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Malvolio, a play with music
book & lyrics by Betty Shamieh
music by Matt Gould

Malvolio, a play with music
book & lyrics by Betty Shamieh
music by Matt Gould

Cristina
written and directed by Francine Volpe
dramaturgy by Madeleine George

Myrtle Schmidt play
by Deb Margolin

The working portion of this Creativity Fund project is closed.

The Creativity Fund offers playwrights extended time to explore and develop new plays and musicals up to five days.

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Opium
by Susan Mosakowski

Opium is about the role governments play in drug trafficking, and it’s about the individuals who are corrupted by the government they serve. The play investigates how narcotics infiltrate the life of a nation dependent on drugs.

The working portion of this Creativity Fund project is closed.

Screaming Pigeon
by Jenny Schwartz
directed by Oliver Butler

DUE TO WEATHER, THE READING OF CRISTINA IS CANCELLED.

Cristina
written and directed by Francine Volpe
dramaturgy by Madeleine George

DUE TO WEATHER, THE READING OF CRISTINA IS CANCELLED.

Cristina
written and directed by Francine Volpe
dramaturgy by Madeleine George

Screaming Pigeon
by Jenny Schwartz
directed by Oliver Butler

Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

written and directed by Lucas Hnath

Expert Judgement…is an adaptation of a government report of the same name. The working session will explore a draft-in-progress with the intention of further developing the story and the play's particular theatrical grammar.

Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag
written and directed by Sibyl Kempson
composed by Ashley Turba
musical direction by Gavin Price
dramaturgy by Jody McAuliffe

Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag
written and directed by Sibyl Kempson
composed by Ashley Turba
musical direction by Gavin Price
dramaturgy by Jody McAuliffe

Falling Down the Stairs
by Mona Mansour and Tala Manassah

Dat Black Mermaid Man Lady
written by Sharon Bridgforth
performer/collaborator Virginia Grise
dramaturg Kyla Searle
featuring Daniel Alexander Jones and Kelly Erin Sloan

Dat Black Mermaid Man Lady
written by Sharon Bridgforth
performer/collaborator Virginia Grise
dramaturg Kyla Searle
featuring Daniel Alexander Jones and Kelly Erin Sloan

This Exquisite Corpse
by Mia Chung
directed by Eric Ting

Solbi finds herself multiplied, dislocated, translated, and in a wrestling match with her tongue -- and she needs to find a way to talk about it.

The working portion of this Creativity Fund project is closed.

The Creativity Fund offers playwrights extended time to explore and develop new plays and musicals up to five days.

Fall Springs
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
composed by Niko Tsakalakos
directed by Stephen Brackett

Fall Springs
book and lyrics by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
music and lyrics by Niko Tsakalakos
directed by Stephen Brackett
musical direction by Salomon Lerner

People Sitting in Darkness
by Clarence Coo
directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh

In this comic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in the early 20th-century Philippines, a small town prepares to stage a performance for their American occupiers. Their play, based on an American novel about a young boy and an escaped slave rafting down the Mississippi, will either earn the townspeople their freedom --or more trouble from the US military.

People Sitting in Darkness
by Clarence Coo
directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh

In this comic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in the early 20th-century Philippines, a small town prepares to stage a performance for their American occupiers. Their play, based on an American novel about a young boy and an escaped slave rafting down the Mississippi, will either earn the townspeople their freedom --or more trouble from the US military.