For some reason, playwrights write a lot about losing. And loss. And losers.
See what happens when they write about winning and the winners who do it.
THE BRUNCHFAST OF CHAMPIONS!
five brand new short plays about VICTORY by:
THE HOMETOWN BRUNCH
You’ve met the Youngblood playwrights, now see where they’re from:
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE BRUNCH
five brand new short plays about the playwright’s hometown by:
(Missoula, MT)
(Washington, DC)
(Sanbornton, NH)
(the Avon Valley, CT)
(Dryden, NY)
The stock market is in the tank. Gloom and doom is in the air. The “Great Recession” is upon us.
Luckily, Youngblood has a stimulus package:
BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A BRUNCH
Five brand new short plays about the fiscal crisis by
Directed by: Isaac Butler, Nelson Eusebio, Linsay Firman, Kel Haney and Larissa Lury
Featuring: Anna Aronson, Denny Bess^, Kelly Anne Burns, Ronald Cohen, Dana Eskelson, Marcia Haufrecht^, Haskell King^, Florencia Lozano, Thomas Lyons^, James Murtaugh^, Bill Peden, Jane Pfitsch, Patricia Randell^, Amy Saats^, Chris Wight^, Beth Wittig, Daniel Ziskie^
^denotes a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre
Youngblood is tired of being the bridesmaid and never the bride. So we went out and got ourselves a wedding dress, and five brand new short plays are going to use it! Get ready for the Youngblood side of marriage.
Brand new short plays about the long march down the aisle by:
Directed by: Nelson Eusebio, John Giampetro, Sarah Malkin and Alexa Polmer
Featuring: Pepper Binkley, Christopher Bonewitz, Cathy Curtin*, Lucy Devito, Christine Farrell*, Cara Greene, Bob Jaffe, JJ Kandel*, Mordecai Lawner*, Annie O’Sullivan*, Patricia Randell*, Devere Rogers, Jessa Sherman, Scott Sowers* and Amy Staats*
*denotes a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre
For the second year in a row, Youngblood takes a running jump at the theme of SCIENCE, in collaboration with the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s FIRST LIGHT FESTIVAL!
Brand new short plays by:
and a new mini-musical by:
The Youngblood Sunday Brunch takes on the holidays, and it all turns out more depressive than George Bailey, cuter than Zuzu and drunker than Clarence:
IT’S A WONDERFUL BRUNCH!
Brand new short plays about the holidays by:
Directed by:
Isaac Butler, Tamara Fisch, Andrew Grosso, Kel Haney and R.J. Tolan*
Featuring:
Anna Aronson, Rob Askins, Steve Boyer, Kelly Anne Burns, Geneva Carr*, Lucy DeVito, Dave Gelles-Hurwitz, Graeme Gillis*, Jenny Gomez, Mattie Hawkinson, Thomas Lyons*, Jared McGuire, Bobby Moreno, Amy Staats* and Ann Talman*
*member of Ensemble Studio Theatre
For the first time ever, the Youngblood Sunday Brunch is going on the road – for our political-themed Brunch performance we’re climbing into vans and driving out to the battleground state of Ohio.
Five brand new plays by the members of Youngblood and a breakfast buffet of pancakes, eggs, bacon, pastries and fruit. Come see what New York’s sharpest young playwrights have to say about the state of our nation, two days before a historic election day.
Check in on the Youngblog to keep up with the trip and the local coverage of the Brunch!
COLUMBUS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
549 Franklin Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43215
This year is Youngblood’s Sweet Fifteen. Our quinceanera. Our crystal anniversary. And we’re celebrating the only way we know how: pancakes, bacon, bloody marys, and THEATER.
Join us for the classic brunch buffet (plus cake!) and new plays about birthdays, being fifteen, about 1993 and the 1.5 decades since.
Plays by:
Featuring (among others):
Ali Ahn, Anna Aronson, Quincy Confoy, Julie Leedes, Patricia Randell and Anne Talman
Directed by:
Alexa Polmer, R.J. Tolan, Melissa Kievman and Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Plus a special Youngblood Birthday Seranade by Lucy ALIBAR!
AND our brunch buffet of pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, pastries and fruit and our MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE, FISCALLY INDEFENSIBLE OPEN BAR!