Topics – Creativity Fund

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.

Skin in the Game
by Mia Chung
directed by Katie Brook

Three of the best and the brightest prepare to take their places in life after MIT.

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.

Learn more about Creativity Fund.

White Noise Machine
by Sylvan Oswald
directed by Anna Brenner

Sylvan Oswald will be trying out a devised process for generating a new play, White Noise Machine, in collaboration with director Anna Brenner. The project is inspired by abstract painter Agnes Martin. It explores sleep, aging, artistic grief, death, and getting out of ruts by making big scary changes. Composer Max Vernon will also participate.

Tom Visits His Sister Rose One Last Time
by Kenneth Prestininzi
Katya Stanislavskaya, composer
Rachel Chavkin, director

Tom Visits His Sister Rose One Last Time
by Kenneth Prestininzi
Katya Stanislavskaya, composer
Rachel Chavkin, director

I Will Be Gone
by Erin Courtney
directed by Oliver Butler

Erin Courtney will spend the week working on a new play in collaboration with actors and a director.

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.

The Revolution of Dreams
by Julie Marie Myatt
directed/facilitated by Adam Greenfield

Julie Marie Myatt will spend a week working on a brand new project: short inter-related one acts. She will explore a new process of creating plays working in collaboration with a company of actors and director.

The working portion of this Creativity Fund project is closed.

What God Hath Wrought: A Transatlantic Farce
by John Walch
directed by Shana Gold

What God Hath Wrought: A Transatlantic Farce
by John Walch
directed by Shana Gold

Your Name Will Follow You Home
by Carlos Murillo
directed by Kip Fagan

Danny Santiago’s novel-Famous All Over Town, was a gritty, authentic depiction of Chicano life in East LA told through the eyes of a troubled teenager. But who is the real Danny Santiago? And is the work authentic? Charlie Chaplin. Communists in Hollywood. HUAC. The Blacklist. 50s B-Monster Movies. Architectural Fantasias. Fake Latinos. Jesse James.

The Javier Plays by Carlos Murillo is an inventive and epic trilogy concerning a fictional playwright named Javier C. and delving into themes of authenticity, truth, and self-made mythology. This work has been developed at Steppenwolf’s First Look, Atlantic Studio’s MixFest, Playtime at New Dramatists, Sundance Theater Lab, Page 73, and Watermill Center, among others.

A Thick Description Of Harry Smith
by Carlos Murillo
directed by Kip Fagan

Diagram Of A Paper Airplane
by Carlos Murillo
directed by Kip Fagan

The Wholehearted
Stein | Holum Projects
co-creator Deborah Stein
co-creator Suli Holum

The Last Of The Little Hours
by Annie Baker

Annie Baker will be working on a brand new play in the company of collaborators.

The working portion of this Creativity Fund project is closed.

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

Learn more about Creativity Fund.

Sustainable Living
by Jennifer Haley
directed by Daniella Topol

Emily and Darren have the perfect creative life. He’s a celebrated architect, designer of their breathtaking green home above Los Angeles, and she’s launched an eco-charity to save a village on the other side of the world. But one evening with a reality producer, her husband, and Darren’s erstwhile best friend, the couple must take a hard look at the course of their future.

Sustainable Living
by Jennifer Haley
directed by Daniella Topol

Emily and Darren have the perfect creative life. He’s a celebrated architect, designer of their breathtaking green home above Los Angeles, and she’s launched an eco-charity to save a village on the other side of the world. But one evening with a reality producer, her husband, and Darren’s erstwhile best friend, the couple must take a hard look at the course of their future.

The Two Tanyas
by Andy Bragen
directed by Erik Pearson

Tanya is trying to cat-sit, but the cat is nowhere to be found. She has ordered pizza, but the pizza boy won’t arrive. She has all kinds of plans—but how do you pursue them when your life has become another person’s subplot? Written for one actress and one large, mysterious trunk, The Two Tanyas is a fractured journey through the mind and memory of a woman stung by betrayal.

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

The Two Tanyas
by Andy Bragen
directed by Erik Pearson

Tanya is trying to cat-sit, but the cat is nowhere to be found. She has ordered pizza, but the pizza boy won’t arrive. She has all kinds of plans—but how do you pursue them when your life has become another person’s subplot? Written for one actress and one large, mysterious trunk, The Two Tanyas is a fractured journey through the mind and memory of a woman stung by betrayal.