I have the distinct honor of directing a reading of Mariah MacCarthy's new play You Like It at Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood Bloodworks 2014 series!

Ganymede is "new in town," and Orlando won't shut up about his ex-girl Rosalind. Secrets, gender, forbidden love: this bromance is about to get real. A queer riff on a classic.

Featuring the amazing
Jesse Geguzis, Adam La Faci, Turna Mete, and Sean Williams
with Elizabeth Seldin reading stage directions

Thursday, June 5 at 7pm
Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd Street, 6th Floor
(between 10th & 11th Aves)

FREE!

MacCarthy says: "You like hope? This is the most hopeful thing I've written in the past four years. You like love stories? I fucking love love stories. This is a love story. A genuine, go-get-'em-tiger love story, not a "why-is-everything-awful" love story like I usually write.... You like being charmed? Well that's good because I have literally the most charming cast in town, literally.... You like your theater topical? Cool, this shit is topical is fuck. You like men? This play is a sausagefest. You like women? This shit is written AND directed by women... Now come to my fucking reading."

I am directing new collaborator Alden Moore's Future Alignment with Laser Beams in Roots and Wings (RAW) Theatrical's 7th Annual Duct Tape and A Dream New Works Festival! 

Three siblings. Two parents. One Family. We are all learning to let go of the past while some of us are letting go of the future. Life is life, until it's not.

Future Alignment with Laser Beams
by Alden Moore
Directed by Leta Tremblay
Featuring Sydney Mei Ruf-Wong, Raychel A. Wagner, and Mason Walters
Sound Design and Original Composition by Kris Pierce
Sound Recording by Jim Petty 

DREAM PROGRAM - May 15 and 17 @ 8pm, May 18 @ 3pm
Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios
244 W 54th St, 12th Floor
Get tickets HERE!

"RAW Theatrical is dedicated to the conception and development of new, explorative, theatrical works."  

For the full festival program please visit Facebook!

I am directing a live theatrical event set to the musical epic that is Diana Oh is GOING ROGUE's original With All The Kids Sayin'!

My brilliant and brave cast includes:
Katelyn Collins, Brian Dunlop, Jesse Geguzis, Anita Holland, Homa Hynes, Adam La Faci, and Ms. Minty Newport

Track produced by Naked Highway

We are presenting at The Brick Theater's Live Action Music Video Festival curated by the one and only Mariah MacCarthy, Associate Artistic Director:

"We give directors a song and total artistic freedom; they channel their inner Spike Jonze and stage something AWESOME set to the music. Literally anything could happen onstage—except talking."

Featuring the music of:
Dave Malloy and Anne Washburn, Diana Oh Is GOING ROGUE, Jody Christopherson with Zachary Oberzan, Naked Highway, Supermajor, The Electric Mess, The Lisps, The Point, The Villain With a Thousand Faces (featuring Marissa Elliott-Baptiste), and Keekwyn & the Hackers

Directors:
Jaki Bradley, Erin Daley, Kai-Hsiang Tu, Sherri Kronfeld, Roger Nasser, Christina Roussos, Danya Taymor, Leta Tremblay, Sidney Erik Wright, and Christine Zagrobelny

Friday, April 25th at 8pm
Saturday, April 26th at 8pm
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn 
$15
Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/933748

I am deeply entrenched in the devising and development of The Belief Project.

Since May 2013, I have led three retreats to The Dragon's Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT with FullStop affiliated artists to develop the textual, musical, and physical world of The Belief Project through ensemble devising techniques. We just returned from our March retreat during which we further addressed the question of "how belief translates into action." Contributing artists include: Kevin Bunge, Savvy Clement, Louiza Collins, Christopher Diercksen, Brian Dunlop, Jesse Geguzis, Mariah MacCarthy, Sean McIntyre, Diana Oh, Emily Rupp, Elizabeth Seldin, and Hannah Vaughn.

Originally inspired by the Peter Pan stories, The Belief Project is an exploration of the nature of belief in the current world climate. We are particularly interested in exploring how belief systems affect the actions of people with extremely differing viewpoints as it relates to political and social issues in a divided United States. Source material, collected through personal interviews and research, will be physicalized by employing music, dance, poetry, and prose into a theatrical collage for the stage.

New York workshop production projected Fall 2014. 

This production is being developed as part of FullStop.LAB, the new devising arm of FullStop Collective. Below is an excerpt from a public showing at Triskelion Arts in September 2013. 

I am producing and directing a short play in Caps Lock Theatre's most recent theatrical offering, THE SEX WITH ROBOTS FESTIVAL!

A SERIES OF SHORT PLAYS ABOUT SEX WITH ROBOTS!

In this festival by NYIT Award-nominated Caps Lock Theatre, enjoy an evening of eight short plays, all about sex with robots. Nine playwrights offer a window into our humanity as their characters project their messy desires onto their mechanical lovers. 

Including:

Girlfriend Repair by Micheline Auger; directed by Kel Haney
My Fantasy Sex Robot Came in the Mail Today by Danny Bowes; directed by Amber Gallery
Make Your Bed in Hell by J. Julian Christopher; directed by Melissa Attebery
Simon Says by Richard Lovejoy & Eric Meyer; directed by Michael Gardner
Just Right by Mariah MacCarthy; directed by Nick Leavens
Sasha by Mac Rogers; directed by Pete Boisvert
Taisetsu Na Hito by Leah Nanako Winkler; directed by Matt Dickson

AND

A Real Boy by Natalie Zutter; directed by Leta Tremblay
Featuring Nicko Libowitz and Diana Oh

with a robot sex song cycle by Nat Cassidy

NOVEMBER 5-10 @ 8pm 
THE SECRET THEATRE 
4402 23rd Street, Long Island City

Tickets ($18) may be purchased online at sexwithrobots.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

I'm directing 10 minutes of a brand new original queer play, SNAPSHOTS by Jesse Geguzis, at Organs of State's Community Garden!

Organs of State presents 
Community Garden
an evening of short, intimate works

Down in the garden, the community is playing. sharing the work we have created. A series evenings showcasing 10-15 minute works, from a line-up of emerging and established artists, a celebration of the incredible talent we have growing in our community.

SNAPSHOTS will feature the talents of 
Shinnerrie Danielle, Drae Campbell, Jenny Gomez, Jax Jackson, Diana Oh, and Stacey Raymond

Performances are Friday, October 18 - Sunday, October 20 at 8pm 
at Access Theater located at 380 Broadway, 4th Floor

Tickets are a $10 suggested donation. Make reservations here:
https://www.artful.ly/store/events/1855

I am leading the creation of a devised theater piece currently titled THE BELIEF PROJECT that is being developed over the course of the next year with a team of brilliantly talented collaborative artists!

Originally inspired by the Peter Pan stories, THE BELIEF PROJECT is an exploration of the nature of belief in the current world climate. I'm particularly interested in exploring how belief systems affect the actions of people with extremely differing viewpoints as it relates to political and social issues in a divided United States. Source material, collected through personal interviews and research, will be physicalized by employing music, dance, poetry, and prose into a theatrical collage for the stage.

The process began with a residency at The Dragon's Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT in May 2013 with the following collaborators: 
Kevin Bunge
Louiza Collins
Diana Oh
Emily Rupp
Elizabeth Seldin 

A first ever public showing of the work will be presented along side other Dragon's Egg artists on: 
Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 4pm 
at Triskelion Arts, 
118 N. 11th St. 3rd Fl, Brooklyn. 
More info and tickets HERE!

This production is being developed as part of FullStop.LAB, the new devising arm of FullStop Collective. 

I'm directing a condensed version of a commedia dell'arte classic with the folks at Tale Told Productions in their 15 Minute Classics series! 

It is the mission of Tale Told to create engaging performances of classical texts through unconventional means in order to present them candidly, viscerally, and authentically.

On July 23rd and 24th, we will be packing ourselves into the lovely Jimmy's No. 43 on New York's Lower East Side to present (along with two other classics):

THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS by Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Leta Tremblay
Featuring:
Alejandro Alvarez
Jesse Geguzis
Anita Holland
Matt McDonald
Alice Renier 

Jimmy's No. 43
43 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003

Shows start at 9:15pm both nights. $7 gets you 3 great stories and, most likely, a dance party of sorts after the show. Get Excited.

I am directing a new short play with the awesome young theater company, The Glass Eye, in the FRESH PRODUCE'D series! 

On the 3rd Thursday of each month they workshop 3 new short plays by 3 new playwrights.

Flowers for Rebecca by Tabia Lau
"I wanted so much for it to be the wrong girl."
Director: Leta Tremblay
Mathilde: Shannon Sullivan
Lauren: Colleen O'Connor

Thursday, June 20 at 8pm, Doors open at 7:30.

The Arthur Seelen Theater
250 West 40th Street, NY
(Downstairs at the Drama Bookshop)

Tickets: All performances are Pay What You Can, suggested donation $5

Hosted by musical guest Andrew Davies

Check out the full June line-up HERE. 

I am teaming up again with my great collaborator Mariah MacCarthy on our second site-specific production presented by CAPS LOCK THEATRE!

Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion
An immersive Party Play Written by Mariah MacCarthy in collaboration with the cast and Leta Tremblay
Directed by Leta Tremblay

Mrs. Mayfield… is part play, part party, in which a group of former classmates (now all pushing thirty) reunite for a night of drinks and nostalgia. As people revert to their more childish sides, Lord of the Flies-style, what follows is a battle for affection, power, and ownership of memories. Also: nineties music!

Featuring: 
Lindsey Austen, J. Stephen Brantley*, Scott Rad Brown, Brian Dunlop, Jesse Geguzis, Lauren Hennessy, Nicki Miller, Elizabeth Seldin, and Jordan Tierney 
Assistant Director: Trent Anderson

All Performances are at 8pm:
Friday May 31-Sunday June 2 
Thursday June 6-Sunday June 9
Wednesday June 12-Sunday June 16

The project will play at an undisclosed location in Astoria, near the Ditmars Blvd. N/Q subway stop. Audience members will receive the location upon purchasing their ticket. 

Tickets are $18: mrsmayfield.brownpapertickets.com