Alyssa Simon
@alyssasimon.bsky.social
New Yorker, actress, happy to be here.
Tickets and info for The Elephant Delivery & Veteran Authored 10-Minute Comedies at Savage Wonder (formerly Vet Rep) https://savagewonder.org/event/the-elephant-delivery-veteran-authored-10-minute-plays/2025-09-13/
Tickets and info for The Elephant Delivery & Veteran Authored 10-Minute Comedies at Savage Wonder (formerly Vet Rep) https://savagewonder.org/event/the-elephant-delivery-veteran-authored-10-minute-plays/2025-09-13/
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my Wuthering, Wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my Wuthering, Wuthering
Wuthering Heights
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my Wuthering, Wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my Wuthering, Wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Wishing everyone who celebrates a happy and luminous Diwali!
October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Wishing everyone who celebrates a happy and luminous Diwali!
This gorgeous illustration by Carolyn Raship is for the latest play I’m in, “Blood, Sweat and Queers” for the Rehearsal For Truth Festival, directed by @edwardeinhorn.bsky.social. We open Monday with a truly brilliant cast. Tickets and info in bio.
May 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This gorgeous illustration by Carolyn Raship is for the latest play I’m in, “Blood, Sweat and Queers” for the Rehearsal For Truth Festival, directed by @edwardeinhorn.bsky.social. We open Monday with a truly brilliant cast. Tickets and info in bio.
HELLISH DELIGHTS was the last play many people saw right before Covid shut down NYC. It’s exciting and a bit emotional to be part of its revival, five years later. We open Friday! Ticket info in bio.
April 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
HELLISH DELIGHTS was the last play many people saw right before Covid shut down NYC. It’s exciting and a bit emotional to be part of its revival, five years later. We open Friday! Ticket info in bio.
A House Divided had a great opening night yesterday with performances tonight through Sunday and then the 27th-30th. Thurs.-Sat. at 8, Sun. at 3. Ticket info in bio.
March 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A House Divided had a great opening night yesterday with performances tonight through Sunday and then the 27th-30th. Thurs.-Sat. at 8, Sun. at 3. Ticket info in bio.
I’m excited to be a part of “A House Divided,” a riveting new play by Joshua Crone, head of Yellow Bicycle Theater in Philadelphia and directed by Thoeger Hansen with a wonderful cast. We open March 20th at The NuBox in Hell’s Kitchen. Ticket info in bio.
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m excited to be a part of “A House Divided,” a riveting new play by Joshua Crone, head of Yellow Bicycle Theater in Philadelphia and directed by Thoeger Hansen with a wonderful cast. We open March 20th at The NuBox in Hell’s Kitchen. Ticket info in bio.
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Jacob Lawrence, 1917-2000, painter who at 23, completed a 60-panel series documenting the Great Migration of African-Americans to the North, the first work of a Black artist in MOMA’s permanent collection and the recipient of the U.S. Medal of Arts.
February 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Jacob Lawrence, 1917-2000, painter who at 23, completed a 60-panel series documenting the Great Migration of African-Americans to the North, the first work of a Black artist in MOMA’s permanent collection and the recipient of the U.S. Medal of Arts.
Happy Black History Month! Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000, poet, teacher and author, first African-American to win the Pulitzer in 1950 for her book of poems “Annie Allen,” first Black poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, Illinois poet laureate and then U.S. poet laureate in 1985.
February 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Happy Black History Month! Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000, poet, teacher and author, first African-American to win the Pulitzer in 1950 for her book of poems “Annie Allen,” first Black poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, Illinois poet laureate and then U.S. poet laureate in 1985.
Happy Black History Month! Dorothy Height, 1912-2010, educational psychologist, activist, head of the YWCA in Wash. DC and president of the Nat. Council of Negro Women over 40 years, called “godmother of the women’s movement,” she was one of the six chief organizers of Dr. King’s Washington march.
February 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Happy Black History Month! Dorothy Height, 1912-2010, educational psychologist, activist, head of the YWCA in Wash. DC and president of the Nat. Council of Negro Women over 40 years, called “godmother of the women’s movement,” she was one of the six chief organizers of Dr. King’s Washington march.
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Carter G. Woodson, 1875-1950, journalist, author and historian named the “father of Black history.” He originated “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became Black History Month and founded the Assoc. for the Study of African-American Life and History.
February 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Carter G. Woodson, 1875-1950, journalist, author and historian named the “father of Black history.” He originated “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became Black History Month and founded the Assoc. for the Study of African-American Life and History.
Happy Black History Month! Today and every winter, I celebrate Alice H. Parker, 1895-1920, inventor of the first central heating gas furnace. In her tragically young life, she designed the 1st heating system to distribute heat evenly throughout a space, via air ducts.
February 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today and every winter, I celebrate Alice H. Parker, 1895-1920, inventor of the first central heating gas furnace. In her tragically young life, she designed the 1st heating system to distribute heat evenly throughout a space, via air ducts.
Happy Black History Month! Today I honor Paul Robeson 1898-1976, world renowned vocalist, actor and most significantly for our time, anti-fascist activist. His gravestone reads, “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery, I have made my choice, I had no alternative.”
February 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today I honor Paul Robeson 1898-1976, world renowned vocalist, actor and most significantly for our time, anti-fascist activist. His gravestone reads, “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery, I have made my choice, I had no alternative.”
Happy Black History Month! Today, I honor Adrienne Kennedy, 1931-, playwright, instructor, novelist and memoirist. Among her very many career recognitions, she received the Gold Medal for Drama in 2022 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, given only to 16 people before.
February 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I honor Adrienne Kennedy, 1931-, playwright, instructor, novelist and memoirist. Among her very many career recognitions, she received the Gold Medal for Drama in 2022 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, given only to 16 people before.
Happy Black History Month! Gordon Parks, 1912-2006, first African-American staff photographer for Life magazine. He used his art to document the fight for civil rights as well as high fashion for Ebony and Vogue. Also 1st Black director of a major Hollywood film, “The Learning Tree” (1969).
February 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happy Black History Month! Gordon Parks, 1912-2006, first African-American staff photographer for Life magazine. He used his art to document the fight for civil rights as well as high fashion for Ebony and Vogue. Also 1st Black director of a major Hollywood film, “The Learning Tree” (1969).
Happy Black History Month! Edmonia Lewis, 1844-1907, sculptor, born in Boston, she lived most of her short life in Rome, creating sculptures honoring her Black and Native American heritage, showing at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. President Ulysses S. Grant commissioned a portrait bust from her.
February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy Black History Month! Edmonia Lewis, 1844-1907, sculptor, born in Boston, she lived most of her short life in Rome, creating sculptures honoring her Black and Native American heritage, showing at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. President Ulysses S. Grant commissioned a portrait bust from her.
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire, 1986-, immunologist and Harvard professor. In 2020, she led a team at the Vaccine Research Center of the federal National Institutes of Health that was central to the development of the Moderna vaccine.
February 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire, 1986-, immunologist and Harvard professor. In 2020, she led a team at the Vaccine Research Center of the federal National Institutes of Health that was central to the development of the Moderna vaccine.
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Ruth E. Carter, 1960-, multi award-winning film and TV costumer, first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar in costume design, which she won twice for both Black Panther films. Other noms for “Malcom X” and “Amistad.”
February 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Ruth E. Carter, 1960-, multi award-winning film and TV costumer, first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar in costume design, which she won twice for both Black Panther films. Other noms for “Malcom X” and “Amistad.”
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Bryant Terry 1974-, artist, James Beard award-winning chef, publisher, author and food activist. His plant-based cookbooks like “Afro-Vegan” offer history, a book and a piece of music to accompany each delicious menu.
February 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Bryant Terry 1974-, artist, James Beard award-winning chef, publisher, author and food activist. His plant-based cookbooks like “Afro-Vegan” offer history, a book and a piece of music to accompany each delicious menu.
Happy Black History Month! Medgar Evers 1925-1963, civil rights activist. At 19, he joined the Red Ball Express, delivering supplies to Allied troops, but met white violence trying to register Black veterans to vote at home. Murdered in 1963, his widow Myrlie Evers became the NAACP national chair.
February 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happy Black History Month! Medgar Evers 1925-1963, civil rights activist. At 19, he joined the Red Ball Express, delivering supplies to Allied troops, but met white violence trying to register Black veterans to vote at home. Murdered in 1963, his widow Myrlie Evers became the NAACP national chair.
Happy Black History Month! Josephine Baker, 1906-1975. Dancer, chanteuse and WWII heroine. She housed Resistance fighters and carried secret documents, writing the information in invisible ink on her sheet music. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
February 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Happy Black History Month! Josephine Baker, 1906-1975. Dancer, chanteuse and WWII heroine. She housed Resistance fighters and carried secret documents, writing the information in invisible ink on her sheet music. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Marsha P. Johnson 1945-1992, activist, cofounder of STAR, an org. for homeless LGBTQ youth, member of Gay Liberation Front and Stonewall resister. Shame on the NPS removing the word “transgender” from the Stonewall Nat. Monument website.
February 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Marsha P. Johnson 1945-1992, activist, cofounder of STAR, an org. for homeless LGBTQ youth, member of Gay Liberation Front and Stonewall resister. Shame on the NPS removing the word “transgender” from the Stonewall Nat. Monument website.
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Ruby Dee 1922-2014 and Ossie Davis 1917-2005, theatre royalty, movie stars and brilliant activists. Mr. Davis was also a director and playwright and they frequently performed together, earning the Nat. Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center honors.
February 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I celebrate Ruby Dee 1922-2014 and Ossie Davis 1917-2005, theatre royalty, movie stars and brilliant activists. Mr. Davis was also a director and playwright and they frequently performed together, earning the Nat. Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center honors.
Happy Black History Month! Marian Anderson, 1897-1993, one of the best contralto singers ever, her Lincoln Memorial concert attracted 75,000 after the DAR refused to let her perform. Her State Dept. sponsored world tour earned her the Nat. Medal of Freedom and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
February 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Happy Black History Month! Marian Anderson, 1897-1993, one of the best contralto singers ever, her Lincoln Memorial concert attracted 75,000 after the DAR refused to let her perform. Her State Dept. sponsored world tour earned her the Nat. Medal of Freedom and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Happy Black History Month! Today, I honor Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784, poet and first African-American author to have their work published. Born in West Africa and enslaved as a child, she read Greek and Latin by 12 and died emancipated but before publishing her second poetry volume.
February 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Happy Black History Month! Today, I honor Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784, poet and first African-American author to have their work published. Born in West Africa and enslaved as a child, she read Greek and Latin by 12 and died emancipated but before publishing her second poetry volume.
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February 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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