I FUCKING HATE SHAKESPEARE

Developing a new play with Gina Femia is always a good time — even better when it’s a one-person play starring Gina Femia!

Thanks to the Shakesolo Festival at the Kraine Theatre, and New Georges for a timely micro-grant boost, Gina and I had a lot of fun during a much-needed development process, rehearsing for this play’s workshop festival debut.

She gave two delightful performances —  it felt so strange and so wonderful to be back in the Kraine with friendly, engaged audiences —  and we’re excited to get back to work on this piece about being a writer, a theater artist, and a young person navigating relationships and education and creativity… all under the shadow of the most famous playwright who ever lived.

More news about this work to come!

Shadow Walkers, revisited

A couple years ago, I directed a reading of this heartrending play by Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy. The writing leaped off the page with such immediacy — the talented cast and I knew we were working on something special.
Happy to report that Shaun has been revising this work in a Sheen Center residency, and we’ll workshop a new draft this spring.
(Public presentation, TBA!)

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SAVINGS! in NYC

Directing a staged reading of a play I adore:

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SAVINGS!
by Gina Femia

Crabman’s Grocery is closing and everything must go!
But head cashier Mo isn’t leaving without a fight, and the neighborhood has her back, kind of…

 

 

Monday March 4th at 7:00pm
in The Room at ART/NY
520 8th Avenue, 3rd floor
NYC

directed by Michele Travis

with
Asta Hansen*
Cary Hite*
Starr Kirkland
Marie-Elena O’Brien*
Patricia Randell*
Josh Adam Ramos
Sara Thigpen*

*member AEA

SAVINGS with New Georges

Had a terrific time with Gina Femia and our wonderful cast doing a staged reading of SAVINGS, Gina’s new play about the closing of a neighborhood supermarket.  Many thanks to Ramapo College and New Georges for giving us the opportunity to work on this play!

Berrie Center Event

(cast: Patricia Randell, Marie Elena O’Brien, Ren dSanti, Elise Santora, Matthew Trumbull, Matthew Barbot, Sara Minisquero)

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LTR House Party

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Had a terrific time with Less Than Rent Theatre at a reading of T(WO) TRAIN: to be in transiti(on) on October 16   —   it was a great opportunity to hear Tanya’s rewrite and work with an amazing cast!  Many thanks to LTR and Axis Theatre!

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Rule of 7 X 7

Directing MOON FALLS TO EARTH, a brand new short play by Gina Femia, featuring the amazing duo of Stacey Raymond and Leah Raymond!  Two performances on September 29th, on a bill with 6 other short plays at The Tank.

TICKETS HERE