MUSES: Full-Length Play. (3F, 1M)
Theatre East Presents Muses
In Muses, a painter must confront the unthinkable actions of her estranged husband after a teenage girl shows up at her studio door. Muses explores the complicated and sometimes compromising relationship between an artist and their subject. What’s the cost of speaking up? Is art activism… or the illusion of activism?
Muses ran from May 11 - June 3, 2023 at The Court Square Theatre in Long Island City, directed by Judson Jones and produced by Theatre East.
Blacksheep
Blacksheep
BLACKSHEEP: One-Act Play. (2F)
Sisters from a "one-percent" family clash heads when one becomes heavily involved in Occupy Wall Street.
Off-Broadway Premiere
2016 Actors Studio Drama School Reparatory Season. Dir - Chelsea B. Lockie. Featuring Mia Christo and Kathleen Simmonds.
Set Design: Shawn Lewis. Lighting Design: Derek Van Heel. Sound Design: Sean Hagerty. Projection Design: Dan Scully. Props Design: Brittany Loesch. Costume Designer: David "DW" Withrow. Scenic Painter: Russell Stadler. Photos by Scott Wynn. Special thanks to Ken Urso.
Karula's Dream Show Live
KARULA’S DREAM SHOW LIVE: an original, interactive comedy series. Livestreaming soon on Twitch!
Karula's Dream Show Live
KARULA’S DREAM SHOW LIVE: an original, interactive comedy series. Livestreaming soon on Twitch!
Starring Kim Berrios Lin & Kate Taney Billingsley
Created & Written by Julia Rae Maldonado
Produced by GirlSoup Collective.
FOR MORE INFO follow @karulasdreamshow on Instagram.
The series is based on the interactive zoom play developed with TheatreEast as part of the 2020 5x5 Drama Series.
Little Machine
Little Machine
LITTLE MACHINE: Full-Length Play (2M, 3F, 1M or F)
AVAILABLE FOR WORLD PREMIERE
Space... a Martian transport carrying secret government cargo is hijacked by the cutest assassin in the universe. Everybody dies in this sci-fi comedy.
TheatreEast's Artistic Director Judson Jones described Little Machine as "one of the most vibrant, raucous satires I've heard in a long time. Smart, perfectly irreverent, and undeniably relevant. Maldonado has a voice that needs to be heard."
THEATRE EAST’S LIVE REMOTE READING
Performed Live via Facebook on May 26th, 2020.
Directed by Bianca Puorto
Featuring performances by Elsbeth Denman, Jeff Gorcyca, Grant Emerson Harvey, Geoffrey Hymers, Laura Kay, Shelby Rebecca Wong & Yhá Mourhia Wright with original music by Jeff Gorcyca.
Theatre East @ Bronx Brewery
LITTLE MACHINE kicked off the first inaugural BOOGIE DOWN & LOUD Reading Series at The Bronx Brewery, May 26th 2017. All seven original cast members from the Actors Studio Drama School returned for an encore performance.
Laura Kay, Shelby Wong, Jeff Gorcyca, Geoffrey Hymers and Yhá Mourhia Wright.
Actors Studio Drama School
Staged Reading at Actors' Studio Drama School @ Pace University.
February 27th 2016, 4PM. Dir - Bianca Puorto. Featuring Elsbeth Denman, Jeff Gorcyca, Grant Harvey, Geoffrey Hymers, Laura Kay, Shelby Wong, and Yha Mourhia Wright. Original music by Jeff Gorcyca.
We Three
We Three
WE THREE: Ten Minute Play. (3F, 1M)
Witchcraft and Politics collide when a coven of three teenagers take justice into their own hands...
Short Film
WE THREE directed by Chelsea B. Lockie and written by Julia Rae Maldonado premiered as a part of Make/Shift’s SHE Creates Arts Festival.
WE THREE is a GirlSOUP film featuring performances by Yessenia Rivas, Shelby Rebecca Wong, Lizzy Jarrett and Peter Ferraiolo. DP, Michael Lamarra. Editing and Sound by Nestor Bongabong.
TheatreEast 5x5 Drama Series
Dir. Chelsea B. Lockie. Featuring Shelby Rebecca Wong, Yessenia Rivas, Cristina Castro and Peter Ferraiolo. 2018.
Wimberley
Wimberley
WIMBERLEY: One-Act Play (2M)
Evan, a long-lost vagabond returns back to the small Texas town to see his best friend and foster brother and untangle a complicated past... but Evan wants far more than his old friend is able to give.
Fresh Fruit 2018 MainStage
Mind the Gap: An Evening of Short Plays – July 18 at 6:30 pm, July 21 at 7 pm.
Dir - Bianca Puorto. Featuring Josh Trant and Peter Ferraiolo.
Short Film
A film adaptation of Wimberley is currently in pre-production directed by Bianca Puorto and Starring Peter Ferraiolo and Josh Trant.
Midtown International Theatre Festival: Fall 2016
WINNER! OUTSTANDING DIRECTION!
Directed by Michael Blatt & Bianca Puorto. Starring Peter Ferraiolo and Josh Trant.
Eggs
"The problems of an outsider brought to a head..." - Begegung der Kulturen
Eggs
"The problems of an outsider brought to a head..." - Begegung der Kulturen
EGGS: Full-Length Play (1M, 1F)
When street-smart Lydia is up against a wall with bills to pay and a visa in jeopardy, she comes up with a last-ditch plan to stay in New York City: Enter the illegal surrogacy racket. If only she could convince her live-in boyfriend Troy to be cool with her carrying another man's baby...
Staged Reading at St. Francis College
An updated version of 'Eggs' was presented thanks to a fellowship from St. Francis College in May 2017. The reading was directed by Bianca Puorto and featured performances by Kim Rios Lin and Gerrard James.
Label Gray
Produced in 2013 by Label Gray at MUT! Theatre, Hamburg Germany, and as part of the Interkultural Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. Received second run at the MUT! Theatre, Hamburg, Germany in 2014.
A review in Begegung der Kulturen says: "The problems of being an outsider brought to a head... Eggs portrays a woman in an extreme situation and the director Rayka Kobiella has a sharp and almost aggressive directorial style. [Lydia] is a tough fighter and Miriam Ibrahim sweeps forcefully across the stage." [translated from the German text].
This production also was reviewed at Hamburgtheater.de. (German language.) "JRM tells the rich, multifaceted story of Lydia and Troy at a quick pace in 'Eggs', this year's opening piece in the Eigenarten Festival."
In The Basement
In The Basement
IN THE BASEMENT: One-Act Play. (3F)
The perfect basement apartment in Williamsburg may be too good to be true after all.
TheatreEast 5x5 Drama Series
Theatre East 5x5 Drama Series. Dir. Daniel Hasse. Featuring Emily Verla, Kelsey Sheppard, and Rachel Caplan
Emily Verla and Kelsey Sheppard in TheatreEast's Manhattan performance of IN THE BASEMENT.
WINNER - 2nd Prize
Dir - Chelsea Lockie. Featuring Shelby Wong, Melody Wilson and Jeannine Scarpino.
Nuance Theatre Nu. 10 Play Festival
Real Life
Real Life
REAL LIFE: Ten-Minute Play. (1M, 1F)
A free spirited teenager tries to convince the Walmart employee she just got fired to run away with her to New Mexico.
Produced by the First Look Theatre company in 2006.
Real Life appears in full in Gary Garrison's book, A (More) Perfect 10: Writing and Producing the 10 Minute Play and A Younger 10: Writing the 10 Minute Play.
