The development of new works is a passion of ours. We love the process of taking a play from an inkling of an idea to a fully staged production. Through readings, workshops, and productions, we bring new works in front of an audience.
Though out our season, we hold public readings of plays we have in development. Many of these plays will move on to be workshopped and then fully produced as part of our season.
Stay tuned for information on our next reading!
Though out our season, we hold public readings of plays we have in development. Many of these plays will move on to be workshopped and then fully produced as part of our season.
Stay tuned for information on our next reading!
Do you have a play to are itching to have read?
An idea you would like to try out? A piece you think is ready for production?
We are always looking for new works to develop!
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Plays we have developed:
- The Witches - This play came to us as a site specific piece for four men set in the woods. We molded to the piece for a workshop production to fit the urban environment of New York City, setting it at a dinner party, and changed the casting to 3 women and 1 man. Our fully mounted production, reimagined the script, shifted the setting to a seance, and expanded the cast to 6 - 4 women and 2 men.
- Steve Got Raped - We and director, Melissa Firlit, worked with playwright Sam Gooley to edit and clarify his script, that had been in the works for 5 years, culminating with the world premiere production at the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival.
- Buyer's Remorse - Founding member Mara Gannon took a cross country road trip and knew there was a play to be made from the experience. As a company, along with director David Monteagudo, we helped Mara take her journal entries and turn them in to a 45 minute solo show that was at hit at the 2017 FRIGID Festival.
- The Occasion of Existence - The New Collectives' Artistic director, Giverny Petitmermet, worked with choreographers Brad Landers and Molly McGrath to create an original dance-theatre piece based on the novel Einstein's Dreams. Over 3 months of rehearsal, they collaborated with dancers, actors and composer, Joseph DiGiovanna, to create a piece that explored time and our human connection to it. The development process culminated in a limited run in June 2017.
- Life Brief & Glorious by playwright Bryn Manion was commissioned as a companion piece to the final show in our2017 season, The Trojan Women, and preformed as part of our IRT 3B Residency in March 2018. This world premiere dark comedy examined how our private and public images collide in the face of prophesy and war.
- IRT Developmental Workshop (2018) - During our residency at IRT we are hosted three groups of artists who are developing three new works. THIS by Co-Op Theatre East artists Laura Iris Hill, Robert A. K. Gonyo, and Anna Savant, Zodiac Math by Elizabeth May, and my favorite flower. by Arika Larson. A showing of these works in progress was presented in March 2018.
- Zodiac Math - After being developed as part of our Developmental Workshop at IRT, we produced a full production of Elizabeth May's new play Zodiac Math at MITU580 in November 2018. Equal parts 90's pop music video, slumber party seance, and honest confession, it is an evening of intimate storytelling, scored by anachronistic alt-pop.
- IRT Developmental Workshop (2019) - During our residency at IRT we are hosted three groups of artists who are developing three new works. Sour Dough: The Attempted Unionization of the Bison City Bread-O-Rama, a new play with songs by Ben Lewis, featuring the members of BREAD Arts Collective; The Unrepentant Necrophile created and performed by The Coldharts (Katie Hartman, Nick Ryan and Nathan Gebhard); ALPHA by Stephanie Swirsky
- Bug Play- A new, dynamic piece of theatre for young audiences, created by The New Collectives. Based on The Insect Play by Josef and Karel Capek written in 1922 and brought to life with the help of puppets. An unlikely hero, who through a bit of magic, shrinks down to the size of a bug. Thrust into the world of butterflies, beetles and ants, our hero learns big lessons about life, our planet and caring for others. Bug Play will premiere at the Scranton Fringe Festival October 2019.
Plays in development:
- Bottoms Up! - An adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in a bar by Founding Member, Dan Morrison.
- Groundswell- A new play by TNC's Residant Dramaturg Taylor Beilder which explores small-town vs. townie allegiances in a Cape Cod swap shop. In June 2018, we produced a staged reading of the first draft of Groundswell. In June 2019, Groundswell received a developmental residency at Barn Arts in Maine. The play is in continuing development for a full production as part of a future season.