An all-veteran arts showcase featuring readings, screenings, and performances by an all-star lineup of professional, military veteran artists in music, theater, film, dance, poetry, and prose.
The evening will be hosted by James P. Connolly (Comedy Central, HBO, XM Radio, VH1) with an all-veteran house band led by Emmy Award-winning commercial producer Tom Mooney, who has headlined at legendary NYC venues, including CBGB, The Ritz, and The Bottom Line, and opened for Blondie as the lead singer for The NYC August Rock Band.
The event will feature readings from LP/OP by TJ Brady (Army Wives, Narcos) and Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates by Maurice Decaul (Holdin’ It Down with MacArthur Fellow Vijay Iyer), performed by professional veteran actors alongside some of New York’s hottest young talents.
Further acts include an excerpt from the Shakespeare-infused one-man show Cry Havoc! by Stephan Wolfert (member of the critically acclaimed theater company Bedlam and military sequence director for Movin’ Out on Broadway), readings from new novels by the New York Times published authors Elliot Ackerman (Green on Blue), Brandon Caro (Old Silk Road), and Roy Scranton (Learning to Die in the Anthropocene), a dance performance created by 2015 New York State Veterans Hall of Fame Inductee Roman Baca, and a screening of excerpts from the new comedy series Vetted written and directed by Paul D. Mooney.
New York City, NY; NYC