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"Just wanted to give you an update on the California premiere of American Whup-Ass, which is going great guns. Thanks again for all your great work; the TRU reading really helped refine the script and point up some things that I polished in the rehearsals for this production."~Justin Warner, writer (American Whup-Ass, TRU Voices '08) "I want to thank you so much for the opportunity to have my play read in the TRU Voices Series. It was great to have the chance to work with [my producer] and to gain some exposure for the script. The panel was very informative and helpful, and I am very grateful for their input. It was a very valuable experience in many, many ways." |
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"Just wanted to pass on my heartfelt thanks to you and the rest of the TRU team for the opportunity to take part in the TRU Voices series. The entire experience has been a wonderful learning experience, and has already brought the script much farther along toward a production than any efforts of my own, sitting out there in the wilds of Germany, could probably have ever done. Rest assured I'll be submitting pieces to future competitions." "This was a great experience for me - I learned so much. Thank you guys for having the brains to set up a program that gives newbies a hands-on experience." ~ Toni Hart, producer mentee (Can I Really Date a Guy Who Wears a Yarmulke?, TRU Voices '09) |
Presented in association with
The Liebowitz/Greenway Family Foundation, R.K. Greene/The StoryLine Project and Don Nolan.
TRU VOICES 2023 VIRTUAL PLAY READING SERIES
presented with The StoryLine Project
New plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: click link for details of the shows below.
Ticketing available only through OnTheStage.com
All performances will be at 3:00pm.
Sunday 2/12, 3pm ET
Max Needle presents
QUEEN OF SAD MISCHANCE
by John Minigan
directed by Sharifa Williams
Followed by our renowned "Dollars and Sense" industry talkback featuring: Margot Astrachan, producer (Diana, The Prom, A Gentleman's Guide..., Ghost the musical, Around the World in 80 Days, Nice Work If You Can Get It, On a Clear Day...); R.K. Greene and the StoryLine Project, producer (Peter and the Starcatcher, The Lightning Thief tour, Farinelli and the King, A Time to Kill, Cougar the Musical, Room Service; upcoming: Beau, Harmony); Jana Robbins, producer: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (Drama Desk Award), Company revival Broadway and West End (Tony & Olivier Awards), Ragtime revival, Little Women. UK Productions The Jazz Age, The Astonishing Times of Timothy; upcoming: Rose in London (as Pinnacle Productions with producing partner Haley Swindal); Janel Scarborough, producer/creative investor (Single Black Female, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Tony nominated revival for colored girls...), co-founder TRU Diversity; Haley Swindal, producer/investor forThe Lion off- Broadway (Drama Desk Award), The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit , The Jazz Age, yiddish Fiddler on the Roof revival; financial stake in Something Rotten, On Your Feet, Lifespan of a Fact, upcoming producing projects: television: The Tryout, West End: Rose; Broadway: upcoming revival to be announced with Pinnacle Productions (alongside partner Jana Robbins); Ric Wanetik, producer (Tony nominated Twilight Los Angeles: 1992, Broadway’s Marlene, Off-Broadway’s Jolson and Company) and senior advisor for America to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
CLICK HERE for information and ticketing. This year's series is a fundraiser to help us compensate for lost revenue during the COVID-19 quarantine. Please consider making a donation in addition to your ticket purchase.
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Sunday 2/19, 3pm ET
Megan Schadler presents
LOST SOCK LAUNDRY
by Ivan Faute
directed by Christina Rose Ashby
Followed by our renowned "Dollars and Sense" industry talkback featuring: Tim Errickson, artistic director of Boomerang Theatre Company in NYC; Blair Russell, educator, producer (Tony nominated Slave Play, Lizard Boy, Sweeney Todd off-Broadway); Tamra Pica, LA, off-Broadway and TV producer and casting director for Write Act Repertory NYC and LA; Ken Waissman, producer (original Grease, Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Josephine).
CLICK HERE for information and ticketing. This year's series is a fundraiser to help us compensate for lost revenue during the COVID-19 quarantine. Please consider making a donation in addition to your ticket purchase.
THE 2021 TRU VOICES VIRTUAL NEW PLAYS READING SERIES
presented with The StoryLine Project
22nd annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: click link for details of the shows below.
Ticketing available only through OnTheStage.com
All performances will be at 3:00pm.
Sunday afternoon June 20th, 3:00pm
Iben Cenholt/LIVEtheatrical and Evan Bernardin Productions present
TINY EMPTY NEST by David Beardsley
directed by Jesica Garrou
“Dollars and Sense” talkback panel to include Patrick Blake, producer (The 39 Steps revival, Bedlam Theater’s Hamlet/St. Joan, Play Dead, The Exonerated, In the Continuum), founding artistic director Rhymes Over Beats; Charlotte Cohn, producer (Church and State, Handle with Care, Rated P!); Van Dirk Fisher, founder & artistic director of The Riant Theatre and producer of the Jocunda Festival; R.K. Greene, executive director of The Storyline Project, producer (Farinelli and the King, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Time to Kill; The Lightning Thief tour; off-Broadway Terms of Endearment, Cougar the musical; upcoming Beau the musical); Jennifer Isaacson, producer (Moulin Rouge!, An American in Paris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris, Of Mice and Men, ANN starring Holland Taylor, Tony for The Norman Conquests); Janel Scarborough, producer/script developer (Single Black Female, Welcome to America, Fotos), founding member of Backdoor Films.
CLICK HERE for information and ticketing. This year's series is a fundraiser to help us compensate for lost revenue during the COVID-19 quarantine. Please consider making a donation in addition to your ticket purchase.
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Sunday afternoon June 27th, 3:00pm
Benny Lumpkins Jr./Lahser Rd. Productions presents
GOLDEN WINGS by Coolidge Harris II
directed by Rain Pryor
starring Lillias White as Bessie, Scotch Ellis Loring as Brown
with Stanley Wayne Mathis, Jerome Preston Bates, Dan Saunders
Crystal Starr, Sherman Edwards, Aliria Johnson
CLICK HERE for information and ticketing. This year's series is a fundraiser to help us compensate for lost revenue during the COVID-19 quarantine. Please consider making a donation in addition to your ticket purchase.
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Sunday afternoon July 11th, 3:00pm
Stephanie Pope Lofgren presents
NO ONE CRIES FOR THE BLACKSMITH by Lloyd Khaner
directed by Tonya Pinkins
Starring CHUCK COOPER (Tony Award for The Life, Chicago, Caroline, or Change, Amazing Grace)
and ROBERT CUCCIOLI (Tony nominee for Jekyll and Hyde, Les Miserable, Spider-man: Turn off the Dark)
Followed by our “Dollars and Sense” industry talkback with Margot Astrachan, producer (The Prom, A Gentleman's Guide..., Ghost the musical); Patrick Blake, producer (The 39 Steps revival, Bedlam Theater’s Hamlet/St. Joan, Play Dead, The Exonerated, In the Continuum), founding artistic director Rhymes Over Beats; R.K. Greene, executive director of The Storyline Project, producer (Farinelli and the King, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Time to Kill; The Lightning Thief tour; off-Broadway Terms of Endearment, Cougar the musical; upcoming Beau the musical); John Lant, indie producer (Fabulous, Frankenstein the musical, Wicked City Blues), artistic director Write Act Repertory, producer The Park Theatre in Union City NJ; Janel Scarborough, producer/script developer (Single Black Female, Welcome to America, Fotos), founding member of Backdoor Films; Cheryl Wiesenfeld, producer (4-time Tony winner for Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, All the Way; off-Broadway The Exonerated, In the Continuum, Play Dead).
CLICK HERE for information and ticketing. This year's series is a fundraiser to help us compensate for lost revenue during the COVID-19 quarantine. Please consider making a donation in addition to your ticket purchase.
THE 2020 TRU VOICES VIRTUAL NEW PLAYS READING SERIES
presented with The StoryLine Project
21st annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: click link for details of the shows below or email us at TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com
All performances will be at 2:30pm.
Sunday afternoon June 14th, 2:30pm
James Simon presents
NO ENTRY by Marc Paykuss
directed by Melody Bates
A displaced persons camp in Germany after WWII. Jewish refugees with nowhere to go, trying to rebuild their lives, uncertain of what their futures hold.
"Dollars and Sense" talkback featuring Merrie L. Davis (West End and Broadway Company, GiGi the Musical, Eclipsed); Jane Dubin (The Prom, An American in Paris, Farinelli and the King, Bandstand, Peter & the Starcatcher); R.K. Greene, producer (Peter & the Starcatcher, A Time to Kill, Almost Home, Cougar the Musical); Frank Zuback, producer (An American Soldier, Roof of the World).
CLICK HERE for information and ticketing. Tickets are free, but this year's series is a fundraiser to help us compensate for lost revenue during the COVID-19 quarantine. Please consider making a donation.
Wednesday afternoon, June 17th, 2:30pm
Molly Morris presents
DISBELIEF, A Cassandra Play by Garret Jon Groenveld
directed by Jess Cummings
with Marija Abney, Ceasar F. Barajas, Catherine LeFrere, Gerrard Lobo, Alfredo Narciso
The story of Apollo’s gift to Cassandra, a request of unreasonable love made by a God, and a person of faith who cannot comply with the demands the faith puts upon them.
"Dollars and Sense" talkback featuring Patrick Blake, producer (The 39 Steps, Bedlam Theatre's Hamlet/St. Joan, My Life Is a Musical, Play Dead, The Exonerated), founding artistic director of Rhymes Over Beats Hip Hop Theater Collective; Martin Platt, producer-general manager Perry Street Productions (The Woman in Black, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, Dames at Sea on Broadway, In the Continuum, an oak tree); Jana Robbins, producer (Company current revival, Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof, Little Women, Ragtime revival); Ron Simon, 3-time Tony Award winning producer (Jitney revival, A Gentleman's Guide, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike); Frank Zuback, producer (An American Soldier, Roof of the World).
CLICK HERE for information and ticketing. Tickets are free, but this year's series is a fundraiser to help us compensate for lost revenue during the COVID-19 quarantine. Please consider making a donation.
THE 2019 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES
20th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: click link for the show below or email us at TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com
All performances will be at 7pm.
Monday evening June 17th, 7pm
PASSING PARADES
Or The Strange Case of the Sole Surviving Suffragist
by Fengar Gael
anthem by Sheilah Rae
Presented by Pat Flicker Addiss
Directed by Lorca Peress
with Lauren Molina* Richarda Abrams* Raissa Katona Bennett* Kathryn Layng*
Sean Phillips* Joan Ryan* Amanda Salazar*
(*Actors appearing through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association)
"Dollars & Sense" panel to include: Jana Robbins, producer (Fiddler on the Roof yiddish revival, Roof of the World, Olivier winning Company in London, Ragtime revival, Little Women); Lauren Stevens, producer (The Ferryman, Come from Away); Ken Waissman, producer (original Grease, Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God).
To reserve, CLICK HERE
or email TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com
Monday evening July 1st, 7pm
Monday evening July 1st, 7pm
THE NEW GALILEOS
by Amy Berryman
Presented by Mightee Shero Productions
Directed by Mia Walker
Ginna Le Vine* (Blue Bloods), Lisa Ramirez* (The Convent), Constance Shulman* (Orange Is The New Black), and Sharlene Cruz* (Red Bull Theater's Mac Beth)
(* Actors appearing through the courtesy of Actors Equity Association)
"Dollars and Sense" panel to include Georgia Buchanan, former consultant and managing director the York Theater, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, The Women's Project and Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, producer (Communicating Doors, Kat and the Kings); David Elliott, Perry Street Theatricals (Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, Dames at Sea revival, Hamlet/St. Joan, Georgie, an oak tree); Jennifer Manocherian, producer (Lifespan of a Fact, Meteor Showers, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Dead Accounts, The Mountaintop, War Horse); Frank Zuback, producer (Roof of the World, American Soldier, Taking Leave).
To reserve, CLICK HERE
or email TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com
Monday evening July 22nd, 7pm
CHANGE OF VENUE! Due to water damage at Soho Playhouse,
7/22 reading will be at St Luke's Theatre, 308 W. 46th Street
Monday evening July 22nd, 7pm
THREE MONTHS WITH POOK
by Jack Feldstein
Presented by Xander Flynn Chauncey
Directed by Ella Jane New
with Wade McCollum* and Karley Willocks*
(*Actors appearing through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association)
"Dollars and Sense" panel to include Rashad Chambers (Ain't too Proud, American Son); John Gould Rubin, artistic director of The Private Theater, former co-Artistic and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company; Cody Lassen (What the Constitution Means to Me, Torch Song revival, Tootsie, The Band's Visit, the Deaf West Theatre revival of Spring Awakening); Neal Rubinstein (On the Town, The Velocity of Autumn); Frank Zuback, producer (Roof of the World, American Soldier, Taking Leave).
To reserve, CLICK HERE
or email TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com
15 Vandam St., New York, NY 10013
THE 2018 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES
19th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: click link for the show below or email us at TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com
All performances will be at 7pm.
Monday evening June 11th, 7pm
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.
Dollars & Sense panel featuring Chris Aniello, general manager with Live Wire Theatricals (Disaster! the musical on Broadway, Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway, Rock of Ages, Honeymoon in Vegas, Amazing Grace); Josh Goodman, producer (Broadway: Pippin, Rocky, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Rocky, Come From Away); Matt Murphy of Matt Murphy Productions (Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man, The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters the Musical, Side Show revival, Altar Boyz, Impressionism, Memphis); Frank Zuback, producer (Roof of the World, Taking Leave, American Soldier).
Monday evening June 18th, 7pm
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Dollars & Sense panel featuring Georgia Buchanan, consultant and former managing director National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, formerly with The Women's Project and Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, producer (Communicating Doors, Kat and the Kings); Ivette Dumeng, artistic director of Nylon Fusion (Marty's Shadow, Half Moon Bay, The Big Funk, Kristina); Ken Waissman, producer (original Grease, Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God); Frank Zuback, producer (Roof of the World, Taking Leave, American Soldier).
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15 Vandam St., New York, NY 10013
THE 2017 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES
19th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: 212-714-7628, or email us at TRUStaff1@gmail.com
All performances will be at 7pm.
Monday June 12th, 2017
with J.D. Taylor, Keira Keeley, Amy Rutberg, Robert Gregory
A beautiful Greek island. A tacky hotel. A young married couple at each others throats. It’s kill or be killed in this fantasy of revenge, death and rebirth.
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Dollars & Sense panel featuring Jack DePalma, producer (PopNation, The Band Wagon) former Play Development Director at the Old Globe (The Whipping Man, Duncan Sheik’s Whisper House, Leslie Bricusse’s Sammy, The First Wives Club, Robin and the 7 Hoods), former Creative Director for NAMCO (Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, Seussical, Wonderful Town, Sweet Charity); Lawrence D. Poster/Asparagus Entertainment - producer (Rags, Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging, Fingers and Toes); Ron Simons, producer (Tony Awards for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Porgy & Bess and Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, plus A Streetcar Named Desire; off-Broadway's Turn Me Loos e and Bedlam Theatre's Hamlet/St. Joan); Frank Zuback, producer (Roof of the World, Taking Leave, American Soldier).
Monday June 19th, 2017
with Robert Cuccioli and Amy Bodnar
What happens when a Yippie agitator arrives in Buffalo to promote his new book? Will it just be another appearance at Barnes & Noble or will he rekindle a 30- year-old affair? Moonshadow is a comedy about recognition, resurrection and romance.
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"Dollars & Sense" panel to include Peter Bogyo, general manager (The Trip to Bountiful, Stick Fly, Time Stands Still, The Blonde in the Thunderbird, Voices in the Dark, A Moon for the Misbegotten w/Kevin Spacey, Sly Fox w/Richard Dreyfus, Fortune’s Fool, Madame Melville, The Unexpected Man); Patricia Klausner (Scottsboro Boys, Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful, Pippin revival); Daniel Kuney, Co-President of Jumpstart Entertainment (Rock of Ages, Fela!, Reasons to Be Pretty, 39 Steps on Broadway, The Homecoming, Talk Radio, Heathers, Altar Boyz, Dog Sees God, My Name is Rachel Corrie; Frank Zuback, producer (Taking Leave, American Soldier, Roof of the World).
Monday June 26th, 2017
Tino is a 17 year-old science prodigy from a hard-working, blue-collar family, who dreams, eats and sleeps astronomy. Unexpectedly, his biological father, Raju, an astrophysicist and academic, enters his life, as he and his wife Daya hope that Tino will be a match for a bone marrow transplant for their daughter. The stakes and potential risks of bone marrow donation and racial, cultural and class differences spark conflicts between the two families, and Tino is caught in the middle. His sister's life - and Tino's dream - hangs in the balance.
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"Dollars & Sense" panel to include Bradley Reynolds, producer (It's Only A Play with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, Something Rotten!, Hand To God, Mothers And Sons with Tyne Daly, recent revivals of West Side Story and Ragtime, [title of show]); Ken Cerniglia, dramaturg & literary manager for Disney Theatrical Group (High School Musical, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast Jr., Camp Rock, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher Josh Goodman, (Tony award winning producer for Pippin and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, also Rocky and Come From Away); Frank Zuback, producer (Taking Leave, American Soldier, Roof of the World).
THE 2016 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES
18th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: 212-714-7628, or email us at TRUStaff1@gmail.com
All performances will be at 7pm.
Monday June 13, 2016
(click on The Assignment banner below for more information and reservations)
Monday June 20, 2016
(click on the Veils of Justice banner below for more information and reservations)
Monday June 27, 2016
(click on the Mermen banner below for more information and reservations)
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THE 2015 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
17th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers,
followed by our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing
featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: 212-714-7628, or email us at TRUStaff1@gmail.com
All performances will be at 7pm.
 15 Vandam St., New York, NY |
MONDAY JUNE 15TH
directed by Brent Buell
with Onyi Okoli, Tyson Hall, Nina Yvette Coleman,
Erick Carter, Torre Reigns, Jada Castillo, Alisha Espinosa
"Dollars and Sense Panel": David Elliott, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals (Dames at Sea, My Life Is a Musical, Bedlam Theatre'sSt. Joan/Hamlet, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, In the Continuum, An Oak Tree); RK Greene, marketing director for The Directors Company, producer (A Time to Kill, Rocket to the Moon, Peter & the Starcatcher, Room Service, Love Child, Cougar the musical);Patricia Klausner, producer (Pippin, Scottsboro Boys, Stick Fly, Trip to Bountiful), managing director Shotgun Productions/Global Arts Initiative; Martin Platt, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals (Dames at Sea, My Life Is a Musical, Bedlam Theatre's St. Joan/Hamlet, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, In the Continuum, An Oak Tree); Daryl Sledge, Mothers Boy LLC (Fried Chicken and Latkes).
MONDAY JUNE 22ND
directed by Eric Tucker
"Dollars and Sense Panel": Georgia Buchanan, managing director of York Theatre Company, formerly with Folksbiene Theatre and NJ Shakespeare, producer (Kat and the Kings, Springhill Singing Disaster, Communicating Doors); David Elliott, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals (Dames at Sea, My Life Is a Musical, Bedlam Theatre's St. Joan/Hamlet, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, In the Continuum, An Oak Tree); RK Greene, marketing director for The Directors Company, producer (A Time to Kill, Rocket to the Moon,Peter & the Starcatcher, Room Service, Love Child, Cougar the musical); Jeremy Handelman, producer (On the Town, White's Lies, F#@king Up Everything); Martin Platt, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals (Dames at Sea, My Life Is a Musical, Bedlam Theatre'sSt. Joan/Hamlet, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, In the Continuum, An Oak Tree).
MONDAY JUNE 29TH
directed by Melissa Maxwell
with Patricia Randell, Melissa Hurst, Mark Finley,
Les J. N. Mau, Brad Bellamy, Lawrence Cantor
"Dollars and Sense Panel": Pat Addiss (Gigi, A Christmas Story, Dinner with the Boys, Buyer and Cellar, Promises Promises, Little Women); Michael Alden, producer (Disgraced, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Grey Gardens, The King's Speech on stage, Bat Boy); David Elliott, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals (Dames at Sea, My Life Is a Musical, Bedlam Theatre's St. Joan/Hamlet, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, In the Continuum, An Oak Tree); Jeremy Handelman, producer (On the Town, White's Lies, F#@king Up Everything).
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THE 2014 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
16th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: 212/714-7628, or email us at TRUStaff1@gmail.com
All performances will be at 7pm.
Engelman Recital Hall
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street)
MONDAY JUNE 9TH
"Dollars and Sense Panel": Patrick Blake, producer (Bedlam Theater’s Hamlet/St. Joan, The Exonerated, In the Continuum, Play Dead); Jeremy Handelman, producer (White's Lies, F#@king Up Everything); Angie Kristic, artistic director/producer of KBO Productions.
MONDAY JUNE 16TH
"Dollars and Sense Panel": Patrick Blake, producer (Bedlam Theater’s Hamlet/St. Joan, The Exonerated, In the Continuum, Play Dead); Neil Danoff, investor, producer (Bridges of Madison County, All The Way, Lucky Guy, Matilda, Glengarry Glen Ross revival, Evita revival, The Addams Family, Spring Awakening); David Elliott, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals (Bedlam Theatre's St. Joan/Hamlet, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, In the Continuum, An Oak Tree); Sharon Fallon, general manager, producer (Beautiful, Lysistrata Jones, I’m Not Rappaport); Elysabeth Kleinhans, artistic director of 59e59, Animated Theaterworks.
MONDAY JUNE 23RD
"Dollars and Sense Panel": Patrick Blake, producer (Bedlam Theater’s Hamlet/St. Joan, The Exonerated, In the Continuum, Play Dead); Neil Danoff, investor, producer (Bridges of Madison County, All The Way, Lucky Guy, Matilda, Glengarry Glen Ross revival, Evita revival, The Addams Family, Spring Awakening); R.K. Greene, producer (Peter and the Starcatcher, Room Service, Love Child); Cheryl Wiesenfeld, producer (All the Way, Rocky, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, Porgy & Bess, Play Dead, A Steady Rain, Legally Blonde, Caroline or Change, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Exonerated, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty).
THE 2013 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
15th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
MONDAY JUNE 10TH
Associate producer Kimberly Eaton
Directed by Christopher Carter Sanderson
"Dollars and Sense" talkback panel with Neil Danoff, investor/producer (Matilda, Lucky Guy, Spring Awakening, The Addams Family, Merchant of Venice, Evita, Wedding Singer); Carl D. White, Martian Entertainment, Tony Award-winning Producer & General Manager (The Normal Heart, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, I Hope They Serve Beer on Broadway, [title of show], Potted Potter, BARE the musical, Naked Boys Singing!, Altar Boys, Immediate Family). Moderated by Tom Polum, producer (The Toxic Avenger musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, All Shook Up).
Directed by Linda S Nelson
with Richard Bekins, Jenny Maguire, Julia Silverman,
Matthew Trumbull, Nicola Riske, Andrea Gallo and Nora Hummel
"Dollars and Sense" talkback panel with Patrick Blake, producer (The Exonerated, In the Continuum, Play Dead); Peter Bogyo, general manager (The Trip to Bountiful starring Cicely Tyson, Stick Fly, Time Stands Still, The Blonde in the Thunderbird, Voices in the Dark, A Moon for the Misbegotten w/Kevin Spacey, Sly Foxw/Richard Dreyfus, Fortune’s Fool, Madame Melville, The Unexpected Man); R.K. Greene, producer (Peter and the Starcatcher, Room Service, Love Child); Angie Kristic, Artistic Director/Producer of KBO Productions.; Lorca Peress, artistic director MultiStages; Cheryl Wiesenfeld, producer (Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, Porgy & Bess, Play Dead, A Steady Rain, Legally Blonde, Caroline or Change, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Exonerated, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty).
MONDAY JUNE 24TH
Directed by Eric Parness
with Callie Frisell, Charlotte Hampden, Chris Ceraso,
Brad Makarowski, Keelie Sheridan, Mark Peter
"Dollars and Sense" talkback panel with R. Erin Craig, producer/general manager / producer La Vie Productions (Heartbreaker, In the Heights, Fingers and Toes, Stalking the Bogeyman, Academy, Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting, (Still) Getting My Act Together, High Fidelity, Liberty: A New Musical, The Jazz Age, Love! That 4-Letter Word);Ben Feldman, entertainment attorney (partner at BFGRS, PLLC), producer (Pippin); Patricia Klausner, managing director Shotgun Productions (The Chaos Theories, The Lost Boy), producer (Pippin, The Trip to Bountiful, The Scottsboro Boys, Stick Fly); Marie Reynolds, Kramis Productions, co-vice president Shakespeare on the Sound.
Reservations required: 212/714-7628, or email back to us at TRUStaff1@gmail.com
All performances will be at 7pm. Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street
THE 2012 TRU VOICES NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
14th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
The Roy Arias Theatre, 300 W. 43rd Street, 5th floor.
MONDAY JUNE 4TH
directed by David Lee
with Darren Ritchie • Melissa Van der Schyff • Claybourne Elder
Joanna Howard • Rebecca Fisher
"Dollars and Sense" talkback featuring Pat Addiss, producer (Promises, Promises, Little Women, A Christmas Story the musical); Georgia Buchanan, producer/general manager (Communicating Doors, Kat and the Kings) and general manager of Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre; Neil Danoff, investor/producer (Spring Awakening, The Addams Family, Merchant of Venice, Evita, Wedding Singer); Van Dean of the Broadway Consortium (The Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Evita, Bonnie & Clyde, Ching-lish); Kent Nicholson, Director of Musical Theatre, Literary Associate Playwrights Horizons.
MONDAY JUNE 11TH
directed by Frank Licato
with Sean Patrick Reilly • Mark Byrne • Doug Shearer
"Dollars and Sense" talkback featuring Neil Danoff, investor/producer (Spring Awakening, The Addams Family, Merchant of Venice, Evita, Wedding Singer); Patricia Klausner, producing artistic director Shotgun Productions (The Chaos Theories, The Lost Boy), producer (The Scottsboro Boys, Stick Fly); Tom Polum, producer (The Toxic Avenger, All Shook Up, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Ric Wanetik, producer (Marlene, Jolson & Company, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, television: The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show).
MONDAY JUNE 18TH
directed by Sue Lawless
with Edna Lee Figueroa • Nichole Donjè • Chiara Montalto • Alexander Stine
"Dollars and Sense" talkback featuring Georgia Buchanan, producer/general manager (Communicating Doors, Kat and the Kings) and general manager of Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre; Erin Craig, Erin Craig / La Vie Productions LLC, producer / general manager (Liberty A Monumental New Musical, Academy, Psycho Therapy, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, The Sphinx Winx, The Jazz Age); Dani Davis, half pint productions (Little Women, Lonesome West); Pam Koslow, producer (Jelly's Last Jam, Jane Eyre, Yank!); others tba.
THE 2011 TRU VOICES
NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
13th annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers.
Reservations required: 212/714-7628, or email back to us at ChrisM@truonline.org.
All performances will be at 7pm.
The Roy Arias Theatre, 300 W. 43rd Street, 5th floor.
MONDAY JUNE 13TH
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JAMES NAUGHTON, TOVAH FELDSHUH, PETER JOHNSON |
 "Dollars and Sense" panel (Left to right): TRU president Bob Ost; Patrick Blake, producer (Play Dead!, The Exonerated, In the Continuum, Noah's Archive, Joe Fearless); Pam Koslow, producer (Jelly's Last Jam, Jane Eyre, Yank!); director Linda Selman; Michael Alden, producer (Grey Gardens the musical, Bridge & Tunnel, Bat Boy; upcoming The King's Speech); Michael Bias, artistic/producing director The Garage Theatre Group; Ricky Stevens, general manager and producer (Radio Golf, Glory Days, A Catered Affair, Empire the musical). Missing from shot: R. Erin Craig, general manager/producer with La Vie Productions (Liberty the musical, The Sphinx Wins, Above Hell's Kitchen, Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party). |
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MONDAY JUNE 20TH
with Peter Reznikoff (Irena's Vow), Stu Richel,
Grant James Varjas, Janet Zarish
"Dollars and Sense" panel featuring Pat Addiss, (Promises, Promises, Passing Strange, Spring Awakening, Little Women, 39 Steps, Housewives of Mannheim); Peter Bogyo, general manager with the Sprecher Organization (A Moon for the Misbegotten w/Kevin Spacey, Sly Fox w/Richard Dreyfus, Fortune’s Fool, Madame Melville, The Unexpected Man, The Joys of Sex); Elliot Fox, managing director Primary Stages; Patricia Klausner, producer (The Scottsboro Boys, Chaos Theories), artistic director of Shotgun Productions; Pam Koslow, producer (Jelly's Last Jam, Jane Eyre, Yank!).
MONDAY JUNE 27TH
starring Karen Quinn-Panzer, Larry Schneider, Jim Petrillo,
Frank Panzer, Jim Ormond and Richard Zane Ross
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"Dollars and Sense" panel featuring Georgia Buchanan, producer/general manager (Communicating Doors, Kat and the Kings) and general manager of Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre; RK Greene, producer, The Storyline Project (Room Service, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Love Child, The Other Side of Newark); Ken Waissman, producer (Grease, Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God); Cheryl Wiesenfeld, producer (Play Dead, A Steady Rain, Legally Blonde, Caroline or Change, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Exonerated, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty).
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MONDAY JUNE 7TH with Jana Robbins, Kate Skinner, Michel Gill, David Van Pelt "Dollars & Sense" panel featuring Tom Smedes (Next Fall, Naked Boys Singing, Ace the Musical, Musical of Musicals); Jack Thomas, Bulldog Productions (Desire Under the Elms, Life Science, Almost, Maine); Lauren Yates, associate general manager Martian Entertainment, company manager (Glory Days, Riverdance, Play On! The Scarlet Pimpernel, Forever Tango). ***** with Angelica Torn, Rita Gardner, Tim Ruddy, Helen Stern, JJ Reap,
***** "Dollars & Sense" panel featuring Gabe Barabas, executive producer NJ Repertory; Peter Bogyo, general manager with the Sprecher Organization (A Moon for the Misbegotten w/Kevin Spacey, Sly Fox w/Richard Dreyfus, Fortune’s Fool, Madame Melville, The Unexpected Man, The Joys of Sex); Pam Koslow (Jelly's Last Jam, Jane Eyre, Yank!); Vasi Laurence, producer (Passing Strange, Housewives of Mannheim, Masked, How the Grinch Stole Christmas); Matt Schicker of East of Doheny (Grey Gardens, The Full Monty, night, mother). |
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This series made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
  Thanks also to the generous support of the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, 9th district Council Member Inez Dickens. Plus the Friars National Association Foundation and The Montage Foundation.
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Dollars & Sense panel featuring Seth Goldstein, producer and general manager with the Splinter Group (Masked, Christine Jorgenson Revealed); Hugh Hysell of HHC Marketing (Impressionism, Jersey Boys, 39 Steps, Irena’s Vow, Rooms); Scott Newsome, Brierpatch Productions, general manager (Frog Kiss, Wallenberg, Rest in Pieces, Glimpses of the Moon, My Mother's Italian My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy, Shout the Mod Musical, I Love You Because, Once Around the Sun, Harmony, Menopause the Musical); Carol Ostrow, producer (Beau Jest, After Play, Berlin to Broadway); Lawrence S. Topall, Mazel Musicals Inc. (New York and Florida Production Company specializing in touring, producing and presenting Jewish themed theatrical and concert presentations, including On Second Avenue, The Golden Land, Yiddle With A Fiddle, Those Were The Days), producer (The Gathering, Say Goodnight Gracie)
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Monday June 15th:
Dollars & Sense panel featuring Jane Bergere, producer (13, Curtains, Caroline or Change, All My Sons, Is He Dead?); Katrina Chandra, agency coordinator Playmarket, New Zealand; Tiffani Gavin, Theatrical Rights Worldwide licensing company; Greg Schaffert, general manager 321 Management (Hank Williams: Lost Highway; The Prince and the Pauper), producer (All Shook Up, Striking 12, ACE, Three Musketeers, Bat Boy); Donna Trinkoff, producing director Amas Musical Theatre; Lauren Yates, associate general manager Martian Entertainment, company manager (Glory Days, Riverdance, Play On! The Scarlet Pimpernel, Forever Tango) |
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Monday June 22nd:
Dollars & Sense panel featuring Elysabeth Kleinhans, 59E59 Theaters and Animated Theaterworks; Janet Pailet, P2 Creations (Groundswell, Passing Strange, Grinch, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Masked); Jack Thomas, Bulldog Productions (Desire Under the Elms, Life Science, Almost, Maine); Cheryl Wiesenfeld(Legally Blonde, Caroline or Change, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Exonerated, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty); Orin Wolf, Off-Broadway Booking, producer (Groundswell, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, I Love a Piano tour). Curious about the show? Go towww.AlwaysAlwaysNot.com! |
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THE 2008 TRU VOICES
NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
Tenth annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers. Reservations required: 212/714-7628. All performances will be at 7pm. The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, NYC.
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American Whup-Ass with Victor Barbella, Bernardo Cubria, Bill Fairbairn, Ben Masur, Chelsea O'Connor, Frank Tangredi & Jeff Wills |
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Film Chinois with Eric Martin Brown, Catherine Haena Kim, Jake Manabat, Elizabeth Pan, Peter Reznikoff |
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A Crooked Man with Ed Setrakian, Todd D'Amour, Lorraine Serabian, Sal Mistretta, Alfredo Narciso and Peter Johnson |
OUR "DOLLARS AND SENSE" PANELISTS:
June 2, American Whupass: Pat Addiss (Spring Awakening, 39 Steps, Passing Strange, Bridge & Tunnel, Little Women); Georgia Buchanan, managing director National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, formerly with The Women's Project and Shakespeare Theatre of NJ.;Amy Danis of Mars Theatricals (Little Shop of Horrors revival, Swing!, Bug, Cookin', Tabletop); Ken Davenport, producer (Altar Boys, Awesome 80's Prom, Somewhere in Time), general manager (Gypsy, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jekyll & Hyde); Dani Davis, half pint production (Little Women, Lonesome West); Janet Pailet of P2 Creations (The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Masked).
June 9, Film Chinois: David Black, producer (George M!, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum with Phil Silvers, The Aspern Papers, Ready When You Are C.B! with Julie Harris, The Impossible Years); Elysabeth Kleinhans, Animated Theaterworks, 59E59 Theatres; Pam Koslow (Jane Eyre, Jelly's Last Jam, Captain Louie); Tom Smedes, producer (Ace The Musical), formerly of Martian Enetrtainment (Naked Boys Singing, Love Janis); Jack Thomas, producer Bulldog Theatrical (Boublil & Schonberg & Legrand's new musical Marguerite, Almost, Maine, No Way to Treat a Lady, Our Lady of 121st Street), formerly with the Shubert Organization.
June 16, A Crooked Man: Gabor Barabas, executive producer New Jersey Repertory; David Black, producer (George M!, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum with Phil Silvers, The Aspern Papers, Ready When You Are C.B! with Julie Harris, The Impossible Years); Charles Johanson, executive director Grove Theater Center, LA; Lorca Peress, artistic director MultiStages (The Judas Tree, Day of Reckoning); Ricky L. Stevens, producer/general manager (Glory Days, A Catered Affair, Radio Golf); Eric Ting, associate artistic director Long Wharf Theatre; Cheryl Wiesenfeld (Legally Blonde, Caroline or Change, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Exonerated, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty).
All performances at The Players Theater (mainstage),
115 MacDougal Street (south of west 3rd Street)
THE 2007 TRU VOICES
NEW PLAYS READING SERIES!
Ninth annual series of new plays by TRU writers produced by TRU producers, followed by reception and our "Dollars and Sense" panels on producing featuring prominent commercial producers, artistic directors and general managers. All performances will be at 7pm.
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Monday 6/4: Directed by Elyzabeth Gorman, "Dollars and Sense" panel to include: Ken Davenport, producer (Altar Boys, Awesome 80's Prom, Somewhere in Time), general manager (Gypsy, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jekyll & Hyde); Valentina Fratti, director, former artistic director of the Miranda Theater Company, commercial producer (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Buried Child); Jan Hacha, Amas Musical Theatre; Ludovica Villar-Hauser, director/producer (The Countess, Duet, Pitchfork Disney). |
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Monday 6/11:
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Directed by Casey Childs, An Irish comedy about religious fanaticism and the unwanted fame that comes to a young lady after a kissing incident. |
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Monday 6/18:
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Directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser, |
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All photos by Ellis Gaskell. |
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Monday 6/25: Directed by Sonia Gluckman, |
"Dollars and Sense" panel: Peter Bogyo, general manager with the Sprecher Organization (A Moon for the Misbegotten w/Kevin Spacey, Sly Fox w/Richard Dreyfus, Fortune’s Fool, Madame Melville, The Unexpected Man, The Joys of Sex); James Morgan, artistic director York Theatre Company; Janet Pailet, P2 Creations, producer (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Great American Trailer Park Musical); Michael Parva, artistic director The Directors Company; Jack Thomas, producer Bulldog Theatrical (Almost, Maine, No Way to Treat a Lady, Our Lady of 121st Street), formerly with the Shubert Organization; Orin Wolf, Off-Broadway Booking.
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 Ibsen is spinning in his grave! Caught in a romantic farce - where two young lovers seek escape from the gloom of Norwegian literary history - Ibsen squares off against his arch rival Bjornson… and only the lovers win! |
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The Players Theater (mainstage; except To Barcelona! is in the Loft), 115 MacDougal Street (south of 3rd Street)
Prior to 2020, this series was made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
CLICK HERE for TRU Voices Plays and Musicals prior to 2004
COMPLETE LIST OF TRU PLAYS
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Plays 2017 Catharsis Moonshadow Radio Galaxy Plays 2016 The Assignment Veils of Justice Mermen Plays 2015 Echoes of Octavia The Hummingbirds Searchers.net Plays 2014 Good to Go The Empty Nesters Vacancies Plays 2013 The Forgetting Curve Mom's Gift A Question of Words Plays 2012 Foreclosure Appendage The Sin Eater Plays 2011 Testosterone Quietus
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A Private Audience Plays 2010 Angels and Ministers of Grace Leni Cheese Plays 2009 Can I Really Date a Guy Who The Unbleached American Always, Always Not Plays 2008 American Whup-ass Film Chinois A Crooked Man Plays 2007 To Barcelona The Jesus Hickey Sparks The Ibsen Follies Plays 2006 The Loyalist Missives ain’t really my birthday but i Plays 2005 Apocalypso All My Sins Remembered Where the Rain Never Falls Pied a Terre |
Companion Pieces Plays 2004 Endurance Pool Party Crazy Money Plays 2003 Beige Breakfast in the Evil Empire Connie Wilde Motion and Location Taxi to Jannah Plays 2002 Breeders Damage Control Ismay Sinks Life After Dad Shooting Blanks Plays 2001 A Memory Play Cecile & Diana Dreams A Ritual of Faith Plays 2000 Betterland Cleaning Day The Meeting Virgin |
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