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A simple girl, tormented by bullies, receives a divine visitation.  When her angel tells her she can stand up to her tormentors, she does.  What will happen when he tells her she can control the world?

Workshop production - Two weeks only!

 

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10th Anniversary Benefit EXTRAVAGANZA!

This year Dysfunctional Theatre is 10 years old! To celebrate we've designed a special, one-of-a-kind event featuring the best moments of shows spanning all our years together. Dysfunctional members new and old will be taking the stage to create an unforgettable evening of entertainment that promises to be purely, totally, absolutely Dysfunctional.


STARRING: Rob Brown ~ Bob Curran ~ Jennifer Gill ~ Steve Orlikowski ~ Amy Overman ~ Justin Plowman ~ Ken Simon ~ Peter Schuyler ~ Rick Vorndran

 

Three women.
Two Conversations.
One Murder.

A grieving mother holds her daughter's murderer at gunpoint.  What would you do?  And in our world today, who would blame her?  No matter where the truth lies, there are always shades of gray beneath an Orange Murder Suit.

Ran in the debut FRIGID New York.
March, 2007

Orange Murder Suit

 

Winter 2006

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Dysfunctional Theatre, The John Montgomery Theatre Company and Horse Trade present the World Premiere of BITE. This new comedy of dentistry and domination is written and directed by Suzanne Bachner , author of the Off-Broadway hit Circle.

 

Winter 2005

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Bite

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A Dark Comedy of Dentistry and Domination.

 

July 2004

Real Live Sex On Stage
December 2001

Press Highlights
Review on NYtheatre.com

I Am Star Trek
(Ran in SF, the Sci-Fi Event)
October 2001

PRESS HIGHLIGHTS:
New York Times Listing
 Time Out NY Listing

 

The Dysfunctional Theatre Company was founded in 1997 by artistic director Paul Wells. A director and playwright who had relocated to New York City after many years in regional community and experimental theater, Wells established a collective dedicated to producing light-hearted yet political work that challenges the status quo without taking itself too seriously. The company officially incorporated in 1998, achieving non-profit status in early 1999.

A driving force behind Dysfunctional Theatre is our desire to reach and influence people that have had little or no exposure to theater, or those
that have written it off as "dull and old-fashioned".
Dysfunctional does this by...
(1) producing fast-paced, pop culture-based shows
(2) developingintelligent, complex yet generally comedic scripts
(3) making our showseasily accessible by setting ticket prices low (generally $10 to $15, oraround the price of a movie ticket)
(4) experimenting with structure of theater, often incorporating elements of film, television andpopular music in order to give novice theatergoers multiple points of reference

Hoover: A Love Story was Dysfunctional's 21st and latest production Otherrecent productions include Please Please Please Love Me (by Rick Vorndran);Untitled Farce (by Matt Grzybowski); Whispers in the Wood (by AndrewShepherd); Come Back to the 7/11, Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley; Real Live Sex On Stage; and Vampire Stewardesses From Hell!! (by Paul Wells). Dysfunctional has also produced a staging of Dario Fo's We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay, directed by Robert Mooney; I Am Star Trek, How to Have the Ultimate Orgasm Each and Every Time and Control Freaks In Love (by Rick Vorndran); Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery by Sir John Wilmot, and other plays by Paul Wells, including Il Duce: The Rudy Guiliani Story, Mr. Rogers Y2K, Alien Sex Cult Clones Madonna! and Princess Di's Brain Kept Alive in Graceland!