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.
CROSSWAYS THEATRE THE PLACE WHERE ALL CULTURES THRIVE
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Crossways Welcomes the World

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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WHO'S WHO AT CROSSWAYS THEATRE?
Creative Associates
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HOWARD PFLANZER
Playwright

KATHLEEN POTTS
Playwright

LYONEL (L. R.) LAVERDE-HANSEN
Playwright
TEAM
Who We Are

NATHANIEL BLAKE JOHNSON
Playwright

JENNIFER TUTTLE
Director

Playwright
LIONELLE HAMANAKA

Playwright
ANN MARY MULLANE
ACTORS
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BRENDAN ROTHMAN-HICKS
Actor

BETH GRIFFITH
Actress

KAREN LEE
Actress
GREAT ACTING TALENT
Crossways Members

GEOFFREY LEE
Actor/Musician

ELLIOTT CEASER
Actor

SELEAR DUKE
Actress
DISCOVER THE ACTING TALENT AT CROSSWAYS

AARON TABACKMAN
Actor/Comedian

ETERNANDA FUDGE
Actress

CHRISTINE PENNEY
Actress/writer
FROM THE EAST, WEST SOUTH AND NORTH
Our Actors will Surprise and Move you

WILLIAM KOZY
Actor

KIMBERLY FLORES
Actress

LUIS BRANDON TORRES
Actor
CROSSWAYS THEATRE
Challenging, exciting drama
Crossways Theatre looks foward to seeing you at our Fall benefit. We expect many surprising performances then and later in the season. The theme for the coming season is: Disruptions. Crossways now offers Subscriber Benefits. Please visit our Facebook page as well or email us at: Crossways Theatre.org
CHARLES XII, ACTS I & II
Reading at Crossways Theatre
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
Crossways Theatre reading