Take Ten, Happening Again!

Hello, Between Us Fans!

A quick update. The forth annual Take Ten Festival is NEXT WEEK.

Here's the info:

April 26th - 30th at 7pm & 9pm
May 1st at 3pm

13th Street Repertory Co.
50 W 13th street
New York, NY

Tickets $20
http://m.bpt.me/event/2512198 or at the doorstep
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For bios and more info:
http://betweenusproductions.wix.com/take-ten

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016
7pm
Series A
Captain Samaritan: The Battle of Negrophobia by Jeremy Holloway
Mama, I Don’t Want To Be Mediocre by Monica Mikell
Division of Assets by Krysten Louchen
The Authoress by Seth Freeman

9pm
Series B
You Are Could I by Steven McMahon
Friable by Alisha Espinosa
Grieving with Gary by Laura Towns
Sunset by Gary Jaffe

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016
7pm
Series C
Good Corporate Citizen by Sam Graber
You&Me(and Ruby) by Alexandra Ley
The Procrustes Pitch by Vishesh Abeyratne
Swept by Gina Doherty


9pm
Series D
Threatened Panda Fights Back by Rex McGregor
I Never Heard Such Silence by Marlin Thomas
Hangman by Gregory Fletcher
Edward’s Closet by Jenn Dlugos and Charlie Hatton

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016
7pm
Series B
You Are Could I by Steven McMahon
Friable by Alisha Espinosa
Grieving with Gary by Laura Towns
Sunset by Gary Jaffe

9pm
Series A
Captain Samaritan: The Battle of Negrophobia by Jeremy Holloway
Mama, I Don’t Want To Be Mediocre by Monica Mikell
Division of Assets by Krysten Louchen
The Authoress by Seth Freeman


FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016
7pm
Series D
Threatened Panda Fights Back by Rex McGregor
I Never Heard Such Silence by Marlin Thomas
Hangman by Gregory Fletcher
Edward’s Closet by Jenn Dlugos and Charlie Hatton

9pm
Series C
Good Corporate Citizen by Sam Graber
You&Me(and Ruby) by Alexandra Ley
The Procrustes Pitch by Vishesh Abeyratne
Swept by Gina Doherty


SATURDAY, APRIL 30 2016
7pm
Semi-finalists TBD
9pm
Semi-finalists TBD

SUNDAY, MAY 1 2016
3pm
Finalists TBD

We're very excited for the new artists (and a few old friends) we will be meeting and the new space we're going to be working in. And Paulina is back as our SM.

So come on, come one, come all!

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.

Michelle Liu Coughlin* and Josephine Wheelwright

Josephine Wheelwright, Chauncey Johnson, Billy Giacci and Erica Becker

Erica Becker and Billy Giacci

Josephine Wheelwright and Michelle Liu Coughlin*

Michael Markham*, Erica Becker, Billy Giacci, Josephine Wheelwright and Chauncey Johnson

Michelle Liu Coughlin*, Josephine Wheelwright, Eric Becker and Billy Giacci

*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.

Arlene

Monty

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!

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!