the 2009 Season archive:
“The your voice here experiment”
This year is a very special one for us--we’re turning FIVE! So, raise your glass (or your juice box) and join us in a yearlong celebration of new voices and our company’s fifth birthday, as we undertake this season’s exploration:
“The (your voice here) Experiment.”
Last year, through our season-long “American Experiment,” we explored American themes, identity, and voices and created new work inspired by the historic and transformative American moment that was 2008. In this new moment, in which progress, inspired leadership and abundant hope are colliding with a deep sense of uncertainty and a variety of daunting global challenges, we ask: What kind of art does this moment call for and inspire? What does the voice of NOW sound like?
This season, through “The (your voice here) Experiment”, NYTE is excited to explore these complex creative questions. To this end, we are launching a yearlong search for timely, compelling, dynamic new works; and in the spirit of our fifth birthday, we are also pleased to announce five major programming initiatives, all aimed at the cultivation, generation and support of new voices in the American theatre.
1. NYTE Summer Camp: Calling all explorers! Pack your lunch, your imagination and your adventurous spirit! This summer, NYTE will bring together playwrights, directors and actors for an exciting artistic expedition! NYTE will host an intensive, week-long workshop providing several selected new works a forum for creative exploration and development. Submitted pieces can be at any stage of development, ranging from works in progress, to existing scripts, to proposals for devised work. The workshop will culminate in a sharing of the participating pieces. In the coming months, NYTE will be accepting applications for projects that would benefit from this collaborative, exploratory development process. Applications are now available!
2. One NYTE Stands: Our monthly reading series is back! This season, in an effort to explore and support the voices of now, One NYTE Stands will expand its focus to feature many more readings of new works. In addition to these new voices, interspersed throughout the year will be readings of works by master playwrights—those whose voices powerfully captured the moment during their own era and whose work radically transformed the art of playwriting for all those who have followed.
3. Lift Every Voice: We’ll continue our commitment to leadership, service and the development of emerging voices through Lift Every Voice, our education outreach program for underprivileged New York teens. Join us for our upcoming Lift Every Voice performance event, in collaboration with the students of West Bronx Academy, at 8pm on March 22nd at the Algonquin Theatre!
4. The Generations Project: NYTE is proud to serve as a home for emerging leaders in the American theatre, and this year, we’re excited to launch a unique program designed to support and cultivate the voices and visions of leaders in the arts. This inter-generational conference will bring emerging and mid-career theatre professionals together with celebrated, visionary leaders in the American theatre. These artists, from varied creative fields and from many generations, will open a dialogue about vision and leadership in the arts. This innovative program will foster mentorship, inspire action and offer an exciting forum for discussion and exchange. Stay tuned for more details about this remarkable opportunity.
5. The Fairy Tale Smack-Down: Join us for a unique 24-hours of fun, raucous and creative debauchery. Follow the breadcrumbs down the rabbit hole to this end-of-the-year bash, featuring a night of re-imagined adult fairy tales. Come celebrate with NYTE and give your year its happy ending.
This is just the beginning of what NYTE has in store for 2009! Look for more announcements throughout year, including a special invitation to our official birthday party in July, as part of our Second Annual Pie-Off!
Help us prepare for the next five years by supporting the Gimme Five Donation Drive! In honor of our birthday, donate just five dollars, and we’ll list you in our program. It’s easy! Donate in person at any NYTE event or donate right now! You can also give us a High Five by donating $50 or $500! If everyone on our mailing list donated just five dollars, it would fund a major portion of this year’s work! If everyone donated $50, it would support our entire season of programming and help pave the way for 2010! We are grateful for whatever contribution you can make—with your help, the next five years will be extraordinary!
All year long, we’ll be doing what five year olds do best: playing hard and dreaming big. Join us on this creative playground for a year of exuberant exploration and celebration!
New York Theatre Experiment is turning 5!
And you’re invited to the best birthday party of the year!
The 2nd Annual Great American Pie-Off
A Birthday Benefit
Saturday, July 18th, 2009
4:00 PM- 7:00 PM
**Bakers -- Pie Registration will be from 3:15-4:15**
**LOCATION CHANGE**
The Village Pourhouse
(64 3rd Avenue, on the corner of 11th Street)
Two ways to enjoy:
1-Taste some Pie!
In honor of our 5TH BIRTHDAY, admission is only $5!
And includes 2 pie-tastings of your choice - yum!
*Purchase in advance online and get 2 additional tastings FREE per person!
*Last year we sold out- so we strongly encourage you to buy your tickets in advance before it's too late!
(Additional tastings at the event: $1 for 1 taste or $5 for 8 tastes)
2- Bake a Pie!
Think you’re the best baker out of all of your friends? Prove it!
Think your office/theatre company/sports team/frat house can beat any single baker?
Or at least have fun trying? Show us! And win!
Enter a pie individually OR as a group (up to 5 members)
and win one of our fabulous birthday presents!
Grand Prize, Runner-Up Prize, Most Creative Prize, and Audience Choice Prizes include gift certificates to some of New York’s hottest restaurants & bars, plus gift baskets from Martha Stewart Living, Gourmet, and more!
This year, winning pies will be judged by our fantastic panel of celebrity judges!
Dominique Ansel, Executive Pastry Chef at DANIEL
Kara Janx, Project Runway Contestant
Bobbie Lloyd, President of Magnolia Bakery
Erin Moriarty, CBS News/48 Hours Correspondent
Dave Martin, Corporate Chef CHOW DOWN, INC., and TOP CHEF Season One Finalist
Register your pie online in advance for only $15!
Or register at the door (cash only) for $20.
Come taste some pie, play our Party Games, and have some fun!
Also: Bid in our SILENT AUCTION for AMAZING prizes including FIELD LEVEL tickets for the YANKEES, Marc Jacobs accessories, Broadway theatre tickets, and more!
THE 2ND ANNUAL “GREAT AMERICAN PIE-OFF”!
SUMMER CAMP SHARINGS
WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 2009 AND SUNDAY JUNE 14, 2009
ADMISSION IS FREE!! ($5 suggested donation)
NYTE invites you to join us for the culmination of our 2009 Summer Camp program. Come check out these works in progress!
WEDNESDAY 6/10
7:00pm - SPAKE by David L. Williams
Manhattan Theatre Club
311 W 43rd St.
8th Floor
(between 8th & 9th Aves)
SUNDAY 6/14
Join us for ANY or ALL of the following pieces! Admission is FREE! ($5 suggested donation)
*All Sunday Sharing EXCEPT Wasp Woman are at:
The Algonquin Theatre
123 E 24th St.
(between Park & Lex)
11:30am - FACEBOOK CABARET co-created by Hillary Dixler, Hannah Lewis, Jay Gidwitz, and Dave Harrington -- **by invite only -- please contact us at info@newyorktheatreexperiment.org if you are interested in attending this sharing!
1:00pm - GHOST SONATA created by Dylan Levers and Maggie Robinson
2:30pm - WASP WOMAN by Blake Hackler and Phillip Chernyak
**This sharing will be at Shetler Studios -- 244 W 54th St. Penhouse**
4:00pm - THE ALCOHOL PROJECT created by Joseph Schultz
5:30pm - THE TRIAL created by Christopher Maring -- **by invite only - please contact us at info@newyorktheatreexperiment.org if you are interested in attending this sharing!
7:00pm - BABY TALK by Rebecca Ortese
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 20TH!
Calling all explorers! Pack your lunch, your imagination and your adventurous spirit!
This summer, NYTE will bring together playwrights, directors and actors for an exciting artistic expedition! NYTE will host an intensive, two week-long workshop providing several selected new works a forum for creative exploration and development.
ONE NYTE STANDS: NEW PLAYS
THE (ROW)
by Chris VanDijk
Directed by James David Jackson
Featuring Larry Bull, Allyson Morgan, Mitch Poulos, and Christian Rummel
May 18th, 2009 @ 7:30pm
The Directors Company
311 W 43rd St.
4th Floor
(between 8th & 9th Aves)
WAYNE: I got what, twenty five minutes before they lay me on that fucking table an’ kill me dead and you wanna toast?
CJ: Fine-
WAYNE: -No, if’n you wanna toast that bad, then lets toast. To your fuckin’ health.
ONE NYTE STANDS: NEW PLAYS
EAT IT TOO
by Jennifer Barclay
Directed by Joseph Schultz
Featuring Meghan Love, Allyson Morgan, Kathy Rossetter, Amanda Sayle, and Bryan Schany
Join us as we kick off the 2009 season with a reading of this dark and clever comedy! We’ll provide the birthday cake! And as a reminder, this is a FREE event! You won’t want to miss it!
Monday, March 16, 2009
7:30pm
The Directors Company
311 W 43rd Street
4th Floor
(between 8th & 9th Aves)
BRETT: (raising a toast) To time.
MRS. WILCOX: To time! Because it heals all things!
BRETT: No. No because it reveals all things.
KATIE: To time!
LIFT EVERY VOICE
Join us for this unique performance event, in collaboration with the students of West Bronx Academy! This event is FREE and no reservations are required!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
8:00pm
The Algonquin Theater
123 E 24th St.
(between Park Ave South & Lexington)
ONE NYTE STANDS: NEW PLAYS
UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN
by Barton Bishop
Directed by Andrew Scoville
Featuring Casey Burns, Kim Carlson, Steve French, Danielle Montezinos, Allyson Morgan, Doug Roland, and Joe Stipek
September 29, 2009
8:00pm
Manhattan Theatre Club
311 W 43rd Street
8th Floor
(between 8th & 9th Aves)
IAN: You’re “Wonder Girl”... My World of Warcraft friends are not gonna believe this... This explains that thing you do when you get wound up, that Up, Up, Down Down thing!
JOY: Contra cheat code. 30 extra lives.
IAN: I bet you could beat the game without that code.
JOY: Never died once.
IAN: Laser or Machine-Gun?
JOY: Machine gun all the way.
IAN: God, that’s hot.
ONE NYTE STANDS: GREAT PLAYS
SUBURBIA
by Eric Bogosian
Directed by Marty Brown
Featuring Andre Harris, Meryl Hathaway, Jessica Minhas, Allyson Morgan, Bhavesh Patel, Scott Price, Morgan Reis, Bryan Schany, and Ben Williams
August 27, 2009
7:30pm
The Directors Company
311 W 43rd Street
4th Floor
(between 8th & 9th Aves)
TIM: If it's so fucking futile, what the fuck are you so fucking upset about, fuckhead?
JEFF: I'm fucking alienated.
"The Wasp Woman"
By Blake Hackler & Phillip Chernyak
Directed by Darren Katz
Produced by Rori Bergman & Laura Gale
Featuring: Marty Brown, Jody Cook, Nicol Dellisanti, Shawn Dempewolff, Gaby Gold, Darin Guerrasio, Jason Ostrowski, Michele Ragusa, Allen Read, Emily Senn, Angela Shultz, Hanniel Sindelar, and Tom Stuart
A ONE NYTE ONLY EVENT!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
7:00 PM
Pearl Studios
500 Eighth Avenue, 4th Floor
NYC 10036
Tickets are EXTREMELY limited! In keeping with our season-long Gimme Five Drive, celebrating NYTE's 5th birthday, all tickets to The Wasp Woman will be just $5.
Inspired by a 1950's B-movie, "The Wasp Woman" infuses social satire with musical comedy to create a hilarious musical everyone is buzzzzing about! The female founder and spokeswoman of a major cosmetics company is concerned with dropping sales and drooping skin- she's not as young as she used to be and wants to restore her former beauty at any cost. When a scientist brings her a new miracle elixer made from wasp enzymes, she offers to become his test subject...but the product is not ready for human use and soon she finds herself transforming into the lethal "Wasp Woman"...
*Also part of TCG's Free Night of Theater 2009*
Don't worry. It will only sting...a little.
“THE WASP WOMAN”
Don't miss the EXCLUSIVE one-night only staged reading of this world premiere piece, originally workshopped in NYTE's 2009 Summer Camp!
THE FAIRYTALE SMACKDOWN & HOLIDAY PARTY
Sunday Dec. 13, 2009
7pm
The Access Theatre
380 Broadway
4th Floor
(between Walker & White)
