#ilana peña

[freshlybakedfandoms]

i think diary of a future president means so much to me as a tv show because i went through basically the exact same thing bobby did. i dated a guy, realized i was a lesbian, had a crush on my best friend whom i thought was straight but wasn't. seeing that story played out on screen helped me accept myself and come to terms with who i was.

i am also like elena; outspoken, a little bit bossy, gets great grades in school. i had a lot of the same struggles she did with her friends and things changing a lot in middle school, and it allowed me to connect with both cañero-reed siblings.

it's truly a shame that it got cancelled and will eventually fade away because people are no longer watching it, because stories like that are so important to so many young people.

#idk what this is #im rewatching s2 and just. fuck this show was so good #for so many reasons #and i WISH we could've gotten a season three #just one more season to wrap it up #there are so many stories like mine too #of queer kids watching queer media and learing to accept themselves because of it #and these stories are so important to be told #but it is so hard to get that to happen #ilana peña i love you and everything you did with this show #doafp #diary of a future president #bobby cañero reed #elena cañero reed #queer media #lgbtq+ media

[ryanatwoodenthusiast]

doafp s3

okay so this post gave me an idea about doafp if it had been continued

okay so in an interview (i can't find it rn) ilana peña said that if there had been a season 3 it would have had a time skip so that elena was in freshman year but tbh i don't like that idea so much bc it ended on the cliffhanger about student rep elections and that should be followed up on and anyway that would have probably been because the cast was older than the characters but i mean the show's been cancelled so that doesn't matter

elena's plot: elena and emilio would have become student rep together. they'd make a great team and elena would learn a lot about letting someone else take control (okay she already learned that in the s2 group project episode but still). her and emilio would start a romance. maybe they'd work out, maybe they'd notice they work better as friends. she'd definitely have more moments with sasha, jessie and melissa.

bobby's plot: dating cj but still having feelings for liam. near the end of the season he'd break up with cj and the season would end with a rain scene fight/confession with liam

gabi's plot: this is what inspired this whole post - at the beginning of the season, her and sam would take a trip just the two of them and cami would look after bobby and elena. on the trip, sam would propose and gabi would have complicated feelings about it. she'd say she needs time to think about it and he'd be hurt but would understand. she then says yes but doesn't know how to tell the kids. she tells cami but tries to keep it a secret from bobby and elena. they would find out accidentally, like in season 1 when they both saw gabi and sam and they wouldn't mind the marriage thing but they, or at least elena, would be hurt she didn't tell them. but they would need some time to process it and they wouldn't be completely okay with it. now i had another idea. and that is that gabi's mom dies. and it's a day before the wedding. so gabi calls the wedding off. and that all happens in the season finale

#doafp #diary of a future president

[phe-purple-parade]

Diary of a Future President

Came for the queer rep, stayed for, well, p much everything?? It's such a good show all round!! Aaaa!! Like yes the v good and thorough queer rep (like Camila as a gay guidance figure for Bobby, Bobby's coming out to the important ppl in his life, generally diverse and casual but meaningful queer rep in several characters), plus healthy realistic relationships (romantic, familial, and platonic), with interesting characters and plot-subplot parallels and just,, a fun concept?? Like yas Elena make herstory :P no but fr we love to see a girlboss grow and develop and win

It's just, a really nicely written show? Refreshing? Also to be very clear I am NOT praising Disney here, but I am definitely praising show creator Ilana Peña & all the other amazing ppl who made this show Happen

Oh I cannot wait to see what happens next aaaaaaaaa

Pls watch this show! Good stuff!

#i love this show sm??? #doafp #and now i've seen disney's pj ej tj AND cj. bc they needed another _j lmao #diary of a future president

[writemarcus]

Gingold Theatrical Group to Present SPEAKERS' CORNER New Play Development Workshops

Featuring: Karma Sutra Chai Tea Latte, Vigil-Aunties, There Goes The Neighborhood, and Howl From Up High.

by Chloe Rabinowitz May. 18, 2022  

Gingold Theatrical Group, now in its 17th Season, is continuing its new play development with the Plays-In-Progress AEA-approved Showcases of this year's SPEAKER'S CORNER Writers Group. This season, writers Aeneas Sagar Hemphill, Divya Mangwani, Marcus Scott and Mallory Jane Weiss are developing works in response to prompts from the revolutionary activist humanitarian writings and precepts of George Bernard Shaw. These Actors Equity Association approved 29-hour workshops culminate with a presentation as an opportunity for each playwright to assess where they are with their work and to determine the next steps to be taken. These invitation-only presentations will take place at ART-NY Studios (520 8th Avenue). Space for each final presentation is extremely limited and reservations must be made, so to request the opportunity to attend any of these events please email [email protected] This year's showcases will be:

Howl From Up High

by Mallory Jane Weiss, Directed by Lily Riopelle Thursday May 19th at 6pm Purva Bedi, Tori Ernst, Jacqueline Guillen, Sarah Rose Kearns, Adam Langdon, Collin McConnell; Assistant Director, Margaret Lee

Vigil-Aunties

by Divya Mangwani, Directed by Arpita Mukherjee Friday May 20th at 7pm Anya Banerji, Aadya Bedi, Sayali Niranjan Bramhe, Rahoul Roy, Mahima Saigal, Salma Shaw, and Rita Wolf; Assistant Director, Sara Vishnev

There Goes The Neighborhood

by Marcus Scott, Directed by Dev Bondarin Friday June 3rd at 7pm Phillip Burke, Shavanna Calder, Anthony Goss, Ashley Jossell, Olivia Kinter, Monique Robinson, David Rowen, Cliff Sellers; Stage Manager Elliot J. Cohen.

Karma Sutra Chai Tea Latte

by Aeneas Hemphill, Directed by Arpita Mukherjee, Monday June 6th at 2pm Shawn, Jain, Sean Devare, Salma Shaw, Khyati Sehgal, Mahima Saigal; Stage Manager Elliot J. Cohen

"Among the many programs we've developed over the last 17 years, developing new plays with the intent to produce and publish, has always been the most ambitious dream of all of us at Gingold. While we continue to produce our annual full off-Broadway productions of plays by George Bernard Shaw, we plan to add at least one new play to our schedule to share with our devoted patrons," said David Staller. Named after the corner of London's Hyde Park where George Bernard Shaw and other political speakers have delivered speeches since 1855, GTG's SPEAKERS' CORNER brings together six to ten writers each year who will spend the year exploring a specific Shaw play and writing individual new plays in response to that text and Shaw's forward thinking humanitarian ideals. Speakers' Corner members meet bi-monthly, and GTG will host showings of the works that Speakers' Corner develops at the end of the season. The group's members were identified through an open application process under the guidance of Becker, GTG Artistic Director David Staller, and this season's Speakers' Corner Readers and Advisory Committee: Ilana Becker, Stephen Brown-Fried, Ralph B. Peña, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Sharon Washington, along with Speakers' Corne alumni Hank Kim, and Lorenzo Roberts.

WRITERS:

Aeneas Sagar Hemphill (he/him) is an Indian-American playwright and screenwriter based in NYC and DC. Weaving through many genres, his work builds new worlds to illuminate our own, investigating the ghosts that haunt our lives and communities with passion, pathos, and humor. He was a 2019 Resident Artist with Monson Arts Center and 2017-2018 Playlab fellow at Pipeline Theatre, as well as semi-finalist for the 2019 Princess Grace Award, semi-finalist for the 2019 Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, and finalist for the 2017 Many Voices Fellowship. His plays include: Black Hollow (Argo Collective, Dreamscape Theatre), The Troll King (Pipeline), Childhood Songs (Monson Arts), The Republic of Janet & Arthur (Amios), The Red Balloon (Noor Theatre), A Stitch Here or There (DarkHorse Dramatists, Slingshot Theatre), A Horse and a Housecat (Slingshot Theatre). MFA Playwriting, Columbia University. Divya Mangwani is a writer and theatre artist from Pune, India, based in New York. She examines the absurdities of the social, political and mythical. Her work focuses on global identity and belonging. Divya was the founder and Artistic Director of Moonbeam Factory Theatre, where she wrote, directed, and produced plays in India, Singapore and Glasgow. In New York, she has developed work with UNICEF, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Gingold Theatrical Group, Rattlestick Theatre, Mabou Mines, Hypokrit Theatre, The Flea, Project Y, Pipeline Theatre, Rising Sun, and Governors Island. Divya is a recent fellow of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Gingold Theatrical Group Speakers Corner and was a NYTW 2050 Artistic Fellow, Hypokrit Theatre Tamasha playwright, Project Y Writers Group and Playlab fellow at Pipeline Theatre. Divya has also worked as a journalist and editor at The Times of India, ESPN, Crisis Response Journal, and Daily News & Analysis. Marcus Scott is a dramatist & journalist. Selected work includes Tumbleweed (finalist for the 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival; semifinalist for the 2022 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, the 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & the 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award), Sibling Rivalries (finalist for the 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; semi-finalist for the 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & the 2021 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award) and Cherry Bomb (recipient of the 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence). He was commissioned by Heartbeat Opera to adapt Beethoven's Fidelio (Librettist/Co-writer; The Met Museum; NY Times Critic's Pick). Recently developed at Gingold Theatrical Group (Speaker's Corner), Zoetic Stage (Finstrom Festival Of New Work), Queens Theatre (New American Voices series) and The Road Theatre Company's Under Construction 3 Playwrights Group and Cohort 2 of the Southern Black Playwrights Lab at the Mojoaa Performing Arts Company. Scott is a 2021 NYSAF Founders' Award finalist and a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. MFA: GMTWP, NYU Tisch. Mallory Jane Weiss's plays include Big Black Sunhats (The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2022; Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission finalist 2020), Lights Out and Away We Go (Clubbed Thumb reading June 2022), The Page Turners (The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist 2021), Pony Up (Princess Grace Finalist 2019; SPACE on Ryder Farm semi-finalist 2020), Howl From Up High (in development with Gingold Theatrical Group), Evermore Unrest (Red Bull Short New Play Festival 2020), Dave and Julia are stuck in a tree (Playing on Air's James Stevenson Prize 2020), and Losing You, Which Is Enough (workshop readings at The Lark and Cherry Lane Theatre). She is a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers' Group (2021-2022), The COOP's Clusterf**k vol. 2 (2021), Gingold Theatrical Group's Speakers Corner, and Fresh Ground Pepper's BRB Retreat (2019). Mallory earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. in playwriting from The New School. She also works as a Senior Writer for Ethena, where she creates harassment-prevention training in the form of short-form articles, graphic novels, audio plays, and more. In addition to Speakers' Corner, GTG's on-going play development also includes PRESS CUTTINGS, which, in recognition of Shaw's career as a theatre critic, supports the development of new plays written by theatre journalists. Press Cuttings has commissioned new plays by Jeremy McCarter, Robert Simonson, and David Cote, and, in June of 2017, presented an AEA workshop of David Cote's Otherland directed by May Adrales. This fall, GTG returned to live, in person performance with the acclaimed revival of Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession starring Robert Cuccioli, David Lee Huynh, Alvin Keith, Nicole King, Raphael Nash Thompson, and Tony® Award winner Karen Ziemba as Mrs. Warren, which recently completed its acclaimed Off-Broadway engagement at Theatre Row, directed by David Staller. Terry Teachout, reviewing Mrs. Warren's Profession in The Wall Street Journal, declared "Mr. Staller, who knows everything there is to know about Shaw, has not only staged the play but edited the text with his accustomed skill. All the more reason, then, to praise David Staller, the artistic director of Project Shaw, a long-running series of semi-staged concert readings of the playwright's 60-odd shows. In addition to Project Shaw, Mr. Staller's Gingold Theatrical Group presented fully staged small-scale off-Broadway versions of Heartbreak House in 2018 and Caesar and Cleopatra in 2019, and now they're doing Mrs. Warren's Profession. The production is completely satisfying... Sprinkled with tart, school-of-Wilde epigrams ('There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses') and overflowing with glittering talk, it's a foolproof vehicle for six accomplished actors and a director who, like Mr. Staller, knows better than to let the play become a static chat-fest. Instead, he keeps the actors moving and the pace brisk, and the results are immensely pleasurable." GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP creates theater that supports human rights, freedom of speech, and individual liberty using the work of George Bernard Shaw as our guide. All of GTG's programs are inspired by Shaw's humanitarian values. Through full productions, staged readings, new play development, and inner-city educational programs, GTG brings Shavian precepts to audiences and artists across New York, encouraging individuals to breathe Shaw's humanist ideals into their contributions for the future. Shaw created plays to inspire peaceful discussion and activism and that is what GTG aims to accomplish. GTG's past productions include Man and Superman (2012), You Never Can Tell (2013), Major Barbara (2014), Widowers' Houses (2016), Heartbreak House (2018), and Caesar & Cleopatra (2019). Founded in 2006 by David Staller, GTG has carved a permanent niche for the work of George Bernard Shaw within the social and cultural life of New York City, and, through the Project Shaw reading series, made history in 2009 as the first company ever to present performances of every one of Shaw's 65 plays (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches). GTG brings together performers, critics, students, academics and the general public with the opportunity to explore and perform theatrical work inspired by the humanitarian and activist values that Shaw championed. All comedies, these plays boldly exhibit the insight, wit, passion and all-encompassing socio-political focus that distinguished Shaw as one of the most inventive and incisive writers of all time. Through performances, symposiums, new play development, and outreach, as well as through our discussion groups and partnerships with schools including SUNY Stony Brook, Regis, the De La Salle Academy, and The Broome Street Academy, GTG has helped spark a renewed interest in Shaw across the country, and a bold interest in theater as activism. Young people are particularly inspired by Shaw's invocation to challenge the strictures society imposes, to embrace the power of the individual, to make bold personal choices and to take responsibility for these choices. GTG's new play development lab, Speakers' Corner, created to support playwrights inspired by Shaw's ideals, is now in its second cycle. Through monthly prompts and feedback, writers develop work inspired by or in response to a specific Shaw text. Plays developed through Speakers' Corner will be nurtured in workshops and readings with the expectation that GTG will publish or produce them. GTG encourages all people to rejoice in the possibilities of the future. All of GTG's programming is designed to inspire lively discussion and peaceful activism with issues related to human rights, the freedom of speech, and individual liberty. This was the purpose behind all of Shaw's work and why GTG chose him as the guide toward helping create a more tolerant and inclusive world through the exploration of the Arts. For more information about the Workshops or any of Gingold Theatrical Group's projects, please call 212-355-7823, email [email protected], or visit online at www.gingoldgroup.org.

#Gingold Theatrical Group #GTG #Speakers' Corner #Mallory Jane Weiss #Divya Mangwani #Aeneas Hemphill #Arpita Mukherjee #Lily Riopelle #Dev Bondarin #Marcus Scott #MarcusScott #WriteMarcus #Write Marcus

[jmovielover]

Disney+ Originals (Part 2)

Diary of a Future President (January 17 2020-August 18 2021; 2 Seasons) "Elena Cañero-Reed will one day become president of the United States but, for now, she's navigating her first year in the jungle that is middle school. As a sixth grader in Miami, Elena learns valuable lessons that will lay the foundation for her future success. Alongside best friend Sasha, brother Bobby, mother Gabi, and her mother's new boyfriend, Sam, Elena documents the pivotal highs and lows of her journey in her trusty diary." (Developed by Ilana Peña)

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (February 7 2020) "Timmy Failure, who, along with his 1,500-pound polar bear partner Total, operates Total Failure Inc., a Portland detective agency. An elementary school oddball, the clueless but confident Timmy must navigate the world of adults around him." (Directed by Tom McCarthy)

Stargirl (March 13 2020) "An unassuming high school student finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves and each other." (Directed by Julia Hart)

Love, Victor (June 17 2020-June 15 2022; 3 Seasons; Made as a Disney+ Original before moving to Hulu) "Focuses on a new student at Creekwood High School, Victor. The series follows his journey of self-discovery: facing challenges at home and struggling with his sexual orientation. He reaches out to Simon when it seems too difficult for him to navigate through high school." (Developed by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger)

Magic Camp (August 14 2020) "A straight-laced banker returns to magic camp, which he attended years ago as a boy, to work as a compassionate and fun-loving counselor while also keeping his eye on winning first place in the upcoming Golden Wand competition." (Directed by Mark Waters)

#disney+ originals

[gamingpark]

Selena Gomez produrrà il reboot di Working Girl

Selena Gomez produrrà il reboot di Working Girl

Selena Gomez dovrebbe produrre un riavvio del classico film Working Girl. Secondo Deadline, la cantante/attrice è in “trattative finali” per sviluppare il progetto in collaborazione con dirigenti dei 20th Century Studios. Le fonti hanno anche detto ai redattori dell’outlet che la sceneggiatrice Ilana Peña sta lavorando alla sceneggiatura, con il film “probabile premiere su Hulu”. I rappresentanti…

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[onlyexplorer]

Selena Gomez to Star in 'Working Girl' 20th Century Reboot, Ilana Peña Set to Write Script

Selena Gomez to Star in ‘Working Girl’ 20th Century Reboot, Ilana Peña Set to Write Script

Another ’80s classic is about to get the reboot treatment: Ilana Peña is attached to adapt a “Working Girl” script for 20th Century, with Selena Gomez in final talks to star. Deadline broke the news. As the source notes, the studios continue to reassess the IP collected in their respective libraries, especially since the recent success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ – “20th Century sees this as timely…

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[unworthyelevator]

Really short post here,

Happy Birthday Ilana!

#disney plus #disney #diary of a future president #doafp #ilana peña

[dancedance-resolution]

Ilana Peña, creator of Diary of a Future President, made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list!

Image ID: Screenshot of an Instagram post by Ilana Peña (@/lanstagram). The image is her headshot, and the description reads: “Age is temporary, but digitally printed lists in the middle of a global meltdown are forever! Truly though this is such an honor, thank you @/forbes ❤️ #ForbesUnder30 (📸@/shadowtime).

Image ID: Screenshot of the Forbes 30 Under 30 profile on Ilana Peña, which features her headshot and the following text: “Ilana Peña / Creator / Diary of a Future President / Los Angeles, California / Peña got her start in Hollywood as Rachel Bloom's assistant on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." She turned this opportunity into a staff-writing job on the show in 2017, and now she's the creator and executive producer of "Diary of A Future President," which is streaming on Disney+. The show is about a Cuban-American middle schooler and the experiences that take her to the White House.”

#doafp #ilana peña #forbes #30 under 30 #in case you’re wondering yes the screenshots are mine; yes my phone is set to spanish; no i don’t speak it well but i can read it quite well #writing is a different matter and listening? haha can’t even understand things spoken in my native language fjksnfjsndj

[networkconnectivityissues]

Here are clips from an interview from HOLA with Ilana Peña, Tess Romero, and Charlie Bushnell

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSfoq1Rj0fU/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

(I know it's not a full interview, but if anyone does have the full version can you let me know)

#so exciting that we are getting press for doafp #finally this show is getting some good recognition #also so happy that ilana gets to talk about this show #i didn't really see alot of interview with her for season 1 #Ilana Peña #Tess Romero #Charlie Bushnell #diary of a future president #doafp

[hexalt]

i wrote a whole thing to ilana peña thanking her for making a show i wish i had growing up (diary of a future president), and she replied!! 💖 watch this amazing show, especially if you’re latine & gay

#diary of a future president #ilana peña #ilana pena #disney #representation #*

[cxglovekernels]

Love Kernels - 5 November

CAST & CREW

- For GQ, Rachel Bloom shares her best dating advice for men.

- Ilana Peña (writer) will tell stories on #ThrowbackFriday this Friday (9 November) in LA (USA).

- Vincent Rodriguez III (Josh Chan) will receive an Excellence in Media award from the National LGBTQ Task Force at the Night of 100 dinners on 10 November in LA (USA.

FANDOM

- Podcast Crazy Ex-Girlfriend After Show talks about episode 4.4. (SPOILERS)

- Episode discussion: @nonbinarysasquatch shares their thoughts, @nellie-elizabeth​ shares their pro and cons, @dykeschur​ talks about the romance storyline, @defectivegembrain​ talks about already getting some things they wanted from this season (SPOILERS)

- @letitiamichellewrights​ talks about empathy gaps and the crazy ex-girlfriend fandom. (SPOILERS)

- @nonbinarysasquatch addresses the "Rebecca is as bad as Nathaniel" idea. @goldstarzzz​ defends Nathaniel. (SPOILERS)

- @catty-words shares their thoughts on the Rebecca/Nathaniel ship. (SPOILERS)

-  @lozkelly made a Rebecca/Nathaniel fanvid.(SPOILERS)

- Biancababy wrote Idiot, a Nathaniel/Reader story. Summary: He looked absolutely lovestruck, that is to say, like an idiot. Nathaniel hates that this girl makes him smile. It’s rather irritating, and he wishes it would stop.

A calendar with all the cast & fandom events mentioned in this newsletter can be found here

#Crazy Ex-Girlfriend #rachel bloom #ilana peña #Vincent Rodriguez III #podcast #episode discussion #fanfic #fanvid

[secretly-of-course]

no thoughts just bobby looking back at liam while holding cj’s hand

s3 love triangle i’m manifesting it

bestie I can’t tell you how long I had the video paused for while silently screaming at that part

✨ manifesting ✨

#im actually really hopeful we get s3 renewal? knock on wood #me: i hate love triangles #ilana peña: you sure about that? #me: you’re so right ma’am my apologies #doafp spoilers #bonk 🔨

[andishacks]

Not sure what this means but if she's happy I'm happy<3

#from iana peña's insta #text #doafp #diary of a future president #*ilana peña

[writemarcus]

SPEAKERS' CORNER New Play Development Plays-In-Progress 29-Hour Equity Workshops to Continue

Coming Up: Karma Sutra Chai Tea Latte by Aeneas Hemphill, Directed by Arpita Mukherjee; and There Goes The Neighborhood by Marcus Scott, Directed by Dev Bondarin.

by Chloe Rabinowitz May. 31, 2022  

Gingold Theatrical Group, now in its 17th Season, is continuing its new play development with the Plays-In-Progress AEA-approved Showcases of this year's SPEAKER'S CORNER Writers Group. This season, writers Aeneas Sagar Hemphill, Divya Mangwani, Marcus Scott and Mallory Jane Weiss are developing works in response to prompts from the revolutionary activist humanitarian writings and precepts of George Bernard Shaw. These Actors Equity Association approved 29-hour workshops culminate with a presentation as an opportunity for each playwright to assess where they are with their work and to determine the next steps to be taken. These invitation-only presentations will take place at ART-NY Studios (520 8th Avenue). Space for each final presentation is extremely limited and reservations must be made, so to request the opportunity to attend any of these events email [email protected]. This year's final two showcases will be:

There Goes The Neighborhood

by Marcus Scott, Directed by Dev Bondarin Friday June 3rd at 7pm Phillip Burke, Savanna Calder, Broderick Clavery, Anthony Godd, Ashley Jossell, Olivia Kinter, Monique Robinson, Cliff Sellers Stage Manager: Elliot J. Cohen.

Karma Sutra Chai Tea Latte

by Aeneas Hemphill, Directed by Arpita Mukherjee Sunday, June 5th at 5pm Rajesh Bose, Shawn Jain, Mahima Saigal, Salma Shaw, Khyati Sehgal, Imran Sheikh Assistant Director: Sarah Vishnev Stage Manager: Elliot J. Cohen

This season's two previous showcases, Vigil-Aunties by Divya Mangwani, directed by Arpita Mukherjee, and Howl From Up High by Mallory Jane Weiss, directed by Lily Riopelle, were held in May. "Among the many programs we've developed over the last 17 years, developing new plays with the intent to produce and publish, has always been the most ambitious dream of all of us at Gingold. While we continue to produce our annual full Off-Broadway productions of plays by George Bernard Shaw, we plan to add at least one new play to our schedule to share with our devoted patrons," said David Staller. Named after the corner of London's Hyde Park where George Bernard Shaw and other political speakers have delivered speeches since 1855, GTG's SPEAKERS' CORNER brings together six to ten writers each year who will spend the year exploring a specific Shaw play and writing individual new plays in response to that text and Shaw's forward thinking humanitarian ideals. Speakers' Corner members meet bi-monthly, and GTG will host showings of the works that Speakers' Corner develops at the end of the season. The group's members were identified through an open application process under the guidance of Becker, GTG Artistic Director David Staller, and this season's Speakers' Corner Readers and Advisory Committee: Ilana Becker, Stephen Brown-Fried, Ralph B. Peña, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Sharon Washington, along with Speakers' Corner alumni Hank Kim, and Lorenzo Roberts.

WRITERS:

Aeneas Sagar Hemphill (he/him) is an Indian-American playwright and screenwriter based in NYC and DC. Weaving through many genres, his work builds new worlds to illuminate our own, investigating the ghosts that haunt our lives and communities with passion, pathos, and humor. He was a 2019 Resident Artist with Monson Arts Center and 2017-2018 Playlab fellow at Pipeline Theatre, as well as semi-finalist for the 2019 Princess Grace Award, semi-finalist for the 2019 Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, and finalist for the 2017 Many Voices Fellowship. His plays include: Black Hollow (Argo Collective, Dreamscape Theatre), The Troll King (Pipeline), Childhood Songs (Monson Arts), The Republic of Janet & Arthur (Amios), The Red Balloon (Noor Theatre), A Stitch Here or There (DarkHorse Dramatists, Slingshot Theatre), A Horse and a Housecat (Slingshot Theatre). MFA Playwriting, Columbia University. Marcus Scott is a dramatist & journalist. Selected work includes Tumbleweed (finalist for the 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival; semifinalist for the 2022 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, the 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & the 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award), Sibling Rivalries (finalist for the 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; semi-finalist for the 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & the 2021 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award) and Cherry Bomb (recipient of the 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence). He was commissioned by Heartbeat Opera to adapt Beethoven's Fidelio (Librettist/Co-writer; The Met Museum; NY Times Critic's Pick). Recently developed at Gingold Theatrical Group (Speaker's Corner), Zoetic Stage (Finstrom Festival Of New Work), Queens Theatre (New American Voices series) and The Road Theatre Company's Under Construction 3 Playwrights Group and Cohort 2 of the Southern Black Playwrights Lab at the Mojoaa Performing Arts Company. Scott is a 2021 NYSAF Founders' Award finalist and a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. MFA: GMTWP, NYU Tisch. In addition to Speakers' Corner, GTG's on-going play development also includes PRESS CUTTINGS, which, in recognition of Shaw's career as a theatre critic, supports the development of new plays written by theatre journalists. Press Cuttings has commissioned new plays by Jeremy McCarter, Robert Simonson, and David Cote, and, in June of 2017, presented an AEA workshop of David Cote's Otherland directed by May Adrales. This fall, GTG returned to live, in person performance with the acclaimed revival of Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession starring Robert Cuccioli, David Lee Huynh, Alvin Keith, Nicole King, Raphael Nash Thompson, and Tony® Award winner Karen Ziemba as Mrs. Warren, which recently completed its acclaimed Off-Broadway engagement at Theatre Row, directed by David Staller. Terry Teachout, reviewing Mrs. Warren's Profession in The Wall Street Journal, declared "Mr. Staller, who knows everything there is to know about Shaw, has not only staged the play but edited the text with his accustomed skill. All the more reason, then, to praise David Staller, the artistic director of Project Shaw, a long-running series of semi-staged concert readings of the playwright's 60-odd shows. In addition to Project Shaw, Mr. Staller's Gingold Theatrical Group presented fully staged small-scale off-Broadway versions of Heartbreak House in 2018 and Caesar and Cleopatra in 2019, and now they're doing Mrs. Warren's Profession. The production is completely satisfying... Sprinkled with tart, school-of-Wilde epigrams ('There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses') and overflowing with glittering talk, it's a foolproof vehicle for six accomplished actors and a director who, like Mr. Staller, knows better than to let the play become a static chat-fest. Instead, he keeps the actors moving and the pace brisk, and the results are immensely pleasurable." GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP creates theater that supports human rights, freedom of speech, and individual liberty using the work of George Bernard Shaw as our guide. All of GTG's programs are inspired by Shaw's humanitarian values. Through full productions, staged readings, new play development, and inner-city educational programs, GTG brings Shavian precepts to audiences and artists across New York, encouraging individuals to breathe Shaw's humanist ideals into their contributions for the future. Shaw created plays to inspire peaceful discussion and activism and that is what GTG aims to accomplish. GTG's past productions include Man and Superman (2012), You Never Can Tell (2013), Major Barbara (2014), Widowers' Houses (2016), Heartbreak House (2018), and Caesar & Cleopatra (2019). Founded in 2006 by David Staller, GTG has carved a permanent niche for the work of George Bernard Shaw within the social and cultural life of New York City, and, through the Project Shaw reading series, made history in 2009 as the first company ever to present performances of every one of Shaw's 65 plays (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches). GTG brings together performers, critics, students, academics and the general public with the opportunity to explore and perform theatrical work inspired by the humanitarian and activist values that Shaw championed. All comedies, these plays boldly exhibit the insight, wit, passion and all-encompassing socio-political focus that distinguished Shaw as one of the most inventive and incisive writers of all time. Through performances, symposiums, new play development, and outreach, as well as through our discussion groups and partnerships with schools including SUNY Stony Brook, Regis, the De La Salle Academy, and The Broome Street Academy, GTG has helped spark a renewed interest in Shaw across the country, and a bold interest in theater as activism. Young people are particularly inspired by Shaw's invocation to challenge the strictures society imposes, to embrace the power of the individual, to make bold personal choices and to take responsibility for these choices. GTG's new play development lab, Speakers' Corner, created to support playwrights inspired by Shaw's ideals, is now in its second cycle. Through monthly prompts and feedback, writers develop work inspired by or in response to a specific Shaw text. Plays developed through Speakers' Corner will be nurtured in workshops and readings with the expectation that GTG will publish or produce them. GTG encourages all people to rejoice in the possibilities of the future. All of GTG's programming is designed to inspire lively discussion and peaceful activism with issues related to human rights, the freedom of speech, and individual liberty. This was the purpose behind all of Shaw's work and why GTG chose him as the guide toward helping create a more tolerant and inclusive world through the exploration of the Arts. For more information about the Workshops or any of Gingold Theatrical Group's projects, please call 212-355-7823, email [email protected], or visit online at www.gingoldgroup.org.

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I forgot nathaniel existed for pretty much that entire episode..... loved it!

#his very minimal screen time in that one number was actually kind of sweet also so it's fine #ILANA PEÑA THANK UUUUUUUU