Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.

HartBeat Ensemble, under the leadership of Artistic Director Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. and Managing Director Rhoda Cerritelli, announced its selection as of one of the participants in Hartford Foundation for Public Giving's 2023 Social Enterprise Accelerator (SEA).

HartBeat Ensemble presents the Connecticut premiere of 'Possessing Harriet,' a Kyle Bass drama. Don't miss this powerful and thought-provoking production.

HartBeat Ensemble presents 2023 Yale Drama Prize-winning playwright and actor Jesús I. Valles (they/them) in their one-person tour de force play (Un)Documents. Chronicling their Mexican family's experience of undocumented immigration into the United States, Jesús details how citizenship bureaucracy can define an identity and tear apart a family.

The Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County's renowned professional summer theater, will present a new play by Kyle Bass entitled TOLIVER & WAKEMAN, directed by Vernice Miller. It will begin performances on August 4 and run through August 2, 2023.

HartBeat Ensemble presents Congolese Playwright and Actor Toto Kisaku in his original one-person drama Requiem for an Electric Chair on Saturday, May 13 at 7:30pm. Based on Kisaku's harrowing personal experience in jail in his home country, the play will be performed at the Carriage House Theatre located at 360 Farmington Avenue in Hartford, CT.

HartBeat Ensemble has announced HartBeat Ensemble's Youth Play Institute (YPI) production of Untold & Undocumented, an original one-act play developed, written and performed by the company's 2023 YPI student interns.

Folger Theatre will present the world premiere of Our Verse in Time to Come, a new play commissioned by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

HartBeat Ensemble (Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Artistic Director and Rhoda Cerritelli, Managing Director) in partnership with My People Community Services announced today a four-performance engagement of Fatherhood Manologues, a storytelling event featuring four fathers celebrating and navigating the challenges of modern fatherhood.

HartBeat Ensemble announced today their upcoming production of My Children! My Africa!, a gripping drama about the collision of education, idealism and politics by preeminent South African dramatist Athol Fugard. The play will run September 29 through October 9 at HartBeat Ensemble's Carriage House Theater (360 Farmington Avenue) in Hartford, CT. 

Playwright Cin Martinez in association with HartBeat Ensemble (Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Artistic Director and Rhoda Cerritelli, Managing Director) announced today two readings of her new play, Moonlighters.

HartBeat Ensemble (Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Artistic Director and Rhoda Cerritelli, Managing Director) announced today a two-night special event, LA SALA FEMME: The ReEmergence, produced in collaboration with the visionary artists of Sageseeker Productions.

HartBeat Ensemble announced today the world premiere production of Saviana Stanescu's Bee Trapped Inside The Window. Set in a wealthy suburb in Connecticut, this intimate drama focuses on the interwoven stories of a Russian émigré, her biracial daughter, and an Asian-American cleaning woman who has been trafficked into domestic service.

HartBeat Ensemble announced today an educational and artistic expansion of the 21 year old theatre company. Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, HartBeat Ensemble welcomes Jeanika Browne-Springer to its staff in the newly-created educational role of Director of LifeLong Learning.

HartBeat Ensemble announced today a limited engagement of Rumble in the Theater, a funny and interactive experience written and performed by Marilyn Torres and directed by Dudley Findlay, Jr..

Syracuse Stage reopens its doors for public performances with a fully staged professional reading of “Baldwin vs. Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers,” a “theatricalization” by Stage's resident playwright Kyle Bass of the 1965 debate between writer and Civil Rights activist James Baldwin and conservative commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. The debate took place at Cambridge University and was broadcast by the BBC.

HartBeat Ensemble and Romanian Cultural Institute present 'Bee Trapped Inside the Window' by Saviana Stanescu, a provocative new drama about human traffic set in Connecticut.

Thanks to an unprecedented collaboration between seven of Hartford's cultural institutions, the region's theatre audiences will be able to participate in a week-long engagement of an interactive new piece of virtual theatre.

Thanks to an unprecedented collaboration between seven of Hartford's cultural institutions, the region's theatre audiences will be able to participate in a week-long engagement of an interactive new piece of virtual theatre.

HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford, CT's only community-based and ensemble theatre, announced today a diverse and provocative lineup of virtual and audio theatrical experiences for Fall 2020.

Civic Ensemble welcomes Julia Taylor as the new Executive Director, and launches the new Artistic Ensemble, a group of actors, directors, educators, and administrators who will steer the artistic vision of the company into the next chapter.