SOIRÉE IN THE SKY
Monday, October 16th at 6:30pm
One Vanderbilt Avenue, 29th Floor
Please join us on Monday, October 16th at 6:30pm at The Workshop Theater's SOIREE IN THE SKY Fundraiser!
It's going to be a fantastic evening in a gorgeous venue (on the 29th floor of One Vanderbilt) featuring delicious food by local French chef Zoe Deleu, copious beverages, live performances of some of our past, present and future work by some very special guests, beautiful views of midtown Manhattan, fun auction items and more!
Last year, we worked with and paid more than 185 artists and supported the development of over 85 new plays by writers across the spectrum of gender, age, race, sexuality, and ability. This year, we are looking to bring even more untold stories from underrepresented voices to life, and we need YOUR help to make this happen!
Get your tickets today (or donate below so we can provide tickets for artists), and get ready to join us for the fun on Monday, October 16th - see you in the sky!
Your donation supports the artists and programs of The Workshop Theater.
No act of generosity is too small to make a difference.
We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS
AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS
SAG-AFTRA
through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.
WRITERS AND PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Libby Carr is a writer and dance artist from Houston, Texas. Their work lives at the intersection of hyper realistic dialogue, movement spectacle, and ungroomed youth. Libby’s plays have been developed or produced at the Kennedy Center, the Workshop Theater, the University of Texas at Austin, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and Austin's Ground Floor Theater. Libby's thesis play, A Normal Misfortune: More or Less the Story of Iphis, was awarded the 2021 Trice Prize for Creative Scholarship in a Thesis. They were a 2021 and 2022 semifinalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Workshop and a 2021 finalist for Playwrights' Center's Jerome Fellowship. They have a BA in Playwriting and Directing and a BA in Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ariela Barer
Camila Canó-Flaviá is an actor based in New York City. Select credits include Network (Broadway), Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theatre), Mac Beth (Hunter Theater Project), Baby Ruby (Magnet Releasing), and Three Women (Starz, upcoming). She received her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Gabrielle Carrubba (she/her) is an actor and director. She’s directed work for Manhattan Theater Club, Soho Playhouse, The Brick and other site specific locations throughout the east coast. Most recently, she directed SMUTA by Jacob Wasson in an abandoned church gymnasium in Bushwick. As an actor, she’s performed on Broadway in Dear Evan Hansen as Zoe Murphy and in various renowned regional houses. TV: Law & Order SVU, Dead Ringers(Amazon) opposite Rachel Weisz. Currently, her short film Down By The Water can be streamed on NoBudge and her other short, BOYHOARDER, is currently making the festival circuit. Co-founder and director of DOGTOWN. @gabrielle.carrubba
Jackeline Torres Cortés is an actress and multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Puerto Rico. She is a recent graduate of Yale School of Drama (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University) with an MFA in Acting. She also holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Credits in acting include YELL by Jeremy O. Harris (Carlotta Festival), GIRLS by Brandon Jacobs Jenkins (Yale Repertory Theatre), BODAS DE SANGRE, and ALICE. In 2022 she served as Producing Artistic Director of Yale Summer Cabaret where she co-produced the Cabaret’s first film festival among other projects at the 2022 Season: Summer of Love. This past summer she produced and directed theatre production fuckin loud by m. imani west at the Fringe Festival in Los Angeles, CA. www.jackelinetorrescortes.com
Maaike Laanstra-Corn is so excited to be a part of this process!! Recent Credits include Button Lake Band Camp (Clubbed Thumb), Ms. Lily (Clubbed Thumb), Me and Who (The Brick/Rough Draft Festival), Grendel’s Mother (Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival), kemps and Your Own Personal Exegesis (Brown University). BA Brown University!
Matt Dellapina Onstage, Matt has appeared at leading NYC theaters such as Roundabout, Second Stage, The Vineyard, Barrow Street, Cherry Lane, and The Public. Recent TV credits include "The Big Door Prize" (Apple TV+), "Kevin Can F Himself” (AMC), ”For Life" (ABC), “Just Add Magic: Mystery City” (Amazon), “Bull” (CBS), "The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show" (Netlfix), “Tommy” (CBS), “Person Of Interest” (CBS), "The Blacklist", "NCIS: New Orleans" (CBS), “Homeland” (Showtime). Recent film work includes Dirty 30 (Lionsgate), Ruin Me (Shudder), Fits And Starts (The Orchard), These Hopeless Savages (Tubi), and voicing an upcoming animated feature for Dreamworks. As a creator, his original series, Adult Ed., premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and his latest feature, The Woods Are Real, just premiered at this year's Lower East Side Film Festival.
Bhavesh Patel has starred on Broadway in The Nap, Present Laughter opposite Kevin Kline and in the original cast of the Tony-winning War Horse at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway credits include Indian Ink at Roundabout and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Public's Shakespeare in the Park. He was featured opposite Matthew McConaughey in the film Gold and has recurred or guested on all the major NYC TV series including The Good Wife, Madam Secretary, New Amsterdam, The Mysteries of Laura, Bull, Blue Bloods and White Collar. Education: NYU Grad Acting.
Franky D. Gonzalez is a Latino playwright based in Dallas and LA. Appearances include The Lark, the Sundance Institute, Ojai Playwrights Conference, NNPN, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Goodman Theatre, UC Santa Barbara, The New Harmony Project, Repertorio Español, LAByrinth Theater Company, Ars Nova, Dallas Theater Center, William Inge Theatre Festival, Teatro Vivo, Stages Repertory Theatre, Latino Theatre Company, Latinx Theatre Commons, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, the HBMG Foundation, Tofte Lake Center, Clamour Theatre Company, and Ammunition Theater Company. A 4 Seasons Resident Playwright, Core Writer with the Playwrights Center, and the Bishop Arts Theatre Center Playwright-in-Residence, Franky has also been the recipient of the Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission, an MTC/Sloan Commission, co-recipient of the MetLife Nuestras Voces Latino Playwriting Award, won the Crossroads Project Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative Award, and the Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting.
José A. Pérez is a poet, actor, and foster-care reform/abolitionist advocate. A native New Yorker, he grew up in Queens as a systems-impacted person in foster homes, group homes, and other juvenile institutions. For Pérez, the arts have been synonymous with freedom, fostering spaces where relationships are forged under the common love for lyrics and unfettered expression. He especially found writing poetry and acting on stage to be his catalysts not only to survive in those institutions but also to thrive. While incarcerated, Pérez earned an AA from Bard College, a BS from Nyack College through HudsonLink, and capped his academic career with an MPS from the New York Theological Seminary. He has facilitated theater and poetry workshops, including the Harvest Moon Poetry Collective with Beat poet Janine Pommy Vega, and hosted poets like Naomi Shihab Nye and Amiri Baraka. As an actor, Pérez recently performed at the Bushwick Starr Theater in Quince (One Whale’s Tale Productions, 2022). He has also been a servant leader as an alternatives-to-violence facilitator, including working with gang-involved youth at the Center for Alternatives Sentencing and Employment Services as a community Benefits Project Supervisor. Currently, Pérez is a Project Manager of YouthNPower: Transforming Care for the Children’s Defense Fund-New York.
Reynaldo Piniella is an actor, writer, activist and educator from East New York, Brooklyn. In 2021, he was in the acting company of two Broadway shows at the same time – Thoughts of a Colored Man and Trouble in Mind. His Off-Broadway acting credits include The Death of the Last Black Man…, Venus (Signature), The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA), Lockdown (Rattlestick), The Space Between the Letters (The Public/UTR), Lockdown (Rattlestick) and The Best of Theatreworks (Working Theater). Regional acting credits include work at Baltimore Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, O’Neill, Sundance Theatre Lab and Cleveland Play House. TV credits include Reservation Dogs, Sneaky Pete, Law & Order: SVU, The Carrie Diaries, Flesh & Bone, Blue Bloods, Greenleaf, Louie, NYC 22, Us & Them and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Film: “Madeline’s Madeline” (Sundance Film Fest, Showtime), “Shadows” (HBO Max) and “Broken City” (20th Century FOX.) @ReynaldoRey