Daon Broni in “The New Real” at Royal Shakespeare Company. (Photo by Ikin Yum)
NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the nationwide group for theatre and the writer of American Theatre, at this time introduced the recipients of the second spherical of the 2024-25 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards. The awards, totaling $463,000, permit 10 productions additional time for the event and rehearsal of latest performs with the whole inventive staff, hoping to increase the lifetime of the world premiere play after its first run.
“Playwriting is the heartbeat pulsing through theatres and stimulates our collective imagination forward to a view of the world that is often different from the ones we occupy day-to-day,” stated Emilya Cachapero, TCG’s co-executive director of nationwide and international programming, in an announcement. “The Edgerton Foundation’s long-standing commitment ensures that playwrights and their collaborators have the extra time needed to fully realize their creative impulses and that future audiences will also be able to engage with the play.”
This spherical of awards have been introduced to The Suffragette’s Murder by Sandy Rustin, which may have an authentic manufacturing at Denver Center Theatre Company; The Brightening Air by Conor McPherson at The Old Vic; The Reservoir by Jake Brasch at Denver Center Theatre Company; The New Real by David Edgar at Royal Shakespeare Company and introduced in affiliation with Headlong; 3 Summers of Lincoln, with e book by Joe DiPietro, lyrics by Daniel J. Watts and Joe DiPietro, and music by Crystal Monee Hall, at La Jolla Playhouse; Grangeville by Samuel D. Hunter at Signature Theatre, The Estate by Shaan Sahota at National Theatre; !VOS! by Christina Pumariega at Two River Theater; Inter Alia by Suzie Miller at National Theatre; and falcon ladies by Hilary Bettis at Yale Repertory Theatre.
“I have tremendous gratitude to the Edgerton Foundation for their generous support of ¡VOS! and countless other world premiere productions across the country,” stated Justin Waldman, Two River Theater’s creative director, in an announcement. “Their vision of providing time and space for new writing to grow and flourish is an extraordinary gift—one that is repaid with the nuance, depth, and rigor of extraordinary artists honing their craft to a fine edge.”
The Edgerton Foundation New Plays Program, directed by Brad and Louise Edgerton, was piloted in 2006 with Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles by providing two musicals in growth an prolonged rehearsal interval for the whole inventive staff, together with the playwrights. The Edgertons launched this system nationally in 2007 and have supported 553 performs so far at over 50 totally different Art Theatres throughout the nation.
Over the final 18 years, the Edgerton Foundation has awarded $18,887,534 to these productions, resulting in virtually 1,500 subsequent productions at TCG Member Theatres following their world premieres. Forty-one have made it to Broadway, together with: Skeleton Crew, Paradise Square, Curtains, 13, Next to Normal, 33 Variations, Bengal Tiger on the Baghdad Zoo, A Doll’s House Part 2, Indecent, Hamilton, and the upcoming manufacturing of English. Twenty-one performs had been nominated for Tony Awards, with All the Way, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and Oslo successful the most effective play or musical awards. Sixteen performs had been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with wins for Primary Trust (2024), English (2023), The Hot Wing King (2021), Cost of Living (2018), Hamilton (2016), The Flick (2014), Water by the Spoonful (2012), and Next to Normal (2010).
“The productions in La Jolla Playhouse’s 2024-25 subscription season all share the themes of hope and joy that arise from the complex challenges of transforming into a more humane and just society,” stated La Jolla Playhouse managing director Debby Buchholz in an announcement. “The support of the Edgerton Foundation allows the Playhouse to provide extra time, care, and intentionality to develop 3 Summers of Lincoln ahead of its world premiere. We are grateful for the Edgerton Foundation’s dedication to expanding the American theatre canon through this production, particularly now when joy and humanity are most needed.”
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