PlayTime Projects
PlayTime is a two-week developmental retreat designed to give playwrights the time and space to explore, rethink, and revise ambitious projects in the company of collaborators, other writers, and New Dramatists staff. Each writer establishes the terms for their artistic engagement, leads their development over the course of two weeks, and populates their work room with collaborators according to the needs of the project, including identifying a primary collaborator who helps facilitate the creative exploration of the project. In addition, New Dramatists resident writers participate as "resource playwrights" acting as witnesses and offering additional dramaturgical support to all projects. Midway through the studio, a writing workshop is offered to the full company of shared collaborators, taught by a New Dramatists writer. Below is a listing of playwrights and the projects supported to date.
** the play went on to production
* additional developmental readings
March 2025
Boni B. Alvarez – God, It’s Leandro with composer, Damian Costilla
Aya Ogawa – Meat Suit with bouffon advisor, Sophie Amieva
Tammy Ryan – The Boy King in Queens* with director, Jessi D. Hill
Resource Playwrights: Jordan Seavey and Phillip Christian Smith; Company Workshop: Deb Margolin
November 2024
Sam Chanse – Support Person with director, Sarah Hughes
Morgan Gould – Nicole Spiezio is Brave! with solo performer and extemporaneous speaker, Mike Daisey
Mike Lew – Shook with composer, Zoe Sarnak
Resource Playwrights: Lauren Holmes and Basil Kreimendahl; Company Workshop: Edwin Rivera-Arias
March 2024
Clare Barron – Untitled with playwright and process facilitator, Jacob Perkins
Kara Lee Corthron – What Are You Worth? with director, Taylor Reynolds
Jen Silverman – DBK* with fellow playwright, Basil Kreimendahl
Resource Playwrights: Marissa Joyce Stamps, Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, and SM Shephard-Massat; Company Workshop: Jaclyn Backhaus
November 2023
Aurin Squire – If the Creek Don’t Rise with playwright, Ken Prestininzi
Cori Thomas – Liberian Legacy Trilogy with dramaturg, John Baker
Brian Watkins – American Love Trilogy with playwright, Tony Meneses
Resource Playwright: Tammy Ryan; Company Workshop: Melisa Tien
March 2023
Basil Kreimendahl – Sadie River’s Drag Ball on the Lawn* with playwright, Cori Thomas
Karinne Keithley Syers – Loom Troll with performer and choreographer, Jillian Sweeney
Resource Playwright: C.A. Johnson; Company Workshop: Sam Max
March 2022
Carla Ching – Rage Play with dramaturg, John Baker
Resource Playwrights: Chisa Hutchinson and Melisa Tien; Company Workshop: Karinne Keithley Syers
March 2021
Aditi Brennan Kapil – Marrow* with writer and dramaturg, Phaedra Michelle Scott
Mark Schultz – Demonology with dramaturg and producer, Sarah Lunnie
Resource Playwrights: Matthew Paul Olmos; Company Workshop: Ken Urban
November 2019
Sarah Gancher – Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy** with director, Kip Fagan
MJ Kaufman – Wound on Wound or Throw off the Forest with director, Hatlo
Kate Cortesi – Is Edward Snowden Single?** with director, Meghan Finn
Mfoniso Udofia – Adia and Clora Snatch Joy*with composer, Nehemiah Luckett
Ken Urban – The Absence of Weather with writer and director, Steve Cosson
Resource Playwrights: Kevin Artigue and Jihae Park; Company Workshop: Deb Margolin
November 2018
Annie Baker – Infinite Life** with director, Machel Ross
Matt Freeman – The Conversation with director, Jessi D. Hill
Chisa Hutchinson – Whitelisted** with director, Jade King Carroll
Kristin Kosmas – Love Show with playwright, Elizabeth Kenny
Lynn Rosen – The Overview Effect** with director, Kip Fagan
Resource Playwrights: Sam Chanse and Sarah Gancher; Company Workshop: Deb Margolin
November 2017
Christina Anderson – the ripple, the wave that carried me home** with actor, Kaliswa Brewster
Jennifer Haley – Sustainable Living* with dramaturg, Krista Williams
Mona Mansour – Untitled Environmental Play with director, Scott Illingworth
Kenneth Prestininzi – Confessions to a Reclining Chair with director, Jackson Gay
Melisa Tien – Mary with composer, Matt Frey
Resources Playwrights: Kate Cortesi and Keelay Gipson; Company Workshop: Erin Courtney
November 2016
Mia Chung – This Exquisite Corpse with director, Lucie Tiberghien
Laura Marks – Untitled Science Fiction Play
Matthew Paul Olmos – The Shooters of an American President with director, Nicole Watson
Stefanie Zadravec – Tiny Houses** with director, Kelly O'Donnell
Resource Playwrights: James McManus and christopher oscar peña; Company Workshop: Deb Margolin
November 2015
Andy Bragen – Monster with director, Portia Krieger
Sharon Bridgforth – When Black Mermaids Fly with primary collaborator, Sonja Perryman
Clarence Coo – The God of Wine* with director, Kareem Fahmy
Erin Courtney – The Orange Balloon aka the Hoarder's Lament with director, Mia Rovegno
Sibyl Kempson – The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S.** with composer, Graham Reynolds
Resource Playwrights: Mashuq Mushtaq Deen and Karinne Keithley Syers; Company Workshop: Deb Margolin
November 2014
David Adjmi – Stereophonic** with process facilitator, Adam Greenfield
Kate Fodor – The Civil War with director, Eliza Baldi
Lucas Hnath – A Doll's House, Part 2**
James McManus – Factory with director, Jade King Carroll
Qui Nguyen – Vietgone** with director, May Adrales
Resource Playwrights: Mia Chung and Basil Kreimendahl; Company Workshop: Deb Margolin
December 2013
Barbara Hammond – Visible from Four States* with director, Tea Alagic
Susan Mosakowski – Opium with director, Lucie Tiberghien
Jenny Schwartz – Stab with director, Oliver Butler
John Walch – TransAtlantic*with director, Shana Gold
Resource Playwrights: Carlos Murillo and Julie Marie Myatt; Company Workshop:
December 2012
