AMERICAN THEATRE | Hermitage, Roundabout Announce New-Work Partnership

ENGLEWOOD, FLA. and NEW YORK CITY: The Hermitage Artist Retreat and Roundabout Theatre Company have fashioned a collaborative partnership designed to assist create new works and launch them on a pathway to manufacturing. The ongoing collaboration will assist playwrights growing authentic works for Roundabout with the reward of time and house on the Hermitage’s campus. Some of the theatre world’s most enjoyable new voices may have the chance to discover their work on the historic Hermitage campus earlier than a possible manufacturing at Roundabout. The inaugural 12 months of this new partnership will launch this summer time with playwrights York Walker and Dave Harris.

“We are honored to be launching this exciting collaboration with Roundabout Theatre Company,” stated Hermitage creative director and CEO Andy Sandberg in an announcement. “We are proud to be a leading national incubator for new and original works, and as Roundabout deepens its commitment to championing new voices, this partnership provides emerging and innovative playwrights with a ‘full circle’ journey.”

York Walker is a playwright and screenwriter from Chicago. He is the inaugural recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Colman Domingo Award and can also be a member of Marcus Gardley’s New Wave Writer’s Workshop. His work contains The Séance, Covenant, White Shoes, Summer Of ’63, and Of Dreams To Come. His play Covenant is scheduled to premiere as a part of the Roundabout Underground collection within the fall of 2023.  

Dave Harris is a poet and playwright primarily based in Philadelphia whose work Tambo & Bones premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2022. Other works for the stage embrace Exception to the Rule and Everybody Black. His first characteristic movie, Summertime, premiered on the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was launched in 2021. Selected honors embrace the 2019 Ollie Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Award and Mark Twain Award from The Kennedy Center, the International Commendation for the Bruntwood Prize, the Venturous Fellowship from The Lark, and a Cave Canem poetry fellowship amongst others. Dave is writing the characteristic adaptation of The Fortress of Solitude alongside a number of different characteristic and tv tasks. His first full-length assortment of poetry, Patricide, was revealed by Button Poetry.

The Hermitage is a nonprofit artist retreat positioned in Manasota Key, Fla., inviting completed artists throughout a number of disciplines for residencies on its beachfront campus. The Hermitage seeks to encourage and foster probably the most influential and culturally consequential artwork and artists of our time. Each 12 months, the Hermitage awards the $30,000 Hermitage Greenfield Prize for a brand new murals, the $35,000 Hermitage Major Theater Award for an authentic theatre fee, and the Aspen Music Festival’s Hermitage Prize in Composition.

Roundabout Theatre Company is a nonprofit theatre firm primarily based in midtown Manhattan with a mission of celebrating the ability of theatre by spotlighting classics from the previous, cultivating new works of the current, and educating minds for the longer term.