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Last chance to make a submission for the 2026 season!
Last chance to make a submission for the 2026 season!
See It All. Support What Matters. The Season Pass is the best way to experience everything the 2026 New Works Festival has to offer, and to stand with the playwrights, directors, and actors who make it happen. For just $50, your pass covers all six productions: three fully staged shows and three readings, July 16–25. […]
Four interconnected vignettes exploring the boxes we find ourselves in, the ones we struggle to escape, the life-altering surprises some hold, and the enduring beauty of family, in all its forms.
A woman scientist is found guilty of committing unusually heinous crimes while testing a revolutionary kind of computer. To handle her appeal she hires a former attorney who hasn’t practiced in decades. Did she commit the crimes? Why did she hire that particular attorney? And does this new kind of computer hold the promise of […]
When Marisol reluctantly goes on a blind date with Troy and judges the sex to be "fair," it sends out shock waves that affect the other couples (Natasha/Bo and Chase/Eli) in their circle of friends. As Troy continues his pursuit of her, the play skewers stereotypes of relationships, gender, sex, and classic movies. Will love […]
A Black singer-songwriter finally gets her big break, only to discover that her record label plans to replace her public image with an AI-generated white avatar. As she struggles to retain ownership of her voice, her art, and her identity, she must decide whether survival in a digital-first music industry is worth the cost of […]
Dating is hard. But for Carly and Charlie it may just be the end of the dating era. Charlie meets Carly for dinner but discovers more about Carly (and himself) than he expected.
In the attic of a haunted historic property, a Civil War soldier, a Victorian ingenue, and a rule-bound Depression era convict are joined by a freshly deceased Hollywood actress who has questions about the afterlife. When she proposes unionizing their eternal "employment," the ghosts are forced to confront what they want, what they've lost, and […]
A woman scientist is found guilty of committing unusually heinous crimes while testing a revolutionary kind of computer. To handle her appeal she hires a former attorney who hasn’t practiced in decades. Did she commit the crimes? Why did she hire that particular attorney? And does this new kind of computer hold the promise of […]
When Marisol reluctantly goes on a blind date with Troy and judges the sex to be "fair," it sends out shock waves that affect the other couples (Natasha/Bo and Chase/Eli) in their circle of friends. As Troy continues his pursuit of her, the play skewers stereotypes of relationships, gender, sex, and classic movies. Will love […]
Four interconnected vignettes exploring the boxes we find ourselves in, the ones we struggle to escape, the life-altering surprises some hold, and the enduring beauty of family, in all its forms.
We'll start accepting submissions for the 2027 season on August 1!