Communal Spaces 2026

Fourteen years of FREE plays, concerts, and community

Saturdays & Sundays,
September 12-27

Plays at 2:30

Concert series, Sundays at 1:30

This Play Was (Not) Written by a Robot

Written by Anton Handel
Directed by Lillian Meredith

Featuring Jonathan Nathaniel Dingle-El, Zara McCord, and Zara Zeidman

Anton Handel (playwright) is originally from Maine and has recently moved back to New York after a decade in Los Angeles working in TV and film. Playwriting credits include: Silos of Duanesburg and Analogue, FullStop Collective; The Internauts, The Live Ones, Abernathy’s Tabernacle, The Motor Company.

As an artist, Jonathan Nathaniel Dingle-El is inspired to create theater that is accessible to inner-city communities of color. As a Brooklyn College BFA Acting Program graduate in NYC, he has had the pleasure of working with many artists from diverse communities of varying skill sets and various community outreach projects. He has worked with many local organizations in New York City such as Abrons Arts Center and The Motor Company NYC, a company whose work focuses on increasing site-responsive theater in local hubs around NYC such as parks, bars, laundromats, and rivers. Jonathan teaches improvisation and theater devising and is currently the director of Urban Youth Theater, an acting ensemble for teens. Jonathan would love to thank his students at Abrons Arts Center and UNHS, his mom Ms.Redd and SamMom.

Zara McCord is an Indiana Hoosier by birth and Brooklynite by choice. Since moving to NYC in 2023 with an Acting degree from Ball State University, she has worked alongside Leslie Jones for The Daily Show, filmed internationally for XBox, Opill and Samsung, and appeared in a smattering of short film projects including a film adaption of The Yellow Wallpaper as well as supernaturally-suited in just a girl which was a selection for film festivals globally. She recently filmed her first network television role which will be released in October on NBC. She enjoys championing new work in the NYC indie theatre sphere and can be seen as a recurring cast member in the episodic theatre project, Serials.

By weekday, Zara works in retail. In her free time, she can be found; riding her bike, spectating some kind of show, indoor-gardening, crafting, or rehearsing with her punk rock project, Pizza King Girl! She is greatful and gleeful to play a part in The Motor Company's mission.

Zara Zeidman

Bugging Out

Written by Tasha Gordon-Solmon
Directed by Caitlin Wells

Featuring Audrey Lamb, David King, Jarielle Jeffrey, and Seenae Yi.

Tasha Gordon-Solmon’s (Playwright) plays and musicals have been developed and produced at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NAMT Festival of New Musicals, the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Clubbed Thumb, Northern Stage, New Georges, American Music Theatre Project, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, The Playwrights Realm, Ars Nova, the Colorado New Play Festival and WAM. She is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Fellowship, the Playwrights Realm Fellowship and a Puffin Foundation Grant, along with residences at Millay Arts, Bethany Arts Community, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Williamstown. She is a member of The Recording Academy, Director’s Lab West and the Theater Now New York Writers Lab, and is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and proud 52nd Street Project Volunteer.

Jarielle Jeffrey (Lady) is a vibrant actor and producer from Southern California who has performed in and produced critically acclaimed and award winning productions from coast to coast.  She's thrilled to be working with the Motor Company again in this delightful garden. A graduate of Fordham University, she lives in Brooklyn. Shout out to her ancestors, her tribe, and the most high.

David King (Roly) is a New York City-born and -raised actor, director, poet, photographer, curator, and educator. He received critical acclaim for his Off Broadway and FringeNYC roles from The New York Times and Time Out New York. He acted in the award-winning independent feature films “Four Bottles” and “Stuck” from writer-director John Painz, screened at the SoHo International, Art of Brooklyn and Newport Beach Film Festivals. He co-founded The Seven Collective—a former NYC theater company turned artist collective committed to collaborative art rooted in community.

David appeared in Bull Moose Run Club with The Motor Company earlier this year. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. He is the Board Vice Chair at the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, a National Advisory Board member with Imagining America, and an Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellow with The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). He earned a B.A. in Theatre from The City College of New York (CUNY) and appreciates those who contribute to the process.

Audrey Lamb (But) was introduced to theater by her cousins with musicals like Hamilton, Six, and Heathers. She has grown to love plays with her friends and teachers. In her free time she likes to bake, swim, listen to music, and collect records with her friends.

Caitlin Wells’ (Stink) work has been seen on The High Line, West Side Fest, El Barrio Artspace PS109, BRIC, Littlefield, PBS North Carolina, Hudson River Park, The Fruit, and NPR, and her theater company, Delta Boys, produced southeastern theatrical regional premieres for 10 years. She's acted under T. Ryder Smith, Christopher McElroen, Em Cole, and Dash Barber; performed at Yale, Lincoln Center, INTAR, and The New Ohio; and interned with The Wooster Group. Caitlin has also designed and taught arts and social justice-oriented curricula across the United States, Spain, and China, and currently works as managing director of The Motor Company and an artistic director with Brooklyn's DreamStreet Theatre Company. She’s been awarded residencies with Drop Forge & Tool, Turkey Land Cove Foundation, Spark Box Studio, and The Tank, as well as grants for the development of new work from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Manbites Dog Theater Fund, and City Artist Corps. She seeks out original work that centers equity, the unpredictable, rigorous physicality, exposed plumbing, risk-taking, and raucous play. www.caitlinjwells.com

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