Sweet Noise Festival: Fall 2026
Join us for readings by members of our Women’s Work Full-Length LAB.
At New perspectives studio
458 West 37 St., New York, New York 10018
Friday, November 13:
Simon by Christine Benvenuto, directed by Melody Brooks, 7:00pm
At home in the murky spaces of Jewish noir, Simon always has a story for his longtime friend Vida—usually about the younger women he dates and photographs. But, when a teenage girl is murdered, Simon’s obsession with youth appears less benign, especially to the detective investigating the crime.
Christine Benvenuto’s plays have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Western Massachusetts, Alaska, Atlanta, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, via podcast and online. Plays and monologues have been published in anthologies such as The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2024, and The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2025 will include a monologue from her play A Female Variety of Suffering, written and developed as a member of New Perspectives Theatre's Women's Work Short Play Lab. She is the author of two books from St. Martin’s Press and her short stories and essays have appeared in many magazines, newspapers and anthologies.
Saturday, November 14
WORKSHOP TBA
Doňa Q by Teresa Mella Fogel, directed by Jenny Greeman, 3:00 PM
When she loses her grasp on reality after a tragic accident, Doña Q sets out to right the wrongs of the modern world with a toy sword, makeshift armor, and an unshakable belief in her quest. With a young Sancho by her side, she finds purpose in healing a struggling neighborhood-a journey that will lead her back to herself.
Teresa Mella Fogel is a published Playwright living in Old Saybrook, CT. A founding member of Shoreline Playwrights, a Connecticut group that has presented readings and productions in local theatres. In 2025 she joined the Women’s Short Play Lab at New Perspective Theatre in New York City. As part of the lab her short play, “Bargaining Chip” was performed over a week in August 2025. Teresa is expanding “Bargaining Chip” and hopes to work with the same cast and director. Her full length, “Knock!Knock! was a semi-finalist at the Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival. “Speed Dating”, was a winner of ICWP’s 3-minute play competition. “Wedding Day Blues”, was produced at Theatre Artists Workshop New play festival. “Looking for Juliet” was published in the Drama Notebook. Teresa is a member of several organizations including, The Dramatists Guild, PWC, International Center for Women Playwrights, Honor Roll and the CT Theatre Women’s Network.
All is Well at 37th Place by Anel Carmona, directed by Liadin Stewart, 7:30pm
All is disastrous in a condo taken over by a board president whose political views cause increasingly outrageous rules and fines. When the residents finally decide to rebel, they realize that by turning a blind eye to small injustices over time, they have invited a dictatorship into their own home.
Anel Carmona is a multidisciplinary Theatre Artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, based in New York City. Whether as an actor, playwright, or director, she has participated in dozens of plays across North America. Anel is the author of plays such as Adios Fjord (Off-Broadway, Theater at Gibney), Between Iron Doors (New Perspectives Theatre), Ice Cream Fro-Yo (Hudson Guild Theater), and Chocolate en la Estación (Teatro Jaime Torres Bodet). In 2020 her COVID-19-themed play A Seis Pies de Distancia had video productions in Tabasco, Mexico, and Alberta, Canada. In 2021 she was a recipient of City Artists Corp Grants which allowed her to produce the first immersive reading of her play Green Mist. She has also had the pleasure of directing the plays Playing Possum, and The Questioning, both produced by Rising Sun Performance Company. Her favorite acting credits include THE ROOM of Falsehood with CAGE Theatre Company (Broadway World nomination), Tales of the White Diamond Mountain (RSPC), Pop Up: An Artistic Adventure (Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble), and Ti Jean and his Brothers (MA's Playhouse).
Anel holds an MFA in Playwriting from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and is an active member of the Playwrights and Directors Workshop at the Actors Studio, and The Dramatists Guild of America. www.anelcarmona.com IG:@carmonaanel
Sunday, November 15
Last Transit of Venus by Lynn Marie Macy, directed by Kathy Curtiss, 3:00pm
An astronomer in love with the stars is brutally brought down to earth by avenging Furies (doubling as a girl band!), forcing her to become the hero she was meant to be.
LYNN MARIE macy– Recent: Sister Resisters, (Luna Stage Short Play & Equity Library Theater Festivals), Three Seasons NJ 1 Minute Play Festival, Lady Susan, A Jane Austen Bodice Ripper (Reading, Theater 2020), Doubt & Deliberation (Reading, Theater for the New City), script commissioned by JASNA. Productions: Northanger Abbey, A Romantic Gothic Comedy (Distilled Spirits, Blue Room Theatre & Theater Ten Ten, published by New York Theatre Experience in Playing with Canons, Explosive New Works From Great Literature); Innocent Diversions, A Christmas Entertainment with Jane Austen & Friends(Distilled Spirits, Theater Ten Ten), A Thousand Merry Conceits, A Private Audience with Nell Gwyn (Theater Ten Ten, Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe), Crunching Numbers (Distilled Spirits, published in Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium), and a translation of Schiller’s Intrigue & Love (Jean Cocteau Repertory). Macy is Resident Playwright at Theater 2020 and a Member of the Dramatists’ Guild. She wrote The Color of Justice for the 2018 festival, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, which has been subsequently produced in New Jersey and Louisiana festivals. Her new full-length, The Last Transit of Venus, is in progress in the LAB.
The Grimm Sister by Patricia Lynn, directed by Christine Cirker, 7:00pm
Facing the end of her life, Charlotte Grimm imagines the fairy tales her famous brothers might have written if they had given a voice to the over-looked mothers in them. In a forest of her own creation, she gives those women a chance to tell their stories and wrestles with the sacrifices, doubts, and joys of motherhood.
Patricia Lynn (she/her) is a NYC-based playwright who fancies herself to be a gothic feminist; she loves to subvert the classic genre by creating new provocative plays inspired by traditional gothic stereotypes. She also creates modern-day adaptations of iconic gothic novels. Her plays have been developed at Triad Stage, New Perspectives Theatre Company, The Secret Theatre, A.R.T./New York Theatres, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Rogue Theater Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and Elephant Room Productions. Recently, Patricia won the 2025 Emerging Playwrights’ Award at the Phillips’ Mill Community Association. Patricia holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and a MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Repertory. www.patriciamlynn.com
