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WOMBMATES
June 11, 2023 @ 12:00 am - June 24, 2023 @ 12:00 am
Showing at the Chain Theatre Summer Festival:
WOMBMATES, written by Joseph P. Krawczyk, directed by Eddie Lew, and starring John Bradshaw and Chelsea Clark.
Playing at the Chain Theatre Summer Festival, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC
Performance Dates: 6/11 at 8pm, 6/23 at 6:30pm, 6/24 at 8pm.
Click on the link below for tickets in program 12 and get 20% off the ticket price by using discount code MATES.
The playwright writes:
A comedic pair of twins fight for their space. Each one has differing views as they strive to contend with each other and prepare to live in a world they never chose.
Meet the Playwright, Joseph P. Krawczyk:
Joseph P. Krawczyk is an award-winning, published playwright. His play It’s All About Lorrie recently won Best Play at the Thespis Festival in New York City and had a ten-performance run at NYC’s John Cullum Theater. Prior to that run, his one-act play, The Changing Room, won an award for Best Comedic Play from the American Theatre of Actors. Joe had a staged reading of Release 35.6 at The International Theater Arts Institute (IATI), located in the East Village, one of nine plays selected for Cimientos 2016. The Treatment was selected to be part of Cimientos 2017 with a staged reading in March. Last year, The Treatment, formerly titled Disconnect, was produced at the Sargent Theater in NYC. In 2014 he had a staged reading of Year’s End, a play about teachers in crisis, at Cape May Stage, a regional, Equity Theater in Cape May, NJ. The play was selected from playwrights who participated in 2013’s National Playwrights Symposium (in attendance were Lee Blessing, John Pielmeier, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and William Mastrosimone) and who were invited to submit a play for their 2014 Symposium. Year’s End was also selected as one of the top three plays at Ohio State University’s 2012 New Play Contest. Subsequently, Year’s End was also produced at the Manhattan Repertory Theater. He has written many ten-minute plays that have been produced on both the East and West Coast. For awards, he has received the 2016 Gil Ancowitz Award for Divinity, a trilogy of one-act plays. He was nominated as Outstanding Writer for Macho Moments at NYC’s 2013 Midwinter Madness Festival, and was a semi-finalist at NYC’s Avant-Garde Theater Festival for his one-act play, The Tasting. He has been awarded with two Jean Dalrymple awards: Best Comedy for Inconceivable and Best Playwright for Family Bound. His one act, The Understudy, was the first place winner in the Short Play Lab at the Little Times Square Theater in NYC. The play was subsequently produced at NYC’s Thespian Productions. Over the years NYC’s American Theatre of Actors (ATA) has produced Fog, Divinity and Release 35.6. His critically acclaimed Who Killed Johnny Hansen took on Corporate greed, race relations, and right-wing talk radio. His other New York productions include Family Bound, Inconceivable (also produced in Los Angeles), and Latin Retreat at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. His play Gender Wars was produced Off Broadway by Power Play Enterprises at the Samuel Beckett Theater. Recently, he had a short story, The Dreamer, published in London, and a monologue from It’s All About Lorrie, has been included in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2016, published by Smith and Kraus. A monologue from Year’s End will be part of The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2017. As a documentary film maker, he has worked with talents such as William Shatner, Eli Wallach, and James Whitmore. He is also a recipient of an Emmy as co-producer of Dreams of Distant Shores, a documentary on immigration. He is especially proud of writing and producing The Gift of Time, a documentary on volunteerism, which had a showing at the White House. He has won awards from the New York Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, and a Tri-State award for the Best United Way video. In addition, he has written and produced more than a dozen TV and radio commercials and has directed a number of advertising campaigns for a Fortune 200 company. He has studied playwrighting at the National Playwrights Symposium, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Ensemble Studio Theater, and the Public Theater. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. josephpkrawczyk.com
Meet the Director, Eddie Lew:
Meet Eddie Lew, the director of Wombmates at the Chain Theatre. After a career in film and managing opera singers, he is now a theater director and acting coach in his thirty-second year. He worked on productions with Uta Hagen (who originated the role of Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virgnia Woolf), Salem Ludwig, Charles Nelson Reilly, George Bartenieff and Karen Malpede He also worked with the Acting Company, assisting Zelda Fichandler and Bartlett Sher (Tony-Award winning director), and has directed F. Murray Abraham and Keir Dullea. Eddie directed opera for the Lyric Theater, the resident Company at the Schimmel Center at Pace University. He coached for the Drama Club at Gateway High School in Queens, NY. Currently, Eddie is an associate director at the Roger Simon Studio. Recently he acted as dramaturg for The Dressmaker’s Secret, a new play by Sarah Levine Simon, which had its premiere at the 59E59St Theater. Eddie Just finished a translation of Chekhov’s The Seagull, which had its first reading at the Simon Studio and was produced by the American Theater of Actors. He is also a member of the Playwrights/Directors Unit at the world-renowned Actors Studio. eddielion4@gmail.com
Meet Actor John Bradshaw:
John Bradshaw is one of the principal characters in my play, Wombmates, at the Chain Theater Summer Festival. He is a graduate of the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts with an associate degree in Film & Television Performance. His other training includes the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and currently the Roger Simon Studio. He has played lead roles in many short films such as Unconditional and Wearing Blue, as well as multiple short films that are now in post-production. He is currently filming the 7 Deadly Sins, a web series in which he originates the role of Wrath. The web series is currently shot at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY and will be available for streaming in mid-late 2024.
Meet Actress Chelsea Clark:
Meet Chelsea Clark, one of two characters in Wombmates. She is a NYC stage veteran, with well over 70 theater credits. She has performed in multiple lead roles, appearing at the NYC Fringe, through Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and at many other festivals and events. Her favorite roles include Sophia Schliemann/Helen of Troy in Joseph Krawczyk’s off-Broadway production For the Love of Troy, Jean Clemens at the Albright Knox Art Gallery’s Albright in Buffalo, and Emma Quattleman in the Civil War period piece The Living Room. Through the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), she has performed in a recurring principal role as Vera in Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick. She grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and started acting at age 5 with Candace Mazur’s Expressions Theatre Company. She attended the NYC’s Acting and Modeling Convention (MAAIA) at age 15, earning a spot at The School for Film & Television (aka The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts) summer program. During her senior year of high school, she gained acceptance into the Eastland Performing Arts Program through Otterbein College. She then went to NYC, where she received an acting certificate through The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, serving as Key Student and receiving a Meisner Talent Scholarship for both years. She finished up her undergraduate education at St. Francis College, where she was President of the acting troupe for two years; she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Performance Studies. She has had a year of additional training in method acting, and is now receiving classical and contemporary training through The Roger Simon Studio. Chelsea’s first feature film, The Death of April, has been released domestically and internationally. Through the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), she has performed in a recurring principal role as Vera in Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick. She has appeared as a lead character in Jimmy T. Martin’s six-episode Dead On Acting, and she has been the lead in Sam Cooke’s film short Monomyth, which has been well received at three film festivals. She has recently been cast and filmed as a recurring character Tara in Alex Fuller’s Divorce Video Therapy, which is in post-production. Chelsea enjoys writing, and has written and produced a film, a sitcom and several monologues. Her bywords are “intuitive . . .versatile . .. quirky . . . facially expressive,” and she has been described as “a consummate professional . . . profoundly reliable, punctual and trustworthy.” www.chelseaclark.us
He is a producer, actor, theatre and film marketing consultant, and recently joined the TONY-Award winning team at Broadway United as an associate producer on their first film, Borrowed, an LGBQT thriller streaming on Amazon Prime beginning July 7. Roger trains with the Lyle Kessler Master Class in acting, and independently, he is also the founder of the new website called theaterartz.com, a community of artists dedicated to scalable theatre creation in the USA. By day, he runs the Entrepreneur + Innovation Lab at Brooklyn College. Roger has worked with Joe Krawczyk on various projects over the years, has directed a short film, Black Metamorphosis, by Joe, and is working to bring Joe’s award-winning comedy, It’s All About Lorrie on a national tour. Roger is delighted to again work with Joe, on this original short play, and takes a moment to congratulate The Chain Theater, Kirk Gostkowski, and Christina Perry on the fine work they have done with this festival and this venue. If interested in joining TheatreArtz or helping get It’s All About Lorrie on stage, please email him at RogerGonzalezNYCmedia@gmail.com.