(photo credit: Joshua Brown)
5/2022 — “NUTS” by kimber lee, directed by Ry Szelong — Second Generation Productions & Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “SHORT STACK PLAY FEST” - Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Playwrights Horizons.
(pictured L-R: Amanda Centeno, Sophie Gorai, Michelle Vo)
(photo credit: Joshua Brown 2022)
(Amanda Centeno, Sophie Gorai)
(photo credit: Joshua Brown)
(Amanda Centeno, Sophie Gorai)
(photo credit: Joshua Brown)
(Amanda Centeno, Sophie Gorai)
(photo credit: Eddie @eddwhy)
Feb/2024 — cast of GODSPUNK, written & directed by Aeon Wade Andreas — Bushwick Starr Reading Series at The Center for Performance Research.
(L to R: Valeria Moraga, Paris L’Hommie, Klondyke, Zane Pais, Julie J, Sasha Gheesling, Ry Szelong)
(photo credit: @queersilver)
2024 — oral storytelling for The Generations Project at The Red Pavilion. Hosted by Valeria Moraga & Dr. Wang Newton. Cohort curated & facilitated by Valeria Moraga & Kan Seidel.
(photo credit: @queersilver 2024)
(photo credit: @queersilver)
(photo credit: @queersilver 2024)
4/2023 — “GOOEY’S TOXIC AQUATIC ADVENTURE at Wasteland!™ (presented by amazon)” by La Daniella, directed by Ry Szelong, with “Scabby the puppet” & crochet design by Mele Borges — Bushwick Starr Reading Series at Center for Performance Research. La Daniella as “Gooey” & “Scabby the Rat”, Mele Borges as “Frank”.
(pictured: La Daniella & Scabby the Rat)
(pictured: Mele Borges, La Daniella)
(pictured: La Daniella & Scabby the Rat)
(photo credit: Marielle Solan).
2017 — Interabang by Ry Szelong, directed by Bryn Herdrich — Ars Nova All New Talent Fest. Assistant direction & media design: Jaye Hunt, costume design: Elonna Bettini, co-producer: Cassidy Dawn Graves, dramaturg: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, scenic design: Raphael Mishler, sound design: Renee Yeong.
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017; pictured: Amanda Centeno, Ry Szelong)
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017; L to R: Arianne Recto, Ry Szelong, Erica Huang. Paul Ketchum, Sandra W. Lee).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017; L to R: Becca Q. Co, Ry Szelong, Erica Huang).
(photo credit 2017: Marielle Solan; L to R: Becca Q. Co, Ry Szelong, Erica Huang).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017; L to R: Becca Q. Co, Ry Szelong, Erica Huang).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017; L to R: Erica Huang, Becca Q. Co, Ry Szelong).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017).
(L to R: Amanda Centeno, Becca Q. Co, Trevor Liu, Ry Szelong, Paul Ketchum, Sandra W. Lee)
(photo credit: Marielle Sola 2017; ; L to R: Becca Q. Co, Sandra W. Lee, Trevor Liu, Amanda Centeno, Paul Ketchum, Ry Szelong).
(photo credit: Marielle Solan 2017; L to R: Becca Q. Co, Sandra W. Lee, Trevor Liu, Amanda Centeno, Ry Szelong).
2021— interra-bang by Ry Szelong; Staged reading directed by Ryan Dobrin — Clubbed Thumb at Wild Project.
(top-bottom, L-R: Midori Francis, Mami Kimura, Cindy Cheung, Neo Cihi, James Saito, Olivia Miller, Ry Szelong, Ryan Dobrin.)
2018 — “Interabang” by Ry Szelong, co-directed with Charles Quittner — Loading Dock Theatre, Forklift Reading series.
(L to R: Matthew Hardy, Geoff Lee, Mami Kimura; Neo Cihi, Dakota Ceneta, Amanda Centeno, Alex Emond, Fay Ann Lee... (not pictured: Boscoe Barles Quittner the Shih-Tzu)
(photo credit: Mick Cantrella)
Oct/2018 — “Ruffles, Or a Progression of Rakes” written & directed by Normandy Sherwood — The Tank.
(L to R: Ry Szelong, Nicholas Tyler-Corbin)
October - November/2016 — “Now is The Time. Now is the Best Time. Now is the Best Time of Your Life.” by Little Lord — Abrons Arts Center. article by Elisabeth Vincentelli (October 25, 2016).
(photo credit: Kelly Stuart)
May - June/2018 — “Ding Dong It’s The Ocean” by Agnes Borinsky, directed by Jeremy Bloom — JACK. article by Alexis Soloski (May 24, 2018).
(photo credit: Raul Martinez)
(photo credit: Caila Gale).
2014 — MUSEUMING (aka: The Museum is Closed for a Private Function). Conceived and directed by Ry Szelong, & devised with the Cast/ Company — NYU Tisch. Stage managed by Babz Law; scenic design: Jordan Baum; costume design: Eliana Mullins & Ry Szelong; props design: Tristan Von; lighting design: Reed Noel; sound design: Ry Szelong & Babz Law; dramaturgy: Charlotte Murray,
cast pictured L to R: Vincent Cinque, Becca Q. Co, Eliana Mullins, Ry Szelong, EJ Meehan, La Daniella, Sina Mehdian, Ben Langhorst
(photo credit: Caila Gale)
pictured: Ry Szelong
(photo credit: Caila Gale)
(photo credit: Arya Ghavamian)
2013 - rehearsal photo of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” adapted by Dale Wasserman, directed by Ry Szelong — NYU Tisch. With assistant direction by Jenna Antoniades, produced by Ankita Raturi. Stage managed: Linnea Gregg; scenic & props design: Ambrym Smith; costume design: Emma Dolhai; lighting design: Kris Opperman; original music remixes & sound design: Kyle D. Rogers;
(actors pictured: Vincent Cinque, Jasper Hirose, EJ Meehan, James Cella, Mac Wallach, Mark Taylor)
(Mele Borges, La Daniella)
4/2023 — “GOOEY’S TOXIC AQUATIC ADVENTURE at Wasteland!™ (presented by amazon)” by La Daniella, directed by Ry Szelong, with “Scabby the puppet” & crochet design by Mele Borges — Bushwick Starr Reading Series at Center for Performance Research. La Daniella as “Gooey” & “Scabby the Rat”, Mele Borges as “Frank”
(photo credit: Xiao Ma)
5/2022 — full company of Second Generation Productions & Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “SHORT STACK PLAY FEST.”
(photo credit: Xiao Ma)
5/2022 — full company of Second Generation Productions & Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “SHORT STACK PLAY FEST.”
(photo credit: Kiki Milner).
2024 — oral storytelling for The Generations Project at The Red Pavilion. Hosted by Valeria Moraga & Dr. Wang Newton. Cohort curated & facilitated by Valeria Moraga & Kan Seidel.
(photo credit: @queersilver)
(photo credit: @queersilver)
(photo credit: @queersilver)
(photo credit: @queersilver)
(photo credit: Kiki Milner)
(photo credit: Edwina Hay.)
2023 — Rady & Bloom’s “Spilt Milk: a Valentine Gesamtkunstwerk” at The Cell Theatre
(photo credit: Walter Wlodarczyk).
2022 - Rady & Bloom’s “Valentine Energy: A Perennial Gesamtkunstwerk” at The Cell Theatre.
(photo credit: Sade Namei).
2022 - The Cell Theatre with Carly Ciarrocchi, LaChrisha Brown, John Charles McLaughlin, Beth Griffith, Robert Dowling, Heather Thiry, Jeremy Bloom, Brian Reager
Ry Szelong & Charlie Akre
(photo credit: Sarah Mayo)
Ry Szelong & Charlie Akre
(photo credit: Sarah Mayo)
2020 — Rady & Bloom “Valentine Gesamtkunstwerk” at The Cell Theatre.
2020-2022 - “Cheshire Cat’s Dysmorphia”
2019 — drag performance of “Supercut” by Lorde at Dixon Place — “Muffins in the Window” variety show.
(photo credit: Caila Gale & Charlie Dennis)
2015 — “The Skriker” by Caryl Churchill, directed by Ry Szelong — NYU Tisch, Robert Moss Theater. assistant direction & media design by Jaye Hunt, stage managed by Ana Verde; immersive & environmental scenic design: Jordan Baum, asst. scenic design: nazareth hassan; props design: Cassidy Dawn Graves; lighting design: Bryn Herdrich, asst. lighting design: Babz Law; costume design: Mia Carey & Ry Szelong; sound design: Ry Szelong & Gus Callahan, with assistance from Kyle D. Rogers & E.B. Hinnant. additional movement/choreography: Kat Newquist.
(pictured: La Daniella)
(photo credit: Caila Gale & Charlie Dennis)
(photo credit: Caila Gale & Charlie Dennis)
(pictured: Allie Leonard, Goldie Flavelle, Kyla Young, Eliana Gottesman)
(photo credit: Caila Gale & Charlie Dennis)
(pictured: Amanda Centeno, Allie Leonard, Kyla Young, Eliana Gottesman, Goldie Flavelle, Becca Q. Co, Frankie Placidi, Anna Crouch)
(photo credit: Caila Gale & Charlie Dennis)
my poster design for “The Skriker”
2018 — LAMBDA Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices - Playwriting cohort lead by Luis Alfaro. (Roger Q. Mason, C. Bain, jose sebastian alberdi, Michael Shayan, Yosimar Reyes, Benjamin Fainstein, Raf Antonio, Kat Evasco, Charlie James Cote, Lucas Baisch, Abraham Johnson, Ry Szelong.)
(Mele Borges)
(La Daniella)
(photo credit: Joshua Brown)
5/2022 — “Remove the Serpent’s Head” by Arif Silverman, directed by Ry Szelong —Second Generation Productions & Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “SHORT STACK PLAY FEST” - Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
(pictured L-R: Molly Powers Gallagher, Piyali Syam, Hannah Bailey, Uma Paranjpe)
(photo credit: Joshua Brown)
(Molly Powers Gallagher, Hannah Bailey, Uma Paranjpe, Piyali Syam)
(photo credit: Joshua Brown)
(Molly Powers Gallagher, Piyali Syam, Hannah Bailey, Uma Paranjpe)
(Piyali Syam, Molly Powers Gallagher, Uma Paranjpe, Hannah Bailey)
(Molly Powers Gallagher, Uma Paranjpe, Hannah Bailey)
(Molly Powers Gallagher, Hannah Bailey, Uma Paranjpe, Piyali Syam)
(photo credit: @queersilver)
(photo credit: @queersilver)
(photo credit: Nick Wheelehon)
2021 - Ry Szelong & Kiki Milner
2020 - “Object-Drag”
2015 - directing “The Skriker” at Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
2017 — “Interabang” - Ars Nova ANT Fest: Erica Huang, Amanda Centeno, Becca Q. Co, Ry Szelong
6/2010
6/2010 - UC Davis?
6/2010
(poster design by Eliana Mullins)
2014 - MUSEUMING (aka: The Museum is Closed for a Private Function). Conceived and directed by Ry Szelong, & devised with the Cast/ Company — NYU Tisch.
Stage managed by Babz Law; scenic design: Jordan Baum; costume design: Eliana Mullins & Ry Szelong; props design: Tristan Von; lighting design: Reed Noel; sound design: Ry Szelong & Babz Law; dramaturgy: Charlotte Murray,
(photo credit: Caila Gale)
2014 — “MUSEUMING” - cast pictured L to R: Vincent Cinque, Becca Q. Co, Eliana Mullins, Ry Szelong, EJ Meehan, La Daniella, Sina Mehdian, Ben Langhorst.
(image: sourced from tumblr)
poster design
(photo credit: Caila Gale)
(photo credit: Caila Gale)
(pictured: Vinny Cinque, Lionel the Lion)
6/2010
(poster design: Jesse Jae Hoon)
2013 - “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” adapted by Dale Wasserman, directed by Ry Szelong — NYU Tisch. With assistant direction by Jenna Antoniades, produced by Ankita Raturi.
Stage managed: Linnea Gregg; scenic & props design: Ambrym Smith; costume design: Emma Dolhai; lighting design: Kris Opperman; original music remixes & sound design: Kyle D. Rogers;
my poster doodles - “Cuckoo’s Nest”
11/2009
2013 — my drawing & poster “Night of the Assassins” by José Triana,
(photo credit: Sebastian Chacon)
2013 — “Night of the Assassins” by José Triana, translated by Sebastian Doggart, directed by Ry Szelong — NYU Tisch.
stage managed: JB Douglas; scenic, props, costume, sound, scent design: Ry Szelong. lighting design: Babz Law.
(pictured L-R: Nick Wheelehon, Susannah Perkins, Brenna Coates).
9/2009
9/2009
3/2009
1/2012
6/2012
2020 — “Object-Drag”
6/2012
6/2012
(photo credit: Blayze Teicher)
2018 — photo shoot for “The Parsnip Ship.”
2011
3/2012 - brooklyn heights
2/17/2012 - “thoroughly hipser millie”
5/2012 - “superherojuice”
7/2011 - capitola
3/2012
7/2009 - santa cruz beach boardwalk
3/2012
3/2009 - “late night scavenger hunt”
11/2009 - Z, L, R
1/2012
3/2012
6/2010
7/2011
7/2011 - MVCPA
5/2009
9/2009 - mv with L C
7/2009 - mammoth
3/2009 - “gesture drawing”
12/2011 - grace church
10/2011
1/2012 - santa cruz, friendly strangers
1/2012
7/2008 - oahu
9/2009
9/2009
1/2012 - Aquarius Theatre in Palo Alto
dec 22, 2010 - with v
1/2012 — M C
1/2009
1/2012
2009
2009
2011: reverse-drawing, charcoal, eraser
9/2009
2012/2013 - “Bad Fur” - dance-piece created with Jordan Baum & Eliana Mullins — Robert Moss Theater.
(photo credit: Rebecca Hidalgo)
2017 — photoshoot for “Move With Pride” Project — art installation at Ace Hotel by Rebecca Hidalgo.
3/2009
3/2009
6/2012
4/2010
6/2012
5/2012
5/2012
5/2012
5/2012 - dumbo
5/2012 - shakespeare garden, central park
2009/2010 - melissa at “enos”
6/2012 - dtmv parking garage, with Kiki Milner
3/2012 - view from empire state building
6/2010
3/2012 - bk bridge
3/2012
summer 2011
winter 2012
7/2011
12/2011
11/2011 - union square
6/2010
11/2011 - st marks
12/2011
12/2011
1/2012 - “face in the clouds”
10/2009 - PC
8/2009
4/2010
4/2009 - art class project
5/2010 — “Pioneer Park” dtmv with L C
12/2011
art at auntie carol’s.
six years old - color me mine