29th Street Playwrights Collective Announces Fall Line-up

The 29th Street Playwrights Collective announces the line-up for its New Works Series 2016 Fall Season, beginning September 19th with Life and Other Disasters, by Julie Richardson: a family dramedy in which one week in the lives of a Long Island family shakes loyalties to the core when a mother's long lost daughter returns and exposes secrets and skeletons from the past.

The New Works Series 2016 continues throughout the Fall with 3 more plays by Resident Playwrights:

Bongani, by Gabrielle Maisels, (October 17) delves into the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa and a love that could never be. A Cold Decembre by Michael Wells-Oakes, (November 14) explores extraterrestrial sparks, marital infidelity, and a winter so cold it might break a family's Heart. Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman-Sherman. (December 12): Abraham moves to Tel Aviv and tries to get his American Jewish family to accept their estranged Palestinian Muslim cousins.

The 29th Street Playwrights Collective develops the voices of emerging, mature playwrights and is committed to a membership made up of at least 50% women writers. The Collective's goal is to foster work for the stage. This is achieved through weekly craft discussions, writing sessions, readings of developing work, structured feedback, and staged-readings of completed plays free and open to the public via the New Works Series.

The audience is invited to participate in structured feedback after the reading, as well as join the actors, director and Resident Playwrights for a light buffet and non-alcoholic beverages.

All readings are free and open to the public and take place at The Bernie Wohl Performing Arts Center at Goddard Riverside Community Center, 647 Columbus Avenue @92st Street. For more information, visit www.29thstreetplaywrightscollective.org

29th Street Playwrights Collective New Works Series is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.