Playwrights at Work: April 2025

Spring Luncheon Tribute Honoring Tina Landau and Idina Menzel

New Dramatists, Tony® Honor recipient and the nation's premier playwright development laboratory, invites you to join us as we honor a duo of multi-hyphenate generative artists: Tina Landau, an award-winning playwright, lyricist, and director (Redwood, Floyd Collins, SpongeBob SquarePants), and Tony Award winner Idina Menzel (Redwood, Wicked, Rent) at our Annual Spring Luncheon Tribute on Tuesday, May 27 at the New York Marriott Marquis.

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

2025 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre

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.