Charlie's waiting by mêlisa annis
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March 28th - April 20th, 2019
Previews begin March 28th, opening on March 31st Weekdays at 7:30PM Saturdays at 3:00PM and 7:30PM Sundays at 3:00PM Buy tickets here View program Schedule: Thursday, March 28th at 7:30PM Friday, March 29th at 7:30PM Saturday, March 30th at 3:00PM Saturday, March 30th at 7:30PM Sunday, March 31st at 3:00PM Thursday, April 4th at 7:30PM Friday, April 5th at 7:30PM Saturday, April 6th at 3:00PM Saturday, April 6th at 7:30PM Sunday, April 7th at 3:00PM Monday, April 8th at 7:30PM Thursday, April 11th at 7:30PM Friday, April 12th at 7:30PM Saturday, April 13th at 3:00PM Saturday, April 13th at 7:30PM Sunday, April 14th at 3:00PM Monday, April 15th at 7:30PM Tuesday, April 16th at 7:30PM Thursday, April 18th at 7:30PM Friday, April 19th at 7:30PM Saturday, April 20th at 7:30PM Theaterlab 357 West 36th Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10018 TLab Shares Hosts. |
SYNOPSIS:
Charlie’s Waiting, a world premiere by 2017 Parity Commission winner Mêlisa Annis, follows two women the night before their wedding. A pregnant Louise is busy with all the planning while her fiancée Kelly busies herself feeding the goats. Everything is going to plan, that is until Louise is forced to confront questions of trust and intimacy, and she discovers how quickly plans can get derailed.
Charlie’s Waiting, a world premiere by 2017 Parity Commission winner Mêlisa Annis, follows two women the night before their wedding. A pregnant Louise is busy with all the planning while her fiancée Kelly busies herself feeding the goats. Everything is going to plan, that is until Louise is forced to confront questions of trust and intimacy, and she discovers how quickly plans can get derailed.
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CAST:
Xanthe Elbrick as Louise Stephanie Heitman as Kelly Amy Scanlon as Annie TEAM:
Playwright: Mêlisa Annis Director: Ludovica Villar-Hauser Assistant Director: Judith Binus Dramaturg: Jennifer Kranz Production Designer: Meganne George Lighting Designer: Miriam Nilofa Crowe Sound Designer: Caroline Kittredge Faustine Stage Manager: Jenna Ng Lowry Assistant Stage Manager: George Weinhouse, M.D. Additional Casting By: Jamibeth Margolis, CSA |
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Parity Productions' "Charlie's Waiting"–New Work at TheaterLab
by Sherri Rase, Q on Stage Charlie's Waiting by Laurie Lawson, Electronic Link Journal This Week on Broadway for April 14th, 2019 Broadway Radio, April 14, 2019 EVA HEINMANN REVIEWS CHARLIE'S WAITING by Eva Heinmann, Hi! Drama, April 12, 2019 A delicious mix of comedy and drama by Ernece B. Kelly, NY Beacon, April 11, 2019 On The Town with Aubrey Reuben by Aubrey Reuben, Black Tie Magazine, April 6, 2019 Theater Review (NYC): 'Charlie's Waiting' by Mêlisa Annis by Jon Sobel, Blogcritics, March 31, 2019 Charlie's Waiting by Shoshana Roberts, Theatre Is Easy, March 31, 2019, "Best Bet" The following reviews contain spoilers. Charlie's Waiting by Carole di Tosti, Theater Pizzazz, April 11, 2019 Charlie's Waiting by Joel Benjamin, Theaterscene.net, April 10, 2019 This Week on Broadway for April 7th, 2019 Broadway Radio, April 7, 2019 Charlie's Waiting by Leslie R. Herman, Off Off Online, April 6, 2019 |
Mêlisa Annis' Charlie’s Waiting Opens Off-Broadway
by Olivia Clement, Playbill, March 31, 2019 Lesbian Drama: An Interview with Playwright Mêlisa Annis By Lauren Logiudice, Curve Magazine, March 28, 2019 Call Redialed: NEW Xanthe Elbrick Interview: "Charlie's Waiting" By Adam Rothenberg, Call Me Adam, March 28, 2019 Meet Mêlisa Annis The Playwright of Charlie's Waiting, a World Premiere by 2017 Parity Commission by Suzanna Bowling, Times Square Chronicles, March 20, 2019 An Interview with Playwright Mêlisa Annis On Her New Play Charlie's Waiting by Jody Christopherson, New York Theatre Review, March 19, 2019 Tony Nominee Xanthe Elbrick to Lead Cast of Mêlisa Annis' Charlie's Waiting by Olivia Clement, Playbill, December 21, 2018 Xanthe Elbrick to Lead Cast In Parity Productions's World Premiere of Charlie's Waiting by Mêlisa Annis BWW News Desk, Broadway World, December 14, 2018 |
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Mêlisa Annis’ work has been seen at or developed by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Lark with Dorset Theatre Festival at the Theresa Rebeck Writers Colony, The New School, Primary Stages, ESPA*Drills, Tangent Theater, About Face Theatre (Ireland), RAL Productions and her play United Front was a finalist for the Lark’s Playwrights Week. She won the Margaret Lamb Creative Writing Prize, and was the recipient of the Fordham Summer Fellowship while studying for her MFA in playwriting at Fordham/Primary Stages. Mêlisa has written for new children’s show Jessy and Nessy for Amazon Studios, and is currently working with Conde Nast on creative content for an upcoming puppet driven campaign. Mêlisa’s play Aberfan was published in Clockhouse Literary Magazine (Goddard University) and her play Fit for a King was illustrated and published in Fourth Wall Magazine. Mêlisa has also worked as a dramaturg for Primary Stages (A Walk With Heifetz) and loves working with new writers to help develop their work. As a director Mêlisa has worked at The Arcola Theater (UK), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Shadowland Stages and Primary Stages to name a few select theater companies. Mêlisa is a frequent contributor to BBC Wales factual programming, and has written personal essays for The Western Mail (UK) and BBC Online. Mêlisa also teaches at the Dramatic Writing department at NYU. Mêlisa Annis is a 2017 winner of our Annual Parity Commission. |
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Xanthe Elbrick (Louise)
Broadway: Coram Boy (Tony Award, Drama Desk Nom, Theatre World Award Winner) Off-Broadway: Candida (Drama Desk Award), Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Leaves of Glass, The Alice Complex, Peter and the Starcatcher (original workshop cast). Anything Goes, Spring Awakening, I Have Loved Strangers (Williamstown). Sith Inquisitor: STAR WARS The Old Republic, Body Of Lies (dir. Ridley Scott), Igraine The Brave (Parents’ Choice Award), Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Actors Studio (MFA). For Papa. |
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Stephanie Heitman (Kelly)
Training: The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Shakespeare & Company, UCB. Select Theatre Credits: A Snowfall in Berlin (Teatro Latea), The Cutthroat Series: Grand Guignol (Flea Theatre), The Trial (Edinburgh Festival). Upcoming: What is Life Worth? opposite Stanley Tucci, and Maria/Antonio in Twelfth Night with Venture Shakespeare. www.stephanieheitman.com |
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Amy Scanlon (Annie)
Training includes: Film and Theatre B.A. from the University of Reading, Musical Theatre at RADA,The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. New York theatre credits include: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, It Runs In The Family, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Blithe Spirit (Gallery Players), Scenes of a Sexual Nature (Water People Theatre), Balladeers Play to the Moon (Joe’s Pub), Talking Heads, The Rental and Surprise (The Secret Theatre), Improbable Fiction, The Rivals, Doubt, Present Laughter, and Memory of Water (American Academy Theatre Company). |
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Ludovica Villar-Hauser (Director, Artistic Director)
Ludovica’s directorial accomplishments include the New York premiere of Otho Eskin’s Duet, the world premiere of Teresa Lotz’s She Calls Me Firefly, the Off-Broadway world premiere and West End premiere of Gregory Murphy’s The Countess (634 Off-Broadway performances), Philip Ridley’s Leaves of Glass, and Laura Pedersen’s For Heaven’s Sake!, among many other critically-acclaimed productions. Ludovica was the youngest woman ever to simultaneously produce and direct in London’s West End. In the New York theatre industry, she was also one of the few women to own and operate her own theatre for 17 years — The Greenwich Street Theatre. She served on the Board of the League of Professional Theatre Women from 2009-2018 and is currently the Producer of its Oral History Project at NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. |
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Meganne George (Production Designer)
Broadway: A Wonderful Life (Actor’s Fund Benefit). Off-Broadway: She Calls Me Firefly, The Brightness of Heaven (Cherry Lane) For mabou mines: Glass Guignol (CS 122 inaugural production), Medea, Finn (NYSCA commission grant), DollHouse (2012 Elliot Norton Nomination-Design); Red Beads, Cara Lucia (ATW Hewes Nomination, Best Design 1st Irish Fest 2011); Superpowers, Orpheus and Eurydice, Children of Ararat, Hurray for Iceboy. John Goldfarb Please Come Home (FringeNY Best Costume Design 2007) Regional/International: For Heaven’s Sake (Buffalo), Grey Gardens, As Bees in Honey Drown, No Way to Treat A Lady, Radio Gals, Choeophorae (Patras), Lucia’s Chapters and A Prelude to a Death in Venice (Kilkenney Arts Festival), Jihad, Peola’s Passing and God Don’t Exist for Girls from Brooklyn, Code Blue and Sublet (NPTC at Sala Seki Sano, Bogota) Bronx Opera (14 seasons) Film/Industrial: mabou mines’ Dollhouse (Arte, France); Don’t Nobody Love the Game (PBS Independent Lens); Sesame Street Celebration Parade, (Beaches Resorts). |
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Miriam Nilofa Crowe (Lighting Designer)
Recently in New York: Kennedy (St. Clements Church), Teenage Dick (Ma Yi + The Public), Hurricane Party (The Collective NY), SeagullMachine and home/sick (The Assembly), This is Modern Art and Platonov (Blessed Unrest), Anna (Dusan Tynek), PS 160 (Gabrielle Mertz), 6 Characters . . . (Theodora Skipitares), 2Hymnvb (Anneke Hansen), The Penalty (The Apothetae), Medea (Bryan Davidson Blue), and Symphony for the Dance Floor (BAM). She is a founding member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and has an MFA from Yale. www.wingspace.com/miria |
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Caroline Kittredge Faustine (Sound Designer)
Caroline Kittredge Faustine is a transsexual theater designer, director, and musician. She is a founding member of the Brooklyn arts incubator Undiscovered Countries, and with them has developed award-winning performances presented in New York City, Maine, and Chicago. As a sound designer and engineer she's worked on new musicals (Single Rider), religious epics (inHEIRitance) and piles of trash (TRASH THE PATRIARCHY). She plays bass for transgender rustic electropunk band Gandor Chorale, whose fourth album ALL TOGETHER NO is now available. |
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Margaret Bellusci (Choreographer)
Margaret Bellusci, a Queens Native, is currently enrolled in Hunter College where she is working towards her MA in Dance Education. She attended Hofstra University where she graduated with a BA in Dance. Margaret has studied under the guidance of Deborah Zall, Penny Frank, Nathan Trice and Robin Becker. Her professional experience includes performances choreographed by Deborah Zall, Amy Marshall, Stormy Brandenburger and Pedro Ruiz. |
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Jennifer Kranz (Dramaturg, Producing Artistic Director)
A retired television executive, Jennifer spent two decades in TV as a key senior executive at AMC Networks, Time Warner, Lifetime Television Networks, and NBC Universal, working on Top 5 network TV businesses USA Network, Sy Fy Channel, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network and WE TV. Her expertise and passion lies in the development of new work in the not-for-profit and commercial theater spaces and she is exceedingly proud of her tenure as Producing Artistic Director at Parity Productions, where she has helped to create the Parity Commission and shape the literary and brand trajectories of the company. Jennifer also serves as a scout for commercial producers and investors and a dramaturg for playwrights on independent projects. She is also currently the Director of Creative Development for the Tony-nominated New York-based production company Rosalind Productions and is on the reading team for Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Jennifer is also a longtime board member of influential theater company Page 73 and a voting member of the TV Academy of Arts and Sciences. M.A., New York University. |
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Jenna Ng Lowry (Stage Manager)
Jenna is a freelance stage manager based in New York City. Recent credits include Completeness, The Dream of the Burning Boy (Normal Ave); Dogs of Rwanda (Urban Stages); Hair, Grimm! (Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre); and the 10 Minute Play Festival in Season 9 of The Fire This Time Festival. She also serves as the stage manager at Urban Stages Summer Camp. Jenna holds a BA in Theatre from Muhlenberg College. |
George Weinhouse, M.D. (Assistant Stage Manager)
George Weinhouse is a long-time supporter of Parity Productions through all its past iterations. Since retiring from medical practice in 2017, he has been working for the company as production assistant hoping to break into stage management.
George Weinhouse is a long-time supporter of Parity Productions through all its past iterations. Since retiring from medical practice in 2017, he has been working for the company as production assistant hoping to break into stage management.
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Judith Binus (Assistant Director)
Director: Numb is a Freezing Point, Red Emma (Readings); Assistant Director: Charlie’s Waiting, She Calls Me Firefly (NPT), For Heaven’s Sake!, This Will All Be Yours, Final Analysis, On the Home Front, Living Arrangements, The Brightness of Heaven. Stage Manager (Highlights) Broadway: A Doll’s House, An Inspector Calls, Children of a Lesser God; National Companies: Deathtrap, City of Angels, Annie; Dallas Civic Opera; Joffrey Ballet. Lighting Designer: Joffrey II Ballet. Assistant Lighting Designer: Thomas Skelton, Ken Billington. League of Professional Theatre Women. |
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Isabella Jane Schiller (General Manager)
Isabella Jane Schiller is an actor and event producer. Favorite projects include Arrangement (Official Selections, NY and Cincinnati Indian Film Festivals), Garbage Person Karaoke (Capital Fringe), and Cheer Up, Charlie! (Soul Series Productions). She is also the Development Coordinator for Parity Productions, a Core Member of The Skeleton Rep theatre company, and serves on the board of Jezebel Productions, the longest operating women’s independent film production company. www.isabellajaneschiller.com |
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Jamibeth Margolis (Casting)
Jamibeth Margolis, CSA is now in her 22nd year as a professional casting director in New York. After working with Johnson-Liff Casting, Cameron Mackintosh, and Margolis-Seay Casting, she now has her own office. Previous credits include the Broadway and National Touring Companies of such hits as Les Miserables, The Phantom Of The Opera, Miss Saigon, Cats, and Jane Eyre. Currently casting: (Off Broadway) Fiddler On The Roof In Yiddish, Sistas, This One’s For the Girls, and also Cleveland Musical Theatre, National Yiddish Theatre, and many more. Thank you to Ludovica and the Parity team. |
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Intuitive Management (Production Management)
Intuitive Production Management is a New York based theatrical production firm specializing in Off-Broadway, Opera, Dance and Live Events. Founded by Scott H. Schneider and Robert Signom III, its mission is to bring superior production values and personalized support to each performance. Recent projects include The Truth Has Changed at Performance Space New York; The Evolution of Mann at The Cell, Savage Winter at BAM; and Drood at Laguardia High School of Performing Arts. Current clients include Tri-Cities Opera, Opera Naples, Sybarite 5, Bronx Opera Company, Opera Saratoga, and Jaleo. www.IntuitiveProdMgmt.com |
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Parity Productions 2018 Developmental Readings. Pictured clockwise from top left: Xanthe Elbrick, Mêlisa Annis, Xanthe Elbrick, Stephanie Heitman, and Amy Scanlon. Photos by Ashley Garrett.
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Left Pictured: Annual Parity Gala, October 2017.
Anna Frankl-Duval and Liz Jasicki. Photography by Carlotta Brentan. Right Pictured: Annual Parity Gala, September 2018. Maggie Mason and Liz Jasicki. Photos by Ashley Garrett. |
