A Perfect Party for Trees in The New York Times
Our play for neurodiverse audiences, “A Perfect Party for Trees” is in The New York Times!
AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!
Like a big old article! Go Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, go! Wowza. Holy frijole, I hope you saved up those paywall points! Or subscribe, go subscribe, that's a thing.
And if you can’t access the piece, here is a picture of me and our phenomenal director/co-creator/total superstar/ Executive Creative Director of Trusty, Leigh Walter with the real life version IN PRINT. Still also a thing!
Huge thanks to the wonderful writer, Laurel Graeber, who seriously dug in with us to understand what we’re trying to create. She paints such a complete and concise picture of our work, it’s a great piece and we're thrilled.
Come see us this Sunday at Little Island NYC's Storytelling Festival! Then next week as part of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Open Studios Residency! Pier 3! Details: https://www.trustysidekick.org/a-perfect-party-for-trees
Wowza.
Words can’t express the honor to be a part of this tremendous team. I wrote the play, but it was truly co-created by all of us. Shout out to our beloved team! ROLE CALL!
Project Lead/Director: Leigh Walter | �Project Lead/Writer: Marty Allen� | Project Lead/ Associate Director: Andrew Duff | Puppet Design: Eric Wright | Puppet Fabrication: Rose Labarre | �Costume Design and Fabrication: Natalie Loveland |
Prop Design and Fabrication: Rowan Magee
Composer: Jesse Greenberg� | Composer: Naeemah Z. Maddox | Cast:�Jesse Greenberg as The Bear� | John Rankin III as The Beekeeper | �Naeemah Z. Maddox as Ms. Branch�� | Production Manager: Carly Levin� | Production Stage Manager: Aoife Hough | Assistant Stage Manager: Taryn Uhe | �Assitant Director: Stella Hu (Twig)
With so much help help from Trusty family Spencer Sassaman, Paul Brewster McGinley, Brit Gossett, Renata Melillo Townsend
Logo and Type Design by Sara Moncure| Video by Zack Ramadan
Special thanks to All Stars Project, Inc. and Michael Pantone and his classes at P721K in Brooklyn!