This is my 3rd year directing in Ensemble Studio Theatre's annual Youngblood Asking for Trouble festival!

A ten minute play festival with 26 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre - October 18-22nd.
Only by the writers of EST/Youngblood.

Restrain Yourself, Please
written by Chris Sullivan
directed by Leta Tremblay
featuring Bjorn Dupaty, Hollye Hudson, & Jenny Zerke
inspired by The Sea of Japan

Good thing you've got that flotation device, Series C!
Wednesday, October 19 at 7pm
Friday, October 21 at 9pm
Saturday, October 22 at 5pm

Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

Click here for more info and tickets: ESTnyc.org/A4

It has been a busy few months! 

In September I had the unique opportunity to direct two short plays for NBC's 4th Annual New York Scene Showcase under the Artistic Direction of Jason Eagan of Ars Nova. 

The NBC Scene Showcase is a one night only showcase of scenes by up-and-coming diverse writers and directors - starring new diverse actors. The event gives these artists an opportunity to showcase their talent for NBC Entertainment executives, as well as distinguished casting directors, talent agents, managers, and other industry professionals. 

I had the pleasure to direct: 

HOMEBIRTH
by Krystal Banzon
featuring Justina Adorno & Talia Thiesfield
and 
AMERICAN GIRL REBOOT
by Nina Altadonna & Paula Skaggs
featuring Sam Given & Michelle Sohn

NBC'S 4th Annual New York Scene Showcase
NBCUniversal's Talent Infusion Programs (TIPS)
Tuesday, September 20th
7:00pm
New World Stages
340 W 50th St
New York, NY 10019

For more information about TIPS please visit: 
​www.nbcunitips.com/nbc-scene-showcase/

I am filled with joy to be directing the US premier of British playwright Amelia Bullmore's critically acclaimed Di and Viv and Rose with three dedicated actresses at The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row this June! 

In their first year away from home at university, three women, from three distant corners of England, form an unlikely family under one roof. Life feels boundless and their shared flat on Mossbank Road is...cozy. Living is beautiful and intense. Rose comes from money. Di hasn't the funds for a doctor. Viv is saving herself--but for or from what, the other two wonder...Time catapults them forward, apart, back together, and into each other's laps, hearts, and truths by turns.

Last seen on the West End, Amelia Bullmore's Di and Viv and Rose is a new play that crackles with wisdom and wit.

Featuring Olivia Levine, Raven Pierson, & Leslie Erin Roth

Set & Lights: Reilly Horan
Costumes: Alice Wang
Sound: Beth Lake
Acting Coach: Misha Calvert
Dialects: Amanda Quaid
Dramaturgy: Mirirai Sithole
Stage Manager: Lauren Cannon
Assistant Stage Manager: Jaclyn Lusardi
Producer: Allison Ciuci
​Press: Kippy Winston

June 2-19, 2016
Wed-Thurs @7pm, Fri @ 8pm, Sat @ 2pm & 8pm, Sun @ 3pm  

The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row
410 W 42 Street 
between 9th and 10th Avenues. 
A/C/E trains to 42nd Street. 1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/S trains to 42nd Street/Times Square.

Here's a fun interview that I did, about the play and directing in NYC, with AXS.com!

For more info and to make a donation CLICK HERE!
For EARLY BIRD TICKETS visit www.telechargeoffers.com and enter code TRPRESALE

Art Wife Mariah MacCarthy and I are at it again! This time I'm directing her play Honors Students; or, The Avenging of Kruppcake
in
EST/Youngblood's Unfiltered Festival!

Kora and Minnie are best friends. And honors students. And are plotting something involving a lot of money and a little blood. When their volatile relationship is threatened by Minnie’s friendship with awkward YouTube sensation Megan, all bets are off. In the tradition of Heathers and The Virgin Suicides, Honors Students asks one question: Who will survive?

Featuring Merissa Czyz*, Bob Jaffe*, Rachel Lin, & Chet Siegel*
*Actors appearing curtsey of Actors Equity Association 

Set: Angelica Borrero
Costumes: Allison Dawe
Lights: Chelsie McPhilimy
Sound: Patrick Shearer
Dance: Sidney Erik Wright
Fights: Jesse Geguzis
Blood FX: Stephanie Cox-Williams
Rehearsal Stage Manager & Props Master: Kacey Stamats
Production Stage Manager: Eileen Lalley

March 9-12, 2016
Wed-Fri @7pm, Sat @ 2pm & 7pm 

Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

Click here for more info and tickets: www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org

{my lingerie play} is coming to The Lark!

This workshop performance welcomes a full band into the magic with an EXTREMELY talented group of musicians lending us their talents and Diana and I could not be more thrilled.

Tuesday, January 26th @ 7pm
The Lark's BareBones Studio
311 West 43rd St.
5th Floor
(btwn 8th & 9th ave)
The event is sold out online but you can get in at the door via waiting list and it's FREE. 

{my lingerie play}: Installation 9/10: THE FINAL INSTALLATION
Written and Performed with Original Music by Diana Oh
Directed by Leta Tremblay
Music Directed by Ryan McCurdy
Andi Buch on Bass
Robert Frost on Piano and Synthesizer
Emily Gardner Hall on Guitar
Ryan McCurdy on Drums
Diana Oh on Vocals and Baritone Ukulele
Matt Park on Guitar
Kacey Stamats on Photography and Videography
Hye Yun Park on Music Video Production

A Lark Studio Retreat Reading
{my lingerie play}: Installation 9/10: THE FINAL INSTALLATION is a concert-show featuring Diana Oh’s original lingerie collection accompanied by an 8-song soulful score of Oh’s original songwriting on baritone ukulele as she models, sings, and chronicles her relationship with her lingerie from her first lace bra to the vengeful loss of her virginity, from dating to being arrested, from feeling fat in an FAO SCHWARTZ to helping kidnapped brides in Kyrgyzstan to revealing most importantly, what drove her to take her clothes off in Times Square to kick off her unapologetic ten installations of {my lingerie play} to create a saner, safer, more respectful world for women to live in.

"I think creating my own work saved me...I think doing {my lingerie play} saved me.  It helped me reassess my goals as an artist.  The imprint I want to leave on this earth before I die...I know I'm meant to change the game." 
- Diana Oh

In December, 10 years after graduating from NTI myself,  I was giddy to return again to advise the National Theater Institute & National Musical Theater Institute class of Fall 2015 on their final Company Project, Because of Reasons. 

This devised, ensemble driven theatrical event takes was inspired by the theme of "migration" and brought up many questions for the students including; Where do we come from? Where are we going? What happens to the ones that stay? 

The Fall 2015 NTI/NMTI Company debuted Because of Reasons on Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12 at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Waterford, CT campus. 

The Company Debut is a signature of the National Theater Institute’s training. Emerging artists are prompted with thematic material and must collaborate to write, compose, produce, cast, direct, design, choreograph, and perform an original production in under two weeks. It is the capstone of 14 weeks of rigorous training in a variety of disciplines including acting, directing, playwriting, design, movement, and voice. 

I'm joining incredible theater artists Soomi Kim and Suzi Takahashi as their Assistant Director for the culminating production of CHANG(E) at HERE!

Fighting for global social transformation, performance artist and activist Kathy Change (formerly Kathleen Chang) was on a mission to save the world from disaster. As a final act of protest, she self-immolated on the campus of UPenn in October 1996. Chang(e) is a live-staged docudrama that slips between reality and fantasy, plunging viewers inside the mind of Kathy Change. Through a phantasmagorical blend of dance, text (interview and performance transcriptions and Change's own writings), video and original score, Change’s prescient defiance comes to life in this real life account of a modern day "Cassandra."

Devised in collaboration by
Soomi Kim and Suzi Takahashi

Performed by
Soomi Kim, Ben Skalski, Kiyoko Kashiwagi, David Perez-Ribada*, Criena House, Adi Spencer, and Zeke Stewart
Directed by Suzi Takahashi
Composed by Adam Rogers
Set by Bryce Cutler
Video by Kevan Loney
Lights by Lucrecia Briceno
Costumes by Machine Dazzle
Sound by Iggy Hung
Assistant Directed by Leta Tremblay
Choreography by Alexandra Beller
Stage Managed by Alex West
Photo Credit Benjamin Heller
Graphic design Adrian Ferbeyre
*Appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association

November 4-22
Wednesday Preview
Thursdays - Saturdays @ 8:30PM
Sundays @ 4PM

HERE Arts Center
145 6th Ave, NYC

TICKETS at $18
http://here.org/shows/detail/1696/

I'm directing Stephen Kaplan's new short play, Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham's Dance Studio as part of Project Y Theatre's 3rd New York New Playwright Festival (NYNP) with #ParityPlays, by the Project Y Playwrights Group, where the casts are 50% or more women! 

20 WRITERS. 9 NEW PLAYS.  
3 WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTIONS.

"Project Y's New York New Playwright Festival (NYNPF) was created in 2011 with the focus on playwrights and development of new work. We want to break the endless cycle of readings that many plays get trapped in by giving writers a chance to see their work up and on its feet before an audience in a review-free, supportive environment. It is the goal of NYNPF to allow each piece in the festival the space to grow in front of an audience by providing writers with the tools to mount a workshop production of their new play and “test it” with
Project Y."

Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham’s Dance Studio
written by Stephen Kaplan  
directed by Leta Tremblay
featuring Madeline Chilese, Maia Karo, & Bethany Nicole Taylor
"Two giants face off over the nature of art."

PERFORMANCES of #ParityPlays:
Wednesday, October 21 at 8:30pm
Thursday, October 22 at 7pm

At The Cell (338 W. 23rd Street)

Tickets are available at  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2402185

Art Wife Mariah MacCarthy drew my name out of a hat and I'm directing again for Ensemble Studio Theatre's annual Youngblood Asking for Trouble festival!! Our task, to stage More Than One Way To Skin a Cat​, which just happened to be inspired by Reba McEntire's hit, "Does He Love You." Do yourself a favor and watch this music video.  

Do you smell that in the air?
It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales.
It's trouble. 
A ten minute play festival with 26 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre - October 13-17th.
Only by the writers of EST/Youngblood.

More Than One Way To Skin A Cat
written by Mariah MacCarthy
directed by Leta Tremblay
featuring Patricia Randell & Ann Talman

Series C performs:
Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm
Friday, October 16 at 8:30pm
Saturday, October 17 at 5:00pm

Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 W 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

Click here for more info and tickets: www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org

Caps Lock Theatre is at it again and I'm happy to be producing Art Wife Mariah MacCarthy's MAGIC TRICK at The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row! 

A three-hander as surprising as it is sexy, Magic Trick subverts audience expectations we don’t even know we have. Bana, a beautiful paraplegic who everyone falls in love with, is missing. Eric, her (ex?) boyfriend, can’t find her. Clara, that burlesque dancer they almost had a threesome with, gets naked and won’t leave his apartment. And just when he thinks it might all be over, Eric finally finds Bana…on the burlesque stage.

Caps Lock Theatre with Jack Sharkey, Executive Producer presents:
MAGIC TRICK
a story of heartbreak and burlesque
by Mariah MacCarthy
directed by Christina Roussos

Featuring Kim Gainer*, Ethan Hova*, Chet Siegel*
& Stage Kitten Gina Doherty

Lights: Lois Catanzaro
Sound: Gerry Marletta
Costumes: Allison Dawe
Set: Tim McMath
Dance: Sidney Erik Wright
Fights: Jesse Geguzis
Stage Manager: Laura Hirschberg*
Production Manager: Tzipora Kaplan
ASM: Julia Veeh
*Actors and stage manager appearing curtsey of Actors Equity Association 

Producers: Leta Tremblay and Mariah MacCarthy
Associate Producers: Sarah Matteucci and Daniel John Kelley

August 27-September 12, 2015
The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row
410 W 42 Street 
between 9th and 10th Avenues. 
A/C/E trains to 42nd Street. 1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/S trains to 42nd Street/Times Square.

Tickets: http://www.telechargeoffers.com/go.aspx?MD=2001&MC=TREARLY 
Use the discount code TREARLY for $15 tickets!