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New Play Development Project
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced a new program, the NEA New Play Development Project (NPDP), to help the nation’s nonprofit theaters bring more new plays to full production. The Project will support the development of seven new plays at theaters across the country. The program will be administered by Arena Stage. a not-for-profit theater based in Washington DC.
“A full production is really the only way a playwright and his or her audience can fully experience a play in the way it was intended to be experienced. We're delighted to announce the NEA's New Play Development Project to help the best of the nation's new plays achieve that goal,” said Bill O'Brien, NEA Director of Theater and Musical Theater.
The NEA New Play Development Project will further support artistic excellence in the theater field by actively encouraging the study of and dialogue around existing and new models for new play development. In partnership with the NEA, Arena Stage will provide a forum that will not only encourage this discussion but will actively support the dissemination of any findings throughout the field.
The NEA has previously supported new play development through a separate initiative administered by the Theater Communications Group, the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, which will conclude in 2009. That program fosters relationship building and information sharing between institutions and resident playwrights.
The NEA New Play Development Project will respond to current challenges and opportunities that exist in the field. It also will add a formal component for the dissemination, study, and discussion of various models for new play development.
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