Difficult Women+ Scene Study and Audition Coaching

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2021 at TheatreMitu Jan 17 @ 4 pm
Under the glow of a flickering screen, a daughter reconstructs her deceased father. Pixel by pixel, contradiction by contradiction.
2021 is a live performance where theatre, AI, and video-game storytelling converge, blurring the boundary between human remembrance and machine logic. An audience member steps into the role of Brian, an unhoused veteran reliving his final weeks inside a looping digital hospital: a labyrinth of corridors, bureaucratic dead ends, and fleeting human contact. Guided by his daughter’s narration, fragments of data become playable memory. Each decision glitches reality a little more.
How do we provide dignity in death to those we fundamentally disagree with? Part elegy, part experiment, 2021 exposes the tenderness and terror of digital resurrection. It asks not whether machines can think, but whether memory itself is a kind of simulation.
Note: 2021 includes flashing lights, audience participation, violence, crude language, references to war, racism, and sexism. Participation and active spectatorship is a central part of 2021.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Cole Lewis (she/her) is a mom and mad theatre artist from St. Catharines, Ontario. She specializes in creating live performance from design ideas, exploring new modes of storytelling, and fusing technologies to the stage. Her practice includes directing, playwriting, and the design of moving image works. Twice nominated for Dora-Awards, Cole’s practice uses humour, design, and technology to explore notions of class and violence, expose questions of bias, and unsettle standard conceptions of ‘truth’ to explore alternative futures. She has an MFA in Directing from Yale and her thoughts on performance have been shared at LMDA, Howlround, FOLDA, Yale CCAM, and Canadian Theatre Review.

Join us on October 24 at 7:300 PM at Chapter I: The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella at Powerhouse Arts, 322 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY.

Limited $30 tickets available through the link Tix.

In the first chapter of the Cadela Força Trilogy, Brazilian director and writer Carolina Bianchi stages a shocking and vulnerable exploration of art and narratives of sexual violence that haunt women across history. Blending theater and performance art, she constructs a layered, destabilizing tapestry of stories, images, movement, and figures drawn from both contemporary and art-historical sources.

The catalyst is a real event: the r**e and murder of a performance artist whose work explored faith in human kindness. From there, Bianchi assembles a fractured mythology of femicide, where memory blurs and trauma generates new meaning. Created with the collective Cara de Cavalo, The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella is a journey into the abyss, a hole in the desert, a spiked glass of “Goodnight Cinderella.” What happens after?

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Buy your own ticket and show up.

Drinks after!

WHY WE'RE DOING THIS:

When this year’s seasons dropped with few to no women in the lineup, over 200 of us showed up at Playwrights Horizons to demand answers—and got none. So, we’re creating our own space. SEE A PLAY CLUB is our way of celebrating and supporting the women writing and directing today.

Come for the play. Stay for the community. 💥

Meet up on Wednesday! Message me for the discount code!

A(U)NTS!
by Zoë Geltman
directed by Julia Sirna-Frest
May 8-24, 2025
at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave
Tickets $25-50
Written by Zoë Geltman
Directed by Julia Sirna-Frest

Annie, Renee and Sherylann are aunts. They work in a dentist’s office in Williamsburg and are all rapidly approaching middle age. They make their coffees, drink from their intense water bottles, and bemoan the misery of babysitting, and the shame of being a rapidly aging woman all alone. But what’s that, Sherylann, you actually want kids? And Renee, you’re freezing your eggs?!

GAH! Fwowf! All of a sudden, their worlds crack open. And through that crack, a line of liberated ants marches in.
Gleefully, disgustingly and biologically serious, A(U)NTS! explores how the largely childless, largely female, rigorously organized societies of tiny insects known as ants can model a different life for human women.

Cast: Jehan O.Young, Megan Hill, and Zoë Geltman
Creative Team: Jiaying Zhang (set design) Ásta Bennie Hostetter (costume design), Megan Lang (lighting design), Mark Fox (puppet design), Sarah Samonte (Stage Management), Sarah Jones (Producer), Carsen Joenk (Sound Design)

New play in rotation!

Difficult Women Scene Study and meet up!

Tomorrow! La Mama at 7pm! See you there!

🚨🚨$15 Tix for Difficult Women Students with code difficult 🚨🚨 Deal available for the first week of performances Oct 11-13. At The Brick Theatre.

Open to anyone who has taken class in the past or aspires to take class in the future! DM for exact location.

DIFFICULT WOMEN SCENE STUDY (NYC) is not your typical acting class! This is a scene study class for women designed to allow you to sink your teeth into exciting, complex, characters written for women by women in an empowered, inclusive, and affordable environment! [email protected] for info & to sign up!
Tuesdays 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET
NEW LOCATION - Theatre Row Studios
411 West 41st St
Early Bird $100 (Deadline July 19)
Regular Rate $125
Auditors $45
Interested but unsure? Observe a class for free
Email [email protected]

ONE WEEK AWAY!!! Get your tickets! The Employees by Olga Ravn presented by The Mill and Theaterlab.
Jun 13-30 in NYC. tix -> https://bit.ly/theemployeesplay
It’s the 22nd century and the human and humanoid crew on board the Six-Thousand ship are on a mission in search of a new home. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny.
An intimate and immersive performance in Theaterlab’s gallery space based on the critically acclaimed novel shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.
Featuring Paul Budraitis, Molly Leland*, Christopher McLinden*, Aurea Tomeski*
Production Stage Manager Sam Kersnick
Scenic Design by Nora Marlow Smith
Lighting Design by Jackie Fox
Sound Design by Sabina Mariam Ali
Costume Design by Kristy Hall

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