SUMMER FESTIVALS
AT THE TANK
DEY PHOENIX, PrideFest2020
SUMMER FESTIVALS AT THE TANK
Summer is Festival Season at The Tank! PrideFest, TrashFest, DarkFest, and LimeFest return!
2025 Festivals
PRIDEFEST
PrideFest (June 19th- 29th) A festival of new and imaginative performances from queer artists that center our community. The shows of PrideFest 2025 address queer joy, laughter, struggle, resistance and beauty through a range of mediums including theater, comedy, puppetry, storytelling, and music. These performances will reflect where we've come from, where we are, and where we can go.
Submissions closed April 27th.
DARKFEST
DarkFest (July 21st- 27th) For twelve years, The Tank has hosted DarkFest - a week of shows that do not use conventional theatrical lighting in an effort to reexamine how we can make theater more sustainable. DarkFest celebrates innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources.
Submissions closed May 26th.
TRASHFEST
TrashFest (July 21st- 27th) It is often difficult to wrestle with the environmental impact that our daily lives and our work have - especially in theater, where so many resources are needed to develop sets, props, and costumes that are only used for a short amount of time. TrashFest centers work that produces no waste by reusing materials discarded as garbage.
Submissions closed May 26th.
LIMEFEST
LimeFest (August 4th-24th) New, zesty works by emerging artists and creative teams who identify as women, non-binary, or gender non-conforming.
Submissions closed May 19th.
2024 Festivals
2021 FESTIVALS
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2020 Festivals
Turn this Stay-at-Home Order into a Gay-at-Home Order. Because social distancing is no Sapph-faux pas.
A story inspired by the 2016 Orlando shooting. A personal account of one of the lives that found himself in a club on a dreadful June evening.
@HeyItsShay, @TeeganWithoutASarah, & @Paige2K find themselves at the Spahn Ranch with the god-tier influencer, Charlie. SWAY investigates the extreme need for and the exploitation of human connection in the current era of influencing.
The 5th Annual Big Gay Virtual Dance Show is a big gay part of PrideFest at The Tank NYC and co-presented by Gotham Dance Theater. The evening includes original dance works created by LGBTQ+ choreographers include Marc Nuñez (Founder, Director of Gotham Dance Theater) and GDT Artists: Lyndsay Dru Corbett, Nadia Khayrallah, Vivake Khamsingsavath.
Last night, Stacy & Mia were grinding at a frat party. Today, they’re roommates. When class and codependence clash in just 120 square feet, what could “boundaries” possibly look like?
A Mary's Mixology is a full-length monologue that examines the relationship between queerness and alcohol and alcoholism, as a fag sits in his apartment on the first anniversary of his sobriety and tries to figure it all out.
The Tank X Dev Phoenix Presents Black Phoenix Nest: Black Excellence
A CyberTank Virtual Variety Show Featuring:
Beleza Negra
Nita B Yellowcakes
Bentley Rebel
Utter Beauty
YungPoleMaster
Queenly Femmetastic
Jazz the Poler
How to Survive the End of the World stars Hannah Cruz, Dylan Hartwell, Greg Sullivan and Ellen Winter, with a script and lyrics by EllaRose Chary, music, lyrics and audio/video production by Brandon James Gwinn, and production management by Adrianna Lombardi.
Hosted by Stevie
Theme: IT’S PRIDE LET’S RIOT
Welcome to CyberTank: an e-home for e-merging artists. CyberTank hosts a weekly, remote, multidisciplinary, variety arts gathering open to all as well as other programming throughout the week.
Lineup coming soon!
Five virtual rounds of Rule of 7x7 have wrapped, featuring filled-to-capacity Zoom rooms, brand new 10-minute plays presented in brand new ultra-innovative ways, plus laughter and togetherness to boot.
"Vessel of a Woman” is a poetry cycle concieved by Merlixse Ventura; exploring the themes of pandemic, privilege and patriarchy from the perspective of an Afro-Dominican woman.
Written, Directed & Performed By Merlixse Ventura
Produced By Cindy De La Cruz
Musical Direction By Marcela Avelina
In 2020, a play about a Jewish woman's quest to go back in time and break Jared Kushner's penis, was set to have its premiere at The Tank. But due to Covid-19 and Jared's failure to contain the virus in the US, the play can no longer be done in a theater full of people. So instead, the artistic team sets to do a new version of the play online! It doesn't go as planned.
Proceeds of ticket sales will be donated to Immigrant Families Together
A puppet variety hour of new short works presented by womxn and non-gendered artists using puppetry to explore feminist confidence, sexual identity, mental illness, inclusion, and comedy for adults.
The FemFilm Festival screens short films written, directed and starring women. This year's cross-genre theme, Alternate Realities, showcases surreal work that comments on the odd realities of modern life.
A young LDS missionary's faith is faltering and doesn't know if she can find the courage to do it again. When God calls you on a mission will she pick up?
Kallan and Erica love Trent Lakeview, reclusive heartthrob lead singer of the defunct boyband, Youniverse. Kallan and Erica found Trent's apartment. Kallan and Erica will wait for him outside his apartment. Kallan and Erica will wait as long as it takes. Kallan and Erica will be happy.
Join Marti as she tells her family she is taking advantage of her state's new Death with Dignity law over the most sacred of Italian-American traditions, Sunday Dinner.
The evening Melody is a glance at the life of Maryam Shoja, a news reporter in Tehran. Two productions of this play will be performed live at the same time in Tehran and New York.The audience can watch both Iranian version and American version simultaneously while voting for the language that they want to hear.
7 writers.
7 rules.
7 new virtual plays.
2 nights only.
Performed on Zoom, streamed on YouTube.
It's the NYT & TimeOutNY highlight for Quality Virtual Content!
Hosted & Produced by Brett Epstein.
7 writers.
7 rules.
7 new virtual plays.
2 nights only.
Performed on Zoom, streamed on YouTube.
It's the NYT & TimeOutNY highlight for Quality Virtual Content!
Hosted & Produced by Brett Epstein.
As part of LimeFest this year, High-Key serves vibrant vocals with lady legato. Actor/singer/writer Miriam Pultro presents a collaborative cabaret performed by friends of the feminine persuasion, including songs from her folk song cycle Comings & Goings, renaissance prog rock musical Stardust, and comedy jazz from ever-evolving Quarantine: The Musical. A femme fix for your Friday night!
Becca Beberaggi is an Ecuadorian - American writer, comedian, playwright, visual artist, and occasional singer born and raised in New York City and based in LA. Her musical persona Roselina Albino takes over for an evening of song and stories.
BAD MIME is the solo project of drummer/programmer Zach Simao. Sounds like Nujabes and Jungle collaborated on an indie movie soundtrack.
CyberTank Variety Show
Every Tuesday at 4PM
HOSTED BY Deby Xiadani
“How to Use an Onion!”
What is CyberTank Variety Show?
A weekly, remote, multidisciplinary, variety arts gathering open to all where we explore t h e a t r i c a l i t y + t h e m e s by you.
Sammie James is a comedian and story teller from New Jersey; where she hosts and produces the podcasts All Of My Friends Are Animals and Boo Haha. Sammie also hosts the NYC Trans Variety show We Are Trans and has run shows and mics all over NJ NYC and Philadelphia. Sammie has performed all over the country; including past appearances at Cinder Block Comedy Festival, Charm City Comedy Festival and Bechdal Test Fest; and she is soon to be your favorite disabled, nerdy, butch trans woman in comedy.
Join Sammie for stand up and stories about self love, trans identity, things that happen in the bathroom and so much more.
Previously known as LadyFest, LimeFest is a zesty digital festival to celebrate new works by some of the most exciting womxn, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists with stories that we believe must be centered, exalted and provided resources. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit The Tank’s website.
"Why Limes?? Why LimeFest??"
Let's be honest – Limes are upfront, tangy, zesty and make everything better. Limes have a diverse genetic makeup and come in all shapes and sizes throughout the world. In the world of cooking, limes are an ingredient that enhances and transforms. In the realm of health, limes provide nourishment. In history and mythology, limes fall from feminine trees and have represented love and justice. What better fruit then to carry the name of a festival intended to bring underrepresented genders together to tell stories in the name of radical love and a constant striving for justice?
2019 Festivals
TICKETS
$10
About Dark Fest
We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on.
FEATURED 2019 PERFORMANCES
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART, PART III in the 56
ROBERT AND STEVE IN THE MACHINE
Written, Directed, and Designed by Erin Perry
Robert (Katharine Loughery) and Steve (Allison Akmajian) exist in a video game. And they want to get out. Desperately. They grapple with their existence and their friendship as they die, are reborn, and play the game over and over. Will they make it out alive? Will their friendship survive? And when all is said and done, is the hell they know better than the one they don’t?
Music by Kendall Perry
Featuring Allison Akmajian and Katharine Loughery
Special Thanks to Ian Fraser for production advice
AND WHO WILL FOLLOW RACHEL?
Written and Directed by Andrew Plimpton
Set deep underground, this play concerns a closed community that is forced to reckon with the presence of an outsider.
Featuring Emma Welch, Denali Thomas, Katie Spurgin, Amanda Campbell (Actors Equity/SAG), Andrew Duff (Actors Equity), Nick DiLeonardi
Stage Managed by Abbey Starling
SURGE
Written by Tanya Perez
Directed by Rebecca Aparicio
SURGE is about a couple going through a divorce stuck in the very last place they thought possible: a Florida motel room in the middle of a vicious hurricane.
Featuring Daniel Harray and Lorraine Mattox
IN TRAINING
Written by Rachael Carnes
Welcome to your first day of on-the-job training, in this hilarious romp through workplace culture, starring Yulia Baskina and Phoebe Leonard, directed (for the FOURTH time!) by Gregg Pica. That is a whole lotta darkness.
TICKETS
$10
We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on. SHOT IN THE DARK is Dark Fest's variety show of work all done with no lights from our grid.
PROGRAM B
EXHAUSTED
Written, Designed, and Performed by Jon DeGaetano
What does it mean to take our resources to their very limit and beyond? What happens when that resource is our very own mind and body? Exhausted is the beginning of an exploration into how we over extend both fossil fuels and our own endurance.
VICTORY
Created and Performed by: Daniel Burns, Olivia Vaughn Hern, Eben Hoffer, Dana Weintraub
Abandoned by her father, a girl travels to the end of the earth to try get him back. Dreams and reality begin to blur as she finds herself dogged by a mysterious beast, and she finds herself on a different kind of journey than she ever could have imagined. Created by Daniel Burns, Olivia Vaughn Hern, Eben Hoffer and Dana Weintraub, VICTORY uses music, shadow, and puppetry to create an intimate and lyrical storytelling experience.
Sound Design by Eben Hoffer and Scott MacDonald
Accompaniment by Noah Singer
TICKETS
$5
Darkness covers the land, the people fear for their lives, hope is all but gone. There is one thing the people cling to: a legend. A legend of a great hero who will rise up and vanquish the darkness. A hero who will be remembered forever in as the savior of our world. That hero, is you! The Saga of the Shining Emblem is a one-of-a-kind improvised story-telling experience. Each night, one audience member is selected to be the hero of that nights story. They are guided through a fantastical adventure with one actor serving as the narrator, supporting characters, and anything else our hero should encounter. Our intrepid hero has one goal; to seek the Shining Emblem! an object of unimaginable power capable of granting one wish to whomever should find it! How they find it (or if they even bother to quest it at all) is totally up to them! It's like Dungeons & Dragons, only way less dice and way more silly. All accompanied by a live score! Will you return the light to this world? Or join with the darkness? The choice is yours!
Created and Performed by Matthew Schott
Music by Sam Kessler
Technical Direction by Dylan James Amick
TICKET
$10
About Dark Fest
We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on.
FEATURED 2019 PERFORMANCES
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART, PART II in the 56
Monsters Beyond the Midnight Zone
By Lindsay Partain
Two scientists exploring the depths of the Mariana Trench are attacked by a tentacled monster, leaving them to fend for themselves in total darkness.
Additional Credits:
Directed by Karin Crighton
Sound Design by Brennan Staffieri
Produced by Franky Gonzalez
Danielle Adams as Romy
Sophie Moshofsky as Lea
d.ark/ness
Created by Eli Schleicher
Eucalyptus is dying and candles are burning and clouds are hanging between these three people. They can’t convince each other of much of anything, but they keep looking for some way to talk to each other. Maybe they’ll figure it out and make us all feel better.
Cast: Steph Seiden, Derek Speedy, Carla Troconis
The Three S’s of Scaring (A DEDTalk)
By S.A. Weingarten
Lucky you -- Stephen is known as a master of the macabre, and tonight he's here to pass that knowledge to you! At Stephen’s DEDTalk you will learn the 3 S's of Scaring while also experiencing them. Think you’re immune? Think again.
Additional Credits:
Director & Sound Design - Andi Lee Carter
Makeup Design - Audrey Lasicki
Costumes/Props Design - E.L. Hohn
Airdrop
Playwright and Tank associate Artist Kev Berry investigates. He investigates how something that happened to him at work happened to him and he investigates what it means to feel embarrassed and he investigates why it felt like such a mountain when it was really just a molehill.
$10
We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on. SHOT IN THE DARK is Dark Fest's variety show of work all done with no lights from our grid.
PROGRAM A
PROGRAM A
Surface Tension
Created and Performed by Liz Oakley
A solo performance of objects, bodies, and illumination, Surface Tension uses movement and puppetry to explore encounters between the inside and the outside.
Voicemail Symphony
Created by Travis Amiel
Voicemail Symphony is an interactive composition featuring my actual voicemail archive. featuring performances from my family, friends, doctor's offices, and spam agencies.
The Delay
Written and Directed by Emma Gometz
The Delay is a play about two subway trains stuck on the tracks, wondering what's stopped them. It's also about anxiety, fear, how we try to control our lives, and how much of that control is just in our heads.
TICKET
$10
About Dark Fest
We are turning off the lights! In this Festival and environmental initiative, The Tank is celebrating innovative performance that utilizes self-sufficient and alternative energy sources. Artists are using everything from glow-in-the-dark mouth guards to flashlights and more to shed some light on their work. Don't worry - we keep the AC on.
FEATURED 2019 PERFORMANCES
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART, PART I in the 56
SEVEN SECONDS OF LOVE
Written by Jake Schick
Directed by Shoshana Ehrenkranz
Seven Seconds of Love is about two people sentenced to life in prison, who determine how to live the rest of their lives, knowing they'll never see the outside world again.
Cast: RJ Christian, Jake Robbins, Bella Maxwell, Kendrick Eckman
I NAME YOU*
Written and Co-Produced by Rebecca Kane
Directed and Co-Produced by Taylor Thomson
Angela and Sophia have kidnapped and blindfolded a frat boy named Chris to give him a punishment equal to the sexual assault he committed on someone close to them. The problem is, as the night goes on, they’re not entirely sure they have the right frat boy, the right crime, or a proper punishment.
Fight Choreography by Leo Giannopoulos
Featuring Korra O'Neill, Madrid Vinarski, and Dominic Mangiocco
*Trigger/content warning for violence and talk of sexual assault)
TICKETS
$10
'Hi Mom!' is a new project created to amplify the voices of "the characters" of the current Climate Crisis.
Selections from 'Hi, Mom!'
Activist by Laura Delhauer
Performed by Nino Gurgenidze
Eulogy of the Hydrocarbon by Reed Arnold
Performed by Reed Arnold
Mama by Reed Arnold
Performed by Laura Delhauer
Directed by Jonathan Zautner & Laura Delhauer
Tickets
$5
With the future of our nation hanging in the balance and revolution in the air, the need to respond to what is happening in our world RIGHT NOW is more urgent than ever. The Fast and the Furious is a call to arms for artists across all disciplines to make new work about news items and current events that have happened in the week prior.
This evening of performances created in just seven days will be the boldest, most contemporary, fastest and most furious artistic answers to the world we live in today.
TICKETS
$15
When a middle school health teacher gets fired after talking about masturbation with her students, she creates a sex ed class for the repressed women of her town. Part play, part interactive experience, TELL ME WHAT I WANT creates a space to address the shame surrounding women's bodies.
Run Time: 80 min
GINA STEVENSEN (Playwright) is a playwright and dramaturg based in NYC. She was a 2019 nominee for the OBIE Award-winning Mentor Project at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Her plays include THE COLONY (American Stage’s 21st Century Voices New Play Festival, Semifinalist: Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition & Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Off-Broadway Reading: Urban Stages, Finalist: The Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights Workshop), CRUEL SISTER (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), KIDS (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and BOOK OF ESTHER (Reading: Hartford Stage, Top Ten Finalist: Jewish Playwriting Contest, Semi-Finalist: Princess Grace Award). Gina has been a guest lecturer at NYU’s Open Arts program and is an Affiliated Artist with The Hess Collective. She teaches playwriting at Tribeca Performing Arts Center’s annual Writers in Performance Workshop and through The Writer’s Rock. MFA Playwriting: Columbia University. www.ginastevensen.com
NANA DAKIN (Director) is a Thai-American director of new plays, classics and devised performance based in New York City. Her work pursues social equity by examining the way culture is constructed and unsettling dormant biases. She is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), a core member of B-Floor Theatre, Thailand’s vanguard physical theatre company and the President of the Board of Directors of the Thai Theatre Foundation. As an Assistant Director she has worked on "Mary Jane" (NYTW), "The Bacchae" (Getty Villa, BAM Next Wave), "Wild Goose Dreams" (The Public Theater), and "Camelot" (Lincoln Center Theater). Recent directing credits include an all-female production of Shakespeare’s "Richard III" (Lenfest Center for the Arts) and the World Premiere of Anchuli Felicia King's "White Pearl" (The Royal Court). www.nanadakin.com
CAST:
Amara Brady
Alinca Hamilton*
Hannah McKechnie
Margarita Tavárez
Gabrielle Young
*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
A reimagining of Nabokov’s Lolita as a dark comedienne in charge of her own surreal narrative as an adult. Calling herself Dolly, she “resurrects” herself on stage, examines her life with skepticism and gallows humor, and works to puncture her documented legacy. Written by Iliria Osum.
A reimagining of Nabokov’s Lolita as a dark comedienne in charge of her own surreal narrative as an adult. Calling herself Dolly, she “resurrects” herself on stage, examines her life with skepticism and gallows humor, and works to puncture her documented legacy. Written by Iliria Osum.
devour.,
Written and Performed by Taji Senior
A warrior goddess created by the Black Mother Goddesses and adorned in glorious robes of divinity, the celestial Ishtar fiercely guards her temple until the moment a stranger appears and disrupts her sanctuary and her sense of self. Under the counsel of The Black Mother Goddesses, Ishtar flees from the stranger abandoning her home and her beloved companion, The Bull of Heaven. Overcome with loneliness and grief, Ishtar makes a damning choice that forces her to choose between her divinity and her desire.
devour., is a theatrical contemplation of the ways in which desire and desirability are further complicated by blackness. What does it mean to long for love while inhabiting a body you’ve taught to fear and hate? At its core, devour. is a synthesis of lived experiences, literature, academic research and activist movements that spans centuries and continents, from the study of the iconography of black bodies in nineteenth-century European art, such as Edwin Long’s The Babylonian Marriage Market and Édouard Manet’s Olympia to the contemplative examination of black womanhood in the poetry of June Jordan, Lucille Clifton and Pat Parker. devour., deeply excavates facets of the Black American female experience and returns to the surface through movement, poetry, myth and theatrical magic.
TICKETS
Free
How We Love/F*ck, a new play from powerhouse actor/writer Lillian Isabella, is a sex-positive theatre piece in response to the #MeToo movement where she looks to celebrate female sexuality, and how fun sex can be.
The play is inspired by documentary-style interviews with a tribe of 28 diverse female-identifying individuals, ranging from 25 to 89 years old. Through candid monologues created from the interviews, Lillian begins to discover her own sexual agency, the healing power of ecstatic experience, and the importance of sharing this new understanding with the world.
Brought to you by Three Rooms Press and Edge In Motion Productions, How We Love/F*ck is directed and executive produced by theatre vet Kat Georges, and produced by Lindsay-Elizabeth Hand.
$10
Three people play a game... in 2075.
In a world where physical existence seems imminently impossible, a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search of the promised land; a virtual utopia. Alliances are made and broken as personal visions cross and collide in a social experiment that begins to chip away at individual identities. No Place examines the relationships between citizenship, nationhood and personhood and asks What happens to a person when they undertake an extreme journey of migration?
Written and Directed by Andrea Ang
Created by the company
Featuring Ana Cantorán Viramontes, Sarah McEneaney, and Juliana Suaide
No Place is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in
partnership with the City Council. Subsidized studio space provided by the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
FREE!
A storm of biblical proportions, and a woman who won't stop bleeding. GUSHER! is an unapologetic play about what happens when women are allowed to be messy.
Play by Jan Rosenberg
Directed by Jessica O'Hara-Baker
Cast:
JOSLYN DEFREECE*
MORGAN MCGUIRE
FLORENCIA LOZANO*
CAYLYN CREAGER
Stage directions: Grace Olson-Davidson
TICKETS
$5
When Cassie joins the all female exclusive social club, The Hive, shes ready for her boring female life to become way more glam and important! But in this new ultra hip feminist co-working space-things soon start to get weird!
Playwright: Catherine Weingarten
Director- Emily Penick
Production Manager- Natalie Osborne
Stage Manager- Anna Kovaks
Cast: Alycia Kunkle, Laura Ornella, Manning Jordan, Sara Turner, Gwendolyn Ellis and Glenna Brucken
$20
Anaïs Maviel, Megan Schubert, Gelsey Bell and Yoon Sun Choi perform vocal quartets "Be" and "Late Duck" written by Anaïs Maviel and Megan Schubert
Anaïs Maviel's "Be" investigates the co-existence of duality and unity in this world in transformation. You might hear all layered urban, natural, feminine, masculine references, negation that negates itself in a play with even and odd numbers - all invoking balancing with the repeated question: ¿Que estas haciendo? [What are you doing?] Portuguese, Spanish, French, Japanese and English are used in this version.
On Megan Schubert's "Late Duck": "Maybe I'm reaching for a non-binary utopia where bodies and emotional labor aren't taken for granted. Meanwhile, I've decided healing and repossession are possible for me. This piece, told through live and pre-recorded voices, video, and animation, is about my leaving indignation and shame behind, and baby steps towards facing a personal dragon that looms larger and larger the more I avoid it. Boarding that boat with chosen family."
The Surrogate is an all-female-identified play about a woman, Sophia, who wants a baby but can’t have one and the younger woman, Cece, who is going to carry it for her – for a price. As Sophia slowly becomes a surrogate Mother-figure to Cece herself, the blooming of this unexpected bond comes crashing down when there is a complication in the pregnancy, and Sophia has to make a choice that could cost her not only Cece’s trust, but her marriage to her wife, Kit.
$10
Three people play a game... in 2075.
In a world where physical existence seems imminently impossible, a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search of the promised land; a virtual utopia. Alliances are made and broken as personal visions cross and collide in a social experiment that begins to chip away at individual identities. No Place examines the relationships between citizenship, nationhood and personhood and asks What happens to a person when they undertake an extreme journey of migration?
Written and Directed by Andrea Ang
Created by the company
Featuring Ana Cantorán Viramontes, Sarah McEneaney, and Juliana Suaide
No Place is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in
partnership with the City Council. Subsidized studio space provided by the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
TICKETS
$15
In #MomVlogLyfe, the Mundanity of IRL Meets the Glamour of Celebrity
Rachael Murray, Tanya Chattman, and Naked Theatre Company present #MomVlogLyfe, a deep dive down the YouTube rabbit hole of mom vloggers. Follow a gaggle of mom vloggers in their quest to organize their households and entertain their adoring fans. The Mom Vlogger is a new kind of Mom: She brings home the bacon, fries it up in a pan, and then gets 100,000 viewers to watch that bacon fry. Between checking off items on her endless to-do list and creating high-quality content, she keeps all the plates spinning in style. It’s hard out here for a mom, so she might as well monetize, right? Grocery hauls, unboxings, collabs, sponsored content, and parenting too: This is #MomVlogLyfe.
Rachael Murray and Tanya Chattman are co-creators of the piece. Murray directs, and Chattman choreographs. CAST: Tanya Chattman, Ashley Marie Ortiz, Julia Sears, Samantha Simone, and Aleigha K. Spinks.
TICKETS
$20
Life has three guarantees: you’re born, you die, and if your name is Rio, you dance on the sand. In this hour-long musical storytelling show, indie rocker and Moth Mainstage storyteller Sam Shaber takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster of laughter, tears, and catharsis, from her obsessive, starstruck adolescence to the sobering losses of adulthood, to a triumphant realization about the power of those we love.
Co-written and directed by award-winning writer/director/comedian Lynn Ferguson, Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran garnered 5-star reviews and Pick of the Fringe at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Pick of the Fringe, Critics' Choice and a Hollywood Producers Encore Award at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe. Sam is excited to celebrate the show's New York debut at The Tank during Ladyfest 2019.
***** ––British Theatre Guide
"A must-see." ––BBC Scotland
"A touching tale of love, loss and the power within ourselves." ––Broadway World
"The stories are heartfelt and her singing is stunning." ––Three Weeks
TICKETS
$18
Ever watch the movie Minority Report and think you were going to stab your dad to death after so you told him to send you to your mom's house for the night?? Ever been afraid to use the word 'delectable' in a sentence after Jon Binay Ramsay said it the night before she was murdered in the Jon Binay Ramsay Lifetime Original Movie? Cuz I'm gonna be real-- if so, you probably have OCD. Like me! Hi, I'm Olivia Levine and I suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We've all heard about the hand washing, the touching, the counting. But most of us haven't heard the rest of it-- the fear of accidentally causing violent harm to a loved one, the fear that using a particular word might result in the death of your best friend. Skid marks on your undies! Impregnating your mother! Accidentally encountering child pornography! THE LIST GOES ON FOLKS. So stop by my show Unstuck: A One Woman Show About Growing Up With OCD and hear all about how I worked through these fears and started getting the help I needed!
TICKETS
$10
Created By: DEBY XIADANI, ALEC RING, LUKE KATLER
Special Guest: MICHELE BUSTER! Creator of FOREVER CHEESE will teach us about the highest quality parmesans, Pecorino Romanos, and more! There will also be WINE and plenty of FUNNY!
This show is also ALL LADIES! LADY COMEDIANS, WRITERS, FOOD CREATORS
”GOOD COOKS" is where food and comedy meet! Think SNL, meets a Late Night Show, but entirely about food! Each month, we invite 1-2 amazing guests who work in the world of food and TASTINGS of their product are guaranteed every show! So come taste, laugh, and explore with us in our Comedy Kitchen!
Love your chefs,
Deby Xiadani, Alec Ring, Luke Katler
"GOOD COOKS" is a monthly sketch comedy show all about food. Each month, we invite two amazing guests who work in the world of food. We interview them about their passions and their work and help them plan audience tastings and demonstrations. Between interviews, original comedy sketches keep the atmosphere upbeat and energized. We've featured chefs, small business owners, social media influencers, publicists, sommeliers, and more. The show was born out of our shared love of food, comedy, and creating a sense of community for our audience.
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdrBkYv8I8fbSaiozj9jw6w
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GoodCooksComedy/
BIOS:
DEBY XIADANI (Director/Writer/Producer) is a human specializing in new work and dark comedy. She won the fictitious award for Most Likely To Make Friends on the Train. She was actually nominated Best Director 2018 for Leurana (by Enrique Huili). She has been asked back to Dartmouth College (her alma mater) seven times to direct, emcee, and produce live events because she is a great collaborator. Shes lived in Chicago and Mexico City (its safer now, Mom) and in her spare time she writes sketch at UCB and teaches fitness to active adults. (xiadani: shee-ah-daw-nee) @debursxgb
ALEC RING (Director/Writer/Producer) is a director, writer, and producer with training at UCB and Improv Olympic based in New York. After living in Los Angeles, Alec moved to New York to begin working at Cinetic Media - a full service sales, finance, management, and production company in film and television. Most recently, he has assisted with the production of Ethan Hawkes BLAZE which premiered at Sundance 2018 and Peter Farrellys GREEN BOOK starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, released on November, 16th.
LUKE KATLER (Director/Writer/Producer) Hails from sunny south Florida where he spent his days staring longingly at the beach from a darkened room watching 90s comedies. Luke works at William Morris Endeavor as an assistant to a theatre agent, who represents Broadway-level choreographers, directors and playwrights. Luke has spent his young and adult life as a performer in everything ranging from Shakespeare, musical theatre, and improv at Chicagos Improv Olympic. Currently Luke is focusing his attention on helping usher NETWORK starring Bryan Cranston to the Broadway stage. On any given day or night you can likely find Luke at the theatre or huffing and puffing on a strained run along the Hudson.
TICKETS
$20
One woman’s dark comic journey to the other side of the overpass. Mary Goggin shares stories of sex, drugs, and Irish Catholicism, laced with characters based on her experiences as a former professional call girl. As a massive reaction to sexual repression, Mary takes us from the Irish famine to ’70s pimps to joy!
“Runaway Princess, a Hopeful tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness”
written and performed by Mary Goggin.
*Mary Goggin (writer, performer): AEA-DG-SAG/AFTRA,
Actor on stage and in film for 20 years. Favorite recent roles include, Ella O’Neill (wife of Eugene O’Neill) in Ann Hansen’s “Road to Babylon”, Broadway Bound Festival. A joy being directed Cyndy Marion in numerous Tennessee works including, Cavalier for M’Lady, Clothes For A Summer Hotel and A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot. Also PB & J for the NY Fringe Festival and Born to be Blue, winner, Samuel French festival Favorite TV Roles include; Broad City, Law and Order, Guiding Light, The Grind (Amazon). Favorite Film Roles include; Little Children, MAD (soon to be released), The Trouble with Bliss, Gasoline, Bronx Paradise. Nominated for best actor, by Freeway Films for her “Rose” in “Reservations”Check her out on IMDB!
Dan Ruth (Director). Dan is an award-winning solo artist for his play, A Life Behind Bars which has played to sell out crowds around the country, most recently at City Winery, NYC. He’s the winner of the 2016 United Solo Festival Award for “Best Autobiographical Show,” The 2018 Bistro Award winner for “Outstanding Solo Play,” MAC Award for “Best Spoken Word Artist” and the 2018 Producers Encore Award from the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Dan has directed both regionally and in NYC where he also served as a core director for The A-Train Plays at the Sanford Meisner Theatre.
Matthew WJ Mitchell (Tech) is an actor, writer, and improviser originally from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, IL. He currently lives in Weehawken, NJ and absolutely loves it there. Matt has light and sound designed at theaters all over NYC, including the PIT, 59E59th, Creek & The Cave, Clemente, and the past few years at United Solo. Hire him: mattmitch927@gmail.com.
My mission to heal thru my art has begun... So excited to be in the world…
TICKETS
Free!
It’s heady times for the Slotted Spoons, a dance troupe of four middle-aged moms. The mayor’s retirement celebration will be the biggest show of their lives, but the moms need a new choreographer, and they need one fast. Fortune upon fortunes, their fearless leader, Jenny Hu, has secured the services of an exquisitely, hauntingly, unconventional young woman named India (no relation to the country) who soon has the Spoons whipped up into some kind of a… a… well, it’s not a dance, exactly? There’s a lot of soul-baring. Maybe too much. And a huge bag of what they’re told is just sweet, sweet, candy.
Cast: Noreen Farley, Vanessa Kai, Alice Kremelberg, Sheila Stasack
Directed by: Jessica O’Hara-Baker
Written by: Ying Ying Li
$5
There's only one thing Cameron wants more than to break into the New York comedy scene, and that's to win the heart of her newly-resurfaced, childhood friend Roxanne. But when Roxanne recruits Cameron's help to catch the eye of Midwestern, comedy newby (and boy!) Christian, Cam suddenly finds herself the orchestrator of their romance. Set in the early 2000s, this rom/com retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac explores gender & sexuality, artistic integrity, and what it really means to fall in love. Jordan Coats is honored to join LadyFest with this reading-style production of her new play.
TICKETS
$20
Life has three guarantees: you’re born, you die, and if your name is Rio, you dance on the sand. In this hour-long musical storytelling show, indie rocker and Moth Mainstage storyteller Sam Shaber takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster of laughter, tears, and catharsis, from her obsessive, starstruck adolescence to the sobering losses of adulthood, to a triumphant realization about the power of those we love.
Co-written and directed by award-winning writer/director/comedian Lynn Ferguson, Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran garnered 5-star reviews and Pick of the Fringe at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Pick of the Fringe, Critics' Choice and a Hollywood Producers Encore Award at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe. Sam is excited to celebrate the show's New York debut at The Tank during Ladyfest 2019.
***** ––British Theatre Guide
"A must-see." ––BBC Scotland
"A touching tale of love, loss and the power within ourselves." ––Broadway World
"The stories are heartfelt and her singing is stunning." ––Three Weeks
www.samshaber.com/lifedeathduranduran
$20
Smashworks Dance presents a work-in-progress excerpt from FEMPIRE — a utopian world run by unharnessed and uninhibited women. An evening length performance of episodic dances, FEMPIRE introduces various women characters of strength and uncensored expressions of truth, playfully pushing against gender normative stereotypes through feminist camp. Featuring choreography by Ashley McQueen in collaboration with Smashworks Dance, and introducing newest performer Hope Salas in collaboration with Justin Cimino, FEMPIRE fuses dance performance with prop-driven physical theatre to present a culmination of our current feminist fight — loud, uncensored, and unafraid.
StartUp
A Staged Reading
Directed by Devon Caraway
Beth and Eva haven’t been in the professional world long but they already know that corporate life isn’t for them. When their crowdfunding campaign successfully reaches their financing goal, their dream of starting their own company becomes a reality. Gathering some of their other lady friends, they jump into the more unconventional life of running a startup, but they quickly discover that there is a steep learning curve to running your own business.
$10
BEDTIME PLAYS
Everything We Need To Talk About Before We Talk About Sex
Written by Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell
Directed by Rakesh Palisetty
Sara wants to, she really does, but if only she could say what she’s thinking out loud. Everything We Need To Talk About Before We Talk About Sex asks the question: what do you have to overcome within yourself to be intimate with another person?
Teeth
Written by Ciara Ni Chuirc
Directed by Kelly O'Donnell
Aaron wants Colleen to tell him what she wants - but talking about it is the opposite of what she wants. Teeth is a darkly comedic play about the difficulties we encounter in talking about sex, and women's anxieties about asking for what they want in the bedroom.
$15
An evening of short films by female forces of nature. Showcasing work by emerging NYC-based filmmakers, these short films are written, directed, and starring all women.
3 DAYS, by Julie Sharbutt
7 MINUTES, by Means of Productions
CEVICHE, by Doménica Garcia
EUDAEMONIA, by Julia Ngeow
GREATER GOOD, by Andrea Ashton
NAMES OF WOMEN, by Poppy Liu
SYNAPSE, by Lauren Kerr
TEETH, by Julia Price Baron
TINA, by Gayatri Bahl
WOMEN'S WORK, by Ja'Tovia Gary
TICKETS
$18
Ever watch the movie Minority Report and think you were going to stab your dad to death after so you told him to send you to your mom's house for the night?? Ever been afraid to use the word 'delectable' in a sentence after Jon Binay Ramsay said it the night before she was murdered in the Jon Binay Ramsay Lifetime Original Movie? Cuz I'm gonna be real-- if so, you probably have OCD. Like me! Hi, I'm Olivia Levine and I suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We've all heard about the hand washing, the touching, the counting. But most of us haven't heard the rest of it-- the fear of accidentally causing violent harm to a loved one, the fear that using a particular word might result in the death of your best friend. Skid marks on your undies! Impregnating your mother! Accidentally encountering child pornography! THE LIST GOES ON FOLKS. So stop by my show Unstuck: A One Woman Show About Growing Up With OCD and hear all about how I worked through these fears and started getting the help I needed!
“Not a Pipeline Problem: 6, 10-minute plays written and directed by badass womxn” is a celebration of femme creative power. Join these five playwrights for an afternoon of questioning... “What’s really the problem? Cause girl, it ain’t us”.
$20
Smashworks Dance presents a work-in-progress excerpt from FEMPIRE — a utopian world run by unharnessed and uninhibited women. An evening length performance of episodic dances, FEMPIRE introduces various women characters of strength and uncensored expressions of truth, playfully pushing against gender normative stereotypes through feminist camp. Featuring choreography by Ashley McQueen in collaboration with Smashworks Dance, and introducing newest performer Hope Salas in collaboration with Justin Cimino, FEMPIRE fuses dance performance with prop-driven physical theatre to present a culmination of our current feminist fight — loud, uncensored, and unafraid.
$15 General Admission, $10 Student Ticket
At 2am in a muggy laundromat, the Miller sisters find themselves alone besides the erratic muffles of a baby monitor. As the humidity rises, and the muffles become louder, Betty and Faith’s patience grows thin, spiraling them into ultimate sibling rivalry.
Cast
Betty Miller played by Maggie Flaugher
Faith Miller played by Faith Taylor
Creative Team
Written by Flynn Osman
Directed by Tessa Welsch
Stage Managed by Kelly McGuinness
Lighting designed by Ariana Finamore
TICKETS
$7
The Mess with Jesse Roth is a solo variety show, the likes of which have never been seen before. It's like that metaphor, "throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks" but with comedy.
In The Valkyries (by Jessica Owens) the tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.
TICKETS
$10
Pearl Rhein performs an evening of her nerdymelodic & sadfunny songs. Will include old friends and brand-new ones about magic potions, Peg Entwistle, breakups, and Ada Lovelace. Special guest Javier Ignacio!
TICKETS
$5
Dox Modern Middle is a play exploring Jewish-American Queer identity. Drawing on drag, video, and dance, it follows Raphaela, a young modern-orthodox Jew who is outed and sent to Israel to heal for the summer. While overseas, she finds healing - but it is far from the process her family intended.
This reading is an opportunity to hear the play out loud for the first time, and will be followed with a talkback with the audience centered on audience responses to the play.
A play by Megan Pope
Directed by Aaron Simon Gross
RAPHI -- Jessie Klueter
GIL --
CAROLINE/TAL -- Julius Powell
ZVI/ABED -- Yarin Brosh
ANI/MAYA -- Yael Shavitt
NADAV -- Anthony DeRita
STAGE DIRECTIONS -- Shara Feit
TICKETS
$10
Pearl Rhein performs an evening of her nerdymelodic & sadfunny songs. Will include old friends and brand-new ones about magic potions, Peg Entwistle, breakups, and Ada Lovelace. Special guest Javier Ignacio!
TICKETS
$5
Dox Modern Middle is a play exploring Jewish-American Queer identity. Drawing on drag, video, and dance, it follows Raphaela, a young modern-orthodox Jew who is outed and sent to Israel to heal for the summer. While overseas, she finds healing - but it is far from the process her family intended.
This reading is an opportunity to hear the play out loud for the first time, and will be followed with a talkback with the audience centered on audience responses to the play.
A play by Megan Pope
Directed by Aaron Simon Gross
RAPHI -- Jessie Klueter
GIL --
CAROLINE/TAL -- Julius Powell
ZVI/ABED -- Yarin Brosh
ANI/MAYA -- Yael Shavitt
NADAV -- Anthony DeRita
STAGE DIRECTIONS -- Shara Feit
TICKETS
$5
In traditional clowning, the audience laughs at the clown. In bouffon, the clown laughs at the audience. I WOULD FUCK ME is a queer solo show that uses this provocative form of French anti-clown, in order to expose and mock the cracks in queer culture, one ugly truth at a time.
Created by THE BOOF
TICKETS
$12
Queerly Comedic Is a monthly comedy show with a focus on LGBTQ voices. Come see a great lineup of comedians including
Jay Jurden
Chloe Kozer
Glo Butler
Sarah Kennedy
Eman El Husseini
TICKETS
$15
When Flappy and Chappy, two mime magicians, are banished from ancient biblical Egypt, they must embark on an epic journey to find their new home, and more importantly, themselves. Featuring original music by Roxie Maisel and book co-written by director/choreographer Carter Shocket, Exodus 2 has everything: slapstick comedy, murderous plots, mistaken identities, burlesque, trans pride, and the World Pride 2019 disco anthem of the summer, “Feet up off the Ground.”
Book by: Carter Shocket and Roxie Maisel
Music by: Roxie Maisel
Director and Choreographer: Carter Shocket
Music Director: Roxie Maisel
Associate Director, Tech Op: Henry Lombino
Cast: Roxie Maisel, Carter Shocket, Ricky Downes III, Rebecca Hunt, Tiffany McCue, and William Frenzel
Written, choreographed, and directed by Dat Nguyen, Will The Sheep Come to be Clean is an evening of performance that reflects on his disjointed experience living in a foreign country as a gay man. By employing collage and avoiding the traditional narrative structure, Dat creates vibrant dreamscapes and juxtapositions to develop a multidimensional experience that parallels his internal turmoil of past relationships. The layers of guilt, humor, desire, nostalgia, resentment, and atonement all piece together, forming a bigger picture of extreme anxiety and despair to be felt in all its lows and highs. These fragmented sensations, in return, foster various spaces for his own reflection: a solitary state that is neither lonely nor fulfilling; a playground to examine the selfless giving that is conditioned by selfish desires; and a battleground to grapple with the pain and delight of belonging and yet wanting to belong.
“Nguyen shakes things up nicely, commanding even those audience members who think they are progressive and enlightened sufficiently to realize that many artists might prefer playing it safe in Utah’s peculiar culture of sanctioned perfectionism.” - Les Roka from The Utah Review
“With an approach based on the chopping, blending, obfuscation, and scrupulous arrangement and rearrangement of visual collages, Nguyen ricocheted between nearly a dozen wildly diverse and splintered stories, both masterfully and delightfully.” - Emily Snow from loveDANCEmore
“Will The Sheep is mesmerizing in its complexity. The overall work is a collage of movement, sounds, and narrative. This is a dance experience that certainly transcends the usual expectations of most dance concerts.” - Brian Gray from Front Row Reviewers Utah
Written, Directed, and Produced by Dat Nguyen
Choreography: Dat Nguyen in collaboration with performers
Performers: Eliza Kitchens, Erica MacLean, Tori Meyer, Nora Lang, Emma Sargent, Emma Wilson
Stage Manager and Lighting Designer: Aileen Norris
TICKETS
$5 online
$10 door
En route to Transylvania in the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Keanu Reeves says “I got the distinct impression that I was leaving the west and entering the east.” Effigy & Jimbo follows a distant vampire named Effigy as she pursues a boy’s beloved clown Jimbo.
written and directed by Jordan J. Baum
featuring Sierra Leverett and Andrew Hardigg
assistant director Sebastián Felipé Alarcon
produced by Zach Donovan
A SISSY'S PHYSIOLOGY, Tank Associate Artist Kev Berry's follow-up to last year's A Faggot's Theology, digs into the same man's quest for a passably good body as it relates, again, to his own queerness. Why are gay men so obsessed with desirability? Why do gay men wish they were born into a different body entirely, with a better metabolism and a better ass? And why the hell is the fitness journey as an entity so Sisyphean? This frank Traffic Jam tries to unpack all of this with a few swigs of cider.
TICKETS
$10
Dr. Roby Jackson, a closeted transgender man and scientist who is fascinated with the study of fungi and mushrooms, has created what he believes is a cancer cure from an extraction of a lethal fungus. Pushing to bring his drugs to human trial in a rush against the clock of his veteran mother's diagnosis, Dr. Jackson takes some morally ambiguous risks to complete his miracle drug. In his frenzy to believe in his own work, he turns to his creation for not only the cure for his mother’s cancer – but his own body dysphoria as well. In this inaugural reading of a new play by Raine Grayson whose work “never shies from throwing wrenches into the mix” (The New Paltz Oracle), the Jacksons explore how far people will go to prove that their body belongs to them.
Director/Playwright: Raine Grayson (he/him)
Stage Manager: Christine Nicole LaBoy (she/her)
CAST
Elliot Frances Flynn (they/them) as Dr. Roby Jackson
Barbara Thomas (she/her) as Erna Jackson
Susan O’Doherty (she/her) as Sandra Moriah
with Cess Jones (he/him) reading stage directions
Written, choreographed, and directed by Dat Nguyen, Will The Sheep Come to be Clean is an evening of performance that reflects on his disjointed experience living in a foreign country as a gay man. By employing collage and avoiding the traditional narrative structure, Dat creates vibrant dreamscapes and juxtapositions to develop a multidimensional experience that parallels his internal turmoil of past relationships. The layers of guilt, humor, desire, nostalgia, resentment, and atonement all piece together, forming a bigger picture of extreme anxiety and despair to be felt in all its lows and highs. These fragmented sensations, in return, foster various spaces for his own reflection: a solitary state that is neither lonely nor fulfilling; a playground to examine the selfless giving that is conditioned by selfish desires; and a battleground to grapple with the pain and delight of belonging and yet wanting to belong.
“Nguyen shakes things up nicely, commanding even those audience members who think they are progressive and enlightened sufficiently to realize that many artists might prefer playing it safe in Utah’s peculiar culture of sanctioned perfectionism.” - Les Roka from The Utah Review
“With an approach based on the chopping, blending, obfuscation, and scrupulous arrangement and rearrangement of visual collages, Nguyen ricocheted between nearly a dozen wildly diverse and splintered stories, both masterfully and delightfully.” - Emily Snow from loveDANCEmore
“Will The Sheep is mesmerizing in its complexity. The overall work is a collage of movement, sounds, and narrative. This is a dance experience that certainly transcends the usual expectations of most dance concerts.” - Brian Gray from Front Row Reviewers Utah
Written, Directed, and Produced by Dat Nguyen
Choreography: Dat Nguyen in collaboration with performers
Performers: Eliza Kitchens, Erica MacLean, Tori Meyer, Nora Lang, Emma Sargent, Emma Wilson
Stage Manager and Lighting Designer: Aileen Norris
A SISSY'S PHYSIOLOGY, Tank Associate Artist Kev Berry's follow-up to last year's A Faggot's Theology, digs into the same man's quest for a passably good body as it relates, again, to his own queerness. Why are gay men so obsessed with desirability? Why do gay men wish they were born into a different body entirely, with a better metabolism and a better ass? And why the hell is the fitness journey as an entity so Sisyphean? This frank Traffic Jam tries to unpack all of this with a few swigs of cider.
TICKETS
$12
Its all about me. Its all about speaking yourself into Iconhood. Its all about taking up space as a queer person. Its all about demanding attention. Its all about being a worthless slut. Its all about creating discourse. Its all about being both gorgeous and hot at the same time. Its all about toeing the line. Its all about ripping that line up and eating it because it was put there by the cisheteropatriarchy, hunny! But most importantly its all about me, Jamie Lowenstein, and this part stand-up, part cabaret, part drag show, part living room drama, part TEDTalk, all party experience.
Written and Performed by Jamie Lowenstein (jamielowenstein.com)
Directed by Yoni Weiss (yoniweissnyc.com)
Stage Managed by David Drew Herndon
Dramaturgy by Ryan Beaghler
Costume Design by Adrianna Covone
TICKETS
$15
A young man is ushered into an ex-gay conversion therapy camp, and discovers that love can be electric in more than one way.
This will be a stage reading of Ex-Gay: the Musical!
Cast: Matthew Ruehlman, Rachel Wilson, James V. Murray, Brenton Tyler Schlosshauer, Jo Cutrona, Jake Smerechniak, and Ann Marie Moloney
Composer: Dominic Frigo, Playwright/ Director: JP Pelletier
TICKETS
$12
Leviathan Lab, in association with The Tank, presents a workshop of
FULL CONTACT
Written and performed by Ariel Estrada
Directed by Sheila Bandyopadhyay and Andrew Borthwick-Leslie
Dramaturgy by Lynde Rosario and Gaven Trinidad
Stage Managed by Danitra Faithe
What does it mean to have a body? Ariel Estrada investigates his experiences as a 20-year survivor of a brutal martial arts cult, interweaving his Filipino father's immigrant story with his own coming-of-age as a gay man at the height of the AIDS crisis. Through these histories, he brings to life the emotional battle between father and son, and his ongoing battle to take pride in himself as a gay Filipino American man against all odds. Presented as part of The Tank's 2019 PrideFest.
In the final summer of their youth, three love stories unfold between a group of friends in a small apartment in Washington Heights. Following an acclaimed run at LenFest Center for the Arts, Santino DeAngelo's tender exploration of millennial love comes to The Tank for two performances only. Directed by Austin Tooley, Dramaturgy by Anisa Rose Threlkeld, Stage Management by Alexis Nalbandian*, Original Music by Brandon Woodruff, Projections by Callastate, Featuring PJ Adzima*, Katrina Colletti, Roberto Tolentino*, Katy Early, Robert Barlow, and Malcolm Opoku. (*Appears courtesy of actors equity)
TICKETS
$15 General
Revival blends honest storytelling with dynamic music. At its core, Revival is a first-hand unpacking of playwright Bobby Britton Jr.'s Texas upbringing, experience with Conversion Therapy, and the music of the Church that raised him. Revival is recommended for mature audiences and explores themes such as self-discovery, religious conflict, deep sorrow, and transcendent joy. Revival is Bobby's second writing adventure. Revival has been in development since late 2017 and has performed at various venues around Boston featuring a rotating guest list of cast members. Bobby, John, and Patrick met at Emerson College in Boston while pursuing their Masters Degree in Theatre and Community Engagement. Featuring John Thiel and Patty Bourree (Patrick Burr). For more info, visit revivalcabaret.com.
TICKETS
$12
Leviathan Lab, in association with The Tank, presents a workshop of
FULL CONTACT
Written and performed by Ariel Estrada
Directed by Sheila Bandyopadhyay and Andrew Borthwick-Leslie
Dramaturgy by Lynde Rosario and Gaven Trinidad
Stage Managed by Danitra Faithe
What does it mean to have a body? Ariel Estrada investigates his experiences as a 20-year survivor of a brutal martial arts cult, interweaving his Filipino father's immigrant story with his own coming-of-age as a gay man at the height of the AIDS crisis. Through these histories, he brings to life the emotional battle between father and son, and his ongoing battle to take pride in himself as a gay Filipino American man against all odds. Presented as part of The Tank's 2019 PrideFest.
In the final summer of their youth, three love stories unfold between a group of friends in a small apartment in Washington Heights. Following an acclaimed run at LenFest Center for the Arts, Santino DeAngelo's tender exploration of millennial love comes to The Tank for two performances only. Directed by Austin Tooley, Dramaturgy by Anisa Rose Threlkeld, Stage Management by Alexis Nalbandian*, Original Music by Brandon Woodruff, Projections by Callastate, Featuring PJ Adzima*, Katrina Colletti, Roberto Tolentino*, Katy Early, Robert Barlow, and Malcolm Opoku. (*Appears courtesy of actors equity)
AUGUST 2018: SPEAK UP RISE UP STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
Speak Up, Rise Up is a storytelling festival that aims to amplify the voices of communities and people we don’t get to hear from. Through live, personal storytelling, we combine both traditional and non-traditional storytellers on the big stage for curated events that share personal experiences. The first festival was held in August 2017 at the Connelly Theater. The second festival was held in August 2018 at The Tank.
Over 100 people took the stage throughout the week. The shows highlighted diversity in subject matter - immigration stories, stories of LGBTQ rights, stories of incarcerated people; and diversity of performers – the festival featured a majority of female performers and majority people of color. There were 7 community partners – Planned Parenthood NYC, Lady Parts Justice League, NYC Veteran’s Alliance, Razom for Ukraine, the Muslim Community Network, Theater of the Oppressed, and the Future Project – who all shared personal stories from their membership. These organizations were also offered personal storytelling workshops to their members, which were run prior to the festival.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" New York's best storytellers air their dirty laundry, share some f*cked up family secrets, and don't ask for their parents permission. Come for a night that would make King Lear feel lucky.
The #metoo movement is powerful and palpable. But how are the women over 50 who came of age during the Women’s Liberation movement handling this paradigm shift? Four women face their pasts and reckon with the future of sexual harassment via deeply personal stories. Storytellers include Renee Joshua-Porter, Tracy Rowland, and Julie Threlkeld. Hosted & curated by Tracey Segarra.
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up in assocation with The Tank.
My scholarship award was my first association with the dean of my undergraduate college at a state university in Ohio. It did not come without strings attached. It is 30 years later, and I speak for the first time ... about the encounters, about the lies, about the murder, and about coming out in Ohio in the late 80s.
Written & performed by Thomas Conroy.
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up in assocation with The Tank.
The boundaries that bind us and separate us have come into question. In this storytelling discussion, we will tell stories of what it feels like to be inside and outside these boundaries - whether literal, as in the bars of the jail cell, or figurative, as in the alienation of immigration. The storytelling discussion/panel includes Juan Franco, Tazmin Uddin, Rose DF, and Michael Majok Kuch.
Curated & hosted by Nisse Greenberg.
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up, in assocation with The Tank.
There's still a whole lot wrong in the world today and these women have something to say about it. And you can't stop them, because their time is NOW! With issues ranging from white privilege to wage theft to racism to gentrification to sexual harassment by the police, these women share their personal and ultimately inspiring - stories. Storytellers include Robin Bady, Michele Carlo, Nicole Ferarro, Dawn Frasier, and Angel Yau.
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. SRLP is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined with racial, social and economic justice. Therefore, we seek to increase the political voice and visibility of low-income people and people of color who are transgender, intersex, or gender non-conforming. SRLP works to improve access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services for our communities. We believe that in order to create meaningful political participation and leadership, we must have access to basic means of survival and safety from violence.
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up in assocation with The Tank.
Kweendom is a long-running comedy and storytelling showcase featuring some of New York City's most beloved LGBTQ writers and performers. With a fervent commitment to diversity, KWEENDOM has provided space for underrepresented performers to share their stories for nearly three years. Hosted & curated by Bobby Hankinson.
This special all-storytelling installment will dive deeper into the queer experience with authentic tales from Lynaé DePriest (Thank You For Coming Out), Craig Mangum (Moth GrandSLAM Winner) and Richard Cardillo (6 time Moth StorySlam winner).
Come for the laughs, stay for the fresh faces in your Grindr grid.
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up in assocation with The Tank.
* 25 percent of ticket sales will be donated to Immigration Equality.
You Roar, I Roar is a storytelling show featuring women of color, and queer performers from NYC. The show is inspired by the #METOOmovement and #timesup movement. Women and survivors are finally having their voices heard. We are roaring like never before! Storytellers include Zubi Ahmed, Michele Carlo, Andrea Coleman, Veronica Garza, and Sammie James.
25% of the ticket sales will be donated to RAICES.
Hosted & curated by Becca Beberaggi
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up, in association with The Tank.
After a decade of working in NYC nightlife, Sydnee decided to hang up her cocktail dress forever. Reminiscent of "MTV Diaries" meets "20/20", this hilariously authentic solo show exposes the ups & downs of the fast life as a bottle waitress.
Written & performed by Sydnee Washington.
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up in association with The Tank.
Singleling, hosted and curated by Vanessa Valerio is a podcast and live series show that showcases love and dating stories from regular people around the world and the best comedians and storytellers in the country.
Featuring stories by Dawn Jewél Fraser, Deepa Ambekar, Tami Gatta, Pavel Rivera, Chris Torres, Richard Cardillo, Christian Polanco, and Vana Koutsomitis.
Presented as part of Speak Up Rise Up 2018, curated and produced by Asher Novek of Speak Up, Rise Up in association with The Tank.