Stefanie Zadravec

Resident Playwright

2011 -- 2018

Stefanie Zadravec's plays have been produced/developed at The Kennedy Center, The Women’s Project, PlayPenn, Theater J, The Working Theater, The Barrow Group and San Francisco Playhouse among others. Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J, Working Theater) won the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play and was published in American Theatre magazine. The Electric Baby( Quantum Theatre) received WAMCo's 2011 Women's Collaboration Award. Save Me received the Baltimore Playwrights Festival Award for Outstanding New Play as well as the Phoenix Theatre's National Playwriting Award. Collaborations include: The Fear Project (The Barrow Group) 167 Tongues (Theatre 167) and You Are Now The Owner of This Suitcase (Theatre 167), as well as the upcoming We Play For The Gods (The Women's Project). Stefanie has received fellowships from The Dramatists Guild, Playwrights Realm and the Sewanee Writers Conference and commissions from NYSCA, The Working Theater, OSF/Full Stage USA and Epic Theatre Ensemble. Stefanie is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of the 2012 Women's Project Lab.

ND Activity

Full Stage USA
Full Stage USA
Full Stage USA is forging new partnerships with five producing theatres or networks of producing theatres across the country. Each partnership is designed to commission a writer to create a new script; provide one to two years of writer-driven support and Lab work at New Dramatists; culminate in a full production staged with the partner theatre; and support future productions and the play's continued life. The partners are Cornerstone Theater Company, the National New Play Network, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, and a network of alternative theatres in Austin. Each project is funded through a lead grant from the Andew W. Mellon Foundation.
Pen & Swill
Pen & Swill
Pen & Swill is a catch-all phrase for events designed to stimulate discussion among the resident playwright company on artistic and professional issues. Some are private-just for resident writers-most are open to the public, and they almost always include drinks and snacks.
Writers' Executive Committee
Writers' Executive Committee
The Writers' Executive Committee is a voluntary grouping of resident playwrights who meet throughout the year to discuss and make decisions concerning the work of New Dramatists and to help guide the organization.