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JULY 2012
New Ohio Theatre presents
ICE FACTORY 2012
JULY 4 – 7
FLYING SNAKES IN 3D
Produced by Everywhere Theatre Group
Written & Directed by Leah Nanako Winkler & Teddy Nicholas
Video/Sound Design by Chase Voorhees
Flying Snakes in 3-D is an epic fusion of sci-fi parody, the avant-garde, and brutally autobiographical elements, in which a young and broke theater company challenge themselves to the ultimate task in order to pack the houses: to successfully make a play that is better suited for film. What they come up with is “Flying Snakes in 3-D,”where mutant killer snakes are accidentally released from CIA-enlisted scientific headquarters under the setting of earth under attack, and violent, bloody chaos ensues. Will The Heroes be able to defeat the snakes? Will the theatre company be able to make their play succeed in the face of overwhelming financial, technical and emotional obstacles? Packed with dance, cheap special effects, and absolutely stunning video design, this tongue-in-cheek parody wildly entertains while daring to ask the question: If theater is a dying art, why are we still making it?
JUNE 2012
-Mon 6/4 @ 9 pm
A reading of my new play, DIVERSITY AWARENESS PICNIC at The Ensemble Studio Theater as part of Youngblood’s BLOODWORKS. Information and reservations TBA.
MAY 2012
- MAY 7TH at BAR 82
A reading of a piece I wrote for Joseph Fink/ Commonplace Books project: What It Means To Be a Grown-Up: The Complete and Definitive Answer, in which writers, artists, and comedians from across the country respond to the question “What does it mean to be a grown-up?”.
There will be readings and performances from contributors. Also beer and talking with other people and interactive things that you can interact with. Come join with us in celebrating being a grown-up. You know, whatever that means.
-MAY 15TH @ The CHERRY LANE THEATER
I’ll have a play as part of Asian and… an evening of scenes and readings that will take place at the Cherry Lane Theater on May 15th. Here is a little bit more info about Asian And…:
WAPRIL 2012
MONDAY 4/9 @ 7PM
THE ROOM @ NEW GEORGES
RSVP @ leahnana@gmail.com
Death For Sydney Black is a play that deconstructs destructive female stereotypes through appropriation and release. Borrowing from contemporary tropes such as ”teen comedy” as well as classical fairy tale narratives, the play highlights the untenable standards girls are subjected to daily while encouraging uncensored, brutal insights about womanhood. The play centers on Nancy, a young girl newly arrived from a magical forest, Jen, her token minority sidekick and and Sydney Black, the evil queen of the high school
that must be brought down. We also meet three cheerleaders who are starving, beautiful and desperate, and the charming jock, Brad (played by the actress who plays Sydney Black). As Jen speaks, sings and raps various versions of a familiar story where the unpopular girl becomes popular, as harsh realities are remembered and roles are reversed, the girls realize they’ve been stuck in the same narrative since the dawn of fairytales through “chickflicks” in 2012 and beyond.
Starring…..
Nancy Upton ( as featured on the The Today Show, Huffington Post, Jezebel), comedian Jen Kwok(NBC’s Standup for Diversity, “Eat, Pray, Love”), Lindsay Mack ( FLYING SNAKES IN 3-D!!!) along with the amazingly awesome Lillian Rodriguez, Susannah Jones and Emily Kratter as The Three Cheerleaders!!!!
Directed by Kip Fagan and Leah Nanako, support by New Georges and Kara Lynn Vaeni
Are you a producer? Industry? Email me at Leahnana@gmail.com and I will reserve you a seat!
MAKE SURE YOU RSVP TO ME IF YOU WANT A GUARANTEED SEAT!
Wine and snack reception to follow!
THE ROOM @ New Georges
520 8th Avenue, New York, New York 3rd Floor
Monday, 4/9/12 at 7 pm
-APRIL 1st: My play, ARCH NEMISIS will be a part of Ensemble Studio Theater’s April Fools Brunch!
FEBRUARY 2012
FEB 5TH: I will be a participating playwright in PIPER McKENZIE’s DAINTY CADAVER
More info at http://www.pipermckenzie.com/
FEB 24th: Sydney Black table read at New Georges- directed by Kara Lynn Vaeni
JANUARY 2012
BUY TICKETS HERE
January 18 – 28, 2012
Created collaboratively by Everywhere Theatre Group
Stage Direction: Leah Nanako Winkler
Co-Direction and Choreography: Lindsay Mack
Sound and Video Design/Direction: Chase Voorhees
Lighting and Scenic Design: Barbara Elderidge, Matt Taylor
Text: Leah Nanako Winkler and Teddy Nicholas
Stage Management: Raffaela Vergata
Featuring: Kim Gainer*, Lindsay Mack, Cory Hibbs, Jen Kwok, Peter Mills-Weiss, T Ramon Campbell, Chris Tyler, Eevin Hartsough*, Heather Lee Rogers, Molly Gray, Brett Hunter, David Weinheimer, Tim Platt and Tricia Cramer
*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
- FOURTH IS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ON JAN 7TH & 8TH AT 11:30
Arranged by Tommy Smith
Featuring text from the actual drug journals of prominent authors, musicians and philosophers who never intended to have their journals published. A music-heavy text mashup, FORTH is a hallucinatory sound play exploration of the opiatic state as experienced by geniuses.
Click for more pictures from the show!
Directed by Meiyin Wang
Additional text by Leah Winkler
January 7th & 8th @ 11:30 pm
$15 / $10 for students or unemployed (online code: BROKEASS)
55 33rd St., 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232
D, N, R to 36th St.
DECEMBER 2011
Rehearsals for FLYING SNAKES IN 3D!!! coming to The Brick Theater Jan 18-28th, 2012.
NOVEMBER 2011
-November 10-November 27th DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK will be produced by Thinking Cap Theater at the Empire Stage in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Starring Shira Abergel, Axy Carrion-Bannon, Nicole Stodard, Sarah Siegel, & Natasha Waisfeld. Purchase tickets online at http://thinkingcaptheatre.com Cash only at door.
November 16-8 p.m- FLYING SNAKES IN 3D! will be perform as part of Ars Nova Ant Fest. Get your tickets here
Check out their site for details.
Forth
A radio documentary.
with text by Walker Benjamin, Jean Cocteau, Kurt Cobain & Leah Winkler
and songs by Cat Power, R. Kelly and Nine Inch Nails.
arranged by Tommy Smith
Details:
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__ _ __ ___ _ ___ __ SHORT PLAYS ___ __ _ _ ___ ___ For the Love of Brandon by BEN ROSENTHAL
Directed by Chris Sullivan Henley by BRIAN OTANO Directed by Eva Schelbaum I Don’t Want to Read Your Blog written and directed LEAH NANAKO WINKLER |
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____ ______ ______ ___ __ _ ___ with _______ __ ______ __ _ _ _ ___ __
SLOW ANIMAL –> http://slowanimal.bandcamp.com/
HEAVEN’S GATE –> http://heavensgate.bandcamp.com/
PERFECT TEETH –> http://tinyurl.com/44alo8g
($7 /// doorzat eight, soundzat nine)
PONY SHOW Presents w/ SSG
OCTOBER 2011
- Come see ASKING FOR TROUBLE is EST/Youngblood’s annual speed-theater freakout.
Last week 25 Youngblood Playwrights drew a director, a cast and a song from a hat, and then had one week to write a script for that director and cast. Inspired by (and utilizing) that song. Rehearsing now are 95 actors & 25 directors who will bring you some of the freshest plays you’ll see this year!
ASKING FOR TROUBLE will be performed in four series. I am in Series D.
A single Series ticket is $12
2 Series for $20
3 Series for $30
4 Series for $36
SERIES D (performs Thu 10/6 @ 9pm, Sat 10/8 @ 3pm & 11pm)
Writers: Rachel Bonds, Ryan Dowler, Mary Hamilton, Anna Moench, Michael Walek & Leah Nanako Winkler. Directors: Knud Adams, Jeremy Bloom, Shoshona Currier, John Giampietro*, Colette Robert & Allie Woods. Actors: Anna Aronson, Pepper Binkley+, Eddie Boroevich*+, Dave Brown, Lucia Brizzi, Molly Carden, Frank deJulio, Darcy Fowler, Sam Gilroy, Tiffany Greene+, Grant Harrison, Lou Liberatore*+, Irene Longshore+, Erin Mallon+, Jo Mei, Eugene Oh, Jay Patterson*+, Gio Perez+, Erin Roberts+, Diana Ruppe*+, Ean Sheehy+, & Jonathan Randell Silver+
*denotes EST Member
+ denotes Equity Member
Leah will begin rehearsal for FLYING SNAKES IN 3D!
SEPTEMBER 2011
Accepted as a member of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s collective of emerging professional playwrights under the age of 30.
AUGUST 2011
*Leah was selected as a semi-finalist for the P73 Fellowship*
*FLYING SNAKES IN 3D* , Everywhere Theatre Group’s latest show, was selected for ANT FEST at Ars Nova*
August 23-27: Leah will be continuing collaboration as a writer on The Food Project lead by Pirrone Yousefzadeh and Lauren Feldman, on a fellowship at the The Space at Ryder Farm. She is also….
* continuing text work on DEAD PEOPLE with Everywhere Theatre Group- which had a sold-out run at Ice Factory! Thanks guys! *
JUNE and JULY 2011
-Selected as a semi-finalist for 2012 Princess Grace Award in playwrighting, for DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK
Writing text, co -directing and collaboratively creating a full length version of DEAD PEOPLE with Everywhere Theatre Group, as part of Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory ( part of the ice cube studio series) at 3LD Art And Technology Center. Showtimes 9 p.m. on July 14th and July 15th- get your tickets here.
present
DEAD PEOPLE
collaboratively created and directed by Everywhere Theatre Group
(Teddy Nicholas, Leah Winkler, Chase Voorhees and Lindsay Mack)
part of the Ice Cubes Studio Series
JULY 14 & 15th – 9PM
@ 3 Legged Dog
purchase tickets here
original text by Teddy Nicholas and Leah Winkler
video by Chase Voorhees
choreography by Lindsay Mack
Beth sits at a laptop late at night, typing away to a faceless society. Slowly, her facade of humanity melts, uncovering the inner cruelty she inflicts upon others and herself. Focusing on the destructive nature of relentlessly driven people encumbered with everyday failure, DEAD PEOPLE fuses together elements of surrealism, dance, horror and cinematic video projections, to uncover the darkness inside us that emerges when the lines of reality begin to deteriorate.
MAY 2011
*Leah was accepted as a member of 2011-2012 New Perspective Theater’s Women’s Work Lab*
May 15th: Reading of DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK at Thinking Cap Theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Directed by Nicole Stoddard.
May 14th-15th: Workshop and reading of DEATH FOR SYDNEY BLACK at Luna Theater in Philadelphia, PA.
Featuring: Melissa Dunphy, Caroline Blasius, Haley McCormick, Katy O’Leary, Kristen Egermeier and Gina Martino
Directed by Gregory Scott Campbell
May 12th: In house presentation of OUR FOOD PLAY collaboration with Lauren Feldman,Pirrone Yousefzadeh at New York Theatre Workshop.
May 9th: My short play, DEAD PEOPLE will be at Little Theatre@ Dixon Place. Tickets available here. Show starts at 7:30.
APRIL 2011
April 15: Workshop performance at the The PIT for collaboration with Jen Kwok’s new solo show, “Wish Come True“ along with Juliet Jeske who is directing. Tix are availble here. Hope to see you on Friday 4/15 at 7pm!
April 27, 29, 30- rejoining workshops for Food/Farming collaboration lead by Lauren Feldman and Pirrone Yousefzadeh.
MARCH 2011
Week of March 1-6: Joining workshops for Food/Farming collaboration lead by Lauren Feldman,Pirrone Yousefzadeh at New Georges.
FEBRUARY 2011
February 11 and 12th @ 8 p.m: Leah’s ten-minute play, Bieber Bug will perform as part of Leon Pease’s Friend Me A Festival of Short Plays and Performances . Featuring the illustrious Emily Kratter, directed by the amazing Shelley Butler. At Centerstage NY, 48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor, Buzzer 401#New York, NY. Tickets are $10, buy them online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/155683.
February 10 @ 8 p.m.: A workshop presentation of Death for Sydney Black will be presented by Terra Nova Collective at Incubator Arts Project as part of the 2010 Groundbreakers Reading Series. Directed by Mallory Catlett, featuring Nicole Hodges, Jen Kwok, Emily Kratter, Lauren Marcus, Jenny Gomez and Rachel Radenburg. At Incubator Arts Project, (131 East 10th Street at 2nd Avenue). FREE.
JANUARY 2011
Continuing work on the development of Death for Sydney Black
Beginning writing collaboration with comedianne/actress/writer/ukeplayer Jen Kwok on TBA 2011 show
DECEMBER 2010
On the evening of Monday, December 6th, there will be a benefit for Terra Nova Theater Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwright Group. at HERE Arts Center located at:
145 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
(212) 647-0202
There will be ten-minute plays written by the participating writers (which includes me!) performed that evening. Please join us from 7:30-10 p.m.!
NOVEMBER 2010
Leah will be directing “From A Different Place” by Jeff Helgeson as part of The Variations Theatre Group, 2010 Harvest One-Act Festival. Show-times are: November 10th at 9:15 p.m. and November 13th at 7:00 p.m.
for reservations, please visit:
www.variationstheatregroup.com
AUGUST 2010
*Leah was accepted as a member of Terra Nova Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwright Group for the development of her play, Death For Sydney Black from August-December 2011.
August 10-21, 2011
A multi-media piece I am writing and directing text for ( with Everywhere Theatre Group) called:
THE INTERNET
will premiere at
INCUBATOR ARTS PROJECT
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
(at 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
For more information visit
http://www.incubatorarts.org/
or
http://www.everywheretheatre.org
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