Start Then Next
Written by Libby Heily
Directed by Bess Frankel
Directed by Bess Frankel
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A teenage girl's strange act of rebellion - suddenly refusing to speak or move - turns her family's kitchen into a living nightmare as they each try to make their own dreams come true. Start Then Next is what would happen if Christopher Durang, Betty Friedan, and Carl Sagan got caught in a blender.
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Production
New Circle Theatre Company Featuring Michael Jay Henry, Adam Irigoyen, Amelia Mason, Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, Ella Trisler, Jennifer Laine Williams
Collaborated with Tiara Partsch, Noelle LeBlanc, Kathrine R Mitchell, Grace Kho, Rick Sordelet, Victoria Vourkoutiotis |
Pippin:
Her Life and Times
Her Life and Times
Book, Additional Lyrics, & Directed by Bess Frankel
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Based on the Book by Roger O. Hirson
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Based on the Book by Roger O. Hirson
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Pippin: Her Life and Times is a modern feminist reimagining of the classic musical.
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Workshop Production
University of Michigan Musical Theatre Department Featuring Zoltan Berencsi, Kate Cummings, Aliyah Douglas, Quincy Hampton, Ty Lam, Kevin Ludwig, Oluchi Nwaokorie, Sam O'Neill, Caroline Patterson, Alyssa Sunew, Sage Taylor, Landon Wouters, Anna Zavelson
Collaborated with Shelby Alexander, Madeline Benson, Raja Benz, Andy Blatt, Sari Bovitz, Ari Conte, Devin Findlay, Esther Hwang, Elianna Kruskal, Rachel MacKenzie, Ava Moye, Abigail Labbe, Naomi Parr |
Bad Things
Written by Shara Feit
Directed by Bess Frankel
Directed by Bess Frankel
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Bad Things follows two troubled best friends as they tumble-crash into each other over the course of their lives. Bad Things is a messy bloody universe for two, kind of punk rock, kind of dreamy, almost 100 years long, increasingly fast, queer, maybe a tragedy, maybe a love story.
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Staged Reading
Dramatists Guild Mary Rodgers Room Featuring Delia Cunningham, Kyra Tantao
Collaborated with Samantha Ozeas |
2076
Written & Directed by Bess Frankel
Written in Collaboration with
Sophia Deery, Esther Fallick, Joey Odom,
Kaity Paschetto, Shannon Sullivan, & Elias Wygodny
Sophia Deery, Esther Fallick, Joey Odom,
Kaity Paschetto, Shannon Sullivan, & Elias Wygodny
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By the year 2076, climate change pushed America underwater. Set on a claustrophobic rescue ship, survivors keep their spirits up by exercising, hosting sing-alongs, and stumbling into relationships. Soon, the memory of loved ones left behind, and fear of the planet retaliating against the abuse it’s been given, might overthrow their new Eden.
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Production
Columbia University MFA Program Featuring Sophia Deery, Esther Fallick, Joey Odom, Kaity Paschetto, Shannon Sullivan, & Elias Wygodny
Collaborated with DaMonique Ballou, Alexandra Christie, Grey Jackson, Samantha Rehr, Hannah Rosenthal, Ariane Van Buren |
Yours, Anne Frank
From The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Co-Adapted by Bess Frankel & Samantha Rehr
Directed by Bess Frankel
Co-Adapted by Bess Frankel & Samantha Rehr
Directed by Bess Frankel
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Adapted from the most important and iconic diary of all time, this one-woman monologue chronicles Anne Frank's two years in hiding from the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II.
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Production
University of Michigan Featuring Samantha Rehr
Collaborated with Angela Alvarez, Miriam Michaels, Emily Shimskey |