• Today is the day! EVIL EYE by ND Resident Madhuri Shekar is available for streaming now on Amazon Prime! We hope you’ll check out the movie, as well the opportunities mentioned below to hear @madplays talk about writing EVIL EYE originally as audio play, and then later adapting it for film. Many congrats @madplays! Posted @withregram • @madplays Evil Eye is out on Amazon Prime! I’ll be on @audible IG live Wednesday evening to talk about it, and watch for me on @roopama’s YouTube show, but otherwise taking a long-overdue break from SM. So grateful to everyone who supported this story on this crazy journey, from a first draft to an audio play to an actual movie. (And of course before I go - America friends, make a plan to vote! Call/text/write/organize other voters we can do this together!)🧿 🖤🖤🧿
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    Today is the day! EVIL EYE by ND Resident Madhuri Shekar is available for streaming now on Amazon Prime! We hope you’ll check out the movie, as well the opportunities mentioned below to hear @madplays talk about writing EVIL EYE originally as audio play, and then later adapting it for film. Many congrats @madplays! Posted @withregram • @madplays Evil Eye is out on Amazon Prime! I’ll be on @audible IG live Wednesday evening to talk about it, and watch for me on @roopama’s YouTube show, but otherwise taking a long-overdue break from SM. So grateful to everyone who supported this story on this crazy journey, from a first draft to an audio play to an actual movie. (And of course before I go - America friends, make a plan to vote! Call/text/write/organize other voters we can do this together!)🧿 🖤🖤🧿
  • THIS SUNDAY 10/18 @ 8pm: ND alum Donald Wollner’s play WHAT ELSE? will be presented via YouTube in a reading featuring Mark Linn-Baker and Lee Wilkof, produced by Tess Flanagan. While the reading is free, any donations will benefit New Dramatists. No reservations necessary — see link in bio for free YouTube link! WHAT ELSE? By Donald Wollner When Matt and Sam, two 60-something standup comics, meet for their weekly brunch the zingers fly. But when Matt interjects a surprise into the proceedings, he puts the brunch and the whole relationship at risk.
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    THIS SUNDAY 10/18 @ 8pm: ND alum Donald Wollner’s play WHAT ELSE? will be presented via YouTube in a reading featuring Mark Linn-Baker and Lee Wilkof, produced by Tess Flanagan. While the reading is free, any donations will benefit New Dramatists. No reservations necessary — see link in bio for free YouTube link! WHAT ELSE? By Donald Wollner When Matt and Sam, two 60-something standup comics, meet for their weekly brunch the zingers fly. But when Matt interjects a surprise into the proceedings, he puts the brunch and the whole relationship at risk.
  • CONGRATS to ND resident Matthew Paul Olmos and playwright Alejandra Ramos, who have been named winners of the 2020 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition! Posted @withregram • @repertorionyc Congratulations to the winners of The 2020 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition. Winners include MALAS MAÑAS by Alejandra Ramos, THAT DRIVE THRU MONTEREY by Matthew Paul Olmos, and more. ¡Bravo!
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    CONGRATS to ND resident Matthew Paul Olmos and playwright Alejandra Ramos, who have been named winners of the 2020 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition! Posted @withregram • @repertorionyc Congratulations to the winners of The 2020 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition. Winners include MALAS MAÑAS by Alejandra Ramos, THAT DRIVE THRU MONTEREY by Matthew Paul Olmos, and more. ¡Bravo!
  • A comic message from Nocturnal Commissions ambassador Patricia Kerr (brought to us by @tomdziuba and @michael.r.muller )! Nocturnal Commissions Online will soon be upon us, and PAY-WHAT-YOU CAN tickets are still available through our link in bio, as well as more info on the event, participating writers, our host for the evening, and more! Before the event, commissioners will meet their writers online after drawing their names from a hat! In one-on-one meetings, ideas for short plays will be shared. On Thursday, October 29 at 7PM EST, all are welcome to see the resulting plays, as interpreted by stellar actors and directors. The never-before-seen performance may surprise you!
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    A comic message from Nocturnal Commissions ambassador Patricia Kerr (brought to us by @tomdziuba and @michael.r.muller )! Nocturnal Commissions Online will soon be upon us, and PAY-WHAT-YOU CAN tickets are still available through our link in bio, as well as more info on the event, participating writers, our host for the evening, and more! Before the event, commissioners will meet their writers online after drawing their names from a hat! In one-on-one meetings, ideas for short plays will be shared. On Thursday, October 29 at 7PM EST, all are welcome to see the resulting plays, as interpreted by stellar actors and directors. The never-before-seen performance may surprise you!
  • Please join us here on Thursday 10/15 at Noon Eastern for a live conversation with ND resident @tammy.ryan.playwright and director @jessihill3465. They will discuss their collaboration on Tammy’s play TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE, which will be presented this Saturday 10/10 by @orlandoshakes (see link in bio for tix). Tammy and Jessi began their collaboration in March of this year at New Dramatists in a 29-hour extended working session supported by the New Dramatists Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights’ Creativity Fund. They will discuss the playwright-director relationship and the evolution of their work together this year. We hope you can join us!
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    Please join us here on Thursday 10/15 at Noon Eastern for a live conversation with ND resident @tammy.ryan.playwright and director @jessihill3465. They will discuss their collaboration on Tammy’s play TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE, which will be presented this Saturday 10/10 by @orlandoshakes (see link in bio for tix). Tammy and Jessi began their collaboration in March of this year at New Dramatists in a 29-hour extended working session supported by the New Dramatists Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights’ Creativity Fund. They will discuss the playwright-director relationship and the evolution of their work together this year. We hope you can join us!
  • THIS SATURDAY 10/10 @ 7:30pm: Orlando Shakes will present a performance of ND resident Tammy Ryan’s TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE, directed by Jessi D. Hill. The performance will be part of @orlandoshakes PlayFest 2020. Please see description below and link in bio for tickets! And please join us here on Instagram Live on Thursday 10/15 @ Noon for a post-show conversation with @tammy.ryan.playwright and @jessihill3465. Please see next post for further details. TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE By Tammy Ryan Directed by Jessi D. Hill When Stef is shot down in a random act of gun violence in Pittsburgh, her fifteen year old niece, Cassie, begins dreaming her back into existence. In the months after the shooting, each family member is confronted with the question: “If they had done just one thing differently would there have been a different outcome?” Told with humor and heart, Take My Hand and Wave Goodbye is about the impact of gun violence on one family in Pittsburgh and the difficult necessity of grief.
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    THIS SATURDAY 10/10 @ 7:30pm: Orlando Shakes will present a performance of ND resident Tammy Ryan’s TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE, directed by Jessi D. Hill. The performance will be part of @orlandoshakes PlayFest 2020. Please see description below and link in bio for tickets! And please join us here on Instagram Live on Thursday 10/15 @ Noon for a post-show conversation with @tammy.ryan.playwright and @jessihill3465. Please see next post for further details. TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE By Tammy Ryan Directed by Jessi D. Hill When Stef is shot down in a random act of gun violence in Pittsburgh, her fifteen year old niece, Cassie, begins dreaming her back into existence. In the months after the shooting, each family member is confronted with the question: “If they had done just one thing differently would there have been a different outcome?” Told with humor and heart, Take My Hand and Wave Goodbye is about the impact of gun violence on one family in Pittsburgh and the difficult necessity of grief.