New Perspective’s 35th Season
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Our 35th Season began on July 1, 2026. We are one of the longest operating Off-Off Broadway Theatre Companies with our own space in New York City!
NPTC's accomplishments are many since our founding in 1991. We have never wavered from our primary mission—supporting women and artists of color and serving communities in need— and those impacted by NPTC now number in the thousands.
We could not have achieved this without the dedication of the entire NPTC Family of affiliated artists and audience members who have provided multi-faceted support: financial, attendance, in-kind gifts and services, morale boosts and more.
SEASON 35- The goal of the essence of the numerology number 35 is to build something with lasting benefit for society.
35th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WILL TAKE PLACE IN JUNE!
WOMEN'S WORK
The Women's Work Short Play LAB will be accepting applications for the 2027 cohort from July 15 to September 25, with a Finalist interview scheduled in early December. 6 writers will be chosen from among the finalists to join the LAB.
LABs will be conducted from February 14, 2027 to June 13th, with the dramaturgical team guiding the creation of six original short scripts (20-30 minutes) in preparation for the 19th Annual Festival in August 2027.
OCCUPATION, the Meganne George Short Play Festival, kicked off the season with performances August 3-8, 2026 and utilized the talents of 50 artists and technical staff: 6 Playwrights, 6 Directors, 26 Actors, 2 Designers, 2 Stage Managers and our 10 interns! The scripts were developed in the 2026 cohort and bring the total number of plays created and produced to 92!
The Women's Work Full-length LAB began the season with 10 active members and we will be inviting this year's Short Play LAB cohort to submit proposals to join in January.
Sweet Noise Reading Festival, November 13-15, 2026.
ON HER SHOULDERS
I Gotta Home by Shirley Graham DuBois, August 18
Vagina Rex & the Gas Oven by Jane Arden, September 17th,
Kaison The Priest of Hitachi by Akimoto Matsuyo, December 3rd.
Additional readings will be scheduled for the Spring.
Database: "1,000 Years of Women Writing Plays", our international database of women who wrote plays pre-1970 now has almost 600 entries and has a whole new look and platform.
Suffragists from the stage
A 90-minute concert reading with comprehensive slide show chronicling the contributions of theatre women to the Suffrage Movement. October 19, 7:00pm. Part of the Hudson Yards/Hell's Kitchen Arts Alliance "Culture Crawl".
A WALK IN YAYA'S GARDEN
In 2023 we developed this piece with multiple OBIE-winner Stephanie Berry based on the writings of a group of elder Black women who met on Zoom during the COVID pandemic. We presented it as a concert reading at NPTC and in Harlem to high praise.
This past Spring the piece was selected for the inaugural Bridgette A. Wimberly Memorial Writers Fund Award, and a further developed script will be presented as a staged reading at Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) on Tuesday, September 15th, 7:00pm
GILDER/COIGNEY INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FORUM: We are continuing to expand and activate this platform designed to engage international theatre women and their allies in networking and activism by facilitating conversation and artistic collaboration on a global basis.
Join us on October 23rd at the People's Forum for the first in a series of events designed to help immigrant artists in securing visas to practice their craft in the U.S.
HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE: December 13, 2026
SPRING EVENTS are still in the planning stages, so stay tuned for more information!
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$100* monthly donation = all of the above PLUS two boxes of Holiday Cookies, an additional set of Raffle Tickets, and an additional Festival Pass to the Women's Work Short Play Festival in August
All NPTC Patrons are regularly invited to FREE programming, including the Holiday Open House and ON HER SHOULDERS readings. Sustaining Donors at all levels will receive additional invitations throughout the year for special events!
THANKS TO OUR CURRENT SUSTAINING DONORS!
Celia Braxton, Maureen Brooks, Jennie Contuzzi, Paul Deen, Teresa Fischer, Anne Fizzard, Mikaela Lynn Johnson, Malini Singh McDonald/Theatre Beyond Broadway, MJ Perrin, Izzy Schiller, Jane Denitz Smith, M. George Stevenson, Elizabeth Van Dyke, Marsha Zeitlin
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AS OF 2025-2026 SEASON
SERVED more than 30,000 public school students and hundreds of teachers throughout the five boroughs of NYC and Tri-state area
PROVIDED 108 residencies to women who write plays, and developed and produced 92 Original Short Plays in the Women’s Work Short Play LAB
MOUNTED 75 productions of original and classic plays (with 42 original plays, 5 US Premieres, 7 NY Premieres (with 1 Brigette A. Wimberly Memorial Fund Writers Award, 1 Barbour Award and 2 Barbour Finalists, 2 OOBR Awards, 2 AUDELCO Awards, 1 "Outstanding New Play" Indie Theatre Award, 1 "Best Plays" citation from Backstage, 2 Princess Grace Foundation Finalists) and dozens of works-in-progress
NAMED by the NY Foundation for the Arts as a “Community Asset”
PRESENTED 80 new works by African American writers and performers through VOICES FROM THE EDGE
PIONEERED multi-racial and non-traditional casting, working with almost 100 artists per year
NAMED “Person of the Year” by NY Theatre Experience as co-founders of 50/50 in 2020: Parity for Women Theatre Artists