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When a middle school health teacher gets fired after talking about masturbation with her students, she creates a sex ed class for the repressed women of her town. Part play, part interactive experience, TELL ME WHAT I WANT creates a space to address the shame surrounding women's bodies.

Run Time: 80 min

GINA STEVENSEN (Playwright) is a playwright and dramaturg based in NYC. She was a 2019 nominee for the OBIE Award-winning Mentor Project at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Her plays include THE COLONY (American Stage’s 21st Century Voices New Play Festival, Semifinalist: Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition & Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Off-Broadway Reading: Urban Stages, Finalist: The Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights Workshop), CRUEL SISTER (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), KIDS (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and BOOK OF ESTHER (Reading: Hartford Stage, Top Ten Finalist: Jewish Playwriting Contest, Semi-Finalist: Princess Grace Award). Gina has been a guest lecturer at NYU’s Open Arts program and is an Affiliated Artist with The Hess Collective. She teaches playwriting at Tribeca Performing Arts Center’s annual Writers in Performance Workshop and through The Writer’s Rock. MFA Playwriting: Columbia University. www.ginastevensen.com

NANA DAKIN (Director) is a Thai-American director of new plays, classics and devised performance based in New York City. Her work pursues social equity by examining the way culture is constructed and unsettling dormant biases. She is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), a core member of B-Floor Theatre, Thailand’s vanguard physical theatre company and the President of the Board of Directors of the Thai Theatre Foundation. As an Assistant Director she has worked on "Mary Jane" (NYTW), "The Bacchae" (Getty Villa, BAM Next Wave), "Wild Goose Dreams" (The Public Theater), and "Camelot" (Lincoln Center Theater). Recent directing credits include an all-female production of Shakespeare’s "Richard III" (Lenfest Center for the Arts) and the World Premiere of Anchuli Felicia King's "White Pearl" (The Royal Court). www.nanadakin.com

CAST:
Amara Brady
Alinca Hamilton*
Hannah McKechnie
Margarita Tavárez
Gabrielle Young

*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

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How We Love/F*ck, a new play from powerhouse actor/writer Lillian Isabella, is a sex-positive theatre piece in response to the #MeToo movement where she looks to celebrate female sexuality, and how fun sex can be.

The play is inspired by documentary-style interviews with a tribe of 28 diverse female-identifying individuals, ranging from 25 to 89 years old. Through candid monologues created from the interviews, Lillian begins to discover her own sexual agency, the healing power of ecstatic experience, and the importance of sharing this new understanding with the world.

Brought to you by Three Rooms Press and Edge In Motion Productions, How We Love/F*ck is directed and executive produced by theatre vet Kat Georges, and produced by Lindsay-Elizabeth Hand.

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$10

Three people play a game... in 2075.

In a world where physical existence seems imminently impossible, a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search of the promised land; a virtual utopia. Alliances are made and broken as personal visions cross and collide in a social experiment that begins to chip away at individual identities. No Place examines the relationships between citizenship, nationhood and personhood and asks What happens to a person when they undertake an extreme journey of migration?

Written and Directed by Andrea Ang
Created by the company
Featuring Ana Cantorán Viramontes, Sarah McEneaney, and Juliana Suaide

No Place is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in
partnership with the City Council. Subsidized studio space provided by the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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When Cassie joins the all female exclusive social club, The Hive, shes ready for her boring female life to become way more glam and important! But in this new ultra hip feminist co-working space-things soon start to get weird!

Playwright: Catherine Weingarten
Director- Emily Penick

Production Manager- Natalie Osborne

Stage Manager- Anna Kovaks

Cast: Alycia Kunkle, Laura Ornella, Manning Jordan, Sara Turner, Gwendolyn Ellis and Glenna Brucken

The Surrogate is an all-female-identified play about a woman, Sophia, who wants a baby but can’t have one and the younger woman, Cece, who is going to carry it for her – for a price. As Sophia slowly becomes a surrogate Mother-figure to Cece herself, the blooming of this unexpected bond comes crashing down when there is a complication in the pregnancy, and Sophia has to make a choice that could cost her not only Cece’s trust, but her marriage to her wife, Kit.

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Three people play a game... in 2075.

In a world where physical existence seems imminently impossible, a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search of the promised land; a virtual utopia. Alliances are made and broken as personal visions cross and collide in a social experiment that begins to chip away at individual identities. No Place examines the relationships between citizenship, nationhood and personhood and asks What happens to a person when they undertake an extreme journey of migration?

Written and Directed by Andrea Ang
Created by the company
Featuring Ana Cantorán Viramontes, Sarah McEneaney, and Juliana Suaide

No Place is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in
partnership with the City Council. Subsidized studio space provided by the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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One woman’s dark comic journey to the other side of the overpass. Mary Goggin shares stories of sex, drugs, and Irish Catholicism, laced with characters based on her experiences as a former professional call girl. As a massive reaction to sexual repression, Mary takes us from the Irish famine to ’70s pimps to joy!

“Runaway Princess, a Hopeful tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness”
written and performed by Mary Goggin.

*Mary Goggin (writer, performer): AEA-DG-SAG/AFTRA,

Actor on stage and in film for 20 years. Favorite recent roles include, Ella O’Neill (wife of Eugene O’Neill) in Ann Hansen’s “Road to Babylon”, Broadway Bound Festival. A joy being directed Cyndy Marion in numerous Tennessee works including, Cavalier for M’Lady, Clothes For A Summer Hotel and A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot. Also PB & J for the NY Fringe Festival and Born to be Blue, winner, Samuel French festival Favorite TV Roles include; Broad City, Law and Order, Guiding Light, The Grind (Amazon). Favorite Film Roles include; Little Children, MAD (soon to be released), The Trouble with Bliss, Gasoline, Bronx Paradise. Nominated for best actor, by Freeway Films for her “Rose” in “Reservations”Check her out on IMDB!

Dan Ruth (Director). Dan is an award-winning solo artist for his play, A Life Behind Bars which has played to sell out crowds around the country, most recently at City Winery, NYC. He’s the winner of the 2016 United Solo Festival Award for “Best Autobiographical Show,” The 2018 Bistro Award winner for “Outstanding Solo Play,” MAC Award for “Best Spoken Word Artist” and the 2018 Producers Encore Award from the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Dan has directed both regionally and in NYC where he also served as a core director for The A-Train Plays at the Sanford Meisner Theatre.

Matthew WJ Mitchell (Tech) is an actor, writer, and improviser originally from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, IL. He currently lives in Weehawken, NJ and absolutely loves it there. Matt has light and sound designed at theaters all over NYC, including the PIT, 59E59th, Creek & The Cave, Clemente, and the past few years at United Solo. Hire him: mattmitch927@gmail.com.

My mission to heal thru my art has begun... So excited to be in the world…

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It’s heady times for the Slotted Spoons, a dance troupe of four middle-aged moms. The mayor’s retirement celebration will be the biggest show of their lives, but the moms need a new choreographer, and they need one fast. Fortune upon fortunes, their fearless leader, Jenny Hu, has secured the services of an exquisitely, hauntingly, unconventional young woman named India (no relation to the country) who soon has the Spoons whipped up into some kind of a… a… well, it’s not a dance, exactly? There’s a lot of soul-baring. Maybe too much. And a huge bag of what they’re told is just sweet, sweet, candy.

Cast: Noreen Farley, Vanessa Kai, Alice Kremelberg, Sheila Stasack

Directed by: Jessica O’Hara-Baker

Written by: Ying Ying Li

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There's only one thing Cameron wants more than to break into the New York comedy scene, and that's to win the heart of her newly-resurfaced, childhood friend Roxanne. But when Roxanne recruits Cameron's help to catch the eye of Midwestern, comedy newby (and boy!) Christian, Cam suddenly finds herself the orchestrator of their romance. Set in the early 2000s, this rom/com retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac explores gender & sexuality, artistic integrity, and what it really means to fall in love. Jordan Coats is honored to join LadyFest with this reading-style production of her new play.

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$10

BEDTIME PLAYS
Everything We Need To Talk About Before We Talk About Sex
Written by Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell
Directed by Rakesh Palisetty
Sara wants to, she really does, but if only she could say what she’s thinking out loud. Everything We Need To Talk About Before We Talk About Sex asks the question: what do you have to overcome within yourself to be intimate with another person?
Teeth
Written by Ciara Ni Chuirc
Directed by Kelly O'Donnell
Aaron wants Colleen to tell him what she wants - but talking about it is the opposite of what she wants. Teeth is a darkly comedic play about the difficulties we encounter in talking about sex, and women's anxieties about asking for what they want in the bedroom.

“Not a Pipeline Problem: 6, 10-minute plays written and directed by badass womxn” is a celebration of femme creative power. Join these five playwrights for an afternoon of questioning... “What’s really the problem? Cause girl, it ain’t us”.

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In The Valkyries (by Jessica Owens) the tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.

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In The Valkyries (by Jessica Owens) the tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.

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In The Valkyries (by Jessica Owens) the tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.

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Life has three guarantees: you’re born, you die, and if your name is Rio, you dance on the sand. In this hour-long musical storytelling show, indie rocker and Moth Mainstage storyteller Sam Shaber takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster of laughter, tears, and catharsis, from her obsessive, starstruck adolescence to the sobering losses of adulthood, to a triumphant realization about the power of those we love.

Co-written and directed by award-winning writer/director/comedian Lynn Ferguson, Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran garnered 5-star reviews and Pick of the Fringe at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Pick of the Fringe, Critics' Choice and a Hollywood Producers Encore Award at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe. Sam is excited to celebrate the show's New York debut at The Tank during Ladyfest 2019.

***** ––British Theatre Guide
"A must-see." ––BBC Scotland
"A touching tale of love, loss and the power within ourselves." ––Broadway World
"The stories are heartfelt and her singing is stunning." ––Three Weeks

www.samshaber.com/lifedeathduranduran

TICKETS
$14 online
$15 at door

Rule of 7x7 - LadyFest Edition!

A one-night-only special edition of RULE OF created for The Tank's 2019 LadyFest! 

7(lady)writers | 7 rules | 7 new plays 

One free drink with your ticket! 

TICKETS
$14 online
$15 at door

Rule of 7x7 - LadyFest Edition!

A one-night-only special edition of RULE OF created for The Tank's 2019 LadyFest! 

7(lady)writers | 7 rules | 7 new plays 

One free drink with your ticket! 

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1000 years after the fall of humanity. Two robot historians of humanity pore over a series of primary resources to understand the inner lives of their creators to answer the question: do their creators - with all their cruelties and failures, who tortured each other, who destroyed their own planet and ultimately themselves - even deserve to be remembered.

Written by Kelsey Hercs

Staged Reading

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$12

Dystopia is a sketch show that creates dystopian universes where our political, economic or social nightmares have come to reality in order to get the audience wondering could this really happen here? The host Marcela Onyango will interview activists at the end of the show to ask them whether the dystopias depicted in the show are feasible and if there is anything that can be done to stop them.