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ABOUT US
Founded in 2023 by autistic playwright and producer Anthony J. Piccione, the Neurodivergent New Play Series is dedicated to presenting matinee readings on the 3rd Sunday of every month - with seasonal breaks in December, January, July, and August - of plays written entirely by neurodivergent and disabled playwrights (i.e autism, ADHD, dyslexia, OCD, Tourette syndrome, etc.) as part of a growing resident company of playwrights whose interests and specialties span a wide range of subjects, genres & structural approaches, with each play personally selected from a neuroinclusive resident company of directors.
Mr. Piccione is an award-winning writer, producer & teaching artist whose eclectic canon of plays have previously been presented in NYC and regional venues such as The Tank, the New York Theatre Festival, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, Midtown International Theatre Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and more. His debut full-length play A Therapy Session with Myself premiered in January 2019 at the Hudson Guild Theatre before transferring in May to the Kraine Theater for an extended year-long run. Since then, his second full-length play One Empire, Under God made its live premiere at The Tank in November 2021 after previously premiering via Zoom earlier that year and is now published and available for licensing at Next Stage Press, while his next full-length play The Lone Wolf Society received a staged reading at The Tank in November 2022 and is slated to be published at Next Stage Press in 2024. Additionally, his short drama What I Left Behind was named the New York Theatre Festival’s Best Short Play of Winterfest 2018, and his short film The Fire That Won't Stop was named an official selection at the Venice Short Film Awards, the Paris International Short Festival, and the Hollywood International Golden Age Festival. He is also the Founding Artistic Director of the Talking It Out Virtual Arts Festival, which is dedicated to promoting mental health awareness through the arts and was nominated for Festival of the Year at the 2023 Young-Howze Theatre Awards, and currently serves on the Board of the Directors of the Autistic Theatremakers Alliance. He has previously worked as a scriptwriter-for-hire whose work has been commissioned by Sesame Workshop and various other clients, as well as a contributing writer to OnStage Blog from 2015 to 2019, and he has taught playwriting at EPIC Players and Broadway Weekends. Visit www.anthonyjpiccione.com to learn more.
The Neurodivergent New Play Series is a curated production of spit&vigor. Founded in 2015, spit&vigor is a non-profit theater company devoted to the development of new plays and spirited, innovative productions of existing work. Their small roster of productions has been award winning and critically acclaimed, praised as “darkly humorous, deliciously ghoulish”, “wrenching and visually eloquent”, "irresistibly dramatic" and "legitimately upsetting" by the New York Times. In collaboration with theater company Theatre4thePeople, spit&vigor was the recipient of the 2015 New York Innovative Theater Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play Award for their very first production in a historic chapel at The West Park Presbyterian Church, which included an Artist Support Grant from the Donn Russell Fund. spit&vigor has since gone on to earn The Players Theater Off-Broadway Artistic Residency, The Center at West Park’s Artist Residency, IRT's 3B Residency, The Davenport space grant, and The Times Center space grant.
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Cast
Creative Team
Ash Singer
Natalie Sacks
Meet the Company
Laurel Andersen
Duncan Pflaster
Duncan Pflaster is a multi-award-winning New York indie playwright who sometimes acts. He is best known for his Beckettian romp The Underpants Godot, which has had regional productions with Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco and Nearly Naked Theatre in Arizona, as well as the New York off-off-Broadway productions. His plays A Touch of Cinema and Harmony Hall are published by Next Stage Press, with Fourteen Hundred and Sixty Sketches of Your Left Hand scheduled for publication this fall. He has written around 40 full-length plays and a plethora of one-acts, which have been produced all over. His plays vary widely in genre and style, from science fiction to Shakespearean verse drama. Scorpio Film Releasing produced his two films Strapped for Danger and its sequel Undercover Vice: Strapped for Danger II (available on Amazon, Tubi and GayBingeTV), as well as bringing him on to co-write Code Name: Dynastud and the upcoming Pansy Vision. www.duncanpflaster.com or look him up on New Play Exchange for more.
Sarah Guilbault
Sarah Guilbault (she/they) is a curious little nuisance; a hopeful clown.
Lisa LaGrande
Lisa LaGrande (She/Her) (Dorothy Burlingham) Lisa is an Actor, Playwright, and Intimacy Director who is in her final stages of certification through IDC. Some of Lisa’s favorite acting roles include: Prospero in Tempest, Andromache in Trojan Women, Catherine in Proof, and Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor. She has also proudly taken part in readings of several new works in development. Please visit www.lisalagrande.com to learn more.
Sharon Litwinoff
Sharon is thrilled to work with this team on this fascinating story. As a singer, actor, and writer based in NYC, she is passionate about telling stories that help to make connections and build empathy. She has a series of ongoing Sharon Show cabarets, and other previous credits include Martha (A Piece of My Heart, Infinite Variety Productions), Juliet (I Hate Shakespeare!, AlphaNYC Theater Company) and Woman Who Gives a Fuck (Body of Women, Fourth U Artivists). She currently studies stage combat with Arte Violenta and intimacy direction with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators. www.sharonlitwinoff.com
Ash Singer
Ash Singer received her BFA from NYU TISCH and her MFA from The Actor's Studio Drama School at Pace University. "In Their Footsteps," written and directed by Ash and based on the oral histories she conducted of five American women who served in the Vietnam War has been produced in Italy, Scotland, Australia and all around the United States. She is the founder of the not for profit theatre company, Infinite Variety Productions. Her first short film "Still." is circulating the film festival market, most recent selection was in her hometown for the NYCITFF. Ash has not seen her written work produced all around the globe but will be directing her first international immersive show next year in collaboration with the UK based all female team - Bloomin Buds. As a freelance director, dramaturg and actor Ash loves traveling and seeing what beautiful art can be created when minds from all over work together. To learn more about her directing, writing and acting profile www.ashsinger.com . In her spare time she trains in martial arts, currently a third degree black belt at World Seido Karate.
Natalie Sacks
NATALIE SACKS is a Brooklyn-based playwright specializing in historical and sci-fi theater. Her plays have been finalists or semifinalists for American Shakespeare Center’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, Premiere Stages' Premiere Play Festival, the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, and the Detroit New Works Festival, and have had staged readings at Playground-NY, Benchmark Theatre, Blunt Objects Theatre, The Rude Mechanicals, The Bechdel Group, and Turn to Flesh Productions.
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