the Office of Manhattan
Borough President,
Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman
in association with
Marvin Kahan
present
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Benefiting the Harvey Milk High School scholarship fund
As we complete another year and our second annual festival of new plays, we want to thank our sponsors, advertisers, donors and especially our audience for their love, encouragement and enormous support.
This year's five-week Festival, presented May 14 through June 15, 2008, was a resounding success for all of us.
In case you haven’t heard or weren’t able to attend, we produced five productions for GAYFEST NYC 2008: EDWARD THE KING by David Brendan Hopes, SPILL THE WINE by Brian Dykstra, JUMPING BLIND by Philip Gerson, THE WRATH OF APHRODITE by Tim O’Leary and STEVE HAYES’ HOLLYWOOD REUNION by Steve Hayes. All of the shows were enormously well attended, with two of them selling out most of their performances. The audience loved all five of the productions and we received a great deal of good press.
“In just two years, GAYFEST NYC has established an international audience,” trumpeted The New York Blade, and The Advocate said “Don’t be fooled by the title, GAYFEST NYC is a dignified affair.” The national entertainment web site Talk Entertainment was even more effusive: “Impressive…Jack W. Batman and Bruce Robert Harris have come to New York and conquered.” Gay City News agreed, also calling us “impressive” and saying we produced “a high-quality lineup of new works,” and GO Magazine called us “The very best of NYC theatre.” Once again, we couldn’t be more pleased.
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As you know, we are a year-round, not-for-profit play development organization that presents an annual showcase of those works most ready for production. We are a serious entertainment business developing new LGBT works for world stages, or film and television production, and we only produce works that we feel will live beyond the Festival. This year’s selections more than lived up to those requirements, and we are already working on possible future productions of all five of the plays.
Submissions are now being accepted for next year’s plays. Our posted deadline is October 31, 2008 and we can’t wait to start reading. To find out how to submit a play, go to the tab on the left marked “Submissions.”
We'd love you to join us in our quest to make GAYFEST NYC one of the most highly supported LGBT organizations in the country. We are a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation so all contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
If you'd like to make a personal contribution earmarked especially for the scholarship fund, please go to the tab on the left marked "Harvey Milk High School."
