From: The Beard of Avon by Amy Freed
Photo credit: Joan Marcus
The New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), incorporated in 1982, produces
challenging and unpredictable new theatre, and fosters the creative work of
artists with a shared vision. With a community of artists (the Usual Suspects)
and audience members they explore perspectives on our collective history and
responses to the events and institutions that shape our lives. 2007 marked the
25th Anniversary of the New York Theatre Workshop.
NYTW consistently creates opportunities for talented theatre artists to
thrive and works to build long-term relationships with these artists. NYTW
offers well-rounded and long-term support to playwrights and directors,
creating an environment that is conducive to the growth of their ideas,
projects, careers, and visions of themselves as artists.
NYTW's Workshop was created with and for established and emerging artists.
The multi-faceted Workshop includes, but is not limited to, the Mondays-at-3
reading series of new plays; the Summer Residency Programs at Dartmouth and
Vassar Colleges; the Playwrights Fellowship for talented minority artists; the
Just Add Water Festival of staged works-in-progress; Studio Productions; and
their Annual Season of 4-6 New Works.
NYTW's commitment to creating new work demands a similar commitment to
developing the talents of new directors. They present plays which are
unconventional in form and invested with a distinctive use of language and
visual imagery. NYTW's New Director/New Directions Series (ND/NDS) helps
emerging directors perfect their craft by pairing them with more established
directors and providing them with opportunities to participate in the season of
a major Off-Broadway theatre.
NYTW is in residency at Dartmouth from
July 28th through August 16th, 2008. Summer 2008 will mark NYTW's seventeenth
year at the college.
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