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SHE TAKES FLIGHT is a newly devised theatrical production that delves into the personal experiences of five women, aged from their late 40s to late 60s, navigating the complexities of mid-life in New York City in 2025. The play explores themes of womanhood, empowerment, and identity through a series of poignant monologues and ensemble scenes. It candidly addresses challenges such as coping with aging and body image, caring for aging parents, and evolving relationships with motherhood. Balancing humor and heartbreak, SHE TAKES FLIGHT offers narratives that reflect the diverse experiences of women at different life stages, giving it multi-generational appeal.

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The Road Back is the very personal story of Adina Taubman’s journey into and out of a severe depression 16 years ago. With humor and honesty, she tells the story of the experience that transformed her life for the better and led her down a road of discovery to a new, more enlightened sense of self.  This entertaining and timely play includes helpful strategies for managing depression and anxiety that will inspire anyone who has ever struggled with their mental health.

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Beauty in my brokenness

A Staged Reading

Beauty in My Brokenness is a devised play about mental health, weaving together the autobiographical stories of 5 women that was performed as a staged reading. Through scenes and monologues, the women share their struggles, as well as those of people they interviewed. The play is a powerful look at an important topic that we must bring into the light.

stop gun violence now theater festival

A four day festival honoring the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on the first anniversary with works of theater that include: “A Line in the Sand,” Adina Taubman's solo docudrama, based on interviews that she conducted in Littleton, Colorado in 1999 following the massacre at Columbine High School; “9MM America,” a docudrama written and performed by 10 young women and girls ages 12-21 who are part of the company, Girl Be Heard, based on their experiences with gun violence in New York City neighborhoods where it is a daily threat; “Bang Bang Your Dead,” William Mastrosimone's one-act play about a fictional school shooting performed by high school students in the Playground Theatre Project (Actors Playground School of Theatre) in New Jersey; 13 short plays from the collection, “24 Gun Control Plays” by some of America's best emerging playwrights and several new one acts written by members of Chrysalis Theatre Company.

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  • Philip Burke and Eden Marryshow in THE WAKE by Caridad Svich

  • James Fauvell and Katharine Lerner

  • Katharine Lerner in CHANGE by Elaine Avila

  • Morgan Nichols and Alecia Hill in SEE DICK AND JANE GET READY FOR SCHOOL

  • Mollie Collison and Jeff Pierce in THE NEXT TIME by Cecilia Copeland

  • Sadah Proctor in ORANGUTANS DON'T KILL by Winter Miller

  • Kristina Erickson in HAPPINESS by Chiori Miyagawa

  • Eden Marryshow, Sheree Campbell, Sadah Proctor, and Philip Burke in Excerpt from THE NATURE OF CAPTIVITY by Matthew Paul Olmos

  • Michael Dermansky, actor and playwright, THE RIVERDALE FRIENDS DISCOUNT CEMETERY

  • Young actors from The Playground Theatre Project perform BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD by William Mastrosimone

  • Audience members mingle in the lobby before a show

  • Co-Producer--James Fauvell

  • Q and A for BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD

  • Dominique Fishback, Jai Rafael, Betsy Perez, and Sophie Walker from GIRL BE HEARD, getting ready to perform 9MM AMERICA

  • Panelists from our discussion, "How to Prevent Violence in New York City and Other Urban Areas": (Left to right) Andrew Woods (Communities That Care--Hartford, CT), Jackie Rowe Adams, Harlem Mothers SAVE, Christopher Ryan (Manhattan DA's Office), Adina Taubman (moderator), Hakim Yamadi (Save Our Streets, South Bronx), and Jessica Morris (Girl Be Heard)

  • Adina Taubman, Jackie Rowe Adams, and Andrew Woods

  • Panelists from our discussion, "How to Create Theater for Social Change": (left to right) Zac Kline (Co-Editor of 24 GUN CONTROL PLAYS), Dana Greenfield (Creator/Director, THE SANDY HOOK THEATRE PROJECT), Megan Donovan (Artistic Director, Playground Theatre Project), Ralph Colombino (Co-Director, BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD), Adina Taubman (moderator), Dan Cooley (Co-Director, BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD), Ashley Marinaccio (Artistic Director, Girl Be Heard)

  • Zac Kline, Dana Greenfield, and Megan Donovan

  • Panelists from our discussion,"How to Take Legislative and Political Action": (left to right) Donna Dees Thomases (Creator, The Million Mom March on Mother's Day 2000), Leah Gunn Barrett (Executive Director, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence), Jamie Abelson (Organizing for Action, NY Chapter), Marie Delus (Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America--Greater NYC Chapter), Adina Taubman (Moderator), Po Murray (Executive Director, Newtown Action Alliance), April Tyler (Community Organizer), Wendy Syzmanski (Chapter Head, Moms Demand Action--Greater NYC Chapter)

  • Kim Russell (Moms Demand Action), Marie Delus, Po Murray, and April Tyler

  • Donna Dees Thomases and Leah Gunn Barrett

  • Adam Cohen performing "Imagine" at the tribute to the 26 victims of the Sandy Elementary School massacre on the first anniversary--December 14, 2013

  • Neil Heslin, father of 6 year-old, Jesse Lewis, speaks to the audience

  • Panelists from our discussion "How Survivors, Families, and Communities Recover from Gun Violence and Move Forward": Hakim Yamadi, Vilma Torres (Safe Horizon), and Neil Heslin

  • The second (and younger) cast from The Playground Theatre Project sitting on the stage during their post show Q and A

  • Giving themselves a hand

  • Panelists from our discussion, "How Parents and Kids Can Talk to Each Other About Gun Violence": (left to right) Anne Santa (Psychologist, The Bank Street School for Children), Adina Taubman, Dr. Robin Goodman, A Caring Hand Billy Esposito Foundation)

barking girl

How much of yourself do you have to give up when you become a mother? Will you lose the essence of your personality by putting another life ahead of yours? In Barking Girl Susan Bernfield brilliantly examines these questions. The play deals with the ambivalence many mothers feel but rarely talk about, which includes the difficulties of the sacrifices having a child brings, as well as the many joyful and rewarding experiences that are more obvious, yet sometimes harder to accept initially.


Adina Taubman delivers a stellar performance as Rae."
Ed Malin, NYtheatre.com

"This isolated mental world is portrayed to great effect by Carolyn Mraz’s stripped-down but still fantastical set, as well as the writing."

"Played with an acerbic bite by Adina Taubman."

"Rae’s husband Gil, a quintessentially perfect sitcom dad played by Max Arnaud."
Tamas Vilaghy, The New York Times Local East Village.

Adina Taubman provides an excellent portrayal of a woman struggling to hold onto her old identity."
"Susan Bernfield’s beautiful script provides so much for these actors to grasp onto."
Victoria Teague, New York Theatre Review

"Susan Bernfield’s play Barking Girl is a sweetly lyrical meditation on one woman’s experience of motherhood that takes a philosophical view of the many privations and rewards of procreation in New York."
Will Kenton, Cultural Capitol