WHAT'S CHANGED

MUSIC BY KAT CARTUSCIELLO

LIBRETTO BY CASEY LLEWELLYN      

DIRECTION BY DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ

Three collaborators at a community theater in a public housing complex grapple with changes in themselves, their relationships, and the liberatory possibilities of theater in the wake of illness and the impending development of the complex by a private developer.

MUCKRAKERS

MUSIC BY ERNIE BIRD

LIBRETTO BY SAM NORMAN

DIRECTION BY DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ

A pair of refugees. An irritable customs official. An interrogation that goes off the rails. Set on Ellis Island in 1900, Muckrakers probes the question of what can be lost (or found) in translation.

THE HANDS THAT PLANTED

MUSIC BY BENJAMIN WALTON

LIBRETTO BY ZOE RAY PRAWDA

DIRECTION BY DENNIS LI

Three members of a community share what they think should be done with their beloved tree which is overrun with ivy.

UNTITLED

MUSIC BY PHYTO STRATIS

LIBRETTO BY YUNHYE PARK

DIRECTION BY DENNIS LI

Bernard, an old retired sailor, starts painting even though he has never believed that he could be a painter.

THIRD LOUISE OF THE GALLERY

MUSIC BY MICHAEL MEKETA SANCHEZ

LIBRETTO BY SRAVYA SARASWATULA

DIRECTION BY DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ

The Hudson Gallery in the Elliott Center, Chelsea until now has had two Louise's in their art shows and Louise Lee is really eager to join this line-up. Louise Lee and her long term husband, Eric live in the senior housing in the Elliott. However, the senior center has been marked for re-construction in a month to include the more privileged. The myth has it that all Louise's of the gallery are bound for tragically grand endings.

LIFT

MUSIC BY STEPHEN ANTHONY ELKINS

LIBRETTO BY ADRIEN RADKE

DIRECTION BY DENNIS LI

The Hudson Guild's empathy is unmistakable. Rooted in service for underserved communities, The Guild is a community that acts to shape a better world. Goodness for goodness' sake. The piece serves as a condemnation of modern "solutions" to accessible housing. Housing lottery systems offer accessibility warped with political or financial gain. Goodness done for gain's sake, and those who suffer from unkind acts of kindness.

CHIPS!

MUSIC BY ZIYAN YANG

LIBRETTO BY ALECIA BAXTER

DIRECTION BY MICHELLE CHAN

It's 2074 and not much has changed at the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses. Yup, everything is relatively the same. Well, except for the fact that the proverbial 'chips on people's shoulders' now literally grow out of their shoulders. Oh, and some people get to live in a space station during building renovations.

WINDY

MUSIC BY MICHAEL OOSTERHOUT

LIBRETTO BY ALEX MANAA

DIRECTION BY SAM HELFRICH

Windy is a piece following a woman of the same name through three stages of her life, all in the same apartment complex in Chelsea, New York. Through the years we see her relationship with her neighbors and community shift in an increasingly individualistic society, as well as the chance of building something new.

TO REND A DREAM

MUSIC BY JOHN CARROLL

LIBRETTO BY BEN GINSBERG

DIRECTION BY MICHELLE CHAN

"To Rend a Dream" is about two best friends of different class structures, having grown up together in the Elliott-Chelsea Housing Community, but who now have arrived at a crossroads. Their values come into conflict as one friend values the upward mobility of privilege while the other finds solace and purpose in the local settlement community.

IT'S NOON - DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR PLANTS ARE?

MUSIC BY SEQUOIA SELLINGER

LIBRETTO BY GREY JACKSON

DIRECTION BY SAM HELFRICH

What if everything in your home could talk. Or at the very least what if your plants could? Your plants can hear you and they are judging the hell out of you. And naturally they are doing it as a group, and possibly with the other living but not human things in your house. The story follows a more traditional narrative structure with a beginning, middle, and end. Hijinks ensue.

TESSERAE

MUSIC BY ANDI LI

LIBRETTO BY PATRICK THOMPSON

DIRECTION BY MICHELLE CHAN

At 420 W. 26th street, the dreams and hopes of young children are memorialized in colorful tiles that wrap around the building in a mosaic entitled, “I want to be a…” While looking over the neighborhood, a teacher, a mother, and high school graduate contemplate what it would mean to leave the mosaic and leave their home.

AGING GRACEFULLY (OR NOT)

MUSIC BY AMOS WONG

LIBRETTO BY JOSÉ GABINO ALBA RODRÍGUEZ

DIRECTION BY SAM HELFRICH

"Aging Gracefully (Or Not)" is a poignant opera that delves into the struggles of growing older, confronting mortality, and finding purpose in life's twilight. Through the intersecting lives of Jasper, Clara, and Rose—all in their 60s—this work explores the human desire for connection and belonging. Can Jasper find the courage to shed his insecurities and embrace life alongside his friends, or will the fear of aging and loss consume him?