CROSSWAYS FINDS THE COMMON HUMAN THREAD

Multiracial multiethnic voices yearning to be heard and seen

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CROSSWAYS THEATRE aims to develop playwrights who reflect the diversity of our community. CROSSWAYS' programs and plays will be accessible to a wide range of audience members from teens to seniors.  CROSSWAYS is committed to discovering playwrights who recount and reflect diverse experiences: whether comic, farcical or realistic, covering epic struggles, women’s liberation, on-the-job, veteran, trauma survival or facing the challenges of life.

EMPOWERMENT OF UNHEARD VOICES

Be the first to discover new talent

Crossways is a community theater with a vision, to open the community’s awareness of the diversity of New York. Crossways will be an intersection where people of different backgrounds, religions and races meet.

READINGS

Where communities mingle

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In 2018  Crossways staged readings included: Lyonel Laverde Hansen's Kill the Beast, Howard Pflanzer's GPS Play, Escape, Breakdown, Killer Car, Kathleen Potts' Miss Nowhere Diner and The Organizer by Lionelle Hamanaka. 

In 2019, readings included Lyonel Laverde Hansen's Charles XII, the Carplay Series II, Howard Pflanzer's The Listener, The Biddy Contract by Ann Mary Mullane and scenes from The Rise Up by Lionelle Hamanaka.

FESTIVALS

Where communities celebrate

In 2018 and 2019, Crossways had staged readings during Women's Month at the Dramatists Guild loft on 41st Street including the following authors: Ann Mary Mullane,  The Biddy Contract, Christina Wilson's Breast Confessions,Kathy Wilson's Out of the Rabbit Hole, Scenes from The Rise Up. 

FAMILIES, SENIORS, STUDENTS, VETERANS, TRAUMA VICTIMS

Find a welcome gathering place to talk

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Due to Professor Kathleen Potts' and Jennifer Tuttle's work with immigrant students, an important montage of scenes enacting the plight of students from immigrant families was presented.  In Declared Dead, written and directed by Howard Pflanzer, a man's identity has been stolen; Elizabeth Jennings, a play about an African American schoolteacher who desegregated the NYC streetcar system in 1854. Scenes from A New Place, a play about Military Sexual Trauma, was given a staged reading as well. A reading of What Your Name Is? by Nathaniel Johnson, an urban youth romantic comedy was received well. The Theme of Dislocations in society was the 2019 dramatic umbrella of Crossways.

REGULAR READINGS OF EXCITING DRAMAS

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SOME PLAYWRIGHTS FROM CROSSWAYS

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HOWARD PFLANZER

Playwright

KATHLEEN POTTS

Playwright

LYONEL (L. R.) LAVERDE-HANSEN

Playwright

NATHANIEL BLAKE JOHNSON

Playwright

JENNIFER TUTTLE

Director

Playwright

LIONELLE HAMANAKA

Playwright

ANN MARY MULLANE

BRENDAN ROTHMAN-HICKS

Actor

BETH GRIFFITH

Actress

KAREN LEE

Actress

GEOFFREY LEE

Actor/Musician

ELLIOTT CEASER

Actor

SELEAR DUKE

Actress

AARON TABACKMAN

Actor/Comedian

ETERNANDA FUDGE

Actress

CHRISTINE PENNEY

Actress/writer

WILLIAM KOZY

Actor

KIMBERLY FLORES

Actress

LUIS BRANDON TORRES

Actor