COMING SOON - Open Mike Poetry Event

An Afternoon of Open Mike Poetry

conducted by Leida Toro

Recite your own work or your favorites written by others. 

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 

4-6 pm 

UFT (Manhattan Building), 50 Broadway, 2nd fl

Recommended Event - One Performance Only!

The Instant Shakespeare Company's reading of The Merchant of Venice will be presented at the St. Agnes Branch of the New York Public Library, 444 Amsterdam Avenue (at 81st) on 

Saturday, June 13th at 1:00 P.M.  

       The entire three hour play from the Raw Shakespeare Pocket Edition of the First Folio will be performed.

 The Instant Shakespeare readings are set up to make Shakespeare accessible. The readings are usually done without rehearsal, but they are on-your-feet Instant staged readings where the readers/actors move around as much as they feel comfortable. Readers are encouraged to share with their fellow readers and the audience so that the plays can exist as words and thoughts communicated through space, not just words on the page. Follow The Instant Shakespeare Company on Facebook.

Recommended Event - Questions for Mothers from Daughters - in celebration of Mother's Day

UFT Player, Lee Schwartz will be reading her poem, Western Lullaby, in this Mother's Day poetry event curated by Jennifer Browdy of Bard College. The contest question was, "What question would you like to ask your mother?"

Click here for directions to the Sandisfield Art Center in Sandisfield, MA.

Open - Mike Poetry Event

Open Mike Poetry

 Friday, April 26th 

4-6PM 

UFT Building 

50 Broadway, Manhattan 

2nd fl. 

Read your own work or someone else's.

facilitators: Ilene Bauer & Tasha Paley

Video of Lee Schwartz Reading Her Poetry @ The Women of a Certain Age Event 3/2/13

Recommended Event - A Reading of Work by Women of a Certain Age

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Women of a Certain Age
Reading hosted by Sonia Pilcer, with Allyson Dinneen, Barbara Janoff, Susie Kaufman, Ellen Meeropol, and Lee Schwartz (UFT Players Executive Board member)

Mason Library, Great Barrington, MA 1–3 p.m.

Perhaps age and experience give us the courage to express things we kept under wraps when we were younger. Certainly our writing skills improve with time, as does the desire to say the unsaid. Come and hear a group of older women writers share their passions and what they know. There will be a discussion and Q&A afterward. Come and join the dialogue.

Auditions for Actors - November 19th & 20th

Auditions for the upcoming Original One-Act Plays Festival (to take place on December 6th & 7th) will be held on Monday November 19th and Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 at the UFT building in Manhattan (50 Broadway, 2nd floor) from 4-6PM. Audition material will be provided.  For further information: email Milton Polsky @ polskyspen@aol.com

Audition Notice!

The UFT Players will hold auditions for actors for the final installment of this season's Original One-Act Play Festival (Series C) on Monday, December 5, 2011 from 4-6PM @ the Manhattan UFT building (50 Broadway, 2nd floor). The performance (a staged reading) will be held on December 15th. For more information, contact Milton Polsky @ polskyspen@aol.com

Poetry Reading

Lee Schwartz, member of the UFT Players Executive Board, will be reading her prize winning (Allen Ginsberg Contest 2011) poem, "When Did You Decide to be Straight?" at the Hamilton Club of Passaic Community College in Patersen, NJ

on Saturday, Nov 7th at 1:00PM. Admission and parking are free & refreshments will be served.

Get travel directions here.

Original Plays Festival Wrap-Up (for now!)

The first two installments of this season's Original Plays Festival, which took place on October 14th & 20th, were a resounding success...with both the audiences and the playwrights who valued the opportunity to discuss the artistic "process" during the talk-back sessions at the end of each evening's readings. There will be an additional night (Series C) of new original plays read in December.

(photos from October 20th performance)

April is National Poetry Month

Celebrate with the UFT Players at our open-mike poetry event!

Spring forth O Ye Poets!
Share springtime mirth, merriment, romance and renewal

facilitated by Ilene Bauer & Tasha Paley

Friday, April 29, 2011 from 4-6PM
UFT @ 50 Broadway (Manhattan) 2nd fl

Read your own work or someone else's!