Wednesday 5/21 – 7pm
NODDING OFF by Emily Chadick Weiss
directed by R.J. Tolan

Tuesday 5/27 – 7pm
GUIDANCE by Daria Polatin
directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
*reading on the 6th floor of EST – 549 W. 52nd Street*

Saturday 5/31 – 3pm
ALMOST STUCK by Steven Levenson
directed by Evan Cabnet

Saturday 5/31 – 7pm
EASYBAKE by Lucy Alibar
directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni

Wednesday 6/4 – 7pm
PRINCES OF WACO by Robert Askins
directed by Dylan McCullough

Tuesday 6/10 – 7pm
THUS HAVE I HEARD: TALES OF THE LAST BODHISATTVA
by Jesse Cameron Alick
directed by Andrew Russell

Wednesday 6/11 – 7pm
BRIDGES AND BOUNDARIES by Courtney Brooke Lauria
directed by Jordan Young

Saturday 6/14 – 3pm
THE GATED COMMUNITY OF ANHEDONIA FINDS JOY by Michael Sendrow
directed by R.J. Tolan

Saturday 6/14 – 7pm
A FINE LINE by Delaney Britt Brewer
directed by Jordan Young

Tuesday 6/17 – 7pm
THE SILENCE NEXT DOOR by Jihan Crowther
directed by Dominic D’Andrea

Wednesday 6/18 – 7pm
PLAN Z by Justin Deabler
directed by Giovanna Sardelli

Wednesday 6/25 – 7pm
NEANDERTHAL LOVE by Michael Lew

Saturday 6/28 – 7pm
HEARING THINGS a new musical by Matt Schatz
directed by Carlos Armesto

Featuring Polly ADAMS, Leslie AYVASIAN, Jeremy BECK, Jeff BIEHL, Bill BOWERS, Steve BOYER, Geneva CARR, Chris CERASO, Cindy CHEUNG, Michael CRANE, Michael Cyril CREIGHTON, Lucy DEVITO, Jenny GREER, Kristin GRIFFITH, Chad HOEPPNER, Lian-Maria HOLMES, David HURWITZ, Haskell KING, Courtney LAURIA, Norman LEE, Adam MacLEAN, Meg McQUILLAN, Anne O’SULLIVAN, Maya PARRA, John PIRIE, Shawn RANDALL, James REBHORN, Monica RAYMUND, Debargo SANYAL, Ted SCHNEIDER, Heidi SCHRECK, Grant SHAUD, Howard SHERMAN, Victor SLEZAK, Liam TORRES, Candice THOMPSON, Colleen WERTHMAN, Audrey Lynn WESTON

On the Way to Timbuktu

Written and Performed by: Petronia Paley*
Directed by: Talvin Wilks*

December 6-21, 2007

Dr. Selene Slater-Bernaud, also known as Slim, teaches a class scrutinizing Shakespeare's sonnets titled "The Poetics of Race...The Politics of Beauty." After years in a caring interracial marriage, she finds herself in love with a female student. Grappling with personal demons that threaten to destroy her, Slim's past and present collide as she confronts the poetry and politics of her heart.

Musical Composition: Min Xiao-Fen Set
Lighting Design: Maruti Evans
Costume Design: Suzanne Chesney
Projection Design: Maya Ciarrocchi

*Denotes a member of Ensemble Studio Theater

Producing Artistic Director: Elizabeth Van Dyke

A Song for Coretta 
by Pearl Cleage

Sweet Maladies
by Zakiyyah Alexander

Floating Under Water 
by France-Luce Benson

directed by Matt M. Morrow

River Poetry Slam Jam  

with Hasna Muhammad, Maria Chisolm, Melissa Maxwell, and Bridgette Wimberley

Puberty Rites
by Elaine Jackson

directed by Woodie King, Jr.

Uncle
by Eleanor Herman

directed by Henry Miller

When January Feels Like Summer
by Cori Thomas

directed by Chuck Patterson

The Resurrection of Alice
by Perri Gaffney

directed Talvin Wilks

The Irresistible Death Club
by Kathleen McGhee-Anderson

directed by Charles Randolph White

Boscoe and the Devil
adapted by Ruby Dee

(adapted from "How John Boscoe Outsung the Devil" by AP Davis)

choreographed by Dyane Harvey

music by Gregg Payne and DK Dyson

directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke

Every year, Youngblood presents a series of readings of brand new full-length plays, written by Youngblood members over the course of the season. This year, we have a bumper crop of Youngblood playwrights new and old.

We are proud to present Bloodworks 2007:

Weds. May 9 – Justin Deabler

Mon. May 14 – Emily Conbere

Weds. May 16 – Sharyn Rothstein

Mon. May 21 – Qui Nguyen

Weds. May 23 – Michael Sendrow

Weds. May 30 – Emily Chadick Weiss

Weds. June 13 – Delaney Britt Brewer

Thurs. June 14 – Courtney Brooke Lauria

Mon. June 18 – Matt Schatz

Weds. June 20 – Jihan Crowther

All the readings are free, and there are no reservations required.

All Readings:

7pm
The Landmark Tavern – 2nd floor
W. 46th Street at 11th Avenue