News: "Watch Me Sleep" to Play 2026 NYC Fringe

 

Loose End Productions, an independent Australian theatre and screen production company founded by playwright and actor Rose Treloar, will present Watch Me Sleep written by Treloar and directed by Talia Benatar as part of the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival with FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009), with performances on Tue April 14 at 7pm, Thu April 16 at 6:30pm, Thu April 16 at 9:50pm, Sat April 18 at 5:20pm; and Sun April 19 at 2pm. 

Fresh from two sold-out Australian seasons, Watch Me Sleep is a fiercely intimate one-act play bringing a love story from down under to NYC. Ava and Emmett invite the audience into the private anatomy of their relationship – its humor, heat, fractures and scars, beginning and ending in the present day with the belly of the play a series of flashbacks into their relationship’s highs and lows. Using direct address, the audience becomes a silent third character in the play, a mutual friend to the couple acting as a soundboard. A raw portrait of toxic intimacy – performed by Australians, set in Australia, and proof that C-bombs hit different in an Aussie accent.

Rose Treloar is an Australian playwright, actor, and producer currently completing her MFA in Dramatic Writing (Writing for Performance) at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Her original plays Watch Me Sleep and MOTEL both enjoyed sell-out, Best in Theatre nominated seasons at the Sydney Fringe Festival. Talia Benatar is a Sydney-based director and actor whose directing credits include productions of Lungs, Pride and Prejudice (sort of), and Gruesome Playground Injuries at AFT/JMC. She also co-directed and produced a sold-out season of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore with The Company Theatre. 

Tickets ($25) for Watch Me Sleep are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc. The performance will run approximately 60 minutes.

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