MilkMilkLemonade. A play about gay children, a parasitic twin, an antagonistic grandmother, a depressed chicken, and our growing bodies. Bring the kids! (Note: not appropriate for actual children)

Written by Joshua Conkel, Directed by Isaac Butler

Performed by Jess Barbagallo, Nikole Beckwith, Michael Cyril Creighton*, Jennifer Harder, and Andy Phelan*

September 10-26, 2009, our fifth production with Horse Trade Theater Group.

(Read our reviews)

Image by Ashley Alexander - I'm Smitten

Caitlin and the Swan told the story of a frustrated SAT tutor, her animal-loving friends, and their powerful attractions to the forbidden. Inspired by the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, this play explored feminism, bestiality, and the twisted links between pain and love.

Written by Dorothy Fortenberry, Directed by Joshua Conkel, April 16-May 2 2009, our fourth production with Horse Trade Theater Group.

Equity approved showcase featuring Jake Aron, Brian Robert Burns*, Elliott Reiland, Marguerite French*, Shetal Shah*, and Teresa Stephenson *appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity

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The Scandal! was The Management's second full production as Resident Artists with Horse Trade Theater Group. A one-woman show produced in December 2008 at Red Room in NY, it then traveled to Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia for a short run. The Sandal! has been nominated for a 2009 NYIT Award! Outstanding Short Script - Kristen Kosmas.

A small town gal, Pink, has devised the perfect, poetic suicide plan.  Her journey is complicated by a distant mother, a judgmental entourage, the ghost of her father, and a mysterious newcomer. In a world so small, everyone is hungry for a scandal.

Written by Kristen Kosmas, Directed by Courtney Sale, Performed by Amy Patrice Golden, Stage Managed by Kelsi Welter (Read our reviews)

2008 was a big year for The Chalk Boy. It was produced in the Capital Fringe Festival in the summer and then simultaneously on both coasts Sept-Oct.

Beneath its boring façade a Northwest town hides a nasty secret, and the girls from the local high school’s Christian Athletes Club are here to tell you all about it.  Murder, the occult, Algebra… this is a deathly black comedy that punches as hard as your high school bully.  (Read our reviews)

The New York cast featured Mary Catherine Donnelly*, Marguerite French*, Jennifer Harder, and Kate Huisentruit.

This was The Management's first full production as Resident Artists with Horse Trade Group

The Los Angeles cast featured Claire Bocking, Sonora Chase, Amy Patrice Golden, and Sarah Rosenberg. Click for their website with more info, for the trailer, for a dedicated youtube channel, and for a radio interview with the cast.

This was The Management West's first full production with A Company of Angels.

The Chalk Boy: a deathly black comedy about measuring your own worth by comparing it to everyone else’s. Sparks fly when four teenage girls in small town Washington begin to obsess over the mysterious disappearance of the most popular boy in school. Witchcraft, murder, and shopping ensue as the girls draw a ghostly picture of American culture and its values.

This was produced as a reading at the 14th St. Y in Spring '07 and then workshopped as part of collectiveP.A.S.T @ chashama in Summer '07.

Writer/Director: Joshua Conkel
Actors: Mallery Avidon, Mary Catherine Donnelly,Amy Patrice Golden, Jennifer Harder, Courtney Sale, Katherine E. Scharhon

Self-Obsession in Blue: When a 1972 Pinto breaks down in the desert, a disgruntled waitress and her wide-eyed companion grapple with life's big questions. A deliciously dark, all-female retelling of the great existential plays. Think Thelma and Louise meets Waiting for Godot...in the desert.

This was presented as a part of the inaugural Capital Fringe Festival.

Writer: Kelleen Conway Greenfield

Director: Joshua Conkel
Stage Manager: Courtney Sale
Actors: Mary Catherine Donnelly, Jennifer Harder, Allison Moran
Producer: Amy Patrice Golden

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The Long Christmas Dinner, by Thornton Wilder, was the Management Company’s second production at Victory Hall.

The play was chosen for its simplicity, beauty, and wondrous and familiar imagery: What is more intimate than a family at a holiday dinner table? If we could capture those evenings for ourselves, in our own lives, and see them laid out from generation to generation, what would we see about our own families, our own choices.

Photo from Left: Gregory Gray, Karen Thornton, Mike Lavoie, Amy Patrice Golden, Johanna Weller-Fahy, Asta Hansen* from the Jersey Journal

Drink Me, written by Mary Fengar Gail, was produced as a reading at Victory Hall.

When Detective Chief Inspector Fossmire takes on a mysterious case of mass homicide, he hears from a distraught anthropologist who claims that her triplets are responsible. The three eerie Rime sisters live in seclusion, worshipping goddesses and speaking only arcane English. They soon unravel Fossmire's sense of reality, as he races to discover the sinister ambitions of the sisters' witchcraft...

Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls was our inagural production during our residency at Victory Hall in Jersey City and ran July 14-31, 2005 .

Aloha Say the Pretty Girls by Naomi Iizuka takes a quirky, wildly imaginative look at how people enter and leave each other's lives as they search for a family or a tribe. Crossing paths and sometimes colliding, a cast of waylaid strangers and friends struggles to evolve into grown-up versions of themselves. A fantastical picaresque featuring a komodo dragon, a hula dancer, an Incan mummy, many piñatas, and one wild dog

Here's what Peter Filichia of the Star-Ledger said about it!

Our first production, This Jungle of Cities, was presented as part of the UnConvention of 2004. The Management's founder, Berrian Eno-VanFleet, wrote and directed this dark, seedy, other-worldly rumination on patriotism, greedy isolation, and searching for meaning in a crumbling metropolis. Inspired by Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities.

Here's what Nicholas Seeley of Off-Off-Online said about it