Throughout the year we organize free readings of new and established work that explore questions of alienation and reconciliation. After each performance, we set up a banquet table with food and wine for the sake of continuing the conversation. We are committed to hospitality as much as to excellent storytelling. Readings are suggested donation events, all donations go towards artist payments and hospitality costs. Our inaugural reading took place in April 2017.

Fall '22

Wednesday, September 14th — An Evening of Songs, Poetry & Stories featuring Covenhoven

Friday, October 28th — Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies

TIME STANDS STILL

BY DONALD MARGULIES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH at 8PM

FEATURING

Directed by Christina Shea-Wright.

Featuring performances by Natalie Gold, David Holmes, Shah Motia, Haley Murphy, and Thamer Jendoubi.

CHRISTINA SHEA-WRIGHT has been working professionally in the entertainment industry for almost 2 decades. Acting credits include The Flight Attendant, Bull, Law and Order: SVU, New Amsterdam, Wu-Tang: An American Sage, etc. Casting Projects include Boardwalk Empire, Rubicon, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Veep, The Greatest Showman On Earth, etc. She is thrilled to be partnering with Sea Dog Theater Company to bring "Time Stands Still" to life, a play that she saw on Broadway in 2010 and is still thinking about. She hopes the questions it brings up resonate with all of you as well!

NATALIE GOLD – Natalie’s theatre credits include: Peace for Mary Frances (The New Group), Kill Floor (Lincoln Center Theater)- both directed by Lila Neugebauer, Scarcity (Rattlestick-Hilltown Play Festival), The Language of Trees, Distracted, Howard Katz (all at Roundabout Theater Company) and The Fever Chart and Twelfth Night (The Public Theater). TV credits include: Succession (HBO - Series Regular), The Walking Dead: The World Beyond (AMC), East New York, New Amsterdam, The Leftovers, Bull, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, The Americans, Alpha House, Rubicon, Sneaky Pete, The Good Wife, Law and Order and Braindead. Film Credits Include: Men of Divorce, The Land of Steady Habits, Birdman, Love and Other Drugs, Collateral Beauty, Hungry Hearts, Fairhaven and Becks.

DAVID HOLMES’ acting credits include Law and Order, the Americans, Mindhunter, Mr. Robot and most recently can be seen on Hulu’s High Fidelity. He is also the Director of the award-winning short documentary starring Austin Pendleton, available to stream now on Amazon.

SHAH MOTIA has performed for La MaMa ETC, The Brick, and Theater for the New City. Most recently, Playwrights Horizons invited Shah to participate in a staged reading of Sanaz Toosi’s newest work, The Persians. He is a graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker Studio conservatory.

HALEY MURPHY was born and raised in New York City, Haley Murphy grew up working in the film industry as an actress from the time she was 11-years-old when she was cast in the psychological thriller film Silent House, alongside Elizabeth Olsen, which went on to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. She has recurred on the television shows Unforgettable (CBS) and Royal Pains (USA). She has appeared in The Kindergarten Teacher (Netflix) with Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Half of It (Netflix), and Love Life (HBO Max). Haley co-produced the upcoming feature film, The Art of Love, which is currently in post-production.

THAMER JENDOUBI is a native New York based actor. After catching the bug as a Junior in high school, he performed in as many college productions as he could before deciding to pursue acting as a career.  He studied and graduated with an MA in Acting from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK and upon returning to New York, he continued to train for a further two years at the Maggie Flanigan Studio in Manhattan.  In his free time he loves travelling and learning foreign languages.

RON HAVIV is an Emmy nominated & award-winning photojournalist, filmmaker & co-founder of the photo agency VII and The VII Foundation, dedicated to documenting conflict & raising human rights issues around the globe.

His work in the Balkans was used as evidence to indict & convict war criminals at the international tribunal in The Hague. President Bush cited Haviv’s chilling photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention.

Haviv is currently documenting the war between Ukraine and Russia.

His photography is in museum collections around the world. Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal was called “One of the best non-fiction books of the year” by the LA Times. His other monographs are Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul, Haiti: 12 January 2010, The Lost Rolls and Shadow of Memory.

Instagram:  @ronhaviv_vii