Iyvon Edebiri News

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.

The 9th Annual Shakespeare's Birthday Sonnet Slam will be held Friday, April 26th from 1pm-4pm at the 9th floor Lounge at the Riverside Church Campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The Sonnet Slam features 154 readers of all ages and abilities performing all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets in numerical order. The event is free to the public and is approximately 3 hours long.

Continuing with its mission to support Latinx playwrights, the 50 Playwrights Project (50PP) has released its third annual list of recommended unproduced Latinx plays. Dubbed The 50PP List, it is comprised of eight production-ready plays by Latinx playwrights.

The Parsnip Ship & The Actors Fund presented a reading of Daniel K. Isaac's first full length play, OR OR OR &&& at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Actors Fund Arts Center in Brooklyn mid-January.