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Hi, we're the New York Neo-Classical Ensemble.

We're a theatre company in New York City.

Want to contact us? Have Questions?
E-Mail info@newyorkneo.org.

We're just beginning production on our 2010 season: AS YOU LIKE IT and ROMEO AND JULIET/IMPROVISED.

We hope you'll come out and see our work!

Our other website is newyorkneo.org

This site is generally updated by Stephen Stout, Artistic Director of NYNEO. Other people contribute as well, they'll typically sign their post with their name.

"Positive action means that the actor/character focuses on the success of the enterprise rather than allowing the fear of failure to enter the mind or consciousness – every character plays to win at every moment....

The inclination of creativity – both on stage and in life – is to celebrate and to praise life and existence.....

With positive action, the characters hang on not only to the hope but also to the belief that they will get what they want. When they fail to achieve their goals, the effect will be psychologically and emotionally devastating; when they achieve their goals, the effect will be miraculous, exhilarating, and transporting."

- Louis Scheeder, Neo-Classical Training, Training of the American Actor.

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The whole exercise was a backlash against the usual practices: polite lying and saving face instead of engaging in the unabashed, prickish truth. Nobody’s innocent and nobody in art/show business owes anybody anything. Some of you playwrights don’t get produced because you’re not very good. The world doesn’t owe you a production. Some of you theaters are breaking because your artistic leadership is conservative and cowardly and your programming is limp. The world doesn’t owe you its attention. And nobody working in theater (justly compensated or not, ignored or lauded) is a victim.
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