Crossways Theatre provides a lab for new work telling diverse stories
CROSSWAYS FINDS THE COMMON HUMAN THREAD
Multiracial multiethnic voices yearning to be heard and seen
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.
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CROSSWAYS WOMEN'S FESTIVAL 2021
Airs on YouTube March 19, 2021 at 7 PM
Plays from the POV of women playwrights
WOMEN’S FESTIVAL 2021
TIME: 7 pm
on YOUTUBE @ Crosswaystheatre.org
DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
Free, but Donations accepted through Square:
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Email: Crosswaystheatre@gmail.com
Fiscal sponsor: Fractured Atlas, 501©3
PLAYWRIGHTS: STELLA PULO, KAE FUJISAWA, KITTY CHEN, LIONELLE HAMANAKA
Respect for Nature, Sketches of Happiness, Rowing to America & Covid on a Bridge
Plays from the POV of women playwrights
WOMEN’S FESTIVAL 2021
TIME: 7 pm on YOUTUBE @ Crosswaystheatre.org
DATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
Donations accepted through Square:
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/RYEP4XXD0T69D/checkout/NNQ3W7XZUQHKRH3QHV5OHF24
Facebook: Crosswaystheatre.org
Email: Crosswaystheatre@gmail.com
Fiscal sponsor: Fractured Atlas, 501©3
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ZOE ANASTASSIOU
Starring in Covid on a Bridge
Zoe Anastassiou is a Greek-Aussie-British theatre/TV/film/voiceover actress. She was in Thomas Walters’ (Julie Walters’ brother) new play Help a Handicapped God Trot Across the Universe at the 13th Street Repertory Theater in NY, and is helping develop British Emma Gibson’s Water in my Hands as part of Miranda Theatre Company’s Liz Smith Reading Series at the Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC, and Jamie Ramburg’s Castles in the Air with Midtown Direct Rep in NJ. In Quarantine, Zoe shot an adaptation of Emily Bohannon’s Virtue with Cowboy Bear Ninja productions. Zoe can currently be heard as audio drama regular Maddie the 8 yr old CEO on How We Manage Stuff, in the Hear Now Festival online has a 365 Blog video series. Learn more at www.zoeanastassiou.com
J.R. CARTER
Co-Starring in Covid on a Bridge
JR Carter has played the leads or featured parts in 22 films, on network TV, a Netflix series, regional theater and was featured in several Crossways Theatre’s staged readings over the past two years. He trained in the Meisner method and has an MA from Marist College, NYS.
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
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
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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WHO'S WHO AT CROSSWAYS THEATRE?
Creative Associates
HOWARD PFLANZER
Playwright
KATHLEEN POTTS
Playwright
LYONEL (L. R.) LAVERDE-HANSEN
Playwright
TEAM
Who We Are
NATHANIEL BLAKE JOHNSON
Playwright
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JENNIFER TUTTLE
Director
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LIONELLE HAMANAKA
Playwright
ANN MARY MULLANE
ACTORS
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BRENDAN ROTHMAN-HICKS
Actor
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BETH GRIFFITH
Actress
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KAREN LEE
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GREAT ACTING TALENT
Crossways Members
GEOFFREY LEE
Actor/Musician
ELLIOTT CEASER
Actor
SELEAR DUKE
Actress
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AARON TABACKMAN
Actor/Comedian
ETERNANDA FUDGE
Actress
CHRISTINE PENNEY
Actress/writer
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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
Elliott Ceaser, Leo Goodman, Eternanda Fudge and Brendan Rothman-Hicks
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
Crossways Theatre reading
Christine Penney, Elliott Ceaser, Juli
