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!

After a busy few months, let's party in the park!

Hello, all!

A lot has happened since I last updated you and I want to give you the skinny on all of it! The short and sweet of it is, we are having a fundraiser, this Sunday, September 22nd in Washington Square Park from 3-6. But, I wanted to make sure everything we've done in the last few months is up here, so more on that later.

First of all, Behaving Badly was AMAZING! Here are some pictures from each of our plays, and you can of course, find more on our facebook page.

Millions & Millions & Millions by Cathy Earnest, directed by Graydon Gund
Alyssa Simon (courtesy of Actor's Equity), Catherine LaClair and Cain Duminski pictured

Inalienable Rights by Samantha Lee Manas, directed by Veronica Dang
Anna Stefanic, RG Lagonda and Wes Hager pictured

Three Bites from the Underworld written and directed by Jasmine Brown
Sharon Zaslaw and Molly Garbe pictured

St. Patrick Battles the Bearded Serpent by Karl Custer Jr., directed by Samantha Lee Manas
Tierny Nolan, Casey Bartolucci and Ari Vigoda pictured

Above photos courtesy of Vladimir Weinstein.

But all of that is old news. The big news is that of all the new staff we've added! Firstly, we'd like to welcome our interns for the season: Abby Leigh Rose for Artistic/Marketing, Nick Salidivar for Directing, Meghan Sullivan for Literary and Cresent Haynes for Sound Design. They are all super talented and you will be seeing a lot of work from them in the coming months.

Additionally, we've added Brittany Remington to the full position of Associate Producer. For her, I'm gonna add her headshot, because she's pretty big deal. She may be taking over this blog, at least partially, because we know the updates aren't exactly...consistent. But either way, she is truly great and we're very excited to be working with her.

It's Brittany!

Before I get to our final and most pressing announcement, I do want to go back in time and give you a few photos I promised. Yes, these are some looks are our Cinco de Mayo variety show from the spring. All of the rest (and there are a lot!) are up on facebook.

Anna Stefanic and Samantha Jane Williams

Karl Custer aka Uncle Yo

Calixta Star

Jeremy Rafal

So, now that you're reminded what kind of party we can throw, why not join for a Sunday in Washington Square park?

There will be sing, dancing, fun and even refreshing drinks for sale. Suggested donations are ten dollars, but stay as long as you like and give what you're able.

Again, it's 3-6 in Washington Square Park, September 22nd. We will be in Garibaldi Plaza.

The featured acts will be: Anna Stefanic, Abby Leigh Rose, Sharqui and the Bellyjazz Dolls (featuring me!), Art Brown, Cynthia Vasquez, Boogie Bogz and maybe some other surprises.

Come one, come all! 

Oh, and by the way, Washington Square Park has a special meaning to us because of our projects later in the season...but this post has been long enough. More updates much sooner next time, I promise!

Lots of love!

Now things are getting serious!

All of our meetings, all of our readings, all of our hits and our (few) misses, everything we've been doing has been leading up to this:

Between Us Productions is going to have staged performances within the year! First, we're going to have a Ten-Minute Play festival on March 18-24th. We are just finalizing the 16 plays we're going to be using right now and I have to tell you, they're pretty terrific. Between Us Productions has a commitment to support compelling original work and we intend to live up to our own standards. 

We're also going to be having an Evening of One-Acts in June. This will include some of our most well received work, finally staged and given the attention they deserved.

St. Patrick Battles the Bearded Serpent, by Karl Custer, Inalienable Rights by Samantha Manas, Three Bites From the Underworld by Jasmine Brown (me) and a forth play written by the winner of our Ten-Minute Play Festival!

To fund all of these things, we have launched an awesome Indiegogo campaign. Please check it out! Donate, share and show some love! 

Awesome Indiegogo Campaign

We're also going to be having a really fun Halloween Themed Improv Battle on October 20th. There will be candy, drinks, costumes and more. But more info on that later. ;)