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THE TOTALITARIANS
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Directed by Kenneth Prestininzi

It's the "most important election of your lifetime" in Nebraska and one couple is caught in the middle. Is candidate Penelope Easter the best thing to happen to the state or is she part of a conspiracy to transform it into a Totalitarian regime? Depends what you choose to believe.

Taylor Mac will work in closed session on his new play The Mikado P.A..

The working portion of this Creativity Fund is closed.

Creativity Fund offers playwrights the opportunity to workshop new plays or musicals for up to five days.

Learn more about Creativity Fund.

This Creativity Fund project was made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

New Dramatists presents the 11th annual PlayTime, a 2-week developmental lab for five plays-in-progress designed to give playwrights the time and space needed to explore, workshop, rethink, and revise ambitious new work in a collaborative company of directors, actors, other writers and New Dramatists staff. PlayTime offers our writers one of the most extended, intensive developmental processes available within our year-round artistic programming.

Lempicka
book and lyrics by Carson Kreitzer
music by Matt Gould
directed by Mark Wing-Davey

A new musical inspired by the tempestuous life of Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka.

This project is commissioned by the Yale Repertory Theatre through New Dramatists' Full Stage USA program.

Before Midnight (working title)
book and lyrics by Tanya Barfield
music and lyrics by Clark Suprynowicz
directed by Patricia McGregor

It's 1967. Race riots ignite in America's cities. A charismatic band of revolutionaries throws gas on the fire, hoping a better America will rise from the ashes. A young black man arrives in town to join the movement. An FBI agent is given an assignment he can’t stomach. A swaggering outlaw is surveilled. And every Saturday, a roomful of kids need their pancake breakfast.

Resident playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb will work on his new play The Totalitarians with director Ken Prestininzi.

This project is commissioned by the National New Play Network through New Dramatists' Full Stage USA program.

Full Stage USA pairs New Dramatists residents with producing organizations nationwide.

Learn more about Full Stage USA.

String
Book by Sarah Hammond
Lyrics & Music by Adam Gwon
directed by Kent Nicholson

Winner of the Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre

A prickly and romantic new musical about the three Fates from Greek mythology, also selected for the O'Neill Music Theater Festival with four performances in Connecticut at the end of June.

String will be presented in an open public reading on Friday, June 8 at 2pm. Please call 212-757-6960 for reservations.

String
Book by Sarah Hammond
Lyrics & Music by Adam Gwon
directed by Kent Nicholson

Winner of the Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre

A prickly and romantic new musical about the three Fates from Greek mythology, also selected for the O'Neill Music Theater Festival with four performances in Connecticut at the end of June.

String will be presented in an open public reading on Friday, June 8 at 2pm. Please call 212-757-6960 for reservations.

Resident playwright Tanya Barfield will work with director Leigh Silverman on an untitled new play.

Creativity Fund offers playwrights the opportunity to workshop new plays or musicals for up to five days.

Learn more about Creativity Fund.

This Creativity Fund project was made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Resident playwright Carson Kreitzer will work with composer Matt Gould on their new musical Lempicka.

This project is commissioned by the Yale Repertory Theatre through New Dramatists' Full Stage USA program.

Full Stage USA pairs New Dramatists residents with producing organizations nationwide.

Learn more about Full Stage USA.

This Lingering Life takes place in someplace like the U.S., where we meet a woman with tragic hair, feudal warriors, a mother whose son was kidnapped, a blind beggar, dead lovers, a pathetic old man in love with a teenager, a boy whose father is an arrow, and other sentient beings. It all happens in the present time, except when it happens in an ancient era.

Chiori will work with director David Herskovits May 14 - 18, with an open reading on May 18 at 3pm. Please call New Dramatists for reservations at 212-757-6960.

Carson Kreitzer will work in closed session with composer Erin Kamler and director Wendy McClellan Anderson on the new musical Runway 69.

Creativity Fund offers playwrights the opportunity to workshop new plays or musicals for up to five days.

Learn more about Creativity Fund.

This Creativity Fund project was made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The French call it “élan vital”, the Romans called it “vital spark,” smoothie makers in Berkley call it “raw energy”, hipsters in Williamsburg call it “Red Bull”, Chinese philosophers call it “Qi.” Whatever you call it, plays, especially early drafts, are hopefully filled with vitality or Qi. In rewriting, the goal is to build on those furious first sparks, to maximize the flow of Qi throughout your play, without snuffing out the impulses behind the initial creation. But how?

Lucy Thurber will work in closed session with a company of collaborators on a new play.

This Creativity Fund project was made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.