…where theatre thrives and survives as a living sanctuary against AI…
CROSS/CUT Theatre Collective is AND’s theatrical department that champions an inclusive group of collaborative playwrights and performing artists of different ages and from diverse backgrounds who collectively cross over borders and cut through boundaries to create, develop, and produce stage works resulting in productions that will entertain, enlighten, and empower audiences. The CROSS/CUT Theatre Collective's process for success is simple: Learn the rules, then break them.
CROSS/CUT WORKSHOPS
● Un-hungup Artists: In this interdisciplinary workshop, playwrights and performing artists work in tandem to confront and overcome their perceived creative limits and create unconventional theatre projects that can be produced in a variety of spaces, from traditional proscenium theatres to black boxes to found, unconventional spaces.
● The Quirkshop: A unique playwrights' workshop where experimental, off-the-wall scripts inspired by the spirits of Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock, and Salvador Dali (to name a few) have plenty of room to materialize and then appear on stage in the ILLUSION?CONFUSION! Venue.
● 17 Below: Playwrights and performing artists ages 17 and below starting on their theatrical journey are welcome to attend this workshop where they will find mentorship and guidance from a group of seasoned professionals whose combined experience in the theatre totals over three hundred years.
CROSS/CUT VENUES
WORKS IN PLAY: Movers and Shakers Readings and Play. Festivals of scripts developed in the Un-hungup Artists
workshops.
ILLUSION/CONFUSION Play Festivals of scripts developed in the Quirkworkshop.
17 BELOW: Up and Running Play Festivals of scripts developed in the 17 Below workshops.
CROSS/CUT Projects Underway
SHADOWED SUN: Adaptation of a 103-year-old play about King David with added music, songs, and choreography (details upon
inquiry).
DANDY DICK: Adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero’s 1887 comedy as a musical.
PETE ROSE IS MISSING: Reading of Drew Keil’s new play in preparation for a short play festival. Date and time TBA.
POETIC JUSTICE: Winner of the Thomas Barbour Playwright’s Award 2026 by David Masello, directed by Gene Santarelli.
Pending Equity Showcase Production.
GPS: Where Are We Going? by Raphael Battaliacca. The sometimes humorous/sometimes dark episodic
treatment of AI’s evolving navigational system. Production includes original songs and music
written and performed by Susan Kaessinger. Pending Equity Showcase Production.
CROSS/CUT Collective
Gene Santarelli, Artistic Director
Joy Arcangeli as Executive Director
Linda Elizabeth as Associate Artistic Director
Gary Gagliardi as Production Stage Manage
Further information on Cross/Cut, contact cc.tc@gmail.com