Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 2025 rendition of TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices! is now available ON DEMAND for 4 days only: from Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 4pm thru Monday, December 15, 2025 at 10pm EST. TRUSpeak blurs the line between theater and film with four powerful short plays, adapted and filmed for virtual presentation. Tickets start at $15 for TRU members and $20 for non-members and can be purchased here – tickets are considered a donation to TRU and fully tax deductible.

TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices! featuring a star-studded cast: Veanne Cox, Douglas Fries, Wesley Han, Kiana Kabeary, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Dick Monday, Jon Okabayashi, Tonya Pinkins, Mike Roche, Elizabeth Teeter, Lori Vega, and Stephen Woosley. With special appearances by Joanna Gleason, Allison Janney and ShakinaNayfack.

Executive Producers: Carley Santori, Janel C. Scarborough

TRU Technical Director: Tamra Pica

Executive Director: Bob Ost

Founding Producer: Iben Cenholt/consultant

Program:

PYOTR & DMITRI by Clinton Festa

with Douglas Fries and Stephen Woosley

Soviet suppression nearly silenced the music. The ghost of Tchaikovsky appears to a desperate Shostakovich in an artistic dance of survival.

Directed by Kingsley Lims Nyarko | Produced by Amy Drake

Director of Photography Andrew Collins | Editors Ernest Kay, Kingsley Lims Nyarko

Assistant Producer Patrick Thibodeaux | Script Supervisor Regan Jordan

Sound Amene Alshaer | Set Dressing Gaynelle Sloman

Production Design Ross Osterholt

SAFE HARBOR by James McLindon

with Tony nominee Veanne Cox (Company revival, Caroline, or Change), Kiana Kabeary and Tony winner TonyaPinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, Caroline or Change).

Life, death and the Texas legislature. A doctor and a hospital attorney clash over the fate of a young, endangered mother.

Directed by Megan Hess | Produced by Cady Huffman

Director of Photography Jeanette Bears | Editor Carley Santori

Co-Producer Wendy Waring | Sound Ryan Alberti | Sound Designer Dennis Dembeck

Production Designer Scotty Salame | Costumes Donald Sanders

RECKONER by Scott C. Sickles

with Wesley Han, Jon Okabayashi, Mike Roche and Lori Vega

When words fail the consequences can be explosive. A violent day of reckoning for a young trans girl and her family.

Directed by Janet Bentley | Produced by Carolyn M. Brown

Director of Photography Andy Evan Cohen | Editor Joshua Santora

RIDING LESSONS by Brett Hursey

with Tony nominee Sky Lakota-Lynch (The Outsiders), Dick Monday and Elizabeth Teeter (The Heathers off-Broadway).

Boy meets girl meets clown. A three-part duet of self-acceptance.

Directed by Misti B. Wills | Produced by Mike Katona

Director of Photography Christopher Smith | Editor Matthew Brennan

Assistant Director Kayla Katona | Production Coordinator Rachel Bass

Sound Eliza Carlisle | Assistant Camera Luka Vonier | Background Max Reihs

Hair and Makeup Rachel Toledo | Production Assistants Jay Chacon, Max Reihs

Visual Effects Jack Bellomo, John Laidlaw | Music Brian Katona

Graphic Design Kristen Thompson

TRUSpeak is a fundraiser for Theater Resources Unlimited. Admission price is a donation and may be fully tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. Thanks to SAG-AFTRA for enabling us to produce TRUSpeak using the micro-budget agreement which makes it possible to use the talented union actors who perform in these films.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is the leading network for developing theater professionals, a thirty-three-year-old 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created to help producers produce, emerging theater companies to emerge healthily and all theater professionals to understand and navigate the business of the arts. Membership includes self-producing artists as well as career producers and theater companies.

TRU publishes an email community newsletter of services, opportunities and productions; presents weekly Community Gatherings about the arts, and monthly Town Halls about current social issues; offers a Producer Development & Mentorship Program taught by prominent producers and general managers in New York theater, and also presents Producer Boot Camp workshops to help aspirants develop business skills. TRU serves writers through the TRU Voices Play Reading Series, TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices (adapting short plays into films), Writer-Producer Speed Date, a Practical Playwriting Workshop, How to Write a Musical That Works and a Director-Writer Communications Lab.

Programs of Theater Resources Unlimited are supported in part by the Leibowitz Greenway Foundation; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

For more information about TRU membership and programs, visit www.truonline.org.

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