What's On at The Wild Project this Summer

Tuesday, July 26 at 8 PM

Nath Ann Carrera

Lighting design by David J. Palmer

Ticket price: $15

From a voice that has second-hand smoked since the womb and a mind that was born on the day of the hard look, enjoy an evening of new original and cover songs and insightful and sensationalistic storytelling by Nath Ann Carrera in an immersive arc of cultish lesbian-separatist murder ballads, gender-variant Priestesses of antiquity, consensual a-morality, the blending and dissolution of all dualities, and far BEYOND!

Described as a "heavenly" (New York Times), "gender-defiant" (Time Out New York), "glitter saint" (Village Voice), Nath Ann Carrera has had solo shows at La MaMa ("Death To The Patriarchal Rape Heads"), Joe's Pub, Wild Project, and the Afterglow Festival ("I Don't Want To Throw Rice, I Want To Throw Rocks: The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton!"), sings as WITCH CAMP with Amber Martin, performs with Justin VivIan Bond, opened for Martha Wainwright at City Winery, and has sung at P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, Le Poisson Rouge, and MoMA PS1.

Friday, July 29 - Sunday, July 31

THE LAST POET ON MARS written and directed by Jack Fellows

With Tom Foran, Harrison Greene, Darby Harmon, Michael John Improta, Matthew Marteney, Kate Sutherlin McLeod, Lenny Thomas. Michael Toperzer, and Sarah Villegas

Produced by The Brooklyn Actor's Troupe

Performance schedule: Friday & Saturday at 8 PM; Saturday & Sunday at 3 PM

Tickets: $25 ($18 for students/seniors)

The Trojan War as it was always meant to be done... IN SPACE! A Greek Tragedy fueled space-opera from the Brooklyn Actor's Troupe.

Monday, August 1 - Saturday, August 6, doors open at 7 PM

Cherry Picking's SWEET SIXTEEN

Featuring Anna Baryshnikov, Lilly Bellow, Teddy Bergman, Betsy Brown, Julia Cardillo, Will Conard, Ryan Dierenger, Emily Epstein, Vince Gatton, Nicole Golden, Laura Gourdine, Erica Reynolds Hager, Megan Hart, Babe Howard, Kevin Jones, John Jay Loonam, Nina Mehta, Dhari Noel, Johanna Pinzler, Tamara Reynolds, Felicia Santiago, Chris Tomaino, Victoria Tralongo, and Connie Zaytoun

Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door

Cherry Picking is an annual opportunity for writers, both established and burgeoning, to create new material for performance in one night of staged reading. Each year, a group of producers gathers and develops the theme for Cherry Picking. This annual meeting allows the creative team to examine issues that are somehow charged. This may be a hot topic politically, a fascinating sociological phenomenon, a nagging question, a captivating image, and so on.

A "Call for Submissions" is distributed and writers are invited to tackle the challenge of writing a short play based on the given theme or assignment. This year's theme is "Sweet Sixteen."

Monday, August 1

Cherry Picking: Hot Tramp

Program A

SCARS AND STRIPES by Erin Mallon

SURVIVAL by John P. Loonam

STATUS UPDATE by Vince Gatton

LOSING IT by Phoebe Gonzalez

LIGHTS OUT by Victoria Tralongo

GOOD MORNING by John James Loonam

Tuesday, August 2, Thursday, August 4, & Saturday, August 6

PRKS: Rebel Rebel

SOME DISENCHANTED EVENING by David Koteles

HAROLD AND THE PURPLE REVOLUTION by Bixby Elliot

Wednesday, August 3

Cherry Picking: Hot Tramp

Program B

A LITTLE DEATH AT A FUNERAL by Andy Cooper-Leary

AMERICAN IDIOTS by Chris Duffy

JOSIE FENDA by Robbie Weinstein

BREAKING GNUS IN THE SERENGETI by Lawrence Keller

AND THE LAW WON by Charlotte Rahn Lee

GOOD MORNING/Wednesday by John James Loonam

Friday, August 4

Cherry Picking: Hot Tramp

Program C

HIM/HER/DINNER by Samantha Mueller

ROADKILL by Noah Tattleman Parnes

BREAKING GNUS IN THE SERENGETI by Lawrence Keller

TEENAGE WASTELAND by Tamara Fox

STAND OFF by Linda Leseman

GOOD MORNING by John James Loonam

On Now:

Now - July 24 -- FINAL WEEK!

2016 FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL

Tickets: $18

The annual celebration of LGBTQ arts and culture returns to the wild project!

+FRESH FRUIT MUSICALS+

Wednesday, July 20, 6:00 pm; Thursday, July 21, 9:00 pm; Saturday, July 23rd, 3:30 pm

CHANCE - A New Musical Play about Love, Risk, & Getting it Right
Inspired by Quotations from the Writings of Oscar Wilde

With book, music and lyrics by Richard Isen, direction by Jonathan Cerullo, and musical direction by Denise Puricelli

Produced by Anne Nygren Doherty and the New Musical Theatre of San Francisco

Fifty-five year-old Gregory has spent his adult life denying the loss he experienced as a young man during the AIDS crisis. After a near-death experience, The Lady appears. Is she an inner guide from the Jungian collective unconscious? Or a musical hallucination resulting from a small stroke? Gregory is pushed out of his solitary reality by his unlikely muse, and down the rabbit hole of mid-life crisis where he enters into a turbulent, dangerous relationship with a young male escort named "Chance." A unique theatrical cocktail that is one part fun, one part heart, and total magic.

+ FRESH FRUIT FULL LENGTH PLAYS +

Sunday July 24, 5:30pm

ALL THE USUAL WAYS TO BRUISE AN ALL TOO FRAGILE EGO by Mila Golubov

Sally was once with Cindy who was once with Maria who may seduce Mark after Sally's had her way with him in exchange for cold hard cash. A beautifully imagined, twisted tale of manipulation, ALL THE USUAL WAYS TO BRUISE AN ALL TOO FRAGILE EGO weaves flesh, promises, and personal weakness into the cruelest form of revenge.

Wednesday July 20, 9pm; Friday July 22, 9pm
ALWAYS PLENTY OF LIGHT AT THE STARLIGHT ALL NIGHT DINER by Darcey Bruce

Tired of that same old space-time continuum? Longing for a Lesbian love story with a bunch of freakin' dinosaurs? Come join us for a SUPER queer, time travel adventure! ALWAYS PLENTY OF LIGHT AT THE STARLIGHT ALL NIGHT DINER bends genres - and realities - for a sweet-hearted screw-ball Cretaceous romp.

Thursday July 21, 7 pm; Saturday July 23, 8:30 pm; Sunday July 24, 1:30 pm

WHERE'S HOPE? WHERE'S HOPE? OH, GOD, WHERE'S HOPE? by Frederick Kirwin, directed by Paul Navarra

Over the course of 30 years our perceptions of the past change. A love triangle, a midnight storytelling, a drowning, and a murder/suicide may not be what they seem. Set in Florida of the 1960s, Frederik Kirwin's poetic play is a sometimes comic discourse on revenge, pride, ambition, jealousy, wanderlust, sibling rivalry, sexual innocence, reversal of fortunes, and a baseball game.

Friday July 22, 7 pm; Saturday July 23, 6:30 pm; Sunday July 24, 3:30 pm

THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW by Doug DeVita

A fast-moving caustic comedy, Kyle, an art director in high-powered New York ad agency, tries to discover his real self amid power struggles and stereotypes. He finds an ally in Dodo, who understands his plight - being that she became a lady-living-legend in an era of "Mad Men."

All performances are at the wild project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B).

Tickets can be purchased from OvationTix on 212.352.3101 or online at http://www.thewildproject.com.

The Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain.

The wild project is a theater, film, music, and visual arts venue that presents diverse, engaging, inspiring, and entertaining works to the vibrant and growing community of Alphabet City in New York's East Village, while bringing together the artists and the environment in a unique way. Founded in 2007, the wild project is an innovator among arts venues, providing an eco-friendly theater and gallery where the artists and space nurture each other. The company is dedicated to creating an environment that supports the artists, and to cultivating artists that support the environment. With an eco-conscious approach to presenting the dynamic works of hundreds of emerging artists each year, the wild project offers an artistic and environmental education for patrons of all ages, interests, and incomes in its community.

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