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Save the Date!

Our Time Theatre Company’s 7th Annual Benefit Gala
Capturing History, Celebrating Dreams

Monday, April 13, 2009

7:00pm Performance followed by dinner and auction

Skirball Center for the Performing Arts & Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU

This event will celebrate the achievements of world renowned photographer Howard L. Bingham, and the hopes, dreams, and voices of the youth of Our Time.

Howard L. Bingham (Photo by Douglas Kirkland)

Please join us for a one-night event paying tribute to the personal photo-biographer of Muhammad Ali. Mr. Bingham’s work has been published in magazines and periodicals, including: Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, People, Ebony, and others.

The evening will feature an original performance written by the young people of Our Time.

Participating Artists
(scheduled to appear as of February 11, 2009)

Lauren Ambrose, Talia Balsam, David Alan Basche, Michael Cerveris, Maddie Corman, Nadia Dajani, Ned Eisenberg, Dominic Fumusa, Lauren Graham, Kate Jennings Grant, Kathryn Grody, Gregory Allen Howard, Adriane Lenox, Ilana Levine, Tiffany McElroy, Matthew Modine, Kelli O’Hara, John Oliver, Rosie Perez, Alysia Reiner, Ron Rifkin, Alice Ripley, Ken Roberson, Ramon Rodriguez, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Amy Ryan, Ed Sherin, John Slattery, Fisher Stevens, Mary Testa, Callie Thorne, Jeffrey Wright, Cast members from Spring Awakening & the Youth of Our Time

For more information or reservations, please contact us by:

Telephone: (212) 414-9696
E-mail: gala2009@ourtimetheatre.org
Or visit our Gala Web Page.

Everett Bradley and President Barack Obama

Tonight, Everett Bradley, Our Time's Musical Director, will be performing in front of President Barack Obama with Jon Bon Jovi at the Commander-in-Chief Ball.

Congratulations Everett! We know you will rock the house and have a great time doing it. If you get a chance, would you mind sharing this poem with the President ... it was written by Our Time Alumni Jonathan Greig about a year before Barack Obama began running for President:

Who says I can’t write a play
Who says I can’t be a valedictorian
Who says I can’t build an airplane or be an astronaut
Who says I can’t act in a play
Who says I can’t make tons of friends
Who says I can’t be President
They may say it
But I don’t
Because I know I can

What will you be doing tonight?

What a Weekend!

The cast of Mendacity, written & directed by Edward: (from l-r) Noah Cornman, Emily Whyte, Edward, Keira Naughton, and Carl Danielsen

The one and only Keira Naughton

Wow! What a weekend it was for Our Time! We just completed three successful performances of One-Act Plays at the beautiful Cherry Lane Theatre, written and directed by three teens who stutter: Danielle, Tom, and Edward. It was a spectacular weekend of art, theater, courage, music, celebration, and love. A huge congratulations to our three writer/directors and an enormous THANK YOU to everyone involved in the production, we could not have done it without ya!

And of course, THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES to everyone who attended the shows. It was wonderful to perform to three packed houses.

We hope you enjoy the fun photos above from the amazing and ever-talented Our Time volunteer Ryan Millager.

Please check back soon for more cool posts about the One-Acts.

PS - What was your favorite moment from this past weekend?

Remembering a Breakthrough Moment

Ned and Taro enjoying a rainy moment at Camp Our Time, 2008

Our Time company members experience breakthrough moments all the time, and we're proud of their ever-growing bravery, strength, and confidence in themselves.

Last year, Teen member Ned began to confront his phobia of the rain by writing a beautiful, moving one-act play called "Anxiety" that was performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Then, almost one year later, Ned squashed his remaining fears by standing arms open with a big smile on his face in the pouring rain at Camp Our Time. In the photo above, you can just see the pride in Taro's face during this magical moment of personal breakthrough.