ANNOUNCING OUR SUMMER SEASON!!!!
BODY NEGATIVE by Sarah Galante
MAY 29th
Residential Rooftop in Greenpoint
Sarah Galante
(she/her) is a queer playwright and fat activist based in Brooklyn, where she lives with her spouse and their neurotic corgi, Hoagie. She’s been writing plays since she was nine—each one, she likes to think, a little better than the last. Full-length plays include Swallow Me Whole (2025 Workshop Production at The Tank, 2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, 2025 National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2024 Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Prize Finalist), Body Negative (2025-6 Workshop Production with Broadway Bods, 2025 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2025 Faultline Theater Company’s Irons in the Fire Reading Series Finalist), Baby Can’t Speak (Workshop with GhostLit Repertory Theater Company), Within Earshot (Independent Residency at the O’Neill Center, Concert at 54 Below), and Hear Me War (Production with the Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival, Commission from the Women’s Playwriting Cooperative). Sarah served as the scriptwriter for the National Philharmonic’s 2020–2021 virtual season and the 2021 PBS Holiday Concert Series, creating scripts for performances featuring Norm Lewis, Garth Brooks, and Michelle Obama, filmed everywhere from Mount Vernon to Lincoln Center. She was a finalist for the inaugural Terrence McNally Recovery Commission and a Core Apprentice at The Playwrights’ Center under the mentorship of Jen Silverman. Sarah creates theater that is fantastical, fat, and irreverent. MFA: NYU '27.
RUST BOUND RAGE by Dom Martello
June 9th
Pete’s Candy Store
Dom Martello
(they/she) is a transfemme playwright based in NYC. Their work has been developed at Syracuse University, The Road Theater, The Elif Collective’s FireWorks Lab, The Strides Collective’s Emerging Playwright Program, and The Workshop Theater. They are a 2024 O’Neill NPC semi-finalist for their play RED TIDE. The intersections of levity, interrogation, and transformation are the central tenets of their practice. They are beginning Brooklyn College's MFA in Playwriting in the fall.
OH, MUFFY! by Vincent Ireri Langan
June 28th
Zombie Hut
Vincent Ireri Langan
is a Kenyan and Irish-American playwright, director, and arts professional from Union, New Jersey. A recent graduate of Wesleyan University where he was awarded the J. Peter Adler ’80 Memorial Fund award for student directors, Vincent has written jokes that have appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “Good Morning America” and has collaborated on projects with HBO, CBS, Elara Pictures, and W-ABC7. His award-winning comedy Oh, Muffy! will be presented at the Garden State New Play Festival in collaboration with The New Jersey Play Lab and the Jersey City Theater Center in May 2025.
FOR CALAMITY JANE, ON HER DEEATHDAY by Sarah Groustra
July 12th
Residential Rooftop in Bed Stuy
Sarah Groustra
is a Brooklyn-based, Massachusetts-born playwright and theatermaker. Sarah's work has been produced off-Broadway at the SheNYC Festival (Winner, Best Script 2023), Soho Playhouse, and at regional theaters across the country. She was awarded the 2024 Austin Film Festival Stage Play Award, was a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chambers Award, and was named a 2022 Ascending Playwright by Yonder Window Theater Company. Sarah has developed new work with the Valdez Theatre Conference, Under Construction Playwright's Group (the Road Theater), Purple Light Palette Cohort, the Parsnip Ship, Forager Theater Company, and Historically Close Friends. Sarah is an alumna of Kenyon College (2022), the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals (2022), and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. sarahgroustra.com // @ladypoachedegg
CRUSHED BONES (AND OTHER VICES) by Kamila Boga
August 9th
Residential Rooftop in Washington Heights
Kamila Boga
(she/her) is a director, actor, and playwright from Los Angeles. Fueled by the belief that creatives are second responders, she develops and directs expressive, ensemble-driven work that turns tension into art. Currently, Kamila attends Columbia University, where she studies Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre Arts. Her plays have been developed by The Road Theatre Company, Boise Contemporary Theater, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, Horizon Theatre Company, and Dartmouth College. Kamila is thrilled to work with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate on new work.
MOURNING DOVES [OR, THE BIRD PLAY] by Imani Russell
August 23rd
Commercial Rooftop in the Lower East Side
Imani Russell
is a born&raised&representing Brooklyn artist, who works in theater and music as an actor, singer, writer, and consultant. Through their writing, they explore the connections between time, space, family, religion, queerness, and death-- and all the magic that lies within. In 2024, Imani was selected for Breaking the Binary’s 3rd annual festival of new work, and their commissioned scene will be published alongside their fellow TNB2S+ writers this year by Broadway Licensing. They also write music under the name NANí and released their debut album Cowboy Song in May 2024. Imani creates and practices art as an act of love+community.
CONGRATS to our FINALISTS AND SEMIFINALISTS!!!
FINALISTS:
Bella Panciocco
Claire Tumey
Delaney Kelly
Eleanor Evans-WIckberg
Esmé Maria Ng
George Copeland
Halley Platz
Jordyn Stoessel
Justin Borak
Keely L. Herrick
Kyle A Smith
Luis Roberto Herrera
Maddie Dennis-Yates
Madi Fabber
Sarah Jae Leiber
SEMIFINALISTS:
Adi Eshman
Adin Lenahan
Adrian Crawford
Alexis Hernandez
Anastasia West
Andrew Michael Reid
Anna Giacalone
Ashley Siflinger
Catherine Bloom
Clarissa Shirley
Courtney Taylor
Dominic Finocchiaro
Fleurette Modica
Greg Lakhan
Jonon Gansukh
Katherine Gwynn
M.D. Schaffer
Madison Fargo
Maksim Tsvetovat
Matt Minnicino
Mo Holmes
Molly Kate Babos
Noah T. Parnes
Rosa Thomas'
Sam Walsh
Shannon Horsey
Yide Cai
