Isadora Productions is a professional theatre production company that inspires compassion, encourages creativity and cultivates new voices through the innovative development of works that highlight the common experience Isadora Productions creates work that demonstrates the power of the spoken word through imaginative collaboration with directors, writers, actors and performing artists of all genres.


UPCOMING EVENTS

Becoming Natasha

Becoming Natasha is a multi-media theatre piece about human trafficking in association with the Grassroots Coalition this June.
V-Day, the global movement to stop violence against women and girls, presents UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC - a festival of theatre, comedy, spoken word, hip hop, and performance to bring the issue of violence against women front and center in the culture and the community. The Grassroots Coalition is a collaborative group of organizations who will bring anti-violence events directly to communities throughout the five boroughs of New York City.

Description of the Show:

Becoming Natasha, inspired by the book The Natashas by Victor Malarek, is the first production of it's kind to expose human trafficking. The piece utilizes videography, text, and media clips and stories of three victims to ask the question: How do we as a society contribute to and promote modern slavery? Read more

#1. Becoming Natasha

Date of event: June 12
7pm - 8:30pm
Venue: HERE Arts Space
Address: 145 6th Avenue (Between Spring and Broome)
Ticket Price: $10 at the Door. To make reservations email: [email protected]

#2. Becoming Natasha by Isadora Productions

Dates: June 22 and 23rd
Time: 8pm
Company: Isadora Productions
Cast: Anna Klein, Stacey Cervellino, Michelle Torres, Nina Arianda
Venue: Collective Unconscious
Address: 279 Church St. just south of White St.
- subway via Canal Street: Take the A,C,E, J, M, Z, N, Q, R, W, Z, or 6
- subway via Franklin St. Take the 1, 9.
- subway via Chambers St., take the A, C, E, 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 9, J, M, Z.
- subway via Park Place/City Hall, take the R, W.
between a 3 and 10 minute walk from all the above stations.
Reservations: [email protected]
Ticket Price: $20
Website: www.isadoraproductions.org
email: [email protected] for more information

#3. Becoming Natasha in Chicago!!

July 9th and 10th Stay tuned for more information!


Isadora
In-Schools

Isadora In-Schools promotes, inspires and encourages urban youth to realize the validity of their own voices and their individual importance through telling their own stories through the arts.


Isadora
Reading Series

The Isadora Productions Reading Series takes place

once a month at Via Della Pace. The Reading Series gives writers a chance to hear their work in any stage of development. Our aim is to provide a relaxed atmosphere where artists and audience can meet, network, listen, and offer feedback when necessary to up and coming writers. The actors who participate in the Reading Series have a chance to be seen by directors, writers and producers. The Readings have featured over 50 creative writers including: Oscar Nominee Jeffrey O'Connor, Trista Baldwin, Poet/Slam Artists Yvonne O. Etaghene and writer and regular contributor to NPR's (NPR) The Next Big Thing, Mary Purdy. If you are interested in submitting your work for the Reading Series, please email: [email protected]


D*R*E*S*S

Written by Artistic Director, Stacey Cervellino,

D*R*E*S*S is inspired by the Feminine Mystique, Make Room for Daddy, the poetry of Sylvia Plath and the Technicolor Musicals of the 1950's. D*R*E*S*S is a satirical look at the role of women in 1950's America; Has anything really changed? D*R*E*S*S was presented during the American Living Room Festival at HERE in New York City in August 2000.


Derridia

Written by Nancy S. Chu this full-length play explores

the heartbreaking struggle of an urban professional couple coping with the kidnap and death of their child.


Isadora Productions is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit company.