Here's a little picture of the artists' getting ready for ElliEli. Thanks for coming if you were there, and if you weren't...we really hope to see you next time!
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
ElliEli Happy Dance!
Just a quick update to let you guys know how ElliEli went. Pretty much...awesomely! The direction, acting and script of the workshop was really top tier. We're really thrilled to have been able to facilitate this. We're hoping to continue to work with these artists in the future and foster the new connections we made with the audience members who came out to see it. Stay tuned to hear more about ElliEli and more from Arlene. Not just with us...but hopefully with us too! And stay tuned to hear about all the things we're gearing up to do. We've got some new plays we're sifting through for the next seasons, Take Ten, some awesome new staff and a more focused mission. It's gonna be a blast!
Here's a little picture of the artists' getting ready for ElliEli. Thanks for coming if you were there, and if you weren't...we really hope to see you next time!
Here's a little picture of the artists' getting ready for ElliEli. Thanks for coming if you were there, and if you weren't...we really hope to see you next time!
Saturday, August 29, 2015
New Staff, Fairer Sex pics and getting pumped for ElliEli
Hi, all!
First of all, we were incredibly happy with our production of The Fairer Sex (though I got very sick halfway through the run). We got a great review and some lovely pictures, which you can see below.
*appeared courtesy of Actor's Equity
Of course, there are tons more pictures on our facebook but I had to pick the fairer six. (Sorry, had to).
ANYWAY. We were really very proud. The pictures, I think exemplify not only the acting, but also the fabulous direction and costume design by our very own Samantha Lee Manas and the lighting design by Paul Kennedy.
But most significantly, coming out of this, we have decided to make Sander Gusinow a permanent member of the company as our Literary and Marketing Manager. Besides writing The Fairer Sex, Sander also wrote the winning play from Take Ten 2014 (Hansen and Greta) and had a workshop of his one-act Hell-Bent produced by us as well. We're really excited to have him on board. We'll have a headshot and bio for him on all of our places soon.
We'll also have one for Paulina Ruiz who is going to be our Resident Stage Manager moving forward. She did an amazing job stage managing Take Ten 2015 and will be working on our ElliEli, the workshop we have coming up in a few weeks.
Oh, yes, ElliEli, what about that? Well, we're very excited. It's just such a smart, fabulous play, written by Arlene Jaffe, who wrote Rita Shalimar, the winner of Take Ten 2015 and directed by Montgomery Sutton, nominated for Best Director in Take Ten 2015 for The Oracle. We met with them a few weeks ago and couldn't be more inspired to be working and to have brought such talent together.
The show is going to be on September 12th at the Director's Studio and tickets are already available. You can also check out both of our facebook events (facebook doesn't like when we invited too many people to one thing now, apparently).
It's going to be a smash. Here's the little blurb I wrote for the show.
Elli has a bully. He's mean, abusive and he's lived with her since childhood. Also, he co-writes her blog. And he's not, in the strictest sense, real.
Hope to see you there!
First of all, we were incredibly happy with our production of The Fairer Sex (though I got very sick halfway through the run). We got a great review and some lovely pictures, which you can see below.
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| Michelle Liu Coughlin* and Josephine Wheelwright |
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| Josephine Wheelwright, Chauncey Johnson, Billy Giacci and Erica Becker |
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| Erica Becker and Billy Giacci |
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| Josephine Wheelwright and Michelle Liu Coughlin* |
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| Michael Markham*, Erica Becker, Billy Giacci, Josephine Wheelwright and Chauncey Johnson |
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| Michelle Liu Coughlin*, Josephine Wheelwright, Eric Becker and Billy Giacci |
Of course, there are tons more pictures on our facebook but I had to pick the fairer six. (Sorry, had to).
ANYWAY. We were really very proud. The pictures, I think exemplify not only the acting, but also the fabulous direction and costume design by our very own Samantha Lee Manas and the lighting design by Paul Kennedy.
But most significantly, coming out of this, we have decided to make Sander Gusinow a permanent member of the company as our Literary and Marketing Manager. Besides writing The Fairer Sex, Sander also wrote the winning play from Take Ten 2014 (Hansen and Greta) and had a workshop of his one-act Hell-Bent produced by us as well. We're really excited to have him on board. We'll have a headshot and bio for him on all of our places soon.
We'll also have one for Paulina Ruiz who is going to be our Resident Stage Manager moving forward. She did an amazing job stage managing Take Ten 2015 and will be working on our ElliEli, the workshop we have coming up in a few weeks.
Oh, yes, ElliEli, what about that? Well, we're very excited. It's just such a smart, fabulous play, written by Arlene Jaffe, who wrote Rita Shalimar, the winner of Take Ten 2015 and directed by Montgomery Sutton, nominated for Best Director in Take Ten 2015 for The Oracle. We met with them a few weeks ago and couldn't be more inspired to be working and to have brought such talent together.
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| Arlene |
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| Monty |
It's going to be a smash. Here's the little blurb I wrote for the show.
Elli has a bully. He's mean, abusive and he's lived with her since childhood. Also, he co-writes her blog. And he's not, in the strictest sense, real.
Hope to see you there!
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Don't Stop Us Now!
Hi, all!
Things are heating up with Between Us this summer! First of all, from July 29th-August 2nd, we will be showing a brand new dark comedy, The Fairer Sex, by Sander Gusinow who we previous worked with on Hansen and Greta (Winner of Best Play, Take Ten 2014) and the workshop of Hell-Bent. It will be directed by our very own Samantha Lee Manas and starring Erica Becker, Michelle Liu Coughlin*, Billy Giacci, Chauncey Johnson, Micheal Markham* and Josephine Wheelwright.
*appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association
Recognize any of those names from past projects? As part of our mission to foster new artists, we love to give continued opportunities to actors we meet that want the space to show their gifts.
And as part of our mission for relevant, socially challenging work, we're particularly excited about The Fairer Sex. In this original one-act, the feminist revolution is over. We won. Now what? The battle of the sexes is now an all out war that is at times hilarious, shocking and very violent.
Plus check out our shiny new graphic!
Amazing right? Thanks MLN Designs!
So come check this play out!
July 29th - July 31st at 8pm
August 1st at 2pm & 8pm
August 2nd at 3pm
The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row
410 W 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Tickets $18 on Telecharge
Come on! Buy a ticket! Look how much fun they're having in rehearsal!
Check the event out on on facebook as well as our company page and our website while you're at it for more information. And big props to Samantha for the great work she's been doing on the latter lately!
Switching gears now, we're also excited about our next venture after Fairer Sex. We're going to have workshop of a new original play by our Take Ten 2015 Best Play winner, Arlene Jaffe and directed by Montgomery Sutton (nominee for Best Director, Take Ten 2015). The play is called Elli Eli and it's a funny, modern look at chronic pain. Tickets will be sold on brownpapertickets starting on August 1st and it is already listed so get to buying before we sell out! One night only on September 12th, 8pm at the Director's Studio.
Things are heating up with Between Us this summer! First of all, from July 29th-August 2nd, we will be showing a brand new dark comedy, The Fairer Sex, by Sander Gusinow who we previous worked with on Hansen and Greta (Winner of Best Play, Take Ten 2014) and the workshop of Hell-Bent. It will be directed by our very own Samantha Lee Manas and starring Erica Becker, Michelle Liu Coughlin*, Billy Giacci, Chauncey Johnson, Micheal Markham* and Josephine Wheelwright.
*appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association
Recognize any of those names from past projects? As part of our mission to foster new artists, we love to give continued opportunities to actors we meet that want the space to show their gifts.
And as part of our mission for relevant, socially challenging work, we're particularly excited about The Fairer Sex. In this original one-act, the feminist revolution is over. We won. Now what? The battle of the sexes is now an all out war that is at times hilarious, shocking and very violent.
Plus check out our shiny new graphic!
Amazing right? Thanks MLN Designs!
So come check this play out!
July 29th - July 31st at 8pm
August 1st at 2pm & 8pm
August 2nd at 3pm
The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row
410 W 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Tickets $18 on Telecharge
Come on! Buy a ticket! Look how much fun they're having in rehearsal!
Check the event out on on facebook as well as our company page and our website while you're at it for more information. And big props to Samantha for the great work she's been doing on the latter lately!
Switching gears now, we're also excited about our next venture after Fairer Sex. We're going to have workshop of a new original play by our Take Ten 2015 Best Play winner, Arlene Jaffe and directed by Montgomery Sutton (nominee for Best Director, Take Ten 2015). The play is called Elli Eli and it's a funny, modern look at chronic pain. Tickets will be sold on brownpapertickets starting on August 1st and it is already listed so get to buying before we sell out! One night only on September 12th, 8pm at the Director's Studio.
Friday, April 17, 2015
An Exciting Summer and Spring for Between Us!
Hi, all! Between Us had a wonderful time at our third annual Take Ten festival. Here are pictures from all sixteen of the wonderful plays.
Please check out our facebook for more pictures from all the shows. And here are some from our awards ceremony.
Additionally, we had some new staff for the festival. Although Tierney Nolen helped us coming up to the festival, she recently got an opportunity to work overseas and had to leave the company. We did hire a stage manager for the festival, Paulina Ruiz, however, who was truly spectacular and we hope to work with her in the future.
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| The Devil's Advocate written and directed by Shari Umansky Pictured: Ed Heuether, Micheal Newman |
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| Table for Two by Edward Precht Directed by Dunya J. Karam Pictured: Lauren Fischetti, Rebecca Sanborn, Alexander Lukham, Timothy McHale |
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| The Oracle by Steven Young (finalist for Best Play) Directed by Montgomery Sutton (finalist for Best Director) Pictured: Raphael Corkill (finalist for Best Actor), Nathaniel Kent (Winner for Best Actor) |
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| Toward the Heart of the Forest by Eric Marlin (Semi-Finalist for Best Play) Directed by Clara Rotter-Laitman Pictured: Mari Vial-Golden, Noah Berman, Keaton Morris-Stan, Colin Hinckley, Josephine Wheelwright (Winner for Best Actress) |
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| Confession written and directed by Kara K. Shelton Pictured: Kara K. Shelton and Cedrick Massey |
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| Don't Call Us (We'll Call You) by Abigail Taylor Sansom Pictured:Caroline Snape and Noam Shapiro |
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| The Lives We Lead written and directed by Jessica Lehman (Semi-Finalist for Best Play) Pictured: Dakota Dutcher and Victoria M. Fragnito (Finalist for Best Actress) |
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| Thursday, Five Years From Now by Matt Kleckner (Finalist for Best Play) Directed by Ryan Yandersits Pictured: Matt Kleckner and Jo Twist (appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity) |
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| A Talk Amongst Criminals by Zach Stein Directed by Patrick Morley Pictured: Roz Rosario |
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| Rita Shalimar by Arlene Jaffe (Winner for Best Play) Directed by Mark Richardson (Finalist for Best Director) Pictured: Greg Carter, Margot Steinberg and Sage Buchalter (Finalist for Best Actress) |
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| The First Vacation in Five Years written and directed by Christina Klessig Pictured: Valerie Saturno, Jon McCormick |
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| Yankee Stadium, June 1960 written and directed by Irwin Hahn (Finalist for Best Play and Best Director) Pictured: Irwin Hahn (Finalist for Best Actor) |
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| Restoration by Mark Rosati Directed by Jake King Pictured: Guy Wellman and Chelsea Clark |
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| Think, What Have You Done by Carrie Boehm (Semi-Finalist for Best Play) Directed by Jacob Henkoff Pictured: Amanda Jungquist (Finalist for Best Actress) |
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| www.surveyhoney.com by Seth Freeman (Semi-Finalist for Best Play) Directed by Virginia Hastings (Winner for Best Director) Pictured: Marie Lenzi and Ray Bergen (Finalist for Best Play) |
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| Feline High-Rise Syndrome by Rex McGregor Directed by Emily Naylor Pictured: Christopher Herr, Clare Rea, Stephen Humes, Hannah Richter |
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| Best Play Awards Pictured: Co-Artistic Directors Jasmine Brown (myself) and Samantha Lee Manas with Irwin Hahn, Liz Blake (Stage Manager for the Oracle) Nathaniel Kent, Matt Kleckner and Arlene Jaffe |
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| Best Actor Awards Pictured: Nathaniel Kent, Montgomery Sutton, Irwin Hahn, Ray Bergen, Jasmine Brown and Samantha Lee Manas |
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| Best Actress Awards Pictured: Victoria M. Fragnito, Sage Buchalter, Samantha Lee Manas and Jasmine Brown |
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| Best Director Awards Pictured: Mark Richardson, Irwin Hahn, Virginia Hastings, Montgomery Sutton, Jasmine Brown and Samantha Lee Manas |
Coming up, we are going to be producing a workshop of an new original play by our Take Ten 2015 winner, Arlene Jaffe. More information on that soon, but let us just say, we are very excited about her voice. We are also going to be doing a full production from our Take Ten 2014 winner, Sander Gusinow, just because we liked working with him so much. You remember Sander's work, don't you?
Yeah. That's him. The play is called The Fairer Sex and it's about the feminist revolution. Look for it this summer!
That's all for now! More soon!
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Finally, an update!
Hi, all!
Wow, it's been awhile! So sorry about that!
First of all, Uprising in September went wonderfully. Here are some selected pictures. At some point (like in a few years),we may do another performance with expanded scenes since it was so well received, so look out for that.
Looks really cool, huh? We were very proud!
But on to more current things. One of our associated artists, Tierney Nolen, who can be seen in some of the above pictures, is now our Social Media Director. Here's her headshot...and a picture of her goofin' around backstage during Uprising for good measure.
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Aint she a qt?
But MOST EXCITING!
We have our lineup for Take Ten this year!
The Devil's Advocate
Table for Two
The Oracle
Towards the Heart of the Forest
Confession
Don't Call Us (We'll Call You)
The Lives We Lead
Thursday, Five Years from Now
A Talk Amongst Criminals
Rita Shalimar
The First Vacation in Five Years
Yankee Stadium,1960
Feline High Rise Syndrome
Restoration
Think, What Have You Done
www.surveyhoney.com
April 7th - 12th watch sixteen ten minute plays battle for Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress!
April 7-11, 7&9pm
April 12, 3pm
Audience vote determines who will move on!
The shows at 7 and 9 will be $20 and the show at 3 on Sunday will be $25 as it will be an award show with refreshments.
Here's this years graphic:
That's all for now, but more soon!
Wow, it's been awhile! So sorry about that!
First of all, Uprising in September went wonderfully. Here are some selected pictures. At some point (like in a few years),we may do another performance with expanded scenes since it was so well received, so look out for that.
But on to more current things. One of our associated artists, Tierney Nolen, who can be seen in some of the above pictures, is now our Social Media Director. Here's her headshot...and a picture of her goofin' around backstage during Uprising for good measure.
But MOST EXCITING!
We have our lineup for Take Ten this year!
The Devil's Advocate
Table for Two
The Oracle
Towards the Heart of the Forest
Confession
Don't Call Us (We'll Call You)
The Lives We Lead
Thursday, Five Years from Now
A Talk Amongst Criminals
Rita Shalimar
The First Vacation in Five Years
Yankee Stadium,1960
Feline High Rise Syndrome
Restoration
Think, What Have You Done
www.surveyhoney.com
April 7th - 12th watch sixteen ten minute plays battle for Best Play, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress!
April 7-11, 7&9pm
April 12, 3pm
Audience vote determines who will move on!
The shows at 7 and 9 will be $20 and the show at 3 on Sunday will be $25 as it will be an award show with refreshments.
Here's this years graphic:
That's all for now, but more soon!
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