Cut Edge Collective Ten Minute Play Festival
Tank Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, NY, NY
February 9-11, 2023
Thursday, Feb 9 at 7pm
Greg Nanni
Album Liner
Written and acted by Greg T. Nanni
A musician that plays every night speaks in rectangles, attempting to say why he plays. From the full length vignette play, RECTANGLES.
Musician: Greg T. Nanni
Monte Monteleagre
Diner Booth Fracture
Written and Directed by Monte Monteleagre
A middle-age man and a young girl are together at a diner booth while a short scene between them changes, mutates, and fractures revealing a dark destiny waiting for them.
Tom Block
Mollie and Harry
Written and Directed by Tom Block
At the end of their lives, Harry visits Mollie, his one and only true love from high school who he hasn’t seen in nearly 70 years, to see if he can rekindle what has been lost. But Mollie has slipped into dementia: Harry is too late.
Mollie: Laurie Sammeth
Harry: David Baker
James Bosley
Apple Picking with Buddha
by James Bosely
Director: TBD
Actors: TBD
Synopsis: A Buddhist husband and father strays from the Eightfold Path, jeopardizing his practice and his family. Enlightenment ensues.
Chelyn Cousar
Albert’s Wedding
Director: Chelyn Cousar
A dream about a wedding has a man second guessing his proposal.
Kieran Cusack
Ruth And Bonnie and The Dancing Phantom
Director: Kieran Cusack
Two women run an estate sale in a home that has a life of its own.
Friday, Feb 10 at 7pm
Libby Heily
Inspired By True Events
Written and Acted by Libby Heily
Director: Serena Norr
The best horror movies are based on true stories. But what happens to the real people involved?
Greg Nanni
Album Liner
Written and acted by Greg T. Nanni
A musician that plays every night speaks in rectangles, attempting to say why he plays. From the full length vignette play, RECTANGLES.
Musician: Greg T. Nanni
Tom Block
Mollie and Harry
Written and Directed by Tom Block
At the end of their lives, Harry visits Mollie, his one and only true love from high school who he hasn’t seen in nearly 70 years, to see if he can rekindle what has been lost. But Mollie has slipped into dementia: Harry is too late.
Mollie: Laurie Sammeth
Harry: David Baker
Sophia Heinecke
What Makes Us Feel Alive
Written and acted by Sophia Valera Heinecke
Directed by Madeline Wall
This lively and interactive workshop helps us plan, connects us to choice, and asks us to honestly inventory our existence for the best future without us!
Serena Norr
Cut Out Fam
Written and Directed by Serena Norr
Sue’s secret to creating the perfect family is simple: cut them out of magazines and pretend they are real. As she retreats to her world of play to escape the chaos of her real world, she loses a grasp of reality, finding it harder to tell her real family from the one she created.
Chelyn Cousar
Albert’s Wedding
Director: Chelyn Cousar
A dream about a wedding has a man second guessing his proposal.
Saturday, Feb 11th at 3pm
Libby Heily
Inspired By True Events
Written and Acted by Libby Heily
Director: Serena Norr
The best horror movies are based on true stories. But what happens to the real people involved?
Monte Monteleagre
Diner Booth Fracture
Written and Directed by Monte Monteleagre
A middle-age man and a young girl are together at a diner booth while a short scene between them changes, mutates, and fractures revealing a dark destiny waiting for them.
James Bosley
Apple Picking with Buddha
Written by James Bosely
Director: TBD
Cast: TBD
Synopsis: A Buddhist husband and father strays from the Eightfold Path, jeopardizing his practice and his family. Enlightenment ensues.
Sophia Heinecke
What Makes Us Feel Alive
Written and acted by Sophia Valera Heinecke
Directed by Madeline Wall
This lively and interactive workshop helps us plan, connects us to choice, and asks us to honestly inventory our existence for the best future without us!
Serena Norr
Cut Out Fam
Written and Directed by Serena Norr
Sue’s secret to creating the perfect family is simple: cut them out of magazines and pretend they are real. As she retreats to her world of play to escape the chaos of her real world, she loses a grasp of reality, finding it harder to tell her real family from the one she created.
Kieran Cusack
Ruth And Bonnie and The Dancing Phantom
Director: Kieran Cusack
Two women run an estate sale in a home that has a life of its own.
Who We Are
We are a collective of experimental theatre writers in New York City, pushing the edge of what live performance does. We develop work that pushes at the boundaries of normative theater in some way.
We meet twice monthly: once in person to workshop freshly-minted plays, and once via Zoom for a salon on subjects pertaining to experimental writing for performance.
Welcome to our 2023 Playwriting Cohort
Lauren D’Errico
Sarah Feingold
David Hanson
Paul Hufker
Nathaniel Johnson
Ben Jones
Lisa Kimball
Al Lefcowitz
Erin Proctor
Elise Wein
From Our Writers
“Being a part of a group interested in stretching the fabric of theater to the near breaking point has helped me grow as an artist as well as introduce me to new theories and approaches to playwriting.”
– Libby Heily
“Our cohort of writers leaves me continually inspired to think critically about the many containers available to tell stories. The work we do at Cut/Edge brings together artists with wildly different goals and lived experiences, but always brings me back to the joys and practicalities of experimental performance work.”
– Sophia Valera Heinecke
NYC Playwrights have included:
Tom Block Founder
Kevin Kautzman Founder
Zizi Azah 2020, 2021
James Bosley 2022
Brynn Hambley 2021, 2022
Libby Heily 2021, 2022
Sophia Heinecke 2020, 2021
William Hugel 2020
Nick Jonczak 2021, 2022
Matthew Macca 2020
Grayson May 2021
Monte Monteleagre 2020, 2021, 2022
Gregg Nanni 2022
Serena Norr 2021, 2022
Judah Skoff 2020, 2021, 2022
Lily Welsh 2022
Brett Wolfe 2022
John Zoitos 2021