Your contributions are essential to our continued mission to serve as an incubator for bold, new plays that inspire and uplift our audience and community, illuminate the world in which we live, and celebrate the depth and diversity of the human spirit.
OUR CURRENT GOAL IS TO RAISE $20,000
$12,000 for our New Play Development Workshops
- Artists' fees and rehearsal space for 6 to 8 in-depth script development workshops with a director and cast - including 10 to 20 hours of rehearsal and a reading for the company
- Artists' fees and rehearsal space for 5 Sandbox Productions: 3 to 4 weeks rehearsal, 8 performances, Equity Approved Showcase
$8,000 for Upgrading Our Performance Space (The Sandbox)
- New moveable platforms to make our Sandbox seating even more flexible
- New comfortable chairs for The Sandbox audience
- Improvements to our lighting system
OUR 2024/2025 SEASON INCLUDES:
- 6 to 8 NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
- 5 SANDBOX PRODUCTIONS of new full-length plays and short play festivals
- A “7 OVER 7” (7 page plays for specific actors, written, rehearsed & performed over 7 days)
- Other COMPANY ENRICHMENT SEMINARS (Writing for Puppet Theatre, Devising, Improv)
- Our weekly MONDAY READINGS of new plays by company writers, with moderated feedback from company members
ABOUT NEW CIRCLE THEATRE COMPANY
Nestled among some of the oldest Broadway theaters in Times Square, lies a hidden gem of theatrical innovation. This crucible of creativity is New Circle Theatre Company, the descendant of Circle Rep Lab. Over the past eight years, with the help of a handful of generous donors and a company of devoted theatre artists, we’ve dedicated ourselves to our mission: developing bold, new plays.
We do this through our Monday reading series, our script-focused workshops, and our “Sandbox Productions,” where writers, directors and cast work throughout the process to further craft the play. Our “7 OVER 7” Project, short play festivals, and other seminars provide additional opportunities for our playwrights to write from a prompt or within specific parameters.
NEW CIRCLE’S UNIQUE INITIATIVES HAVE GENERATED SOME EXCELLENT NEW PLAYS - AND WE AREN’T THE ONLY ONES WHO THINK SO!
Since 2017, more than 50 plays and dozens of monologues developed by New Circle have been published, and many have gone on to be produced by other companies, with hundreds of productions throughout the U.S. and Europe, and as far as Singapore and Australia.
PLAYS DEVELOPED AT NEW CIRCLE HAVE A LOCAL AND GLOBAL REACH
We’ve had a hand in incubating plays subsequently produced Off-Broadway, including David Arrow’s “Kennedy: Bobby’s Last Crusade, Arlene Hutton‘s “According to the Chorus,” and her upcoming “Blood of the Lamb,” which won multiple critical accolades at the International Fringe Festivals, including Edinburgh, Scotland and Adelaide, Australia.
PLAYS NURTURED AT NEW CIRCLE GO PLACES
We are proud to foster the talents of playwrights like Glenn Alterman, Cate Allen, David Arrow, Jordan Baker, Sadi Bimwala, Barbara Blatner, Robyn Burland, Triza Cox, Marianne Ferrari, James Georgiades, Emma Goldman-Sherman, Lori Goodman, Laurel Haines, Libby Heily, Velina Hasu Houston, Arlene Hutton, DeShawn Jenkins, Eric Lane, William Leavengood, Kate McCamy, Randy Noojin, Carlos Outten, Tanya Perez, Paula Pizzi, Craig Pospisil, Levy Lee Simon, K.J. Steinberg, Kari Swenson Riely, Stacia Teele, Ed Valentine, Jonathon Ward, Rhys Washington, Edmund Wilkinson, Robert Wray, and many more. We are actively seeking new collaborators!
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HELP US TO ACCOMPLISH
When you give to New Circle, you help build a treasure trove of new plays to be shared the world over. Please consider supporting our work and make your donation today.
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WE DEEPLY APPRECIATE YOUR GENEROSITY!