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River Readings | a curated evening of play readings

February 8 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

$35

Saturday, February 8
The Ark at Shames JCC
371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591

7–9PM, doors open 6:30PM

Tickets: $35

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RiverArts presents River Readings ~ a curated evening of play readings.

Join us for an evening of new play readings by accomplished playwrights, read by talented actors, followed by a talk-back with the playwrights. Enjoy a captivating night out and experience the creative process!

Appendix by Paul Allman
An unemployed cartoonist and his wife find themselves living on a back porch and slipping from the grasp of civilization

The Red Gene by Mariana Carreño King
When Leticia, confined to her basement under house arrest for failing mandatory conversion therapy, receives an unexpected visit from Rose, a by-the-book government official, a locked door leaves them trapped together with dwindling supplies. As their forced proximity chips away at Rose’s rigid beliefs and Leticia’s protective walls, both women must confront whether their true prison is the basement—or the society that put them there.

In Good Conscience by Derek Roland
When Jack and Jackie discover that their long-time friends and neighbors Sam and Sammy are having a baby and plan to raise it as a future Conventionalist voter, it sets off an intensely competitive breeding war between the two couples in a fight for the future of the country.

 

River Readings 2025 is directed by Sara Wolkowitz, produced by Lauren Orkus, with special thanks to Nicole Novy Schneider

 
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MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Paul Allman
Appendix
Paul Allman’s essay, “The Frequency,” was published in Harper’s Magazine. Other stories have appeared in Film Comment, Witness, Public Illumination, Folio, The ExFiles compilation, and his short story “We Have Time” won a Pushcart Prize. Allman’s first novel “Otis: On the Occasion of His Foray into the Wilderness of Civilization,” was published by St. Martin’s Press. His stage plays have been produced by 78th Street Theatre Lab, St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, Tribeca Lab, the Broome Street Theater, and the Sundance Children’s Theater. Allman has been Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and also a Screenwriting Fellow and twice Playwriting Fellow at the Sundance Institute. As a member of Howl Playwrights, his plays have been presented at the Stissing Center and the Rhinebeck Center for the Arts. His full-length play Dig We Must was selected and presented at the 2024 Hudson Valley Theater Festival. 
Mariana Carreño King
The Red Gene
Mariana Carreño King is a playwright, director and translator. Mariana’s plays include Truckers (Intar Theatre; Nominated for Outstanding Achievment in Playwriting by HOLA, 2023); Tunnels (USC); Patience, Fortitude and Other Antidepressants (Intar, LATC); Sasha’s House of Love and The Red Gene (LAByrinth Barn Series); Miss 74489 (Winner, MetLife Nuestras Voces, Repertorio Español); and Ofelia’s Lovers (Mabou Mines) among others. As a director, Mariana has worked with Intar, LAByrinth, The Lark, La MaMa, Stages Repertory, Boundless Theatre, and Mabou Mines, among others. She has translated numerous plays from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish. Mariana is a member of LAByrinth Theatre Company, Artistic Associate of Boundless Theatre, and Alumna, Humanitas Play LA and HPRL at Intar. She teaches playwriting at Purchase College.
Derek Roland
In Good Conscience
Derek is a playwright, director, choreographer, and arts educator based in New York. His writing has been seen Off-Broadway at the New Victory Theatre, at the Traverse Theatre in Scotland (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), the New York Theatre Festival, the Virtual Rochester Fringe Festival, and at the International Human Rights Festival in NY. He holds a Master’s in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded the William Hunter Sharpe Memorial Scholarship for playwriting. He recently completed a year long playwriting residency with Road Less Traveled Productions (Buffalo, NY) developing his play Waist Deep, for which he received a grant from the Global Warming Arts Project. His play The Exhibit was a semi-finalist at the National Playwright's Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, and his original rock musical Pie Eater was an official Next Link selection for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Derek was also the artistic director of The Comfortably Quarantined Project, a virtual playwriting project pairing writers, directors, and actors to remotely create original short plays during the pandemic. Derek’s a long-standing company member with 3-time Drama Desk nominated physical theatre company Parallel Exit in New York, with which he has co-created and performed in numerous productions across the U.S. and Europe 

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Date:
February 8
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
$35
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RiverArts
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Venue

Shames JCC
371 S. Broadway
Tarrytown, NY 10591 United States + Google Map
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