In a small apartment getting smaller, two actors play four family members across seven decades and two continents. This intimate drama evinces the pain we pass down and inherit, and offers a testament to how we make art after Auschwitz.
This play has been developed with EST/Youngblood in a workshop with dramaturg Sarah Lunnie and a reading directed by Colette Robert, and with Clubbed Thumb in a reading directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.
Finalist for Platform Presents Playwright’s Award 2020.
A dystopian comedy about gentrification and colonialism. It is 2032 and Williamsburg, Brooklyn becomes Colonial Williamsburg.
This play has been developed with SPACE on Ryder Farm (dramaturg Sarah Lunnie), Clubbed Thumb’s ECWG, EST/Youngblood, and The Hearth (reading directed by Molly Clifford).
World premiere at The Tank, June 2018.
Fantasy. Anxiety. Pabst Blue Ribbon. It's freshman year of college. Three 18-year-old girls head off to New England, cry saying goodbye to their moms, and fall madly and platonically in love with each other. Until a hate crime happens on campus--suddenly shedding light on their vast differences and how unprepared they are to handle them. Big-hearted and searingly funny, Let's Get Ready Together exposes the raw vulnerability of female friendships forged on the brink of adulthood.
Directed by Lily Riopelle
Co-Produced by Maya Davis and Erin Mizer Helton
Featuring: Ruth Aguilar, Shauna Bloom, Marieta Carrero, Arielle Goldman, Rachel B. Joyce, Dawn McGee, Andrea Negrete
Scenic Design: Cate McCrea
Costume Design: Nicole Slaven
Lighting Design: Cha See
Sound Design: Valentine Monfeuga
Production Stage Manager: Hanako Rodriguez
On the border between the Upper East Side and Harlem, a young woman and her childhood friend are the last middle class holdouts in their pre-war building. In order to protect the apartment of her late grandmother - a holocaust refugee - from a greedy, narcissistic Wall Street bro, she must harness her grandmother's will to fight for what's rightfully hers in the crucible of gentrification.
Don't make yourself crazy was produced by Two Headed Rep in October 2016. Lily Riopelle directed.
Directed by Lily Riopelle
Featuring: Sarah Chalfie, Paul Karle, Charlotte Otremba, James Ross, Vickie Varnuska
Scenic Design: Cate McCrea Costume Design: Nicole Slaven Lighting Design: Cheyenne Sykes Sound Design: Lawrence Schrober Production Stage Manager: Hanako Rodriguez Photos by Evan Zimmerman
In May 2013, protests broke out in Turkey over plans by the government to replace Istanbul’s Gezi Park with a new shopping mall and apartments. In July 2013, elsewhere in the city, the government began bulldozing the Yedikule gardens that line the fifth-century Byzantine walls of old Constantinople. In the eyes of the protestors, the government's plans put development at odds with historical memory, sustainable living, and preservation.
Immediately following the first round of voting in Turkey’s 2014 presidential election, New Brooklyn Theatre, in association with Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, staged a site-specific production of a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in Turkish in Istanbul.
Vişne Bahçesi (The Cherry Orchard) was produced in Istanbul's Yedikule Gardens in August 2014.
Adaptation co-written by Courtney Nelson, Jonathan Solari, and Lizzie Stern
Directed by Jonathan Solari
Translated by Yaprak Ünver
Featuring: Ahmet Öztürk, Yaprak Ünver, Almira Ince, Özgecan Ayhan, Ferit Çelik, Canberk Doğalı
Production Design: Courtney Nelson
Dramaturg: Gwendolyn Collaço
Photography by David Willems, Amanda Mustard, and Kristina Williamson.