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.

The Devil's Advocate written and directed by Shari Umansky
Pictured: Ed Heuether, Micheal Newman

Table for Two by Edward Precht
Directed by Dunya J. Karam
Pictured: Lauren Fischetti, Rebecca Sanborn, Alexander Lukham, Timothy McHale

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)

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)

Confession written and directed by Kara K. Shelton
Pictured: Kara K. Shelton and Cedrick Massey

Don't Call Us (We'll Call You) by Abigail Taylor Sansom
Pictured:Caroline Snape and Noam Shapiro

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)

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)

A Talk Amongst Criminals by Zach Stein
Directed by Patrick Morley
Pictured: Roz Rosario

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)

The First Vacation in Five Years written and directed by Christina Klessig
Pictured: Valerie Saturno, Jon McCormick

Yankee Stadium, June 1960 written and directed by Irwin Hahn (Finalist for Best Play and Best Director)
 Pictured: Irwin Hahn (Finalist for Best Actor)

Restoration by Mark Rosati
Directed by Jake King
Pictured: Guy Wellman and Chelsea Clark

Think, What Have You Done by Carrie Boehm (Semi-Finalist for Best Play)
Directed by Jacob Henkoff
Pictured: Amanda Jungquist (Finalist for Best Actress)

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)

Feline High-Rise Syndrome by Rex McGregor
Directed by Emily Naylor
Pictured: Christopher Herr, Clare Rea, Stephen Humes, Hannah Richter

Please check out our facebook for more pictures from all the shows. And here are some from our awards ceremony.

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

Best Actor Awards
Pictured: Nathaniel Kent, Montgomery Sutton, Irwin Hahn, Ray Bergen, Jasmine Brown and Samantha Lee Manas

Best Actress Awards
Pictured: Victoria M. Fragnito, Sage  Buchalter, Samantha Lee Manas and Jasmine Brown

Best Director Awards
Pictured: Mark Richardson, Irwin Hahn, Virginia Hastings, Montgomery Sutton, Jasmine Brown and Samantha Lee Manas

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.

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!