New Perspective’s 32nd Season
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Our 33rd Season began on July 1, 2024. We are now 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 support 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 32- In numerology, the number 32 symbolizes progress and enlightenment
SILVER LININGS, the Meganne George Short Play Festival, kicked off the season with performances of six scripts developed in the Women's Work Short Play LAB from February to June. Over 350 people attended our one-week festival from August 7-12, which resulted from the collective efforts of more than 40 writers, directors, designers, actors and interns!
This year's festival marked a major milestone, with the Short Play LAB now having developed and produced 76 scripts since 2008! We have also been named one of the 10 Best Summer Festivals by Time Out!
A WALK IN YAYA'S GARDEN was co-produced with Blackberry Productions in November 2023. The piece was created from stories written by a group of elder Black women, who met on Zoom during the COVID shutdown. OBIE-winner Stephanie Berry collaborated with NPTC Artistic Director Melody Brooks and dramaturg Cassandra Medley to transform the narrative writing into a theatrical presentation, which was performed as a concert reading at NPTC and the Dwyer Cultural Center in Harlem.
This season marks 30 years of the Women's Work Project!
The Women's Work Short Play LAB reviewed 47 applications through the fall and selected six new members to join the 2024 cohort. LABs will be conducted from February to June with the dramaturgical team guiding the creation of original short scripts (20-30 minutes) in preparation for the 16th Annual Festival in August 2024.
The Women's Work Full-length LAB welcomes 4 alumna of the Short Play LAB this year, bringing the total number of active writers to 15. We took a hiatus from August to December in order to reorganize and strengthen LAB activities, with Uzunma Udeh now the Program Manager. The revitalized LAB began again on January 21st, with an expanded emphasis on playwright development in addition to the creation of new plays, and a second reading festival planned for November 2024. We also welcomed two new members to the director/dramaturgical team.
How to Melt ICE by Amalia Oliva Rojas and co-produced with Boundless Theatre Company last year was nominated for three HOLA Awards in October, including Best Production! Rojas received the LATA award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and Elena Araoz was awarded Outstanding Achievement in Directing.
The May Mini Fest of Staged Readings from the Full-length LAB will be May 18 - 20, 2024. Presentations include full scripts and excerpts from works-in-progress, plus receptions and a panel event!
A Final Toast by Michele Miller, a LAB-developed play featured in the 2022 Mini Fest, will be produced in May 2024, directed by Kathy Curtiss.
We are delighted to be returning to Bogotá, Colombia at the end of March, to perform live in the biennial Festa Alternativa (our last two "trips" have been virtual).
Amalia Oliva Rojas is expanding her short play IT'S NOT SO BAD IN MY BRAIN from the 2019 LAB, and we are looking forward to seeing our friends at CCT.
THEATRE FROM THE STREETS, a virtual program connecting artists from around the world, will expand to a new program that will create an extensive network of international artists with a focus on theatre women. The program will offer opportunities for these artists to connect and collaborate, panels and discussion groups, and a database of resources. The program will officially launch in July 2024.
ON HER SHOULDERS has a new Program Manager, Jesica Garrou, who is overseeing a revitalized effort to expand the reach and visibility of OHS activities. "1,000 Years of Women Writing Plays", our international database, will have 500 entries as of March 31st, with many more women in the pipeline. The reading series begins again with Dido: The Tragic Queen of Carthage by Charlotte Von Stein (1794) in a first-ever English translation/adaptation by Lynn Marie Macy, scheduled for March 21st. Additional readings will take place on June 18th, September 17th and December 5th.
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AS OF 2022-2023 SEASON
SERVED more than 30,000 public school students and hundreds of teachers throughout the five boroughs of NYC and Tri-state area
PROVIDED over 90 residencies to women playwrights, and developed and produced 70 Original Short Plays in the Women’s Work Short Play LAB
MOUNTED 94 productions of original and classic plays (with 40 original plays, 5 US Premieres, 7 NY Premieres with 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