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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 producted 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.
If you would like to make a donation to directly offset production costs for the Neurodivergent New Play Series, please visit https://ko-fi.com/neurodivergentplays
Cast
Meet the Company
Sage Newman
Sage Newman (they/them) is an NYC-based actor, musician, and writer born and raised in Vancouver, BC. Most recently, they spent the summer with the Scranton Shakespeare Festival playing Henry in Next to Normal and Young Lucius in Titus Andronicus. In 2023, they performed in two seasons at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, appearing in The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Selected theatrical credits include The Haunting of Hill House (Eleanor), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Berowne), Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Spring Awakening (Thea & drums/percussion), Salt-Water Moon (Mary Snow), and Grease (Jan). They were also a member of Chautauqua Theater Company’s 2019 acting conservatory. Film/TV: New Amsterdam (NBC), Homicide City (ID), Paper Angels (UPtv).
Nico Galloway
Nico Galloway (he/they) is an actor, playwright, and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Currently he is in rehearsals for the modern drama, Darla written by Atlas Garcia as Heid. Recently he wrote, directed, and stared in Train Song, a folk drama at the Lime Festival. Other recent credits include; The Importance of Being Earnest as Jack/Ernest, with the Hudson Classical Theatre Company, Page in the world tour and residency of the circus show Pomp, Snow, & Cirqueumstance, MANSPREAD by Tiana Michele, and a bottle of soap in Topical Cream, a short comedy film written and directed by Aaron Latta-Morissette. They are currently celebrating signing with UGA and spend their free time running their recycled climbing rope bag brand, Knot For Climbing. For more information about Nico check out @nico.galloway or nicogalloway.com
Dani Nelson
Dani (she/her) is an actor/writer based in NYC. Theatre: Diversion (Premiere Stages), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Second Thought Theatre), Oleanna (Riverside Theatre), Lungs (Stage West Theatre), Hamlet (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre), Troilus and Cressida (The Globe Theatre, London Residency), April is Over (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 5 Stars). She holds an MA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. www.daninelson.me
Jad Jacob
JAD JACOB is the composer, filmmaker, and performer behind the brand new rock musical BEETHOVEN: LIVE IN CONCERT, a modern retelling of the composer's revolutionary life. BEETHOVEN has seen performances at The Green Room 42, a staged production at Fort Salem Theater, and was awarded the Al Budde Playwright Scholarship. Jad has written award-winning film scores including for Christopher Grant's NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE, produced by and starring Tony nominee Crystal Lucas-Perry and premiering at the Micheaux Film Festival; he also composed an original musical number for upcoming feature CONCESSIONS, starring Michael Madsen, Steven Ogg, and Josh Hamilton. As filmmaker, his short BENSON'S PLAYGROUND premiered at the Golden State Film Festival and was Finalist in a dozen festivals internationally; his documentary I AM SYRIA, following Syrian refugees living in Stuttgart, Germany, screened at Harvard University and campuses across the Northeast. His feature and television screenplays have been recognized internationally including as Finalist for the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting. Jad has worked in Europe, China, the Caribbean, and New York as music director, performer, and Dueling Pianist. www.jadjacob.com
Em Hausmann
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