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New Dramatists is an organization of playwrights founded in 1949 and located at 424 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen (Clinton) neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The members of New Dramatists participate in seven-year residencies to build up their playwriting skills and develop their careers. [1] In ...
Theatre Genesis was an off-off-Broadway theater founded in 1964 by Ralph Cook. Located in the historic St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village of Manhattan, it produced the work of new American playwrights, including Lanford Wilson, Tony Barsha, Murray Mednick, Leonard Melfi, Walter Hadler, and Sam Shepard.
The Lark offered many fellowships to playwrights [8] [9] including The Pony Fellowship, offered between 2007 [10] and 2016 [11] which gave one playwright each year a free New York apartment, a substantial cash stipend and the chance to participate in The Lark's Playwrights Workshop. [12] The company moved to a new space in 2011.
A strong New York season of playwriting features David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face,' Max Wolf Friedlich's sleeper hit 'Job' and, off-Broadway at the Public Theater, James IJames' 'Good Bones'
Playwrights Horizons has worked with over 375 writers and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2005, it was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. [5]
J. Stephen Brantley has lived all over New York City but finds the connection to the history of artists in Greenwich Village a reason to call it home. That and the good ice cream cones, plethora ...
The Public Theater is an arts organization in New York City. Founded by Joseph Papp, The Public Theater was originally the Shakespeare Workshop in 1954; its mission was to support emerging playwrights and performers. [1] Its first production was the musical Hair in 1967. [2]
Founded in 1979 by Robyn Goodman and Carole Rothman, Second Stage produces both new plays and revivals of contemporary American plays by new playwrights and established writers. The company formerly had an off-Broadway theater, the Tony Kiser Theater at 305 West 43rd Street on the corner of Eighth Avenue near the Theater District , as well as ...