DIGITAL
PROGRAM
New Ambassadors Theatre Company
presents
Setting the Stage
New Plays Reading Series
TANGLED WEBS
A full-length screenplay
by
William Ivor Fowkes
Creatives
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William Ivor Fowkes, Playwright
William Ivor Fowkes is a playwright and author based in New York and a member of the Dramatists Guild. His work explores marriage (gay and straight) and other human relationships, with an emphasis on the psychology and politics of love and sex. Other themes include art, religion, aging, mortality, and LGBTQ+ life. His work has been presented in 30 states, Canada, the UK, & Europe. Many of his plays and short stories have been published. His full-length plays include ALL IN THE FACULTY (Dramatists Play Service), MARITAL BLITZ (Create Theater’s New Works Festival, NYC, 2025), MUSEUM LOVERS (Renegade Actors, Innsbruck, Austria 2022), COUPLE OF THE CENTURY (UNLV Second Stage, Las Vegas, 2021), PRIVATE PROPERTY (The Players Ring, Portsmouth, NH, 2018), and others. A graduate of Yale University (B.A.) and Northwestern University (M.A., PhD), he is a former philosophy professor and media and television executive. www.williamivorfowkes.com
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Geri-Nikole Love, Director
Geri-Nikole Love has a BFA in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch, she studied at CAP21, the Advanced Classical Studio, and Stonestreet Film/Television Studio. She is a member of the first Coaches of Color Coach+Client Cohort, led by Dawn-Elin Fraser. Off-Broadway: Roy Arias Stages (Providence), SoHo Playhouse (Gregorian). Off-Off-Broadway: La MaMa (Carlisle: a different Three Sisters), Harlem School of the Arts (Black Boy & the War). Regional: Trinity Repertory Company (The Inferior Sex), Playhouse on Park (Higgin’s in Harlem – Eliza), New Swan Shakespeare Festival (Measure for Measure – Escalus / Twelfth Night – Olivia). Film/TV: Tulsa King (Paramount+), Fantasy Island (FOX), Westworld (HBO), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC/Hulu), Left for Dead (LMN), Desperate Widows (LMN). Dialect Coach: Aurora Theatre Company (Stoop Stories, Crumbs from the Table of Joy). Voice & Text Director: Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Fat Ham). Guest teacher and coach at The Actor’s Studio of Orange County. Geri-Nikole is thrilled to be directing Tangled Webs and grateful for the opportunity to help bring this piece to life. www.gerinikolelove.com IG|TT: @gerinikolelove
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New Ambassadors Theatre Company, Producer
David Adam Gill, Co-Artistic Director; Jeffrey Checkley, Co-Artistic Director
New Ambassadors Theatre Company is a queer-led nonprofit producing and developing new works by living playwrights. Our staff is all-volunteer, and we rely on the generosity of our community to keep us moving forward. Your kind contribution directly funds NATC's operations and programming, including readings and our popular semi-monthly Lab series, all of which further the development of new works - and keep the theatre moving forward.
New Ambassadors Corp is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Tax ID # 82-3182665. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.
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Allisha Edwards, Celia Watts
Allisha Edwards is an actor, writer and comedian based in NYC. She is a resident Actor of UCB Maude and Assssketch. She also created shows for Ars Nova ANT fest and CAMP Residency. Allisha recently showcased for SNL and can be seen in Various shows at UCB.
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Tiffany Faykus, Linda Morrow
Tiffany Faykus is thrilled to be in her 1st production with New Ambassadors. Tiffany studied Theater and History at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and trained at the Circle in the Square Acting Studio. Her career includes numerous Off-Broadway productions in New York City, work at the Budapest Opera Theater, and principal roles at many Tampa Bay theaters. Her favorite roles include Blanche DuBois in "Streetcar Named Desire", Britt from the one-woman show "Wednesdays Child" and Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet".
Tiffany is thankful for the continued love and support of her husband Preston and her fabulous adult children, Caitlin, Rachel and Luke.
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E.B. Hinnant, Jeremy Fletcher
E.B. Hinnant is an actor, composer, and filmmaker from the Deep South. He has been working with New Ambassadors since 2023. Talk to him about fried okra, televangelism, and Dolly Parton.
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Robert Maisonett, Garrett Lucas
Robert Maisonett holds a B.A. in Theater and has appeared in numerous stage productions and films. He is the recipient of a 2017 BRIO Award in Media Arts (Narrative Film & Video) for Latin Lives, a web series based on the play of the same name, both of which he developed and created. Robert is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
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Chelsea Rodriguez, Stage Directions/Announcer/Therapist/Starbucks Employee/92nd Street Host/Audience Member
Chelsea is an NYC-based non-binary performer whose background is best described as a bohemian artist. They are an actor as well as a dancer with 20+ years of experience, . Most recent productions include SCOWL's Queerapalooza, Your Faithful Reader, and Starkid's Twisted. They also perform as the drag persona/performance artist Cross Beaux.
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Benjamin Sevilla, Shane Simmons
Ben is an actor, playwright and producer based out of New York City. His projects range from theater to film with roles both in-front of the camera and behind the curtain. Currently, Ben is creating content for his own community and encourages others to do so as well.
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A note from the playwright…
As someone who has spent much of his life in cities, I have long been fascinated by the way urban environments bring together people from vastly different backgrounds and circumstances. Since the pandemic, the spontaneous encounters and unexpected connections that define city life have returned in full force. When those encounters move beyond the superficial, we often discover that people’s lives bear little resemblance to what we imagined as we passed them on the street. This sense of urban serendipity and discovery lies at the heart of TANGLED WEBS.
In this play, a struggling journalist thinks he has found the story that will save his career when he befriends a homeless woman who claims to be the daughter of a famous actress. But as each tries to use the other to get what they want, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell who is exploiting whom. The same is true of the other characters—the actress, the journalist’s sometime boyfriend, and the woman’s partner in street crime. As each tells a different version of the story, we gradually discover that everyone has an agenda of their own.
This play has been several years in the making. I began writing it well before the pandemic, and since then it has gone through several stages of development—including sessions here at the Lab. I am thrilled finally to hear the play presented in its entirety and especially grateful to the actors and director of the New Ambassadors Theatre Company for bringing these characters to life.
NATC COMMUNITY STAFF
The following NATC members are graciously volunteering to help the New Ambassadors community produce SETTING THE STAGE.
Max Gill, Producer/Board Member/Founding Member
David Adam Gill, co-Producer/Artistic Director/Founder
THANK YOU
Tada! Youth Theater / Donte
Thank you!
Thank you for taking part in our second full-length reading of 2025 - and Setting the Stage, NATC’s new reading series. Over the course of a year or so, we develop new work in our semi-monthly new works Lab Series through which our company gets becomes familiar with a play over the course of several in-person readings. Volunteer actors, writers and directors are invited to share their skills and provide feedback at each step of development. That process culminates in a full reading of the entire play.
How can you help support New Ambassadors’ mission of developing new work?
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We appreciate all donations: no amount is too small - nor too big.
TANGLED WEBS
Thursday, September 23, 2026
7:30 pm
Tada!
15 W. 28th St
New York City