AND - Performances


As part of our development program, AND periodically presents readings, staged readings and Works-in-Progress. These dates will be listed on the Calendar page
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ECLECTIC EVENING OF SHORTS V: Boxers & Briefs

PLUS LATE NITE COMEDY

Yes! This is our FIFTH year of Boxers and Briefs - two evenings of short plays run in repertory over 12 days. This year's mixed bag includes scripted comedy, drama and dramedy, physical comedy, music and improv!

Boxers
A Heart to Heart written by Jeffrey Sweet
Directed by Kathryn Long
with David Marx, Kristine Niven*, Bill Tatum*

Cat Lady Without a Cat written & performed by Carrie Keskinen*
Directed by Scotty Watson

Give and Take written & directed by Bara Swain
with Danielle Bourgeois, Scott Salome

GPS II written by Raphael Badagliacca
Directed by Kelly Haran
with Chris Lutkin*, David Marx, Wendy Joy

My Little Head written & performed by Peter David Straus
Directed by Carol Lee Sirugo

My Jonathan written by Donald Steele
Directed by Michael Boonstra
with Jacob Callie Moore, Ruth Sherman

Children of Adam (an improvised play)
with Michael J. Cohen, Michael Jay Henry*, Jeffrey Swan Jones*, Wendy Joy, Carrie Keskinen*, David Marx, Jacob Callie Moore, Kristine Niven*, Liz Quinn, Scotty Watson*

Briefs
Get Outta Jail written by Kristine Niven
Directed by Janice L. Goldberg
with Michael Jay Henry*, Jacob Callie Moore, Scotty Watson*

Ridgewood written & performed by Sheilagh Weymouth*
Directed by Janice L. Goldberg

Chemistry written by Joseph Samuel Wright
Directed by Alisha Silver
with Rebecca Hirota, Michael Mizwicki

Bringing Tiny Home written by Cesi Davidson
Directed by Mary Hodges
with Beverly Prentice, Patricia Runcie

An Introduction to Ethics in Technology written by Drew Larimore
Directed by Alec Strum
with Neil D’Astolfo

Suddenly a Knock at the Door written by Robin Goldfin
Directed by David Carson
Composer - Oren Neiman
Musician - Gilad Ben-Zvi
with Ed Chemaly*, Jeffrey Swan Jones*, Wendy Joy, Kenneth Talberth*

Held at Theatre 54 in Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor!

Tickets :www.smarttix.com- additional information Info@artisticnewdirections.org

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LATE NITE COMEDY

Tri Robot
Friday, February 3 – 9:00pm
Tri Robot (Margaret Geraghty, Jon Schaefbauer, and David Marx) are all graduates of Kim Schultz Improv and a subsidiary of the KSI house team Hi Robot. They have performed at The Broadway Comedy Club, The Wild Project, Tea Lounge, and Artistic New Direction's Anything Goes. Their current long form improv piece is entitled "Hello, My Name Is..." and was inspired by an exercise done by Rachel Hamilton as part of AND's ongoing workshop series. Find out what happens when 3 improvisors transform into 9 different characters and these 9 characters begin to interact with each other!

Steele/Quinn
Saturday, February 4 – 9:00pm
STEELE/QUINN sounds like a lady cop show but it's twice as bad-ass! It's lady two-prov from New York City featuring Lorie Steele and Elizabeth Quinn. Their style is both classically theatrical and clownishly absurd. STEELE/QUINN creates characters and worlds that take you on a journey of misfits and mayhem.

Scotty Watson’s Big Ass Improv Showcase
Wednesday, February 8 – 9:00pm
Improvisors who have spent the day playing with Scotty will strut their new stuff in a fun-filled hour!

Scotty Watson’s Big Ass Troupe
Friday & Saturday, February 10 & 11 – 9:00pm
The very best improvisors from Artistic New Directions will demonstrate their skills, show off the AND style of improvisation, and make you laugh! All at the same time. Developed by the regulars at Scotty Watson's Wednesday Night Improv Workout, the troupe will perform a Henreiette, ... a short play created before your very eyes! Be there or we'll hunt you down and do it for you in your living room!!! Trust me... you'd rather come to us and see it in a theatre.

Theatre 54 – 244 West 54th Street – 12th Floor
Reservations & Information – 212 875 1857 – andreserve@aol.com

Past Highlights!

ALL THREE of our FringeNY shows were picked up for part of the FringeNY Encores series!!! Yay us!!!!

After Anne Frank - written & performed by Carol Lempert, directed by Janice L. Goldberg

Bongani - written & performed by Gabrielle Maisels, directed by Kate Holland

You Only Shoot the Ones You Love - written & performed by Jeffrey Sweet, directed by Patricia Birch

Without A Net Production - 25 OPENING NIGHTS!

AND's marriage of script and improv! Take one original play with (in this case) five characters. Give it to 5 directors who cast and rehearse said play to the point of production. Five Directors. Five Casts. Twenty Five performances. Every performance, a very adroit stage manager phones one actor from each cast. Each evening is an Opening Night

The Rubber Room written by Gary Garrison & Roland Tec

Our first Without a Net Production is The Rubber Room. Between 1967 and 2010 hundreds of NYC teachers, accused of fraudulent behavior, were consigned to Reassignment Centers where they vegetated for years while their Acases@ were slowly adjudicated.The teachers called them Rubber Rooms.The taxpaying public called them a criminal waste of money.Billions of dollars were squandered. Thousands of students were affected.This is the explosive story of three of those teachers.Welcome to the Rubber Room.Take a seat!

March 25-April 3 - ECLECTIC EVENING OF SHORTS: BOXERS & BRIEFS

14 new plays performed over two evenings in Repertory. Come see your favorite actors play in Boxers and Briefs

BOXERS: GPS by Raphael Badagliacca, directed by Kelly Haran - The Ballad of Lulu & Dad by Wayne Paul Mattingly, directed by Heather Cohn - Just Say Something written & directed by Randy Noojin - The Man at the Front of the Room by Donald Steele, directed by Kathryn Long - Knowing Mrs. Mayfield by Drew Larimore, directed by Nick Stimler - An Unforseen Development by Jeffrey Sweet, directed by Patricia Birch - The Gift by Josh McIlvain, directed by Megan Cooper

BRIEFS: Yarns by Charles Niven, directed by Scotty Watson - A Certain Understanding by Patrick Nash, directed by Patrick Nash & Kristine Niven - Red Variation by Daniel Martin, directed by Clay Martin - Table Manners in Santa Monica by William Fowkes, directed by Wendy Peace - Memorial Day written & directed by Joseph Gallo - The Hotel Lobbyist by Bara Swain, directed by Catherine Siracusa - Welcome to Playland! by Jill Melanie Wirth & David Wirth, directed by David Wirth

AND on Stage - The MacCloskey & Myers Complete Do-It-Yourself Comedy Hour directed by Gary Austin

Prior to their run at DC's Capital Fringe Festival in July, Luke & Christina performed their original work in New York as part of our AND on Stage series.

Married comedians MacCloskey and Myers create a multimedia comedy romp! Luke and Christina spin fun out of life's odd and uncomfortable situations. Sketches, short films, improv, music and a game show with prizes!

Works-in-Progress

Baseball - A Love Story by Raphael Badagliacca

Baseball - A Love Story is a play about baseball and the people who love it. It's an ensemble comedy based on a book of short stories called: The Yogi Poems and other celebrations of local Baseball by Raphael Badagliacca. Baseball - A Love Story is a show about Yogi Berra, but it’s about more than Yogi. It’s about the Yankees, but it’s about more than the Yankees. It’s about fathers and sons playing catch. It's about growing up and growing old.

PRESENTATIONS FROM LAST SUMMER include:

A TIME RIPE AND RARE by Sue Bigelow and Carol Davis, directed by Janice Goldberg

First presented in our Eclectice Evening of Shorts II - Boxers, A Time Ripe and Rare was one of 40 plays (out of over 700 submitted) performing in the 34th annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival of New Plays. A Time Ripe and Rare ... at the dawn of D-Day, two women revisit a friendship on the beach of Devon ... a quiet place in a world filled with chaos.

A TIME TO DANCE - written & performed by Libby Skala

Part of the 2009 New York Fringe Festival, A Time To Dance celebrates the 100-year life of award-winning dance therapy pioneer Elizabeth Polk. Join her waltz through poverty, artistic repression, the Nazi regime, and the joyous persistence of the human spirit. Written and performed by her grandneice. Portions of this piece were worked on in our Anything Goes and Works-in-Progress programs.

FringeNYC 2009 - August 14-30

AND on Stage

Here we present fully developed work from our Laboratory program as well as projects by our professional participants which may have been developed separately but which meet our criteria for AND support. AND on Stage can be Equity (showcase or contract) or non-Equity (cabaret, stand up, improv, etc).
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Partial Production History

Eclectic Evening of Shorts II - Boxers & Briefs - Shetler Studios - March 2009

Flyovers by Jeffrey Sweet - 78th Street Theatre - February 2009

Solo Works in Progress - Shetler Studios, NY, 2008
That Dorothy Parker - written and performed by Carol Lempert - 2008 FringeNYC

Eclectic Evening of Short Works - 9 playwrights & 9 directors - 78th Street Theatre, New York, NY Love Games by Kristine Niven - West Bank Cafe Theatre, New York, NY
Bluff by Jeffrey Sweet - 78th Street Theatre, New York, NY
Oil by Gary Austin- 78th Street Theatre, New York, NY
With and Without by Jeffrey Sweet - Frog Pond Theatre, Lake Placid, NY
A Time to Dance by Libby Skala - 78th Street Theatre, New York, NY
Buon Natale, Bruno by Terianne Falcone - Midtown Theatre Festival, New York, NY
Shredders by David Ackerman - International Fringe Festival, New York, NY
That Play by Tom Gualtieri - MidtownTheatre Festival, New York, NY
Lilia! by Libby Skala - Midtown Theatre Festival, New York, NY
Church by Gary Austin- Center Stage, New York, NY