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Join us for a reading of Tammy Ryan’s new play

The Boy King In Queens

Tammy is the inaugural recipient of The Boost and this new work was written in conversation with Leah’s play The Wire.

Where: Shares at LaMama* – 66 East 4th Street, New York NY

When: Monday May 19, 2025

Reading of Leah Ryan’s The Wire @ 4pm

Reception @ 6pm

Reading of Tammy Ryan’s The Boy King In Queens @ 7pm

Tickets are “pay what you wish” and are now available by CLICKING HERE. 

*Shares at LaMama provides theatre space for non-curated productions.

The Boy King In Queens was workshopped as part of PlayTime at New Dramatists,
and was written with additional support from the Bogliasco Foundation.

 
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The Leah Ryan Fund helps sustain and support writers facing individual challenges and systemic oppression so they can keep writing, connecting, creating, and thriving. The Fund currently offers an annual playwriting prize (The Leah) and an annual award for writers facing a serious illness (The Vladimir), and the newly created commission (The Boost).

The Leah Ryan Fund was established in 2008 to honor the memory of Leah Ryan, a woman of letters who wrote plays, poetry, essays, lyrics, adaptations, and collaborated with performance artists.