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DUAF returns for its 25th season! Click the link in bio for submission details

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🎭 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! 🎭

The Downtown Urban Arts Festival is celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season in 2027 and we want to hear from playwrights!

We are now accepting short and full-length works for our festival taking place June 14-27 at Theatre Row in NYC.

📅Submission Deadline: October 26,2026

Have a story you’re ready to bring to the stage? Submit your work through our website www.duafnyc.com. Click the link in bio for submission guidelines and to apply.

#DUAF2027 #Playwrights #NYCTheatre #newwork #Theatre by @duafnyc

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A couple photos from our final week of performances!

1. Whiskey, Hope, and the Climate Clock
2. Sing Truth to Power
3. Lo siento, mi español es tremendo mal
4. An Audit at the Funeral Parlor

Congrats to all the playwrights, directors and performers on a wonderful festival and thank you to La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club for taking us in for a few weeks! Until next year! #Duaf26 #Theatre #NYCTheatre #newwork taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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4 months ago

‼️This Weekend‼️

Grammy-nominated poet Kevin Powell premieres an excerpt of his forthcoming choreopoem, GROCERY SHOPPING WITH MY MOTHER. The excerpt is titled "my father could not read or write" and will be performed by Kevin with live music. Coinciding with both Juneteenth and Father's Day Weekend, the two performances, directed by Tyneshia Hill, explore fatherhood, abandonment, mental health, healing, and the many meanings of freedom.

Join us at La MaMa Theatre this Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm! Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork #Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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4 months ago

A couple of photos from last week’s performances:

1. A Lesson in Captivity
2. Gin & Milk
3. Black Commie Bitch
4. The Trial of Lucy Gunns
5. The Deep Play
6. Desert Flowers

Congratulations to all and their stellar performances! #Duaf26 #Theatre #NYCTheatre #NewWork taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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4 months ago

‼️Next Thursday‼️

Estrella works at the family funeral parlor with her Mom, Dad, and Grandfather. When a surprise audit sends the patriarch to an early grave, deep family secrets make themselves known in hilarious and terrifying ways.

Join us next Thursday at 7:30pm at La MaMa Theatre for AN AUDIT AT THE FUNERAL by Alexander Perez. Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork #Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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‼️Next Thursday‼️

Family, Faith, and Flan.Three of the defining features of Hispanic Culture, but can you participate when you don't even speak the language?

Join us next Thursday at 7:30pm at La MaMa Theatre for LO SIENTO, MI ESPAÑOL ES TREMENDO MAL by Brandon Urrutia. Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork #Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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A couple of photos from the performances last night at La MaMa Theatre. Congrats to the teams of 40 Seconds and Agon! #DUAF26 #Theatre #NYCTheatre #NewWork taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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4 months ago

‼️Next Wednesday‼️

A KPOP star who sings anthems against an evil dictator learns the devastating truth that she has been unwittingly complicit in his tyranny. What do you do when your art is being co-opted?

Join us next Wednesday at 7:30pm at La MaMa Theatre for SING TRUTH TO POWER by Howard Ho. Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork #Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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‼️Next Wednesday‼️

Hope sits alone, watching the Climate Clock in Union Square tick down to zero. As an ‘End of the World Party’ rages on behind her, someone she would usually ignore sits beside her. They discuss the beauty of the past, anxieties of the present and their fear of the future.

Join us next Wednesday at 7:30pm at La MaMa Theatre for WHISKEY, HOPE, AND THE CLIMATE CLOCK by Marissa Raine Carlin (Book, Music, & Lyrics) & Carter Quinn Tanis (Book & Music). Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork #Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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‼️THIS Saturday‼️

A Black, Queer female soldier becomes the lone survivor of a terrible car accident. While burying her grief, she is deployed to Iraq in 2003, and suffers from dangerous encounters.

Join us at La MaMa Theatre at 7:30pm for Desert Flowers by GOODW.Y.N.! Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork #Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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‼️THIS Saturday‼️

Join us at La MaMa Theatre at 7:30pm for The Deep Play by Cece Suazo!

Set in 1980s Brooklyn, this powerful dramedy follows 12-year-old Eduardo Garcia as he navigates the fragile boundaries of a Honduran family. When secrets of gender and trauma threaten to surface, the family must choose between devastation and unity. It is a universal story of survival, unmasking truth, and love.

Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork#Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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‼️THIS Friday‼️

Join us at La MaMa Theatre at 7:30pm for The Trial of Lucy Gunns by Joy!

This is a one woman show about the cannibalistic effects of generational abuse. It deals with themes of loss, and loneliness which are also probable causes for Lucy’s insanity. Lucy isn’t a woman of many words until she drinks a glass of Pot Liquor, straight, no cornbread.

Tickets available on duafnyc.com #DUAF26 #NycTheatre #newwork#Theatre taken in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club by @duafnyc

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