Our 2023 highlight reel contains video of our first show of 2023 (LETTERS FROM MAX by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo at SigSpace / Signature Theatre) with photos from all our 2023 events.
HUGE THANKS to:
Iyvon Edebiri for inviting us into the SIGSPACE community
Playwright Lauren Yee for hosting our first AAPI BBC event and connecting us with the AAPI theater arts community
Evergreen Review for exploring the elements with us.
Joe McGinty and SID GOLD’S for being our 2023 home venue
YARA ARTS GROUP for including us in their events for The Ukrainian Cultural Festival
BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES QUEER DIVISION and The LGTBTQ+ Center
Porchstomp for another incredible time on Governor’s Island
Noah Wilson for inviting us into the Acoustic Guitar Project
Graphic artist Scott M.X. Turner - flyer art for our Patti Smith, Porchstomp, Evergreen Review and BUT WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW shows
Teresa Toro for hosting our first Bushwick Book Club Book Club
Emily Rems for being our dream Merch Maven
BOWERY POETRY CLUB - Josiah and Heath - meeting our every need
Photographers Bob Krasner, Phill Thompson, Brian Geltner, Pavlo Terekhov
Videographer Antonello Velez (LETTERS FROM MAX)
THANK YOU to all the authors, poets and playwrights whose words inspired us:
Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo - LETTERS FROM MAX
Lauren Yee - CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND
David Henry Hwang - BRUCE LEE
Maia Kobabe - GENDER QUEER: A Memoir
Patti Smith - YEAR OF THE MONKEU
Evergreen Review published writers
Caoimhe Harlock - "Up From the Slime" by
Paulann Petersen - "Urine and Other Poems"
Dong Li - "Meridian" by
William Jamieson - "Thirst for Sand"
Lyn Horton "God Knows You Are Here for a Reason"
Cynthia Abdallah - selected poems
Emily Liebowitz and Laura Flam - BUT WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW - An Oral History of 60’s Girl Groups
Serhiy Zhadan - “How Fire Descends” translated by Wanda Phipps and Virlana Tkacz
And of course a big thank you to all the readers and everyone in the audience who joined us in creating these book-inspired times. Thank you to all the artists who read, created and shared with us.
Here’s to the new year and all the music, art, dance and book-inspired times to come!!
2023 ARTISTS/PERFORMERS
JIM ANDRALIS
BEDFORD
CARRIE BEEHAN
BETH BLISS
BOY MEETS PEARL
MATT COLBOURN
ANTHONY COLEMAN
RALPH DENZER
CHARLES DUKE
BEN EDELMAN
BARBARA ENDES
ENDLESS ARROWS (JULIE LAMENDOLA W/ LESLIE GRAVES)
JULIET GARRETT
TOBY GOODSHANK
PHOEBE KREUTZ
JOHN S. HALL
CASEY HOLFORD
OKSANA HORBAN
SUSAN HWANG
SAM JAMES
ASHA JENÉ
JESSIE KILGUSS
STEPHANIE LARRIERE
YVA LAS VEGASS
SUNG UNI LEE
CAROL LIPNIK
LUMBEROB
JOE MCGINTY
RISA MICKENBERG
CHARLIE NIELAND
TROY OGILVIE
ZANE PAIS
KATY PINKE
DON RAUF
PEARL RHEIN
ANNI ROSSI
PATRICIA SANTOS
LIANNE SMITH
PAULA SPIRO
SPIRITCHILD
ST. LENOX
SHIGEKO SUGA
HENRY TENNEY & THE HIGHLAND SHATNERS
TERESA TORO