Drama Club

05/31/2026

Postell Pringle [aka POS] is a multi disciplined theater artist, playwright, beatmaker/music producer, rapper, performer and frequent music or stage director, who lives and works out of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY. As a core member of Q Brothers Collective - the renowned award-winning company who fuse myriad styles of hip hop music and storytelling - he's adapted literary classics to original, new musicals for coming up on two decades. His work with QBC has granted him the great fortune of touring the globe. As an individual/collaborative artist and his work with QBC, Pos has created, written, co-composed and developed nearly a dozen original theater productions. In 2023, he was Artist-In-Residence at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). In 2021, he was a NYCity Artist Corp recipient. Last year, he was honored by the 2025 TYA/USA National Festival & Conference Song Slam. As an emcee/musician/producer he's released several solo and collab album projects. He's a member of the group The Rap Pack and the kids hip hop band, Q Brothers. As an actor/performer he's appeared ‘On’ and ‘Off-Broadway’ and in regional theater his entire career. Finally, Pos is a creator, writer and producer of original podcasts with his audiyo-yo co-pilot, Anne Richards. His latest, LOC Mixtape (Fablevision, Library of Congress) discusses audio from the Library of Congress archives with historians and musicologists – then invites renown music artists to compose new songs ‘in conversation’ with the archival audio. Pos graduated from Bates College (GO BOBCATS!) and studied at RADA, in London. [postellpringle.com]

05/30/2026

WEEPING TIME [untitled] is a musical play set in the mid-1800s, in the years leading up to and shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation, during Reconstruction. It is the extraordinary true story of F***y and Pierce Butler and the enslaved folks of Butler Island Plantation and a tale of love and courage of Black people who refused to live life untethered from the truth of one another. Drawing on the rich history of American music, from spirituals to blues to rap, Weeping Time is an exploration of American history, the ramifications of slavery that all Americans have inherited, and a study in human resilience and ingenuity.
For over three generations Butler Island near Savannah, Georgia, was home to a community of interconnected families and friends. Despite (or maybe because of) the horrible conditions of ‘the peculiar institution’ that was antebellum chattel slavery, the island was home to hundreds of people who not only suffered their inhumane condition, but cared for one another, fell in love, raised children, created, celebrated and lived. Over the course of two days in 1859 this community was annihilated. The people of Butler Island were sold off in what became known as The Great Slave Auction, the largest sale of human beings in American history, The Weeping Time. Pierce M. Butler. gambled away his family fortune and his greatest valued 'properties’ had to be liquidated to appease his creditors. 436 souls were sold. Families were ripped apart and dispersed to the far reaches of America’s southeast. . The Weeping Time obtained its name two-fold – from the torrential rains throughout the two days when this violent act of separating families took place. And, for those that somehow managed to keep a spiritual faith intact, it was said that God wept.

05/29/2026

Andrew is an Australian theatremaker and Fulbright scholar living and working in New York.
Full-length works include: Nailed It! (Winner: Greenroom award, ‘Best original songs’, Selection: Adelaide Cabaret Festival); Jack Of Two Trades (Winner: Jeanne Pratt Artists in Residence); ’Voyagers’ (Commissioned by Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, Winner: City Of Melbourne 2020 Arts Grant); ‘SKIN’ (Off-Broadway: Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Selection: Global Forms Theatre Festival, Semi-Finalist: O’Neill National Musical Theatre Conference, Semi-Finalist: Syracuse University New Works, New Voices); ‘The Kusama Project’ (Frank Young Fund for New Musicals/National Alliance for Musical Theatre Writers in Residence Grant through Theatre Now, New York; Governor’s Island Artist in Residence program, ArtsConnection); and ‘A Call To Action’, a documentary film in support of Wagga Wagga’s Propatria – an organization dedicated to the support of ex-service people and first responders.
Short works include: STARSONG (Rattlestick Theatre, Chain Theatre Fest, SOUNDBITES X, Indieworks Theatre’s Bite Sized Broadway); Anticipation (Rattlestick); Space (Lincoln Centre ‘Future Broadway Songbook’); Come Together (Indieworks Theatre’s Bite Sized Broadway); and CHICKEN/EGG (American Opera Project).
As a performer, Andrew has contributed to the development of countless new musical theatre works; toured cabarets worldwide (nominated: ‘Best Cabaret Performance’, TheatrePeople); performed long-form improvisation for Impro Melbourne, The Improv Conspiracy (nominated: best comedy, Perth Fringeworld 2015), and as one half of silent improvisation duo ‘Quiet Achievers’ in performances accessible to the Deaf and hard of hearing community; and screamed long into the night once a week as the host of Melbourne’s premiere piano bar ‘Fab Fridays’ at the Butterfly Club with Lucy O’Brien for three ridiculous years.
The founding artistic director of Soothplayers, Andrew developed and directed their flagship show “Completely Improvised Shakespeare”, which recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary, and continues to play to rave reviews and sold-out crowds across Australia.

05/28/2026

Yuriko Shibata is a Japanese composer, orchestrator, musical director, pianist, and dramatist based in New York City. She creates emotionally driven melodies that transcend language and speak directly to audiences’ hearts.
Her recent work includes KUSAMA, featured in a table read presented by Theater Now and the National Alliance for Musical Theater in June 2025 and selected for the Songwriters Showcase at the NAMT Festival in October 2025. Her work also includes the musical SKIN, which debuted in an Off-Broadway workshop at Rattlestick Theater and was later featured in New York Theater Barn’s 2025 New Works Series.
She holds a B.M. from Tokyo College of Music and an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

05/27/2026

The Untitled KUSAMA Project is an immersive, non-narrative theatrical exploration that began with the life and work of Yayoi Kusama, transmuting the emotional and philosophical impact of her art into a live, participatory theatrical experience. Rather than dramatizing Kusama’s biography, the piece spirals outwards from her ideas, and obsessions — dots, infinity, repetition, reflection — and asks what they do to us as viewers, and how those sensations might be shared, expanded, and embodied in a room together.
�Created by Japanese composer Yuriko Shibata and q***r Australian writer Andrew Strano, The Untitled KUSAMA Project draws from their experiences as immigrants and outsiders, translating Kusama’s exploration of self-obliteration and cosmic scale into music, ritual, and collective play. The audience is not simply watching the piece unfold — they are part of it, contributing sound, presence, and energy in ways that echo Kusama’s immersive environments.�
The journey of the piece takes us from disconnection to communion. It begins in existential yearning: a feeling of isolation and insignificance — “I’m just a tiny part of an unending universe”. Through repetition, humor, absurdity, and shared moments, this same feeling transforms, becoming ever more expansive and euphoric — We’re ALL just a tiny part of everything, and isn’t that amazing?
�At its heart, The Untitled KUSAMA Project is about recognition: like dots in a vast pattern, do we know we belong to something larger than ourselves? The piece aims to leave audiences with the sensation of having briefly touched that larger whole — not as an abstract concept, but as a lived, collective experience. By the end, the room becomes a community: breathing, singing, sharing, and celebrating the relief, joy, and beauty of being small — together.

05/26/2026

ELLAROSE CHARY (she/hers)'s musical TL;DR: THELMA LOUISE; D**E REMIX won the Richard Rodgers Award, was awarded a Rhinebeck Triple R Residency, was featured at NAMT,
was a Finalist for the O'Neill NMTC and was a Relentless Award HM. It received its World Premiere at Diversionary Theater in 2024, where it was nominated for a Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Musical. She's been in residence at Ars Nova, Roundabout Theatre, and as a Harvard TDM Guest Lecturer. Her work has been produced by The Civilians (City Center, Joe’s Pub, The Greene Space), The Rose Theater, & the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre. She is a Dramatists Guild Fellow, Civilians R & D Group alum, and New Georges Affiliated Artist and Audrey Resident. She has written for The Lilly Awards Blog, HowlRound, and Musical Theater Today (contributing editor) and been featured in American Theatre Magazine. MFA: NYU Tisch, BA: Brown University.

05/25/2026

Brando(n) James Gwinn (he/they) is the 2025 winner of the John Wallowitch Songwriting award. He is a Drama League nominated and Richard Rodgers Award and Bistro Award winning composer-lyricist, writer, performer, pianist and producer, and 2-time Winner of the Broadway World Award for Best Piano Bar Entertainer in NYC. A LiveNation touring artist, Brandon opened for Trixie Mattel’s North American Tour and appears in MOVING PARTS on Netflix. Solo albums: BULLIT (Q***r Global Arts Festival Winner) & NOT TOO LATE Music producer: TWO BIRDS & ONE STONE (Billboard #1) by Trixie Mattel, BOXX by Pandora Boxx, LOVE FOOL by Alexis Michelle for Broadway Records, PLACE & TIME, TL;DR: Thelma Louise D**e Remix original cast recording. Brando also created scores for MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ★★★★★ in the Scotsman), THE SEANCE MACHINE (Drama League Nom, The Tank, Obie Award) TL;DR. THELMA LOUISE; D**E REMIX (Richard Rodgers Award, Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, UArts Polyphone Festival, O’Neill, NAMT), THE SPELL OF RED RIVER (NAMT grant recipient, University Commission) COTTON CANDY & CO***NE (Theatre C), THINGS WE DON’T SAY (Theo Ubique Chicago) MATCHMAKER MATCHMAKER, I’M WILLING TO SETTLE (A.R.T., NYMF) SMALL TOWN STORY (Village Originals, Seattle. World Premiere: American Theatre Group) Brando has been an artist in residence at Ars Nova, Dramatists Guild Fellows, Roundabout Theatre Company. Proud Recording Academy Grammy Voter, Local 802 AFM and ASCAP. MFA NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Represented by WME. www.brandonjamesgwinn.com

05/24/2026

05/24/2026

Josh Walker (they/them) is an artist through & through from Jersey! Through their work they hope to find a place where art can once again heal & save lives. They are thankful for all people who believe in love, peace & the power of art