Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The 2nd New York New Playwright Festival has begun!

Try to come out to one of the shows I am working on as part of Project Y's 2nd 
NEW YORK NEW PLAYWRIGHT FESTIVAL
this week at 380 Broadway at White Street (Access Theater)
February 4-9th, 2013

Tickets and info:


To see an interview I did with Martin Denton at NYTheatre.com about the festival and specifically my new docu-play, BEFORE & AFTER:



Wednesday, November 21, 2012

11/26/12: Reading of a new James McLindon play for iD Theatre


If you are in NYC the Monday after Thanksgiving, I will be directing "Story of My Life," a new play by James McLindon, as part of iD Theater's NYC Sit In reading series.





Check out the details for the Play reading - and let me know if you'll be there! It is listed as a 6:30pm start time this Monday, November 26th.

MB

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Looking for Plays for Feminine Mystique reading series

Looking for Plays for the 2013 reading series:

"50 years after The Feminine Mystique: plays about the new lives of modern women"  
In celebration and recognition of Betty Friedan's groundbreaking book, 
this year's plays will focus on the changing roles, attitudes, and perceptions of contemporary women.   All plays must feature a leading female character.  Writers of all genders and backgrounds encouraged to
submit. 


Email submissions only.  Put "FEMININE MYSTIQUE" in the subject line and email full play submissions to literary (AT) projectytheatre.org by December 20th for consideration for one of 6 readings throughout 2013.  

Check out www.projectytheatre.org for past readings and playwrights. 


Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Development with Sean Christopher Lewis

I am going to be working with the awesome and inspiring
Sean Christopher Lewis on his lovely play, GOODNESS,
this March.  Stay tuned for more info on this collaboration!

Friday, January 20, 2012

LoveSick - Half Rock Concert/Half Theatre in February

LoveSick  
or THINGS THAT DON'T HAPPEN
plays by Lia Romeo
songs by Tony Biancosino
conceived and directed by Michole Biancosino

February 3-25, 2012
$25 

Friday, July 29, 2011

Racey Plays Reading Series Next Up: GOODNESS on 8/15

Our Racey Plays Reading Series has been unbelievably successful so far.
Each reading has had its own unique location, cast of new and old PY actors, and
adoring audience to applaud and share a drink afterwards.

NEXT UP:


We're looking forward to this month's reading of "goodness" by Sean Christopher Lewis.
He has a very impressive bio for such a young guy, and we are proud be able to share this Philly guy with NYC.     SEAN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS’ plays have won the Kennedy Center’s Rosa Parks Award, the 2010 National New Play Network’s Smith Prize, a Barrymore Award from the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, a Central Ohio Critic’s Circle Citation, a National Performance Network Creation Fund Grant, the William Inge Fellowship and more. He served as National New Play Network Emerging Playwright in Residence at Interact Theatre in Philly and as Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Arts Center in Independence, Kansas. He can also be heard on the radio as a contributor to NPR'S This American Life.




Alex is a photographer known for taking her subjects back through the tragedies they lived in their past. Prisons and war are her subjects secrets and her style is one of re-living. When she meets a former child soldier now living in Maryland her ethics and safety are brought into question as her artistic style is met with a trauma she may not be ready for... Goodness is a play about what happens when we try to save people.

AUGUST 15th at 7pm
Hourglass Tavern on 46th between 8th and 9th ave
Did we mention that its FREE??!!

Monday, July 11, 2011

Winners Announced: Site/Sight Specific Video Monologue Contest

Here are the Winners of Project Y's Site/Sight Specific Video Monologue Contest....

Project Y's Top 5 Monologues are:


South Ferry, by Bara Swain
Guggenheim, by Catherine Weingarten
No Drama, by Benjamin Adair Murphy
Columbus Circle, by Leah Benavides
The Bird, Mike Mariano

Congratulations to the winners and BIG THANKS to everyone who submitted a monologue.

We will be shooting these five monologues soon, and will let you know
when they are up and running on YouTube.com

Check out last year's Confessionals Videos on the Project Y YouTube page.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Talkback with Racey Plays playwright: Jessica Dickey

We were lucky enough to have a reading of YELLOW by the very fabulous, Jessica Dickey, on June 6th.  The private room at Ryan's Daughters pub was a snug fit for our 25 audience members and 5 cast members.  The reading was the perfect blend of an informal social experience (geez, I had so many awesome friends come!) and theatre, as we heard the most recent version of this beautiful play, I play I fell in love with over a year ago before I had even met Ms. Dickey....

I caught up with Jessica to touch base on the reading and all things YELLOW and JD:

MB:  What stage are you in the writing process of YELLOW?  Is this place in the process familiar territory for you? 

JD:  YELLOW is an interesting play for me.  It's taught me so many lessons already!  It's affirmed for me that each play really is a new land, and I have to begin my work in each one with the confidence that I've explored new lands before, but WITHOUT the assumption that that necessarily means that this land will be the same process as the others.  Does that make sense?  It's like I'm beginning to understand that all I can do is trust that I've hewn a sensitive compass within myself-- to find the North of the story and the characters-- and the rest I have to just take as it comes.  
Which is a complicated, abstract way of saying that YELLOW is a very challenging piece for me because of its narrative structure and the personal nature of the subject.  Right now I feel very lost in the woods-- lol!  But I'm trying to stay in the spirit of adventure and enjoy the trek.  

MB:  What if anything surprised you in the reading - either worked or didn't work?

JD:  I was very surprised and pleased that the audience and the actors found so much humor in the play.  I thought it was pretty funny (in my head), but I was really delighted to discover it's so.  I was also struck with how obvious something is out loud.  I mean, I know that to be true when I'm reading something as an actor-- you can usually sniff out "overtelling" in the writing, if you know what I mean... But as the playwright, it's hard to trust that what you're trying to connect for the audience will automatically be connected by them.  Theatre audiences of 2011 have many centuries of theatre under our belts!  We know what's happening as soon as you give us a clue, which is both a blessing and a curse.  I love the way THE AMISH PROJECT zooms forward and just trusts the audience to keep up (and they do!  In spades!), and I'd like to find that same subtlety and clarity with YELLOW.  

MB:  You're also an actor and theatre artiste in other realms than writing - What's up next for you on any and all fronts?

JD:  Well speaking of AMISH-- this week I go to Amsterdam to perform THE AMISH PROJECT at a Peace and Reconciliation conference there.  I won't be doing the entire production, it'll be more like concert readings or something, and then there will be a lot of talkbacks with community leaders in the Mennonite/Amish world.  It should be extremely interesting and I am really honored to be included.  Then I'm doing a workshop (as an actor) of Epic Theatre Co's collaborative piece called WATER, directed by Daniella Topol and written by Sheila Calaghan.  And in August Rattlestick will be reading my new play CHARLES IVES TAKE ME HOME in their Fucking Great Plays Series.  And around all that I'll just be auditioning and rewriting and trying to enjoy the summer and my friends and family.  :)

MB:  What  is the next step for YELLOW?

JD:  This recent Project Y reading with Michole was probably the most useful for me in terms of YELLOW's evolution.  I've had readings of YELLOW before, but it was my first time hearing the play with an audience, and Michole and I had a very clear, helpful conversation about it afterward; the combination has made me feel that I have a plan for two drafts I'd like to do next with YELLOW... I'd like to explore two different structures for the play, as I think I've discovered that the play is perhaps floating between two structural ideas, just to see what works and what doesn't.  Then I have to make some decisions about what story I am most trying to tell and which structure will tell that story most effectively!  That may have been too much information-- maybe I should have just said "Rewrites"!  :)  But clearly I have a shit-ton of work to do on YELLOW!  :)  But I do feel heartened by the reading and I'm looking forward to it.  Huge thanks to Michole and Project Y for their consistent fun-loving support and honesty.

MB:  Huge Thanks right back at you, Jessica!  Project Y is excited to support your work and we are honored to have been able to have your play as part of our RACEY PLAYS reading series.
Next up......  goodness, by Sean Christopher Llewis (Killadelphia)

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Staged Reading of Yellow by Jessica Dickey


Yellow, written by Jessica Dickey, is the story of Anna, a young American woman who befriends Ylbere, a young Muslim man who recently survived the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Set against The Yellow Wallpaper, the Victorian short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yellow is an exploration of intimacy and violence.

This play will be presented as part of our Racey Plays Reading Series. Directed by Michole Biancosino, this reading features the fine work of Megan Byrne, Jessica Rothenberg, Josh Barrett, and Alfredo Narciso.

Looking forward to sharing this amazing play with you.  

RSVP on our Facebook Fan page.  

See you there!

Monday, May 2, 2011

Announcing: 2nd Annual Video Monologue Contest

Sight/Site Specific Video Monologues:  NYC

We are looking for 60 second monologues about incredible sights at incredible sites in New York City.

Were you recently chilling on the Great Lawn in Central Park with a friend and ended up witnessing a mugging? 
While waiting on the subway platform for the F train did you get flashed by a woman in a trench coat? 
Were you sipping coffee in a café near the GW Bridge when you looked up to meet your future fiance? Write about it!

We want your 60 second submission about amazing sights at amazing locations – sight/site specific monologues about incredible events at specific spots in NYC.

Your monologue should be:
Sight specific” – about an event you witnessed/experienced and “site specific” – set in a specific NYC location andaround 60 seconds in length
(hint: that’s way less than a page in length).

Submissions should be sent to michole@projectytheatre.org IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL no later than May 20, 2011.
NO ATTACHMENTS WILL BE OPENED.

We will choose our top 5 choices to be announced on our blog and website June 25, 2011.  The 5 winning monologues will be cast, shot, and fully produced by Project Y and released on our website and YouTube.
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