Sticky at Under Saint Marks
May 17th, 7:30 pm
The play: Blackbird Bluebird
a mother’s last visit with her daughter before prison
The writer: t.tara turk is a novelist/playwright/screenwriter whose work has appeared at the LA’s Company of Angels, Hip Hop Theater Festival, the Actor's Studio, EST and the Kennedy Center. Her fiction has most recently appeared in the international anthology “X:24.” She graduated from Sarah Lawrence, receiving the Lipkin Playwrighting Award, completed the Cosby Screenwriting Program and the Producer’s Guild Diversity Workshop. Her short films have appeared in various festivals and she recently won Best Screenplay at AAWIC and is an Urbanworld 2012 Screenplay Finalist. www.ttaraturk.com and follow her @ttaraturk
a gun slinging bachelorette party
The writer: Jacquetta Szathmari is a NYC-based writer and comedian. Her work has been called “crackingly” smart, politically incorrect, hilarious, and down right offensive. Best known for her solo show "That's funny. You didn't sound black on the phone." and her interview in "How to Be Black", Szathmari is also cohost of the popular Hey YouKnow It podcast. In her left hand she holds a degree from Sarah Lawrence College; in her right her a Libertarian Party membership card. Find out more at www.biggunsbigtobacco.com and follow her @jacquetta
The play: True Story
starring an Indian actress who’s not Indian enough
The writer: Nandita Shenoy’s one-act plays Marrying Nandini, By PopularDemand, and Rules of Engagementhave been produced in New York City, and her full-length, Lyme Park: An Austonian Romance of an Indian Nature received aworkshop production at the Round House Theater outside Washington, DC.Nandita’s plays have been read at the Kennedy Center, the Asian AmericanWriters’ Workshop, Salaam Theater, the Bleecker Street Theater, The Lark PlayDevelopment Center, and Red Harlem Readers. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab and holds a BA inEnglish from Yale University.
The play: I Saw You
an old man is hounded at his favorite bistro
The writer: Debbie Jones startedon the Lower East Side and here she is back – with Sticky. Her plays have beenproduced by New Voice, The Mint, Manhattan Class Company and on theatre row. Sheis the recipient of the prestigious Berilla Kerr Award for her body of work inNew York theatre and has been designated one of the “Top 50 to Watch” by theDramatists’ Guild. Jones is afounding member of Dora Mae Productions and author of Tales of Wonder from the Garden State. She is pleased Libby Emmons is directing I Saw You here at Sticky.
The Play: Get Me/Get Me Back
about refusing to read your best friend’s blog
The writer: Libby Emmons is co-producer of the Sticky series. She often writes plays for herself and director Ali Ayala to perform, and this play is part of that project. Libby's plays include Zeropia (Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission), The Girls from Afar (Desipina & Co., East West Players, Open Rehearsal at INTAR, finalist Yale Drama Series), The Little Room (finalist Eugene O’Neill Conference, BBC International Radio Play Competition), Connie in Detroit (blue box world & Bowery Poetry Club; TARTE Festival, NYC, 2011), leaving last night (EBE Ensemble, 2010), RU610 (Williamstown Theater Festival commission, 2007) Dirty & Leo in Tokyo (Sanctuary Playwrights Workshop, NYC), and I Am Not an Allegory (These Are People I Know) (blue box world at Bowery Poetry Club, 2012), among others. Another Libby/Ali play, “Animal/Animal,” anticipates 2013 publication in
Smith & Kraus’ Best Short Plays of 2013, and “The Worm Turns at the Fort Peck Hotel” was published by The New York Theater Review. BA: Sarah Lawrence College; MFA: Columbia University. Get personal at www.li88yinc.com
The Play: Mutual Appreciation Society
an overeducated student who wants out
The writer: Michael Niederman is exited to be part of Sticky again! His previous plays with blue box were Last Call, American Hosanna, Bavarian Fish, and The Ending of All Things. His other work has been seen in theaters
in and around New York City, including Theater Row, Second Stage, The
Actors Studio, and HERE Arts center. He's a native of New York, and
would like to think this urban upbringing influences all of his writing.
He is currently teaching English for sixth graders in Queens.
The play: Prohibition Blues
a mini-musical set in an old speakeasy
The writer: For the past two years Kara Ayn Napolitano has been developing plays and musicals with Writopia Lab, a school for writers age 6 to 18. She is currently the Artistic Director of their ongoing festival, the Worldwide Plays Festival. In New York she has directed and assistant directed for companies such as Writopia Lab, Working Man's Clothes (NY IT award winners), Blue Box World's Sticky Series, and Curious Frog. Kara is the co-founder of Drift In, Act Out Theatre company, based in NYC. Her produced plays include: Life Recital (musical), No Baby In Me (musical) and Plane Play. Kara is also a professional Speech Level Singing and TriYoga teacher. www.KaraAyn.com
