House / Plant
Visit the home of one lucky family and one surprising house plant,
who happens to be a good listener,
in readings of
two short plays written by Nancy Greening:
Direct Sunlight
A Love Triangle Between a Man, a Woman,
and a Plant
&
I WANT MY HOUSE TO BE CLEAN LIKE YOURS
Friday
January 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm
A.R.T./New York
Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre
502 W 53rd Street
New York City
Playwright
Nancy Greening is a playwright whose plays have been performed on 2 sides of the Atlantic. In addition to the plays performed as House / Plant, Nancy’s plays include Light Reading in Pick-Up 6 at FringeNYC, Air Born at St. Joan Theatre Co. at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and The Book of Names at Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Octoberfest.
Nancy also directs, and she produced In the Words of Ed Kennebeck, a tribute to the late playwright Ed Kennebeck. She is a long-time student of the playwright Stuart Spencer, whose workshops inspire many of her plays.
For Concrete Timbre, Nancy has served as dramaturge and she adapted the short story 1776 by the author Leland Cheuk for the stage production 1776: A Fresh Start, at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, which is how she met the actor David Glover. (1776: A Fresh Start also included musical compositions by Ann Warren and Stephanie Greig.
For d’moiselles, sister group of Concrete Timbre, Nancy directed Trifles and 1905 Wife which featured her adaptation of an early 20th-century essay along with Susan Glaspell’s classic play.
Nancy is the proud aunt of Paige and Nora.
Actors
Maria Canas graduated from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. She was assistant director to award-winning filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, and has written and directed several short films. She has since performed in productions such as Medusa’s Bakery, Maria Canje, Carmen, Chic and Chambray; TV series such as Newcomers; and several theater productions. She also produced the short films Medusa’s Bakery, Undefeated, Bridecon and From Afar. In 2020-21 From Afar was selected by The Continental Film Festival, Miami Independent Film Festival and Medellin International Film Festival. In 2022 Medusa’s Bakery was selected by the Chelsea Film Festival.
David Glover is an actor, poet and director from Philadelphia. He is an artist drawn to telling needed stories; stories that challenge comfort, question vulnerability, and press at the potent roots of trauma and healing. He has worked professionally as an actor for over a decade and has toured nationally with 600 Highwaymen’s The Fever. He has performed off-broadway in a number of productions including an original work, In the Penal Colony at NYTW. He has a passion for history and new play development and has been at the forefront of a number of historical productions in New York and Philadelphia including the first revived production of The Escape; Or A leap for freedom, the first published play by an African American, the American premiere of; The View by Philip Rademeyer, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, for which he won a Barrymore Award, and the world premiere of Terrell Alvin McCranney’s The Brother Sister Plays trilogy. He has performed as a dancer with The HOW for five years. He has been the recipient of a Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant and a NY Artist Grant. He has served in the US Army and worked as a Public/Private School Teacher. His artistic body of work centers on identity, history, and home with a focus on the complex measures of Black life, love and liberation. His debut book of poetry, Beneath My Body Armor, will be released Spring 2023. He last worked with Nancy Greening on a production of her play 1776 at Old Stone House in Brooklyn.