2007 NHP Alum Anna Ziegler's play, THE JANEIAD, premieres at the ALLEY THEATRE and runs from OCTOBER 11 – NOVEMBER 3, 2024. Read the synopsis below:

Longing for a lost love connects Jane to Penelope. While Penelope waits for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War, Jane’s husband was lost to 9/11. Penelope kindles an eternal hope for her husband’s return, yet Jane is counting on the miraculous for her reconciliation. Do you believe in miracles?

2021 and 2023 alum Jayne Deely’s play I never asked for a gofundme will be one of four plays in La Jolla Playhouse’s Latinx New Play Festival, running Oct. 4-6, 2024.

Millie has come back home to Mobile, AL for a prestigious fellowship she couldn’t pass up, bringing her Puerto Rican east coast born and raised partner, Avery, who is recovering from top surgery, with her. When quasi-aunt to Millie and righteous woman of God Teresa overhears Millie talking to a pharmacist and assumes Avery has breast cancer, she decides to save the day, even if she doesn’t agree with their ‘lifestyle.’ Cue casseroles, care packages, and checkbooks – a gofundme to SAVE AVERY! I never asked for a gofundme is a new queer comedy about gender, family, and religion that asks what it means to be worthy of care.

Two-time NHP Alum George Brant (2012, 2015) has a new opera based on his play coming to the METROPOLITAN OPERA running from SEPTEMBER 23 through OCTOBER 19, 2024! Read more about Grounded and find tickets below!

Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare.

Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, portrays Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain down death by remote control.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the Met premiere of Tesori’s kaleidoscopic score and a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who becomes Jess’s husband. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging, using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone’s predatory view from high above.

2023 NHP Alums Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson’s new musical MEXODUS is showing at Berkeley Rep from SEPTEMBER 13 to OCTOBER 20, 2024. Find more info below!

History meets hip-hop in Mexodus, an electrifying live-looping musical, composed in real-time by multitalented writer/performers Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson. Mexodus explores the often-untold stories of the Underground Railroad that led south into Mexico. Don’t miss this groundbreaking, theatrical experience of resilience and resistance, celebrating the power of Black and Brown solidarity.

2023 alum Omar Abbas Salem’s new play Happy Days Are Here (Again) is presented by Steep Theatre at Steppenwolf this fall!

An unanswered question rings through the halls of St. Boniface High School: "Who will help me?" Happy Days Are Here (Again), a World Premiere commission by Steep ensemble member Omer Abbas Salem, examines man-made "divine" power, who wields it, and if they should be trusted.

2011 NHP Alum Theresa Rebeck's play, SEARED, is coming to The Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany and runs SEPTEMBER 13 through OCTOBER 6, 2024! Read more at the link below!

2023 NHP Alum Aurora Real de Asua has a play showing at the CONSTELLATION PLAYHOUSE running SEPTEMBER 5 - 29, 2024. Read more below and find tickets at the link!

Age is just a vibe

Three 70-year-old women on surfboards. One 19-year-old hotrod instructor. The currents of the Pacific Ocean. What could possibly go wrong? Wipeout is a poignant comedy about friendship, grief, and the unpredictable tides of life.

“Warm and wonderful…powerful, often hilarious journey into what it means to be a real friend these days.” – Chicago Theatre Review

2006 alum Michele Lowe and Zoe Sarnak have a developmental workshop of a new musical, co-produced by Transport Group and the New London Barn Playhouse.

Split tells the story of Lilian, a former research scientist at Los Alamos during WWII, and her daughter Amy as they embark on a road trip to the Grand Canyon in the summer of 1953. Though bound by family ties and a love of science, mother and daughter have different ideas about their futures: Lilian’s secret goal is to set her daughter’s life on a new course. But by the end of the journey, it will be Amy who changes her mother’s life forever.

2009 NHP alum Keith Bunin’s play The Coast Starlight will open Milwaukee Rep’s 24/25 season.

Direct from Lincoln Center where it left both critics and audiences stunned, the intensely funny and resonant play is about a young man armed with a secret that can land him in terrible trouble as he boards the Coast Starlight, the long-distance train that runs from Los Angeles to Seattle. With the help of his fellow travelers, all of whom are reckoning with their own choices, he has one thousand miles to figure out a way forward.

Directed by Artistic Director Mark Clements,The Coast Starlightcast features Jack Ball (The Book of Mormon, Broadway) as TJ, Emily S. Chang (Domesticated, Steppenwolf Theatre) as Jane, Yadira Correa (My Broken Language, Signature Theatre) as Anna, Kelley Faulkner (Things I Know To Be True, Milwaukee Rep) as Liz, Justin Huen (Junk and One House Over, Milwaukee Rep) as Noah and Jonathan Wainwright (Dial M For Murder and Junk, Milwaukee Rep) as Ed.

The Coast Starlight creative team includes set design by Jason Fassl (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Run Bambi Run, Milwaukee Rep), costume design by Destiny Harris (What the Constitution Means to Me, Milwaukee Rep), sound design by Josh Schmidt (The Chosen, Milwaukee Rep), choreography by Jenn Rose (Run Bambi Run, Milwaukee Rep), voice and dialect coaching by Jill Walmsley Zager and stage managed by Kimberly Carolus.

2017 NHP Alum Mat Smart's play, THE AGITATORS, is showing at PCPA AUGUST 22 through SEPTEMBER 8, 2024. Smart worked on THE AGITATORS while at the New Harmony Project's Writers' Conference!

Young abolitionists, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony, are full of dreams and seemingly common purpose when they meet in Rochester New York in the 1840’s and form an unexpected friendship. Mat Smart’s historical play of rebellion and revolution, personal passion and sacrifice, reverberates powerfully in our America of today.

2014 NHP Alum Lee Blessing has a new play called A BODY OF WATER, and it's outdoors! A BODY OF WATER runs JULY 18 through AUGUST 17, 2024. Read the synopsis below!

Moss and Avis, a sophisticated and successful couple, wake up one morning in an isolated summer house high above a picturesque body of water. The weather’s fine; the view’s magnificent. There’s only one problem — neither of them can remember who they are. When a young woman named Wren arrives, information starts to flood in. But will it help? Her explanations seem only to make Moss and Avis’ world — as well as ours — more terrifying.

Outdoors at the Roman Garden Theatre at Shakespeare & Company.

2002 NHP Alum Mark St. Germain's play, BECOMING DR. RUTH, is showing through JUNE 30th. Read more below!

This compelling play chronicles the remarkable journey of Karola Siegel, who became best known as Dr. Ruth Westheimer, an iconic sex therapist. Filled with remarkable stories of Dr. Ruth’s escape from the Nazis as a child, her time as a sniper in Jerusalem, and her courageous pursuit of success in America as a single mother, “Becoming Dr. Ruth” delivers humor, honesty, and a triumphant spirit. Come along as Dr. Ruth takes the audience on an uplifting adventure through her one-of-a-kind life story.

A WORLD PREMIERE CO-PRODUCTION WITH BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE and MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY

Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson blend Hip-Hop and history to tell a unique story about the Underground Railroad that led south, highlighting the power of Black and Brown unity. A groundbreaking, theatrical experience, MEXODUS is a live-looped musical, composed in real time, that explores the often-untold stories of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico.

2010 NHP Alum Danny Strong has a musical currently showing at Berkeley Repertory! GALILEO: A ROCK MUSICAL by Danny Strong is showing through JUNE 23rd. Read more below!

Four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza stars in a dazzling world-premiere musical helmed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot, Swept Away), written by two-time Emmy winner Danny Strong (Dopesick, Empire, The Butler). When maverick scientist Galileo Galilei makes celestial observations that challenge humanity’s understanding of its place in the universe, he’s summoned to Rome to defend his discoveries before the most powerful religious institution in the world, which is facing a rebellion of its own. With an original rock score and lyrics by Michael Weiner (Broadway’s First Date) and Zoe Sarnak (The Lonely Few, Empire Records), Galileo is an explosive collision of science and faith, truth and power. Galileo will likely join the constellation of world premieres that traveled from Berkeley Rep to Broadway — be the first to see it at Berkeley Rep!

NEWTOWN written by Dan O’Brien ‘01, ‘06, ‘11, ‘15, ‘17, ‘20 is the recipient of the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Fund Award

Connecticut Repertory Theatre continues its 2023 – 2024 season with Tlaloc Rivas’ world premiere adaptation, A DOCTOR’S DILEMMA, based on A DOCTOR’S DILEMMA by George Bernard Shaw. The play previews March 21 and runs March 22 – 30, 2023 in the Nafe Katter Theatre.

A doctor who has discovered a lifesaving cure must make an impossible decision: with only one precious dose remaining and two people in need, who should he save? Rivas’ adaption distills Shaw’s five-act original into a fleet, witty tale, emphasizing the playwright’s rich humor while engaging in an honest exploration of Shaw’s critical themes. The result is a scalpel-sharp satirical examination of the medical establishment, love and the value of art.

“A Doctor's Dilemma doesn’t merely serve as a platform for critical reflection, but also as a celebration of the healing power of laughter and communal joy. In times of strife and uncertainty, Shaw’s incisive wit and the ensuing laughter it provokes are not just an escape but a potent therapeutic force,” says Rivas.

A WORLD PREMIERE

College: a time of freedom, of frivolity, of friskiness. Freshmen Lulu and Marianne test their limits as they party through the school year in search of their place in the world: Marianne is newly eighteen, while Lulu tries to reignite a spark with her boyfriend of ten years. But when their drama-nerd-roommate Harriet brings in baggage from a student production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ideas of consent and manipulation start to seep into their lives. 

Seattle favorite Keiko Green brings her sharp provocation and biting humor to a new play that puts contemporary discussions in direct conversation with one of the most problematic devices in Shakespeare. In the grand tradition of the problem plays, THE BED TRICK has no answers, but will have you pondering the questions long after you leave the theatre.

JOIN US FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF MEXODUS!

Join The New Harmony Project and friends for the world premiere of MEXODUS on Saturday, March 30 at 8:00 pm (EDT). You’ll enjoy a pre-show dinner at a nearby restaurant, followed by MEXODUS at Baltimore Center Stage (Mosaic Theatre), and a special post-show reception with NHP and the authors of MEXODUS, Brian and Nygel.

Your reservation includes the pre-show dinner, a ticket to MEXODUS, and the post-show reception. Each registrant is responsible for their travel and lodging. More details will be sent to you via email once registered. For questions, please email info@newharmonyproject.org.

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A WORLD PREMIERE CO-PRODUCTION WITH BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE and MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY

Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson blend Hip-Hop and history to tell a unique story about the Underground Railroad that led south, highlighting the power of Black and Brown unity. A groundbreaking, theatrical experience, MEXODUS is a live-looped musical, composed in real time, that explores the often-untold stories of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico.

A World premiere

WHERE FEARS COME ALIVE

Cue the horror music: We're headed to a cabin in the woods. Five friends have arranged a weekend trip in Eastern Oregon. One is pregnant, two are married, and two have a decision to make. When old grudges and new betrayals simmer to the surface, will the mysterious force trying to break in consume them all?

More about Keiko Green: https://www.keikogreen.com

A Rolling World Premiere by Aurora Real de Asua

Three retired women, decades-long friends who are pushing 70, are the focus of the world premiere of Aurora Real de Asua's poignant comedy WIPEOUT directed by Rivendell's artistic director Tara Mallen. Set on surfboards, WIPEOUT is a poignant comedy about friendship, grief, and the unpredictable tides of life. 

WIPEOUT tells the story of three women staring down the mouth of 70, friends for decades, who throw themselves into their first-ever surfing lesson with the help of a young instructor. As the women learn how to paddle and navigate the currents of the Pacific Ocean, they also learn how to navigate their friendships, their fears, and just how hard it can be to let it all go. 

The cast includes Glenn Obrero, Meg Thalken, Cindy Gold and Celeste Williams. The production is part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.

A POIGNANT NEW PLAY ON THE DYNAMICS THAT LEAD US TO OUR HOME. 

FURLOUGH’S PARADISE by a.k. payne is a poignant new play examining the dynamics that shape our lives and lead us to where we make our homes. Cousins Sade and Mina, raised like sisters but now leading very different lives, return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother and aunt. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. But traumas and resentments from the past, both real and surreal, threaten to pull them apart, all as time ticks towards the correctional officer's arrival.    

An apartment on the 19th floor. All Edith wants — it’s not too much to ask, is it? — is to sit and have some tea with her husband, someday, when he’s done with building his masterpiece. The kids don’t call enough, and when they do, they seem full of accusations. Meanwhile, outside their apartment, the waters are rising, rising, rising… This Chicago Premiere is a dynamic comedy about love and companionship across gender and generational divides.

Performances take place in Theater 1 at Theater Wit (1229 W Belmont) where Shattered Globe Theatre is a resident company.

Emmy Award-winner Dana Delany (China Beach, Desperate Housewives) stars in this new thriller—part love story, part ghost story—crafted from hundreds of tweets and DMs.

TIMESTAMP: October, 2012: “@DanaDelany, Are you married? If not, I’d marry you.” When Cam, a 13-year-old fan in a desperate medical situation captures actress Dana Delany’s attention on Twitter, she’s quickly swept into an intense, around-the-clock online friendship. But when Cam starts receiving messages from beyond, Dana is thrust into a world where unexpected revelations raise the question of how far we go to love and be loved.

Playwright and Text Curator Jen Silverman
Based on the Digital Archives of Dana Delany
Created by Dana Delany, Mike Donahue, Dane Laffrey and Jen Silverman

 WORLD PREMIER

"Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say."
-Virginia Woolf

Dressed in drag, JUDITH heads to London to save her brother’s reputation. In a patriarchal, politically-charged, and deeply divided nation, she pursues work as a poet and discovers the pleasures and pitfalls of passing as the bard himself.

Gallivanting in and out of character, JUDITH is a solo show that questions identity, ambition, and self-worth.

Katie Bender (she/her/hers) is a playwright, performer, and theater maker.  Her plays include JUDITH, SHE WOLF, THE SURVIVORS/LOS SOBREVIVIENTS, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SEANCE, and HOWLING, TEXAS to name a few. Filled with games, physical exertion, and a poetic delight in the mundane, her work often examines the surprising ways humans transform within impossible systems. 

Katie’s work has been developed and produced all over the country including at Hyde Park Theater, ZACH, The Alley, Shrewds, EST, Kitchen Dog, The Playwrights’ Center, LAUNCH PAD and Fusebox Festival, THT Rep, New Harmony Project, ACT Theatre and All For One Theater. She is the co-creator of Underbelly, with whom she made ecstatic site-specific performances such as Slip River which received the Critics Table Award for Best New Comedy. Her play Judith received the B.Iden Payne Award for Best New Script. Katie was a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center and is currently a Core Writer. She received her M.F.A from The University of Texas. 

“I’ll be gone for a while. Possibly forever. It’s nothing you did.”

A tenured professor of psychology, Lukesh enjoys a life as organized and logical as his mind.  But then his wife vanishes, sending only a text message by way of explanation and leaving him to re-evaluate their relationship. He discovers she has embarked on an epic odyssey, crossing and recrossing Russia and delving deep into Soviet history on a quest to unravel a family mystery of which he was unaware – one in which Josef Stalin himself may be involved.

Jonathan Spector’s virtuosic entertainment is at once a love story and a kaleidoscopic primer in psychology, history, and the use and abuse of power. Spector’s other plays include Eureka Day (Old Vic) which won all San Francisco Bay Area’s New Play Awards and was nominated for a New York Drama Critics Award. THIS MUCH I KNOW is his most recent play and won the 2023 Glickman Award and also the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Best New Play.

Belinda (Elizabeth Ramos) has done something bad. Very, very bad. After being bailed out of jail by her estranged sister, Rosalie (Anna LaMadrid), she must reconcile the person she was with the person she feels she's destined to become — that is, with the help of new friend Erica (Kim Griffin). RADICAL or, are you gonna miss me? tells the sweeping story of three women on the Mexican-American border who, more than anything, desperately want to be seen. And who will do anything in their power to make themselves known, no matter how great the cost.

Step into a sophisticated, slippery world where the line between truth and fiction is all in the packaging. It's 1936, and a pair of passionate filmmakers have landed their next big project: a sweeping Spanish Civil War film with the potential to change American hearts and minds. It just happens to be bankrolled by the KGB. This seductive and funny new play about the art of propaganda and the dangerous ongoing Disinformation Age explores how art can change the world—for better and worse.

SPAIN is the recipient of the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund award and is generously supported with a gift from MacPac Entertainment LLC. SPAIN is a Second Stage commission, supported by the New American Voices Fund.

Jen Silverman is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include SPAIN; COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN 5 BETTIES; THE MOORS; THE ROOMMATE; WITCH; and HIGHWAY PATROL.

Books include the novel WE PLAY OURSELVES and story collection THE ISLAND DWELLERS. Jen’s next novel is forthcoming from Random House in 2024. Jen is a three-time MacDowell Fellow and a member of New Dramatists. Honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim. Jen also writes for TV and film.

Phoenix Theatre presents the world-premiere production of THE BODY by playwright Steve Moulds from November 2 through November 19.

While mom is away, Joe is determined to be the best dad ever for his stepdaughter Abby. But a giant crate appears on their doorstep, and Abby and Joe work to decipher its mysterious contents – a doll with no face, and an instruction manual with no words. The deeper they delve into this package, the more it threatens their family’s tenuous emotional equilibrium. Was this doll sent to strengthen their relationship? Or is it a harbinger of a more disturbing truth? Part domestic drama, part surreal thriller, THE BODY lives in that space between reality and dreams, where the things that haunt us most come from within.

The National Arts Club (NAC) announces Nancy Ma as one of its 14 new Artist Fellows for 2023-24. Nancy Ma is an actor, playwright, and filmmaker from Chinatown, New York. She studies grief, memory, language, and home in her art. Her work has been supported by NYFA, BRIC Arts Media, The New Harmony Project, Fresh Ground Pepper, Museum of Chinese in America, and more.

The NAC Artist Fellowship program, launched in 2019 and now in its fourth cycle, provides up-and-coming artists across all disciplines with one year of full membership in the historic club and access to its considerable array of resources. The Fellows are chosen after a rigorous review by an esteemed panel of judges composed of leaders in all artistic disciplines. 

The prestigious Fellowship spotlights the talent and promise of a diverse group of 14 artists working in visual art, moving image, writing, and music. Its mission is to stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts.