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MOVERS + SHAKERS
by Deborah Stein and co-creator Suli Holum

A Stein | Holum Project

Women Laughing Alone with Salad by Sheila Callaghan

A trashy feminist deconstruction of the popular internet meme.

Commissioned by the UMBC Theater Department.

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

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

Untitled new play by Lucas Hnath

A new play, commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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

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

The Eva Trilogy by Barbara Hammond

The culmination of three years of writing and imaginative effort to introduce Eva to the world- through three play-hours of theatre-and from three angles-the seafront door, the courthouse on the river Liffey and the Corsican mountaintop. There will be a public showing of all three plays later in the month!

Directed by Kevin Kittle and Louisa Proske.

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

Mr. Joy by Daniel Beaty

Directed by Sheryl Kaller
Sound by Lindsay Jones
Photography/Projections by Josh Lehrer
Stage-managed by Jane Pole.

Mr. Joy by Daniel Beaty

Directed by Sheryl Kaller
Sound by Lindsay Jones
Photography/Projections by Josh Lehrer
Stage-managed by Jane Pole

Mr. Joy by Daniel Beaty

Directed by Sheryl Kaller
Sound by Lindsay Jones
Photography/Projections by Josh Lehrer
Stage-managed by Jane Pole

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.

Adam Bock will work with director Trip Cullman and a cast of actors on his new play The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

Fall Springs: A Musical Disaster
book and lyrics by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
music and lyrics by Nikos Tsakalakos

A musical comedy about a town in danger of sinking into the ground and nobody does anything to stop it before it's too late. (You know, just like Lower Manhattan.)

This workshop is in process and is closed to the public.

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

River See by Sharon Bridgforth

River See explores blues stories as living arrangements of jazz. Playwright Sharon Bridgforth will experiment with conducting dancers, singers and musicians in creating a moving soundscape that supports her raucous/juking text.

River See received a 2012 MAP Fund Award and a 2012 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award. For more information, please go to sharonbridgforth.com.

River See by Sharon Bridgforth

River See explores blues stories as living arrangements of jazz. Playwright Sharon Bridgforth will experiment with conducting dancers, singers and musicians in creating a moving soundscape that supports her raucous/juking text.

River See received a 2012 MAP Fund Award and a 2012 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award. For more information, please go to sharonbridgforth.com.

The Eva Trilogy by Barbara Hammond
Eva the Chaste, Enter the Roar, and The Great Walk
directed by Kevin Kittle, along with Rachael Hip-Flores and Louisa Proske

All three pieces; 3 plays. 3 hours. Set in Ireland, Paris and the most difficult hiking trail in Corsica.

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

Rich Man's Burden by Daniel Reitz

Mike inconspicuously works for a monster conglomerate - or he thinks inconspicuously - until the day the conglomerate's billionaire owner unleashes a preemptive strike on Mike, in the form of sexual servitude, blackmail and mind f***ing. A tale of the point one percent and its ongoing rape of the 99.99%.

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

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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.

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

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.

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, radically edited by Tarell Alvin McCraney

Eugenie Chan will work with director Ken Rus Schmoll on her play, Madame Ho.

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

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

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.