The Annual Players Theatre
Short Play & Musical Festival

SPF NYC 2025

A GIRL IN A LONG COAT
-Mother role- 50s, South Asian
-Daughter role- 20s, South Asian
Dates
June 8 (Sunday) tech (45minute slot between 5-10pm)
June 12, 13, 14 at 7pm,
June 15 at 3pm
Please contact Mavish Khan at [email protected] to apply. This is a paid position.
Central Park Teaser

ANE: 30’s 40’s- Artist, bit of a hippy free spirit, vulnerable. She is actually an undercover cop.
ELAINE: 30’s 40’s -Sophisticated psychiatrist, dressed in designer suit, shoes etc. wily and manipulative. She is actually a serial murderer.
FILM DIRECTOR: Any age, Professional, small role but essential for the unexpected ending.

Synopsis
Two women meet in Central Park. What starts out as a friendly conversation between an artist and a designer obsessed psychiatrist ends up as one is poisoned and the other arrested! But this pales with the entrance of an unexpected third person!

Central Park Teaser’s dates:
June 1 (Sunday) tech (45minute slot between 5-10pm)
June 5, 6, 7 (Thursday. Friday, Saturday) @ 7pm
June 8 (Sunday) @ 3pm

CONTACT:  Darcy H. Sternberg: [email protected]

TRACK CHANGE
Playwright: Maryellen De Vivo
Director: Elizabeth Wright-Williams

Looking for non-Equity actors for the 15-minute play “Track Change” for four performances June 19-22, 2025 as part of SPF NYC. Rehearsals start in early May, with dates TBD based on availability, first on Zoom, then in person in NYC. Tech rehearsal the evening of Sunday, June 15. $250 stipend.

The story: Election Night 2024. NYC. A queer couple rides home on the subway after the presidential winner is announced. Worries about the future and struggles from the past make it increasingly difficult to navigate their way back. In the vein of the Twilight Zone.

Casting the following characters:

MALLORY (late 20s-50s): Assigned female at birth, butch or non-binary, queer, white, anxious, practical, concerned. Married to Hope.

HOPE (late 20s-50s): Female, bisexual, race other than white, optimistic, caring, in tune with nature. Married to Mallory.

Auditions will be self-recorded. You do not need to have someone read the other lines. Please contact [email protected] and cc: [email protected]
for more information/sides.

Dust to Dust
Playwright: Gabrielle Perez
Director: Cecilia Bracey
MOM – 50s to 60s*, Wound Tight and Might Finally Snap, she/her
DAUGHTER – 30s to 40s*, Trying Hard to be Patient, she/her
*There will always be at least 20 years difference between Mom and Daughter
Synopsis: On a sunny day aboard the Staten Island Ferry, Mom and Daughter struggle to spread the ashes of Grammy. As they delay the burial, grief, anger, and confusion emerge. When Mom and Daughter finally recognize themselves in each other, one cycle ends as new ones begin.
Non-Equity actors can send a short 2-3 minute self-tape monologue and resume to Gabrielle Perez at [email protected]. Monologues should be light in tone, heartfelt, or a dramedy. Must be available for a Tech Rehearsal on June 1st (45 minute slot from 5pm-10pm); Performances June 5th-7th at 7pm (6pm call), and June 8th at 3pm (2pm call). Actors will receive a $200 stipend.