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OFFICIAL PROGRAM GUIDE
The 19th Annual New York International Fringe Festival
a production of the Present Theatre Company
AUGUST 14TH - 30TH, 2015
1,100
Performances
200
shows
$18
TickeTs
16
Days
Table of conTenTs
How to FringeNYC...............3
Buying Ticket........................4
Show Listings...................5-56
Venues.................................57
Map................................58-59
FringeCLUB.........................60
FringeAL FRESCO...............61
FringeJR...............................62
FringeU................................63
FringeHIGH....................64-65
FringeART.............................66
FringeFAVES & PLUS...........67
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www.FringeNYC.org
We are all makers. We make love, make money, make
time, make noise, make war, make our way, make
appointments, make a sandwich, make plans, make history, make music, make the bed, make progress, make
coffee, make sense, make remarks, make mistakes,
make a train, and every so often (if we’re lucky) we get
to make utter fools of ourselves – and make someone
laugh.
Every day each of us makes decisions about all of the
above. What is important to us? What makes us happy?
How do we make our place in the world? We all have
to make choices.
At FringeNYC, over the past twenty years, we’ve had
many
decisions to make about the future of this festival.
What do we want to make?
How do we want to make it?
What makes FringeNYC special?
And at every turn, we’ve come to the same conclusion.
What makes FringeNYC special is YOU.
I know that we have extraordinary artists making amazing things happen with limited resources all over the
place for sixteen days. They make magic. And I know
that we’re making the most amazing festival we can
bloom like a flower in downtown Manhattan each year.
But the most important part doesn’t really happen until
you arrive.
You see, together, at FringeNYC,
we make MOMENTS. They’re
fleeting, extraordinary, unforgettable, and beautiful - and they
cannot happen until YOU enter
the theatre and the lights go
down.
Thank you, for being here to make
these moments.
FringeNYC
MOMENTS MADE HERE
Elena K. Holy, Producing Artistic Director
Special Hugs to y’all
that F***ed FringeNYC to
save our Special Events
and created FringeFAVES
and FringePLUS!
Simona & Tom Bares-Lemmon, Thomas A. Culhane, K. Aikin, Patrick Alberty, Tato Alexander,
Abby and Howard Ross, Sara and Maggie,
Michelle Arena, Audra Arnaudon, John B Haney,
Frederick Backus, Kate Ballen, Esther Barlow,
Nannette Baumgardner, Matthew Bayer, Cindi
Becker, Jeanne Beechwood, Burch Behnken
Family, Bill Belknap, Gregg Bellon, Mike Benedetto, Andrea Benzacar, Nathalie Berman, Randi
Berry, Rob Bronstein, Greg Brown, Vince Bruns,
Melinda Buckley, Bruce Bunch, Desiree Burch,
Matt Burns, Michael C. O’Day, Jeff Calhoun,
Fred Cantor, Isabel Cardenas, Katherine Carter,
Hunter Chancellor, Art Chang, Ben Cohen, Jeremy Cohen, Joshua Cohen, Angela Collard, Maya
Contreras, Sara Cooper, Emily Cordes, Antonietta Corvinelli, Alison Crane, Lynda Crawford,
Kendall Crolius & Stephen Stout, Tandy Cronyn,
John Crutchfield, Jolie Curtsinger, Ellen David,
Gioia De Cari, Michelle de Sam, Eva Dean,
Edith Deane, Michelle Donnelly, Colin Drucker,
Betsyann duval, Scott Dwyer, Olivia Edery, Jamil
Ellis, Sabrina Enam, Liz English, renee feinberg,
Jon Fields, Linda Formby, Benevity Foundation,
Amanda Gallagher, karen gallo, Richard Garrison, Stephen Garvey, Beth Glass, Eileen Glenn,
Barbara Gottlieb, Pamela Grayson, Annie Groeber, Valerie Hager, Michael Hagins, Katherine
Hammond, Brian Hampton, Wendy Herlich, Brian
Herlihy, Daniel Hermann, Kimberly Hernandez,
Bill Herrlich, Michalann Hobson, Vic & Jerry
Holy, Carl Howard, Frances Howorth, Berioska
Ipinza (LaMicro Theater), David J Williams, Sonia
Jaffe Robbins, William Jenkins, Jill Jichetti, Eric
& Frankie Johnson, Matt Johnson, Christopher
Jones, Kathleen Kaan Pansini, Sammy Kanter,
Elizabeth Keitel, Meredith Kelly, Adelaide Kent,
Amy Klein, Jeffrey Klepper, Gersh Kuntzman,
Francis Kuzler, Britt Lafield, Garret Lambert,
First Last, Barbara Laurain, Lauren Letellier, Eric
Lorenzo, Susan Louise O’Connor, Marcus M
Reidenberg, Alex Mahgoub, Gabrielle Maisels,
Edmond Malin, vincent marano, Robert Markley,
Sarah Markowitz, Paul Martin Casella, Jeffrey
Matchen, Daryl Mattson, Karen McFarlane, Chris
Meyer, T. Michael Culhane, Jill Miersch, Thomas
Moore, Sandra Morgan, Paul Morris & Cassandra
Lewis, Bill Moses, Susan Mullen, Caitlin Murphy,
Nancy Nagrant, Christian Neuhaus, Harry Newman, Timothy & Susannah Nolan, Joe Norton,
RaveReviews NYC, David Ogrin, Edward Olbrich,
Doreen Oliver, Kevin P Joyce, Michael Page,
Katie Palmer, Anthony Pennino, Jerilyn Perman,
Giverny Petitmermet, Bonnie Pipkin, rhonda
pohl, Kevin R Free, Nancy R. Kalish, Donna Rae
Lee, Lauren Ritter, Anne Roberts, Mac Rogers,
Taylor Ross, Karen Rousso, Gary Rudoren, Mark
Sam Rosenthal, Steven Samuels, Eric Sandler,
Bob Saunders, Jonathan Schlieman, frieder
schulz, Michael Schussler, James Scott, Bill Scurry, Dog Sees God, Jim Shankman, Virginia Shea,
jed shivers, Bert Silverberg, Randi Singman, Ann
Starbuck, Illana Stein, Peter Steinman, Brianne
Stewart, Anna Strasser, Mind the Art Entertainment, PigPen Theatre Co., BAMA Theatre Company, BIG Theatre Company, Sara Thigpen, Brian
Turkel, James Valletti, Franca Vercelloni, Jane
Vialde, Vicki Vodrey, Eric Vosmeier, Kimberly
Wadsworth, Valerie Wald, Jessica Walker, Rachel
Welt, Jennifer Wilcox, Myra Wong, Michael
Zebrower, Henry Zhang
Official Ticketing Partner
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Official Media Partner
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HOW TO
UNTIL 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE
(Quickest & Greenest)
on your smarTPhone
@ fringeonThefly.com
online @ fringenyc.org
convenience charges apply
convenience charges apply
www.
Fringe
OnThe
Fly.com
www.
FringeNYC
.org
Search shows online or on your mobile phone and receive your mobile ticket instantly. Line up at the
colorful flag at least 15 minutes before the performance with your ticket ready to be scanned!
THROUGH THE DAY BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE
(Cheapest)
in Person aT fringecenTral
no (in)convenience fee & cash accePTeD
FC
FringeCENTRAL at City Lore
56 E 1st Street
(between 1st & 2nd Avenues)
OPEN 2 - 8 DAILY!
Line up at the colorful flag with your
ticket ready to be scanned at least 15
minutes before the performance
15 MINUTES BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE
(Riskiest)
highesT (in)convenience fee
VENUE
BOX
OFFICE
Arrive at the Venue Box Office 15 minutes before the performance hope there are still tickets available!
If there are, pay the highest convenience fee and then line up at the colorful flag.
Mobile Tix: www.FringeOnTheFly.com
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 3
TickeT Prices
GROUPS
GENERAL ADMISSION
DISCOUNT
$18*
$13
$15
$13
* Convenience charges may apply
Kids under 12 at FringeJR Shows
and Senior Citizens
Available ONLY at FringeCENTRAL or
15 minutes before the performance at the venue
10 or more tickets to
the same performance
20 or more tickets to
the same performance
Available Only Online
Passes
Non-transferable passes are available at FringeCENTRAL and Online.
FIVER PASS
FLEX PASS
LUNATIC PASS
$85
$150
$500
Vaid for 5 Performances!
($17/ticket)
Vaid for 10 Performances!
($15/ticket)
Unlimited Performances!
(as long as they’re not sold out)
how To use This guiDe
Running
times are in
hours (h) &
minutes (m)
See Venue
Guide on
Page 57 for
addresses!
Title of Show
Company
Writer: TITLE OF SHOW
Director:
Choreographer:
A brief description of show, which will provide
an idea of the story and type of performance.
Running Time; City, STATE; Genre 1, Genre 2
VENUECompany
#: Venue Name
FRI 14Director:
@ 9 +; SAT 22 @ NOON; TUE 25 @
Writer:
8:15; FRI
28 @ 4:15*
Choreographer:
BLURB
VENUE #:
DAY DATE @ TIME
An ASTERISK (*)
denotes a FringeHIGH talk-back
follows the
performance.
See pages 62 - 63
for listings!.
A PLUS (+)
denotes a
FringePLUS
performance,
with post show
meet-up.
Performance days, dates & times in August 2015. All times PM
REMEMBER: THERE IS NO LATE SEATING AT FRINGENYC!
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www.FringeNYC.org
2015
SHOW LISTINGS
#OUCH!
#LoveStory
Writer: Music and
Lyrics by Mark Oleszko
and Bethany
Mayes, Book by
Bethany Mayes,
Sophie Frankle, and
Mark Oleszko
Director: Todd Ritch
Choreographer: Talia Dooz
In the digital age, finding love should be as
easy as sushi delivery, right? Not really. With
the assistance of three friends and her own
bravado, Zoe gets a one-of-a-kind crash
course in love in the 21st century. 2h 25m,
Manhattan, NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
VENUE #9: Theatre 80
FRI 14 @ 9:45; WED 19 @ 5:30+; THU 20 @
3:45; WED 26 @ 8:45; FRI 28 @ 5:45
An Accidental
Comedy
The Magnetic Theatre
Writer: Maryedith
Burrell
Director:
Steven Samuels
Best known for stints on Seinfeld, Parenthood,
Fridays, and SNL, this is Emmy- and Golden
Globe-nominated Maryedith Burrell’s hilarious and harrowing one-woman show about
the trials and tribulations of modern health
care after an accident caused by her dog.
1h 10m, Asheville, NC Comedy, Solo Show
VENUE #11: 64E4 MAINSTAGE
FRI 21 @ 5:15+; SAT 22 @ 2:45; MON 24 @
7; WED 26 @ 3:15; SAT 29 @ 7
The Absolutely True
Science of Nerds
You Said Your Damn
Ninja Would Take Care
of Robocop Productions
Writer: Shyaporn
Theerakulstit
Three completely scientific lectures on “How
to Become Batman,” “Star Wars vs. Star Trek,”
and “Godzilla: History, Biology and Behavior
of Hyper-evolved Theropod Kaiju.” With music, burlesque, special guests and Q&As. Please
note: Material covered WILL be on the final.
1h 30m, Queens, NY Comedy, Solo Show
VENUE #6: DROM
TUE 18 @ 4:45+; FRI 21 @ 9:15; SUN 23 @ 6;
WED 26 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ 12:45
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 5
The American Play
The Dirty Blondes
Writer: Ashley J.
Jacobson
Director: Darren
Johnston
Two college students
let their obsession with
American Psycho and Patrick Bateman lead
them down a rabbit hole of destructive and
violent behavior. “Chilling, dark, bitingly
funny with humor that is as black as the
atmosphere.” – The Happiest Medium
1h 20m, Brooklyn, NY Drama
VENUE #16: The Steve & Marie Sgouros
Theatre
SUN 16 @ 7:15+; FRI 21 @ 4:45; TUE 25 @
2:30; THU 27 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 2:15
America’s Next
Top: One Top’s
Hysterical Take on
Life Love Tools and
Boxes
Julie Novak in
Association with TMI
Project
Writer: Julie Novak and Eva Tenuto
Director: Eva Tenuto
In this hilarious, groundbreaking performance, Julie Novak embraces being a “sir,
ma’am, sir,” in a world that wants her to
choose one or the other. “Laugh out loud funny... Julie is a magnetic, comedic powerhouse.”
–Sari Botton
55m, New Paltz, NY Comedy, Solo Show
VENUE #8: Under St. Marks
SAT 22 @ 5:15+; MON 24 @ 8:45;
THU 27 @ 3; FRI 28 @ 5:15; SAT 29 @ 7:15
Baba
RILNYC
Writer: Alex Mahgoub
Director: Armando
Merlo
Murder, drugs, bisexuality, & real estate all
in one show! After his
dad dies, Alex struggles to find himself. An
honest, vulnerable, & funny story about how
one Jersey boy rose from being a fat nerd with
glasses into an elite NYC real estate broker.
1h, Brooklyn, NY Solo Show, Comedy
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SAT 15 @ 5:15+; MON 17 @ 7:30;
SUN 23 @ 2:30; THU 27 @ 3:45; SAT 29 @ 7
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Baby Hubris
Girl from Copacabana
Productions
Writer: Jacqui Rêgo
Director: Sasha Brätt
Leslie wants to “fuck
up your chakras;” and
the overworked single
mom takes Dr. Spock’s ghost as her personal
guru. With sexy magical-realism Leslie gives
birth to her power, sometimes lover Wyatt
howls with Cerberus, and baby Jack - talks.
1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Drama, Comedy
VENUE #5: The Celebration Of Whimsy
SAT 15 @ 2+; SUN 16 @ 9:30; THU 20 @
2:30; MON 24 @ 7; THU 27 @ 7
THE BAD GERMAN:
A Solo Show about
Identity, Guilt and
the Wurst in All of Us
Tessa Kim
Writer: Tessa Kim
Director: Sarah
Wansley
A sensitive German moves to NYC and finds
herself haunted by her inherited guilt. How
will she earn forgiveness? Work clandestinely
in a Kosher restaurant? Exorcise her Germanness with energy healing? A true story about
going too far for redemption.
1h 10m, Manhattan, NY Solo Show, Drama
VENUE #4: Spectrum
FRI 14 @ 5+; MON 17 @ 5:30; THU 20 @
9:30; MON 24 @ 6; FRI 28 @ 8
Bed, Beth and
Beyond
Writer: Beth Dzuricky
Director: George Bartenieff
Welcome to the diving
pool of drama and
spiritual comedy. From
Erie, PA to NYC go to the depths with Beth as
she uses humor and ritual to transform desire
and loss into a bed of roses.
1h 15m Brooklyn, NY Solo Show, Drama
VENUE #12: 64E4 UNDERGROUND
TUE 18 @ 9:15; THU 20 @ 3; SUN 23 @ 5+;
TUE 25 @ 7; FRI 28 @ 8:45
www.FringeNYC.org
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 7
Behind the Wall An Autism Performance piece
The Ally Artists Group
Writer: Composers Joyce Lao, Andy Miyamotto, Viola Wang
Director: Joyce Lao,
Andy Miyamotto, Zilong Zee
Choreographer: Andy Miyamotto and Joyce
Lao
Behind the Wall is a performance piece
based on Joyce’s relationship with her autistic
brother, Clarence. Both playful and dramatic,
the story is told through a fusion of post modern and Asian - mostly Filipino & Japanese
culture, dance, movement and music.
1h, Manhattan, NY Dance, Performance Art
Theatre
SAT 15 @ 2+; TUE 18 @ 9:15; FRI 21 @ 7;
SUN 23 @ 6; WED 26 @ 3
BEING SEEN
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Beware The
Chupacabra!
Mind The Art Entertainment
Writer: Book and
Lyrics by R. Patrick
Alberty, Music by
Christian De Gré
Director: R. Patrick Alberty and Christian
De Gré
Musical Director: Aaron Butler; Seeking to
impress his future father-in-law, innocent
dressmaker Teddy Baskins embarks on a dark
and musical journey from 1920’s New York
to the dangerous jungles of Mexico in pursuit
of the legendary Chupacabra, a mythical,
goat-sucking beast. 2h, Manhattan, NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
VENUE #13: Lynn Redgrave Theater @
Culture Project
WED 19 @ 10; WED 26 @ 2+; THU 27 @
7:15; FRI 28 @ MID; SAT 29 @ 9:30
Birds of Paradise
Writer: Richard Gustin
Director: Mindy
Cooper
An actress answers a
notice and encounters a
highly acclaimed director. Wits and instincts
collide as she maneuvers through the web of
his artistic process. A fast paced comedy with
a dark underbelly. WORLD PREMIERE!
1h 30m, Manhattan, NY Comedy, Drama
MON 17 @ 9; TUE 18 @ 5; WED 19 @ 7;
FRI 21 @ 2:45+; SAT 22 @ 7
Cardinal Productions
Writer: Adam Harrell
Director: Adam Harrell
Follow a lovelorn
ornithologist named
Archie as he uses bird
behavior to deconstruct
his ill-fated romance with Emma, a struggling
artist. Zoology intertwines with memories of
summer love in this heartfelt rom-com about
knowing when to fly away.
1h 10m, Queens, NY Comedy, Drama
FRI 21 @ 5+; SAT 22 @ 9:15; TUE 25 @ 9;
THU 27 @ 2:30; SAT 29 @ 2:30
An astericks (*) means there’s a
talk-back following
that performance!
See Special Events Page
for this years presentation!
www.FringeNYC.org
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 9
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www.FringeNYC.org
The Boy From Bantay
Bantay Productions
Writer: Jeremy Rafal
Director: Josh Boerman
From his childhood
in the Philippines—a
Technicolor blur of
cartoons and classical
music—Jeremy always knew he wanted to be
a concert pianist. The Boy from Bantay takes
us on his heartwarming journey of growth
and self-discovery.
1h, Manhattan, NY Solo Show, Comedy
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SUN 16 @ 9:45; THU 20 @ 3:45+; SUN 23 @
4:15; THU 27 @ 7:15; SUN 30 @ 1:45
The Boys Are Angry
Maineland Productions - Maridee Slater
producing
Writer: Jillie Mae Eddy
Director: Sam Plattus
“Woman is no better
than an animal. Parasite
and predator, she is Eve: born of Adam’s rib,
or she is Delilah, Jezebel, Yoko: pirating our
strength, perverting our faith, and breaking
up the fucking Beatles.”
1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Comedy, Drama
Theatre
FRI 14 @ 5+; TUE 18 @ 7; FRI 21 @ 2:30;
SUN 23 @ 3; FRI 28 @ 9:15
The Broccoli Murder,
Decaprio Dance and
Other Stories from my
20 years as a NYC Cop
Writer: Mark DeMayo
Director: Peter Michael
Marino
The story of a retired NYPD Detective with an
arresting past. 1h 30m, Manhattan, NY
Solo Show, Comedy
MON 17 @ 5:15+; THU 20 @ 7; SUN 23 @
8:45; TUE 25 @ 4:45; SAT 29 @ 5
Broken Moments:
a bar musical
Prophecy Productions
Writer: Leo I. Rodriguez
Tonight you ride the
rhythms of one night in
a dive bar, from Happy
Hour to Last Call, including the drunken
traditions (Wake, Birthday, Engagement) that
usually accompany the gritty soulful music
found in your own local tavern. 1h 30m,
Brooklyn, NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
VENUE #6: DROM
SAT 15 @ 6; THU 20 @ 3:15+; SUN 23 @
8:15; THU 27 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ 9
The Broken Record
Writer: Jonathan Louis
Dent
Director: Megan
Sandberg-Zakian
The Broken Record
examines the violence
between black youth
and police officers in the United States,
exposing the fury, helplessness, and grief we
feel watching these stories play on repeat,
and asking: how can these fatal encounters be
stopped? 1h, Manhattan, NY Drama, Spoken
Word/Poetry, FringeHIGH
VENUE #3: Teatro LATEA at the Clemente
SAT 15 @ 9:15+; MON 17 @ 5:15; THU 20 @
7; SUN 23 @ 3*; WED 26 @ 3:15
The Buffalo
85 North Productions
Writer: Anthony Sneed
The comedic memoir of
Anthony Sneed, who at
fourteen brought a gun
to school in attempts
to fit in with his peers.
After expulsion, he is forced to join his Uncle’s
cult-like community in Missouri. 1h, Brooklyn, NY Solo Show, Comedy, FringeHIGH
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SAT 15 @ 10:30; FRI 21 @ 7; SUN 23 @
NOON*; THU 27 @ 5:30+; SAT 29 @ 5:15
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 11
Bullet For
Unaccompanied
Heart
cakes’n’ale
Writer: Robert Wray
Director: Marty Moore
A comic/tragic tale
about a blues guitarist,
Dugan McBane, who gets taken hostage by
his former lover Anya Magnifico, a crossword
puzzle-obsessed punk rock princess who’s aided by her henchman Milo. His release hinges
on one thing: A sincere apology. 1h 30m,
Charlottesville, VA Comedy, Drama
VENUE #1: Teatro SEA at the Clemente
SAT 15 @ 9:30; TUE 18 @ 7+; FRI 21 @ 4:45;
TUE 25 @ 4:45; THU 27 @ 9:30
butyou’reaman or:
The Seven Men I
Came Out to in
India
Writer: Matthew
Dicken
Director: Arthur Strimling (and Dramaturg)
Navigating his travels in India, an outsince-13 American finds love and must
relearn to see queer. Matthew daringly claims
his mythic ancestors and messily mashes
(pop) cultures. In the sticky space between
sexualities, intimate landscapes of sensuous
political variety await. 1h, Germantown, MD
Solo Show, Performance Art
SUN 16 @ 2:45+; WED 19 @ 5:15; SAT 22 @
7; TUE 25 @ 3; SAT 29 @ 9
Cherubim
Red Wire Productions
Writer: Tess R. Ornstein
Director: Tess R. Ornstein
In 1992 Los Angeles,
on a hot April evening,
within days of the
Rodney King riots, five year old Kea Charmichael’s sudden disappearance sends her
multi-racial family into a rapidly declining
tailspin. 2h 20m, Brooklyn, NY Drama,
VENUE #10: The Kraine Theater
SUN 16 @ 12:30+; TUE 18 @ 4:45; SUN 23 @
7:45; THU 27 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ NOON
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Chop Your Own
Wood
Bonneville Theater
Company
Writer: L.T. Hughes
Director: Alexandra
Kuechler Caffall
On the eve of the Perseids meteor shower, an estranged husband
and wife reunite in the Hudson Valley woods.
Camping at the foundation of a crumbling
homestead, they summon ghosts of their
troubled past. 1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Drama
Theatre
SAT 15 @ 9; TUE 18 @ 2:30+; SAT 22 @
4:30; TUE 25 @ 8:45; SUN 30 @ 2
Chop-Chop-ZigZag-Woyzeck
Writer: Georg Buechner, translated & adapted by Leanora Lange
Director: Leanora
Lange
Run like a razor
blade through this show! This fresh take on
Woyzeck has you determine the scene order.
Cut up the storyline as murderous lovers become overwhelmed by passion and madness
in a swirl of non-stop non-linear action.
50m, Manhattan, NY Drama, Comedy
VENUE #2: Flamboyan Theatre at the
Clemente
SUN 16 @ 9:30; TUE 18 @ 7+; SUN 23 @
12:15; WED 26 @ 5:15; THU 27 @ 7
CLIFF
Hazard Rep
Writer: Ryan Feyk
Director: Kai-Hsiang
Tu
Two newlyweds wish to
live for the future, but
must face the shadows of their past. They are confronted by an
irresistible woman who could save or destroy
them. Set in 18th century Prussia during the
height of its splendor.
1h 35m, Manhattan, NY Drama, Comedy
MON 24 @ 2+; WED 26 @ 9:15; FRI 28 @
8:30; SAT 29 @ 4:30; SUN 30 @ NOON
www.FringeNYC.org
CODA (Children of
Deaf Adults)
Two Hands Productions
Writer: Mark Murray
Director: Lindsey
Leonard
One man leads you
through the journey of being the ears for
his family. As son and interpreter for his
Deaf parents, Tim struggles to find where he
belongs between the Deaf and hearing worlds.
45m, Brooklyn, NY Solo Show, Drama
VENUE #14: The White Box at 440 Studios
SUN 16 @ 1+; THU 20 @ 9:15; SAT 22 @ 7;
MON 24 @ 3:30; FRI 28 @ 5:30
The Comedienne
Project
Katie Hannigan and
Corinne Fisher
Writer: Katie Hannigan
and Corinne Fisher
Annoyed with comedienne stereotypes of
the single lady, the girlfriend and the crazy
girl, these comics refocus comedic perspective
and present two new tongue in cheek, snarky,
irreverent, stand up sets, and redefine the
“comedienne”.
1h, Harlem, NY Comedy, Solo Show
SAT 15 @ 8:45+; TUE 18 @ 5:15; THU 20 @
3:30; SAT 22 @ 8:45; THU 27 @ 6:30
The Commedia
Rapunzel
The Spaghetti and
Meatball Players
Writer: Sam LaFrage
(Book and Lyrics)
Director: Sam LaFrage
and Dennis Corsi
Choreographer: Sam LaFrage
Expect the unexpected as the Spaghetti and
Meatball Players, a troupe of poor traveling
“Italian” actors, present a zany musical romp
through a twisted version of the fairytale
“Rapunzel” done in the style of Commedia
dell’ Arte! 1h 20m, Harlem, NY FringeJR,
Comedy VENUE #7: The Theater at the 14th
Street Y FRI 14 @ 5; SUN 16 @ NOON;
THU 20 @ 2; SAT 22 @ 3:30; WED 26 @ 6:30
The Crack in the
Ceiling
CitySalt Theatricals
Writer: James Harvey
Director: Stephen Tyler
Davis
Ellen, a distraught single mother, discovers a
crack in her kitchen ceiling. As a bizarre series
of characters try to solve the problem, Ellen
finds that more than her home is at risk in
this dark musical comedy. 1h 20m, Brooklyn,
NY Comedy, Musical/Opera
Culture Project
SAT 15 @ 8:30+; TUE 18 @ 2; SAT 22 @
6:30; TUE 25 @ 8; FRI 28 @ 2:30
Coping
Audra Arnaudon
Presents
Writer: Jacob Marx Rice
Director: Anna Strasser
When Connor commits
suicide, his friends are
left grasping the shards
of his life. From the team behind the sold-out
hit Chemistry, winner of the 2014 FringeNYC
Excellence in Playwriting Award, Coping is a
hilariously dark comedy about surviving loss.
1h 20m, New York, NY Drama, Comedy
SUN 16 @ 5:45+; WED 19 @ 7; SAT 22 @ 9:45;
WED 26 @ 4:45; FRI 28 @ 7
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 13
Creative License
Creative License Productions
Writer: Book and
Lyrics by Kevin Cirone,
Music by Kevin Cirone,
Spencer Elliott and Dan
Rodriguez
Director: Rachel Bertone, Music Director:
Dan Rodriguez
Choreographer: Rachel Bertone
An Irish pub. A Scottish play. Sixty days. One
snag. Two former friends try to save the day
with a show that’s not what it seems. It’s the
Boston-rocking testament to art, friendship,
love, and double-malt scotch.
2h 30m Boston, MA Musical/Opera, Comedy
Culture Project
THU 20 @ 4+; SAT 22 @ 3:15; SUN 23 @
10:15; TUE 25 @ 2; WED 26 @ 10
Curing the Void
RHAtheater
Writer: M. Balmaceda,
H. Diaz, B. Hoffmann
in collaboration with
G.Garcia, A. Moreno
Director: Martin Balmaceda
On a cold Thursday night, an angel falls
into a junkyard. Pretty and Daisy take it to a
doctor–but the worst may not be over for this
celestial being as it becomes the object of love,
obsession and jealousy. 1h 20m
Manhattan, NY Comedy, Multi-Media
VENUE #2: Flamboyan Theatre at the Clemente
SUN 16 @ 4:30+; WED 19 @ 7; SAT 22 @
NOON; MON 24 @ 4:45; SAT 29 @ 7
14 |
The Curious Case of
Phineas Gage
Split Knuckle Theatre
Writer: Nick Ryan, Music by Andrew Lynch
Director: Vincent J.
Cardinal
Phineas Gage, a 19th
century railroad worker who was injured
when an explosion drove a three foot iron
spike through his brain, miraculously
survived and recovered. Gage’s story led to
powerful new theories about our minds and
our personalities. 1h 25m
New Haven, CT Comedy, Vaudeville/
Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque
VENUE #6: DROM
SAT 15 @ 1:30+; SUN 16 @ 6:15; WED 19 @
9:30; FRI 21 @ 2:45; SAT 22 @ 8
Dancers
Wrought Atlas Theatre
Ensemble
Writer: Emma Dante,
Translation by Francesca Spedalieri
Director: Francesca
Spedalieri
Choreographer: Francesca Spedalieri, Sarah
Ware, Sifiso Mazibuko
How does love endure when your partner is
gone? An elderly woman rejoins her husband and re-lives their love story. Experience
this tale of nostalgia, memory, dance, and
1950s-60s Italian pop. North American debut
of a movement play in translation.
45m Columbus, OH Clown/Mask, Comedy
VENUE #7: The Theater at the 14th Street Y
FRI 14 @ 7:15+; SUN 16 @ 8; THU 20 @
5:30; TUE 25 @ 5:30; FRI 28 @ 8:45
Dead Lunch, or
Who Prays for Bad
Weather?;
Writer: Tony Borden
Director: Tony Borden
No one quite knows
why the restaurant is
empty on this bleak
September afternoon. Sure, the neon sign is
busted, and the staff might smoke and swear
too much... but maybe the rumors of the
busboy’s killing spree are true.
SAT 15 @ 9:30; MON 17 @ 2:15+; THU 20 @
4:45; FRI 21 @ 4:45; MON 24 @ 9:15
DEX! A Killer
Musical, The
unauthorized
parody of DEXTER
Cooper Jordan Entertainment
Writer: Book by Erika
Jenko, Music & Lyrics
by Joe Schermann
Michael C. Hall reads the script to his series
Finale in outrage. To create a new Finale,
Michael (Dexter) forces the Executives of The
Network by knife to perform all 8 seasons
of DEXter in under 2 hours as a musical. 1h
55m, Brooklyn, NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
Culture Project
SUN 16 @ 10; TUE 18 @ 4:15+; FRI 21 @
6:45; SAT 22 @11:45; SUN 23 @ 5
www.FringeNYC.org
DIAGHILESQUE!
KineticArchitecture
Dance Theatre
Director: Arrie
Davidson
Choreographer: Arrie
Davidson; Ballet Russe
gems are reimagined
exploring feminism, trans issues, abuse and
primal sensuality. Pulcinella’s frolic invoking Le Spectre de la Rose-ball goers lose all
inhibition, Scheherezade-the harem dies for
freedom, Firebird-challenges societal mating
rituals, and more! 1h, Manhattan, NY Dance
SAT 15 @ 5:45+; WED 19 @ 8:45; SAT 22 @
9:45; FRI 28 @ 5; SAT 29 @ 9:45
Dig Infinity!
Divine/Intervention
sbgProductions & Faux
Real Entertainment
Writer: E. Dale Smith,
Original Concept by
Mimi Imfurst
Director: Braden
Chapman
Glenn Milstead skyrocketed to stardom as
drag queen Divine in John Waters’ cult films.
Alone, on the night of his untimely death,
the quiet man behind the mascara struggles
with his inner demons and his larger-than-life
creation, Divine. 1h 30m, Philadelphia, PA
Drama, Comedy
Culture Project
SUN 16 @ 7:45+; THU 20 @ MID;
MON 24 @ 7:30; FRI 28 @ 4:45; SAT 29 @ 3
dungeon
Artistic Abandon NYC
in Association with Hit
the Lights Dad Theater
Co.
Writer: Created by
Casey Leach, Mikayla
Stanley, Kristopher
Dean, Claron Hayden and Samantha Blain
Director: Richard Hess
A young man falls into the unknown to
rescue something he holds dear. Inspired by
kabuki, video games, horror movies and Pixar
shorts, they work to create a world where the
darkness speaks louder than the light. 45m,
Manhattan, NY Puppetry, Multi-Media
WED 19 @ 7+; FRI 21 @ 2; SUN 23 @ 2:15;
TUE 25 @ 5:30; FRI 28 @ 7
Apocalypso Theatre
Collective
Writer: Oliver Trager
Director: Oliver Trager
Summoning all kool
kats ‘n kitties! Hepster
icon Lord Buckley
wagers his soul, jive-talks his classic raps,
blows his mind (and yours too) in this surreal,
multimedia mythic journey celebrating the
legacy of a neglected American visionary jazz
humorist.
1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Drama, Spoken Word/
Poetry
THU 20 @ 4:45+; FRI 21 @ 9:30; SUN 23 @
NOON; TUE 25 @ 7; THU 27 @ 2
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 15
The Egg Progect
Darinka Productions
Writer: Mike Amato
Director: Andrea
Andresakis
Prodigal son Marty
Edgett returns home on
the eve of his wedding
only to discover that his microbiologist father
has a horrifying “gift” for him. Shades of
Twilight Zone color this “dire comedy” about
personal responsibility and broken family ties.
SAT 15 @ 7; WED 19 @ 4:30+; SUN 23 @ 8;
WED 26 @ 7; SUN 30 @ 2:15
Elaine Stritch Still
Here
Writer: Jay Malsky
Director: Zak Sommerfield
Come spend an
intimate evening with
Elaine as she regales
you with songs and stories from her life. This
loving homage takes us through the reflective
journey of her last tour. Don’t miss this performance celebrating Broadway’s Enduring
Dame. 50m, Manhattan, NY
Comedy, Musical/Opera
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SAT 15 @ 1+; MON 17 @ 9:15; FRI 21
@10:30; MON 24 @ 8; SAT 29 @ 2:45
Elephants and
Other Worldly
Dilemmas
Writer: Dina Laura
Director: Peter Zachari
Tornadoes, colonics
and faith! A devout receptionist, a superhero
scientist, an Apple whore, a devilish bartender
and a temp discover that sometimes it takes a
dead elephant in the room to show you what
you believe in. 1h 50m, Queens, NY Comedy
Theatre
SAT 15 @ 4:30; THU 20 @ 8:45;
SAT 22 @ NOON+; WED 26 @ 7; SAT 29
@7
16 |
ELVIRA - The
Immigration Play
Si Se Puede Productions, LLC
Writer: Jessica Carmona
Director: Brian Lee
Inspired by the true
story of an undocumented Mexican immigrant woman who
refused to be deported and separated from
her US Citizen son, this play sheds light on
the plight of millions of immigrants crossing
the border.
1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Drama, FringeHIGH
SUN 16 @ 3+; FRI 21 @ 2:30; SUN 23 @ 7;
WED 26 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ 7*
Endless Air, Endless
Water
The Blue Comet Company
Writer: Robert Shaffron
Director: Michael
Damico
In this gay space play,
two astronauts struggle with their sexual
identities inside a small Apollo style space
capsule. Can the relationship between these
two heroic figures survive after their workplace fling is accidentally exposed on national
television?
WED 19 @ 4:45+; FRI 21 @ 2:15; MON 24 @
9:15; WED 26 @ 7; FRI 28 @ 9:30
EverScape
Writer: Allan Maule
Director: Ashley Gunsteens
Choreographer: Adam
Davidson & Julia Adle
Fight: Michael Hagins
An online world of epic
fantasy battles helps four gamers escape their
bleak realities. But when EverScape offers
them a chance to win jobs as game developers, lines get crossed between what’s more
real: the game or their lives? 2h, Brooklyn, NY
Drama, Dance, FringeHIGH
TUE 18 @ 4:30+; SUN 23 @ 2:45*; WED 26
@ 9; FRI 28 @ 9; SAT 29 @ 6:15
www.FringeNYC.org
Exact Change
Cleveland Public
Theater
Writer: Christine
Howey
Director: Scott Plate
What’s harder:
Changing your sex,
or changing your mind? “Exact Change” is a
witty and poignant one-woman tour-de-force
about Christine Howey’s transgender journey.
Humorous and inspiring, it’s a story about
championing your identity and finding your
voice.
1h 20m, Cleveland, OH Solo Show, Drama
Theatre SUN 16 @ 4:30+; WED 19 @ 9:15;
FRI 21 @ 8:45; SUN 23 @ 9:30; THU 27 @
2:30
Fading Light
Martin Tanner Productions
Writer: Herman Johansen
Director: Herman
Johansen
Old photos. New cars.
Love. Family. Murder. A decades old accident
has been shrouded in secrets and lies. When
the truth begins to surface, only a desperate
act can bury it again. Who dug up the past?
1h 35m Los Angeles, CA Drama
WED 19 @ 2:15+; SAT 22 @ 9:15; SUN 23 @
3:45; TUE 25 @ 9:15; FRI 28 @ 4:30
FAFI-An Afrikaner
boy comes of age in
Apartheid SA
JHB-Jozi Home Boys
Writer: Gys and Jaci de
Villiers
Director: Jaci de
Villiers
‘Mama Elsie -I dreamed of the sea-so we bet
26 on Fafi?’ Gys is plagued by the mark on the
wall, which catapults him into memories of
his past. The African landscape of heat, war,
rituals, nightmares and forgiveness.
1h, 5m Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Drama, Solo Show, FringeHIGH
SAT 15 @ NOON+; TUE 18 @ 7:15; SAT 22
@ 7:15; TUE 25 @ 4:30*; THU 27 @ 2:30
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 17
Fail Better; Beckett
Moves UMO
The UMO Ensemble
Writer: Featuring Text
by Samuel Beckett,
created by the UMO
Ensemble, sound scape
by James Bigbee Garver
Director: Elizabeth Klob
An elegant postcard from the edge of reality.
An intimate combination of theatre and circus. With a teeter-totter. And ropes. “UMO’s
remarkable tribute to Beckett’s genius is a
mesmerizing production...a visual delight and
an intellectual teaser.”...The Seattle Times.
1h, Seattle , WA Performance Art,
Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque
FRI 14 @ 8:45+; SUN 16 @ 6:15; TUE 18 @
5:15; WED 19 @ 7; THU 20 @ 9
Far From
Canterbury
Dana M. Lerner in
Association with Far
From Canterbury, LLC
Writer: Book, Music
and Lyrics by Danny K
Bernstein
Director: Juliana Kleist-Méndez
Choreographer: Ilana Gilovich
Once upon a time, in a land where fairy tales
are considered current events, a shy young
knight has just one year to find the one thing
women desire most, or his fairy tale will be
over before it begins!2h 15m, Manhattan, NY
Musical/Opera, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 9; WED 19 @ 2:15+; FRI 21 @
9:15; WED 26 @ 3:30; THU 27 @ 9:45
18 |
Father Kennedy
Writer: Brian Kraker
Director: Alex Katz
Join a small town priest
who embarks on an
epic journey to sabotage
his sister’s engagement.
Before long he is ensnared in a web of lies and lingerie. Can this
rogue priest stop himself from destroying his
church and family?
1h 45m, Pompton Lakes, NJ Comedy, Drama
VENUE #15: Robert Moss Theater at 440
Studios FRI 14 @ 6+; TUE 18 @ 4:15; SAT
22 @ 9; TUE 25 @ 7; SUN 30 @ 2:15
Fathers & Sons
Drift In, Act Out
Writer: Zack Friedman
Director: Stephen
Cedars
Al Marshall considers
himself well-adjusted.
But when Al must look
after his aging father and teenage son, he
begins to lose his grip on reality. How do you
move forward while you’r being pulled into
the past?
SAT 15 @ NOON+; MON 17 @ 7;
SAT 22 @ 7:30; TUE 25 @ 3; SAT 29 @ 3:15
Feelings: because
why pretend the
show is about
anything else?
Writer: Tim Manley
Director: Peter Aguero
Things ended with the
girl I hoped to marry,
so I decided to fall for my male best friend.
My search for a safe place to rest my too-many emotions, told with hand-drawn gifs to
pretend it’s less sad.
1h, Queens, NY Comedy, Solo Show
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SAT 15 @ 7+; WED 19 @ 2; SAT 22 @ 5:15;
WED 26 @ 9; SAT 29 @ 1
www.FringeNYC.org
For Now
The Disposable Theatre
Company
Writer: Jeremy Stuart
Director: Jeremy Stuart
They meet for sex, and
talk about love, neither
knowing what it is, or
how to get it, or why it seems so important,
but only that they can’t stop talking.
1h, Bronx, NY Drama, Comedy
SUN 23 @ 7; MON 24 @ 5:15+; THU 27 @ 7;
FRI 28 @ 3; SUN 30 @ 2:15
FUENTE OVEJUNA
Ducdame Ensemble
Writer: Lope de Vega
Director: William
Oldroyd
Abuse of power.
Oppression of women.
Rebellion. Sacrifice.
Love. What does it take to start a revolution?
It takes a village. Witness the uprising of 15th
Century Spain’s 99%. Based on historical
events and presented by graduates of LAMDA. #iamfuenteovejuna
1h, Manhattan, NY Drama
VENUE #7: The Theater at the 14th Street
Y SAT 15 @ 7:30; SUN 16 @ 9:30; SAT 22 @
8+; SUN 23 @ 3:15; WED 26 @ 4:30
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 19
Funnel Cake
Flowers & The
Urban Chameleons
Tickles.TV
Writer: HaJ
Director: Ayoka
Chenzira
Choreographer: Victor
Rojas: For code-switchers who watch CNN
and Boondocks, listen to Yo Yo Ma and Jay Z,
eat fried chicken and sushi, shop at Target and
Gucci...because it’s complicated out here in
these streets.
1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Comedy, Multi-Media
WED 19 @ 9:15; THU 20 @ 7+;
SUN 23 @ 9:15; WED 26 @ 3
G.U.S.
Writer: Created and
Conceived by Nick Carrillo, Langston Belton,
and Devin James Heater
In 2014, the world
ended. Three men
survived by hiding out
in a Generic Underground Shelter. G.U.S. is
a post-apocalyptic improvised comedy that
explores the relationship between these three
men trapped together for weeks, months,
or, most likely, years. 50m, Manhattan, NY
Comedy, Improv/Sketch/Stand-up
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SUN 16 @ 6:15; WED 19 @ 3:45+; THU 20
@ 7:45; SUN 23 @ 9:30; THU 27 @ 2
GAHOU international “SUNRISE”
the CRAZY ANGEL
COMPANY
Director: Yoshiaki
Saito, Music Director:
Kanae Hosokawa,
Dance Director: Mariko Funasaki
Japanese folk songs arranged in modern style
make you feel as if you participate in a COOL
Japanese festival “MATSURI.” The energetic
sound of BRASS and TAIKO drums is rebuilt
visually with dance, flags, and KATANA
action, make you revitalized! 1h 10m, Tokyo,
JAPAN Performance Art, Musical/Opera
FRI 14 @ 5+; SAT 15 @ 1:30; SAT 15 @ 7;
SUN 16 @ 4
20 |
The Gap
Writer: Harrie Dobby
Meet Lisa: our intrepid
American. Meet Dave:
he’s black, beautiful,
British. They travel the
world, joined by Irish
Hippies & sex-mad
Londoners. But Lisa becomes pregnant, jeopardizing their dreams of backpacking together
forever. What must you sacrifice to be happy?
1h 20m, London, ENGLAND Comedy,Drama
FRI 14 @ 5+; SAT 15 @ 7:15; SUN 16 @
NOON; MON 17 @ 7; TUE 18 @ 2:15
The God Gaffe
John William Schiffbauer
Writer: John William
Schiffbauer
Director: John William
Schiffbauer
When a popular
conservative talk show host inadvertently
insults a young homosexual guest on air, she
and her producer are forced to confront an
uncomfortable Hollywood double standard,
as well as each other. 1h 30m, Manhattan, NY
Drama, Drama
Theatre
WED 19 @ 3+; SAT 22 @ 9:15; WED 26 @
4:45; FRI 28 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 4:45
God Is a Woman
The Locker Room
Writer: Mitchell
Buckley
Director: Nicky
Maggio
A young man, along
with his emotionally
destructive family and an angel hellbent on
revenge, commits a series of increasingly violent crimes. Can they shatter the status quo,
or are they doomed to be victims of a broken
system?
1hr 45m Queens, NY Drama, Comedy
Studios SAT 15 @ 2+; TUE 18 @ 7; FRI 21 @
3:45; WED 26 @ 2; FRI 28 @ 9:30
www.FringeNYC.org
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 21
The Great Forgotten
Writer: Kacie Devaney
& Karen Devaney
Director: Karen Devaney
Choreographer: Kacie
Devaney Elizabeth and
Celia, two graduates
from Bellevue nursing school in NYC, are
among the first batch of American nurses to
arrive at Evac 5, in Paris. When they return
from the realities of war, the roaring twenties
is in full swing. 1h 20m, San Francisco, CA
Drama, Multi-Media
Studios SAT 22 @ 4:45+; THU 27 @ 7; FRI
28 @ 3:30; SAT 29 @ 9:30; SUN 30 @ NOON
Hamlet the
Hip-Hopera
Feast Productions
Writer: Tucker Delaney-Winn, Music by
Charles Laubacher,
Michael Markowski and
Jeff Nicholson
A new musical that amplifies the world of
Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Trapped in a castle
under siege, characters dive into musical
madness through soaring hip-hop ballads,
weaving The Bard’s verse with the lyricism of
a new age.
1h 40m, Queens, NY Comedy, Drama,
FringeHIGH
FRI 14 @ 9:45; TUE 18 @ 4*; SAT 22 @ 7;
MON 24 @ 4:30+; THU 27 @ 5:30
Hand Grenades
Playwrights at the
Grand
Writer: Monica Giordano
Director: Rebecca
Cunningham
Diana and Ophelia’s
relationship is based on small things: days,
phrases, and little looks. But it is all of those
small things that create a big thing: Love.
When Tragedy strikes, Ophelia seeks comfort
in silence, and Diana seeks comfort in Troy.
50m, Brooklyn , NY Drama, Comedy
Theatre FRI 14 @ 7:15+; WED 19 @ 5:15;
SAT 22 @ 2:45; SUN 23 @ 7:45; TUE 25 @ 7
22 |
Hank Leaves Home
HarpGuyNYC in Association with Infinite
Stage
Writer: Erik Heger
Director: Leslie Felbain
Hank is a homeless
concert-grand-harp
playing tramp who never made it out of the
New York City subway system. Heavy on harp
music and physical comedy, it is “the most
important theatrical event on earth since
October 28th, 1958.”
1h, Manhattan, NY Clown/Mask, Solo Show
VENUE #4: Spectrum
FRI 14 @ 8:45+; FRI 21 @ 5:15; SAT 22 @
12:45; MON 24 @ 9:30; FRI 28 @ 2:45
Hard Day’s Night
Lot In Life Productions
Writer: Vicki Vodrey
Director: Samantha
Tella
Kelly K. Kelly craves
a normal life. Instead,
she’s trapped in a world
cluttered with Disney decor, pet ashes, Beatles’ lyrics and one f**king crazy family. A hit
at KC Fringe 2014. “A must see,” Steve Wilson,
Broadway World, 2014.
1h 35m, Kansas City, MO Comedy, Drama
SUN 16 @ 8; THU 20 @ 4:45+; SUN 23 @
5:30; THU 27 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 9:15
Haunted Holliot
Hildorf Hotel and
Shadow’s Unicycle
Jamey Hood and Open
Hydrant Theater Company
Writer: Jamey Hood
Director: Sarah Rosenberg and Luis Cardenas
Eight-year-old Helen Ivy Bunter is a world
renowned ghost hunter and Shadow is just
your average tween ghoul who desperately
needs chocolate. Two adventures! Featuring
professional ghosts, a temperamental boiler
and pajama-clad zombies. Theater for kids
performed by kids! 1h, Bronx, NY FringeJR,
Comedy
SAT 15 @ NOON; FRI 21 @ 7; THU 27 @ 2;
SAT 29 @ 6; SUN 30 @ NOON
www.FringeNYC.org
Hearts Afire
Writer: Darcy Heller
Sternberg
Director: Madeline
Brennan
What do Jell-O shots,
slave labor, butterfly
tattoos, Krishna and
Afghanistan have in common? Five New York
City community college students from diverse
ethnic backgrounds tell their harrowing yet
inspirational stories in an intimate setting. 1h
30m, Manhattan, NY Drama, FringeHIGH
FRI 21 @ 7+; SUN 23 @ 4:45*; TUE 25 @
4:45; FRI 28 @ 7; SUN 30 @ NOON
Hell Is For Real
Writer: Gary Apple
Director: Jay Stern
Choreographer: Lorna
Ventura
Charles Manson was
supposed to go to Hell...
But, ooooops! Six-yearold Davin was sent by mistake. Now Davin’s
returned... devilishly changed. His father embarks on a bizarre odyssey to get his son back
to normal in this outrageous new musical.
1h 55m, Manhattan, NY
FRI 14 @ 7+; SUN 16 @ 1:15; FRI 21 @ 3:45;
THU 27 @ 4:45; SAT 29 @ 7
HICK: A LOVE
STORY, The
Romance of Lorena
Hickok and
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lilith Theater San
Francisco
Writer: Terry Baum
with Pat Bond
Director: Carolyn Myers and Adele Prandini
When Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady in
1933, she had a lesbian lover -- Lorena Hickok, a famous journalist. 2336 letters, from
Eleanor to Hick, document their relationship.
It changed both their lives. “A compelling
one-woman show.” SF Examiner. “Brilliant.”
SF Guardian 1h 30m, San Francisco, CA Solo
Show, Drama
VENUE #6: DROM
FRI 14 @ 5:15; TUE 18 @ 8:45; FRI 21 @ 7+;
TUE 25 @ 9:30; FRI 28 @ 2:30
How You Kiss Me
Is Not How I Like
To Be Kissed
Young Republicans
Theatre Co.
Writer: Dan Giles
Director: Dan Giles
Choreographer:
Mariel Pettee
Kiss her, poorly. Take him home anyway. Set
boundaries. Share secrets. Meet her dad, blow
it. Fall in love casually, strangely, effortlessly.
Negotiate monogamy. Survive IKEA. Make a
life together. Fall apart as easily as you came
together. Now what?
50m, Pittsburgh, PA Comedy, Drama
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SAT 15 @ 8:45+; WED 19 @ 5:30; FRI 21 @
3:30; WED 26 @ 3:45; SAT 29 @ 10:30
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 23
24 |
www.FringeNYC.org
I Want To Kill Lena
Dunham
Writer: Sergio Castillo
Director: Sergio
Castillo
Nora’s life in New York
is in a steady decline.
At work, in her small
Brooklyn apartment, and back at home, everything is falling apart before her eyes. And
Lena Dunham won’t stop mocking her.
1h 20m, Brooklyn , NY Drama, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 7+; MON 17 @ 9; THU 20 @ 4:45;
TUE 25 @ 8:45; SUN 30 @ 2:15
In The Woods We
Return
InVersion Theatre
Writer: Johnny Lloyd
Director: William
Steinberger
A woman meets a man
in a secluded cabin.
They live together, for a while, and discuss
what it means to know your past and understand who you are.
1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Drama,
WED 19 @ 4:45+; FRI 21 @ 7:15; SUN 23 @
6:15; WED 26 @ 7; SAT 29 @ NOON
I, Horatio
Writer: Anthony P.
Pennino
Haunted by Hamlet’s
dying request, “in this
harsh world draw thy
breath in pain to tell my
story,” Horatio launches
upon a quixotic quest to obey his dearly
departed prince by putting on a play.
SAT 15 @ 2:45+; MON 17 @ 7; THU 20 @
8:45; SUN 23 @ 9:15; WED 26 @ 5
Ideas, Not Theories
Reynaliz Herrera
Writer: Music and
Script by Reynaliz
Herrera
Director: Reynaliz
Herrera
This theatrical percussion show portrays quirky characters making
music out of bicycles, water, tap and body
percussion, marimbas and more. Innovative
and dynamic original music intertwines with
an imaginative storyline making this unique
performance equally entertaining for adults
and children.
45m, Boston, MA FringeJR, Musical/Opera
SAT 15 @ 3:30; SUN 16 @ 2:15; FRI 21 @
3:45; SUN 23 @ 1:45; SAT 29 @ 8
An Inconvenient
Poop
Jericho
15-501 Productions
Writer: KG Garcia
Director: Derik Wingo
Cleaning out his attic,
a man recounts his
first love—but the path
is filled with rivals,
exes, rap battles, and Michael McDonald. An
ensemble narrative, “Jericho” explores the
nature of nostalgia and the wounds that keep
us looking back.
2h, Manhattan, NY Comedy, Drama
SAT 15 @ 7+; MON 17 @ 2; SAT 22 @ 4:45;
MON 24 @ 9:15; SUN 30 @ 12:15
The POOP Project
Writer: Shawn Shafner
Director: Annie G.
Levy
What if the solution to
climate change, world
peace, and self-love was something no one
wanted to talk about? In this fascinating and
hilarious FRED Talk, The Puru empowers
audiences to get their sh*t together before it
hits the fan.
1h 10m, Brooklyn, NY Comedy, Solo Show,
FringeHIGH
MON 17 @ 5+; FRI 21 @ 5; SUN 23 @ 2*;
WED 26 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 7:30
Jellybean
Writer: Lee Harrington
Director: Daniel
Jenkins
Join Lee as she chronicles her time growing
up in Arkansas as she
explored sewing machines, cancer treatment centers, Bill Clinton,
and doggie doors. Through a learned sense of
humor, she recounts what it was like growing
up with Jellybean.
1h 30m, Manhattan, NY Solo Show, Comedy
SUN 16 @ 4:45; THU 20 @ 3+; MON 24 @ 7;
FRI 28 @ 9; SAT 29 @ 5
AUGUST 14-30, 2015 | 25
Joker
Quarter Acre
Writer: Yilong Liu, Developed with Matthew
Kelty
Director: Dan Dinero
Set during the run-up
to marriage equality
in Hawai’i, Joker explores love, loss and the
power of our promises. Joe’s past threatens
to unravel his life with his wife and stepson.
Will he reveal the powerful secret behind his
choices? 1h 45m, Honolulu, HI Drama
SAT 15 @ 4:30+; TUE 18 @ 8; SAT 22 @
2:15; MON 24 @ 4:30; FRI 28 @ 7
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Julian and Romero
Media Killed Productions
Writer: Alex Perez
Director: Alex Perez
Choreographer: Alex
Perez & Sebastion
Stimman
During the heated Cuban revolution of the
1960’s, two young men find friendship in a
UMAP Prison camp. Tough choices are challenged by sex, faith, and culture. Dreams and
nightmares come alive in a play with music,
dance, and passion.
1h 40m, Manhattan, NY Drama, Dance
SAT 22 @ 4:45+; TUE 25 @ 4:30; THU 27 @
4:30; FRI 28 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 12:15
www.FringeNYC.org
July House
Pat D. Robinson
Writer: Pat D. Robinson
Director: Nathaniel P.
Claridad
July 5, 2011, five college
kids are partying at
a beach house. Jack has received a grant to
define his generation, Guthrie is snorting adderall and bringing every lamp into the living
room, letters are written, a pact is made.
1h 40m, Manhattan , NY Drama, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 4:30+; TUE 18 @ 9:15; FRI 21 @
9:30; MON 24 @ 7; THU 27 @ 4:30
Kamikaze Cutesauce
Cosplay Club
Quasimondo Milwaukee Physical Theatre
Director: Brian Rott
and Andrew Parchman
Choreographer: Brian
Rott, Jenni Reinke, Posy
Knight, Jessi Miller and Alex Roy
Businessmen turn samurai, junior high
girls play gym class water polo, bystander
cellphones snap pics of an attack. Milwaukee’s
Physical Theatre fuses movement, puppetry,
and martial arts with the Japanese popular art
forms of Manga and Anime. Warning: Mature
Content.
2h 5m Milwaukee, WI Dance, Puppetry
THU 27 @ 9:15+; FRI 28 @ 2; SAT 29 @ 9;
SUN 30 @ 2
Kill Sister, Kill! A
Musical
Bygone Theatre and Kid
Switchblade Productions
Writer: Book and
Lyrics by Drac & Jamieson Child, Music by
Michael Zahorak
Director: Jamieson Child; In the gritty streets
of 1970s NYC, a nun & her sister are attacked
by two sickos. Left for dead & robbed of her
sister, the Woman of God rebuilds herself as
a Weapon of Hellbent Vengeance! A Psychotronic Hell-trip of Song, Sleaze & Revenge!
1h 30m, Toronto, CANADA Musical/Opera,
Comedy
WED 26 @ 6:30+; THU 27 @ 7:30;
FRI 28 @ 9; SAT 29 @ 1:15; SUN 30 @ 1:15
Knots
Yamadera Productions,
LLC; Writer: Jean-Daniel Noland; Director:
Adam LeGrant; A Man,
a Woman a Rope-Knots is a twisted
Freudian fable, a dark
romance, about the desire to be bound and
the fear of being tied down. . . forever.
Theatre SUN 16 @ 2:45; THU 20 @ 7+; THU
27 @ 5; FRI 28 @ 5:15; SAT 29 @ 9:45
Lady Macbeth and
Her Lover
Iron Spike Theatre
Company
Writer: Richard Vetere
Director: Sasha Brätt
Lovers Corrine and
Hope make a suicide pact. One poet lives and one wins the
Pulitzer, posthumously. Years later, the dead
woman’s daughter knocks on Corrine’s door
demanding she be her literary mentor. World
premiere from acclaimed playwright Richard
Vetere. 1h 40m, New Haven, CT Drama,
WED 19 @ 8:30; SAT 22 @ 12:15+;
MON 24 @ 4:30; THU 27 @ 6:30;
SAT 29 @ 9
The Lady Winifred
& Didi Show
Naked Bacon Productions
Writer: Douglas and
Dewey McGeoch, Music by James Sheppard
Director: Douglas and
Dewey McGeoch
A foul-mouthed force. Like seeing Martin
and Lewis if Dean was a sexy, seven foot torch
singer and Jerry a stroke survivor. Quick-witted improv. Merrily musical. Racially offensive. Totally tasteless. 1h 30m, Manhattan, NY
Comedy,
VENUE #6: DROM
SAT 15 @ 8:15; WED 19 @ 3:15+; SAT 22 @
4; TUE 25 @ 5; FRI 28 @ 9:15
Land of Broken Toys
The Other Broadway
Writer: Yasmine Lever
Director: Yasmine
Lever
Choreographer:
Rebecca Hidalgo
Welcome to a world
where new connections are forged in seconds.
But can we overcome old wounds before the
bell rings? Love, sex, betrayal, new beginnings. A disparate group of misfits struggle to
emerge from the wreckage of their lives. 1h
40m, Manhattan, NY Comedy, Drama
SAT 15 @ 9:30; TUE 18 @ 4:30+;
FRI 21 @ 4:30; SAT 22 @ 2:15; TUE 25 @ 9
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Last Night at The
Carmine
This Is Water Productions
Writer: Caroline Kelly
Franklin
Director: Caroline
Kelly Franklin
Some words can only be defined by a moment. How many moments are lost in translation? 98 years, 14 languages, 7 moments,
ONE. LAST. NIGHT. 1h 7m , Manhattan, NY
Drama, Comedy
Studios SAT 15 @ NOON+; TUE 18 @ 9:30;
FRI 21 @ 9:45; TUE 25 @ 2:15; FRI 28 @
5:45
Laugh Track
Mr. Mitts Productions
Writer: Keelin Ryan &
Sarah Esocoff
Director: Sarah Esocoff
Ever wonder what goes
on behind the scenes of
your favorite TV show?
This fast-paced farce follows the taping of one
episode of a beloved, long-running sitcom,
and shines a bright spotlight on the true
“characters” - the actors themselves. 1h 20m,
Manhattan, NY Comedy, Improv/Sketch/
Stand-up
Culture Project
SAT 15 @ 6:15+; THU 20 @ 2; FRI 21 @
9:30; MON 24 @ 2:15; THU 27 @ 10
A Life TBD
Theatrical Gems
Writer: Jonathan G
Galvez
Director: Paul Morris,
Kristen Keim, Prerna
Bhatia
A man in the middle
of a bank robbery, and a woman lost in the
middle of nowhere. That’s only the beginning as two once-lovers realize that the most
important thing they’ve ever had, and lost,
was each other. 1h 30m, Linden, NJ Drama,
Comedy
SAT 15 @ 7:15; SUN 16 @ 2:30+; TUE 25 @
7; WED 26 @ 4:45; SAT 29 @ 2
Liminal
Bedlam Ensemble
Writer: Amelia Parenteau
Director: Daniella
Caggiano
Fresh out of college, a
young poet seeks her
voice and place in New York City. Taunted
by a Greek chorus of blue collar workers, she
grapples with her role in gentrification, the
oppression of homelessness, and a budding
romance. 2h, Manhattan, NY Drama, Comedy
TUE 18 @ 9:30; SAT 22 @ 4:15+;MON 24 @
9:30; THU 27 @ 8; SAT 29 @ 4:15
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Lincoln’s Blood
The Covey Theatre
Company
Writer: Garrett A.
Heater
Director: Garrett A.
Heater
Madness. Betrayal.
Murder. The assassination of President Lincoln triggered a plethora of tragedies. Mary
Todd, her modiste Elizabeth Keckley, Major
Rathbone, his wife Clara, Mary Surratt, and J.
W. Booth are victimized by their memories in
this psychological thriller.
2h, Syracuse, NY Drama
VENUE #2: Flamboyan Theatre at the Clemente FRI 14 @ 9:30; SAT 15 @ 2:15+; SUN
16 @ 6:45; MON 17 @ 2; TUE 18 @ 8:45
LITTLE ONE
Alley Theatre
Writer: Hannah Moscovitch
Director: Amiel Gladstone
FringeNYC Alums/
Excellence Winners
and “Canada’s Hottest Young Playwright”
(National Post, Globe & Mail, Now Magazine)
present a wryly comic thriller about adopted
siblings - one perfectly normal, the other
deeply disturbed … “Witty, smart and insidious. Suburban horror brilliantly rendered.”
(Globe & Mail)
1h, Vancouver, CANADA Drama
THU 20 @ 7+; FRI 21 @ 3:30; SUN 23 @
8:30; WED 26 @ 5:15; FRI 28 @ 2:45
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Loose Canon
No Refunds or Exchanges Co.
Writer: Brian Reno &
Gabriel Vega Weissman
Director: Logan Reed
From Moliére in IKEA
to Chekhov in a TexMex restaurant, this series of short comedies
satirizes the world of the American consumer
in the style of canonical playwrights. It’s a
walk through history...if history was a strip
mall. 1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY Comedy
SUN 16 @ 6+; THU 20 @ 9:15; SAT 22 @
NOON; MON 24 @ 2:15; SAT 29 @ 7:45
Love at the end of
time
Zelos Theatre in association with Michael
Howard Studios
Writer: Adam Swartz
Director: Adam Swartz
Haunted by ghosts of
love and crimes, six people are woven into
surprising intimacies by the great serpent
of Time. A contemporary drama that pays
homage to the works of Albee, O’Neil and
Chekhov.
1h 30m, Manhattan, NY Drama
FRI 21 @ 9:15; MON 24 @ 7+; THU 27 @
2:15; SAT 29 @ 4:45; SUN 30 @ 2
Love in the Middle
Ages
ABCD Productions II
LLC
Writer: Eric Kornfeld &
Jeffrey Jackson
Lyrics: Eric Kornfeld
Composer: Michelangelo Sosnowitz
Director: Lisa Shriver, Musical Director:
Mark Baron
Choreographer: Lisa Shriver; What happens
when six singles meet at a mixer in New York
City? LOVE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, the
new pop musical comedy about love, life, dating and friendship in the modern age. Come
join us and share the love! 1h 30m, Manhattan, NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
VENUE #6: DROM
SAT 15 @ 3:45+; THU 20 @ 7:15; TUE 25 @
7:15; THU 27 @ 4:45; FRI 28 @ 4:45
Love is Like Mud
Level II Theatre
Writer: Ben Folstein
Director: Ben Folstein
Sex, humor, and a hefty
dose of rock n’ roll
are the ingredients in
this visually dynamic
operetta. Brooklyn band Level II serves up a
feast of songs chronicling the romantic misadventures of two lonely kids in the big city. 1h
20m, Brooklyn, NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
VENUE #6: DROM
SUN 16 @ 4+; THU 20 @ 9:30; SUN 23 @
1:45; FRI 28 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 4:45
www.FringeNYC.org
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LUCKY CHICK
Lucky Chick Productions
Writer: Felicity Seidel
Director: Padraic Lillis
Guys with guns. HOT!
Plucked from the crowd
by Bob Weir at a Dead
show. CRAZY! On tour with the band: Lear
jets, pythons, Hells Angels. WOOHOO! A
pissed-off drug-kingpin boyfriend. UH-OH.
Buckle up, sweetheart. It’s one helluva ride.
1h, Brooklyn, NY Solo Show, Comedy
FRI 14 @ 7+; MON 17 @ 9:30; FRI 21 @
3:15; SAT 22 @ 5:15; THU 27 @ 3
The Mad Scientist’s
Guide to Romance,
Robots and
Soul-Crushing
Loneliness
A Collection of Shiny
Objects
Writer: Book by Megan
Sass, Music and Lyrics by Megan Sass &
Nathan Leigh
Director: Jesse Geiger; Faced with romantic
disaster, a Mad Scientist creates the perfect
robot boyfriend. But when her artificial lover
dumps her for the girl-next-door, an existential storm ensues, complete with amorous
lesbian zombies, robot identity-crises and a
quest to save humanity. 1h 10m, Brooklyn,NY
VENUE #6: DROM
SUN 16 @ 8:30+; FRI 21 @ 5; SUN 23 @ 4;
WED 26 @ 5:30; SAT 29 @ 7
masha masha
Natasha
daydark productions
Writer: Carol Brown
Director: Sarah Blush
Spring of 2014, Wisconsin. A basement. Two
young girls threaten the
life of a friend in order to prove themselves
to Slenderman. Before that, Chekhov created
Masha and Natasha. Where’d the time go? 1h
25m, Manhattan, NY Comedy, Drama
Theatre THU 20 @ 2:30+; SAT 22 @ 7; TUE
25 @ 4:45; THU 27 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ NOON
Maybe Tomorrow
The Poet Acts, Inc.
Writer: Max Mondi
Director: Tomer
Adorian
A woman chooses to
live exclusively in her
boyfriend’s bathroom.
Their otherwise “normal” relationship is
thriving until someone else enters the scene.
Inspired by true events, Maybe Tomorrow is
a tragicomical, meta-theatrical experience
about love, fame, and a toilet. 1h 20m, Manhattan, NY Drama, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 2:45+; MON 17 @ 9; FRI 21 @
7:45; SUN 23 @ 1:15; SAT 29 @ 1:15
The Magic Jukebox:
New York City
World Tour
Serious Theatre Collective’s Musical Sketch
Comedy For Lovers and
Platonic Friends
Writer: The Serious
Theatre Collective
Director: Lizz Leiser, Musical Director: Ari
Kessler
Choreographer: Kacie Laforest
Twelve action packed genre bouncing musical sketches from hardcore hair metal to
panty-dropping R&B, enchanting madrigals
to down home gospel— and much more. Featuring a live band, epic offstage battles, Lovecraftian elder gods, and three real dolphins
(played by humans)! 1h 15m, Manhattan, NY
MON 17 @ 7+; FRI 21 @ 7; MON 24 @ 5;
WED 26 @ 2:45; SUN 30 @ NOON
The Morningtime of
Now
Mock Turtle
Writer: Stories and
vocals by Anne Hills,
puppetry by Mock
Turtle, lyrics by Michael
Smith and incidental
music by Jay Ansill
Director: Doug Roysdon
Poet-trees, composer mice, and singing
brooks — experience the rustic world of
Opal Whitely. This magical journey of music,
story and puppetry honors Nature’s miracles,
tragedies, and transcendence. Inspired by the
1920’s diary of young Opal Whitely. Adults/
children over seven. 1h 15m, Bethlehem, PA
Puppetry, Musical/Opera, FringeHIGH
WED 19 @ 7+; SUN 23 @ 9; TUE 25 @ 2*;
FRI 28 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 4:15
MUSAS
Water People Theater
Writer: Néstor Caballero
Director: Iraida Tapias
An extraordinary
encounter between two
icons of Contemporary
Art, Mexican Painter FRIDA KAHLO and
American Poet SYLVIA PLATH, in which
they share the most intimate and passionate
moments of their lives.
1h 30m, Chicago, IL Drama, Comedy
VENUE #16: The Steve & Marie Sgouros Theatre FRI 14 @ 9; SUN 16 @ 12:30; TUE 18 @
4:45+; WED 19 @ 7; THU 20 @ 4:45
MY ASS (IN THE
WORLD): A TRUE
STORY OF LOVE,
WAR, TALIBAN...
AND DIRTY
LAMBADADANCING
Jasmine Pittenger
Writer: Jasmine Pittenger
Director: Mary Catherine Donnelly
One humanitarian. Five continents... And her
own inescapable butt. Helping girl refugees,
Jasmine too is fleeing. One continent’s “fat
ass” is another’s “perfect peach”... Can Jasmine
see how her inner war echoes the war around
her -- before she’s collateral damage?
1h, Portland, OR Solo Show, Comedy
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SUN 16 @ 8+; THU 20 @ 2; SUN 23 @ 6;
THU 27 @ 9; FRI 28 @ 4:30
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Naked Hamilton
Naked-On-the-Run
Productions
Writer: Sky Gilbert
Director: Sky Gilbert
The raw story of an
aging sex trade worker
(Tee) and her ex-lover (Tom) getting kicked out of their fave
bar. Hamilton is a small city just outside of
Toronto — analogous to Queens. Who wins
— real people or gentrification? 1h, Hamilton,
CANADA Comedy, Drama
VENUE #6: DROM
FRI 14 @ 7:30+; SUN 16 @ 2:15; TUE 18 @
7; THU 20 @ 5:30; SAT 22 @ NOON
Night of the Living
The Shelter
Writer: Dave Lankford
Director: Jenny Beth
Snyder
A decaying marriage
fights to survive as
a zombie pandemic
quietly infects the couple’s insular world.
Cross-cutting between two distant but parallel
nights, Mia and Marshall must confront the
most intimate and difficult choices of their
lives.
THU 20 @ 8:45; SAT 22 @ 4:45+; TUE 25 @
3:15;THU 27 @ 9; SAT 29 @ 2:15
NIGHT WITH
GUESTS
Bloodstone Theatrical
Writer: Peter Weiss,
Translation by Laurence
Dobie
Director: Bill Burford
A Children’s Nightmare
in gleeful, physical verse. Intruders stalk the
darkness round a family’s lonesome hut. Two
innocent siblings must save their parents
from a horrid killer’s knife. Medieval German
fairground Kabuki. “The steel is hard, the
flesh is soft!” 40m, Manhattan, NY Drama,
Studios WED 19 @ 10; FRI 21 @ 8:15+; SUN
23 @ 5:30; WED 26 @ 8; FRI 28 @ 2
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NO CHAOS:
POLLOCKS WIFE
Sideway Theater
Writer: Michael Stock
Director: Michael
Stock
Jackson Pollock’s
widow, Lee Krasner,
was a brilliant artist forgotten by time. This
bio-drama reimagines the tragic, bourbon-fueled love story that tore apart the 1950s art
world, leaving her alone with her work and
her ghosts.
2h, Chicago, IL Drama, Comedy
FRI 14 @ 7+; SUN 16 @ 4:45; WED 19 @ 9;
FRI 21 @ 2; SAT 22 @ 2
Old Haunts
Customary Radicals
Productions
Writer: Emily Simon
Director: Emily Simon
Upon returning to Colorado, the familiarities
of Mark’s hometown
dissolve, giving way to the tangled web of his
unraveling imagination.
2h, Brooklyn , NY Drama, Comedy
Studios FRI 14 @ 8:30; SUN 16 @ 8:30;
THU 20 @ 2+; TUE 25 @ 4:15; SAT 29 @
2:30
Out of Silence:
Abortion Stories
from the 1 in 3
Campaign
Advocates for Youth
Writer: Allyson Currin,
D.W. Gregory, Caleen
Jennings, Nicole Jost,
Jacqueline E. Lawton, Kristen LePine, Jennifer
L. Nelson, Anu Yadav, and Karen Zacarias
Director: Marie Sproul
Heartbreaking. Messy. Funny. The stories
of Out of Silence puts real-life stories at the
center of a new dialogue about abortion, one
steeped in empathy and demonstrative of the
importance abortion care has played in the
lives of so many. 1h 20m, Washington, DC
Drama, Comedy
VENUE #2: Flamboyan Theatre at the Clemente SAT 15 @ NOON+; MON 17 @ 4:45;
WED 19 @ 2:30; SAT 22 @ 9:15; SUN 23 @ 7
Only a Paper Moon
Shout Alone Theater
Company
Writer: Maddie Hill
Director: Arsalan
Akhavan & Maddie Hill
Wynnie from West
Texas has an I.Q. below
70. On her 18th birthday, her mother drops
dead on the kitchen floor. The probate court
evaluates Wynnie as she searches for independence and love while escaping into a 1940’s
Hollywood dreamscape.
2h 10m, Manhattan, NY Drama, Multi-Media
MON 17 @ 9:15; THU 20 @ 4;+ SUN 23 @ 4;
WED 26 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ 9:15
www.FringeNYC.org
O’ Save Us, St.
Sophia
Dirty Dishes Theatre
Company
Writer: Mikey Craighead
Director: Sophia Lana
Cohen Smith
He called her Sophia; she called herself
“Whore”. She knew she’d wreak havoc when
she left. Now Gregg, abandoned, can only
honor her self-serving legacy; and is consequently having a vaguely schizophrenic break.
Friendship - a deceptively cheerful word, isn’t
it?
Studios SUN 16 @ 12:30+; WED 19 @ 6;
SAT 22 @ 2:30; WED 26 @ 9:30;
SAT 29 @ 7:15
O’Brien & O’Brian
Barely Concealed Productions in Association
with Prickly Productions
Writer: John Enright
Director: Robert
Belchere
It’s moving day - Alan O’Brian is leasing office
space from Darlene O’Brien. In walks Sam,
seeking a lawyer named O’Brien, but unsure
which one. A romantic soufflé from Chicago,
about homophobia, Irish-phobia, and finding
your heart’s desire.
1h 35m, Chicago, IL Comedy, Drama
FRI 14 @ 9:30; TUE 18 @ 4:30+;
SAT 22 @ 4:30; TUE 25 @ 7; FRI 28 @ 9:15
Painting His Wings
Making It Happen
Productions
Writer: Sinead Daly
Director: Heather
Lanza
What happens when
your universe has
been forever changed? Through finger-puppet-wearing young Abellona’s imaginative
eyes, watch her family try to cope with great
loss using Sorry!, Chatroulette, and whatever
they can summon from within themselves.
SAT 15 @ 2:15+; MON 17 @ 4:45; THU 20 @
7; SUN 23 @ 5:30; TUE 25 @ 8
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Paraphilia:
Everyone Has a
Sexual Disorder
Recognize Theatre
Writer: Lorne Svarc
Director: Kristin J
Heckler
Come by a fly on the
wall in Margo’s first sex therapy practice. She
guides her clients through the ups and downs
of their sexual disorders (pun intended) while
learning about her own sexuality with her
new beau.
SUN 16 @ 9:15; WED 19 @ 4:45+;
WED 26 @ 7; FRI 28 @ 4:45; SAT 29 @ 9:45
Parthenogenesis
Writer: Patrick Cleary
Director: Ashley
Marinaccio
Theresa, abandoned by
her father on a frozen
lake 40 years ago, had
a daughter via artificial
insemination. Tonight, her father tries to
reconnect and her daughter arrives with the
professor who got her pregnant. No secrets
are safe forever.
32h 10m, Wakefield, MA Drama, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 4:15+; MON 17 @ 9; WED 19 @ 2;
THU 20 @ 9; SUN 23 @ 6
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PEDRO PAN
Writer: Rebecca Aparicio, Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Anthony
Elkins
Director: Rebecca
Aparicio
Based on the real-life
events of Operación Pedro Pan, a young
boy named Pedro is sent alone to the U.S. to
escape the dangers of 1962 Havana. Pedro
must then navigate becoming an “American”
without losing his cultural identity.
1h, Queens, NY FringeJR, Musical/Opera
SUN 16 @ 3:45; WED 19 @ 2; SAT 22 @
1:45; TUE 25 @ 2; FRI 28 @ 2
Petition for an Alien
Fiance
Unidentified Flying
Productions
Writer: Harry Buckoke
Director: Elizabeth
Groth
Canadian food photographer Silvia and American Amber get
engaged, so Silvia can stay in America. When
they receive the Petition for an Alien Fiance,
they invent the fabulous history of their
relationship, rather than confront the tough
realities.
Theatre SAT 15 @ 7:15+; SUN 16 @ 9:30;
SUN 23 @ 1:15; WED 26 @ 9:45; FRI 28 @
3:30
www.FringeNYC.org
PICKLES
Writer: Laura Minadeo
& Alexander Rotella
Director: Laura
Minadeo & Alexander
Rotella
A unique action-packed
superhero tale seen
through the eyes of a sassy cosmetologist, as
she expresses her outrageous views on her
boyfriend’s “night job”, his sidekick dog, bodily functions, and the city’s devastating lack
of caffeine thanks to The Decafinator! 1h 5m,
Warwick, RI Comedy, Drama
THU 20 @ 2+; SAT 22 @ 7:15; TUE 25 @
2:30; THU 27 @ 8:45; SAT 29 @ 2:45
Plath.
Alex Donnelly and Allie
Carieri; Writer
Music by Fernanda
Douglas, Book and
Lyrics by Molly Heller
Director: Emily Feinstein
Plath. follows Sylvia Plath’s years at Smith
College. With the help of her psychologist,
Plath reflects on her journal from this trying
portion of her life. Plath’s poetry and prose
inform the story of this innovative piece of
new musical theatre. 1h 15m , Manhattan, NY
Musical/Opera, Drama
THU 20 @ 7+; SUN 23 @ 9; TUE 25 @ 8:45;
THU 27 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 1:45
POOR PEOPLE
Writer: Adapted from
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
novel POOR FOLK,
Written by Lavinia
Roberts, Conceived by
Irene Kapustina
Director: Irene Kapustina
Russia. 1845. A young orphan flees her abuser
to live with an elderly woman. She befriends
struggling clerk Makar; living in the corner
of a kitchen. Through letters, their friendship
blooms - until an unwanted suitor arrives.
Can love triumph?
1h 30m, Manhattan, NY Drama, Dance
SUN 16 @ 3:45+; THU 20 @ 4:45; MON 24
@ 7;THU 27 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 5:30
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POPESICAL
Tilted Windmills
Theatricals
Writer: Adam Overett
Director: Drew Geraci
Choreographer:
Drew Geraci
The Pope is dead.
Locked in the Sistine Chapel, Cardinals
compete in top-secret “Papal Challenges” to
succeed him. Forbidden love… Sacrilege…
Song-and-dance. From the producers of
Silence! The Musical, this irreverent musical
comedy will have you laughing and praying.
2h, Manhattan, NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
THU 20 @ 7+; SAT 22 @ 7; THU 27 @ 2;
FRI 28 @ 3 SAT 29 @ 9:45
The Portable
Dorothy Parker
Grove Goddess Productions;
Writer: Annie Lux
Director: Lee Costello
Dorothy Parker reminisces about her life,
loves, work, — her famous friends (Fitzgerald,
Hemingway, Lillian Hellman…), and the wits
of the Algonquin Round Table (Woollcott,
Benchley, George Kaufman…), — while
selecting stories and poems for her 1944
collection, The Portable Dorothy Parker.
1h 30m, Manhattan, NY Solo Show, Comedy
THU 20 @ 2:30+; SAT 22 @ 7; MON 24 @ 9;
THU 27 @ 4:15; SUN 30 @ 2:30
Portraits: He said..
She said..
Little Joe Productions
Writer: Robert Siegel
Director: Robert Siegel
Studs Terkel meets
Beckett as a man and a
woman take the stage
with only two chairs and conjure characters
from displaced auto workers to twenty-somethings on a bender. Men and women untying
knots. Pointed snapshots of America today.
1h 5m, Raleigh, NC Drama, Comedy
MON 17 @ 7+; TUE 18 @ 3; WED 19 @ 9:15;
THU 20 @ 5; FRI 21 @ 7
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The Princeton
Seventh
Possum Creek
Writer: Andrea Alton
Director: Eric Chase
Naive bride Beth Ann
faces love, lust and
tragedy in Civil War-era
Possum Creek, Ohio.
This comedic solo show has 12 characters,
spans 30 years and features lost husbands,
babies of uncertain parentage, man-on-man
carnality, plagues, and a beloved pig.
1h 5m, Brooklyn, NY Solo Show, Comedy
SUN 16 @ 4:30; WED 19 @ 7; FRI 21 @
5:45+; SUN 23 @ 3:30; FRI 28 @ 8:45
Princess Cut: A
young girl’s reality
inside a Tennessee
sex ring
Yellow Rose Productions; Writer: Kelsey
Broyles, Kerri Koczen,
and Danielle Roos,
Music by Christian Barnett and Joey English,
additional lyrics by Kelsey Broyles
Director: Danielle Roos
Based on a true story, a young girl is forced
into a sex trafficking ring by her cousin. She
relives memories; struggling with her double
life as psychological trauma catches up with
her. A post-show panel examines trafficking
in the U.S. 1h 10m, Knoxville, TN Drama,
Multi-Media, FringeHIGH
Culture Project
FRI 14 @ 9:30; SUN 16 @ 3:15; MON 17 @
7:30+; WED 19 @ 2*; FRI 21 @ 4:45
Partizan Theater
Writer: James Vculek
Director: James Vculek
Two strangers start a
contentious conversation while waiting for
a tribute to a dead poet. When joined by a
Nobel Prize-winning author and his current
trophy wife, the revelations multiply. The play
ends and then...it begins again. Or does it? 1h
30m, Minneapolis , MN Comedy, Drama
FRI 14 @ 7:30; SAT 15 @ 4:45; MON 17 @
3+; WED 19 @ 7; THU 20 @ 2:30
random us
Writer: Patrick Sherrard
Director: Patrick
Sherrard
Witness Denny and
Daisy’s love story. Experience their humorous
and touching journey as their most intense
and intimate life moments play out in front of
you. “Love is laughter, heartbreak and everything in-between - but it is never random.”
2h, Long Island, NY Drama, Comedy
FRI 14 @ 7+; MON 17 @ 9:15; THU 20 @ 2;
SUN 23 @ 2:45; THU 27 @ 4:15
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Rapunzel in the
Wild West
WhatFun! Theatre
Writer: Bobby Becher,
Ashley Mills, Marc
de la Concha, Ashley
Whiting, Music and
Lyrics by Bobby Becher
and Ralph Krumins, add’l Music/Lyrics by
Ashley Mills
Director: Ashley Mills, Music Director:
Bobby Becher
Choreographer: Ashley Mills
The evil Bandit Queen is robbing every town
in the West. Can Rapunzel and her famous
hair-lasso save the day and prove she’s more
than just a lady? Join this interactive melodrama, and help Rapunzel lasso the Bandit
Queen!
50m, Manhattan,NY FringeJR, Musical/Opera
SAT 15 @ 1:45; WED 19 @ 4:45;
SAT 22 @ NOON; WED 26 @ 2; FRI 28 @ 7
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Reading Between
the Lies
Endangered Artist
Sanctuary
Writer: Kelly Barrett
Director: Schnele
Wilson
A boozy new whodunit
has rocked Broadway before its first rehearsal.
Who gets bumped off? Who did the deed?
And who (if anyone) will save the day? Come
see this 1940’s noir farce to find out! 1h 30m,
Manhattan, NY Comedy
Culture Project
FRI 14 @ 4:45+; MON 17 @ 2:15; THU 20 @
9:45; WED 26 @ 7:45; SAT 29 @ 5:15
www.FringeNYC.org
ReLateAble
The Coyote Collective
Writer: Derran
Moss-Dalmau, Conceived by The Coyote
Collective
Director: Janine
Cunningham and
Bautista Duarte
It might just be the apocalypse. Without technology to answer their questions, Ann and
Jon embark on a drunken night of delusions
and confessions while ghosts of relationships
past and future arrive looking for answers. 1h
15m, Brooklyn, NY Comedy, Drama
FRI 14 @ 5+; SUN 16 @ 7:30; WED 19 @ 5;
SAT 22 @ NOON; WED 26 @ 7
THE REPORT
Barry Goralnick, Sarahbeth Grossman, Craig
Zehms in Association
with Cutting Hedge
Productions
Writer: Martin Casella,
Based on the Novel by
Jessica Francis Kane
Director: Alan Muraoka
1943. The deadliest civilian tragedy of WWII
happened in a London tube station. The British government lied to its people. Now one
man must make sense of it all. A haunting,
unknown true story. From the author of THE
IRISH CURSE.
2h 10m, Manhattan, NY Drama, FringeHIGH
Culture Project
SAT 15 @ 3:15*; TUE 18 @ 9:45; MON 24 @
4:30+; THU 27 @ 4:15; FRI 28 @ 9
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Ripple of Hope:
One Teacher’s
Journey to Make an
Impact
Smokestack Productions Inc
Writer: Karen Sklaire
Director: Padraic Lillis
An idealistic drama teacher discovers the obstacle is not the inner city students she must
conquer but a troubled NYC school system.
She engages students with everything she’s
got, including a rap of Annie, while administration sings only test prep.
1h 10m, Brooklyn, NY Solo Show, Drama
SAT 15 @ 12:15; WED 19 @ 7+; SUN 23 @ 7;
WED 26 @ 2:45; THU 27 @ 7
Running Interference
Writer: Eric William
Morris & Ashley
Rodbro
Director: Jonathan
Judge Russo
Inspired by national
debate about the entertainment value of violence in sports. Ryan’s
sole ambition is to be an NFL quarterback.
A weekend at his best friends’ lake house
unearths the price of living out his dream.
Studios SAT 15 @ 4:30+; THU 20 @ 9;SUN
23 @ 3; THU 27 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ NOON
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SCHOOLED
The All-Americans
Writer: Lisa Lewis
Director: James Kautz
From acclaimed storyteller Lisa Lewis comes
SCHOOLED, a fiercely
funny and gripping new
play about privilege, ambition, and the lengths
we’ll go to succeed. Two students and their
professor find themselves in a taut threesome
that tests their relationship and their ethics.
Studios SAT 15 @ 9; TUE 18 @ 2;
THU 20 @ 4:45+; SUN 23 @ 7; THU 27 @
4:45
The Screenwriter Dies
Of His Own Free Will
ARC Stages
Writer: Jim Shankman
Director: Craig J.
George
Willy is a storied
screenwriter facing the
big deadline in the sky. Gabe is a studio exec
who’d kill for his gritty sci-fi. But Willy’s got
screenplay that stinks of art. A metafictional
meditation on the art of the deal. 55m, Pleasantville, NY Comedy
THU 20 @ 7+; SAT 22 @ 1; SUN 23 @ 9;
WED 26 @ 5; SAT 29 @ 5:15
www.FringeNYC.org
Serial: The Parody!
Olga & Brandi
Writer: Olga Elliot &
Brandi Bravo
Did we get the whole
story? Take a behind
the scenes look at the
award winning podcast
Serial. This game-changing parody follows an
obsessive journalist’s experiences with love,
ham, and Matthew McConaughey. An untold
story told scene by scene. 45m, Brooklyn, NY
Improv/Sketch/Stand-up, Comedy
MON 17 @ 7:30+; THU 20 @ 9:15;
SUN 23 @ 5:30; FRI 28 @ 3:45;
SAT 29 @ 3:30
Shake The Earth
Arev Productions, Inc.
Writer: Lousine Shamamian
Director: Misti Wills
Bolstered by kufta and
string cheese, Lousine
yearns to bring the
injustice inflicted on her ancestors to light.
Can this meek gay Armenian stand up for
herself and recount her great-grandfather
Georgi’s remarkable story of survival during
the Armenian Genocide? 52m, Brooklyn, NY
Drama, Solo Show, FringeHIGH
VENUE #4: Spectrum
MON 17 @ 3:45+; THU 20 @ 5:30*;
SAT 22 @ 7; MON 24 @ 2; SAT 29 @ 8:45
She Rantulas from
Outer Space in 3D!
She-Rantulas Theatre
Co.
Writer: Ruff Yeager &
Phil Johnson
Director: Ruff Yeager
It’s 1957 Tarrytown, U.S.A. As men disappear
and women are gruesomely eliminated, perfect housewife Betty is filled with fear as she
wonders why her little Suzie is looking more
and more like the Man from Mars.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
1h 40m, San Diego, CA Comedy
Culture Project
FRI 14 @ 7+; SUN 16 @ 5:15; WED 19 @
4:15; FRI 21 @ 11:30; SUN 23 @ 7:45
Single Room
Occupancy
BR Productions; Writer: Music and Book by
Ben Rauch, Lyrics by
Gaby Gold, Ben Rauch,
Winston Rauch, and
Rory Scholl
Director: Joey Murray
A single guy’s comedic singer/songwriter
dream is challenged by the distractions of
social media, relationships and his fear of
performing beyond the confines of his tiny
apartment. A story for anyone who’s biggest
obstacle is themselves.1h 40m, Manhattan,
NY Musical/Opera, Comedy
Culture Project
FRI 14 @ 2:15+; MON 17 @ 9:30;
THU 20 @ 7:15; FRI 21 @ 2:15;
THU 27 @ MID
Sitting Regal by the
Window
Aya Aziz
Writer: Aya Aziz
Director: Tiff Roma
Choreographer: Aya
Aziz and Tiff Roma
In this semi-autobiographical cabaret Aya performs exaggerated
memories and original songs from her life as
a Ghetto-Hippie-Arab-Commie-China Doll.
The show explores identity, social stratification and the importance of ordering chili with
onions on the side. 1h 30m, Manhattan, NY
Multi-Media, Performance Art, FringeHIGH
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SUN 16 @ 2:15+; WED 19 @ 9;
SAT 22 @ 2:30*; MON 24 @ 3:45;
FRI 28 @ 10
Sleep At Your Own
Risk
SummerGrad Productions
Writer: Matthew Ethan
Davis
Director: Billy Mitchell
Guy struggles with the
phenomenon of sleepwalking while trying to
hold on to the love of his life...and not walk
out of his apartment naked. -Performed by
Brendan Wahlers
1h, New York, NY Solo Show, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 2:15+; WED 19 @ 9; FRI 21 @ 7;
MON 24 @ 9:15; SAT 29 @ 2:30
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Small Membership
Writer: Mark Della
Ventura
Director: David Sirois,
Gabe Hammad
Matt has a big problem... in a very small
“package.” Don’t miss
this irresistible show as he exposes male insecurity like you’ve never seen before. Puberty,
orientation, anxiety, love, heartbreak, a solo,
self-imposed celibacy and lots of laughter. 1h
15m, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Solo Show, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 8:45+; WED 19 @ 2:45; SAT 22 @
2:45; MON 24 @ 5; FRI 28 @ 7
Solina
Little Did Productions
Writer: Little Did
Productions, Music by
Luke Santy
Director: Jessica Marie
Lorence
Sun is missing. Only
11-year-old Solina can find Sun and save the
world from eternal night. Solina ventures into
an endless nightscape, where puppets made of
light, cloth, and paper sing and play live music
to illustrate this unfamiliar world.
1h, Manhattan, NY FringeJR, Puppetry
TUE 18 @ 2; FRI 21 @ 5:15; SUN 23 @
NOON; TUE 25 @ 7; THU 27 @ 5:15
Sousepaw: ‘A
Baseball Story’
Shelby Company
Writer: Jonathan A.
Goldberg
Director: Courtney
Ulrich
Famed pitcher Rube
Waddell has one last shot to make a big comeback, so he hires the Reptile Girl from the
circus to keep him company -- and sober. This
heartbreaking play explores their long night
of broken promises, secrets, and past regrets.
1h 10m, Brooklyn, NY Drama,
VENUE #12: 64E4 UNDERGROUND TUE
18 @ 7:15+; THU 20 @ 8:45; SUN 23 @
NOON; WED 26 @ 7; FRI 28 @ 5
A Spot on the Wall
I Mean! Productions
Writer: Temar Underwood
Director: Temar Underwood
Forced to share a bleak
cell, racial tensions rise
between two killers, Ezra and Aiden. In this
two-man thriller, principal characters from
their pasts snap to life, setting off a chilling
quest for redemption before a lethal injection
deadline. 1h 40m, Astoria, NY Drama,
VENUE #12: 64E4 UNDERGROUN
FRI 21 @ 9; SUN 23 @ 2+; MON 24 @ 7;
THU 27 @ 4:30; SAT 29 @ NOON
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St. Francis
Hey Jonte! Productions
in Association with
Michael Bitalvo
Writer: Miranda Jonte
Director: Stephen
Brotebeck
Brash veterinarian
Tessa is under pressure from the city council,
the teenage volunteer she’s mentoring, and the
return of an old flame. When Starbucks forces
her no-kill shelter out of its building, she has
just one option left: her estranged father.
1h 15m, Queens, NY Drama, Comedy
Studios SUN 16 @ 6:30+; WED 19 @ 4;
FRI 21 @ 6:15; SAT 22 @ 7; SUN 23 @ 1
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Stalker: The Musical
RPG Productions
Writer: David Russell
(Original Concept,
Book and Lyrics) and
Alex Giles (Book and
Lyrics), Music by Andy
Peterson
Director: Benita de Wit
Australian born, Stalker: The Musical is set in
a dystopian world where love has been eradicated and lust is celebrated. This dark comedy
follows the story of Jay Cloudstreet who finds
himself unusually and illegally drawn to one
particular girl. 2h 20m, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Culture Project FRI 14 @11:15; MON 17
@ 4:30+; WED 19 @ 6:45; SAT 22 @ 8:45;
WED 26 @ 4:45
www.FringeNYC.org
The Starter
Writer: Sean Murphy,
based on works by
Anton Chekhov
Director: Katie Falter
A group of friends
attempt their first
grown-up dinner party.
But as the night gets longer, and the drinks
pile up, the party dissolves into childish chaos.
A sharp, fast-paced satire about creating your
future, and leaving the past behind.
FRI 14 @ 9:45; SUN 16 @ NOON+;
TUE 18 @ 2; SAT 22 @ 4:45; TUE 25 @ 9:15
The Stella
Gregg Greenberg
Writer: Gregg Greenberg
Director: Frank Senger
The Stella dives into the
cutthroat, venomous
and often hilarious
world of personal injury law. Newly-minted
lawyer Jason tries to keep his head above
water while his sadistic boss and a ludicrous
case try and drag him under.
SUN 16 @ 7+; WED 19 @ 9:15; FRI 21 @
4:45; TUE 25 @ 2:30; FRI 28 @ 9:15
Still Life with Apples
Sarah Blush / Ali
Perkins
Writer: Sarah Blush
and Ali Perkins
Director: Sarah Blush
and Ali Perkins
Choreographer: Sarah Blush and Ali Perkins
A charismatic dance theatre piece scored
with original music that explores love, loss
and memory. Inspired by the still life form,
it’s a funny yet considered look at how we
construct — and paint over — the moments
that comprise romantic relationships.
1h 10m, Manhattan, NY Dance, Drama
THU 20 @ 7+; SAT 22 @ 9:15; MON 24 @ 3;
FRI 28 @ 5; SAT 29 @ NOON
Stockholm Savings
Polemic Theatre Co.
Writer: Michael DeMeo, Based on text by
Frank Pierson
Director: Richard
Mover
Lights! Cameras!
Hostages! A botched bank robbery in Muncie,
Indiana quickly unravels, exposing America’s
media circus and our obsession with spectacle. Police brutality, LGBT rights, racism, and
social media are explored in this immersive
reimagining of Dog Day Afternoon.
1h 15m, Brooklyn, NY Drama, Comedy
THU 20 @ 9:15; SUN 23 @ 2+; TUE 25 @ 7;
FRI 28 @ 5; SUN 30 @ NOON
Straight Faced Lies
Man Down Productions
Writer: Mark Jason
Williams
Director: Andrew
Block
Grab a plate and
sharpen your knives for
an unforgettable Thanksgiving at The Ryans,
where family battles are as bitter as the cranberry sauce and the secrets more delicious
than the stuffing. “One of the year’s best new
plays.” –NewYorkTheatre.com
FRI 14 @ 5; TUE 18 @ 7+; SAT 22 @ 9:30;
MON 24 @ 7; THU 27 @ 3
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The Submarine
Show
Slater and Jaron
Writer: Jaron and Slater
Director: Slater and
Jaron
Choreographer: Jaron
and Slater
Two men crash their submarine on the ocean
floor. You laugh as they cry, swim, fly and go
insane, a madcap journey from the ocean to
the sky. Created by Emmy Award winning
Slater Penney and former Cirque Du Soleil
Performer Jaron Hollander.
1h 15m, Oakland, CA Comedy, Clown/Mask
Culture Project
SUN 23 @ 3+; TUE 25 @10;
THU 27 @ 2:15; FRI 28 @ 7; SAT 29 @ 7:30
Succession
Valerie Green/Dance
Entropy
Choreographer: Valerie Green
Channeling fluid movements of a fetus in an
amniotic sac, aging, an
installation of hundreds of flowers, a spiritual
burial, and a symbolic rebirth. Ms. Green has
thread together segments from her body of
solo works creating a life cycle journey.
48m, Queens, NY Dance, Solo Show
VENUE #7: The Theater at the 14th Street
Y SAT 15 @ 9:15; TUE 18 @ 7+; SAT 22 @
6:30; WED 26 @ 8:45; SAT 29 @ 3:45
SUMMER BLUE
A LoudSOL Production
(In Association with
Urban Circus NYC)
Writer: LoudSOL
Collective
Director: Akil Davis
Choreographer: Dance
by Akil Davis & LoudSOL
Aerial by Seanna Sharpe & Urban Circus
NYC
Journey deep and high - from the roots to the
sky, Summer Blue is an original exploration of
our passionate Souls incorporating Theatre,
Dance, Balinese Maskwork, Spoken Word,
Circus Arts, set to a live score of Jazz and
Blues Music.
2h, Brooklyn, NY Spoken Word/Poetry,
Culture Project
SAT 15 @ 10:45; TUE 18 @ 7+; MON 24 @
9:45; TUE 25 @ 5:15; SAT 29 @ MID
A Supposedly Fun
Thing I’ll Never Do
Again
Writer: David Foster
Wallace, adapted and
performed by
Christopher Duva
Director: Suzanne Weber
David Foster Wallace barely survives the “insanity-producing pampering” provided while
on assignment aboard a 7-Night Caribbean
Cruise. Meet solicitous fun-managers, Dickensian crewmen, beautiful Petra and Captain
Video in this adaptation of his tragicomic tale
of Americans adrift.
1h 30m, Los Angeles, CA Comedy, Solo Show
SUN 16 @ 8:45; THU 20 @ 7+; SAT 22 @
12:30; WED 26 @ 4:45; FRI 28 @ 3:15
Swipe Right
Writer: Allison Young
Director: Allison
Young
A new comedy about
navigating life in your
20’s, horrific online dating stories, and that one
guy on Tinder we all know. See what happens
when four dates go awry on the same night...
with the same “Mr. Right”!
1h, Manhattan , NY Comedy
SUN 16 @ 5:15+; WED 19 @ 3; FRI 21 @
9:15; TUE 25 @ 7; FRI 28 @ 3
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Thank You for
Staring
Writer:
Patrice Gerideau
Director: Carol Cadby
If beauty is in the eye of
the beholder, can one
still be beautiful when
disease erases what society calls beautiful? In
this authentic and transparent solo work, one
woman recounts her real-life struggle with
beauty, love, faith and acceptance.
1h, Washington, DC Solo Show, Drama
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SUN 16 @ 4:30+; FRI 21 @ 8:45;
SUN 23 @ 7:45; WED 26 @ 2; FRI 28 @ 6:15
This Side of the
Impossible
Writer: Sebastian
Boswell III
Director: Sebastian
Boswell III
Awarded “Best of
Fringe” at the 2014
San Francisco Fringe Festival. Witness mind
reading and remarkable physical feats of the
mystics, performed by Sebastian Boswell III.
He claims these extraordinary powers result
from a lifetime of travel and study. Genuine,
charlatan, or insane?
1h, San Francisco, CA Vaudeville/Sideshow/
Magic/Burlesque, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 7+; TUE 18 @ 3:30; THU 20 @
5:15; SAT 22 @ 3:30; MON 24 @ 7
Th’ Burning
The Acting Studios,
LLC
Writer: Susan McCain,
Jason Wright
Director: Susan
McCain
Anniston, Alabama.
1961. Deep in the South, two girlhood friends
- one black, one white - unite when integration is met with opposition during a violent
bus-burning riot that mutilates the idea of
what it means to be family.
1h 30m, Birmingham, AL Drama,
Performance Art
FRI 14 @ 7:15; SUN 16 @ 2:15+; FRI 21 @ 7;
MON 24 @ 2:30; FRI 28 @ 2:45
Tiananmen Annie
Writer: Ann Starbuck
Director: Richard
Embardo
A comedic and heartfelt
coming of age story
about finding your
Chinese soul. It is Ann
Starbuck’s true story of living in Beijing as a
student in 1988-1989, and working for CNN
during the Tiananmen Square Uprising. 1h
15m, Los Angeles, CA Solo Show, Drama,
FringeHIGH
WED 19 @ 2:45*; SAT 22 @ 5+; TUE 25 @ 3;
WED 26 @ 9; SAT 29 @ 8:45
TO DANCE The Musical
Dancing in the Dark
Productions
Writer: Book & Lyrics
by Kyra Robinov, Music
by Tibor Zonai
Audiences love him.
The KGB hates him. All Valery Panov wants
is TO DANCE. But will the Soviet authorities
let him? Set in Cold War Russia, this musical
drama of love and intrigue is filled with humor, song and dance.
2h 30m, Manhattan, NY Dance, Musical/
Opera
TUE 18 @ 8:30; FRI 21 @ 8:45; SUN 23 @
5:45+; THU 27 @ 9; SUN 30 @ 1:45
To Each Their Own
Tek Theatrical
Productions
Writer: Tracey Knight
Narang
Director: Charles E.
Gerber
After years of heartbreaking infertility Liz and John unexpectedly
become pregnant. Joy and honesty are quickly
replaced by despair and deceit when important moral issues and dark family secrets
threaten their marriage.
1h 30m, Westport, CT Drama, Comedy
MON 17 @ 7; THU 20 @ 9; MON 24 @
4:45+; SAT 29 @ 7; SUN 30 @ NOON
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Type What Now
Writer: Jessie Bear
Director: Stefan Hartmann
What are ten things you
hate about your body?
What’s one you like?
An unlikely diagnosis
takes Jessie on a journey exploring body
image and chronic illness that questions what
society tells us is healthy, and what healthy
really means. 1h 40m, Queens, NY Drama,
Comedy
MON 17 @ 7+; FRI 21 @ 8:45; SUN 23 @
4:30; THU 27 @ 9; SAT 29 @ NOON
The Uncertainty
Principle
TC Productions
Writer: Adam Strauss
Director: Jonathan
Libman
Adam Strauss, winner
of last year’s
FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for
Solo Performance, returns with a new show
about sex, god, OCD, quantum physics, and
the fundamental uncertainty of everything.
“Strauss mines a great deal of laughter” -New
York Times
1h, Brooklyn, NY Comedy, Solo Show
SAT 15 @ 5+; WED 19 @ 9; FRI 21 @ 3:45;
MON 24 @ 5; THU 27 @ 8:15
Uniform Justice
Chuk Obasi
Writer: Book and
Lyrics by Chuk Obasi,
Music by Fariddudin
F. Johnson and Chuk
Obasi
Director: Chuk Obasi,
Music Director: Fariddudin F. Johnson; In an
urban neighborhood in Memphis, residents
and police search for solutions to rampant violence afflicting their streets and the conflicts
and suspicions dividing them. A unique take
on a current crisis, inspired by true stories
and experiences in Memphis.
1h 40m, Manhattan, NY Drama,
Musical/Opera, FringeHIGH
SUN 16 @ 3*; WED 19 @ 9:15; FRI 21 @ 7+;
TUE 25 @ 9:30; SAT 29 @ 4:30
Under: A New
Musical
The Con-Etiquette
Players
Writer: Monica
Hannush
Director: Alex Cadena,
Music Director: Julian Drucker
Serena has been admitted to Yale Psychiatric
and must evaluate her life. She bonds with
Billy, a fellow inpatient, and retraces her year
of manic peaks and desperate troughs with
other Yalies--deciphering how that world
landed her where she is now. 2h, New Haven ,
CT Musical/Opera, Drama
WED 19 @ 8:45; THU 20 @ 9:45; FRI 21 @
6:30+; SAT 22 @ 9:45; SUN 23 @ 3:45
***SEE GRID FOR TIMES!***
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The Universe Of
Matt Jennings
Stay Woke Productions
Writer: Matt Jennings
Director: Levi Austin
Morris
“The Universe Of Matt
Jennings” is a “trekkies”
coming out story told in “trekkie” fashion.
Join Matt Jennings as he explores being black
with “white” tendencies, a right brain artist
in a left brain family, and a gay christian. Live
Long and Prosper. 1h, Long Beach , CA Solo
Show, Spoken Word/Poetry
VENUE #4: Spectrum
SAT 15 @ 2:45+; MON 17 @ 2; WED 19 @
7:15; SAT 22 @ 8:45; WED 26 @ 5:30
Van Gogh Fuck
Yourself
VGFY
Writer:Based on the
Letters of Vincent and
Theo and the Memoirs
of Vincent’s stay in
Auvers-sur-Oise By
Adeline Ravoux. Adapted by Walter DeForest
Director: Laurence Lowry
VGFY reveals the Truth behind Vincent, the
Ear, his Death, and his Sacrifice for humanity’s Sake. You think you know the Truth?
#VanGoghFuckYourself to find the Truth.
55m, Manhattan, NY Solo Show, Comedy
MON 24 @ 3:30+; TUE 25 @ 5; THU 27 @
8:45; FRI 28 @ 7; SUN 30 @ 12:30
Vanishing Point
Middle Distance Productions
Writer: Samsun Knight
Director: Sophie
Weisskoff
A husband is cheating
on his dying wife. After
she returns from the hospital, the affair comes
out into the open, and she promises him an
easy separation if she can meet this lover herself, just once. 1h, Brooklyn, NY Drama
FRI 14 @ 7:45; MON 17 @ 5:15+; THU 20 @
7:15; SUN 23 @ 3:45; WED 26 @ 9:30
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Venus and Adonis
New Circle Artists
Writer: William Shakespeare, adapted and
performed by Misha
Bouvion; Director:
Daniella Caggiano;
Vividly reinvented
for the stage, the goddess Venus tells her
story of desire and rejection in Shakespeare’s
rarely-performed epic poem. “Boldly erotic
and laugh-out-loud funny”-- BroadwayWorld
LA 1h, Los Angeles, CA Solo Show, Spoken
Word/Poetry
SUN 16 @ 2:30+; THU 20 @ 5:15; SUN 23 @
9; WED 26 @ 9; SAT 29 @ 9:30
Verano Place
Thisbe Productions
Writer: Katie Atcheson
Director: Josh Hecht
The 1970’s are tough for
Emily. Since moving to
California, her parents
have embraced an open
marriage, her only friend digs drugs and
sex, and her boyfriend is way too old. A play
about growing up in the Me Decade. 1h 50m,
Manhattan, NY Comedy, Drama
SUN 16 @ 8:15; TUE 18 @ 2+; FRI 21 @ 7;
SUN 23 @ NOON; TUE 25 @ 5:15
www.FringeNYC.org
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Virgin Sacrifice
717 Productions
Writer: Created by
Mickey Blaine and
Nicole Blaine
Director: Mickey
Blaine
Top stand up comedians sacrifice one stand up virgin. Previous
virgins have been doctors, lawyers, teachers,
Mormons, etc... Previous comics have been
Damon Wayans, Howie Mandel, Kevin Pollak,
Jeff Garlin, Pete Holmes, and more...
1h 30m, Los Angeles, CA Improv/Sketch/
Stand-up, Comedy
VENUE #6: DROM
FRI 14 @ 9:15; WED 19 @ 5:30+;
SAT 22 @ 1:45; WED 26 @ 3:15; THU 27 @ 7
VIRTUOUS
MONGRELS
Elephants X-ing Productions
Writer: Yael (Yaya)
Zeevi
Director: Yael (Yaya)
Zeevi
Choreographer: Robert Vail
‘A Rumble in (the remains of) the Colonial
Jungle.’ In the carnal corner - a scrimmage of
passion: a man, a woman, another man. In the
heritage corner - elders versus their young. A
bare-knuckled poem of love to three disputed
motherlands.
1h, Manhattan, NY Drama, Performance Art
VENUE #6: DROM
WED 19 @ 7:45+; SAT 22 @ 6:15;
TUE 25 @ 3:15; WED 26 @ 7:30; SAT 29 @ 3
Waiting for AAA
Delaney Productions
Writer: Delaney Yeager
Director: Delaney
Yeager
“Waiting for AAA” is
an all-female comedy
inspired by Beckett’s
“Waiting for Godot”. The play explores friendship, empowerment, and what it means to
face the unknown.
FRI 14 @ 5+; MON 17 @ 9:15; SAT 22 @ 7;
MON 24 @ 9:30; FRI 28 @ 4:15
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The Waste Land
A Painter, An Actor, A
Poem
Writer: T.S. Eliot
Director: Daniel
Domig and Christopher
Domig
“The Waste Land” is the
collaboration between painter, actor and poet.
Eliot’s famous 1922 poem is interwoven into
this performance/installation, where a table,
two chairs, an actor and a puppet conjure a
world that seems both strangely distant and
eerily familiar.
1h, Vienna, AUSTRIA Performance Art,
Spoken Word/Poetry
WED 19 @ 5:15+; SAT 22 @ 2:45;
MON 24 @ 9:30; WED 26 @ 3; SAT 29 @ 7
The Weird Tree
Invisible Wall Productions
Writer: Created by the
Ensemble with text by
Jocelyn Shratter, Laura
Zlatos, Tingying Ma
and Peter Petkovsek
Director: Peter Petkovsek
A Man climbs a tree to win a princess. Instead
he finds eighteen. Based on a Slovenian fairy
tale, The Weird Tree is a spiritual journey
where making sense of the world means
figuring out the self first.
Studios SUN 16 @ 2:45+; THU 20 @ 7; SUN
23 @ 9:15; THU 27 @ 2:45; SAT 29 @ 5:15
Why I Killed My
Mother
Dor Zweigenbom
Writer: Dor Zweigenbom
Director: Hanoch Reim
Las Vegas, Israel,
Seattle, and Germany
all come to life in this crazy and touching
story. Even at the dramatic climax, when Dor
is forced to kill his mother, humor is the main
force helping him to overcome the pain.
1h, Ramat Gan, ISRAEL Solo Show,
Multi-Media
WED 19 @ 3:30+; FRI 21 @ 2; SUN 23 @ 7;
THU 27 @ 4:45; FRI 28 @ 7
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Wilde Tales
Writer: Oscar Wilde,
Adapted by Kevin P.
Joyce
Director: Kevin P. Joyce
Three fairy tales by
Oscar Wilde told with
puppets, music and
Wilde’s wit. These charming and evocative
stories remind us of the enduring power of
love.
1h 5m, Manhattan, NY Drama, FringeHIGH
Studios SAT 15 @ 7; WED 19 @ 2+; SAT 22
@ NOON*; TUE 25 @ 9:30; WED 26 @ 6:15
Win For Life: A
Corny Play
The Wreck of the
Spanish Armada
SPQR Stage Company
Writer: Bill Sterritt
Director: Bill Sterritt
A rekindled romance
in Paris (after 30 years),
between a female
radiologist (poised to address an international
medical conference), and a swashbuckling
high value target who leads African pirates
who hijack oil tankers.
1h 30m, Los Angeles, CA Drama,
FRI 14 @ 8:45; SAT 15 @ 4:45; WED 19 @
4:45+; SAT 22 @ 8:30
Generation Next
Writer: Quincy Confoy
Director: Kevin Confoy
Millie, a cantankerous
old woman with a love
for Elvis and extreme
couponing, wins the Jolly Green Giant Sweepstakes. Her grown children conspire to kill her
before she spends the prize money, and their
inheritance, on the “Graceland Rental Package.” 1h 45m, Bronx, NY Comedy, Drama
MON 17 @ 4:30+; TUE 18 @ 9:15; FRI 21 @
9; SUN 23 @ 12:15; THU 27 @ 4:30
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Yesterday Was
Beautiful
Mirror Dimly
Writers: Andy Boyd &
Blythe Roberson
Director: Andy Boyd
Young Roald Dahl,
years before he became
a famous children’s author, comes to Washington during WW2 as a spy for the Royal
Air Force and carries out an affair with an
older Congresswoman. These things actually
happened in real life.
1h, Brooklyn, NY Comedy, Drama
Studios SUN 16 @ 4:45; WED 19 @ 8:15+;
FRI 21 @ 2; WED 26 @ 4:30; FRI 28 @ 7:45
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Your Love, Our
Musical!
Rebecca Vigil and Evan
Kaufman interview an
unsuspecting couple
in the audience and
improvise a brand-new
musical based off their
love story! It’s adorable, romantic, and no two
shows are the same!
1h, Manhattan, NY Musical/Opera, Improv/
Sketch/Stand-up, FringeHIGH
VENUE #4: Spectrum
FRI 14 @ 7+; SUN 16 @NOON*; SAT 22
@10:30; WED 26 @ 7:15; SUN 30 @ NOON
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2015 FringeNYC Venues
FC
56 E 1st Street
(between First and Second Avenues)
OPEN 2 TO 8 DAILY
107 Suffolk Street
(between Rivington & Delancey)
FringeFAVE Performance - SUN 30 @ 4:45
80 St. Marks Place
(Between First and Second Avenues)
107 Suffolk Street
85 East 4th Street
(2nd & Bowery)
FringeFAVE Performance - SUN 30 @ 3
107 Suffolk Street
64 East 4th Street
(Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
VENUE #4: Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor
(between Delancey and Rivington)
64 East 4th Street
VENUE #5: The Celebration Of Whimsy a.k.a.
The C.O.W.
21 Clinton St.
(between Houston and Stanton)
VENUE #13: Lynn Redgrave Theater @ Culture
Project
45 Bleecker Street
(Corner of Bleecker and Lafayette Street)
VENUE #6: DROM
85 Avenue A
(between 5th and 6th Street)
FringeFAVE Performance - SUN 30 @ NOON
440 Lafayette St, 3rd Floor
(Astor Place & East 4th Street)
344 East 14th Street
(at 1st Avenue)
VENUE #15: Robert Moss Theater at 440 Studios
94 St. Marks Pl
(between First Avenue and Avenue A)
VENUE #16: The Steve & Marie Sgouros Theatre
115 MacDougal Street, 3rd floor
(West 3rd and Bleecker)
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2015 FringeNYC VENUES
56 E 1st Street | Open 2 - 8 Daily
VENUE #1:Teatro SEA at the
Clemente
107 Suffolk Street
VENUE #2: Flamboyan Theatre at
the Clemente
107 Suffolk Street
VENUE #3:Teatro LATEA at the
Clemente
107 Suffolk Street
VENUE #4: Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor
(between Delancey and Rivington)
VENUE #5: The Celebration Of
Whimsy a.k.a. The C.O.W.
21 Clinton Street
(Houston and Stanton)
VENUE #6: DROM
85 Avenue A
(between 5th and 6th Street)
VENUE #7: The Theater at the 14th
Street Y
344 East 14th Street
(at 1st Avenue)
94 St. Marks Pl
(between First Avenue and Avenue A)
80 St. Marks Place
(Between First and Second Avenues)
85 East 4th Street
(2nd & Bowery)
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64 East 4th Street
VENUE #12: 64E4
UNDERGROUND
64 East 4th Street
VENUE #13: Lynn Redgrave
Theater @ Culture Project
45 Bleecker Street
(Corner of Bleecker and Lafayette Street)
VENUE #14: The White Box at
440 Studios
VENUE #15: Robert Moss The-
ater at 440 Studios
VENUE #16: The Steve & Marie
Sgouros Theatre
115 MacDougal Street, 3rd floor
(West 3rd and Bleecker)
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Enjoy 3 chances to let loose at FringeCLUB!
Opening
Night Party!
Thursday,
August 13th
@ 10pm
Mid-Festival
Relief Party!
Sunday,
August 23rd
@ 10pm
Closing Night
Party & Awards
Ceremony!
Sunday,
August 30th
@ 10pm
WHERE?
FringeCLUB is at DROM!
85 Avenue A
(between 5th & 6th Street)
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Ride the Staten Island Ferry while listening
to Ferry Play a brand new podcast, have an
adventure in an enchanted garden with the
musical cast of What’s Your Wish, skip the
lines in Central Park and come see reimagined
Shakespeare in Tompkins Square Park with The
Merchant of Venice (Or How Not to Live in
a Multicultural World), and bask in the setting
sun on a gorgeous rooftop with the ladies of
Above Us!
Above Us - FREE!
Tandem Bicycle Productions
Writer: Sarah Doody, Alanna Blair,
& Jessica Park
Director: Sarah Doody
Over two beers, a rooftop, and
a sublease, two women think
about their place in NYC. As
the elder woman contemplates
leaving, the younger woman
contemplates arriving. They both
are scared. It is both set and takes
place on a rooftop.
2h, Manhattan, NY, Drama, Comedy
SAT 15 @ 6:30, SUN 16 @ 6:30, MON 17 @ 6:30
Location: The Yard Rooftop – 85 Delancey St
The Merchant of Venice
(or how not to live in a
multi-cultural world) - FREE!
Hip to Hip Theatre Company
Writer: William Shakespeare,
adapted by Jason Marr and
Adriana Alter
Director: David Mold
Shakespeare’s darkest comedy
questions the nature of justice.
Four disparate characters--a
young reveller, his devoted friend, a sheltered heiress, and an embittered moneylender--all struggle to
navigate a society poisoned by bigotry and founded
on a fractured legal system.
1h 30m, Queens, NY, Comedy, Drama
WED 19 @ 5:30, THUR 20 @ 5:30, WED 26 @ 5:30
Location: Tompkins Square Park
@ The Old Bandshell
Ferry Play
This Is Not A Theatre Company
Writer: Jessie Bear
Director: Erin B Mee
A site-specific, sensory audio
experience on the Staten Island
Ferry: every sight, smell and
sound plays a supporting role.
Ferry Play is a self-scheduled
performance.
Manhattan, NY, Drama,
Multi-Media
Download the app for $1.99 now!
www.thisisnotatheatrecompany.com/#!ferry-play/c1jtw
What’s Your Wish? - FREE!
Thicket & Thistle
Writer: Thicket & Thistle, Lyrics
by Kyle Acheson, Sam De Roest &
Corley Pillsbury, Music by Thicket
& Thistle
Director: Jonathan Eric Foster
This comedic folk musical follows two young friends’ quest to
escape the fantastical storybook
world of Death Forest. Pursued
by a power-hungry enchantress,
the boys must learn about integrity, sacrifice, and
the power of friendship to make it out alive.
1h 15m, Queens, NY, Musical/Opera, Comedy
FRI 21 @ 2, SAT 22 @ 2, SUN 23 @ 2,
FRI 28 @ 6, SAT 29 @ 2
Location: 6 & B Community Garden @
The Corner of 6th St & Avenue B
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It’s FringeNYC for the whole family!
$13 FringeJR tickets for kids 12 and under
are available in person at FringeCENTRAL up
until 8pm the day before the performance or
at the Venue Box Office 15 minutes before
the performance.
All shows at VENUE #7: The Theater at the 14th
Street Y (344 East 14th Street @ 1st Avenue)!
The Commedia Rapunzel
The Spaghetti and Meatball Players
Writer: Sam LaFrage (Book and Lyrics)
Director: Sam LaFrage and Dennis Corsi
Choreographer: Sam LaFrage
Expect the unexpected as the Spaghetti and Meatball Players, a troupe of poor traveling “Italian” actors, present
a zany musical romp through a twisted version of the fairytale “Rapunzel” done in the style of Commedia dell’
Arte! 1hr 20m, Harlem, NY, Comedy
FRI 14 @ 5; SUN 16 @ NOON; THU 20 @ 2; SAT 22 @ 3:30; WED 26 @ 6:30
Haunted Holliot Hildorf Hotel and Shadow’s Unicycle
Jamey Hood and Open Hydrant Theater Company
Writer: Jamey Hood
Director: Sarah Rosenberg and Luis Cardenas
Eight-year-old Helen Ivy Bunter is a world renowned ghost hunter and Shadow is just your average tween
ghoul who desperately needs chocolate. Two adventures! Featuring professional ghosts, a temperamental
boiler and pajama-clad zombies. Theater for kids performed by kids! 1hr, Bronx, NY, Comedy
SAT 15 @ NOON; FRI 21 @ 7; THU 27 @ 2; SAT 29 @ 6; SUN 30 @ NOON
Ideas, Not Theories
Reynaliz Herrera
Writer: Music and Script by Reynaliz Herrera
Director: Reynaliz Herrera
This theatrical percussion show portrays quirky characters making music out of bicycles, water, tap and body
percussion, marimbas and more. Innovative and dynamic original music intertwines with an imaginative storyline
making this unique performance equally entertaining for adults and children. 45m, Boston, MA, Musical/Opera
SAT 15 @ 3:30; SUN 16 @ 2:15; FRI 21 @ 3:45; SUN 23 @ 1:45; SAT 29 @ 8
PEDRO PAN
Writer: Rebecca Aparicio, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Anthony Elkins
Director: Rebecca Aparicio
Based on the real-life events of Operación Pedro Pan, a young boy named Pedro is sent alone to the U.S. to
escape the dangers of 1962 Havana. Pedro must then navigate becoming an “American” without losing his
cultural identity.
1hr, Queens, NY, Musical/Opera
SUN 16 @ 3:45; WED 19 @ 2; SAT 22 @ 1:45; TUE 25 @ 2; FRI 28 @ 2
Rapunzel in the Wild West
WhatFun! Theatre
Writer: Bobby Becher, Ashley Mills, Marc de la Concha, Ashley Whiting, Music and Lyrics by Bobby Becher and
Ralph Krumins, add’l Music/Lyrics by Ashley Mills
Director: Ashley Mills, Music Director: Bobby Becher
Choreographer: Ashley Mills
The evil Bandit Queen is robbing every town in the West. Can Rapunzel and her famous hair-lasso save the day and
prove she’s more than just a lady? Join this interactive melodrama, and help Rapunzel lasso the Bandit Queen!
50m, Manhattan, NY, Musical/Opera
SAT 15 @ 1:45; WED 19 @ 4:45; SAT 22 @ NOON; WED 26 @ 2; FRI 28 @ 7
Solina
Little Did Productions
Writer: Little Did Productions, Music by Luke Santy
Director: Jessica Marie Lorence
Sun is missing. Only 11-year-old Solina can find Sun and save the world from eternal night. Solina ventures into
an endless nightscape, where puppets made of light, cloth, and paper sing and play live music to illustrate this
unfamiliar world. 1hr, Manhattan, NY, Puppetry
TUE 18 @ 2; FRI 21 @ 5:15; SUN 23 @ NOON; TUE 25 @ 7; THU 27 @ 5:15
See GRID for Fort FringeJR Times and Locations!
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Come take a peak behind the curtain with FringeU!In these 3 free-to-attend
events, our panels of theatre experts discuss and explore the issues currently
affecting performers, playwrights, and productions both on and off the stage.
COPYRIGHT
August 17th, 2015 - 5:30-7:30PM
While technology offers playwrights more chances than ever before to get their
work out into the world, so too does it offer potential pitfalls. Our panelists
discuss copyright and ownership issues playwrights face in the internet age.
Panelist: Ralph Sevush, Executive Director, Dramatist Legal Defense Fund
QUIET, PLEASE: CENSORSHIP ON STAGE
August 18th, 2015 - 5:30-7:30PM
Throughout history, the issue of censorship has been a neverending battle, affecting literature, film, and every level of theatrical production - from regional to
Broadway. Why does censorship continue to be an issue? What does it mean for
modern theatre?
Panelist: Howard Sherman, Director, Arts Integrity Initiative, New School for
Drama
CRITICAL STATE
August 24th, 2015 - 5:30-7:30PM
For years, a production’s success hinged on the words of a review. Today, the
rules are changing, with the Internet providing an ever-shifting dynamic between production, audience, and critics. Join us as we discuss the evolving state
of theatrical criticism.
Panelists: Leonard Jacobs, Clyde Fitch Report; Jonathan Mandell, New York
Theater; Molly Marinik, Theatre Is Easy; Martin Denton, Indie Theater Now
FringeU will take place at The Connelly Theater (220 East 4th Street between Avenues A & B)
Additional panelists to be announced at FringeNYC.org
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FringeHIGH (definition): a collection of boundary-stretching plays
guaranteed to captivate and entertain NYC teens.
A limited number of $5 tickets are available through High 5 Tickets to the Arts at
http://teens.artsconnection.org/high5/
The Broken Record
Writer: Jonathan Louis Dent
Director: Megan Sandberg-Zakian
The Broken Record examines the
violence between black youth and
police officers in the United States,
exposing the fury, helplessness, and
grief we feel watching these stories
play on repeat, and asking: how can
these fatal encounters be stopped?
1h Manhattan, NY, Drama, Spoken
Word/Poetry
TALKBACK: SUN 23 @ 3PM
The Buffalo
85 North Productions
Writer: Anthony Sneed
The comedic memoir of Anthony
Sneed, who at fourteen brought a
gun to school in attempts to fit in with
his peers. After expulsion, he is forced
to join his Uncle’s cult-like community
in Missouri.
1h Brooklyn, NY, Solo Show, Comedy
TALKBACK: SUN 23 @
NOON
ELVIRA –
The Immigration Play
Si Se Puede Productions, LLC
Writer: Jessica Carmona
Director: Brian Lee
Inspired by the true story an undocumented Mexican immigrant woman
who refused to be deported and
separated from her US Citizen son,
this play sheds light on the plight of
millions of immigrants crossing the
border.
1h 30m, Brooklyn, NY, Drama
TALKBACK: SAT 29 @ 7
FAFI - An Afrikaner boy
comes of age in
Apartheid SA
JHB-Jozi Home Boys
Writer: Gys and Jaci de Villiers
Director: Jaci de Villiers
‘Mama Elsie -I dreamed of the sea-so
we bet 26 on Fafi?’ Gys is plagued by
the mark on the wall, which catapults
him into memories of his past. The
African landscape of heat, war, rituals,
nightmares and forgiveness.
1h 5m, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, Drama, Solo Show
Hamlet the Hip-Hopera
Feast Productions
Writer: Tucker Delaney-Winn
Music: Charles Laubacher, Michael
Markowski & Jeff Nicholson
A new musical that amplifies the
world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Trapped in a castle under siege,
characters dive into musical madness
through soaring hip-hop ballads,
weaving The Bard’s verse with the
lyricism of a new age.
1h 40m, Queens, NY, Comedy, Drama
TALKBACK: TUE 18 @ 4
Hearts Afire
Writer: Darcy Heller Sternberg
Director: Madeline Brennan
What do Jell-O shots, slave labor,
butterfly tattoos, Krishna and Afghanistan have in common? Five New York
City community college students from
diverse ethnic backgrounds tell their
harrowing yet inspirational stories in
an intimate setting.
1h 30m, Manhattan, NY, Drama
TALKBACK: SUN 23 @ 4:45
EverScape
Writer: Allan Maule
Director: Ashley Gunsteens
Choreographer: Adam Davidson &
Julia Adle.
Fight: Michael Hagins
An online world of epic fantasy
battles helps four gamers escape their
bleak realities. But when EverScape
offers them a chance to win jobs as
game developers, lines get crossed
between what’s more real: the game
or their lives?
2h, Brooklyn, NY, Drama, Dance
TALKBACK: SUN 23 @ 2:45
An Inconvenient Poop
The POOP Project
Writer: Shawn Shafner
Director: Annie G. Levy
What if the solution to climate
change, world peace, and self-love
was something no one wanted to talk
about? In this fascinating and hilarious
FRED Talk, The Puru empowers
audiences to get their sh*t together
before it hits the fan.
1h 10m, Brooklyn, NY, Comedy, Solo
Show
TALKBACK: SUN 23 @ 2
TALKBACK: TUE 25 @ 4:30
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New ideas, new perspectives, pushing the limits, that’s FringeNYC. FringeHIGH is a group of
shows chosen from the regular FringeNYC roster that will resonate with young adults. Topics for
this year’s FringeHIGH shows include: complicated issues of race and violence – in our cities and
in apartheid South Africa, finding and defining your own identity, sex trafficking, the culture of
gaming, and even (we’re serious) poop!! And you can take your pick of innovative theatre,
including: hip-hop Shakespeare, cabaret, and a tale told with puppetry and music.
The Morningtime of Now
Mock Turtle
Writer: Stories and vocals by Anne
Hills, puppetry by Mock Turtle, lyrics
by Michael Smith and incidental music
by Jay Ansill
Director: Doug Roysdon
Poet-trees, composer mice, and singing brooks — experience the rustic
world of Opal Whitely. This magical
journey of music, story and puppetry
honors Nature’s miracles, tragedies,
and transcendence. Inspired by the
1920’s diary of young Opal Whitely.
Adults/children over seven.
1h 15m, Bethlehem, PA, Puppetry,
Musical/Opera
TALKBACK: TUE 25 @ 2
Princess Cut: A young
girl’s reality inside a
Tennessee sex ring
Yellow Rose Productions
Writer: Kelsey Broyles, Kerri Koczen,
and Danielle Roos, Music by Christian
Barnett and Joey English, additional
lyrics by Kelsey Broyles
Director: Danielle Roos
Based on a true story, a young girl
is forced into a sex trafficking ring
by her cousin. She relives memories;
struggling with her double life as
psychological trauma catches up with
her. A post-show panel examines
trafficking in the U.S.
2h 30m, Knoxville, TN, Drama,
Multi-Media
THE REPORT
Barry Goralnick, Sarahbeth Grossman,
Craig Zehms in Association with Cutting Hedge Productions
Writer: Martin Casella, Based on the
Novel by Jessica Francis Kane
Director: Alan Muraoka
1943. The deadliest civilian tragedy
of WWII happened in a London tube
station. The British government lied to
its people. Now one man must make
sense of it all. A haunting, unknown
true story. From the author of THE
IRISH CURSE.
Shake The Earth
Arev Productions, Inc.
Writer: Lousine Shamamian
Director: Misti Wills
Bolstered by kufta and string cheese,
Lousine yearns to bring the injustice
inflicted on her ancestors to light. Can
this meek gay Armenian stand up for
herself and recount her great-grandfather Georgi’s remarkable story of survival during the Armenian Genocide?
52m, Brooklyn, NY Drama, Solo Show
TALKBACK: THU 20 @ 5:30
TALKBACK: SAT 15 @ 3:15
TALKBACK: WED 19 @ 2
Sitting Regal by the
Window
Aya Aziz
Writer: Aya Aziz
Director: Tiff Roma
Choreographer: Aya Aziz & Tiff Roma
In this semi-autobiographical cabaret
Aya performs exaggerated memories
and original songs from her life as a
Ghetto-Hippie-Arab-Commie-China
Doll. The show explores identity, social
stratification and the importance of
ordering chili with onions on the side.
1h 30m, Manhattan, NY, Multi-Media,
Performance Art
Tiananmen Annie
Writer: Ann Starbuck
Director: Richard Embardo
A comedic and heartfelt coming of
age story about finding your Chinese
soul. It is Ann Starbuck’s true story of
living in Beijing as a student in 19881989, and working for CNN during the
Tiananmen Square Uprising.
1h 15m, Los Angeles, CA, Solo Show,
Drama
TALKBACK: WED 19 @ 2:45
TALKBACK: SAT 22 @ 2:30
Uniform Justice
Chuk Obasi
Writer: Book and Lyrics by Chuk
Obasi, Music by Fariddudin F. Johnson
and Chuk Obasi
Director: Chuk Obasi, Music Director:
Fariddudin F. Johnson
In an urban neighborhood in Memphis, residents and police search for
solutions to rampant violence afflicting
their streets and the conflicts and suspicions dividing them. A unique take
on a current crisis, inspired by true
stories and experiences in Memphis.
1h 40m, Manhattan, NY, Drama,
Musical/Opera
Wilde Tales
Writer: Oscar Wilde, Adapted by
Kevin P. Joyce
Director: Kevin P. Joyce
Three fairy tales by Oscar Wilde told
with puppets, music and Wilde’s wit.
These charming and evocative stories
remind us of the enduring power of
love.
TALKBACK: SAT 22 @
NOON
TALKBACK: SUN 16 @ 3
Your Love, Our Musical!
Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview an unsuspecting couple in the audience and improvise a brand-new musical based off their love story! It’s adorable, romantic, and no two shows are the same!
1h, Manhattan, NY, Musical/Opera, Improv/Sketch/Stand-up
TALKBACK: SUN 16 @ NOON
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VERGING
A multi-media art exhibition set for the summertime sweat
benefitting the Audre Lorde Project.
AUGUST 14th – 21st
Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square Gallery
Featuring Mojuicy, Aurel Haize Odogbo, Ashley Teamer, DeVonn Francis,
Christian Noelle, & MORE!
Curated by Sebastian De Gré.
Join us for our wrap up party to close the
show complete with DJs, food, drinks,
performances, and grassroots fundraising!
Friday, August 21st
6-9pm
The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non
Conforming People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New
York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for
community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to
struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our
various communities. More Information: www.alp.org
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2015 fesTival sTaff & volunTeers
The New York INTerNaTIoNal FrINge FesTIval (FrINgeNYC) Is a produCTIoN oF The preseNT TheaTre CompaNY, INC.
Elena K. Holy
Shelley Burch
Christian De Gré
Benjamin Cohen
Bonnie Pipkin
Taty Sena
Public relaTions
Ron Lasko (SpinCycle)
Aiden Tyler Lee (Press Ticketing Assistant)
Producing Artistic Director
President, Board of Directors
General Manager
Asst. Producer - Social, Marketing & Community
Fundraising Associate
Webmaster / IT Coordinator
PhoTograPhy
Dixie Sheridan
George Rand
fringecenTral sTaff
Garret Lambert
Director
Bill Hopper
Manager
Allison Kalman
Manager
Richard Stack
Manager
Bill Herrlich
Staffer
Irv Fisher
Staffer
Phil Smith
Staffer
Carol Huston
Staffer
fesTival TechniTions anD ProDucTion sTaff
Brianne Stewart
Assistant General Manager
Paul R Bourne
Technical Director
Brian Freeland
Technical Director
William Glenn
Technical Director
Dash Lea
Technical Director
T. Michael Culhane Assistant Operations Manager
Sabria Trotter
Assistant Production Manager
Kevin Bartlett
FringeCENTRAL/FR Coordinator
sPecial evenTs
Patrick Alberty
FringeU Director
Sebastian De Gré FringeART Director
Meggan Dodd
FringeHIGH Director
Serrana Gay
FringeAL FRESCO Director
Caitlin Murphy
FringeJR Director
auDience services
Marc Williams
scheDuling
Britt Lafield
graPhic Design & viDeo
Helene Benedetti (Emphas!s Design)
Avi Bonime
Patrick Alberty
comPTroller
Scott M. Dwyer
venue DirecTors
Kilusan Bautista, Janet Bentley, Hooker Campbell, Vincent
Cinque, Olivia Edery, Dennis Gleason, Rich Johnson, Njeri
Johnson-Smalls, Aisha Jordan, John Kaywood, Samuel
Kramer, Samantha O’Brien, Maggie Patterson, Ben Shipley,
Earline Stephen, Jonathan Taylor
volunTeer coorDinaTors
Carly Bauer
Taty Sena
TickeTing
Stephanie Rogers Box Office Supervisor
Ron Rogers
Industry Ticketing Assistant
box office managers
Jorjina Amefia-Koffi, Johnathan Aviles,Martha Corprew, Carnel
Graham, Keith Kilgore, Bob Landau, Tony Marzani, Ronald Moore,
Blossom Nicinski, Emily Padden, Zeidee Pineda, Anita Raswant,
Josee Weigand
venue ProDucTion assisTanTs
Tatyana Aravena, Brigidta De Souza, Harlan Epstein, Anu Goedhart, Anthony Hom, Oliver Kish, Julie Lewis, Devan Manning,
Amanda Murray, Andrew Ng, Naa Nikoi, Chloé Paillard, Thomas Pflanz, Jessica Rappaport, Lawrence Richardson, Andrew Wenzel,
Mengxuan Zhou
fabulous fringeTerns
Cody Bryan, Madeline Cohen, Francesca MacLaughlin, Chloé Paillard, Riley Pearsall,
Alex J. Smith, Noah W. Sprock, Corinne Wallace
aDjuDicaTion Panel
Kevin Bartlett, Benjamin Cohen, Elena K. Holy, Garrett Lambert, Bonnie Pipkin, Taty Sena
aDjuDicaTors
Patrick Alberty, Fred Backus, Katie Bakalars, Becca Bandiere, Alex Bisker, Avi Bonime, Leslie Bramm, Rita Brandt-Meyer, Aaron Butler, Steven Cherry, Andy Cohen, Eva Dean, Dan Dinero, Meggan Dodd, Aaron Enfield, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, Kerry
Flanagan, Martin J. Flowers, Osborne Focht, Serrana Gay, Lucy Gillespie, Stuart Green, Shannon Hall, Deann Halper, Wesley
Hattan, Frances Howorth, Branden Huldeen, Jill Jichetti, Kevin P Joyce, Avner Kam, Donna Klimek, Sarah Koehle, Suzu Ledoux,
Dina Lucchesi, Joanna Maharaj, Doug Manes, Vincent Marano, Jill Miersch, Kelly Moulton, Cait Murphy, Roger Nasser, Andy
Ottoson, Melle Powers, George Rand, Jamelah Rimawi, Todd Robbins, Taylor Ross, Marci Schein, Jaki Silver, Ashley Soliman,
Brianne Stewart, Norman Sutaria, Cheryl Swift, Steffi Wallis, Caitlin Wees, Jennifer Wilcox, Myra Wong, Douglas Wright
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