Patchworks NYC
About us
Patchworks NYC is a company of theatre artists patching together new works from our collective imagination. By delving into the fabric of time, we explore how past experiences revisit us and shape our present. Our goal is to create theater that extends beyond the final curtain, sparking deep reflection and encouraging audiences to engage with new ideas.
Who Are we?
Evan Brodsky writer, actor
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Evan Brodsky is a Brooklyn based playwright and actor. Evan's play The Glass Between Stars premiered at New York Theater Festival where it was awarded most creative new play in 2021 and was also performed at The Tank in 2024. His play Kaleidoscope was a semi-finalist at the Lanford Wilson New Play Festival. Alum: NYU Tisch Drama, William Esper Studio evanbrodsky.com
Sarah Connolly director
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Sarah Connolly is a NYC-based theater director with a mission to facilitate creative environments rooted in generosity. A graduate of Wesleyan University in 2019 with Honors in Comparative Politics and Civic Engagement, she uses her academic background to help her tell stories that are in conversation with the moment through which we are living. Recent directing credits include The Betrothed by Scarlett McCarthy (The Tank), The Glass Between Stars by Evan Brodsky (The Tank), Running After Bobby by Adam Krarr (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Mouse Trap by Annick Gerard (New York Theatre Festival). She is currently writing and developing her first full-length play, Immaculate.​
Carly Gilmore stage manager
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Carly Gilmore is a Brooklyn-based stage manager who loves theater, being on time, and knows stage right from stage left. Her recent work includes Loneliness Was a Pandemic by Olivia Haller at Theaterlab NYC (ASM), [title of show] at Frigid New York (ASM), Morning Journal and The Mountain That Echoes Back by Matthew Gasda at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research (PSM),The Glass Between Stars by Evan Brodsky at the Tank (PSM), and Donnie & Greg for the SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series (PSM). She is passionate about developing new works, particularly those that center queer stories, and the complexities that are human relationships. Outside of the theater you can find her pranking all of her friends.
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shows
The Glass Between Stars by Evan Brodsky was performed at The Tank in March 2024, starring Michelle Byron and Quinn Moran. The production was directed by Sarah Connolly, stage managed by Carly Gilmore, lighting designed by Sofia Kinney and Eleni Kinney, and sound designed by Nick Reichheld. Poster design by Emily Rappaport.
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Claire and Gideon's love story begins in high school at the age of 15, where a deep connection forms. United by their contemplations on life and the universe, their bond transcends the boundaries of reality. However, a tragic event during their final year separates them. A chance encounter at a cafe at the age of 27 forces them to confront whether their connection is a fleeting memory or a lasting force. "The Glass Between Stars" unfolds as a non-linear exploration of grief, love, and the enduring ties that bind them across eternity.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Patchworks NYC is committed to developing new plays from inception to production. As part of our development process, we host a Living Room Reading Series in which new works are read. This started exactly how it sounds, in a living room, with a group of actors. Through this reading series, we garner feedback from actors, directors, and listeners and open the space for the writer to ask questions. Once the next draft of the play is ready, the writer returns to the living room to do the process again! ​
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Current projects in development include:
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Immaculate by Sarah Connolly
Izzy and Hannah are best friends tied together by their passion for volleyball and deep commitment to their Catholic faith. When Izzy starts missing her period, she has a vision of the angel Gabriel, who tells her that God has chosen her for a new Immaculate Conception and that she will bring the second coming of Christ to Earth. As they grapple with this revelation, Izzy and Hannah must confront whether it will bring them closer together or drive them apart.
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The Memory Centre by Evan Brodsky
If you could take a pill, and become a new person, would you do it?
Sebastian and Nora meet at The Memory Centre, where a new drug is being administered. As they undergo this experimental treatment, Sebastian and Nora must face what brought them to this point in order to find out who they will become. Sebastian and Nora bond over the relationships that they’ve let define themselves in the ultimate letting go: forgetting. The Memory Centre destroys the past in order for people on the brink to have a future.
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Forbear by Evan Brodsky
When Ben, an American graduate writing student, travels to Berlin for a once in a lifetime opportunity to study narrative fiction writing with his favorite author, the story that he is writing starts to take on a life of its own. Four queer roommates in Weimar Republic era Berlin’s idyllic lifestyle is threatened by the impending war. Thrust on a journey of self and familial discovery, Ben questions whether he is writing the story or the story is telling itself to him.
