Playwrights at Work: February 2025

Spring Luncheon Tribute Honoring Tina Landau and Idina Menzel

New Dramatists, Tony® Honor recipient and the nation's premier playwright development laboratory, invites you to join us as we honor a duo of multi-hyphenate generative artists: Tina Landau, an award-winning playwright, lyricist, and director (Redwood, Floyd Collins, SpongeBob SquarePants), and Tony Award winner Idina Menzel (Redwood, Wicked, Rent) at our Annual Spring Luncheon Tribute on Tuesday, May 27 at the New York Marriott Marquis.

Houghton Hall Arts Community: Our Home Away from Home

New Dramatists, a playwright development organization that supports playwrights through seven-year residencies, is itself “in residence” during the current season: It is with gratitude that we announce the totality of our work – administrative and artistic - is taking place at Houghton Hall Arts Community, 22 East 30th Street, while we assess and conduct needed repairs to our building on 44th Street.  

Welcome New Members of the Resident Company!

New Dramatists, an artistic home and developmental laboratory for professional playwrights, is proud to announce the addition of five writers to its illustrious, dynamic resident playwright company: Nkenna Akunna, Hilary Bettis, Edwin Rivera-Arias, Jesús I. Valles, and Deborah Yarchun.

2025 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre

The Kleban Foundation announces the recipients of the 35th annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre. The 2025 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to Benjamin Velez. The 2025 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist has been awarded to Madeline Myers.

New Dramatists administers the Kleban Prize on behalf of the Kleban Foundation. Applications for the 2026 Prize will be accepted March 17 through May 15, 2025.

Click here for application information.

New Dramatists' Statement of Equity, Diversity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

The principles of equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion (EDAI) are embedded in the founding of our organization. To read our EDAI mission and values statement, and to learn about the process for articulating this community statement and putting it into practice, please click here 

Welcome to the Board!

We are delighted to welcome two new talented individuals to New Dramatists' board of directors this fiscal year: Chisa Hutchinson, recent New Dramatists alumni playwright and Ian Calderon, who brings robust experience from Sundance Institute, and many other institutions. In addition, we welcome Andrea Stolowitz, who fills a rotating current resident playwright seat on the board which was recently vacated by outgoing playwright, Cori Thomas.

Welcome Lauren Holmes, the 2024-2025 Princess Grace Fellow in Playwriting!

Congratulations to Lauren Holmes, recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/2024-2025 Fellowship at New Dramatists. 

New Dramatists administers the application process on behalf of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA. This year, we will accept open submissions beginning March 3, 2025 until March 17, 2025 OR UNTIL A CAP OF 35O SUBMISSIONS IS REACHED, whichever comes first. Guidelines will be posted in January, 2025.

Welcome to Our Spring 2025 Educational Interns!

We are delighted to welcome our spring 2025 Bernard B. Jacobs Educational Interns!

Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta is pursuing a B.A. in Film and English at NYU Gallatin Class of 2026. They join us this spring on an Embedded Internship for the "Contemporary U.S. Playwriting" course taught by New Dramatists' alum and board member, Kristoffer Diaz.

Colette Pitts is pursuing a B.F.A. in Drama at NYU Tisch Class Of 2026.

The Bernard B. Jacobs Academic Internship Program was named in memory of the late President of the Shubert Organization, who discovered and mentored many talented theatre people during his lifetime. This program at New Dramatists offers a unique opportunity for early-career theatre artists and managers to learn about artist-led development and the operations of a non-profit arts service organization in New York City. Interns receive academic credit for their work with us through this program.