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 June 14th at 7pm

Theatre Lab in the Theatre

Free and open to the public

A staged reading of a new play by Julia Proctor

Directed by Justine Williams

Once a month the women of TENT PLAY gather to create the world as they wish it would be, and tonight you’re invited to be part of the Tent. Inspired by Anita Diamont’s The Red Tent, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, and tons of clown workshops, Julia’s exploring how games and scripted material can meet an audience. We’ll laugh, we’ll play, we’ll have our periods, it’ll be great. Audience members can relax and watch, and there will also be invitations to participate for those who want. Come be part of the first audience!

 June 16th at 7pm

Theatre Lab in the Atelier

Free and open to the public

A reading of a new commissioned play by Amina Henry

Directed by Michole Biancosino

"The Movement's Children" tells the story of the 1963 Alabama children's march, a key event in the American civil rights movement that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Accompanied by poetry and song, this play leads us through several days in May 1963 when thousands of Birmingham children left their schools and took to the streets to protest segregation, highlighting the bravery of children willing to go to jail in order to obtain their freedom. 

June 20th at 7pm

Theatre Lab in the Atelier

Free and open to the public

A reading of a new commissioned play by Lia Romeo

Directed by Andrew W. Smith

Agnes is a writer. So when her husband Tom cheats on her with her best friend, she does what writers do: she writes a book about it. The problem is, he writes one too. A play about the fight to control the narrative and the nature of truth.

Featuring: Ella Dershowitz, Jack Berenholtz, and Lennox T. Duong

June 21st at 3pm

Public Reading

FREE and Open to the Public

Theatre Lab in the Atelier

A years-long project initiative aimed at reclaiming and celebrating the history of women in theater, these plays are commissioned adaptations of a play by the first known woman playwright, 10th century abbess, Hrosthwitha of Gandersham. This is part of a 6 year project to adapt all 6 of these historical plays and bring more awareness to this unknown woman writer who deserves a place in theatre history. For this, our final year, we have asked back 6 of our favorite playwrights from past seasons.  Each is commissioned to write free adaptations of the play, Gallicanus. Playwrights Kaaron Briscoe, Erin Mallon, Ying Ying Li (Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theatre), Nandita Shenoy, Lia Romeo and Pia Wilson are writing new short plays to be staged in readings as part of Women in Theater Festival in June 2026.

Directors for this year's lab are Rachel Dart and Kristen McCarthy Parker.

A Workshop Production of our New In-Person Show

Written and performed by Peter Michael Marino

with Marisol Soledad

Directed by Michole Biancosino

June 6th at 2pm  and June 7th 7pm

The Rat 

68-117 Jay Street

Brooklyn

Astronaut George Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by speaking grapes who enslave

mute humans – and soon discovers the shocking truth about their warped world. This epic,

tabletop, sci-fi adventure is packed with insane puppets, ingenious sets, and intergalactic

irreverence. 

2021 Infallibles Award for Creativity (digital version).

★★★★★ Astonishing! Unmissable! Fringe Biscuit (digital version)

★★★★ Splendid! Riveting! Front Row Center (digital version)

★★★★ Completely bonkers and utterly brilliant! BroadwayWorld Scotland (digital version)

Created and curated by Sheila Bandyopadhyay.

Saturday March 28th at 7:30pm 

Public Showing 

FREE and Open to the Public

ART/NY Great Oxford Space in the Great Hall

The Devising Jam is a new work incubator culminating in a showcase of work in development. Taking place over two consecutive weekends, the 2026 Jam is a space for collaborating, experimenting and connecting multi-hyphenate theatre artists in New York City. Three lead artists: Yokko, Michael F. Toomey and Sheila Bandyopadhyay will share time in the studio exploring new pieces with an ensemble of devisors to be announced. The Jam runs March 20-28th. Please join us on the final evening, March 28th for a works in progress sharing! 

Interested in being part of the Jam? Apply HERE

The Playground Collective is a group of creative people from different disciplines who come together to explore their curiosities. The Collective congregates every two weeks with a different member facilitating at the helm, offering a wide-range of experiences into the creative process. Examples of past workshop topics include performance devising, dance and movement, nervous system regulation, and a scavenger-hunt. For the Playground Collective, play and discovery are not merely a means-to-an-end but central, all-encompassing goals. Founded and curated by Madison “Mads” Middleton.

a NEW YORK Premiere Production

By E.M. Lewis

Co-directed by Andrew W. Smith and Michole Biancosino

Featuring Dana Jacks as Dorothy

and Gerardo Navarro as Zan

Set Design by Yijun Yang

Light Design and Video by Courtney Smith

Costume Design by Summer Jack

Sound Design by Tate Abdullah

June 13, 14, 19, 21, 25, 27 at 7pm; June 22, 29 at 2pm  Run Time 75 minutes

Sparks fly when Zan, an angry high school student, is forced to work off his community service assignment reading to Dorothy, an ailing librarian. But each of them might just have what the other lacks... if they can only find the words.  Book by book, they begin to form an unexpected friendship… just when they need it most.

PRESS: 

"DOROTHY’S DICTIONARY is a reminder of the beauty of shared stories and the surprising places we find connection."  - BroadwayWorld

"Playwright E.M. Lewis has created a gentle, witty, and moving example of a two-character play."   -DC Theater Arts

A New Devised Workshop Production

Director/Writer: Gab Cody

Assistant Director: Pria Dahiya

Performance Ensemble: Tami Dixon, Michael Fuller, Laurie Klatscher, Mel Holley, Saige Smith, Sam Turich

Dramaturg: Kristi Good

Costume&Puppet Designer: Kate Bagin

Lighting/Scenic designer: Harshitha Bharghava

Stage Manager: Ella McCullough

June 17 & 18 at 7pm  Runtime: 90 minutes

The Adventures of Pussy Jones is a “DaDa cabaret” and Artificial Intelligence* hallucination that utilizes ensemble-based physical theater practices in service of a comedy centered around the theme: “The Politics of Femininity.” When a theatre-creating A.I. is tasked with exploring this theme, it runs amok, resurrecting some of the 20th century’s greatest literary figures (James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Harper Lee) who in turn resurrect famed novelist Edith Wharton (whose childhood nickname was Pussy Jones) to unravel and catechize The Politics of Femininity for the benefit of their 21st-century audience.

*no AI was used to create this piece

Original Musical Production

By David Carl & Katie Hartman

Directed by Michole Biancosino

Music direction by Jody Shelton

EDINBURGH FRINGE WARMUP RUN!

Check out this critically acclaimed show before it heads across the pond.

June 20, 24, 28 at 7pm   Run Time 60 minutes

You are cordially invited to the second wedding of David and Katie. This confidently codependent couple will teach you how to love correctly through original music, exotic rituals, and a unity volcano. This time it'll stick! For realz tho!

David and Katie Get Re-Married pairs David Carl (Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet, Trump Lear, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Katie Hartman (Netflix’s The Week Of, The Other Two, Younger) in a slapdash wedding betwixt a star-crossed couple who has broken up and reunited more frequently than Spiderman has been rebooted. This dark comedy with original music features the worst couple in the world on the second happiest day of their lives after the first happiest day of their lives didn't work out.

A World Premiere Production

Created and Performed by 

Lida Winfield and Michole Biancosino

Costume Design by Summer Jack

June 26 at 7pm, June 28 at 2pm, Runtime 50 minutes

Two women enter the space looking powerful. Don't worry. They're here to take care of you.

This wild duet critiques normative gender roles and performances with exaggerated costumes, movements and gestures, depicting stereotypes of authority and beauty as absurd. In tandem, the piece calls out the alienation that comes from capitalist grind culture. 

"Winfield and Biancosino are two powerhouse feminist artists"

-Catherin Wright, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Middlebury College

A New Play Reading

By Emily Bice

Directed by Cameron King

June 24th at 7pm (on a double bill with David and Katie Get Re-Married), Runtime 90 minutes

Raf and Katie are in a toxic situationship (whether they know it or not), and they've just broken up AT THE LIBERTY INN: the last quickie motel in Manhattan. As the duo desperately avoids the end, they morph into different fantasy role-play scenarios of who they COULD be in this room, only to discover that they don't work no matter who, what, or when they are. At the Liberty Inn was workshopped at the Seven House Gallery Residency in 2023. 

A New Play Reading

By D.L. Siegel

Directed by Rachel Dart

June 25 at 7pm, (on a double bill will Double bill with Dorothy's Dictionary)Runtime 90 minutes

Ophelia finds herself marooned in Texas during unprecedented times…or is it Denmark? This radical deconstruction of Hamlet refocuses the story on a modern, scholarly, and pregnant Ophelia as her path is altered by personal tragedies and the red tape of a red state.

A New Play Reading

By Jeana Scotti

Co-Directed by Ashley Bufkin and Emma Shafer

June 21 at 2pm, Runtime 40 minutes

A candy and ice cream store has their annual health inspection coming up, but it's filled with more roaches than candy. The manager tries to get them in shape to get their A in the window, but the teenage girls who work there are more focused on college apps, licking pieces of candy and putting them back in the bins, and being watched on the new security cameras by the owner, Rick. When Tanya tries to report Rick, things only get messier because as we know, roaches can find their way into even the smallest crack.