Loose Leaf Reading and development Series

The Loose Leaf Reading and Development Series is designed to give playwrights and theater makers an opportunity to see their latest draft performed by actors in front of an audience. The readings are rehearsed and directed, and often fully staged, with movement and basic design elements as needed. Playwrights collaborate in rehearsals or round-table discussions of their plays, and benefit from feedback from actors, directors and audience members alike. Several of the pieces in the series have gone on to be produced or published by Dutch Kills and other theater companies.

2023

CRYBULLY by Krista Knight

Directed by Jess Chayes

Featuring Daniel Abeles, Rory Kulz and Abby Pierce

KILL THE INTERNET by Caitlin Saylor Stephens

Directed by Estefania Fadul

Featuring Roger Casey and Keilly McQuail

REGRETTABLY THE GHOST THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY HAUNTING OUR MANSION HAS DIED by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper

Directed by Matt Dickson

Featuring Karen Alvarado, Ben Beckley, Morgan Everitt, Yonatan Gebeyehu and Elizabeth Scopel

AND COME APART by Eric Marlin

Directed by Lila Rachel Becker

Featuring Liat Graf, Yeauxlanda Kay, Ching Valdes-Aran and Jennifer Van Dyck.

Dramaturg: Luke Daniel White.

WESTPHALIA by Helen Banner

Directed by Lila Rachel Becker

Featuring Rolls Andre, Matthew Boston, Mary Glen Fredrick, Kevin Herrera, Daniel Jenkins, and Laura Jordan

THE END AND THE ALBATROSS by Wes Zurick

Directed by Lindsey Hope Perlman.

Music Directed by Ben Caplan.

Featuring: Maki Borden, Ben Caplan, David Gordon, Dante Green, Monica Ho, Maya Jacobson, Elizabeth May, and Nate Weida

2018

THE NUT ISLAND CREATIVE COLONY

A co-creation with Hondo Weiss-Richmond.

MEASURING IN CARTWHEELS by Dinah Berkeley and Julia Proctor

Directed by Terra Giordano

Featuring: Dinah Berkeley and Julia Proctor

2017

NINE CASES: ITCHY’S CAGE by Daniel McCoy & Hondo Weiss-Richmond.

Featuring: Amelia Cain, Michael Hammond, and Casey Tucker

And the work of: Christopher Calderhead, Callie Jane Farnsworth & Michael Landes.

SOLITARY by Duane Cooper and Blake Habermann

Directed by Blake Habermann

Featuring: Julia Cavagna, Duane Cooper, Levi Morger, Malcolm Opoku & Vanessa Vache

SELKIE by Krista Knight

Directed by Matt Dickson

Featuring: Dinah Berkeley, Elia Monte Brown & Federico Rodriguez

LADYCATION by Jean Ann Douglass

Directed by Jess Chayes

Featuring: Rolls Andre, Noah Averbach-Katz, Ugo Chukwu, Alex Correia,  Julia Frey, Emily Gardner Hall, Zoe Geltman, Sean Gorski, Jeb Kreager, Brian Lenahan, Lori Parquet, Briana Pozen, Amy Staats & Alley Scott

2016

PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE

An evening of experimental performance curated by Blake Habermann

Featuring: Dinah Berkeley, Duane Cooper, Geraldine Dulex, Erin Frisbie, Blake Habermann, Levi Morger & Carley Shea Moses 

SELKIE by Krista Knight

Directed by Matt Dickson 

Featuring: Zoe Chao, Charlotte Fiedler, Ashley Marie Ortiz & Federico Rodriguez 

CONTAINERTOPIA by Julia Frey and Sam Day Harmet

Featuring: Julia Frey, Sam Day Harmet & Jeb Kreager

WALKING SHADOWS by William Burton Henline

Directed by Hondo Weiss-Richmond

Featuring: Shirine Babb, Ben Beckley, Christopher Bonewitz, Charlotte Fiedler, Regina Gibson, Donald Kimmel, Sadei Namei, Anna O'Donoghue & Eric Rice 

ZERO AT THE BONE by Robert Schneider 

Directed by Hondo Weiss-Richmond

Featuring: Nelson Avidon, Ben Beckley, Jean Ann Douglass, Blake Habermann, Sarah Kitchens, Sarah Schoofs & Alley Scott

FOUR AND TWENTY DRACULAS by Daniel McCoy

Directed by Hondo Weiss-Richmond

Featuring: Julie Ann Earls, Evan Gambardella, Michael Hardart, Brandon Jones, Jacquelyn Landgraf, Ben Stroman & Maiken Wiese

BEEP AND BOOP FIGHT CRIME by Celine Song

Directed by Hondo Weiss-Richmond

Featuring: Harrison Bryan, Toni Ann DeNoble, Julie Ann Earls, Cloteal Horne, Russell Jordan, Sadei Namei, Frank Paiva, Kia Sayyadi & Ian White  

OPEN by Kate Tarker

Directed by Hondo Weiss-Richmond

Featuring: Ceci Fernandez, Regina Gibson, Paul Lieber, Will Rogers & Britain Seibert

2015

CRAWLING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH by Eric John Meyer and Jason A. Narvy 

Featuring: Edward Bauer , Kersti Bryan, Philip Callen, Christopher Hurt, Brandon Jones, Aaron Matteson, Christine Renee Miller, and John Clarence Stewart III 

FAILURE TO THRIVE by Wade Savitt 

Directed by Anna Strasser

Featuring: AC Davison, Jonathan Hopkins, Theresa Lehn, Heather Olmstead, Lipica Shah and John Whitney

GHOST VARIATIONS by Anna Abhau Elliott 

Directed by Daniel Dabdoub 

Featuring: Ian Axness, Jeanna Phillips, Chris Dieman and Anna Abhau Elliott

HAND ME DOWN by Erin Mallon 

Directed by Clare Mottola 

Featuring: Quincy Confoy, Cara Geser, Yurema Perez-Hinjosa, Sari Kamp, Noah Parnes, Greg Pizzuro, Rachel Serebranic, Milena Sigerson, Lilly Sterenberg, Dachelle Washington, Liv Weinstein and Clara Zucker 

LADYCATION by Jean Ann Douglass 

Featuring:  Ben Beckley, T. Ray Campbell, Julia Christgau, Anna Abhau Elliott, Daryl Lathon, Richard Lovejoy, Moti Margolin, Keilly McQuail, Megan Melnyk, Eric John Meyer, Emily Louise Perkins, Jarid Rychtarik, Alley Scott & Morgan Zipf-Meister.

LAMPAZO GROUP

Experimental theater troupe. Julia Cavagna, Blake Habermann & Emily Woo Zeller. With special guests Dinah Berkeley and Gina Ferraro

LATTER DAYS by Ben Beckley 

Directed by Jess Chayes.

Featuring: Moti Margolin and Tony Torn 

SANCTUARY, NORTH by R.W. Schneider

Directed by Jean Randich 

Featuring: Paul Albe, Joel Garland, Christopher McLindon, Ron Moreno, Paul Niebanck, & Ella Smith

THE GODS’ HORSES by Moti Margolin

Directed by Michael Piazza 

Featuring: Jacqueline Landgraf, Linda Marie Larson, Brad Makarowski, Moti Margolin, Michael Piazza, Alexis Suarez, Robbie Tann, Alok Tewari & Terrell Wheeler 

THEY GET PREGNANT AND HAVE SEIZURES AND DIE

Written and Performed by Anna O'Donoghue and Diana Stahl

2014

ALICE IN THE SPRINGTIME IN A MAJOR AMERICAN CITY by Kate Benson 

Featuring - Ephraim Birney,  Jean Ann Douglass, Alley Scott and Jenny Seastone

ANTIGONE - A Free Interpretation by Alexandra Silber 

Directed by Christian Coulson

Featuring: Brennan Brown, Logan Riley Bruner, Shuler Hensley, Kim Martin-Cotten, Lexi Rabadi, Daniel Rowan and Lucille Sharp

CUTTLE by Krista Knight 

Directed by Matt Dickson

Featuring: Rachel Napoleon, Ashley Marie Ortiz and Federico Rodriguez

THE BROMANTIC COMEDIES by Erin Mallon

Directed by Kel Haney 

Featuring: Don Carter, Michael Grew, Mark McCarthy, Debargo Sanyal and  Arturo Soria

ADVENTURE QUEST by Richard Lovejoy 

Directed by Paige Blansfield

Featuring:  Paige Blansfield, Stephanie Cox-Williams, Erica Malachowski, Megan Melnyk, C.L. Weatherstone,  Jesse Paul Wilson and Emily Woo Zeller

THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST by Moti Margolin

Directed by Michael Piazza 

Featuring: Sarah Arikian, Jacquelyn Landgraf, Brad Makarowski, Moti Margolin,  Emily Perkins, Laura Pruden, James Lloyd Reynolds, Alley Scott, Kevin Sebastian and Terrell Wheeler

THE PROVIDENCE OF NEIGHBORING BODIES by Jean Ann Douglass 

Featuring: Kate Benson, Anna Abhau Elliott and Anne Gridley 

KEEP THIS FOR YOUR RECORDS by Anna Abhau Elliott 

Directed by Annie Tippe

Featuring: Willy Appelman, Laura Hesse, Vincent Santvoord and Allison Taaffe

DRONE STRIKE by Christian Toth

Directed by Alley Scott 

Featuring: Lynae DePriest, Joel Higgins, Louie LaVoie, Erica Malachowski, David Nelson, Anastasia Olowin, Christian Toth and Ryan Wuestewald

EBOLA FEGUSSON 

Featuring: Julia Cavagna,  Blake Habermann, Lesile Erin Roth and Emily Woo Zeller. 

2013

HELPING PEOPLE by Diana Stahl

Directed by Portia Kreager 

Featuring: Will Brill,  Nick Choksi, Anna O'Donoghue, Richie Murby, Alley Scott and Shayna Small

THE GNOME by Isaac Rathbone 

Directed by Alley Scott 

Featuring: Victoria Clare, Kate Garfield, Blake Habermann,  Aaron Matteson and Levi Morger

DOWN FROM BUFFALO by Eric John Meyer

Directed by Scott Nogi 

Featuring: Wynne Anders, Julia Frey, Ed Griffin, Steve Hauck, Alley Scott and Pamela Shaw, 

CONMEN by Christian Toth 

Directed by Patrice Miller 

Featuring: Laine Bronstien, Jean Ann Douglass, Alex Emanuel, Patrick Jones,  Jeb Kreager, Blake Habermann, Mateo Moreno, Heather McAllister, Roger Nasser and Timothy Reynolds

WOODSTOCK '99 by Joshua Young

Featuring: Victoria Clare, Aaron Matteson, Sarah Schoofs, Alley Scott and Drew Valins 

An Evening of Short Works curated by Blake Habermann 

Featuring: Victoria Clare, Blake Habermann, Nicholas Flowers, Levi Morger, Alley Scott and Emily Woo Zeller.