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FEARfest 2022  

New York, NY – In FEARfest, New Ambassadors Theatre Company’s mission of producing inspiring new works gets a chilling twist: a frightening collection of short plays. This year's lineup features sci-fi, horror, and laugh out loud dark comedy. This playwright-forward company facilitates a radically inclusive, intersectional, and safe environment in which both the inexperienced writer and seasoned playwright finds encouragement, constructive criticism, and camaraderie throughout the development process (from conception to production) of an original work. 

FEARfest, New Ambassadors Theatre Company’s annual short play festival features the best in horror and sci-fi short plays from the hilarious (Little Sally has had enough of Santa’s shenanigans), to the urgent (a ‘routine’ traffic stop can be deathly terrifying). FEARfest explores what we’re truly afraid of.

A blind date goes horribly wrong, or horribly right, depending who you ask. A knife gets a mind of its own. Santa Claus meets his match–and she’s five. A husband and wife finally confront the past. Two actors in a traffic stop reenactment get a firsthand taste of the real horror. A futuristic activist brings humanity to utopia. What are friends for if not to bite your neck to get you out of gendered norms?

Wed-Fri October 26-28 at 8pm, Sat October 29 at 8pm and 10:30pm, Sun October 30 at 4pm. Run Time, 90 minutes 

PLAYING WITH MATCHES by Jennifer Downes and John Peña Griswold, directed by John Peña Griswold

BLACK, WHITE, & BLUE by William Oliver Watkins, directed by Sara Berg

FEAR FLOOR by Caitland Winset, directed by Todd Butera

DO YOU REMEMBER by Nina Tolstoy, directed by Jonathan Wong Frye

HOT BLOOD SUNDAE by Aly Kantor, directed by Mia Y Anderson

THE HAND by Erin Moughon, directed by David Adam Gill

THE MAN IN RED by Mandy Murphy, directed by Mandy Murphy

Featuring:

Maile Binion, Jennifer Downes*, Starr Kirkland*, Matthew Menendez, Christine Renee Miller, Quentin Lee Moore, Mandy Murphy, Marie Elèna O’Brien*, Perryn Pomatto*, Betsy Regus, Maille-Rose Smith, Bryan Patrick Stoyle, Lee Tyler*, Raquel Valiente, John Austin Wiggins*

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

Performances will take place in the Tada! Theater (15 West 28th Street, between Broadway and  5th Avenue; 2nd FL). Tickets are $35, can be purchased online here via Eventbrite, in person at  the theater the day of the event, or by calling 646-637-2709. Our current COVID policy is stated  on our ticket page, and includes wearing masks.