2005 at 7:30pm
THE HOBBYIST is a dramatic portrait of Paul Gauguin, stockbroker
and philistine, who at the age of 34 turned his back on his bourgeois
life to become a painter, incurring the ridicule and disapproval
of practically all who knew him. The play deals with the
early period of his life in Paris from his struggle to be a responsible
husband, father and wage earner to the final turning point that
led to his transformation into a great artist.
THE BIZ
by Mike Zettler
The Club
January 9, 2006 at 7:30pm

Four comic one-acts about the show business
"The Script"
"The Contract"
"The Award"
"The Concept"
Directed by George Ferencz, featuring Peter McCabe,
Detra Payne, Erin Raftery and Michael Rispoli.
MENAGE AU TROIS
a comedy by Walter Corwin
The Club
January 30, 2006 at 7:30pm

Garden of Eden, Armageddon and what came after.
A comedy about the male member.
with Jake Speck and Jenne Vath
Directed by George Ferencz
Music composed by Arthur Abrams
JOSEPH HUBERTUS PILATES: AN AUTHENTIC WORK OF FICTION
Written and directed by Marie Grillo
Musical Directed by Nick Colt
February 6, 2006
 
An exploration of obsession, insanity, beauty, love, and fitness,
as seen through the eyes of the genius, Joseph Pilates.
Featuring:
Joe Carr, Dara Centonze, Delia Baseman, Mary Anna Principe, Olivia
Baseman, Delia Baseman, Veronica James, Jonathan Prichard, Eric
Starker and Brian Shaer.
PB&J
By Tara Dairman
Directed by Cyndy Marion
The Club
Monday, March 13, 2006 at 7:30pm
Secrets. Lies. Peanut Butter & Jelly.
FEATURING Geraldine Bartlett, Andrea Maulella, Juliet O’Brien,
Sean O’Haga, Susan Patrick and Eric Rath.
Dick has a secret.
Lillie has a secret. Millie and Lillie have a secret. Cherie and
Millie have a secret. But everyone wants to know: What’s the secret ingredient in the PB&J?
O
A Recovered Memory Play
By Peter Dizozza
Directed by George Ferencz
The Club
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 7:30pm

Featuring:
Joe Gioco, Eric Goss, Stacie Linardos Susan Patrick, Jim Seaman,
and Jenne Vath.
MY 'GINA
by Ayla Harrison
Directed by George Ferencz
April 10, 2006 at 7:30pm

For housewife Ophelia Rose, it’s 1953 and everything is
perfect. But soon her perfect present will collide with female
visitors from a not so distant future- a 1960s hippie, a 1980s
ball busting CEO, a 90s girl who pops gum for Kurt Cobain, and
many others- show Ophelia Rose the words our mother’s mother
never got to hear. The play MY ‘GINA explores the evolution
of the female voice, from the silence of the 1950’s housewife
to the barreling howl of the Twenty-First Century feminist.
THE GOSPEL SHOW
by Sandra Hoffman
Music by Raymond Jordan
Directed by Sandra Hochman
May 8, 2006 at 7:30pm
THE GOSPEL SHOW is based on a true story
about an inner-city Detroit church choir which enters the Mahalia Jackson
Gospel Competition.
Experiments '05
FEAR ITSELF - Secrets of the White House
by Jean-Claude van Itallie
Monday, November 1, 2004 at 7:30pm
Directed by George Ferencz
EXPOSURE TIMES
by Kim Merrill
The Annex
Monday, December 13, 2004 at 7:30pm
Based on the life and times of photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Pioneers of photography! Arts, science, or ego?
TENTAGATNET
by Peter Dizozza
Monday, January 10th, 2005 at 7:30pm
The Annex
A conservative couple confronts their mirror radicals
when, by accidentally crossing the spikes, they turn an old army surplus
pup tent into a TentagatneT!!!
A new magical comedy.
Cast: Jamie Ashley, Felipe Bonilla, Bobby Faust, Jim Seaman, Jennie Vath.

WAITING FOR MERT
by MIKE ZETTLER
MONDAY, January 17th at 7:30pm
Two burglars on the new carpet with axes in their foreheads - what will
the wife say?
A new black comedy.
TRACKING BLOOD WHITE
by Karen Sunde
MONDAY, Jan 31st at 7:30pm
A dying town vs. its Native American neighbors and a killer bear that
haunts the mountain they share.
A magic tale set in America, now.
Featuring: Alexander Alioto, Jose Gioco, Allison
Hiroto, Peter McCabe, Sami Sargent and Laralu
Smith. Directed by George Ferencz.
The Whore of Sheridan Square a ridiculous story
by Michael Baron
MONDAY, March 21st at 7:30pm
"My ample bosom has comforted many a young man...like you."
- Norma Charles
"The Whore of Sheridan Square" is a new play inspired by the life
and works of Charles Ludlam and told in the style of the Ridiculous theatre
he created.
A broke young writer recounts his escape to a hidden West Village alcove
where he is hired and seduced by the legendary actress, playwright, and
director, Norma Charles.
Directed by Michael Baron. Featuring Ken Barnett, Doug
Brandt, Craig D'Amico, Vanessa Hidary, Eric McNaughton, and Liesl Tommy.
TRI-BAND STREAMING
By Charles Jamison
Directed by the author
MONDAY, March 28, 2005 at 7:30pm
Hot clubs, cool nights, betrayal, deceit, Champagne, drugs, sex, and
rock
& roll. Just another mid-Fall's dream of a night among friends on
the isle of Manhattan.
RETURNING
by Yasmine Rana
Directed by George Ferencz
First Floor Theatre
Monday, May 16, 2005 at 7:30pm
An Art Gallery in New York has photos from Sniper Avenue in Sarajevo.
But what about the human beings behind the photos? Marco and Azra and
Andrea? And Rania from Afghanistan? And Caroline from the States? Their
stories intertwine among the images.
Featuring Jeannie Dalton, Nell Gwynn, Allison Hiroto, Jake Speck, Zishan
Ugurlu, and Jennie Vath
ABOUT ETHEL ROSENBERG
By Lu Hauser
Directed by George Ferencz
The Annex
Monday, May 23, 2005 at 7:30pm
Young Ethel Rosenberg was an accomplished singer and sang with the
Schola Canteorum on the stage in Carneige Hall.
How did she get to Carniege Hall?
Practice, Practice.
But how did she end up in Sing-Sing?
She joined the party.
RIGHT VS RIGHTEOUS
by Frank Craven
Directed by George Ferencz
The Annex
Monday, May 30, 2005 at 5:30pm
A Philosophical Comedy in Verse. Featuring Jim Seaman and Jennie Vath.
This short play is dedicated in part to funny show biz and to the very
heart.
"Right Versus Righteous" a moral comedy for those who are pious and
those who want to be.
EXPERIMENTS ‘04
GENERATIONS By Josh Greenfeld
Featuring Alexander Alioto, Cam Cordman, Jerry Matz, Jennie Vath
Directed by George Ferencz
GENERATION is a play in three scenes spanning a half century dealing with the
changes and the constants, geographical and otherwise, in an American Jewish
family.
With the La MaMa production of THE LAST TWO JEWS OF KABUL LAST SEASON, Josh Greenfeld
returns to theatre as a writer after a career as a journalist, critic, novelist,
and screenwriter. Mr. Greenfeld was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay
of HARRY AND TONTO, the film for which Art Carney won the Oscar for the Best
Actor; he also wrote the screenplay for OH GOD! BOOK TWO starring George Burns
and the teleplay LOVEY: CIRCLE OF CHILD PART II starring Jane Alexander. His
play CLANDESTINE ON THE MORNING LINE, after premiering at the Arena Stage in
Washington, D.C. was produced Off-Broadway starring Rosetta LeNoir and James
Earl Jones. AND I HAVE A DREAM, starring Billy Dee Williams, after opening at
Ford's Theatre in Washington and touring the country settled down for a run on
Broadway. In addition, he is the author of the novels “O for a Master of
Magic”, “The Return of Mr. Hollywood” and “What Happened
Was This”. But perhaps Mr. Greenfeld is best known for his prize winning “A
Child Called Noah” trilogy about his brain damaged son, “A Child
Called Noah”, “A Place for Noah”, and “A Client Called
Noah”.
CAKE LIQUOR, CHOCOLATE SEX: FOUR SHORTS YOU CAN SINK YOUR
TEETH INTO By Tara
Dairman
Featuring Andy Hoey, Cam Kornman, Deric McNish, Cameron Peterson, D. Zhonzinsky
Directed by Cyndy A. Marion
Tara Dairman's work has been produced at Dartmouth College and by the Fishamble
Theatre Company in Dublin, Ireland. Most recently, her short play The Wedding
Cake was named a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's 2004 Heideman
Award. Tara lives in Manhattan and is a founding member of the Breadbasket Writers
Group. Thanks to the Breadbasketeers for their comments and encouragement and
to special agent Katie Wade for the Flemish translations!
ORIUNDINA By Lella Heins
Featuring Dacyl Acevedo, Barret Wall, Amanda Pietropalo, Justin Long,
Sky Jarrett, Ashley Arnold, Electra Yao, Catherine Michens, Jordan
Boyland, Julian Collier, Jane Nichols, Stafford Clark-Price, rebecca
Thomas and Twinkle Burke.
Directed by Alec Harrington
In the play ORIUNDINA A group of children and teenagers on the island
of Itaparica, Brasil, rally to rescue the lost tail of the mermaid Oriundina,
personal assistant to the goddess of the sea Yemanja', whose annual feast
she is in charge of overseeing. By joining forces, using their wits and
magic intervention they try to defeat the evil schemes of the local busybody
and an ambitious marine biologist from Rio.
Lella Heins was invited to join the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit in
1988. Her plays and adaptations have been produced in New York, London
and Milan. In Italy she is guest teacher and director with I Mercenari
, a Theater company based in Milan. In New York she taught writing workshops
at Barnard College of Columbia University, The Learning Annex and privately.
She has been a writing facilitator at The Field, a non-profit artists'
organization in Manhattan and associate artistic director of the Magellan
Theater Project. In 2001 she was awarded a writing Fellowship by the
Sacatar Foundation, an American Foundation with a center in Bahia, Brasil.
Her latest production, "Lion Taming in Miami and Other Views of Life",
an anthology of six of her one-act plays, was produced by Medicine Show
Theater in Manhattan in 2003. "Oriundina, the Siren of Itaparica", was
awarded a grant by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2004.
ON THE ROCKS By Robyn Burland
ON THE ROCKS takes a standard formula-the marriage/sex comedy and stands
it on its head, revealing the underlying cruelty and violence that
percolates just beneath the surface of the middle-class family.Patti,
Lynette, and Janet, three Staten Island housewives, live in an insular
world of camaraderie and competition, where finding the right color
toilet brush is a major life goal and infidelity a convenient way to
pass the lonely days.
Robyn Burland received an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University
in 1994. Her plays include: Postpartum (New Georges Performathon, Women's
Project, Newman Theatre), A Savior Needs a Nice Smile (Expanded Arts,
Women's Project) After Loyal (Moving Arts-L.A., New Georges), Walkmania
(New Georges), Obit, Love Amy, and The Book of Jay (AndHow! Theater Co.).
Robyn is an affiliated artist with New Georges Theatre and a member of
The New Group's playwriting unit.
IN THE CAGED PANTHER’S EYES… (THE SAGA
OF EZRA POUND)
By Edward de Grazia
“In The Caged Panther’s eyes . . .” (THE SAGA OF EZRA POUND)
is a poetic retelling of Pound’s life and includes T.S. Eliot and James
Joyce.
Edward de Grazia’s plays include THE AMERICANS and MYRTILUS (with music
by Dina Kosten)which were performed at La MaMa E.T.C.. The Arena Stage presented
THE SWINGs, which had its premiere at the Gene Frankel Theatre, and has staged
readings of his BORGEOIS GENTLEMEN and HOOF ASA. Edward’s play THE VACUUM
CLEANER was published in “The Best American Short Plays 1996-1997” and
THE SWINGS was published in Evergreen Review.
Edward De Grazia is a member of the founding faculty of the Cardozo Law School
(Yeshiva University) in Greenwich Village where he continues to teach and write
about, among other subjects, the freedom and censorship of literature, art, and
film in America. He is the author of a history of the struggle for artistic freedom
in the United States called “Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity
and the Assault on Genius” (Random House and Vintage).
THE RIHLA By Edgar Nkosi White
THE RIHLA includes eyewitness portraits of the people of Baghdad shortly before
the bombs fell.
Edgar Nkosi White is a poet, playwright and novelist. For La MaMa he wrote the
libretto, with a score by Genji Ito for Ghosts: Live From Gallillee a blues opera
about the Scottsboro Boys which was directed by George Ferencz in the Annex.
His plays have been performed around the world and broadcast by, among others,
the BBC. Born in Montserrat, Edgar now lives in New York and is a member of New
Dramatists.
AUDITIONING ANGELS By Pieter Dirk Uys
AUDITIONING ANGELS has a cast of three women (one white, two black), two men
(both white) and sixteen babies (black and with AIDS)
Pieter-Dirk Uys appeared last fall in his one-man show FOREIGN AIDS, in the La
MaMa Club.
Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945 and has been in the theatre business
since the 1960s. The creator of Evita Bezuidenhout, ‘the most famous white
woman in South Africa’, he a huge following, and his plays and revues are
performed internationally. He lives in Darling, on the West Coast of South Africa.
STRANGERS IN PARADOX By Kate Bornstein
STRANGERS IN PARADOX: The True Story of Casey & The Kidd
Casey and The Kidd, those lovable, lithe and lethal lesbian serial killers are
the feature attraction on tonight's live broadcast of the top-rated murder reality
TV show, America's Least Wanted. But who is the woman making wallets in the occupational
therapy ward of the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane? She claims she's
committed every one of the 42 murders attributed to Casey & The Kidd - and
she also can show you all the right scars to prove she was the victim of each
and every kill. Warning: This Play Contains Queer Sex, Wet Blood and Murder Most
Foul.
KATE BORNSTEIN is an author, playwright, and performance artist whose solo work
includes The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours, and Cut’n’Paste.
Ms. Bornstein is the author of the books Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the
Rest of Us, Nearly Roadkill (with Caitlin Sullivan), and My Gender Workbook.
SPIC AND SPAM By Alba Sanchez & Peter Byrnes
SPICK AND SPAM: a new comedy about the Empowered and Enlightened Latina and
Spam.
What do you get when you take
a South Bronx Puerto Rican chick
and give her a gay best friend from Appalachia?
HINT: It's ain't Will & Grace
Alba Sanchez wrote and performed in the La MaMa production of THE BRONX WITCH
PROJECT, which was first read in the Experiments Series.
GOD TOOK AWAY HIS POEM By Gamal Abdel
Chasten
GOD TOOK AWAY HIS POEM is about a young boxer in the70's who looks to face
his idle in the ring, but when tragedy befalls he is left to deal with his
disappointments and regrets while raising a son.
GAMAL ABDEL CHASTEN has been a Professional Writer and Performance Poet for
the past eight years. The last six years he has spent as a co-writer and co-creator
as a member of Universes Theater/Poetry ensemble. As an Actor/Playwright his
credits read as follows: Off Broadway: Slanguage (New York Theater Workshop)
Off-Off Broadway: Reg.e.gaines TIERS (Live From The Edge), IN CASE YOU FORGET
(Labyrinth Theatre), You Can Clap Now (HERE), GOD TOOK AWAY HIS POEM by Chasten
(Labyrinth Theatre-Barn Series). GOD TOOK AWAY HIS POEM, a one man show, is
based on the influence of sports icon Muhammed Ali on the life of a single
African American father raising his son in the 1970’s, and their struggles.
Directing credit: Stakes Is High (Henry Street Settlement and The Krane Theater)
The Last Word, Written and Directed by Gamal Abdel Chasten (PS 122 Fresh Terrain
series at The University of Texas), Affiliation: New York Theatre Workshop
Usual Suspect.
EXPERIMENTS ‘03
The Strange Case of The Missing Dr. Watson- Mia Albright
Guardian Angel- Mark Bramble and Jennifer Wells
The Last Word- Gamal Abdel Chasten
Devotion- Mary Fulhan
The Last Two Jews of Kabul- Josh Greenfeld
Global Excursions- Maxine Kern
Faith- Joe Martin
Sex, Death and The Beach Baby- By Kim Merril
The Fastest Woman Alive- Karen Sunde
The Chronicle of Mary- Tad Troli
EXPERIMENTS ‘02
Phallic Fables No. 2- Walter Corwin
The Next Step- Michael DiAntonio
Cuckoo- Paul Dios
The Golf Wars- Peter Dizozza
Soul Window- Charles N. Jamison Jr.
Happy Valentine’s Day- Donald H. Julian
I Like To Be With You- Peter McCabe
L-Words- Pam Mills
Beauty 1953- Leslie Nipkow
The Health Plan- Yolanda Rodriguez
The Bronx Witch Project- Alba Sanchez
The King of Diamonds- T.D. White
EXPERIMENTS ‘01
Your Town- Walter Corwin
The Question House- Tara S. Dairman
Memories are Made of This- Don Dewey
The Formula- Suzanna Geraghty and Michael Zettler
Soul Window- Charles N. Jamison Jr.
Words & Music by Sweetie Jones- Gale Kriegal-Maline
Scene of Shipwreck- Pam Mills
Lady McBroth- Vered Post
Chiaroscuro- Aisha Rahman
Plains- Stacia Saint Owens
Truth Takes a Holiday- Karen Sunde
EXPERIMENTS ‘00
Blue Moon Over Memphis- Deborah Baley Brevoort
Saving Wanda- Don Dewey
The Last Dodo- Peter Dizozza
Three Valises- Stan Kaplan
Mercury- Carson Kreitzer
We Agree! We Agree! - Pamela Mills
The Cursed- Enver Petrovci
Truth or Dare- Karen Sunde
From That Day To This- Michael Zettler
EXPERIMENTS ‘99
Deep Cut- Karim Alrawi
Fur- Migdalia Cruz
The Eleventh Hour- Peter Dizozza
Schrodinger’s Cat & An Idea About An Idea- Stan Kaplan
Bony And Poot & Untitled, 1985- Luke Landric
Wallpaper Psalm- Ruth E. Margraff
The Emperor And The Queen- Peter McCabe
Rhyolite- Alexandre Phillippe
Anybody Seen Marie Laveau?- Aisha Rahman
Unfinished Buisness- Fred Rohan Vargas
Song of Genji- Edgar Nkosi White
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