New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Acting Managing Director FRed Walker have announced that the next event in NYTW's special series of twenty-fifth anniversary public programs will be "Two-and-a-Half Decades of Serving the Artist," a discussion exploring the "workshop" component of the theatre's activities on Monday, March 24 at 7:30pm, at NYTW, 79 East 4 Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery.
The evening will begin with a conversation between
James C. Nicola and literary agent, educator, Usual Suspect, and former Associate Artistic Director
Morgan Jenness, who together will map the evolution of "workshop" initiatives at NYTW, including the Curators, the Playwright's Circle, the Mondays @ 3 reading series, the Usual Suspects, the Larson Lab, and the Summer Residencies at
Vassar College and Dartmouth College.
A panel discussion focusing on the Vassar and Dartmouth residencies will follow, featuring moderator
Linda Chapman (NYTW Associate Artistic Director) and panelists
Peter Hackett (Chair of Dartmouth's Theatre Department),
Christopher Grabowski (Director of Theatre at Vassar and former NYTW Associate Artistic Director),
Doug Wright (playwright, NYTW Trustee, and Usual Suspect),
Lisa Kron (playwright, performer, and Usual Suspect), and
Leila Buck (writer, performer, NYTW teaching artist and Usual Suspect).
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), now celebrating its 25th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents four to six new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 45,000 audience members. Over the past twenty-five years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including
Jonathan Larson's
Rent,
Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul,
Doug Wright's Quills,
Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde,
Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and
Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number. The 2002 remounting of
Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading
National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Public Programs at New York Theatre Workshop are supported in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Senator
Thomas K. Duane, The Grand Marnier Foundation, and the Edith C. Blum Foundation.
Tickets to this event are free to all NYTW members, students, and the general public. To reserve your tickets, please visit the NYTW Box Office at 79 East 4th Street (between Second Avenue and Bowery) on Tuesdays – Saturdays between 1pm – 6pm. For more information about New York Theatre Workshop, please visit
www.nytw.org.
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