All Stories About New York Theatre Workshop

Offscript: Jim Nicola’s Workshop Ethic

This week the editors talk to the artistic director of New York Theatre Workshop about his long and influential tenure there, which will end in June.

Safe Harbors NYC, Dominican Artists Collective, and JAG Productions will join resident company Noor Theatre.

In her successful soap writing career, she used new-play development skills she honed at the O’Neill and New York Theatre Workshop, among others.

The commission, named after the grandparents of artist Jeremy O. Harris, awards $50,000 to each recipient.

After running the influential Off-Broadway powerhouse since 1988, he will depart next summer; a search for his successor is underway.

NYTW’s education program provided an artistic oasis, and a sense of belonging, for U.S. high school students hungry for change.

The collaboration, named in honor of Harris’ grandparents, will offer two $50,000 commissions for new theatrical work.

Chapman is leaving the organization after 25 years.

While the pandemic has theatres reevaluating their programming, some are also making shifts toward a more humane working environment.

25 artists have been engaged to come up with a slate of new work, with forms and delivery methods to be determined.