Hauppauge Woman Takes Her Plays to NYC Stage

When it comes to theater, Hauppauge resident Camile Arnone is a jack-of-all-trades. Her latest work, a series of five short plays that she wrote, produced and directed, will be performed June 29 and 30 at the Abingdon Theatre in New York City.

Each play focuses on life’s lessons including honoring a first love, which draws from Arnone’s experience of losing a friend who killed himself in college, surviving a personal war, which is about six soldiers, a lifelong friendship from the playground to the nursing home. The last play reminds audiences to laugh about the ironic moments in life, in which a woman befriends the man who attempts to rob her house. 

“I hope that the show will make people think about how they’ve made their mark in the world. The people you’ve met and how the experiences you’ve been through have changed you,” she said.

Some of the ideas from the show stem from Arnone’s college years when she studied theater and English at Adelphi University. Some of the actors in the show are also those that Arnone studied with. 

“They’re all very talented and I couldn’t be happier,” she said about the cast.

In addition to her work on stage, during the day, Arnone puts her acting chops to use by helping doctors and nurses practice their dialogue with patients through role-playing activities in clinical settings. She started working with medical professionals at Stony Brook University Medical Center and then branched out to other area hospitals as well. 

To get her show off the ground, Arnone started an indiegogo.com page, in which people can make donations to support the show by helping to either monetarily give, or donate items to be used as set pieces.

“I think it teaches you to be more aware of the affect you have on the world,” she said of the show. “You never know whom you’re changing or what you’re changing. Everything matters. I feel we get so stuck in the mundane going to work and we forget that how you treat people matters and how you love people matters.”