Tiny Feats of Cowardice
is a new musical by Susan Bernfield & Rachel Peters, directed by Daniella Topol

slippery bathtubs, uncooked chicken, secondhand smoke...

Susan Bernfield's full-length plays and solo works have been produced or developed at Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory Festival, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Magic Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, HB Playwrights, Vital Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, and of course New Georges, where she has been artistic director since founding the company in 1992.  In April 2010, Daniella Topol will direct her play STRETCH (a fantasia), originally produced at New Georges, at People's Light & Theatre Company in Malvern, PA. 

Rachel Peters wrote the critically-acclaimed score for New Georges' production of Susan Bernfield's STRETCH (a fantasia).  ONLY CHILDREN (libretto by Michael R. Jackson) premiered on the NYU Mainstage in 2008.  Current projects include two operas with librettist Royce Vavrek.  Rachel is an alumna of the NYU Graduate Musical Theater Writing program. 

Daniella Topol's recent directing credits include Leslie Ayvazian's CAROL & JILL (EST Marathon), Susan Yankowitz's NIGHT SKY (Stan Raiff/Power Productions), Caridad Svich's INSTRUCTIONS FOR BREATHING (Passage Theatre), Judith Thompson's PALACE OF THE END (Epic Theatre), Trista Baldwin's SAND (Women's Project) and Sheila Callaghan's DEAD CITY (New Georges). 

                             photo: Dixie Sheridan 

Praise for Rachel & Susan's STRETCH (a fantasia)

"An inventive work, lyrical and stark at the same time." -- The New York Times

"Bernfield whittles Woods into a gorgeously limber fantasy... A handsome production made even lusher by romantic compositions for strings and electric typewriter."
-- Time Out New York

"...just oozes style.  Playwright Susan Bernfield turns the last days of Rose Mary Woods into a buffet of dream sequences, brassy comedy and occasional appearances by a five-piece band... the pieces come together with pizzazz." -- Variety

"An electrifying performance backed by Rachel Peters's sparkling score."
-- Gothamist.com

"Utterly heartfelt, entirely believable.  A powerful, painful play about power, loyalty and dreams, and it's no fantasia: it's pure magic.  It's no stretch for me to say that it's unmissable; no stretch for me to say that Gypsy doesn't have the only Rose to watch this season."
-- New Theater Corps

TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE was presented at the 2008 New York International Film Festival; as a work-in-progress at the 2007 Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls, New York; and in development at New York Theatre Workshop and Joe’s Pub.