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Briar Hall
A high-powered CEO refuses to honor her parents’ will, requiring her to live in the family home.
The Players Theatre Committee presented Briar Hall in their inaugural Playwrights Take the Stage event. November 30, 2018. At The Players in Gramercy Park, NYC. Directed by: Nichole Donjé. Cast: Katie Braden, Joscelyne Wilmouth, Dale Duko, Ruth Nerken, Thomas Anawalt, and Roberto Alexander
Concert Reading- The Town Players of New Canaan, CT. Stage II. Directed by Frank S. Petrilli, September 2017
William Blake’s Sconfitta
Between Heaven and Hell - The Trial of William Blake
Creative Director - Jim Lawson. Featured Cast: Bill McMahon, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Michael Selkirk, Tandy Cronyn, Brock Yurich, Nicholas Wuehrmann, Kristen Lowman, Jeffrey Hardy, Nat Cassidy, John Watts, and William Sturek.
Semi-Finalist - out of 1,500 submissions at the 2016 National Playwrights Conference
Admitted to Kenyon Playwrights’ Conference in Gambier, Ohio, June 2016
Concert Reading - The Players Club 2013
Concert Reading - The Society of Illustrators 2015
Illustration Romolo Tavani
Camp Hoshi
In a prisoner of war camp, two men made enemies by time and place, face certain death.
Readings - The Players Club. Cast: Freddie Isozaki, Pun Bandhu, Dai Ishiguro, Max Rhyser, and Bill McMahon 2014
Finalist - one of 24 finalists out of 1,300 submissions for The Lark Theatre’s Playwrights’ Week Program in 2015
Detail from Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus
The Burning of Botticelli
Botticelli, the famed Renaissance painter, flourishes in Florence as a favored son of the Medici family.
Developmental Readings - The Players Club. Cast: Jason Howard, Evan Hall, Nat Cassidy, Joseph Thompson, Nicholas Wuehrmann, Jeffrey Grover, Esther Van Zyl, Bill McMahon, and VIncent Marano, April 2016
Hiram Powers’ The Greek Slave, The National Gallery of Art
Isola Femmina
A comedy with a death sentence!
Staged Reading at TheatreLab, The Artists Playground Theatre - TAPT, Cast: Jeffrey Hardy, Karin de la Penha*, Simone Harrison*, Nichole Donje’ Max Rhyser* Mike Hill, S. Brian Jones 2010
Staged Reading - The Players Club, in honor of Helen Hayes. Directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan. Cast: Annemette Anderson*, Nichole Donje’, Sarah Joyce, Peter Francis James*, Max Rhyser”, Pasha Pellosie, Ellyn Stein, Thanks to our generous sponsors and donors: Paula J. Capla, R & R Corporation, James Holden, The Pepsi Foundation, Kenneth Smith, Kathy McGowan, Kate Greer, Angela Astle, Shirley Proctor. and Jim Lawson. Mike Kelly for his amazing logo design. Showbiz Expo for their support & partnership. Los Arrieros our wonderful sponsor of this space. Our Artistic Team: Simone Harrison, Bill McMahon, Max Rhyser and Bonna Tek 2018
Concert Reading - Neighborhood Playhouse
Comcert Reading - Manhattan Theatre Source
Family Time
Siblings confront the past. Will they be able to find common ground?
Concert Reading - Neighborhood Playhouse
Concert Reading - Manhattan Theatre Source - Directed by Leslie Cloniger. Cast: Michael Kaplan*, Valerie O’Hara and Kate Sessions 2007
Production - Estrogenius Festival! Yaco’s Family Time, was “The winner for most grounded in reality, Family Time is my personal favorite of this week's series…. Yaco writes some wonderful, witty banter that comes alive” …Talkin’ Broadway…Theatre Reviews by Cindy Pierre.
December
A desperate patient threatens a nurse’s life. Can she save him and herself?
Finalist - Manhattan Theatre Source’s Estrogenius Festival
Concert Reading - The Neighborhood Playhouse for Mortality - a festival of Works-in-Progress. Directed by Alan Fine. Cast: Michael Locasio and Lisa Barnes* 2003
Production - Manhattan Theatre Source- Ingenius Festival- Voices from the Writer’s Forum. Directed by Carly Hirschberg. Cast: Victoria Budonis, Anthony Spaldo 2009
Reading - “Hastings Local,” Featuring-Faith Prince (Tony) and Chris Murney, (Emmy), Hastings on-Hudson, New York, Library Benefit 2003
ABBESS
In 1270 France, a powerful Abbess confronts her past and her desires.
Staged Reading -Tribeca Film Center, Glenn Paris, Directing Producer for the Native Coast, a new theatre company. Cast: Jack Wetherall, Ellen Barber, Gordon Joseph Weiss, Glenn Berman, Louis Moreno, Elizabeth English, Cordis Heard 1999
Staged Reading - The Neighborhood Playhouse. Steven Ditmyer, Director. Cast: Tamara Flannagan*, David Mazzeo*, George Spavetna*, Margo White*, Jason Kuschner*, and Jamie Bennett*
No Room
The emergency room is full.
Staged Reading - Manhattan Theatre Source, Impromptu Reading Series. Artistic Director James Lawson. Cast: Ridley Parson and Nichole Donje’
Harold and Kitty
He’s dying and can’t let go.
Produced at Fleetwood Stage, Lewis Arlt, Producing Director, directed by Gerald Anthony. Cast: Nina Rutsch, Leland Williams, John Clark, Alyce Lowe 1998
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*Courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Yaco’s plays are listed in the New Play Exchange