{"id":336221,"date":"2026-09-02T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336221\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:21:32","slug":"thomas-ellensons-thomas-me-to-perform-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336221\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Ellenson\u2019s Thomas &#038; Me to Perform in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1852287 size-large\" title=\"Thomas E 348 web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Thomas_E_348_web.jpeg\" alt=\"Thomas E 348 web\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Thomas Ellenson<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Ellenson will star in his play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/shows\/new-york-city-theater\/off-broadway\/thomas-me_1852288\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas &amp; Me<\/a>\u00a0at the Frank Shiner Theater (in the Sheen Center for Culture &amp; Thought) September 24-28.<\/p>\n<p>Ellenson has cerebral palsy and uses a power wheelchair. He wrote, directed, and will star in the play, which is about a man reassessing his life before proposing marriage to his girlfriend. Ellenson will perform the full-length play using a speech-generating device.<\/p>\n<p>The play includes music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Mair\u00e9ad O\u2019Neill and Tyler Austin White will also appear in the production.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas &amp; Me\u00a0is co-directed by Stephen Santa. The musical director is Sujin Kim-Ramsey. Choreography is by Megan Loomis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Ellenson Thomas Ellenson will star in his play Thomas &amp; Me\u00a0at the Frank Shiner Theater (in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}