News: Untitled Theater Company No. 61's 30th Anniversary and The David A. Einhorn Playwriting Prize Is Awarded

Co-founders David and Edward Einhorn

On Sunday January 26, at 5pm, Untitled Theater Company will celebrate 30 years of production! Founded by David and Edward Einhorn in 1995, the theater company has produced over 50 shows, festivals such at the Václav Havel Festival and the Ionesco Festival, and many other readings and special events.

Untitled Theater Company No. 61 (UTC61) is a Theater of Ideas: scientific, political, philosophical, and above all theatrical. UTC61 has been performing independent theater in New York for over 25 years and will be awarding this year's David A Einhorn Playwriting Prize, established in David Einhorn's memory in 2022 for a playwright over 30 with a history of self-production, to Daniel Damiano. Based in Brooklyn, Damiano is an award-winning playwright, acclaimed actor, poet, and novelist, and Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of fandango 4 Art House. The award was judged based on a one-act in the tradition of theater of the absurd. Damiano's winning one-act, The Dessert Cart, will be presented as a staged reading at the event.

Honorable mentions are Absolution, by Brian Petti, and sundays in the park with clay & cher, by SMJ.

As part of the gala, there will also be previews of upcoming work: The Left Hand of Darkness (a puppet adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book, planned for 2026); Testimonies from the Money Church (work-in progress); The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (going to Edinburgh Fringe); Blood, Sweat, and Queers (a new Czech play, part of the 2025 Rehearsal for Truth Festival); The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (opera from the book by L. Frank Baum, work-in-progress).

It will be performed by Craig Anderson, Barsha, John Blaylock, Victoria Davis, Seth Gilman, Jan Leslie Harding, Tom Lee, Grant Neale, Kingsley Nwaogu, Yvonne Roen, Alyssa Simon, and Mila Henry on piano/music directing.

Admission is free, and attendees can reserve at untitledtheater.com.

A reception with the artists follows.

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