2023 PAAL Summit
December 7-10, 2023
PAAL
2023 SolFest
August 27-31, 2023
The Sol Project
Sol + NSP Community Event—El Huracán
2022 PAAL Summit
Join us for our annual international gathering (virtual & hybrid: NYC + Various) around Creating a Culture of Care in the Performing Arts - and this year, our inaugural PAAL Gala, honoring Shanta Thake and featuring extraordinary talent!
2022 SolFest
August 7-10, 2022
The Sol Project
2022 Reel Families for Change Work-Life Sustainability Summit
June 22, 2022
2022 NNR Reading Series
2021 PAAL Summit
December 1-3, 2022
PAAL
F.I.R.E.
By Julia
Directed by Heather Arnson
September 30-October 20
New Normal Rep
LIVE Happy Hour Q+A! September 30
2021 SolFest
September 19-23, 2021
SolFest: A Latinx Theater Festival
Produced by The Sol Project, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT), Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, and North Star Projects, and in collaboration with La Gente. 
Lines in the Dust
By Nikkole Salter
Directed by Awoye Timpo
July 8-August 8
New Normal Rep
LIVE Happy Hour Q+A! July 8
Two Sisters and a Piano
By Nilo Cruz
Directed by Nilo Cruz
April 21-May 23
New Normal Rep
LIVE Happy Hour Q+A! April 21
Jericho
By Jack Canfora
Directed by Marsha Mason
March 4-April 4
New Normal Rep
LIVE Happy Hour Q+A! March 4
2020 SolFest
August 3-5, 2020

PAAL Summit 2023!

See below an instructional video from a past summit year of where to enter your promo codes for the PAAL Summit!

DISCOUNT CODES:
BIPOCorg
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UNDER50K21
This code is for organizations with the annual income under $50,000 (from $350 to $150 per ticket. Each ticket admits 2 individuals within that organization)

INDIVIDUALSUPPORT
This code is for individuals who want to engage with the summit but do not have the support of an organization. (from $350 to $50 per ticket. Each ticket admits 1 individual)

FULLSUPPORT
This code is for organizations or individuals who want to engage with the summit but have experienced such severe financial hardship that no means are available for them to attend. This code creates access at this point. (from $350 to $0 per ticket. Each ticket admits 2 org individuals or 1 individual engaging solo.)

OPENING NIGHT! FREE POST SHOW EVENT!
Was Live on April 21, 2021
9:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. CT / 7:30 p.m. MT / 6:30 p.m. PT

The Speakeasy Virtual Happy Hour Q & A | Two Sisters and a Piano

Join us for a toast on Opening Night!

Facilitated by Adriana Gaviria, North Star Projects
Guests: Jimmy Smits, Florencia Lozano, Daphne Ruben-Vega, Gary Perez, Jack Canfora and more!

North Star Projects is excited to partner with New Normal Rep for this evening's special event!

Step inside THE SPEAKEASY: A Virtual Happy Hour Q & A where you can ask questions and mingle with the cast and creative team of TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO, New Normal Rep's second show of its inaugural season, as they celebrate the show's launch.

For tickets to watch Two Sisters and a Piano before THE SPEAKEASY Q & A, visit www.newnormalrep.org​.

A recording of THE SPEAKEASY Q & A will be available to NNR PATRON PASSHOLDERS on the password-protected PATRON PASSHOLDERS ONLY page at a later date. 

For Patron Pass information, visit the Patron Pass page.

#newnormalrep​ #virtualevents​ #meetthecast​ #artsandculture​ #LatinXcellence​ #theater​ #freeevents​

Lines in the Dust
Was Live on July 8, 2021

9:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. CT / 7:30 p.m. MT / 6:30 p.m. PT

The Speakeasy Virtual Happy Hour Q & A | Lines in the Dust

#newnormalrep #virtualevents #meetthecast #artsandculture #freeevents

New Normal Rep's
THE SPEAKEASY:
A Virtual Happy Hour Q+A
Sep 30 at 9:30 p.m. ET

 Join us for Opening Night of F.I.R.E., the last show of NNR's 2021 season!

About the Play

Justin needs a father and David needs a son. They are both stuck in old habits, hard feelings, and have been stuck there so long they don't even realize it. Sometimes it takes a perfect stranger to teach you things about yourself that you never even knew. Join these men through laughter, tears, and every emotion in between as they unknowingly catapult toward a shocking revelation. This two-character play is a tense ride as two strangers who meet, for what is only to be a brief encounter, get more out of their time together than either could ever have imagined. Borrowed explores the universal and haunting themes of fathers, sons, love, loss, and, ultimately, forgiveness. Guests will receive an email with the link to watch the virtual reading online from the comfort of their home.
Streaming VOD will also be available after the October 22 live event until October 29!

Rene Lavan

DAVID

Tim Creavin

JUSTIN
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CAST

BORROWED | IN CONVERSATION

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Jim Kierstead

PLAYWRIGHT

Conor Bagley

DIRECTOR
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JOIN US

Join us for a virtual reading of Borrowed on October 22 at 6:30 p.m. followed by a post show panel moderated by North Star Projects Founder and Producing Artistic Director Adriana Gaviria at 8:15 p.m.


In Collaboration With:
3FEO Entertainment
Broadway Virtual
The Humanity Project

Bob Knotts

Founder and President, The Humanity Project

A portion of proceeds of Borrowed will go to benefit Humanity Project programs. Come learn about The Humanity Project during the post show panel!
www.thehumanityproject.com

Adriana Gaviria

Moderator

BORROWED CREATIVE TEAM

Thank you for supporting our project!
The cast and team behind the “Borrowed” reading consists of: (top, left to right) actor Rene Lavan, producer Adriana Gaviria and director Conor Bagley; (middle) actor Tim Creavin, producer William Fernandez and playwright Jim Kierstead; and (bottom) stage directions reader Natalie Cabo, technical director Asad Javed and virtual stage manager/assistant director Abbey Joan Burgess. Editing by Stone Circle Media. (Photo courtesy of Adriana Gaviria)
The Jenna & the Whale Benefit for North Star Projects and The Sol Project
Tuesday, June 30 at 5:30 p.m.
North Star Projects is thrilled to be partnering with Broadway Virtual for its first Virtual Gathering and Benefit during the COVID-19 pandemic to help support independent artists and theater organizations during this challenging time.
The Jenna & the Whale Team can't wait to see you on Tuesday, June 30 at 5:30 p.m.!
THE PLAY

Jenna & the Whale

By Vanessa Garcia and Jake Cline
Directed by Conor Bagley
Following a surfing accident off the coast of Dunes Beach, Florida, Jenna wakes to find herself in the company of a young man named Jonah. He tells her that they are inside the belly of a whale, that he has been here for three years and that there is no chance of escape. Jenna refuses to accept that, and she becomes determined to free them both. Meanwhile, as members of Jenna's hometown worry about her fate, an unexpected visitor arrives to challenge the bonds and beliefs of this already fractured community.

Written by Miami playwrights Vanessa Garcia (Amparo; Grace, Sponsored by Monteverde) and Jake Cline (Purple Hearts), Jenna & the Whale is about life, death and who we are in a community and as individuals. It’s about the things we see and what we can’t, the things we know and the things we grapple to understand.

Cast

Jenna
Dianne Garriga
Jonah
Gabriel Bonilla
Coco
Rebecca Jimenez
Stage Directions:
Orlando Mendez
Deputy Tyler
Melissa Ann Hubicsak
Lynn
Rachel Pickup*
Rita
Orlagh Cassidy*
* These actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.

Creative Team
Songs
Playwright: Vanessa Garcia
Playwright: Jake Cline
Director: Conor Bagley
Producer: Jim Kierstead
Producer: William Fernandez
Producer: Adriana Gaviria
Editor: Conor Bagley
“BRING HIM IN”
Lyrics by Vanessa Garcia
Music by Conor Bagley
Chords Arranged by Solon Snider
Performed by Dianne Garriga, Rebecca Jimenez, and Gabriel Bonilla

“MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE”
A traditional American folk song
Lyrics as performed by Harry Belafonte
Performed by Melissa Ann Hubicsak, Dianne Garriga, Rebecca Jimenez, Rachel Pickup, and Orlagh Cassidy

The Jenna & the Whale Creative Team

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS
AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS
SAG-AFTRA
through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.

CAST

Starring C.K. Allen, Jill Eikenberry, Eleanor Handley, Jason O’Connell, Michael Satow
& Carol Todd

About the Play

Several years after tragedy impacted their lives, a family comes together once again for Thanksgiving dinner. While family members struggle to come to terms with residual anger, grief and guilt, Jack Canfora’s thought-provoking play explores how people cope with personal and collective catastrophe. Displaying surprising humor and biting wit, this Jericho, Long Island clan exposes their desperate strategies for resolution and redemption. Jericho is a play about September 11. It is also a traumatic-Thanksgiving-dinner-with-the-family play and a play about being Jewish. Written late in the first decade of the 2000s, Canfora wrote Jericho as an inquiry into America's burgeoning tribalism. More than a decade later, Jericho’s themes of division remain timely in this humorous work that resolves into a meditation on the pains and satisfactions of living after a tragedy.
The cast and team of "Jericho" at the first rehearsal, before our green screens! (top, left to right) actor Michael Satow, assistant director and virtual technical director Adriana Gaviria and actor Jill Eikenberry; (middle) actor Eleanor Handley, actor Jason O'Connell and director Marsha Mason; and (bottom) writer and artistic director of NNR Jack Canfora, actor C.K. Allen and actor Carol Todd. Editing by Hiatt Woods. (Photo courtesy of Adriana Gaviria)

THE PAAL INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT HAS STARTED!

North Star Projects is the digital producer for this amazing caregivers summit,
and is producing the event on its very first Airmeet!