Plays and Playwrights 2009

Anthology includes: Introduction by editor, Martin Denton, Foreword by Garth Wingfield and the following plays - HOSPITAL 2008 by Randy Sharp and Axis Company: A four-part serial play that explores the unconscious memories of a man in a coma.LINUS & ALORA by Andrew Irons: A whimsical and poetical exploration of the powers of imagination: a lot can happen in nine months.SISTER CITIES by Colette Freedman: Four sisters reunite following their mother’s alleged suicide in this surprising and incisive comedy.S/HE by Nanna Nick Mwaluko: The journey from Samantha to Sam: a young African American biological female struggles with gender and becomes a man.DEATH AT FILM FORUM by Eric Bland: Aspiring filmmaker/auteurs compete a la “Project Runway” in this very funny mixed media satirical drama.TRACES/fades by Lenora Champagne: A meditation on Alzheimer’s and our national inability to remember history. NOWHERE ON THE BORDER by Carlos Lacamara: A timely drama about a Mexican father searching the Arizona desert for his missing daughter, and the American Minuteman who detains him.AMERICAN BADASS, OR 12 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A NATIONAL IDENTITY by Chris Harcum: In a dozen monologues, a look at who we are in 2008 and how we may have gotten that way.A FIRE AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN by Tim Collins: An epic solo tour de force chronicling the past seven years of American upheaval.CONVERSATION STORM by Rick Burkhardt: A mind-blowing exercise in the justification of torture, in a taut, concise, single act.KRAPP, 39 by Michael Laurence: Haunted by Beckett’s Krapp, a 39-year-old actor throws himself a birthday party in this deeply personal solo play about the last moments of youth.

Martin Denton is the founder and Executive Director of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., (NYTE) and editor and chief theatre reviewer for NYTE s website nytheatre.com. He has edited all the play anthologies published by NYTE Small Press featuring, to date, the work of 144 emerging playwrights. He is, also, the creator of the nytheatrecast, New York City's first regularly scheduled theatre podcast offering original content.