Writer’s Stage
Writer’s Stage evokes the spirit of a literary salon, gathering novelists, poets, and playwrights to share recent work or new pieces written in response to the exhibition. Taking place at Nunu Fine Art New York, Writer’s Stage creates dialogue between the work on view and the performer in real time, fostering an atmosphere of exchange and collaboration. In an era dominated by screens, we seek to create a space for in-person interaction through the connective power of art and the written word.
Upcoming Event
Nunu Fine Art New York is pleased to announce the sixth iteration of its Writer’s Stage series: “From A to Z: 3-D Poems,” a reading by poet and author Charles Bernstein. Bernstein is the author of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Topsy-Turvy (Chicago, 2021), and Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016). For this program, he will read selections from 50 years of poetry in dialogue with the works in Nancy Bowen: From A to Z and the Bodies in Between, including poems from his recent book Topsy-Turvy and his forthcoming collection, Dodging. Please join us for this special event on June 24, 2026, from 6:15 to 7:30 pm at Nunu Fine Art New York.
Nunu Fine Art New York is excited to welcome playwright, producer, and performer Amanda Andrews back to the gallery for “Mental Health Writer’s Salon.” This event brings together writer and stand-up comedian Jonah Bowen, novelist and short-story writer Kerry Cullen, and comedy writer and director Virginia Dickens, who along with Andrews will share work they have written surrounding issues of mental health. The seventh installment of our Writer’s Stage series, this event will take place on July 9, 2026, from 7:00 – 8:00 pm, and is completely free and open to the public. We hope you will join us then.
Past Event
Nunu Fine Art will be hosting an exclusive preview performance of "Bipolarcoaster," an original one-woman musical about mental health that is set to run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.
Join award-winning writer, singer, and actress, Amanda Andrews for a vulnerably wild ride on the edge of the mental health spectrum. Inspired by personal experiences, BIPOLARCOASTER is a one-woman play about harnessing self-awareness and finding empowerment through taking responsibility for mental health. Performed alongside critically acclaimed composer and musician Kyle Lacy, Bipolarcoaster is bursting with original music, unfiltered narrative, and light hearted humor.
Amanda and Kyle have been developing BIPOLARCOASTER since performing it at the Rochester Fringe Festival in September 2025. Audience remarks include: "favorite at Fringe," "relatable and encouraging," "resonated with me and made me laugh."
Biploarcoaster at Edinburgh Festival Fringe: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/bipolarcoaster
Kyle Lacy is currently the musical director and guitarist for the Grammy-nominated Group Harlem Gospel Travelers (Colemine Records). He also has cheekbones for days and hair that Elvis stole (remember that time machine?) His 2nd solo album, Pleasurecraft, came out January 20, 2023. Together with his band, he has held a Saturday residency at NYC’s Club Groove for 4 straight years, and in 2025 was featured on Guitaro5000’s youtube channel telling the story of his vocal surgery and subsequent spiritual and musical recovery.
Website: kylelacymusic.com
IG: @kylelacymusic instagram.com/kylelacymusic
Nunu Fine Art New York, in collaboration with Sonnabend and Ubu Gallery, NY, is excited to announce the fifth installment of its Writer’s Stage on April 23, 2026. The gallery is pleased to offer their New York space to host this program, offering select writers the opportunity to share their work among fellow writers, artists and friends.
“UNDER OUR SKIN -- Poets Respond to Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire” brings together Abigail Child, William Lessard, and Andrew Levy as well as event organizer Susan Lewis. The group of poets will respond to the pieces currently on view in the gallery by Hans Bellmer, Bruce Nauman, and Rona Pondick, who are separated by generations and geographies, yet united by their engagement with the human body as material, and subject, and as a tool for experimentation and exploration of the implications of the psychic self.
Nunu Fine Art New York is excited to announce the fourth installment of its Writer’s Stage on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. The gallery is pleased to offer their New York space to host this program, offering select writers the opportunity to share their work among fellow writers, artists and friends.
13.77 billion years and 10 minutes ago something happened.
The rest is history.
And then the humans arrived.
Paul McNeill will share a few chapters from his soon-to-be-published eccentric take on history. Please join us for an informal and light-hearted exploration of the question, "how did we get here?"
Nunu Fine Art New York is excited to announce the third installment of its Writer’s Stage on December 17, 2025. The gallery is pleased to offer their New York space to host this program, offering select writers the opportunity to share their work among fellow writers, artists and friends.
Featured Readers & Performers:
Kevin Holohan, a Dubliner living in Brooklyn, is the author of the novels The Brothers’ Lot and So You Wanna Run a Country?
James Rogers, a native of County Leitrim and a mathematician by training, is author of the novel Flight of the Eternal Emperor.
Maeve Price, an actor, performer and storyteller, is from a small town north of Dublin City and lives in a small town north of New York City.
Áine Duggan, a County Cork-born resident of Brooklyn, is the CEO and president of the Partnership to End Homelessness.
Event Emcees:
Anthony C. Murphy is from Rochdale, England. His most recent book is The House of Murph.
Peter McDermott was born and raised in Dublin. He is deputy editor of the New York-based Irish Echo newspaper.
Nunu Fine Art New York is excited to announce the second Writer’s Stage on October 22nd, 2025.
A nation bitterly, irreconcilably divided over political issues. Military units used to disperse nonviolent demonstrators. The United States today, in which our Secretary of War urges officers and soldiers to “practice” on American civilians, exhibits disturbing parallels with the U.S. on May 4, 1970. That day, Ohio National Guard troops, having occupied the campus of Kent State University, opened fire on unarmed students who were gathered to protest the War in Vietnam. Nine young people were wounded and four were killed.
International art critic Richard Vine, former managing editor of Art in America, was a participant in this historic encounter at the age of 21. In “A Very Public Murder: Witnessing the Kent State Killings” he will give a first-person account, vividly illustrated with on-the-scene photographs, reconstructing the May 4th massacre, as well local events leading up to the deadly confrontation and the legal absurdities that followed.
Vine will conclude the evening with brief excerpts from his unpublished novel “Death Lessons,” which examines the Kent State killings from two alternating timeframes, 1970 and 2000. The immersive narrative, relating crimes both real and fictional, past and current, is largely cast in what he calls “the eternal present of traumatic memory.”
Nunu Fine Art New York is excited to introduce the debut evening of Nunu Fine Art’s Writer’s Stage on September 23rd, 2025.
The gallery is pleased to offer their New York space to host this program, offering select writers the opportunity to share their work among fellow writers, artists and friends. We are grateful to George Michaelsen Foy for organizing the launch of the Writer’s Stage series.
The quartet of Bridgins, Foy, Judell and Valladares performs an experimental reading of super-short stories, shards of poetry, lightning-prose and other pieces that take off from an initial prompt and boldly follow that theme to unpredictable destinations. The technique: Starting with that prompt (which the audience may suggest), each of these four award-winning writers, poets and critics will dive into their deepest darkest laptop files for a fast story or excerpt that riffs off the previous reader's. The result: a wild, original foray into memory, creativity, and the unknown.