Join us June 6th at the Gene Frankel Theatre as part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.
The screening starts at 8pm.
visit the festivity website here.
$10 gen ad
$5 festivity participants
Join us afterwards for TSW’s “summer jamz”, open to all at 9:30. We’re takin the rest of the summer off so come down and get toasted with us. Which way is the 6 train?
Piece: SOMEBODIES
Category: Play
See it: 8pm, 10pm – Bonus Jonas
About SOMEBODIES:
A night at The Hall of Heads, where the janitor is new and the resident neighboring busts try once again to remember who, in their historical lives, they must have been.
About Dan: Dan is a playwright and performer living on Staten Island and working everywhere else. His first full length existential pizza crisis play Free Delivery was produced by his friends at Strangemen and Co. on site at Made Fresh Daily last year. He is the Marketing and Production Associate for the wonderful Clubbed Thumb and has performed with Little Lord.
Cast/Crew:
Presenter: Grandma 
Piece: It’s Not Your Birthday
Category: Performance Art
See them: 9:00, Space 1
About It’s Not Your Birthday: You’ve been told it’s your birthday. You feel like it’s your birthday. Calendar -wise, X marks the spot, but for god’s sake move on because today is not your birthday.
About Grandma: Grandma is a performance group often working from improvisation comprised of Chris Masullo, Mike McGee, Peter Mills Weiss, and Tim Platt. This past fall they presented an original piece FUN at Incubator Arts Project
Creatives:
Chris Masullo
Mike McGee
Peter Mills Weiss
Tim Platt
Presenter: James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis 
Piece: Aaron/Marie
Category: Play
See them: 6:00pm, Bar Alt Space
About Aaron/Marie: Aaron/Marie is a musical performance piece in development — written, composed, and performed by James and Jerome. It’s a literary and live-music spectacle narrating a story of a missing person, an exile, and various ghosts of the Northeastern United States — with beats. Laurie Anderson meets Spalding Gray. J Dilla meets Ira Glass and Roberto Bolaño. This piece will appear in longer forms around NYC later throughout this year, so come check out it’s first showing!
About James: James Harrison Monaco is a writer, performer, and musician. His solo show RECEPTION (another music/story/performance mash-up, directed by Obie-winner Rachel Chavkin) ran at HERE Arts Center and at soloNOVA at the New Ohio Theatre, among other NYC venues.
About Jerome: Jerome Ellis is a composer/performer whose work has been performed around many venues, including HERE, the Access Theater, Fresh Ground Pepper, and The Tank. Their duo show THEY RAN AND RAN AND RAN played at HERE in Spring 2010, and they are now developing this new show for various venues later this year.
Creatives:
James Harrison Monaco — Writer, Performer, Composer
Jerome Ellis — Composer, Performer, Writer
Presenter: Chere Krakovsky 
Piece: The Secretary
Category: Performance Art
See them: 5:00 Reception Alt Space
About The Secretary: Performance artist Chere Krakovsky’s source is her daily life. In “The Secretary,” after years of subservience to others, she explores the deconstruction of the role where every day is the same as the day before, and all the days to come. The secretary waits for something, anything to happen, but it never does. One morning she begins to unravel. She cuts the desk into pieces, and rearranges everything, from desk and office supplies to sculpture, from office to studio and from madness the pieces of the traditional become the tools for creativity. Once the sculpture is complete so is the performance.
About Chere: Chere Krakovsky is a New York City based performance artist. Her most recent piece was “The Community Kitchen Table” in Washington DC at the Corcoran Gallery of Art with the artist collective Habitat For Artists, in which she explored the idea of the private kitchen table made public.
Creatives:
Chere Krakovsky, Secretary
Tara Steinberg, Assistant
Morgan Carpenter, Assistant
Media: http://cherekrakovsky.tumblr.com/
Presenter: Annika Franklin
Piece: You Met Me at a Very Strange Time in My Life
Category: Solo Show
See them: 8:00, Space 1
About the show: You Met Me at a Very Strange Time in My Life is actor and writer Annika Franklin’s first solo piece, and also the maiden voyage of newly-formed theater collective Frankness. Developed largely out of pieces from Annika’s blog, In Quarter Life Crisis, Strange Time explores the all-too-familiar plight of current twenty-somethings who just can’t seem to quit their day-jobs.
About Annika: Annika Franklin is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. She received her MFA from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard, and her BA from Oberlin College. Favorite credits include: Cabaret (Hansel/Sally u/s), Alice vs. Wonderland (Mary Ann), The Donkey Show (Dimitri/Vinnie), Trojan Women (Chea), and How Will We Cross The Seas (Lynn). Frankness is Annika Franklin and Ian Axness. They make theater that involves music, geek out about Beethoven, and sometimes manage to clean their apartment. Look for updates about their upcoming piece, The People V. Beethoven.
Cast/Creatives:
Annika Franklin- Writer, Performer
Christopher Staley- Director
Ian Axness- Producer
Media: www.AnnikaFranklin.com
Presenter: Drew Valins 
Piece: Franz Fragments
Category: Solo Show
See them: 5:00, Basement Alt Space
About Franz: Franz Fragments is a work in progress exploring the more intimate, lesser known pieces of Kafka’s unfinished opus. In this pursuit arise themes of identity, obsession, the role (and sacrifice) of the artist, the love of craft, and the never ending search for truth.
About Drew: Drew has worked on the NY stage for eight years in productions ranging from classical to contemporary to commedia and clown. He has worked with Anne Bogart (Columbia Stages), Bonnie Monte (Shakespeare Theater of NJ), The Vital Children’s Theater, and Jef Johnson of Slava’s Snowshow, as well as with countless Columbia Film Graduate students on their projects and is the star of the upcoming webseries “The Mackenzie Dylan Show.” Drew tours his solo show: A Report to an Academy based on the short story by Franz Kafka in which he plays a humanized ape. His principal training is with the Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Dell Arte School of Physical Theater, Anna Brennen and Stageworks Theater, Michael Howard, Larry Singer, Jef Johnson, and the streets of NYC.
Creatives:
Drew Valins – Director, Actor
Franz Kafka – Writer
Media: www.drewvalins.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4RESNsLtKE&feature=plcp
(this was a teaser vid to a previous incarnation of the Kafka work)
http://rotpetersblog.blogspot.com/
Upcoming: 2013 Emerging Artists Festival
