Theatre For New Audience Present Reading Series

 The mundane becomes sinister for six people in a darker, deadly, nearly decimated New York City, ten years hence. Boyfriends bicker - and one of them might be sick.  A young girl gets ready for school - chaperoned by her mother's bodyguard.  A patient consults her doctor - who offers what kind of procedure exactly?  Trapped in a hospital elevator, the characters collide almost comically and splinter apart quite tragically, grappling with the severity and confusion of life at the end. As the world falls apart, the ties that bind break, unleashing questions long avoided, resentments long ignored, and confrontations long postponed.
 
Billy Finnegan's plays include Any Solid Color Other Than Black, which was developed at MCC Theater, and Esther Demsack, which was read earlier this year at NYTW under the direction of Stafford Arima. Other plays include Little Boy Lost; The Dander of Female Poplars, or One Queens Parade; Tenth Place; Daisy Chained; and Begin Measured Mile. For Christopher Ashley, assistant directed readings of Noel Coward's Sail Away, by Claudia Shear; and Valhalla, by Paul Rudnick. Cabaret writer/director: Dayton's Divine Miss P; Katie Pees: All Over You! Graduate, Princeton University; member, Princeton Triangle Club.

NELA WAGMAN As Artistic Director of the award-wining Watermark Theater Wagman produced The WordFire Festival of Solo Performance, and directed numerous full-length new works. She directed the world premiere My Left Breast by Susan Miller for Actors Theater of Louisville, for Watermark Theater in New York, where it won an OBIE, and throughout the shows national tours. Recent New York credits include Christopher Shinn's Two Worlds at the Minetta Lane and Lucille Lortel Theaters, Lee Blessing's Thirty-Fourth and Dyer at Town Hall, Amy Fox's Summer Cyclone , Lloyd Suha's Masha No Home, and Ann Marie Healey's Bonnie at Ensemble Studio Theatre.

NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS SERIES
For 35 years, Pulitzer Prize winning THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY has nurtured hundreds of playwrights through its EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM. In June, 2006, we launched NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD, a play reading series designed to serve our audiences and writers even better. Curated by Michael Scott-Price, TNC Literary Manager, NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD will provide a hearing for worthy plays in earlier stages of Development. Audiences will get the opportunity to provide feedback, and artists will gain valuable insight from audience response. Be sure to check www.theaterforthenewcity.net for details about upcoming readings. Please join us!

FUTURE NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD READINGS:

May 12 - The 10th Life of a Tom Cat by Trav S.D. (Free Reading) Starts at 7pm.

A pop singer from the swing era cracks up when the mistakes of his youth catch up with him. Inspired by Trav S.D.'s experience working for a well-known international pop singer.
June 9 - Belle of The Ball Bearings by Elizabeth Battersby
What do a Shop girl, a Bike messenger, a Rabbi, Military man, an 8 year old, one Anarchist mom and a Grandmother have in common? Easy – Bicycles!

June 16 - People Like You by Connor Ratliff

Two women devise a blackmail scheme. Step one: find a married man. Step Two: Photograph him during a series of seemingly chance encounters with an attractive and flirtatious young woman. Step Three: Confront him with a simple choice: Your money, or your marriage?

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