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13P, The Innovative American Playwrights Collective, Implodes and Launches "A...
In 2003, concerned that the trend of endless readings and development programs was limiting the texture and ambition of new American plays, 13 midcareer playwrights banded together to try a different...
View ArticleMy America: The Subcontractor
by Andy Bragen, resident playwright Centerstage in Baltimore commissioned 50 short monologues based upon the theme of “My America” from a wide variety of American playwrights, including a number of New...
View ArticleND Alum Ellen Maddow Previews The Talking Band's "Obskene" at HERE
by Ellen Maddow, New Dramatists Class of 2010I am working on a deliciously challenging new theatre work that is opening on November 1 at HERE Arts Center. Its called Obskene and It is a Talking Band...
View ArticleFormer New Dramatists Program Director Cliff Goodwin Passes Away
Cliff Goodwin, program director of New Dramatists into the 1970s, has passed away. For New Dramatists, Goodwin produced workshop stagings of over 150 new American plays.
View ArticleTarell McCraney’s Haitian "Antony and Cleopatra" Set for Miami
Big dreams for his Miami hometown have always figured in playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s globetrotting life in theater. Next season, one of those dreams will come true when South Florida’s...
View Article2012 PlayTime Developmental Studio Playwrights Announced
New Dramatists, an artistic home and creative laboratory for talented, professional playwrights, is holding its eleventh annual PlayTime Developmental Studio December 2 through 14. This year’s...
View ArticleQ & A with Playwright Mia Chung
Playwright Mia Chung is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Mia recently spoke with WeLoveDC about playwriting, Asian-American representation in theater, and...
View ArticleA Lover’s Guide to American Playwrights: Stephen Adly Guirgis
New York’s LAByrinth Theater Company announces a new Stephen Adly Guirgis play. My pulse goes jumpy. It’s a curious thrill in the oh-so-appropriate American theater, this combo of playwright and acting...
View ArticleTaylor Mac Reveals His Inner Thoughts in Short Film "Walk"
In this beautiful 2007 short film by Matthew Snead, ND resident playwright Taylor Mac makes his way across London and shares some of his inner thoughts.
View ArticleND Alum Eisa Davis to Star in Resident Kirsten Greenidge's "Luck of the...
Lincoln Center's LCT3 has announced that Marsha Stephanie Blake, Eisa Davis, Dashiell Eaves, Frank Harts, Robert Hogan, Jenny O'Hara, Carra Patterson, Amanda Quaid, and Victor Williams will be featured...
View ArticleBerkeley Rep Presents Dan LeFranc's "Troublemaker"
How does one stage a chaotic chase scene, a duke-out between good and evil, and the wide-open, anything-goes action-adventure landscape of a kid's imagination - all on the decidedly confining 14- to...
View ArticleFunding Theater With Imagination
The Wall Street Journal asked 40 New York-based theater artists to anonymously distribute $1 million each in imaginary funds to other local artists, ensembles, theaters and institutions. New Dramatists...
View ArticleOn Neutrality: A Discussion Between Christina Anderson & Richard Maxwell
Current New Dramatists resident playwright Richard Maxwell interviews fellow resident Christina Anderson as her play Hollow Roots runs at New York City's Under the Radar Festival.
View ArticleResident Playwright David Wiener Discusses Joseph Chaikin and His Play...
Resident playwright David Wiener is currently seeing his play Cassiopeia have its world premiere at Boston Court in Pasadena, CA. In this video from the theater David discusses the play and his...
View ArticleArtistic Director Todd London to Give Keynote Address at NoPassport Theatre...
New Dramatists Artistic Director will be the keynote speaker at the 7th annual NoPe - NoPassport Theatre Conference on March 1. Todd's new book The Importance of Staying Earnest: Writings from Inside...
View ArticleU.K. New Play Development Forum Video and Storify Now Available
Watch video and read the Storify transcription of the follow-up Twitter conversation for OVER THERE, OVER HERE: A Forum on New Play Development in the U.K. right here.
View ArticleResident Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney & Alum Stephen Adly Guirgis Among...
Playwrights Tarell Alvin McCraney, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Naomi Wallace are among nine winners of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, a new award administered by Yale...
View ArticleLarry Pine to Play Walt Disney in World Premiere of Lucas Hnath Play
Stage, screen and TV veteran Larry Pine will star as the iconic studio founder in the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's play A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney...
View ArticleArtistic Director Todd London Publishes Writings from Inside the American...
In the theater, as New Dramatists artistic director Todd London reminds us, the difference between critics and artists is the power of Yes. A critic is the spirit that says No. An artist is the spirit...
View ArticleSibyl Kempson: The Push and Pull of Playwrighting
Experimental theater too often gets a bad rap for being dour—weirdness and seriousness in equal measure. But what about humor? That factor may help explain why the plays of Sibyl Kempson, who can be...
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