BWW Stage Mag Revolution - The Neurodivergent New Play Series Stage Mag

Revolution

 
at the Neurodivergent New Play Series
 

Written by

Kyle A. Smith

Directed by

Dave Osmundsen

 
 
 
 
 
 


 

 


 
 
 
 

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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.

 

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Cast

Sam Cusson
Klay
Dan A. Victor
Danny
Annie McCarthy
Violet
Haley Franke
Eva
Richard Binder
Cal

Creative Team

Kyle A Smith

Playwright

Dave Osmundsen

Director

Meet the Company

Sam Cusson

Klay
Sam Cusson - Klay Sam Cusson is delighted to be a part of this powerful play, and his first time reading with the Neurodivergent New Play Series. Recent Credits: Dave Osmundsen's The Wonderful Out There (Daryl), Caleb Ransom’s Birth of An Empire (Marcus Brutus), Blake Sheridan’s Farewell (Oscar), Algonquin Arts Theatre’s Spring Awakening (Melchior) and a young adult's lifetime full of theatrical performances in his home state, New Jersey. Alumni of NYU Tisch. More at SamuelCusson.com.

Dan A. Victor

Danny
Dan A. Victor - Danny Dan A. Victor (They/He) is a Autistic and Physically Disabled Artist hailing from Newton, Massachusetts. They are so thrilled to collaborating to with Dave Osmundsen once again! Dan's previous credits include playing Ethan in "My Brother Jake" (The Tank) and Adam in "The Shape of Things" (Stella Adler Studio of Acting). They can also be found performing bi-monthly in Serials at the Tank! Dan would like to thank their family for all the support and their cat for being small.

Annie McCarthy

Violet
Annie McCarthy - Violet Annie McCarthy is an actor from New York. She is a graduate of the William Esper Studio’s conservatory program training under John Frey and Bruce McCarty. Since graduation she has done a number of short films as well as a staged productions. Currently she continues her training at MN Acting Studio. She takes great pride in her AMC Stubs A-list membership.

Haley Franke

Eva
Haley Franke - Eva Haley Franke is honored to bring the role of Eva to life! Haley is a Long Island-based singer and actor with a BFA in Acting from Adelphi University. She loves and thrives in immersive character work. If you’re not watching her on stage or screen, you’ll likely see her curtsying at royal events. Follow @haleyfranke on Instagram!

Richard Binder

Cal
Richard Binder - Cal Richard has been seen in NYC as Dan in Next to Normal (Producers’ Club, Evan Pappas, dir.); Dr. J in When You’ve Got A Gift (Kraine Theater, Timothy Koch, dir.); Skating Man in Parthenogenesis (FringeNYC, Ash Marinaccio, dir.); Utterson in Jekyll & Hyde in Concert (NYSEC, Ilana Becker, dir.), Jim Summerford in The People vs. Mona (Abingdon Theater, Kate Middleton, dir.), and Edward Rutledge in 1776 (Fraunces Tavern, Bruce Biggins, dir.). Richard arranges and performs mashups with Alex De Suze as the duo BinderSuze, who will be appearing July 1st with Susie Mosher's Theatre LineUp at Green Room 42 to do their infamous mashup of Lerner & Loewe, Kiss, Lita Ford, Amanda Lepore, and Dead Kennedys. You can catch Richard singing and playing piano with The Summer Replacements, the house band at New York's longest running comedy/variety night "No Name...And A Bag O' Chips," as well as singing everything from Chilcott to Chumbawamba as a longtime member of the choir at Madison Avenue Baptist Church.

Kyle A Smith

Playwright
Kyle A Smith - Playwright Kyle A. Smith (they, she, he) is a trans and disabled playwright and dramaturg whose work has been seen and developed at The Graeae Theatre Company, Queens Theatre, T.H.I.N.K. at The Tank, Fresh Binder Productions, UCNJ, Adelphi University, Kansas University, Outtabounds Productions, No Frills Theatre, Sohaya Visions, Transformation Theatre, and more. They were the recipient of the Tisch School of the Arts Fellowship at NYU; have been shortlisted for the Dramatists Guild Fellowship, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Residency, and Rise Against Fanaticism Through the Arts Prize; and long-listed for the O’Neill Theatre Conference, Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, Baltic Writer’s Residency, and Cell Residency among others. Her play The Part of Me received its world premiere with Madlab Theatre in March 2020, days before the world shut down. The Part of Me was also a Princess Grace Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-finalist, Theatre503 prize long list, and has a monologue published in Smith and Kraus’ best monologues from 2020. His plays have been published by Smith and Kraus and Flowersong Press. Kyleanthonysmith.com MFA: NYU DDW Kyle is Brooklyn based, agender, bisexual, bipolar, OCD, autistic, and frankly has too many parts of themselves to keep track of. They have a lovely cat, baby, and spouse.

Dave Osmundsen

Director
Dave Osmundsen - Director Dave Osmundsen (He/Him/His) is an Autistic playwright and dramaturg whose work has been seen and developed at KCACTF Region 8, the Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Purple Crayon Players, B Street Theatre, the William Inge Theatre Festival, the Midwest Dramatists Conference, Phoenix Theatre Company, Clamour Theatre Company, Premiere Stages, the Valdez Theatre Conference, and more. He was one of two recipients of the Blank Theatre and Ucross Foundation’s inaugural Future of Playwriting Prize. His play Light Switch received its world premiere with Spectrum Theatre Ensemble in April 2022. Light Switch was also the 2021 Distinguished Achievement recipient of the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, an Honorable Mention finalist for BAPF 2021, longlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, a finalist for the 2020 Carlo Annoni Playwriting Prize, and a semi-finalist for the 2020 National Playwrights Conference. His one-act, A Firework Unexploded, was a semi-finalist for the NYC Audio Theatre Writing Contest and was produced by Pint-Sized in London. His plays have been published by The Dionysian, Canyon Voices, Exposition Review, Fresh Words: Contemporary One Act Plays Volume 5, and Broadway Play Publishing. MFA: Arizona State University

 

 

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