6 New Playwrights Join For Draft's 10 Minute Play Festival 5/28-30 At Red Room

The Draft's 10 Minute Play Festival: Six Plays About Hope is the collaborative effort of six emerging playwrights, six imminent directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Each play was written specifically for The Drafts; playwrights were given randomly compiled cast lists and the theme "hope plays" before setting out to write them.

Plays featured will include:

The Things Tom Left Behind
Written by Pia Wilson, directed by Heidi Grumelot
Performed by Jennifer Soo and Patti Murtha
Tom's sister, Maureen, and his young widow, Lily, discuss his life, his death and the things he left behind.

Even Hope Lays an Egg Now and Then
Written by William Barnett, directed by Patti Murtha
Performed by Arooj Majid, Nicholas Wilder, and Yesenia Tromp
A married couple in transition attempts to dine at a semi-elegant restaurant but the husband suffers an unspeakable loss.

Everything Will Be Just Fine
Written by Joshua Conkel, directed by Shawn Refro
Performed by Nick Maccarone and Yesenia Tromp
A play about dancing, young love, and a contest between inevitability and hope.

Accidents Do Happen
Written by Suzanne Dottino, directed by Heidi Grumelot
Performed by Stephon Pettway, Nicholas Wilder, and Sarah Babb
As Sarah prepares for the first NYC showing of her paintings and a visit from her childhood friend Jebediah, a proposal from Paul - violent and unexpected- sets in motion a chain of events that forever changes Sarah's life

Parabolas
Written by Kelley Girod, directed by Chris Diercksen
Performed by Arooj Majid, Lindsey Hope Pearlman, and Michelle Pruett
A promising graduate student looks to the language of mathematics to solve more than quadratic equations after he suffers the loss of his wife.

IIIINSAAAAAAAANE!
Written by Chris Kipiniak, directed by Randi Alyse Rivera
Performed by Sarah Babb and Nick Maccarone
Marny and her neighbor Charles are having some communication issues. Charles and his neighbor Marny are having one of those disputes that can only end in absolute destruction.

The production, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group and The Drafts, will play at The Red Room (95 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery, 3rd floor) May 28, 29, & 30 at 8pm after a preview performance on May 26 at 7pm. Tickets ($10) are available by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.horseTRADE.info

The Drafts are a non-equity ensemble of actors who share the experience of being relatively new to the New York theater scene. The mission of The Drafts is to do the hard and heavy task of developing new plays. Like their namesake, The Drafts are a group of versatile actors from largely varied backgrounds and experiences. They are the most talented New York actors you've never heard of!

Horse Trade Theater Group is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

www.horseTRADE.info

 

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