EVENTS AT THE TENT

August 18, 2023
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
LOTTERY BOY
A New Play by
EDWIN SANCHEZ
Featuring
PAOLA SANCHEZ ABREU
DANIEL ALLITT
CASSIE BECK
VERONICA CRUZ
MILES GUTIERREZ-RILE
MICHAEL SCHANTZ
DANNY WOLOHAN
Directed by
ESTEFANÍA FADUL
This reading offered the team an opportunity to hear a first draft among a supportive room of colleagues.

August 14, 2023
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
SOLITARY MAN
A New Play by
KEITH REDDIN
Featuring
JENNIFER BAREILLES
RANDY DANSON
MARIA DIZZIA
GREG STUHR
Directed by
AIMÉE HAYES
Vivid, tough, brilliantly funny characters who grapple and tear at the universe--and each other. A real family story.

June 16, 2023
Brooklyn, NY
Hosted by Todd London and Karen Hartman
TENT GATHERING #3
An evening of readings and performances
Featuring
CONNIE CONGDON
DAVID GREENSPAN
LEN JENKIN
JEFFREY JONES
TODD LONDON
EMILY MANN
KIRA OBOLENSKY
JOSÉ RIVERA
Tent Gatherings offer our roster of playwrights an opportunity to share work with each other in an informal space.

April 25, 2023
59E59
WHERE WOMEN GO
A New Play by
TINA HOWE
Featuring
TRACEE BEAZER BARRETT
KATIE CROYLE
BRENDA CURRIN
DANIELLE DAVENPORT
JESSICA DIGIOVANNI
PETER GANIM
MATTHEW MAGUIRE
ALANNA SAUNDERS
SHAYNA NICOLE SMALL
YEENA SUNG
Directed by
AIMÉE HAYES
WHERE WOMEN GO is a series of three short one-acts for a diverse cast of women of various ages. Tina Howe’s eccentric plays explore the humor and absurdity of women’s daily lives as they visit the dermatologist, eat at Subway, and go shopping.

January 13, 2023
Brooklyn, NY
TENT GATHERING #2
Hosted by
THERESA REBECK
An evening of readings and performances by
NEENA BEBER
KIA CORTHRON
KERMIT FRAZIER
PHILIP KAN GOTANDA
QUINCY LONG
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN
THERESA REBECK
JOSÉ RIVERA
OCTAVIO SOLIS
Tent Gatherings offer our roster of playwrights an opportunity to share work with each other in an informal space.

December 11, 2022
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
SCENE STUDY 1969
A New Play by
KATHLEEN TOLAN
Featuring
TAMIR BALDWIN
JESSICA HECHT
PETEY MCGEE
SUSANNAH PERKINS
CESAR ROSADO
CLAIRE SEIBERS
KEIVANA WALLACE
CHRISTOPHER DYLAN WHITE
Directed by
KNUD ADAMS
Acting classes in the East Village, NYC, a year where our troops were fighting a bloody, immoral war in Vietnam and people were raging in the streets, where the Black Panthers were being jailed and feted, where a group of young aspiring actors encountered an intrepid teacher who cajoled and hammered them to act.

November 16, 2022
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
A WORK-IN-PROGRESS
By
CRAIG LUCAS
Featuring
HALE APPLEMAN
HEATHER VELAZQUEZ
Directed by
AIMÉE HAYES
This reading created an intimate and informal space for the playwright and collaborators to hear an early draft.

October 17, 2022
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
A PLAY BY BARB AND CARL
A New Play by
CARLYLE BROWN
Featuring
CARLYLE BROWN
MARCIA DEBONIS
RAY ANTHONY THOMAS
Directed by
CRAIG LUCAS
In March 2017, playwright Carlyle Brown's wife and dramaturge Barbara Rose-Brown had a stroke leaving her with right side weakness and unable to speak. A dramaturge had lost her access to language. Playwright had lost his dramaturge. As a way of dealing with their situation they decided to write a play. This is that play.

October 2, 2022
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
WORSHIP
A New Play by
EDUARDO MACHADO
Featuring
HALE APPLEMAN
KEN BARNETT
EISA DAVIS
EMMA KAYE
ANA REEDER
KATHLEEN TOLAN
HEATHER VELAZQUEZ
Directed by
CRAIG LUCAS
Worship explores the relationship between teachers and the students who idolize them. Estelle, a legendary writing teacher, is known for her signature style—a mystical approach combined with a brutal honesty and a willingness to do anything in the name of art. Some vilify her, others canonize her. When Alzheimer's debilitates her, she is visited by the students she has influenced most. Through a series of flashbacks and ritualized devotionals,the sacred and profane nature of the bond between this guru and her disciples is exposed.

August 8, 2022
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
A RANDOM ACT
A New Play by
NEAL BELL
Featuring
AMARA JAMES AJA
BRITTANY-LAURELLE
JACK BERENHOLTZ
ZACHARY BOOTH
ANDREW GARMAN
JEB KREAGER
DEDE LOVEJOY
GAMEELA WRIGHT
Directed by
CHAY YEW
This was an exploration of a work-in-process with supportive colleagues.

June 10, 2022
Brooklyn Heights
TENT GATHERING #1
Hosted by
KATHLEEN CHALFANT
An evening of readings and performances by
NEENA BEBER
CONNIE CONGDON
KIA CORTHRON
DAVID GREENSPAN
QUINCY LONG
CRAIG LUCAS
JESSICA HAGEDORN
ELLEN McLAUGHLIN
JOSE RIVERA
KATHLEEN TOLAN
RICHARD DRESSER
DOUG WRIGHT
Tent Gatherings offer our roster of playwrights an opportunity to share work with each other in an informal space.

July 14, 2022
West Bank Café
INSURRECTION
A New Play by
DEB MARGOLIN
Featuring
TOM BLOOM
GENEVA CARR
CHRIS HENRY COFFEY
MICHAEL ESPER
GREG KELLER
BRIAN MISKELL
CHRIS STACK
Directed by
CRAIG LUCAS
A memory play that takes place in the present, whatever the present is in the aleatory presence of memory. It is the story of love between a daughter and her elderly father who is tormented by memories of his blacklisting during the McCarthy era; a daughter who laments the recurrence of America's betrayal of her father and of all its citizens throughout history, while being forced to confront betrayals of her own.

June 23, 2022
West Bank Café
MIDWEST PORN
A New Play by
QUINCY LONG
Featuring
CAMILA CANO-FLAVIA
WILL DAGGER
ETHAN DUBIN
RENE HOUTRIDES
LAYLA KHOSHNOUDI
ELISE KIBLER
KELLIE OVERBEY
LUCAS PAPAELIAS
JAY PATTERSON
Directed by
KATHLEEN DIMMICK
Students at St. Mary’s Elementary School are preparing for Confirmation, but fourth grader Beatrice and her coterie threaten to boycott the ceremony due to their doctrinal differences with Catholic orthodoxy. At the same time, low enrollment figures and a strange influx of turtles threaten the very survival of the school. The situation worsens when Mikey, Beatrice’s classmate, shoots one of the turtles in the girls bathroom. And then his father Richie, bent on reviving the city’s economy by creating a pornographic video industry in an abandoned factory, gets involved. Porn, parents, children and turtles come together in an astonishing revelation that somehow manages to save Confirmation and St. Mary’s. Amen.

May 23, 2022
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
LIGHTNING
A New Play by
BETH HENLEY
Featuring
BEN CHASE
ANDREA SYGLOWSKI
SOPHIE THATCHER
Directed by
TIM SANFORD
Dollarhide Star, a worn out salesman, climbs to the top of a blue mountain to sell a lightning rod to a young, lone woman, Net March. Each holds a host of secrets that unbutton, unravel, and reveal dark truths. Both are murderers and both are victims. Delusion and lies lead to seduction, violence, and a broken forgiveness. A surreal romance. A Blue Ridge Fantasia.