Ali Hardy

Ali Hardy

Ali is a New York City based creative working at the intersection of art and advocacy. Ali is the Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Reckless Theatrics, a creative hub for artists with a mission of inclusion, intersectionality, and using art for social justice. More recently, Ali has become passionate about creating trauma informed, consent based rehearsal spaces and has begun training to become a Certified Intimacy Director.

Plays

  • Fail Risk - Virtual Edition by Ali Hardy
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, romantic comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain + 7 more
    Genre: drama, romantic comedy, zoom
    Keyword: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, sexual trauma, Chronic Illness and Sexuality, Able-bodied/disabled Tensions, disability love, disability and sexuality, invisible illness, marriage problems
    Fail Risk is a new play in development exploring the complexities of relationships and chronic illness. Originally part of a longer version, we have taken an isolated scene and reformatted it into a short play of its own. In this edition, we follow Peyton and Alex as they try to reintroduce intimacy into their relationship after Peyton has a mini stoke during sex.
  • Grace & Dennis - Virtual Edition by Ali Hardy
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, zoom
    Keyword: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Rare Disease, boomer-millennial conflict, coping with loss, death and grief, support group
    A Millennial and a Baby Boomer form a rare bond in one act.

    Grace, a twenty-something with hemiplegic migraines, joins a support group for people living with chronic pain and illness where she finds she is the youngest person there by more than 30 years. Thinking she’ll have nothing in common with any of the group members, she meets Dennis, a man in his late 60’s who starts harassing her about...
    A Millennial and a Baby Boomer form a rare bond in one act.

    Grace, a twenty-something with hemiplegic migraines, joins a support group for people living with chronic pain and illness where she finds she is the youngest person there by more than 30 years. Thinking she’ll have nothing in common with any of the group members, she meets Dennis, a man in his late 60’s who starts harassing her about being in the wrong place. What starts off as bickering between two people certain they’ll never understand each other quickly changes when they bond over a shared grief; his from a life he’s lost and hers from a life she’ll never have.

    This dark comedy explores the grief experienced, friendships made, and bonds formed at the onset of chronic illness.

    *In this edition, the support group takes place on Zoom
  • Grace & Dennis by Ali Hardy
    Cast: 
    3
    ·
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
    ·
    Keyword: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, disability, Rare Disease, boomer-millennial conflict, coping with loss, death, grief, support group
    A Millennial and a Baby Boomer form a rare bond in one act.

    Grace, a twenty-something with hemiplegic migraines, goes to a support group for people living with chronic pain and illness where she finds she is the youngest person there by more than 30 years. Thinking she’ll have nothing in common with any of the group members, she meets Dennis, a man in his late 60’s who starts harassing her about...
    A Millennial and a Baby Boomer form a rare bond in one act.

    Grace, a twenty-something with hemiplegic migraines, goes to a support group for people living with chronic pain and illness where she finds she is the youngest person there by more than 30 years. Thinking she’ll have nothing in common with any of the group members, she meets Dennis, a man in his late 60’s who starts harassing her about being in the wrong place. What starts off as bickering between two people certain they’ll never understand each other quickly changes when they bond over a shared grief; his from a life he’s lost and hers from a life she’ll never have.

    This dark comedy explores the grief experienced, friendships made, and bonds formed at the onset of chronic illness.