Sylvan Oswald

ND Activity

• Board of Directors

  Board of Directors

  Each fiscal year four current resident playwrights are appointed to the Board of Directors by the Writers' Executive Committee. The playwright board members enjoy full voting and decision-making powers minus the financial requirements of non-playwright directors. They provide a valuable and artist-centered perspective on the governance of New Dramatists.

• Composer-Librettist Studio

  Composer-Librettist Studio

  Our annual Composer-Librettist Studio focuses simultaneously on music-theatre development and the principles of collaboration, teaming five writers with five composers and five performers to develop brand-new works of musical theatre. At the end of the Studio, each playwright has worked with each composer and 25 new music-theatre pieces have been created by the group.

• Creativity Fund

  Creativity Fund

  The Creativity Fund blends the flexibility of a one-day play reading with the intensive focus of a two-week workshop, providing ten to fifteen playwrights per year the opportunity to program three to five day workshops on an ad hoc basis. Creativity Fund workshops are structured according to each writer's needs at any stage of development and are funded through a lead grant from the Andew W. Mellon Foundation.

• Full Stage NYC

  Full Stage NYC

  In 2009, New Dramatists launched Full Stage NYC with major support from the New York Theater Subdistrict Council and Time Warner. Full Stage NYC paired three ND playwrights with three of New York's most adventurous theatre companies to develop a play at ND and have it produced by the theatre: Sylvan Oswald with New Georges, Jordan Harrison with NAATCO, and Daniel Alexander Jones with Soho Rep.

• Whitfield Cook Award

  Whitfield Cook Award

  The Whitfield Cook Award goes to one New Dramatists playwright each year for an unproduced, unpublished play deemed worthiest by an outside panel of judges. The purpose of the award is to provide financial assistance to New Dramatists resident playwrights to encourage and reward their talents in the art of playwriting.

• Writers' Executive Committee

  Writers' Executive Committee

  The Writers' Executive Committee is a voluntary grouping of resident playwrights who meet throughout the year to discuss and make decisions concerning the work of New Dramatists and to help guide the organization.