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
Eugenie Chan – Letters From My Grandfather with director, Hannah Bos
Carson Kreitzer – Runway 69 with composer and co-writer Erin Kamler and assistant music director John Glover
Carlos Murillo – Your Name Will Follow You Home with director, Kip Fagan
Julie Marie Myatt – Birder with director, Debbie Saivetz
Betty Shamieh – Veritas with director, Leah C. Gardiner
Resource playwrights: Matthew Paul Olmos and Charise Castro Smith
2011
Tanya Barfield – Untitled New Play with director, GT Upchurch
Marcus Gardley – The House that will not Stand with director, Patricia McGregor
Rob Handel – There is Nothing to Eat in Paris with director, May Adrales
Dan LeFranc – Untitled New Play with director, Kip Fagan
Chiori Miyagawa – I came to look for you on Tuesday; I'll come back again in two days (working title) with director, Alice Reagan
Resource playwrights: Sharon Bridgforth and Andrea Thome
2010
Rinne Groff – Spiced Vodka with director, Carolyn Cantor
Zakiyyah Alexander – You are Here with director, Josh Hecht
Sheila Callaghan – Untitled Fashion Play with dramaturg, Emily Morse
Jason Grote – Scheherazade with composer, Marisa Michelson, and music director, Ian Axness
Daniel Reitz – Turnabout with director, John Steber
Resource playwrights: Andrea Thome and Jon Kern
2009
Andrea Thome – Pinkolandia with director, José Zayas
Deborah Stein – Natasha and the Coat, with director, Wendy McClellan
Julia Jordan – Murder Ballad, with composer, Juliana Nash, and director, Trip Cullman
Adam Bock – A Small Fire with director, Trip Cullman
Stephen Adly Guirgis – I prefer things not in the ass, but if you prefer things differently, then why should I give a fuck -- and why -- legislatively, should the assuaging of my fears take precedence over the realization of your own rightful happiness and fulfillment... Or Did Saint Paul take it in the ass? with director, Mark Wing-Davey
Resource playwright: Sarah Hammond
2008
Barbara Wiechmann – Robinson Awake with co-director, T. Ryder Smith, and sound designer, Greta Byrum
Anne Washburn – The Octavia with director, Ken Rus Schmoll
Ellen Maddow – Marinus van Reymerswaele with director, Katie Pearl
Eisa Davis – The History of Light with director, Tea Alagic
Joseph Fisher – A Wolf Inside the Fence with director, Debbie Saivetz
Resource playwright: Deborah Stein
2007
Liz Duffy Adams – Or, with director, Debbie Saivetz
Victor Lodato – Dear Sara Jane, with director, Jackson Gay
Dael Orlandersmith – HORSEDREAMS with director, Gordon Edelstein
Brooke Berman – The Jesus Year with director, Trip Cullman
David Grimm – The Miracle at Naples with director, Peter DuBois
Resource playwrights: Sheila Callaghan and Ellen Maddow
2006
Joseph Goodrich – An Opening for Murder with director, Nick Faust
Dominic Taylor – Voices From Harpers Ferry with director, Clinton Turner Davi,s and musical director, Helga Davis
Sung Rno – Galois with director, Debbie Saivetz, and composer, Jeremy Bass
Daniel Alexander Jones – Phoenix Fabrik with dramaturg, Sharon Bridgforth
Karl Gajdusek – Greedy with director, Pam McKinnon and collaborators, Meg MacCary and Maria Striar (Clubbed Thumb)
Resource playwrights: Adam Block and Lucy Thurber
2005
Lisa D’Amour – In the Thick with director, Kip Fagan
Lonnie Carter – Brer Clare or Life Among the Mighty with director, Loy Arcenas
Mark Bazzone – Third Eye, A Screenplay with director, Gordon Dahlquis
Julie Hebert – Tree with director, Debbie Saivetz
Honor Molloy – Murphy Taking Too with director, Debbie Saivetz
Resource playwrights: Bridget Carpenter and Quiara Alegría Hudes
2004
Catherine Filloux – Killing the Boss with director, Kay Matschullat
Caridad Svich – Stealing Medea with director, Stefan Novinski
Alejandro Morales – Marea with director, Debbie Saivetz
Anne Garcia-Romero – Mary Peabody in Cuba with director, Debbie Saivetz
Karen Hartman – Bone November with director, Jean Randich
Resource playwrights: Liz Duffy Adams and David Grimm
2003
Chay Yew – The Cannery Project with director, Peter DuBois, and composer, Fabian Obispo
Rogelio Martinez – My First Radical with director, Michael Sexton
Ruth Margraff – Wellspring with director, Jean Randich
Luis Alfaro – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner with director, Kim Rubinstein
Arlene Hutton – Parhelia ith director, Anne Kauffman
2002
Lynn Nottage – Untitled with director, Daniela Varon
Sander Hicks – Sarcoxie & Sealove with director, Peter Hawkins
Stephanie Fleischmann – The Street of Useful Things with director, Julie Anne Robinson
Neena Beber – Jump/Cut with director, Leigh Silverman
Gordon Dahlquist – Penetrate the King with director, David Levine
Kirsten Greenidge – Sans Cullotes in a Promised Land with director, Seret Scott
