| Manon/Sandra
The Theory of Everything
Writer: Michel Tremblay
Director: Pia Furtado
Two unlikely souls frozen in an unacknowledged tryst: a Catholic woman devoted to God and a transvestite dedicated to sex. Manon/Sandra is a multinational collaboration, fusing disciplines to tell a tale of opposing forces bound together by time, place and absolutes.
International London, England, Adelaide, Australia Drama Multi-Media
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell
www.thetheoryofeverything.co.uk
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| A PERSONAL WAR- STORIES OF THE MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKS
BALANCING ACT PRODUCTIONS
Writer: DIVYA PALAT
Director: DIVYA PALAT
On 26/11/08, a group of highly trained terrorists declared war on the city of Mumbai. Seven ordinary people find themselves trapped in the midst of bomb blasts and gunfire.A Personal War tells the extraordinary story of these survivors.
International Mumbai, India Drama Multi-Media
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Through Heaven & Hell
www.divyapalat.net/personal_war/fringenyc.html
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| THE MAD 7 - A Mystical Comedy with Ecstatic Dance
The Mad 7 Team
Writer: Yehuda Hyman
Director: Mara Isaacs
Choreographer: Yehuda Hyman
A modern-day riff on a 19th century Hasidic tale. Elliott Green, San Francisco office drone turned reluctant hero takes a coffee break and meets 7 mystics. Comical, off-beat, spiritually moving. Inspired by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's "The Seven Beggars."
Local Brooklyn, NYC Solo Show Comedy
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Literary Lane
www.themad7.com
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| Omarys Concepcion Lopez Perez Goes to Israel (to speak to God at the Wailing Wall)
Writer: Leila Arias
A Persian/Puerto Rican Catholic Bronx girl travels to Israel (to speak to God). Upon arrival, she encounters International characters who help and hinder as she makes her way to have the conversation of her life with the Divine!
National Los Angeles, CA Solo Show Comedy
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Overseas Adventure
www.leilaarias.com
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| Art of Attack
The Cadre
Writer: Asa Merritt
Director: Joshua Brody
A hopeful reunion of the long-estranged sons of a chess master turns into a nightmare, as their obsession with the game leads them down a path where reconciliation is impossible, and madness inevitable.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Drama
Staycation:"Dude" Ranch Through Heaven & Hell
www.artofattackplay.com
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| T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!
T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!KIMLEIGH PRODUCTIONS
Writer: Kimleigh Smith
Director: Paula Killen
Choreographer: Kimleigh Smith
Witness a young cheerleader transform into a powerful and sexy woman who has relaims her sexuality and lives as a whole, healthy woman who cheers for life! Embrace Your Cape and take flight with the Los Angeles based Kimleigh Smith!
National Los Angeles, CA Solo Show Comedy
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Action Adventure Flick
www.totallykimleigh.com
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| Two Sizes Too Small
YMMSBILYA Productions
Writer: Jessica Kane
Paul Langley, a powerful stockbroker, is confronted one morning by the unfathomable reality that all his shoes have shrunk two sizes too small. Thus begins this action-packed farce about a seemingly normal guy who becomes impossibly stuck in his life.
Local Brant Lake, NY Comedy Performance Art
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.twosizestoosmall.com
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| Hearts Full of Blood
The New Colony
Writer: James Asmus
Director: Andrew Hobgood
A horrifying secret forever affects the lives of a couple and their two single friends. Chicago's The New Colony brings their critically-acclaimed hit to Fringe. "Quite the riveting show." (Chicago Tribune) "Gut-wrenchingly tragic and very, very funny." (TimeOut Chicago)
National Chicago, IL Comedy Drama
Staycation:Ride the Rollercoaster of Love Through Heaven & Hell
www.thenewcolony.org
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| Venus and Mona
Three Crows Theatre
Writer: Leslie Bramm
Director: Melissa Attebery
Choreographer: Fight Choreographer Carrie Brewer
Junky/drunk's dying, there's a demon in the heap,and the Tredwater twins are trapped on the roof of their mother's doublewide. They slug it out in this black comedy, about the battles fought to grow up and learn love.
Local New York, NY Drama Comedy
Staycation:Rock and Roll Rebellion Through Heaven & Hell
www.venusandmona.com
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| Terms of Dismemberment: A Musical with Heart...and Other Body Parts
Dr. Dorothy Productions
Writer: Book & Lyrics by Dorothy Marcic, Music by Frank Sanchez, other lyrics and music by Mehr Mansuri
Director: Director: Hinton Battle, Assistant Director: Kenneth Ferrone
Choreographer: Hinton Battle
The former Pocatello Paper-Pulp-Pageant Princess’s dead husband left three mortgages, Mafia debts. Her choice: sell off daughter’s "assets,” body part by body part, or risk their lives. A dark comedy about the cost of love. An equal opportunity offender.
Local NYC, Manhattan Musical Comedy
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.termsofdismemberment.com
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| POPE! An Epic Musical
Louder, Faster, Better!
Writer: Justin Moran, Music by Christopher Pappas, Lyrics by Justin Moran
Director: Greg Moran, Musical Direction by Adam Podd
A popular Pope is framed and exiled from the Vatican, a tyrannical Archbishop seizes power. People are in unrest, armies of robots stalk the streets, the world is crying out for a hero… only one Pope can answer the call!
Local Chelsea, New York Comedy Musical
Staycation:Action Adventure Flick Through Heaven & Hell
www.popethemusical.com
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| Banshee of Bainbridge
Jim Tierney
Writer: Jim Tierney
Director: Diánna Martin
1985. After his mother dies, 33 year old Mij Sullivan, an Irish-American Bronx native, believes it's his duty to turn his once all Irish neighborhood back to the way it used to be by fighting off the Puerto Ricans.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Drama Solo Show
Staycation:Battleground Tour Through Heaven & Hell
www.bansheeofbainbridge.com
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| (UN)Natural Disaster
The Lost Theatre
Writer: Created by the Ensemble, Conceived by Richard Hess
Director: Richard Hess
How do we respond to disaster? (UN)Natural Disaster is a plea for survivors to be heard- our damaged planet, our damaged politics, our damaged selves cry out for order in the chaos. Who is listening?
Local Manhattan, NYC Performance Art Drama
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Through Heaven & Hell
www.un-naturaldisaster.com
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| Did You Do Your Homework?
Writer: Aaron Braxton, Performed by Aaron Braxton
The show spotlights the realities; comical, tragic,and inspiring of the Los Angeles public school system and one teacher's journey through the bureaucracy of an urban classroom. It recently won the Teatrul Bacovia International SoloWorks Festival in Bacau, Romania.
National Los Angeles, CA Solo Show FringeHIGH
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Through Heaven & Hell
www.aaronbraxton.com
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| THE GREAT GALVANI
The Magpies
Writer: Shawn Reddy
Director: Shawn Reddy
"Top Shows of the Year" (Chicago Tribune), Orgie Playwriting Award Winner. A tinkerer of dead frogs dissects everything from the famed Fiji Mermaid to catastrophic loss and the need for bewildering beauty. Inspired by P.T. Barnum and Michel Foucault.
National Chicago, IL Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque Comedy
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.themagpiesproject.com
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| MISS KIM
Writer: Gina Kim and Ryan Tofil
Director: Matthew Corozine
"Memoirs of a Geisha" meets "Saturday Night Live!" Enter at your own risk and be prepared to laugh through your tears. MISS KIM takes audiences into the deeply private and brutally honest world of sex, lust, love and personal identity.
Local Manhattan, NYC Drama Comedy
Staycation:Ride the Rollercoaster of Love Through Heaven & Hell
www.misskimtheplay.com
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| LIVING ON THE EDGE
BULLETTRUN
Writer: Nadia Lesy
Director: Nadia Lesy
Choreographer: Nadia Lesy
BULLETTRUN presents “LIVING ON THE EDGE” -- A collaborative multimedia Parkour performance chronicling extraordinary individuals struggling to take control of their lives by escaping the chaotic world that threatens their survival. Music by Meat Beat Manifesto. More information about BULLETTRUN: http://bullettrun.com.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Dance Multi-Media
Staycation:Battleground Tour Through Heaven & Hell
www.bullettrun.com
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| The Mission
Curan Repertory Company
Writer: Jules Tasca
Director: Ken Terrell
The lies we tell ourselves...the lies we tell others. A conjugal visit room is where a dangerous game of lust and revenge happens between a priest and a convict. "...a meticulousy written exploration of honesty, faith, and sexuality..." - Flmedianews
Local Manhattan, NYC Drama
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Ride the Rollercoaster of Love
www.curan.org
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| Standing Up: Bathroom Talk & Other Stuff We Learn From Dad
Only40Entertainment
Writer: Tracey Conyer Lee
Director: Kevin R. Free
A thirtysomething waitress challenges her lost-soul father to say goodbye to his dying mother. Hilarity ensues. Open-wound truthtelling kills careers and saves lives in this love letter to crazy and testament to getting sane. And there's poop!
Local Manhattan, NYC Solo Show Comedy
Staycation:Trains, planes...and public bathrooms Through Heaven & Hell
www.tleestandingup.blogspot.com
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| Energy Man
hope theatre, inc.
Writer: Ramon Sanchez
Director: Heather McAllister
Super Hero, or just Super Deluded?
Making his way through a maze of memories,
Crushing criminals and recriminations alike,
will Daniel wise up and make it to the other side?
A dramedy about wanting to rise up,
Super Hero style.
Local Manhattan, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.myspace.com/hopetheatre
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| As I Am Fully Known
The 8'oClocks
Writer: Emily Rieder
Which rules do you live by? Gina is a 25 year old Catholic lesbian trying to figure out where she fits. As her family struggles, Gina wonders; can one person's decisions bring down the wrath of God on an entire family?
Local New York, NY Comedy
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell
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| DRIVING THE SAUDIS
Writer: Jayne Amelia Larson
Director: Charlie Stratton
Where does your GAS money really go? Larson’s grueling adventures as a chauffeur for Saudi Royals on a mega shopping/plastic surgery vacation in Beverly Hills explores cultural divides and common hypocrisies plus everything you wanted to know about ass implants.
National Los Angeles, CA Solo Show FringeHIGH
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell In Someone Else's Shoes
www.drivingthesaudis.info
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| My Three Moms
Performed by Virginia Bryan
Writer: Virginia Bryan
Director: Leslie Collins
One birthed her, one nursed her, one raised her. A daughter is called back to the red clay of Georgia to bury three moms and shape her own identity. Good Lord Almighty, who are all these crazy people at the funerals?!
Local Manhattan, NYC Solo Show Comedy
Staycation:Down South & Out West Through Heaven & Hell
www.mythreemomstheshow.com
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| Our Condolences
Writer: Lauren Olson
Director: Rachel Hamilton
My mom died. Yours will too. Relax! We all say the wrong thing. The awkward, uncomfortable and unintentionally hilarious situations we're all faced with when someone we love dies. Come laugh. Because it feels so much better than crying.
Local Manhattan, NYC Solo Show Comedy
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Through Heaven & Hell
www.ourcondolencestheshow.com
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| The Conveniences of Modern Living
Writer: Conceived, Developed and Created by Daniel John Kelley and Emily Plumb
Director: Emily Plumb
In the wake of losing a child, a married couple questions their future: Does it lie with a talking dryer? A wise 12-year old boy? Or with leaving behind the memories that still haunt their home?
Local Brooklyn, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.conveniencesofmodernliving.weebly.com
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| Group
Crosstown Playwrights
Writer: Daniel McCoy
Director: Heidi Handlesman
Six lost souls in purgatory must choose which is more important: the baggage left behind in life, or the uncertainty of what waits on the other side. The coffee’s hot, the clock’s unplugged, and the claws are out. Welcome to Group.
Local Manhattan, NYC Comedy
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell
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www.facebook.com/pages/Group-a-new-play-by-Daniel-McCoy/120549611316
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| The Hyperbolist
bang-bang-fou!
Writer: Joe Mazza
Director: Dan Kerr-Hobert, Joe Mazza, Susan Ask
A grandiloquent farce of tiny proportion-- or-- desperate human probes love with puppets. New York premier of Joe Mazza's phantasmagorically raucous world. _______"Mazza works his puppets with sublime subtlety." --Chicago Reader _______"An archly conceived puppet show." --Chicago Tribune
National Chicago, IL Puppetry Multi-Media
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream Through Heaven & Hell
www.joemazza.org
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| RASH
Jennikins Productions
Writer: Jenni Wolfson
Director: Jen Nails
What if your dream job could kill you? A Scottish woman's journey as a UN human rights worker, living and loving under fire in post-genocide Rwanda, where she experiences human nature at its worst and love at its best.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Solo Show FringeHIGH
Staycation:Overseas Adventure Through Heaven & Hell
www.rashsolo.blogspot.com
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| Heterosexuals
Up Top Productions in Association with the Rude Pundit
Writer: Lee Papa
Director: Mark Creter
A man and a woman enter an apartment and make sexual small talk. Then the woman invites the man to touch her. And we're off into a scathing, obscene comedy about how much we just want to fuck.
Local Manhattan, New York Comedy Drama
Staycation:Ride the Rollercoaster of Love Through Heaven & Hell
heterosexualstheplay.blogspot.com/
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| Alligator Summer
Limelight Productions
Writer: Dylan Lamb
Director: Robert Ribar
Do-it yourself lobotomies. Copulating half-siblings. Suicide by plow. Blood. Dialects. And alligators!
When ravenous alligators nearly consume their Southern town, two families take refuge in an attic only to discover that the real blood-thirsty beasts are each other...figuratively speaking.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Comedy Drama
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell
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www.alligatorsummer.blogspot.com
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| Interfaith Understanding with The Rev. Bill & Betty
Really Christian Broadcasting Network
Writer: Martin D. Hill, with Jen Ryan, Rik Sansone, Mike MacEachern
Pretzel logic, intolerance, and misunderstanding make the Rev. Bill and Betty America's most outrageous preachers. Their twisted "Interfaith Understanding" explores the strange and unusual practices of non-Christians. By the end, you'll be a believer!
Local Queens, NYC Comedy Improv/Sketch/Stand-up
Staycation:Down South & Out West Through Heaven & Hell
www.revbillandbetty.com
Fri 21 @ 4:15
Fri 21 @ 8:45
Sat 22 @ 2:45
Sat 22 @ 10:15
Mon 24 @ 5:45
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| The Scavenger's Daughter
Ar Dair Dog and Drama Co.
Writer: Colm Magner
The Irish are drinking, the funeral's afoot. Finnegan's body floats down the river. And every hour as the mourners' cars swoosh by on their way to the cathedral, the dogs who live beside the highway watch each other, and talk.
Local Bronx, New York Comedy Drama
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Rock and Roll Rebellion
www.thescavengersdaughter.org
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| Rites of Privacy
Moving Parts Theater
Writer: David Rhodes
Director: Charles Loffredo
Direct from its acclaimed London production, American actor/writer David Rhodes’ bold and provocative solo show examines issues of privacy and authenticity. Rhodes portrays himself and five disparate characters, each with a weighty secret. “Extremely impressive” - TimeOut London CRITICS’ CHOICE
Local Manhattan, NYC Solo Show Multi-Media
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Through Heaven & Hell
www.ritesofprivacy.com
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| Mobius
Emmett Productions
Writer: Michael Lopez-Saenz
Like a Mobius strip, this drama twists and turns. Montgomery struggles with the challenges of teen life: a dysfunctional family and his emerging sexuality. But beneath lies a secret that springs from the fragility of his genius.
Local Brooklyn, NYC Drama Comedy
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes Through Heaven & Hell
www.mobiustheplay.com
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| BAGABONES
Jonathan Nosan
Writer: Jonathan Nosan
A contortionist's charming nightmare sets the trip from primal spaces to final spaces and spaces in between. Changing perspectives on the same form brings states of confinement, release, heaven and hell with an ultimately smashing end.
Local Manhattan, NYC Solo Show Performance Art
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell Absurdly Surrealist Dream
www.bagabones.org
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| PROTECTED
Algonquin Productions
Writer: Timothy Scott Harris
Director: Timothy Scott Harris
What do a protected witness, an obsessive-compulsive, and a drag queen have in common? - ALBUQUERQUE. Oh yeah, and their loneliness. WELCOME TO ALBUQUERQUE - a great place to HIDE ... but if you are always in hiding, can you find yourself?
Local Manhattan, New York Comedy Drama
Staycation:Down South & Out West Through Heaven & Hell
WWW.PROTECTEDthePLAY.com
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