Duncan Pflaster is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced all over. He also has been known to direct, write music, play the ukulele, and (if his arm is twisted) act. He won second place in the 2009 Stage and Cinema's New York City Theater Review Contest. www.duncanpflaster.com
(re:)Directions Theater company presents 'Figaro/Figaro', Eric Overmyer's adaptation of 'The Marriage of Figaro' by Beaumarchais, combined with Horvath's satiric sequel 'Figaro Gets a Divorce'.
The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of 'Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera', a music-theater piece by Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney of 13P.
Emerging Artists Theatre presents the world premiere of Vanda's 'Memory River' (inspired by the true story of a man with no long-term memory), as part of the Spring EATfest 2009.
Working Man's Clothes presents the New York premiere of Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's play 'Fresh Kills', a gritty and surprising thriller about a married man whose dalliance with a teenage boy brings more trouble than expected.
Oberon Theatre Ensemble presents 'American Rapture', an evening of several short plays by Alex Dinelaris combined with the classic one-act 'Hello Out There' by William Saroyan.
Mark Sam Rosenthal's one-person show 'Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire' is a touching and amusing riff on Tennessee Williams iconic character, setting her amongst the post-Katrina detritus of New Orleans.
'Zero', the one-man show by Danny and Robert O?Connor, starring Danny O'Connor, is an entertaining look at the male psyche, exemplified in 6 characters.