HT Encores 2012


Come see the shows that everyone's been talking about! Our audience is young, diverse, hip, artistic, and most importantly interested. Come see the shows that everyone's been talking about! HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP ENCORES will feature performances by Jeff Grow’s New York Innovative Theatre Award winning Creating Illusion, the New York Neo-Futurists The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Michael Birch’s One Man Hamlet, The Star of Happiness: Helen Keller on Vaudeville, Tanya O’Debra’s Radio Star, The Best of RadioTheatre, and 2011 FRIGID New York hit Paradise Lost.

Company: Jeff Grow

Conman. Magician. Jeff Grow explores the diverse facets of the art of deception and confidence, whether for entertainment or manipulation, beauty or deception. Creating Illusion is the recipient of two New York Innovative Theatre Awards, for Outstanding Solo Performer and Outstanding Performance Art Production. Elegant sleight of hand and insight into human behavior collide to dismantle everyday experience and explore the art of creating illusion.


A 90-minute presentation of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark with all the roles portrayed by Michael Birch. This is Hamlet for a modern audience. Our goal is to bring the classic to life in an accessible way with out losing the beauty of the language that makes Shakespeare great.


A one man, multi media, theatrical adaptation of John Milton’s epic 17th century poem involving puppets, state of the art computer animation, and a Rock n’ Roll soundscape. The story begins moments after the battle of heaven, as Satan finds himself and his followers cast into hell. In search of revenge, Satan travels to the Garden of Eden. Jeremy Eliosoff’s computer animation creates a visual feast of the lapping flames of hell and the tangled foliage of Eden. Combining traditional techniques in puppetry and groundbreaking special effects, along with the greatest epic poem ever written. Winner of the Outstanding Show award, The best overall production in the Atlantic Fringe Festival.

Company: Tanya O'Debra

Watch but mainly listen as Tanya O’Debra lends her voice to ten different characters while simultaneously staging silly sound effects in this filthy, filthy, dirty 1940’s radio detective spoof. Just like the golden age of radio, only dirtier. Radio Star won Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival and was nominated for Best English Language Production and Just For Laugh's Best Comedy at the Montreal Fringe Festival. The show was also nominated for Outstanding Full Length Script, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role, and Outstanding Original Music at the 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Awards.


Volume 1 Early Plays and Lost Plays. Once confined only to heated discussions amongst doctoral students, the New York Neo-Futurists unleash O'Neill's stage directions from their dissertation prison, transforming O'Neill's eloquent yet obsessive and often controlling stage directions into rip-roaring physical comedy.


Historical fact and schoolyard humor collide in Dr. Michelle-Leona Dodin’s autobiographical treatment of Helen Keller’s time in vaudeville. This one woman, two voice, three-act play and its companion lecture grope toward an understanding of what it’s like to be the blind spectacle.