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Who Can Apply?
• Playwrights living in New York City and the surrounding tri-state area;
• Playwrights outside the tri-state area who are able to demonstrate the ability to spend time in New York City, the desire to utilize New Dramatists’ services, and the readiness to participate in a dynamic artistic community

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• 2 Full-length plays; or
• Books to musicals

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  • David Adjmi

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    David Adjmi is the author of Stunning (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The...

  • Joshua Allen

    Resident Playwright

    2011-present

    Joshua Allen, a native of Chicago, is the recipient of a New Voices/New York Fellowship from The Lark Play Development...

  • Annie Baker

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include Circle Mirror Transformation (...

  • Tanya Barfield

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Tanya Barfield’s plays include Of Equal Measure (Center Theatre Group), Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons...

  • Daniel Beaty

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    Daniel Beaty is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and composer. Recently, his play, Through the Night, had...

  • Adam Bock

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Adam Bock’s plays include Phaedra (Shotgun Players) A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk...

  • Sharon Bridgforth

    Resident Playwright

    2009-present

    Sharon Bridgforth, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009, is a writer working in the Theatrical Jazz...

  • Sheila Callaghan

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Sheila Callaghan’s plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory,...

  • Eugenie Chan

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    Eugenie Chan is a 5th generation San Franciscan whose forefathers sold slippers in Chinatown, dry goods in the desert,...

  • Mia Chung

    Resident Playwright

    2011-present

    Mia Chung is the author of You for Me for You, Exquisite Corpse, Page Not Found, an adaptation...

  • Kristoffer Diaz

    Resident Playwright

    2011-present

    Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright and educator living and working in Brooklyn. Full-length titles include The Elaborate...

  • Kate Fodor

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    Kate Fodor’s newest play, RX, will be produced Off-Broadway as part of Primary Stages’ upcoming season, running...

  • Marcus Gardley

    Resident Playwright

    2005-present

    Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright who was awarded the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright. His most...

  • Madeleine George

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    Madeleine George has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2010. Her plays have been developed and produced...

  • Michael Golamco

    Resident Playwright

    2009-present

    Michael Golamco is an LA-based playwright and screenwriter. His play, Year Zero, received acclaimed runs at...

  • Kirsten Greenidge

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Recently a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, Kirsten Greenidge’s recent work includes Milk Like Sugar (La...

  • Jason Grote

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Jason Grote is a playwright and television writer based in Brooklyn. His plays include 1001, Civilization (...

  • Sarah Hammond

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    The daughter of journalists, Sarah Hammond spent her earliest years in Hong Kong and Belgium before returning to the...

  • Barbara Hammond

    Resident Playwright

    2011-present

    Barbara Hammond, a New Dramatists resident playwright since 2011, is a 2010 Edward Albee Foundation Fellow, a Yale...

  • Rob Handel

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    Rob Handel is a founding member of the playwrights’ collective 13P, which has won two OBIE Awards, and heads the dramatic...

  • Lucas Hnath

    Resident Playwright

    2011-present

    Lucas Hnath’s recent plays include A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney...

  • Quiara Alegría Hudes

    Resident Playwright

    2005-present

    Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Tony and Pulitzer-nominated book writer of Broadway’s In the Heights, which received...

  • Sibyl Kempson

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains.

  • Carson Kreitzer

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Carson Kreitzer's plays include The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, SELF DEFENSE or death of some...

  • Young Jean Lee

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Young Jean Lee has been called “a rising star” by the New York Times and “one of the best experimental...

  • Dan LeFranc

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    Dan LeFranc received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake...

  • Taylor Mac

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    Taylor Mac is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, and sometime director and producer.

  • Deb Margolin

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    Deb Margolin, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2008, is a playwright, actor and founding member of Split...

  • Melanie Marnich

    Resident Playwright

    2005-present

    Melanie Marnich’s plays include Quake, Blur, Tallgrass Gothic, Calling All, ...

  • Richard Maxwell

    Resident Playwright

    2009-present

    Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. Maxwell studied acting at Illinois State University. In...

  • Tarell Alvin McCraney

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    Tarell Alvin McCraney’s plays include The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and...

  • James McManus

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    James McManus, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2010, grew up in a decaying steel mill town near Pittsburgh...

  • Chiori Miyagawa

    Resident Playwright

    2006-present

    Chiori Miyagawa is a NYC-based playwright and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Her plays vary in subject and...

  • Susan Mosakowski

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    Susan Mosakowski is a playwright, director, and Co-Artistic Director of Creation Production Company, an interdisciplinary...

  • Carlos Murillo

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    Carlos Murillo has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2007. His plays have been produced at Theater der...

  • Julie Marie Myatt

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    Julie Marie Myatt’s play, The Happy Ones, premiered at South Coast Rep, and won the LA Drama Critic Circle’s Ted...

  • Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include boom (TCG's most produced play 2009...

  • Qui Nguyen

    Resident Playwright

    2009-present

    Originally from Arkansas, Qui Nguyen is a writer, fight choreographer, and all around pop-culture nerd. When he’s not...

  • Sylvan Oswald

    Resident Playwright

    2009-present

    Sylvan Oswald creates plays, texts, and publications. His plays are often set in Philadelphia, his hometown. Sylvan is...

  • Daniel Reitz

    Resident Playwright

    2005-present

    Daniel Reitz is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York City, and has been a resident playwright at New...

  • J.T. Rogers

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    J. T. Rogers’s plays include Blood and Gifts (National Theatre, London; Lincoln Center Theater), The...

  • Jenny Schwartz

    Resident Playwright

    2008-present

    Jenny Schwartz’s play, God's Ear, was produced in New York by New Georges and Vineyard Theatre and was directed...

  • Betty Shamieh

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    Betty Shamieh’s off-Broadway premieres are The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop), and Roar (The...

  • Deborah Stein

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    Deborah Stein’s work has been produced and developed nationally at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Theatre @ Boston...

  • Andrea Thome

    Resident Playwright

    2009-present

    Andrea Thome, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009, is a Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born mutt who grew...

  • Lucy Thurber

    Resident Playwright

    2005-present

    Lucy Thurber is the author of ten plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and...

  • Francine Volpe

    Resident Playwright

    2010-present

    Francine Volpe is a New York City-based playwright, screenwriter and dramaturg. Her play, The Given, was...

  • John Walch

    Resident Playwright

    2007-present

    John Walch's plays include In The Book Of, Tea-Totaled, The Dinosaur Within, Circumference...

  • David Wiener

    Resident Playwright

    2011-present

    David Wiener’s playwriting credits include Guts, La Arana, Love Song of the Apocalypse, ...

  • Stefanie Zadravec

    Resident Playwright

    2011-present

    Stefanie Zadravec's plays have been produced/developed at The Kennedy Center, The Women’s Project, PlayPenn, Theater J,...

  • Johnna Adams

    Princess Grace Award Fellowship

    2011-present

    Johnna’s plays are an eclectic menagerie containing meditations on grief, wild farcical verse plays, southern gothic...