Gaia Visnar

Theater Breaking Through Barriers will presentthe first  Hybrid  Playmakers’ Intensive:  Dramatis UbQTous,  featuring seven new, short plays created specifically for digital platforms. This year’s presentations will take place online as well as live and in person.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers the only professional Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to advancing artists and developing audiences of people with disabilities, recently took a contingent of 14 artists to Japan’s Tottori Prefecture to participate in the 15th BIRD International Theatre Festival. See photos from their trip here. 

Theater Breaking Through Barriers has announced its third  Playmakers ' REDUX  entitled  Out of the Box  which will be presented live and in person at  Theatre Row’s Studio Theatre  from  May 19 – 22, 2022. 

Theater Breaking Through Barriers has announced their 6th Virtual Playmakers’ Intensive — VPI6: STAR CHANGERS, fifteen new, original short plays created specifically for digital platforms. Each play will be presented live, twice each evening.  A talk-back with the artists will follow each performance.

On March 10, 2022, LINDA MANNING’s play, BITE THE APPLE, will make its Off-Broadway debut in the West Village at the 224 Waverly Place Theater. The play explores the intersection of trauma, desire, and female sexuality and how trauma continues to disrupt a woman’s life long after it happens – all through the conduit of fairytales.

The Xoregos Performing Company recently debuted its new play, Nothing’s Plenty for Me recently at Theatre Row in New York City, bringing awareness to climate change with a bit of quirky comedy.

The Xoregos Performing Company presents Nothing’s Plenty for Me, a world premiere dramedy about the importance of climate action written by Raymond Fortunato. Shela Xoregos directs a cast of five, including Marie Dinolan, Alexa Elmy, Dylan LaRay, Cole Mathewson, and Gaia Visnar. Thirteen performances will be staged at Studio Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street in New York City from Friday, January 28 to Sunday, February 13, 2022. 

The Xoregos Performing Company will present Nothing’s Plenty for Me, a world premiere dramedy about the importance of climate action written by Raymond Fortunato. Shela Xoregos directs a cast of five, including Marie Dinolan, Alexa Elmy, Dylan LaRay, Cole Mathewson, and Gaia Visnar. 

Theater Breaking Through Barriers today announced the 5th Virtual Playmakers' Intensive: TIME CAPSULE, fourteen short new plays, Monday May 31st through Sunday June 13th, on YouTube nightly at 7:30pm or Facebook at 8:30pm, FREE via ZOOM.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers today announced the 4th Virtual Playmakers' Intensive: TRANS(4)MISSIONS, ten short new plays that originally aired live Friday March 12th through Sunday March 21st, are now available for viewing in the Production Archives of the TBTB website. 

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Artistic Director Nicholas Viselli today announced the 4th Virtual Playmakers' Intensive: TRANS(4)MISSIONS, ten short new plays, Friday March 12th through Sunday March 21st, on YouTube nightly at 7:30pm or Facebook at 8:30pm, FREE via ZOOM.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Artistic Director Nicholas Viselli today announced the Third Virtual Playmakers' Intensive: INUNION, scheduled for October 19th through November 1st, on YouTube nightly at 7:30pm or Facebook at 8:15pm, via ZOOM.

Lady Shakes Theatre Company is back with the second show in their exciting inaugural season! The play will run Nov 12 through Nov 23, 2019 at 155 Milton Street (Brooklyn) Nov 12 - Nov 16 and 81 Christopher Street (Manhattan) Nov 20 - Nov 23. All performances will begin at 8 PM. Tickets to each show are $20 general admission and are now available at https://www.ladyshakestheatreco.com/shows.

On Monday, September 16, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation announced the 2019 recipients at the annual Off-Off-Broadway IT Awards. For the past 15 years, the It Awards have celebrated the vibrant and creative indie theatre community under the dedicated leadership of Executive Directors Shay Gines and Nick Micozzi who are stepping down and at the ceremony introduced new leadership for the organization: Cat Parker, Artistic Director of Articulate Theatre Company; Ariel Estrada, Producing Artistic Director of Leviathan Lab Projects; and Jazmyn Arroyo, Co-Founding Artistic Director of Step 1 Theatre Project will join Akia Squiteri, Artistic Director of Rising Sun Performance Company as Directors of the organization.

On Monday, July 29, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, announced the 2019 nominees for the annual Off-Off-Broadway awards. The It Awards have celebrated the vibrant and creative theatre community for the past 15 years.  The official announcement took place at (Le) Poisson Rouge by six celebrated artists and producers from the community including: Jazmyn Arroyo, Jennifer Betite Yen, Iyvon Edebiri, Chris Ignacio, Ashley Rogers, and Erez Ziv.

On Monday, July 29, 2019, nominees were announced for The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, celebrating Off-Off-Broadway.

A Staged Reading and talk back for the play Directions by an award-winning author Charlotte Giles. First Reading of Elemental Women Productions' 2019 Season.

As a part of its ninth season, The Seeing Place Theater, known for its , explores how Jean Genet's classic play THE MAIDS is still relevant today.

The Seeing Place Theater, known for intense & intimate ensemble work, concludes its 9th Season with two compelling plays running in rotating repertory: THE MAIDS by Jean Genet involves two sisters, enslaved maids to a wealthy society woman, who act out fantasies of class, love and revenge while the lady of the house is out on a romantic rendezvous. MEASURE FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare involves a young novice nun who is compromised by a corrupt official - who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex. When she threatens to expose him, he tells her that no one would believe her.

Adapted and directed by Brandon Walker and presented by The Seeing Place Theater, The People vs. Antigone recently concluded its run at the Paradise Factory; it was one of three shows presented as part of the Whistleblower series. Depicting the 'odd man (or woman) out' as the tragic hero of their own story, the audience is given a chance to understand the dynamics of one who fights against an authority that strips people of their right to be human beings - all with the irony of supposedly doing it for the people. How can we understand a person who doesn't simply comply with what she is told, or accept what so blatantly shouldn't be? In an era where everyone seems to have a purpose or agenda, a zealousness to their step when standing up for the world's injustices, do they look at the wrongs being done or simply recognize their part of a movement towards something?