THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

THE ROAD AHEAD

April 10 – April 27, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets $20 tickets, $15 Students and Seniors, TDF accepted
Run Time: 75 minutes
CINO THEATER

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

THE ROAD AHEAD was inspired by Rod Serling’s classic television series “The Twilight Zone.” A married couple on a nighttime journey is transported by a GPS gone amok to a mysterious destination in place and time. They are welcomed by a guide, who presents three vignettes, performed by her and her assistants. The vignettes, like traditional fables, portray a moral and a lesson for living life with courage while attempting to right a wrong in the world. And each contains hope for a better life.

CAST
Kristen Gabrielle
Sania Hyatt
Jenna Levere
Lisa Monde
Steph Van Vlack
and the voice of Samuel Williams

PRODUCTION
Set and Light Design by Jason Sturm
Costume Design by Billy Little
Sound Design by Joy Linscheid
Props by Lytza Colon
Photo and Video by Victor Vauban Jr.
Graphic Design by Virginia Asman, illuminage studio
Stage manager/board operator Geoffrey Kinsey

BARBARA KAHN received the 2024 Village Preservation Award. Excerpts from the presentation at the historic Cooper Union Great Hall: “Barbara Kahn is a pivotal figure in the New York City theater scene. Her plays have been produced since 1994 by that great platform for new drama, Theater for the New City, and her works have been a cornerstone of the theater’s seasons ever since. Theater for the New City has a rich history deeply intertwined with the cultural fabric of New York City, and Barbara’s plays have been a leading force in its mission to embody the vision of a cultural center for new and innovative theater arts that is truly accessible to the community and its experimental theater artists.

Barbara Kahn is a playwright who has produced dozens of works rooted in history, especially the history of New York and marginalized or oppressed people, with a frequent focus on the experience of women, LGBTQ+ people, and personal trauma. Her award-winning plays have been produced at the Theater for the New City since 1994, though she has produced plays throughout New York, Paris, and London, and her career as a playwright stretches back decades.

BARBARA is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll! advocacy for women playwrights over 50, SAG-AFTRA, The Jewish Theater Circle, and The Entertainment Community Fund (aka The Actors Fund) Performing Arts Legacy Project.
https://performingartslegacy.org/kahn/

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

TapEx 2025

35th Anniversary show

Monday, May 19, 2025 at 7 PM

Tickets: $25
Run Time:
CINO THEATER

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

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

REMEMBRANCE

A PLAY ABOUT THE VICTIMIZATION OF THE CAREGIVER.

“My mother has Alzheimer’s so therefore so do I.”

March 20 – April 6, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

There will be a “Talk Back” session from a representative of The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America on April 3rd @ 8 PM. (Jennifer Reeder)

Tickets: $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 70 minutes
CABARET THEATER

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

Plays and movies about Alzheimer’s Disease tend to focus on the patient. However “Remembrance,” a new play by Patricia Goodson, centers on their caregivers. A product of Theater for the New City’s Emerging Playwrights Program, it’s Ms. Goodson’s second produced play and her second one to be inspired by her mom’s twelve-year journey with the disease. Her first play, “Aging is Not a Fairy Tale,” debuted last season at TNC. It was a delightful rumination on aging, told with once-young fairy tale characters who have ripened into their dotage. “Remembrance” is a drama meant to educate and inspire the caregivers of the world, whether they are fighting for a person with Alzheimer’s or any other chronic or fatal disease.

The story traces a daughter’s long and arduous journey with her mom who has Alzheimer’s. It follows the mom’s deterioration and shows their physical and mental effects on her daughter through the latter’s sessions with a psychiatrist. The play aims to reveal the victimization of the caregiver, as exemplified by a statement in the play’s opening dialogue which says, “my mother has Alzheimer’s so therefore do I.” Five actors play six characters: the patient (Mom), her daughter (present and past), two doctors (a Geriatrician and an Alzheimer’s specialist), and a brilliant middle-aged Caribbean woman who is a professional caregiver, Lincoln Center usher, dancer and deeply religious woman. The play is staged in three playing areas: the doctors’ offices, the patients’ room and the family’s living room. The play tells us that a caregiver is not alone in this world: that there are people and forces that will help them through their difficult task and that positive things can come out of a seemingly helpless situation. As her Mom declines, she inspires her daughter with a proverb about butterflies as symbols of hope. She says, “when you see butterflies, you see Angel wings and it means God is looking after you.” While dealing with serious issues like survivor’s guilt, “Remembrance” is also filled with hope. Goodson writes, “We all have our stories of frustration, our feelings of loneliness and helplessness. We feel we have no control, no defense, but we do. Our caring is our control and our bonds of love and the appreciation of the patient for our efforts are our weapons of defense.”

CAST
David Odukoya
Zane Julia
Beth Griffith
Bryn Eva O’Connor
Kkuumba Siegell

PRODUCTION
Playwright – Patricia Goodson
Director – Joan Kane
Set Designer – Jonas Harrison
Lighting Designer – Bruce A! Kraemer
Sound Designer – Joy Linscheid
Prop Designer – Lytza Colon
Costume Designer – Billy Little
Stage Manager – Dana Vincent-Robbins

Playwright Patricia Goodson made an auspicious playwriting debut at TNC last season with “Aging is Not a Fairy Tale.” A heavy subject treated with a light heart, directed by Robert Liebowitz, it was also inspired by her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. Goodson realized that no one is ever prepared for their end-of-life crisis. So she wrote a fairy tale comedy to answer the question of what would happen to characters of our bedtime stories (Cinderella, Snow White, Three Little Pigs, etc.) as they get older. Edward A Kliszus,wrote in Front Row Center, “The play is a delightful, charming, humorous admixture of favorite fairy tales and characters. Repartee was well crafted and sophisticated, and the cast masterfully executed the many subtle and less subtle jabs with splendid, natural timing and assurance.”

Ms. Goodson made her living for the past 25 years as a retail manager at Macy’s, JFK Airport and The Smithsonian. She has been a writer and story teller since grade school and has always been an avid theatergoer, which nurtured her desire to work behind-the-scenes. For the past four years, she has volunteered at Theater for the New City, assisting Executive Artistic Director Crystal Field. Her experiences there led to her participation in TNC’s Emerging Playwrights Program, fusing her passion for writing with her love for the theater. This program is integral to the theater’s mission, which includes being a center for new and innovative theater arts, discovering relevant new writing and nurturing new playwrights. Ms. Goodson writes, “Theater for the New City is an extremely important vehicle for keeping real theater alive. It is about theater as an art form. Crystal Field enables artists, be they scenic or costume designers or budding playwrights like myself, to collaborate and create theatrical magic. Her support, with her vast experience, gives a newbie a strong foundation upon which to build their art.”

Director Joan Kane has recently helmed four plays by Toby Armour at TNC, “Susan B.” (2022), “Aunt Susan and her Tennesee Waltz” (2022), “Freedom Summer” (2023) and “Meltdown” (2024). She is also a playwright, dramaturg, actor, educator and Founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus (https://egoactus.com/). Her varied directing resume includes “Sycorax, Cyber Queen of Qamara” by Fengar Gael at HERE, “Play Nice!” by Robin Rice at 59E59 Theaters, “I Know What Boys Want” by Penny Jackson on Theatre Row, “Six Characters in Search of an Author” in Oslo, Norway and “Kafka’s Belinda” in Prague. She was awarded Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival and was named to the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame by nytheatre.com. In the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, she received a five star review for her solo show, “Almost 13,” and four star reviews for her productions of “Safe” and “What Do You Mean.” She graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner and earned an MFA in Directing from The New School and an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street College. She is a member of SDC, DG, NYWITF and LPTW. She thanks Crystal Field and Mark Marcante for their support and their passion for keeping theater alive during the maddening days we are living in. (JoanKane.us)

Theater for the New City

Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Staged Reading:

The Diary

March 6 – March 8, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM

Tickets: $12 General and $10 Students and Seniors
CABARET THEATER

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

A special TNC presentation for three days only of a staged reading with costumes and set of a new Anne Frank play not about the time leading up to the arrest in the annex, but starting with the arrest, when the diary is found overlooked, ignored and abandoned on the floor. This powerful new play tells the story of how this journal went from a pile of pages to one of the world’s best known and best loved books. Through forward storytelling and flashbacks, we watch how Otto Frank struggles with what to do, essentially meeting his daughter Anne for the first time in a new way in these pages. We watch skeptical editors, until the book becomes embraced by editors, and even secretaries at a publisher. A timely, trenchant play about a girl’s, a father’s and a book’s incredible voyage being presented even as an Anne Frank exhibit unfurls elsewhere. Discover new aspects of a story you thought you already knew.

Theater for the New City

Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Staged Reading:

Burden of Proof

Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
CABARET THEATER

Tickets: $12 General and $10 Students and Seniors

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

An African American public defender faces a crisis. She has been helping defendants plea bargain for years. Now she wants a win, but is this the right case? A realistic play inspired by attorney Tasha Lloyd’s experience, this is a play about justice, injustice and just doing the right thing.

CAST
Perry Gaffney
Patricia Magno
Chaz McCormack
James R. Ward

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Alison Cook Beatty Dance: An Evening of Modern Dance

April 4 – April 5, 2025
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM

Tickets: $20, Students & Seniors $18
Run Time: 1 hour 20 minutes including intermission
THEATER

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

PROGRAM A: Performance on April 4th at 8 PM
(25 min) WORLD PREMIERE
(3 min ) “Bist du bei Mir, Through The Panes”
Intermission
(20 min) “Heroic Departure”
Pause
20 “Central Park Field #4”
Q&A session, 10-15 minutes

PROGRAM B: Performance on April 5th at 8 PM
(30 min) WATER NYC Premiere & FIRE World Premiere
Intermission
(20 min) “Heroic Departure”
Pause
(3 min ) “Bist du bei Mir, Through The Panes”
(16 min) “Whale”
Q&A session, 10-15 minutes

*Please note there is a Silent Auction set up in the lobby before, during intermission and after the shows. Silent Auction will include artworks from collaborating artists such as resident visual art Carol Davis, award winning photographer Sam DeRosa-Farag and more.

CAST
Ava Trochiano
Gion Treichler
Hannah Dillenbeck
Ioanna Ioannides
Maddelaine Burnett
Plus additional guest artists

Theater for the New City

Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Staged Reading:

Afterwards

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
JOHNSON THEATER

Pay what you can!
Suggested Donation $5 – $10

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

“Afterwards” is based on the true story of Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve’s older sister who burned to death in a car crash following an argument with her boyfriend who’d stormed away only to hear shortly after that she had died.
Her lover was the son of Sam Shaw, famous photographer and producer, who became mired in a lawsuit of biblical proportions with his only male child before he passed away.
Using information freely shared in real time and spiritually imparted Enz’s “Afterwards” explores the generations of suffering these people’s stories hold along with the sanctifying power of their mythic love.

The director Sarah T. Schwab and playwright Pamela Enz are eager to work on a truly unplugged piece where text and relationships are not overwhelmed by the often too spectacular technology presently available.

The plan for “Afterwards” as a full production is to use a simple actor propelled apparatus that Pamela’s brilliant long time collaborator Ève Laroche-Joubert designed to transport characters between decades and states of being.
An adult-maze-roundabout with various wall heights Ève’s design offers limitless varieties of human interactions that metaphorically suggest the complexity of relationships depending on how the actors move about and place their bodies in relation to one another. Additionally it supports the displacement of past and present and moments that exist outside of time.

Austin Pendleton starred in “City Girls & Desperadoes” Enz’s play he’d generously shepherded for years up until its Theater for the New City premiere Jan. 2018 after which Pamela became increasingly interested in revisiting City Girls’s characters wondering how they might have fared after its grand denouement.
Hearing Austin Pendleton sing as part of TNC’s Lower East Side Festival of the Arts 2024 which like his writing, directing and acting was a tour de force provided her the necessary connecting thread between the past and futures of these characters.
Elliott Randall, a blessed long time collaborator, is composing a song for Austin and an aural playground to support Afterwards themes of love and longing that transcend time.

Inspired by Edward Snowden’s BitCoin2024 address, itself a yowling howl of a reaction to an increasingly technological world we’ve little power to decide how much we might want to be subsumed by Afterwards ends with a plea for kindness.
Like the whole of Ms. Enz’s recent work particularly the film AIRTIME co-written with Alexandra Guerineaud the play posits the importance of a resurgence of empathy.

CAST
Austin Pendleton
Heather Litteer
Marlon Xavier
Elizabeth Yeoman
Annette Fox
Kim Savarino
Juanita Castro-Ochoa

Pamela Enz – A Hybrid Collaborative Theatrical Collagist my creative heart is best fed and firmly planted in the joyful act of storytelling whether through visual art, film, performance art or most profoundly, theater. Earliest cherished credit: Inclusion in The Guinness World Book’ of Records’ certified longest line of tap dancers on Broadway in NYC that besides copious colorful material provided me insight into the endless space that is the human heart.
A recipient of Edward Albee Fellowships, PEN grants, The Tennessee Williams One Act Play Award, Franklin Furnace Emerging Performance Award, the centerpiece of @aCall2Arms thenewtownproject, refining my art and finding my voice performing nascent pieces on the steps of Metropolitan Museum with Anna Deavere Smith I aim to create compelling narratives that explore the miracles we wish for and sacrifices we make in the name of love and survival.

Sarah T. Schwab is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer, as well as the president of Cardinal Flix, an independent film production company. Currently, she is in pre-production for two narrative features and one narrative short, all slated for filming in 2025. Sarah’s directorial work includes three feature films: “Crybaby Bridge” (2025) starring two-time Emmy nominated actress Sydney Mikayla (“General Hospital”), “A Stage of Twilight” (2024) starring Karen Allen (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”) and William Sadler (“The Shawshank Redemption”), and “Life After You” (2022) starring Florencia Lozano (“Narcos”). She is also a member of the playwright/directors unit at the Actors Studio in New York City.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

The Best Brother

The bonds of brotherhood are tested by devastating consequences of war, religious indoctrination and personal transformation.

February 6 – February 23, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets: $20, Students & Seniors $18
Run Time: 1 hour 45 minutes, no intermission
CINO THEATER

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

“The Best Brother” begins in the 1980’s. Two pre-teen African-American boys–models of brotherly closeness– are being raised in Harlem by an American mother and a righteous, religious African-born father who violently resists his wife’s ambition to become a professional singer. When these parents are forced by their cultural differences to divorce, their boys are separated. The elder son, Daniel, must go with his father to Angola, where the father dies fighting in the Civil War. The younger boy, Paolo, must remain here with his mother, who loses her operatic voice and descends into alcoholism. Twenty-two years later, the older son, now a religious man, finds the means to return to America and reconnect with his long-lost family. To his despair, he finds that his mother has died and his beloved brother is nowhere to be found. Although repatriated, Daniel does not understand the new America and finds himself in another war trying to restore closeness with his long-lost brother. The play asks, “Under what circumstances does brotherly love allow itself to thrive?” It was originally titled “Brother Sou – 1980.” The title “Brother Sou” means, “Brother I am.” The word “Sou” in Portuguese, a main language of Angola, means, “I am.”

The heart of the play lies in the emotional journey of these two brothers, who are separated by circumstances beyond their control but bound by an enduring, if complicated, attachment. Its narrative structure, with flashbacks between the 1980s and the present day, gives it a cinematic feel, weaving together different times and perspectives to explore how events and experiences shape family bonds over time. Its global scope (Harlem, Angola, and the larger African-American experience) adds depth and intrigue to the storytelling.

CAST
Christal Alexander
Yvette Quintero
Victor Vauban Júnior
Obi Nwako
Caleb Streety

PRODUCTION
Lighting design: Alexander Bartenieff
Set design: Victor Vauban Júnior
Set Design Consultant: Lytza Colon & Mark Marcante
Set Design Decoration: Lola Saenz
Costume Design: Everett Clark
Assistant Stage Manager: Lola Lukas
Lighting operator – Geoffrey Christopher

Victor Vauban Júnior (playwright/director), born in Brazil, has lived in the US for 20 years. He is a former circus performer who discovered a new passion in writing for the theater. His plays have appeared at the Writer’s Guild and in The Guild magazine, and readings of his plays have been presented in the Classical Theater of Harlem’s workshop. He has participated since 2012 in “Writers in Performance” at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, under the tutelage of Mario Giacalone. His plays “Martin’s T.R.U.T.H” and “LEAVES” have been featured at the Strawberry Play Festival Competition in Manhattan, collecting several awards and nominations. He has been an instructor at Cirque du Soleil’s social program, Cirque du Monde, and he has toured with well-known international circus companies such as UniverSoul Circus, Gran Circus Norte-Americano, the Beto Carrero Show, Gran Bartholo Circus and Circus Amok.

“The Best Brother” is a production of Theater for the New City’s Emerging Playwrights Program. This program is integral to the theater’s mission, which includes being a center for new and innovative theater arts, discovering relevant new writing and nurturing new playwrights. Playwright Victor Vauban Júnior writes, “How excited I am to bring my new production to the Theater for the New City, the birth place of so many great artists and productions in NYC. I feel blessed and grateful for having such an opportunity, as I am trying to find my voice and place in the American Theater universe. Much appreciation.”

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Fog and Filthy Air

A New Drama Inspired by Real Life Events, About Family, Fog and a Road Trip Gone Horribly Wrong

Written by Tom Diriwachter
Directed by Jonathan Weber

March 6 – 23, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets: $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes, no intermission
COMMUNITY SPACE

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

A new drama inspired by real life events written by Tom Diriwachter about family, fog, and a road trip gone horribly wrong.

Following a desperate phone call, Tim arrives by bus at the Hound Dog Motel, a by-the-hour hellhole outside Memphis, Tennessee, with the purpose of rescuing his parents from a 1996 road trip to Graceland gone horribly wrong. As the mystery of how they became stranded unravels, Father tells of hitting a fog bank, leading to his having an emotional breakdown. Stuck in a purgatory overseen by a black velvet painting of Elvis, Fog and Filthy Air is an intense drama that finds humor in the worst of circumstances. Ultimately, it is a love story.

“Inspired by real life events, Fog and Filthy Air interlaces the universal themes of family, dreams and death to tell a love story for the ages,” says playwright Tom Diriwachter. “While stranded in a purgatory, the family must deal with their past while learning that the people you rely on, will inevitably come to rely on you.”

CAST
Steve Gamble
Bob Homeyer
Kate A. McGrath*

*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

PRODUCTION
Set Designer: Evan Frank
Lighting Designer: Alexander Bartenieff
Sound Design: Roy Chang
Production Stage Manager: Sara Gierc
Publicity: Paul Siebold, OFF OFF PR
Photos and Graphic Design by Peter Welch

 

Tom Diriwachter (playwright) – Fog and Filthy Air is Tom’s eighth full-length play produced in Manhattan, and fourth at Theater for the New City. In addition, he has had numerous one-acts produced at various theaters and festivals in New York and Los Angeles, including the Strawberry Festival, the Turnip Festival, Love Creek, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and West Coast Ensemble. He has been a featured artist in the LES Festival for the past decade. His play Great Kills starred Joe Pantoliano. Asterisk, his play about the baseball steroid crisis, was archived by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Recently, he completed his first novel, Good Money After Bad.

Jonathan Weber (director) – As Director, credits include: Great Kills (featuring Emmy Award-winner Joe Pantoliano), A Healthy House, Age Out, Guaranteed to Never Lose Suction, Shock Therapy, Bear!, The Professor and the Whore, and The Irish Goodbye, all by Tom Diriwachter; Thelonious!, and Two Alone/Too Together by Peter Welch; two plays by Oliver Thrun and six by Walter Corwin. He was Assistant Director for TNC’s award-winning Summer Street Theater tour for 11 years, under the direction of Crystal Field. Jonathan is Managing Director for Theater for the New City. He has held this position since 2018 and previously from 2009 through 2014. His association with Theater for the New City goes back to 2002. He is a long-time member of the planning committees for TNC’s Love N’ Courage Benefit and the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary this Memorial Day weekend. He served as Managing Director for TACT/The Actors Company Theater from 2015 through 2018. He’s also Sharon’s husband, Madeline’s father and a member of SDC.

Meet the Cast
Steve Gamble (Tim) originally from Charlotte, NC, is a graduate of The University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he earned a BA in Film Studies with a minor in Theater. Now based in New York, NY, Steve is thrilled to collaborate once again with Director Jonathan Weber and writer Tom Diriwachter, their first being on A Healthy House in 2022. With experience spanning both stage and screen, Steve has brought depth and versatility to a variety of supporting and lead roles.

Bob Homeyer (Father) has been working as a writer and actor in New York for the past 15 years. He has appeared in two prior productions written by Tom Diriwachter and directed by Jonathan Weber; Age Out (2010) and Great Kills (2015), in addition to several of Tom’s one acts for the Lower East Side Festival. Other credits include Christopher Marlowe’s Julius Caesar (also co-writer and director), Three of a Kind with Two Wild Cards (also writer and director), Sign in the Six O’Clock Sky, Grand Theft Musical, Three Mile Limit, An American Worker, Rebecca Bonnie Bob, and Creditors. Follow Bob on Instagram at @bobhomeyer.

Kate A. McGrath* (Mother) – Film credits include Julia in “Clandestine” (Best Supporting Actress Award winner, Houston Broadcast Film Critics Award – David LaRosa, Director); Maryann in “DEALeR” (Screenwriting nomination, 2nd Annual Golden Door International Film Festival – Nick DeMatteo, Director); Bird in “Requiem” (David LaRosa, Director); Connie MacStevenson in “The Tale of Nicky Newarkˆ (David LaRosa, Director); Nina in “Lock-Load-Love” (David LaRosa, Director); Jess in “Running Time” (JR Timmons, Director), Kate in “Superstar Talent” (Lenny Marcus, Director). Stage Credits include CATAPULT! at Theater for the New City, Life Without Parole at Manhattan Rep, Weep for the Virgins at Irish Repertory Theatre, Guaranteed Never to Lose Suction and Stops (Along the Road) at Theater for a New City, The Blue Room with Black Nexxus in conjunction with Susan Batson, No Way Out with Impetuous Theatre Group, Sustaining at Manhattan Theatre Source, MotherLove at Creative Artists Lab and The Last Resort at Chashama Theatre. Screenwriting credits include “Clandestine” (2016), “The Basement” (as part of “Requiem”, 2013) and “DEALeR” (2012).

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

THE SIX PATHS

February 19 – February 23, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

ONE WEEK ONLY!

Tickets: $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 100 minutes, no intermission
CABARET THEATER

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

Inspired by a short story named “Coi Luan Hoi” by Than Long and translated by Trang Ha, The Six Paths is a spiritual exploration of Vietnamese Buddhism, telling the story of a young demon who grapples with his identity and purpose in the universe. Through his transformative journey toward enlightenment, the play delves into themes of self-realization, cultural identity, and the search for belonging. It spans approximately 70 pages and is divided into two acts, blending traditional Buddhist concepts with contemporary theatrical innovation. At its core, The Six Paths seeks to resonate with audiences emotionally, offering a window into Vietnamese culture while also reflecting our shared human experiences. This story can inspire conversations about identity, existence, and the meaning of life.

About the playwright:
My Le is a playwright, director, and theater designer from Vietnam. In 2022, she became the youngest director in Vietnam to ever debut at The Hanoi Opera House. She has worked with prestigious theaters in New York such as Theater for The New City, Theaterlab, New Perspective Theatre, JACK NY, Krymov Lab NYC, and Little Island.

CAST
Harsh as Demon 1
Belle Le as Female Spirit
TuQuyen Pham as Ly Ly
Amy Hart Nguyễn as White Demon
Siwapol Andy McMurray as Black Demon and Old Farmer
Mia Rouba M.Kiss as The Ox puppeteer and Human
Đavid Lee Huỳnh as Dia Tang (Voiceover)
VyVy Nguyễn as Mother (Voiceover)

PRODUCTION
Playwright – My Le
Director – My Le
Co-producer – Thi Le
Marketing and PR Manager – CeCe Lindsey
Stage Manager – Callie Stribling
Choreographer – Jeevika Bhat
Sound Designer – Joshua Nguyen
Puppet Designer – Yanniv Frank
Light Design – Nicholas Spink