Spring Luncheon Tribute Honoring Tina Landau and Idina Menzel

Playwrights at Work: May 2025

Kevin Artigue holds a dynamic writing and exploratory working session for the first draft of a new play, Final Exam, directed by Margot Bordelon and supported by the Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund.

Andrea Stolowitz works on her verbatim play with a company of collaborators with resources provided by New Dramatists through WaxFactory at the Brick Aux, in Williamsburg.

Kate Cortesi holds an exploratory working session on her play, Daylight, with Katie Pearl, who joined the process as a dramaturg, and other collaborators, supported by the Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund. 

Mary Elizabeth Hamilton uses the resources of the Lab to explore some fragments of a big, messy new play entitled Lakeweed. The day will be about exploration, conversation, playing in space and discovery.  

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.

Now Accepting Applications for the 2026 Kleban Prize

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.