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The 7th of October
commissioned by The Working Theater
by Linda Faigao-Hall
directed by Mark Plesent
with Robert Arcaro, Ted Deasy, Sarah Gifford, Ernest Mingione, Ramon de Ocampo, Thom Rivera, Curtis Mark Williams and William Wise
Access Theater
High above the rest of Manhattan, the worksite of a skyscraper in progress is its own insular world. When a gay man shatters that world by coming out to his coworkers, it will take more than concrete and steel to rebuild it. A frank look at the insidious nature of intolerance, The 7th of October takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster ride through the terrain of human sexuality.
Abundance
commissioned by The Working Theater
written and directed by Marty Pottenger
original music by Terry Dame
with Sam Gordon, Darci Picoult, Socorro Santiago and John Douglas Thompson
with musicians Terry Dame, Julian Hintz and Danielle Jablonski
Access Theater
Obie-award winner, Marty Pottenger takes the nation’s economic temperature in this tragic musical comedy on the taboo world of household budgets, bank accounts and credit cards. Developed through two years of interviews with millionaires and minimum wage workers across the United States, Abundance asks “How much do we have?” and “What is enough?” (http://abundanceproject.net)
Reconstruction
commissioned by The Working Theater
by Herman Daniel Farrell III
directed by John Steber
with June Ballinger, Jon Krupp, Tracey A. Leigh, Novella Nelson, Charles Parnell and Stephen Schnetzer
Access Theater
“I know nothing, I am nothing,” a young black woman suffering from amnesia tells her doctor in a Manhattan psychiatric hospital. The attempt to reconstruct her memory from fragments leads to extraordinary revelations about race, identity and ultimately, the foundation of knowledge.