East Village Theatre Festival 2012

Metropolitan Playhouse
The American Legacy

220 East Fourth Street ~ New York, New York 10009
Administration: (212) 995 8410 ~ Tickets: (212) 995 5302

East Village
Theater Festival

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Avenues A & B
Directed by
Yvonne Opffer Conybeare

Avenue B - AC B
Michael Durkin*
Howard B
Executive Director of Sixth Street Community Center

Cate Weinberg
as Richie Baxt
Guitar Doctor, living and fixing guitars on the Lower East Side for over 30 years.

Abraham Sparrow
as Camilo Friedman-Guevara
Insomniac, narcissist, facing catharsis
Age-19. All else to be determined.

Mark August*
Michael Durkin*
Jonathan Hicks*
Laura Livingston*
Kevin Melendez*
Bones Rodriguez
Abby Royle*
Jennifer Teska*

Under the guiding spirit of Stephen Foster, a rock musician and a filmmaker try to steer to a big break, in a downtown music scene no more forgiving now than in Foster’s 1800’s.

A man of the streets captures the life of the city in a yearning, inspiring, and heart-thumping ode to the pavement.

Program B - EVC B
Directed by Ben Gougeon

Click here for some context for the plays of Evening B


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East Village Theater Festival	June 11~ July 1, 2012
"Enchanting....not just a night at the theater; it is an experience in a very cool village, in a very cool city." - Show Business Weekly Read about the festival in...	Festival Photos Link to Fourth Arts Block video interviews
8 new plays inspired by the life and history of the East Village. 2 evenings of short plays: EVC A and EVC B	6 new solo performances celebrating the lives of East Village residents. Based on interviews with our neighbors, and told entirely in their own words. 2 evenings of 3 monologues each: AC A and AC B

Evening A Directed by Laura Livingston	Evening B Directed by Ben Gougeon	Avenues A & B Directed by Yvonne Opffer Conybeare
Game, Set, Match by Andy Bragen Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts by Laura Livingston Posers by Anthony P. Pennino How Cool is That by J.P. Porter The Moment by Lavinia Roberts	The Fever Dream of Captain America by Michael Bettencourt Willow Grove by Isidore Elias Russian Tea by Matthew Kelly	Avenue A - AC A Yeauxlanda Kay* as Beverly Weinstein A resident who grew up in a tenement house on the lower east side to a single mom with four siblings. during World War II. Danielle Quisenberry* as Jackie Diamond aka/Coca Crystal host of If I Can't Dance, You Can Keep Your Revolution Jared Houseman as Jeffrey Ruhalter A fourth generation butcher from a family of butchers, whose Jeffrey's Meat Market was one of the original tenants of the Essex Market	Avenue B - AC B Michael Durkin* Howard B Executive Director of Sixth Street Community Center Cate Weinberg as Richie Baxt Guitar Doctor, living and fixing guitars on the Lower East Side for over 30 years. Abraham Sparrow as Camilo Friedman-Guevara Insomniac, narcissist, facing catharsis Age-19. All else to be determined.
Starring Mark August* Michael Durkin* Jonathan Hicks* Laura Livingston* Kevin Melendez* Bones Rodriguez Abby Royle* Jennifer Teska*	Sara Antkowiak* John Blaylock* Paul Bomba* Jerry Goralnick* James Luse Ev Roufeh Chris Ryan Keola Simpson Montgomery Sutton*
* Members of Actors Equity Association The East Village Chronicles, Vol. 8 and Alphabet City VIII are AEA approved showcases
THE PLAYS of the 8th Volume of EAST VILLAGE CHRONICLES
Program A - EVC A Directed by Laura Livingston Click here for some context for the plays of Evening A Game, Set, Match, by Andy Bragen A downtown tennis player vies with inner opponents as he dispatches real ones...but can he ace the Apocalypse? Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts, by Laura Livingston Under the guiding spirit of Stephen Foster, a rock musician and a filmmaker try to steer to a big break, in a downtown music scene no more forgiving now than in Foster’s 1800’s. Posers, by Anthony P. Pennino At CBGB’s in the 1980’s, hearing an authentic voice in the din of rebel chic takes a sharp ear, an open heart, and a leap of faith across the bridge and tunnel divide. How Cool is That, by J.P. Porter One young man’s handshake with the Beat generation reveals the deepest pleasures of life in the East Village. The Moment, by Lavinia Roberts A man of the streets captures the life of the city in a yearning, inspiring, and heart-thumping ode to the pavement.		Program B - EVC B Directed by Ben Gougeon Click here for some context for the plays of Evening B Russian Tea, by Matthew Kelly Russia is on the verge of revolution in the early 1900’s, but three émigrés in America are just trying to survive in a Lower East Side shadow economy. Confronted by John S. Sumner—real life captain of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice—these resourceful refugees from the old world have an uncomfortable lesson to teach the virtuous young idealist in the new. Willow Grove, by Isidore Elias In 1976, Orchard Street is changing. At the heart of a long-living community is a long-lived dress shop, being put out of business by department stores and a transforming world. Can two business friends and rivals learn the new rules fast enough to hold on to the life they shared? The Fever Dream of Captain America, by Michael Bettencourt A mosque frequented by taxi-cab drivers on the Lower East Side is the latest threat to American ideals, and an FBI agent with an Egyptian background tries to turn a Bengali-born cabby into an informant. It's "Muslims Muslims everywhere" -- and barely time to round them all up.