New Plays in Production

Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards:

Welcome to a new section of TCG’s website, featuring profiles and media coverage of world premieres scheduled at TCG theatres. We hope these profiles will provide insight into each theatre’s reasons for developing and/or producing a particular new script. Information is available online for the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 grantees.

The plays in this section are funded by the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards. Since 2006, this funding program has provided over forty TCG member theatres with financial resources to increase rehearsal time with the full production team onsite at the theatre.

In 2006, the Edgerton Foundation piloted this program with the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles by offering plays in development an extended rehearsal period for the entire creative team including the playwrights. Those first two plays, Curtains and 13 both went on to Broadway. Dr. Edgerton launched the program nationally in 2007 by funding 21 plays, continued in 2008 by supporting 23 plays and in 2009 supported a record 27 plays.

To date, seventy-three Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards, totaling $2,292.00, have been granted and thirty-four of those plays have gone on to further productions including 2009 Tony Award Winners Next to Normal and 33 Variations; and 2010 Tony Award nominees Time Stands Still and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play.

Theatres with a strong and consistent track record of producing new work are invited to submit letters of inquiry to plays@edgertonfoundation.org. A panel of readers reviews the plays and one-time grants (ranging from $5,000 - $75,000) are awarded.