Piccione Arts To Host Open-Mic Fundraiser For State Assembly Candidate Josh Arnon

On January 31st at 7 p.m., Piccione Arts - the official production company of autistic writer and producer Anthony J. Piccione - will host an Open-Mic Fundraiser for State Assembly District 74 candidate Josh Arnon, a Jewish and autistic democratic socialist.

RSVPs are now available via donation to the campaign at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/joshopenmic.

Arnon is a Jewish autistic democratic socialist and lifelong resident of Assembly District 74. As a lead on the Tax the Rich Campaign, he stood up to Andrew Cuomo, stopping the former governor from making devastating cuts to hospital funding, mass transit, and public education at the height of the COVID pandemic. Josh has lived at Waterside Plaza for his entire life and remembers when his formerly Mitchell-Lama apartment complex was affordable. His most recent work includes the campaign of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and fundraising for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.

Prior to his public service career, Arnon worked in the film industry and is notable for his role in the New York Times exposé of his former employer, disgraced producer Scott Rudin. Arnon is running for the Democratic nomination on a socialist policy platform that includes permanently affordable housing, free CUNY andf SUNY, and universal healthcare. He is running to represent District 74, which includes Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, Alphabet City, the East Village, Gramercy, Kips Bay, Flatiron, Tudor City, Murray Hill, and other neighborhoods.

Piccione is the Founding Artistic Director of Neurodivergent Plays, an independent theatre company in Brooklyn, NY, dedicated to presenting monthly readings of new plays by openly neurodivergent playwrights. Notable works as a playwright include One Empire, Under God (The Tank, 2021; available for licensing at Next Stage Press) The Lone Wolf Society (staged reading at The Tank, 2022; available for licensing at Next Stage Press) A Therapy Session with Myself, (The Kraine Theater, 2019) What I Left Behind, (New York Theatre Festival, 2018) and more. Recently, he entered post-production on his debut feature film What I Left Behind - based on the play of the same name - and is currently finishing work on a new full-length political satire expected to receive a staged reading in the coming months. He has also worked as a scriptwriter-for-hire at Sesame Workshop and various other clients, as well as a playwriting instructor at EPIC Players and Broadway Weekends, and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Autistic Theatremakers Alliance.