News: Just in Time for New Years: "Rejects Anonymous" at Caveat NYC

Has 2024 left you feeling like a loser without any plans? Double D is here to help! Join them at Rejects Anonymous on Monday, December 30th at 7:00 PM at Caveat NYC. Hey, at least THEY think you're cool!

Staying in NYC for NYE? What better way to shake off the year and all your cringey moments than by coming to Rejects Anonymous, the improvised 12-step meeting for chronic losers! Conceived and performed by Double D, who take the audience’s true (but anonymous) stories of rejection and use them as inspiration to create a whole cast of wacky characters helping each other make peace with their inner reject. And like any decent self-help meeting, there will be donuts!

Double D is made up of Nannette Deasy and Graceann Dorse. Nannette Deasy has performed at theatres including the Public Theatre, La Mama Etc., Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, NJ Rep, the PIT, UCB, Chicago City Limits, Gotham City lmprov, Gotham Comedy Club, theatre festivals all around the country and the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan, Italy, as well as in various films. In addition to Double D, she is also the founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning and nationally recognized Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble (IRTE). Graceann Dorse's (SAG-AFTRA) acting credits include New Amsterdam, Bull, FBI: Most Wanted, and Show Me a Hero. Projects that she has written and produced appeared as official selections in numerous festivals, such as the New York Television Festival, Catalyst Content Festival, and the Women in Comedy Festival. In addition to creating for film and TV, she is also a writer and performer for the stage. She wrote and performs in a solo show called Farty of One, and has created several monologues, storytelling pieces, and characters that she’s performed all over NYC.
Double D
Rejects Anonymous is directed by Sarah Nowak. Sarah Nowak performs regularly at The People’s Improv Theater with one of New York’s longest running improv teams, The Baldwins, and with the sketch ensemble National Scandal. She was selected for the prestigious Just for Laugh’s New Faces Showcase in Montreal and performed with Second City as a part of their touring company at sea on the Norwegian Epic. Her podcast Eroticasaurus is available on the Slash N' Cast network.

Rejects Anonymous will take place on Monday, December 30 at 7pm at Caveat, 21A Clinton St.
between Houston & Stanton. 

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