Company member Ben Beckley was in the kaleidoscopic dance-theater piece, Winning is Winning, conceived and directed by Alec Duffy, choreographed by Dan Safer, and presented by Hoi Polloi in association with ¡Oye! Group, which recently ran at JILL@JACK in Brooklyn. Over 20 performers depict a community reeling in the aftermath of the recent U.S. election. Blending humor and darkness, the ensemble shares text, music and movement that reflect a cacophony of anxieties, anger, and strategies of those on the political left.
Company member Lisa Arrindell is in the feature film The Secret Between Us, written and directed by Tamera Hill. A man admired for his integrity watches his perfect life unravel when an unexpected visitor shows up at his front door and forces him to confront the painful consequences of his past betrayal. The film premiered in June as an official selection in the Narrative Features category at the American Black Film Festival in Miami Beach, FL. Watch the trailer.
Company member Adriana Gaviria is in frikiNation, written by Krystal Ortiz and directed by Rula A. Muñoz with music and lyrics by Cuban punk band EsKoria, at the 2025 Criminal Queerness Festival presented by National Queer Theater and HERE. frikiNation is a historical, bilingual, Cuban punk rock jukebox musical that tells the true story of young punks in Cuba in the early 1990s who took extreme measures to rig the communist system in their favor. In an attempt to access a higher quality of life within the government sanctioned HIV sanitariums, punks across the island started injecting themselves with HIV-positive blood. This powerful story follows a pregnant rebel, her new skeptical lover, and a band of misfit friends as they fight to survive and create music in a society that pushes them to the margins. Performances run from June 24-28 at HERE Mainstage Theater.
Company member Denise Cormier is in Boeing Boeing, the fun, flirty farce by Marc Camoletti, playing this month at Peterborough Players. Translated by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans and directed by Brendon Fox, the play is set in super stylish 1960s Paris, following bachelor Bernard and the three flight attendants who, unbeknownst to each other, are all engaged to him. Bernard’s life hits some turbulence when his friend Robert comes to stay, and complications such as a new, speedier Boeing jet disrupt his meticulous schedule and careful planning. Soon, all three fiancees are in the city simultaneously, and catastrophe looms. Performances run through June 29 in Peterborough, NH.
Company member Jeff Hiller’s new memoir, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty Year Trail to Overnight Success, was released this month by Simon and Schuster. A humorous collection of autobiographical essays, Jeff shares his journey from growing up “profoundly gay” in 1980s Texas to his experiences as an inept social worker and how he clawed, scraped, and brawled to Hollywood’s lower middle-tier. The book can be purchased online and at all major bookstores. Watch Jeff on The Daily Show speaking with Desi Lydic about the memoir.
Company member Lena Kaminsky’s play Salvage receives a production at Dorset Theatre Festival starring company member Eva Kaminsky and directed by M. Bevin O’Gara. At her small town dump, Carla attempts to junk the overwhelming collection of mirrors from her childhood home. Instead, amid other people’s trash, she finds the treasure of two new friends she didn’t know she needed. Past lives and future plans intertwine—and sometimes collide—as these neighbors sort through what to toss and what to take away. A funny and heartwarming story about what can happen when we allow ourselves to be seen, performances run through July 5 in Dorset, VT.
Company member Patrick Kerr is in the world premiere of Indian Princesses, written by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez and directed by Miranda Cornell, now playing at La Jolla Playhouse. In the summer of 2008, five young girls of color and their white fathers show up at a community center. With emotions ranging, some are more ready than others to embark on this adventurous—albeit misguided—father-daughter bonding program. Over their time together, the fathers and daughters navigate the joy and confusion of childhood amidst myriad challenges: burgeoning friendships, unfulfilled crushes, intergenerational struggles, grief, financial insecurity and the frustration of not being seen for who you truly are. Performances run through July 6 in San Diego, CA.
Company member Tatiana Wechsler is in The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss and directed by Christopher Ashley, presented by the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. A collision of politics, counterculture, and rock and roll in human form, Hunter S. Thompson is impossible to pin down. Careening from the 1940s to 2000s, the story follows Thompson as he invents Gonzo journalism, attempts to take down a corrupt president, and quests for equality for his fellow weirdos, outsiders and freaks. However, this anti-hero’s drug-fueled tornado leaves a trail of destruction as he grapples with his legacy in a world that has left him behind. Performances run though July 13.
Company member Julyana Soelistyo is in What You Are To Me, written by Dena Igusti and directed by Keng S. Meateanuea at the 2025 Criminal Queerness Festival presented by National Queer Theater and HERE. In Jakarta, Indonesia in 1994, Sari is an aspiring singer hoping to achieve her dreams of stardom through table performances at her best friend’s lesbian discotheque nights. One of her song numbers leads to a chance encounter with Lisa, a determined journalist. But when Sari is forced to flee from the aftereffects of Suharto’s US-backed dictatorship and marry a family friend in Queens, the two must end their relationship to conform to the pressures of survival and migration. Years later, their love story is discovered by an emerging zine translator, who attempts to trace their current whereabouts. Utilizing excerpts of interviews with two generations of Indonesian lesbians affected by the 1998 Jakarta Riots, What You Are To Me is a look at generational differences on what it means to be out, and what it means to love when everything else gets in the way. Performances run June 13-22 at HERE Mainstage Theater.
Company member John Evans Reese is in Manifest Destiny, a new play written and directed by Manuel Ortiz and produced by split/decision. What would you do if your dead father showed up asking for revenge? Manuel Ortiz’s second installment in his “American Mythology” trilogy, puts Hamlet’s age-old question to the test in this Chilean telenovela-meets-documentary-theater comedy. Starting from a very real car-bombing in the 70s that killed an American and a Chilean citizen in Washington D.C., the play blends reality and fiction with Cold-War-era spies and Latin assassins to form a genre-bending revenge play that awakens the ghosts that haunt both nations. Performances run through June 29 at Teatro LATEA in NYC.