Sidney Truant
Excited to announce that one of the scripts I’ve been working on forever will be part of this year’s On the Boards new play fest at The LAVA Center in Greenfield, MA! Save the date: Friday, June 12.
A scene of it was performed as a short play way back in 2020 on Zoom by the inimitable Kimberly Salditt-Poulin and Sara Becker. Then titled “Peppergrass,” its current working title is “Sidney Truant” (if you can name that reference you get a cookie).
directed by Tracy Grammer and starring Helen Woods-Blake, Becca Mandel, Joanna Nix, Andrea CK, Ken von Geldern, and Lara Terounzo
As Angel-at-the-Gate in “Foxhole” by Christine Benvenuto, with Andrea CK.
Performed at Open Stage @ LAVA — April 16, 2026
Improv Alliance
2025
As Butch in “Monster Christmas” by Christine Benvenuto, with Shannon Chabot and Andrea CK.
Part of the Comedy Project Revue — Sept 25, 2025
As Cassie in “Republicans in Human Form” by Christine Benvenuto, with Shannon Chabot.
Part of the Comedy Project Revue — May 22, 2025
Timeshare
“Timeshare” is a 10-minute play, written and directed by Christine Benvenuto, and starring Hilary Dennis and Vanessa Query. Performed at the opening night of the International Human Rights Art Festival 10-minute play festival in December 2023.
Facing the Future: Climate Change Theater
I wrote and directed one play and directed two others for The LAVA Center’s second online short play festival.
From A Distance: 2020 (corona)vision(s)
“From A Distance: 2020 (corona)vision(s)” is an online short play festival from The LAVA Center, with original new works from local and regional artists. I wrote and directed two of the short plays: “I Don’t Want To” (pictured) and “Ventilating.”
Climate Change Theatre Action Greenfield 2019
Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented in support of the United Nations COP meetings. In Greenfield, I directed nine of the staged readings. Pictured with co-conspirators are Trenda Loftin and Jan Maher (photo by Monte Belmonte).
The Third Friday Players
“meta philosophic dramatic sketch comedy with superheroes”
A sketch comedy troupe with Jennifer Johnson, Skip Leeds, Ali Thomas, and Charlotte Walkey.
We performed two free outdoor shows, twice each, in late 2010.
Circus Sideshow
Escape art, contortionism, fire-eating, bed of nails, and more.
I trained at the Coney Island Circus Sideshow School and with Harley Newman. I’ve performed and/or busked in Rhode Island; Ohio; and Flagstaff, AZ, mostly in the mid-late-2000s. I’ve performed a few shows with my kid since 2016.
The Pathological Upstagers
In 2005–2006, I performed, as Vee “the Monsoon” Levene, with Jill “the Wood Nymph” Summerville in the post-alternative comedy duo. We performed about a half a dozen shows in several venues in Ohio, that were partly scripted and partly improvised.
It Adds Up
A one-act play I wrote and directed (and, for one performance, performed in) in 2006. A comedic slice-of-life story with socio-political commentary done in Brechtian/Meisneresque realism.