THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

A Rome Neal Banana Puddin’ Jazz Production

Salutes

FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI

A Celebration of the Legendary Afrobeat Pioneer

RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, MARCH 2nd!

Monday, March 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $20 General Admission

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Special Treat: Complimentary Banana Puddin’ for all attendees 🍌

ABOUT FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI
Legendary Nigerian musician, political firebrand, and creator of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti (1938–1997) revolutionized global music by blending African rhythms, jazz, funk, and highlife. His home, the Kalakuta Republic, and nightclub, the African Shrine, became epicenters of artistic expression and political resistance. Despite arrests and persecution, Fela’s music challenged corruption and social injustice. In 2026, he became the first African to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

FEATURING: THE DOMINIC JAMES BAND
Dominic James, award-winning guitarist, composer, and educator, has toured globally for over 30 years.

Awards: 2009 Drama Desk Award for Original Music (Ruined, Lynn Nottage)

Collaborations: Paul Simon, Pharoah Sanders, Michael Brecker, Chris Botti, Bill Laswell

Highlights: Guitar/bass on Shakira’s “Waka Waka” (2010 World Cup), collaborations with Harry Belafonte & Lee “Scratch” Perry

World Tour: Performed with five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo, including PBS DVD/CD Spirits Rising with Christian McBride, Branford Marsalis, Josh Groban, Dianne Reeves, Ezra Koenig, and Broadway Fela performers

Special Performances: 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Concert (Oslo), Cyndi Lauper & Cassandra Wilson at Home for the Holidays (Beacon Theatre), Clinton Foundation Gala with Eric Clapton & Jon Bon Jovi

 

ABOUT ROME NEAL
Rome Neal is a celebrated actor, director, jazz vocalist, and cultural producer. For over 30 years, he served as Artistic Director of the Nuyorican Poets Café Theater Program and Chairman of the Board, now Chairman Emeritus.

Awards & Honors: Obie Grant, 5 AUDELCO Awards (directing & acting, including Monk by Laurence Holder), National Black Theatre Festival Lloyd Richards Director’s Award, Triumph Award, Monarch Merit Award, B Free Public Access Legend Award, Grace Jones Audelco Lifetime Achievement Award, President Biden’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and proclamations from NYC & NY State.

Directing Credits: Shango de Ima, Don’t Explain, Prism, adaptations of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar set in Africa, Amiri Baraka works, Sekou Sundiata, Ishmael Reed, national and European festivals.

Acting Credits: Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam, She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix), Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, Leon Ichaso’s Piñero.

Jazz Performances: Founder and curator of Rome Neal’s twenty-three-year-old Banana Puddin’ Jazz series. As a Jazz vocalist, he has performed at The Metropolitan Room, The Museum of the City of New York, Lenox Lounge, Saint Nick’s Pub, Joe’s Pub, Minton’s Playhouse, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, 966Jazz, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and The Jazz Spot. Lead vocalist for the Bill Lee Mo’ Better Quintet (Spike Lee’s father).

Recordings: A Brighter Crooner, DVDs All in the Puddin’ & Rome Neal’s Banana Puddin’ Jazz Jam… A Night to Remember.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

JOHNNY DOO WOP DRACULA

(A Drac-apella Musical)

Written & Directed by William Electric Black

February 19, 2026 – March 8, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
$12 GROUPS OF 10+ Code GROUP
Run time: 85 minutes, no intermission
CABARET THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

GREASE MEETS TWILIGHT – in Emmy Award winning, Regional Tony Award winning… writer and director, William Electric Black’s bopping Drac-apella Musical – JOHNNY DOO WOP DRACULA. Former Sesame Street writer, William Electric Black aka Ian Ellis James, and an ensemble of 10 actors go back in time to 1955, Pittsburgh, PA where we meet a singing, swinging vampire named Johnny Dracula. He comes to Pennsylvania, because it sounds like Transylvania, to put a bite on the local teens. But not with his fangs. He’s a doo wop singing vampire who just arrived to make a name for himself in the music scene. A guy named Elvis is starting to stir things up but Johnny convinces Leon Leon, the owner of the local Soda Pop Shop to give him a chance to prove that he’s also got the sound to make the local teenager shake, rattle, and bop. And with the recent death of teen idol James Dean, Peggy Lombardi, along with the other broken hearted fans, could really use a new teen rebel. Golly gee, is Johnny the one she’s been dreaming about, the one to mend her broken heart? She may never find out because Brenda & The T-Tones, the local girl group, don’t take kindly to another singer in town, especially one who is a vampire. They decide to get rid of him with the help of the local bad kid, Eddie Iannotti. Will Peggy save Johnny? If so, will she let him suck her on their first date? Geez…you will just have to bop on down to see this FANGTASTIC, FANGTABULOUS immersive show with 11 Drac-a-pella doo wop songs that will have you clapping and snapping – while eating twinkies, rice pudding, popcorn – and sipping a coke or two. Get ready for Johnny Doo Wop Dracula – the TRANSYLVANIA KID – YEAH BOPPIN’ IS HIS BIZ, BOP-SHE-BOP -SHE-BOP, BOP-SHE-BOP -SHE-BOP-BOP-BOP!

CAST
William Electric Black
Sam Baum
Fernanda Becher
Chyna Jackson
Zoe Ray Prawda
Mizzie
Claire Houghton Renoe
Nick Schiro
Caitlin Snyder
Malikah Stafford

PRODUCTION
Light Design: Alexander Bartenieff
Set Design: Andrew LaPointe
Costumes: Susan Hemley
Stage Manager/Choreographer: Nicole Toshima
Assist Stg. Manager/Props Coord. Ella Greher
Light Board Op. – Ally Clare
Press/Soc. Media: Sofia Zucker – JohnnyDooWopDracula@gmail.com

W. Electric Black, who under his aka Ian Ellis James, co-wrote several songs as a writer for Sesame Street with over a million views on YouTube. These include: The Gospel Alphabet for Patti LaBelle Sesame Street: Patti Labelle Sings The Alphabet and The Letter “O” for Queen Latifah Sesame Street: Queen Latifah: The Letter O

William Electric Black, aka Ian Ellis James, is a seven-time Emmy Award winning writer for his work on “Sesame Street” between 1992 and 2002. La MaMa ETC Regional Tony Award – 2018. He also wrote for Nickelodeon’s “Allegra’s Window” and Lancit Media’s “Backyard Safari.”

In 2022-2023, his children’s television show “Rap-U-Cation” was optioned by FarView Entertainment. He also developed an original TV show for FarView called Dragon Clouds.

In a series of multimedia projects with Doug E. Fresh, Chuck D, and Artie Green, Mr. Black has campaigned for exercise and good nutrition for young children, prescription drug awareness and obesity prevention. He has also raised awareness re: saving kids from gun violence. https://news.wfu.edu/2025/03/28/wfu-center-for-literacy-education-initiates-community-conversations-about-gun-safety-and-young-children/

Mr. Black’s stage credits include: (2025) Can You Hear The Pigeons Writer/Director Theater For The New City https://www.theatrebeyondbroadway.com/reviews/can-you-hear-the-pigeons

(2024) Fly To Tomorrow – Additional Book Writer – Jooda Culture – South Korea USA Production (2024) Betty & The Belrays – Writer/Director – La MaMa ETC, NY, NY (2024) The Frankenstein Project – Writer/Director – Theater For The New City, NY, NY (2023) Romeo & Juliet: Tribal Rock Musical -Writer/Director, Theater For The New City, NY, NY
(2022) Romeo & Juliet: Tribal Rock Musical –Writer/Director La MaMa ETC

Theater for the New City

Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series:

SNOWBALL

A comedy

Written by Marc Paykuss
Directed and Developed by Roger Gonzalez at IndieArtz
Monday, March 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
COMMUNITY SPACE

FREE

$5 Suggested Donation

For Reservations, email to tncdreamup@gmail.com

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

LIV and JON are a middle-aged couple who have just said good-bye to their beloved cat of nineteen years, SNOWBALL. But one night, a strange woman appears at their home, claiming she is the human reincarnation of Snowball and it’s too real to ignore!

CAST
LIV – Zoe Anastassiou
JON – Tony Del Bono
SNOWBALL – Emma Gonzalez
ZANDER – Nathan Cusson
LACEY – Stacey Petricha
MIKE – Peter Sullivan
MARGOT – Chelsea Clark

About Marc Paykuss
Marc Paykuss is an award-winning playwright from Los Angeles now residing in Pittsburgh. His first play, “The Tinker Bell Situation,” was one of the winners of The Bonita Springs 10-Minute Play Festival in 2020, In addition, it was produced via Zoom by the Nicely Theatre Group in Michigan for their inaugural season and received a staged reading by the Core Artist Ensemble at the Barrow Group Theatre in New York City. His first full-length play, “No Entry,” was one of the selected plays by the TRU Voices New Plays and Reading Series, and received a Zoom live reading in June, 2020. It was also a finalist for the 2023 Woodward/ Newman Drama award. His play, “Snowball,” was the November, 2023 selection for a staged reading by the Bennington Theater in Bennington, VT, and will be published by Next Stage Press in November, 2024. In 2022, Marc won first-prize in the Think Fast one act play competition at the Theater Project, Union, NJ.for his play “Home for Sale By Owner.” It was made into a short film entitled “Dear Owner,” an official selection at ten film festivals in the U.S. and two time winner of The Presenters Award. His play “Zadig” was a finalist for the FMM Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works, 2022 (https:www.synecdocheworks.org).

About IndieArtz
IndieArtz is a creative development company founded by Roger Gonzalez that champions independent voices in theatre and film. Dedicated to nurturing new work for the stage, IndieArtz partners with international playwrights and creators to support the development, refinement, and strategic growth of their artistic projects. Through hands-on collaboration, professional marketing support, and fundraising guidance, IndieArtz helps bring compelling stories from early concept to production-ready form. With a belief in bold, meaningful theatre that connects with audiences and creators worldwide, IndieArtz aims to build a creative community and advance original voices in the performing arts. Roger is also the founder and publisher of TheatreArtz.com and can be reached by emailing him at RogerGonzalez@theatreArtz.com. Roger is a producer, director, actor, and theatre development consultant working with various theatre companies in the tri-state area, and dozens of self- producing playwrights, theatre festivals, and producers.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

The Giggling Granny

February 26, 2026 – March 15, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time:
COMMUNITY SPACE

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Returning by Popular Demand following a sold-out run in 2025!

Drama Desk and Obie award winner MARILYN CHRIS is Nannie Doss AKA THE GIGGLING GRANNY, returning to TNC from February 26th through March 15th.

THE GIGGLING GRANNY is a true story about the most mesmerizing, innocent and likable serial killer (looking for true love) that you are ever going to meet! The show was written especially for Marilyn by PBS’ Theater in America writer Marsha Lee Sheiness, and is directed by Jim Semmelman.

MARILYN CHRIS is also know from her many years as WANDA WEBB WOLEK on television’s ONE LIFE TO LIVE.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

A Rome Neal Banana Puddin’ Jazz Production

LEONIEKE SCHEUBLE ORGAN TRIO

Monday, January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Tickets: $20 General Admission

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Featuring
Leonieke Scheuble – Hammond Organ
Nick Scheuble – Drums
Bob Divos – Guitar

About the Artist
Leonieke Scheuble (born 2002) is a professional American jazz pianist and Hammond organist, widely recognized as one of the most gifted young artists of her generation. Often described as a prodigy, she began playing piano at the age of five and recorded her debut album, Debut, at just eleven years old with legendary engineer Rudy Van Gelder and Jimmy Cobb, drummer for Miles Davis.

Career Highlights
Mentorship: At age ten, jazz legend Dr. Lonnie Smith gifted Leonieke her first Hammond organ after hearing her play. She is now an official Hammond Artist.

Ensembles: She leads the acclaimed 3 Generations of Jazz Trio, featuring her father Nick Scheuble on drums and legendary bassist Bill Crow.

Accolades: Recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Exceptional Promise in Music and multiple International Women in Jazz Awards.

Recent Work: In 2025, Leonieke represented the United States at the Osaka World Expo in Japan, leading her band Leonieke and the NY Groove.

Sponsors
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Jazz Foundation of America
John D. Smith
Tracy Appleton
Dr. Audrey & Gerry Baker
Deborah Johnson
Sheryl Renee Productions
Dr. Mona V. Scott
Malaika M. Scott, MD
Black Repertory Group Berkeley
Commbs Brooklyn Printing

Black Theatre Project (Documentary)

(Complimentary Banana Puddin’)

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

The Cry Of The Butterfly

February 5 – February 22, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time: 1 hour 20 minutes
COMMUNITY SPACE

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Meet Betty, the former beautiful dancer in the Hollywood musicals of the 1950s, who married Nicholas Ray, the famed director of Rebel Without a Cause, and had two daughters, Julie and Nicca. Fast forward to now. Julie and Nicca visit Betty on her birthday only to find their mother living in a world of her past, hallucinating that Nick and James Dean are visiting her. Meanwhile, Julie and Nicca come to terms with what it means to grow up in the shadow of fame and realize how it was Betty who kept their family together against all odds.

CAST
Penny Balfour*
Tom Martin*
Alexandra Laliberte
Mari Blake*
Michael John Gross
Roger Gonzalez

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of contract

PRODUCTION
Writer – Nicca Ray
Director – Joe John Battista
Stage Manager/Lighting – Mathew Seepersad
Costume Designer – Wendy Tonken

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Liberto

February 14 – March 1, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – All tickets $25
Run time: 90 minutes, no intermission
CINO THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Liberto is a powerful, intimate work by celebrated Spanish playwright Gemma Brió that transforms personal loss into a deeply human experience. Inspired by Brió’s own life, the play recounts the fifteen days her newborn son lived after suffering complications at birth. Onstage, three performers—two actors and a musician—embody dozens of characters, weaving together storytelling, music, and sharply observed moments of humor. Moving fluidly between tenderness, absurdity, and grief, Liberto resists easy sentimentality, instead offering an honest portrait of love.

Celebrated internationally for its courage and emotional clarity, Liberto is ultimately a celebration of life and a meditation on dignity in dying. It earned two Premios Butaca, a Serra d’Or Critics’ Prize, and nominations at the prestigious Premios Max. Both heartbreaking and life-affirming, Liberto invites audiences into a shared space of reflection—where pain is met with compassion, and love endures beyond loss.

CAST
Christy Escobar* (Actor)
Gabriela Garcia* (Actor)
Mireia Clua (Actor/Musician)

Production Team
Ignacio García-Bustelo (Director)
Lola Lukas (Assistant Director / Stage Manager)
Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger (Projections Design)
Bruce A! Kraemer (Lighting Design)
Evan Frank (Set Design)
Allison Kadin (Consultant)
Sharon G. Feldman (Translator)

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actor’s Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

51th ANNUAL THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN DANCERS’ POW-WOW AND DANCE CONCERT

January 30, 2026 – February 8, 2026
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 PM,  Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20
MATINEES ARE KIDS’ DAYS: At all matinée performances, children ages five to twelve who are accompanied by a ticket-bearing adult are admitted for $1.00 (adults $20)
Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
JOHNSON THEATER

PHOTOS AND VIDEO ARE AVAILABLE. See directions at bottom.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

There will be dances, stories and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions. The event has become a treasured New York tradition for celebrating our diversity by honoring the culture of our first Americans. TNC donates all proceeds from the event to college scholarship funds for Native American students.

A Pow-Wow is more than just a spectator event: it is a joyous reunion for native peoples nationwide and an opportunity for the non-Indian community to voyage into the philosophy and beauty of Native culture. Traditionally a gathering and sharing of events, Pow-Wows have come to include spectacular dance competitions, exhibitions, and enjoyment of traditional foods.

Throughout the performance, all elements are explained in depth through detailed introductions by the troupe’s Director and Emcee Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago). An educator, Mofsie plays an important part in the show by his ability to present a comprehensive view of native culture.   He was awarded a 2019 Bessie Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance. In 2017, he was honored, along with Garth Fagan and Martha Myers, with a Lifetime Achievement Award from American Dance Guild.

Highlights will also include a Hoop Dance set to guitar and flute music that will be performed on alternating dates by Marie Ponce (Cherokee and Seminole) and Matt Cross (Kiowa); a Deer Dance (from the Yaqui Tribes of Southern Arizona) with Ciaran Tufford (Mayan/Cherokee) and Carlos Ponce (Mayan), and various ensemble dances: a Grass Dance and Jingle Dress Dance (from the Northern Plains people), a Stomp Dance (from the Southeastern tribes), a Shawl Dance (from the Oklahoma tribes), a Fancy Dance (from the Oklahoma tribes) and a Smoke Dance (from the Iroquois). As the audience enters the theater, they will be serenaded by the Heyna Second Son Singers (various tribes).

Pageantry is an important component of the event, and all participants are elaborately dressed. There is a wealth of cultural information encoded in the movements of each dance. More than ten distinct tribes will be represented in the performance. The dozen-or-so dancers are people of all ages, raging from thirteen-year-old Isabel Cespedes (Mayan) to retirees.

Native American crafts and jewelry will be sold in the TNC lobby.

Matinées are kids’ days, when children aged five to twelve accompanied by a ticket-bearing adult are admitted for $1.00 (adults $20). At the conclusion of these matinées, young audience members are invited to pose for pictures with the dancers.

 

ABOUT THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN DANCERS

The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers are the oldest resident Native American dance company in New York. The troupe was founded in 1963 by a group of ten Native American men and women, all New Yorkers, who were descended from Mohawk, Hopi, Winnebago and San Blas tribes. Prominent among the founders were Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago) and his sister, Josephine Mofsie (deceased), Rosemary Richmond (Mohawk, deceased), Muriel Miguel (Cuna/Rapahannock) and Jack Preston (Seneca, deceased). Some were in school at the time; all were “first generation,” meaning that their parents had been born on reservations. They founded the troupe to keep alive the traditions, songs and dances they had learned from their parents, and added to their repertoire from other Native Americans living in New York and some who were passing through. Jack Preston taught the company its Iroquois dances, including the Robin Dance and Fish Dance. To these were added dances from the plains, including the Hopi Buffalo Dance, and newer dances including the Grass Dance and Jingle Dress Dance. The company was all-volunteer, a tradition that exists to today. Members range in professions from teachers to hospital patient advocates, tree surgeons and computer engineers. Now Louis Mofsie says, “To be going for 60 years is just amazing to me, and to be able to do the work we do.”

The troupe made a home in the old McBurney YMCA on 23rd Street and Seventh Ave. Within three or four years, they were traveling throughout the continental U.S., expanding and sharing their repertoire and gleaning new dances on the reservations. A number of Thunderbird members are winners of Fancy Dance contests held on reservations, where the standard of competition is unmistakably high.

The Thunderbird-TNC collaboration began in 1975, when Crystal Field directed a play called “The Only Good Indian.” For research, Ms. Field lived on a Hopi reservation for three weeks. In preparation for the project, she met Louis Mofsie, Artistic Director of the dance troupe and a representative of the American Indian Community House. Mofsie suggested a Pow Wow and dance concert to celebrate the winter solstice. Field, who is herself 1% native American, committed herself to bring this to fruition. The event has continued annually to this day.

The troupe’s appearances benefit college scholarship funds for Native American students. The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Scholarship Fund receives its sole support from events like this concert (it receives no government or corporate contributions), and has bestowed over 350 scholarships to-date. Theater for the New City has been presenting Pow-Wows annually as a two-week event since 1976, with the box office donated to these scholarships.

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CRITICS ARE INVITED to all performances. Press contact Jonathan Slaff (212) 924-0496.

VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE upon request.

2023 PRODUCTION PHOTOS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BQefisDJzPgvr7Db9
2019 PRODUCTION PHOTOS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ebLLGRPPQVHjJsxt8
RECENT YEARS’ PHOTOS: https://goo.gl/photos/tcrxbtPYtF2hdvhV6 and https://goo.gl/photos/SLr4PXEHJrsq34j9A
HISTORICAL PHOTOS of Pow-Wows from 2004 to 2015 are available for download at: https://goo.gl/photos/wUcenp6ZcPDcBCYD7

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

The New Lux Theater’s Production of

Sartre and Simone

January 29 – February 8, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 2 hours, one intermission
CINO THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

What happens when radical ideas about freedom and responsibility collide with the messy, contradictory realities of human desire?

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir built a philosophy that electrified a generation. But their own lives were complicated by a web of intellectual and romantic entanglements that often stood in stark contrast to their public principles. This comedy is based on the true story of the most challenging of those relationships: their involvement with two brilliant and vulnerable young students, the sisters Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz.

Back by popular demand! After playing to packed houses for three weeks in 2025, Sartre and Simone returns for an encore run, opening January 29, 2026, at the legendary East Village venue Theater for the New City. This will be a strictly limited engagement of eight performances before the production moves to Paris. Don’t miss your chance to see the famous French existentialists brought to life at New York City’s premier Off-Off-Broadway theater.
https://newluxtheater.com/sartre.html

CAST
Jean-Paul Sartre – Michael Shapiro
Simone de Beauvoir – Sophia Raine
Albert Camus – Massil Adnani
Wanda Kosakiewicz – Delilah Draper
Olga Kosakiewicz – Cam Reid
Martha Kosakiewicz – Robin Brenner
Dr. Daniel Kosakiewicz – Josh Shellman
Jack Bost – Jack Press
Maria Casares – Clayre Attisani
Hemingway – Josh Shellman
School Inspector – Josh Shellman

Production Crew:
Leadership:
Director: William Cane
Executive Producer: James Bastone
Assistant Director: Sherri Qmusic
Production Associate: Gabe Snyder
Creative Associate: Matt Gaetano
Stage Manager: t/b/a

Design Team:
Wardrobe Designer: Tingyu Hu
Lighting and Sound Designer: Jim DeLois
Carpenter: Sam Keran

Consultants and Specialists:
French Culture Consultant: Nicki Cochrane
Existentialism Consultant: Charles Martin

Theater for the New City

Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series:

The Con-gamers Handbook

Written and Directed by Nicholas Hart

Monday, January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM

FREE

$5 Suggested Donation

For Reservations, email to tncdreamup@gmail.com

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Con-gamers Handbook is your atypical love story with your typical con artists.

CAST
Jim – Frank Hankey
Pam – Margaret Engel
Tammy – Sharelene Hartman
SD – Martin Pfefferkorn

BIO
Nicholas Hart has been writing plays, screenplays and pilots for over ten years. He has had several plays produced in NYC – last year Remember Us was produced by Winter Light Productions and Coming Out On A Limb was part of the Chain Theatre festival. This year, his play HR/AR was produced at the ATA. He is a member of several play reading groups including one he helped found.