Congratulations To Playwright Michael Selditch, Whose Play EXPRESS TRAIN Kicks Off The Strawberry One-Act Festival

MICHAEL SELDITCH (Playwright, EXPRESS TRAIN & Director) is currently the executive producer/director of the drama, I Love You, But I Lied, on Lifetime Movie Network. A two-time Emmy nominated producer, he’s directed/produced many non-scripted television series including Catfish, Nine By Design, Architecture School (International Documentary Award, Best Limited Series) and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Feature films as director/producer include: Fixing Frank (Independent Spirit Award nomination) and Eleven Minutes. Selditch is in development on his third feature film, In Burton’s Shadow, starring Alan Cumming.     

EXPRESS TRAIN By Michael Selditch
Two very different men reluctantly bond on a subway train stuck between stops late one night. As one man unwillingly reveals an incriminating secret that's haunted him for years, the other finds his own value, in this dark comedy set 40 feet below Times Square. 

 

 

Thursday, July 14th at 7pm
Monday, July 18th at 7pm
Saturday, July 23rd at 1pm

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Thursday, July 14th at 7pm
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SIXTY SHADES OF GREY By Amanda Ortega
A romantic comedy with a twist.  Your match might be closer than you think, you just have to pay a little more attention.

THE UNKNOWNS By Kacie Devaney
Scarlett and Jeb have been married for twenty years and have faded into a passionless relationship.  An unexpected visit from the new next door neighbors is about to change everything.  Or at least, try.

SEE YOU HAVE ME By Simone Allen & Ed Rosini
Directed By Shannon Ludeman
Simone Allen: Writer/Composer/Music Director

Adam Kaminski: Bass, Jeff Saltzman: Cajon

Nick's family just doesn't get him, and neither does his older sister, Sam, who has just come home from her second year at college. Watch this family struggle with finding themselves, loving each other, and letting go in this original short musical.

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Monday, July 18th at 7pm
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REALITY SUCKS By Sonia Cordoves
A plastic surgeon and a stripper finally decide to meet at a restaurant after communicating on Match.com.  The realities of online dating makes this a hilarious spoof about the things people make up on this popular Dating website.

FLIGHT 987 By Tina Posterli

Passengers struggle with their captivity while trapped on board a grounded plane.

THE COMMUTERS or A CAUTIONARY TALE OF THE PORT AUTHORITY, A Musical
By Gil Varod, Caleb Damschroder & Kit Goldstein Grant
Christopher Michaels (Producer)
When a recently-sacked MTA executive wanders the port Authority Bus Terminal after midnight, the plaster “Commuters” sculpture comes alive to warn him how he is to pay for his subway-related sins.  A one-act horror musical that played to uproarious laughter during its initial reading at Lincoln Center’s “Across A Crowded Room” festival.

Avoid the Port Authority after midnight.

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Saturday, July 23rd at 1pm
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THE OLD STATES By Lain Kienzle
Directed by Lain Kienzle
As the snow storm of the decade hits her small farm house, Mildred finds a stranger collapsed at her door step.  But once she opens that door, she may not want to close it.

THE EARLY BIRD SPECIAL By John J. Ronan
A martini to die for, the old folks are really stepping out.

Congratulations To Playwright Peter Carrozzo, Whose Play THE G69 TRIPLE X-TREME OSCILLATOR, Kicks Off The Strawberry One-Act Festival

Peter Carrozzo, (Playwright, THE G69 TRIPLE X-TREME OSCILLATOR), is an attorney and adjunct professor.  He has published several law review articles and written numerous plays of various lengths. He is the creator of Constitutionland, a virtual amusement park for people who love the U.S. Constitution (www.constitutionland.com). Peter’s ten minute play, KEY TO MY HEART, was performed at the 2014 Collective Ten Minute Play Fest at Teatro Circulo in NYC and is published in The Collective: 10 Play Anthology, Vol. 2. 2014. This is his second staged play. “Thanks to Van Dirk Fisher for this opportunity and to my wife Erin, and kids Katherine, Abigail and Patrick for all the love and laughs.”

THE G69 TRIPLE X-TREME OSCILLATOR By Peter M. Carrozzo

A couple’s discussion about the arrival of a newly purchased sexual device is complicated by the wife’s accidentally misplacing the instructions.  Their search for the whereabouts leads them into several unanticipated discoveries.

Thursday, July 14th at 9pm
Sunday, July 17th at 5pm
Tuesday, July 19th at 9pm

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Thursday, July 14th at 9pm
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PSYCHIC CAFÉ By Anthony Fusco
Lorenzo Duefacci, a flamboyant, renowned psychic in NYC, needs to hire an assistant to help draw in new business.  He hires Athony Fontana as the new weekend tarot card reader.  Anthony has no idea what he’s in for until he meets the most unique clients he has ever read with the most bizarre over-the-top confessions.  Get the inside look at the most intimate of conversations people have with their psychic.

CROCKETT’S LAST STAND By George Cameron Grant
Directed by Joy Kelly
Aqueduct Productions, Inc.
Following his political career-ending speech before the House of Representatives, Colonel David Crockett encounters an escaped slave boy named Joseph, who teaches him that there is more to courage than flowery words, fancy shooting, and overblown legends.

A FRIEND By Anika Benkov
Directed by Michaelle Cheripka
Featuring: Gabrielle Lemonier & Miriam Litchenberg
A young woman hires a friend off of craigslist.  The play follows their relationship and explores themes of growing up, trust, boundaries, and intimacy between women in an internet age.

Sunday, July 17th at 5pm
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BLACKBERRY WINTER By Kai Elijah Hamilton
An African American mother finds herself in the abandoned house from her dreams.  This is the house she suspects her child has been held captive after his abduction.  Has she finally solved the mystery that has haunted her for years or is she caught in a sinister web of trickery?  Something just ain’t right.

HIM AND HER Book, Music & Lyrics By Matt Anderson
HIM AND HER is a story about a woman in an abusive relationship that ends tragically.  It is very provocative and moving musical. 

HIM AND HER, a dark story that will leave you stunned and hopefully, asking questions that will start a dialog about a difficult topic.

THE SUICIDE JOURNALS By Veronique LaShell MacRae (For Mature Audiences)
The Suicide Journals is an in depth intense and raw look at the world of teenage and young adult suicide.  Each character, The Jumper, the Shooter, The Hanger, The Pill Popper and The Cutter, represent some of the common methods of suicide attempts, while exploring issues such as sexuality, religion, systematic injustices, racism, Islamophobia, bullying and abuse.

Death is inevitable for a lost soul . . .

Tuesday, July 19th at 9pm
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THE SHINING WORDS By Thomas M. Walsh
Directed by Thomas M. Walsh
Featuring:  Chablis Quarterman
An introduction and appreciation of poetry.

THE WAITRESS By Ainslie Caswell
Get exactly what you ordered and so much more.  This one-act short play explores identity, freedom, imaginary boundaries, and the power for people to make their own choices.

THE SUICIDE JOURNALS By Veronique LaShell MacRae (For Mature Audiences)
The Suicide Journals is an in depth intense and raw look at the world of teenage and young adult suicide.  Each character, The Jumper, the Shooter, The Hanger, The Pill Popper and The Cutter, represent some of the common methods of suicide attempts, while exploring issues such as sexuality, religion, systematic injustices, racism, Islamophobia, bullying and abuse.

Death is inevitable for a lost soul . . .