A BAD NIGHT
Co-writer - Nicole Pandolfo
Synopsis & Character Breakdown
“ When I was a kid there wasn’t even a word for date rape…
You just said you had ‘a bad night." -Emily Mann
A Bad Night is a documentary theatre project that reveals the complex portrait of acquaintance rape and consent as told by real interviews from survivors, detectives, attorneys, and others affected by what is a problem of escalating proportions.
4F, 2M
70 min
AWARDS
Received 2015 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship.
Workshopped at Tofte Lake Center in Ely, MN.
development history
"A Bad Night” was developed in part with NewYorkRep, New York, NY
Producing Artistic Director, Markus Potter
Executive Director, Gayle Waxenberg.
April 2019
Heal Me Too Festival #HealMeToo - Staged Reading
Directed by Annika Boras
November 2018
NewYorkRep Staged Reading & Event
Directed by Markus Potter
Produced by NewYorkRep @ Playwrights Horizons
March 2018
NewYorkRep Staged Reading + Town Hall Discussion - In honor of International Women’s Day
Downtown Community Television Center
Directed by Kathleen Amshoff
Featuring: Annika Boras, Gamal ElSawah, Glen Feinstein, Jamie Heinlein, Celestine Rae, and Evelyn Spahr
WALTZING MECHANICS Documentary Play Festival - Staged Reading
#MeToo @ Guttman College Conference - Guttman College - Staged Reading
November 2016
Abingdon Theatre Company Staged Reading.
Directed By: Jackson Gay
Featuring: Meg Griffiths Anderson, J. Stephen Brantley, Glen Feinstein, Jamie Heinlein, Celestine Rae, and Evelyn Spahr.
March 2016
Hunter College Undergraduate Theatre Company Reading.
Directed By: Kathleen Amshoff
Student Director: Conrado Falco
Stage Manager: Joyce Lim
Featuring: Gabrielle Cuadra, Gamal El Sawah, Lucien Formichella, Erin Nelligan, Michelle Ramoni and Sajda White.
October 2015
Staged Reading – The Creative Center @ MTC
Directed by Kathleen Amshoff
Featuring: Eboni Booth, J.Stephen Brantley, Belle Caplis, Adam Delia, Glen Feinstein, Cory Haynes, Jamie Heinlein, Arnie Mazer, Elizabeth Seldin, and Elanna White
Dramaturg: Melissa Conkling
February 2015
First Look Reading in The Loewe Room @ The Dramatists Guild
Directed by Kathleen Amshoff
Featuring: Kara Dudley, Paul Eddy, Meg Griffiths, Jamie Heinlein, Tessa Claire Hersh, Arnold Mazer, Angela Rambourg and Maggie Surovell.
Project Advisor: Mark Bly
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