How Can I Say This so You Will Stay
Sep
30
7:30 PM19:30

How Can I Say This so You Will Stay

Join us for a reading of How Can I Say This so You Will Stay.

How Can I Say This So You Will Stay is a fantastical romp through the research of Dr. Amy Damrow and Dr. Jaqueline Sweeney. The play follows a group of student teachers in 2016 are thrust into an academic study on those difficult dialogues we try to avoid. As the students delve into topics ranging form Black Lives Matter to the contentious 2016 election the ways politicized identities play out in their everyday life become clear. The question of who are really and the tension that creates with the world around us come to the forefront. Do we stay in the room with that tension or do we leave? How can we stay?

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Samuel
Jul
22
to Aug 14

Samuel

Four adult sisters can’t agree on anything. Did mom make sweet potatoes with marshmallows or thyme? What did Grandma’s face look like? Didn't we have a brother once? Wasn't his name Samuel? SAMUEL – a new audio-visual experience for the theatre – invites audience members to listen to audio scenes on their own devices as they explore an unnerving visual world of collective loss, existential fear, and the everyday trauma of family relationships. Fashioned after a self-guided audio museum tour, each observer will allow the immersive soundscape in their ears to guide their journey as the sisters struggle to maintain their connections to themselves, each other, and an ever-shifting sense of reality.

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Bloodshot
Jan
23
to Feb 1

Bloodshot

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The Exponential Festival Presents:

BLOODSHOT
by underlords
Written by Elinor T Vanderburg
Directed by Sanaz Ghajar
Music by The Mombs (Matt Gliva, Robert Jensen, Cheikh Proctor, and Drew Vanderburg)
Choreographed by Benjamin Stanley Hobbs
Co-Presented by Target Margin Theater

January 23 - 26
January 29 - February 1
at Target Margin Theater's The Doxsee
$10 Cash at Door

The City's insomnia epidemic rages on, and Dormer, the genius behind GoodNight Pharma, just turned up hacked to bloody bits. Probably by some poor bastard who turned bloodshot after too little sleep: that's what happens when you slack on your meds.
Naturally, I'm on the case, but with pill prices bloating to triple digits, I'm starting to feel a little tired myself.
So long as I can get some good old-fashioned shut-eye before the bloodshot gets me too, we'll all be fine.
There I go.

BLOODSHOT is a vicious psychocaper that pits the deprived against the depraved in a peace-starved, pulp-inspired mystery. Unreliably narrated and accompanied by sonic interplay by The Mombs, BLOODSHOT confronts audiences with an unraveling network of morality, inviting them to venture through the animalism of limbic desire to the hotbed of a very human meltdown - and beyond.

Target Margin's The Doxsee Theater
232 52nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220
$20 1 $25

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THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL 2020
A PLEASURE, A MESS, A THRILL, AND A DREAM

Jan. 3 - Feb 3 at a variety of Brooklyn's most eclectic venues
Brooklyn, NY—The Exponential Festival is a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging, experimental performing artists, now in its fourth year. Performances will take place January 3 - February 3 in partnership with The Brick, Chez Bushwick, JACK, Target Margin Theater's The Doxsee, Loading Dock, Patch Works Theater, Para\\el, Honey's, The Woods, and Vital Joint. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring, and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields to keep theatre kicking.

theexponentialfestival.org 

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MoMA PopRally × The Bronx: Beauteous
Sep
7
6:30 PM18:30

MoMA PopRally × The Bronx: Beauteous

On September 7, PopRally and the Andrew Freedman Home present Beauteous, a site-specific, immersive theatrical presentation. Beauteous explores issues of perception, community branding, and the dynamics of hype, incorporating narratives of LGBTQ subculture, rap, hip-hop, and DJing to reflect the cultural evolution of the Bronx. Guests will experience an imagined urban future through theatrical vignettes, musical performances, and art installations set amid the faded glamor of a Gilded Age mansion located on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Beauteous will culminate on the mansion’s rooftop with a dance party hosted by Pauli Cakes and DJ She Marley Marl, featuring DJ sets by BRUJAS and friends with DaDa Coz and gnarianna, DJ Red Alert, and Grandmaster Caz. Plus, enjoy drinks and food by local Bronx chefs for purchase throughout the evening.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Beer is provided by Five Boroughs Brewing Co. Garden festivities begin at 6:00 p.m., with doors to the performance opening at 8:00 p.m. and rooftop DJ sets beginning at 10:00 p.m.

Stay tuned for more about our next event, in Brooklyn!

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One Minute Play Festival
Jun
2
to Jun 4

One Minute Play Festival

The One Minute Play Festival returns to the New Ohio for the 5th New York City Indie Theatre One Minute Play Festival - with part of the proceeds to benefit the New Ohio’s new play and artist residency programming.

The New York City Indie Theatre One Minute Play Festival consists of 60 new one minute plays by 60 established and emerging playwrights who identify as part of the downtown or indie theatre community, prompted by #1MPF’s unique playmaking process.

Featuring Brand New One Minute Plays by:

Ian Allen, Jonathan Alexandratos, Suzanne Bachner, Matthew Barbot, Paula Pizzi-Black, Maggie Bofill, Kate Bell, Emily Bohannon, Eddie Cardona, Paris Crayton III, Oscar Cabrera, Julissa Contreras, Scott Casper, Guadalís Del Carmen, Seth Christenfeld, Marco Jo Clate, Anton Dudley, Georgina Escobar, Ryan M. Fogarty, Gina Femia, Katherine Clark Gray, Charles Gershman, Mark-Eugene Garcia, Ben Gassman, Lisa Huberman, Megan Hart, Daniel John Kelley, Mrinalini Kamath, Lee LeBreton, Deb Laufer, Jessica Luck, David Lawson, Judith Leora, Erin Mallon, Mona Mansour, Ed Malin, Julian Mesri, Julia Melfi, Jeni Mahoney, Elisabeth Ng, Roger Nasser, Vinny Eden Ortega, Duncan Pflaster, Larry Powell, Nicole Pandolfo, Robin Rothstein, Alex Rubin, Joe Reault, Chris Rivera, Stan Richardson, Kate Moira Ryan, Tyler Rivenbark, Isaac Rathbone, Megan Sass, Karin Shook, Jona Tarlin, Valerie Work, Catherine Weingarten, Zach Wegner, Joshua Young, & more!

Directed by: Jaclyn Biskup, Pete Boisvert, Katie Kay Chelena, Emily Edwards, Nico Grelli, Emily Hartford, Enormvs Muñoz, Martavius Parrish, Sean Pollock, & Jesse Edward Rosbrow

Curated by: Dominic D’Andrea & Caitlin Wees

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SHELTER X: TEN YEARS LATER
Mar
29
to Mar 30

SHELTER X: TEN YEARS LATER

Some writers, some actors, some directors, a prompt and, voila, original ten minute plays! That simple recipe is how The Shelter began. Now, ten years later, the Shelter honors its origins by creating something entirely new. Six new plays written by Shelter artists for Shelter artists and fully produced on the stage that started it all.

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SHELTER X: FILM FEST
Mar
28
7:00 PM19:00

SHELTER X: FILM FEST

Witness the talents of Shelter artists on the big, small, and smartphone screen. The Shelter Film Fest presents curated evening of short films, web series episodes, trailers, and music videos featuring the work of Shelter actors, directors and writers as well their collaborators.

Film we be presented in two programs (7pm and 9pm). Tickets are free and are for both programs. Concessions available (cash only).

See Morgan in CAMP WEDDING, TAKERS, UNBELIEVERS, AND TERRIBLE SISTERS.

(You can also see her art direction skills in INFECTED)

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SHELTER X: SHELTER CELEBRATES
Mar
27
7:00 PM19:00

SHELTER X: SHELTER CELEBRATES

Commemorate the plays that The Shelter has made, and the plays that have made The Shelter. Watch actors perform scenes and ten minute plays from across Shelter history. Relive your favorite productions or discover new shows, with a fascinating romp through ten incredible years of Shelter.

Watch an excerpt of Morgan’s play THE RED ROOM.

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SHELTER X: WRITERS NIGHT
Mar
26
7:00 PM19:00

SHELTER X: WRITERS NIGHT

Take a tour through the art, and craft, of playwriting. Featuring performances of scenes by Shelter actors, followed by discussions with the writers of those scenes, Writer’s Night provides insight into the alchemy that goes into building a play from the experts who make it look easy.

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SHELTER X: REDUX
Mar
26
2:00 PM14:00

SHELTER X: REDUX

Women hear it all the time. “You’re overreacting.” “Why are you so emotional?” “She’s crazy.” While the diagnosis of “female hysteria” has shrunk from medical lexicons, the gendered myth continues as a pervasive meme in modern American culture. TRAPPER by Meghan E. Jones challenges the notion of “crazy” through the microcosm of Jillian Little. A two-week stay at a New York City mental hospital has provided Jillian a welcome escape from her job writing at the celebrity gossip website Trapper. While in the hospital, she develops a close friendship with her roommate, the troubled starlet Jackie Batiste—who checked into the hospital incognito. In the office of Trapper, it won’t be long before such prime tabloid fodder is sniffed out and Jillian will be faced with some painful choices: loyalty or career, substance or smear. Ultimately, she’ll be forced to choose between sanity and what passes for it in a world where pop scandals and cruel obsessions are the order of the day.

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CAMP WEDDING SCREENING
Mar
22
8:00 PM20:00

CAMP WEDDING SCREENING

synopsis
Mia's wedding party is not too keen on transforming a dilapidated summer camp into the wedding venue of her dreams--when people begin disappearing in the night, that doesn't help either... 

Join QWFF9 on Friday, March 22 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Camp Wedding will begin screening at 8:00pm in the Bartos theatre and see Morgan as Paulette.

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Operating Systems
Mar
2
to Mar 16

Operating Systems

Watch Morgan as Bel in…

Operating Systems

By Gus Schulenberg

When Benita is promoted to CEO of Code Breakers, she’s greeted by two immediate challenges. The first: to address a controversy over rejecting a white student’s application to the program. The second: managing the retirement of Stephen, her mentor and Code Breakers’ charismatic founder. When Jake, an old college friend turned conservative journalist, contacts her for a story, she views the offer as a chance to seize back the narrative. But when Bel, a new Code Breakers employee, accuses Stephen of sexual misconduct, the narrative spins out of her control. One way through the crisis may live in Dani, Benita’s former student and the audience’s intermediary and co-investigator of the difficult truths embedded in the code of the play.

Operating Systems wrestles with how internalized oppression often makes us reinforce oppressive systems even as we work toward justice. In a tokenizing system that often positions oppressed peoples against each other, can the relationships at the heart of the play survive? Is it better to leverage the resources of these systems in service of justice, or to burn the whole thing down?

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Bright Edges of the World
Jan
22
7:00 PM19:00

Bright Edges of the World

Watch Morgan as “Big” in

The Bright Edges of the World - A full length play reading

by Shelley Fort

Directed by Kevin R. Free

On a road-trip across America, Little and Big are tasked with one thing; they need to spread their mother’s ashes. Along the way, they encounter family and friends, conjure memories and spirits. The play is full of wishes that will never come true. “The Bright Edges of the World” is an act of letting go.

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In the Cotton
Aug
14
7:00 PM19:00

In the Cotton

After a racially motivated hate crime occurs on a modern college campus a group of students is forced to confront themselves as well as each other.  As they stage sit in in the Dean's office, pressure mounts, tensions rise, and their protest begins to cost more than just their reputations.  Is it always time to do right? [6W,5M]


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Jun
9
2:00 PM14:00

The Bright Edges of the World by Shelley Fort

See Morgan as Little in a reading of Shelley Fort's

The Bright Edges of the World

At Quick Silver Theatre Company's POC Summit

It’s the anniversary of his wife’s passing and every year he holds a memorial. On the eve of the service, Father falls unexpectedly ill and his daughter returns home.Secrets are revealed as she sorts through a collection of childhood memories, artifacts, and stories. With the help of his daughters and friends, Father is forced to confront the past in order to prepare for the future. 'The Bright Edges of the World' explores the power of resilience in the face of tragedy. 

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Apr
9
7:00 PM19:00

Beauteous by Craig Mums Grant

Cherry Lane Theatre’s Tongues Reading Series presents

Beauteous
A new play by Craig MuMs Grant

In a near distant future. People have issues. Cell phones have fused into our palms and social standing is survival.

Directed by Courtney Wetzel

Featuring: Shari Albert, David Anzuelo, Maki Borden, Jake Cannavale, Nate Dobson, Morgan McGuire, Meridith Nicholaev, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Rocky Vega, Jennie West, Sidney Williams
 

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