JAMES MENESES
Film coming in Fall of 2021
Synopsis:
This Summer, Lucia plans on introducing
her American boyfriend George, to her devout Roman Catholic family in Italy . . . there’s just one problem, George is an atheist. After a religious joke goes wrong at a dinner party, the line between just supporting Lucia’s faith and adhering to it himself becomes clearer and slippery.
Synopsis:
A son copes with the grief of his father’s suicide by slowly understanding him through dreams, but the time to reconcile their past begins to run out as a Tsunami wave draws nearer.
2021
Greenhouse Ensemble's
Virtual Quarantine Soiree
Episode 33
Director Christina Rose Ashby
Cast Meade Morrison, Timothy Babcock
2019
Greenhouse Ensemble's Play Soiree
Bernie Wohl Center
NY, NY
Director Hazen Cuyler
Cast Spencer Scott, Robert Hickey
CROSS FROM ROME
Produced by the Greenhouse Ensemble
Director Hazen Cuyler
Cast Luisa Menzen, Joey Rotter
DREAM FRAGMENTATION
GHOST RECORDING
PURGATORY TRAIN
Synopsis:
Two best friends are stuck in limbo on an old diesel train. Gabe wants to stay for their graduation ceremony and an unfinished game of poker, while Dave, wants to start the train, unsure where the tracks lead to.
Virtual Reading by Theatre Unmasked
Synopsis:
During the Covid Pandemic, Paulie, an unemployed construction worker, becomes an actor on a low budget ghost reality TV show. A non-believer of the paranormal world, Paulie pretends and "acts scared," but tonight in an
abandoned Middle School, he witnesses something unimaginable yet real.
GIG AT THE U
The Tank
Selected for Greenhouse Ensemble's Play Soiree. (Postponed due to Covid)
Director Hazen Cuyler,
Cast Matt O'Shea, Joey Rotter
WHILE YOU WAIT
Synopsis: On Halloween, Ryan, a comedian is kicked off a prestigious University’s stage for an unacceptable joke. Him and his boyfriend Evan, discuss how to respond to the vitriol on social media, and whether throwing in the towel on an early standup career is the best option.
A collaboration of dance, performance art and dramatic writing to explore how an emotional need of absence can create meaning.
Produced by the Greenhouse Ensemble
West 97th Street Theater
NY, NY
Director Spencer Scott
Cast Reanna Armellino, Keegan McDonald, Mary Rawlins, Sara Theresa Burns & Edwina Manuel
in development - a sci-fi musical
2186, civilians make peace with death, by believing the dreams they sacrifice, await them in an afterlife. Bianca, while pregnant, by-passes her Dream Suppressor and one night dreams of her unborn baby, a grown-up version from the future. She conceals this secret from Devon, her husband, who is next in line to lead the Dream Utopia, and eventually must decide whether it's more vital to reach the eternal dream kingdom or dream alone among the living.
(Workshop reading - Greenhouse Ensemble's Writers Group)
MAMA'S BABY BOXER
A riot occurs in a hospital’s behavioral health unit. The head nurse is blamed and fired and the next day passes away in her sleep. Her son Gonzalo checks into the same health unit as a patient, carrying his mother's urn. Gonzalo then reveals his plan to fight the patient who started the riot, an ex-prize boxer named Sammy the Screaming Giant.
KARMA OF A
BROKEN
BONE
A restless mind awakes in the middle of the night, weaving moments of nostalgia in order to fall back asleep.
Greenhouse Ensemble Studio Playwrights Reading
a Stage Reading
a
Director George Pappas
Cast Andrew Mayer, Joey Rotter & Meg Heus
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS
HB Studio | Playwriting Technique | Julie McKee
Greenhouse Ensemble Writer's Group | Spencer Scott
Greenhouse Ensemble | Play Reading Workshop | Kim Sharp
ESPA | Writing for Zoom | Lia Romeo