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Roundabout Underground

Roundabout Underground® fosters new works by emerging theatre artists. It allows Roundabout to take artistic risks that are not viable on its larger stages, whether giving a debut production to an emerging writer or allowing an experienced director to go back to his or her creative roots.

In addition to receiving an opportunity to debut their works as full-scale productions, up-and-coming playwrights receive the significant artistic and financial support of the country's largest not-for-profit theatre and a nurturing environment in which to debut their work.

Roundabout Underground productions are produced in Roundabout's Black Box Theatre located within the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. 

Note: Roundabout Underground productions cannot be purchased as part of a season package.

Major support for the Roundabout Underground is generously provided by Jodi Glucksman. 

 

 

NEW PLAY INITIATIVE

Click here to learn more about Roundabout's commitment to supporting and developing the creation of new works through our New Play Initiative.
 
Up Next

On an elementary school playground, a boy threatens to tell on the girls for swearing—unless one of them kisses him. Before lips can touch, Kyeoung tackles the boy to the ground, but the victory is short-lived. This hilarious, explicit gut-punch of a play bursts with playwright Ming Peiffer’s bold, explosive voice. Learn more

Wash the dishes. Mop the floors. Change the sheets. Change the past. Charlotte is a wife and mother who’ll try anything to put her family back together. Playwright Selina Fillinger’s new drama slips into the jagged cracks of a sex crime’s aftermath—the guilt, the grief, and the ways we grapple with the unthinkable. Learn more
 
 

Roundabout Underground PRODUCTION HISTORY

Bobbie Clearly, by Alex Lubischer, 2018
Too Heavy for Your Pocket, by Jiréh Breon Holder, 2017
On the Exhale, by Martín Zimmerman, 2017
Kingdom Come, by Jenny Rachel Weiner, Tow Playwright-in-Residence 2016
Ugly Lies the Bone, by Lindsey Ferrentino, 2015
Little Children Dream of God, by Jeff Augustin, Tow Playwright-in-Residence, 2015 
Too Much, Too Much, Too Many, by Meghan Kennedy, 2013 
Bad Jews, by Joshua Harmon, 2012
Suicide, Incorporated, by Andrew Hinderaker, 2011
The Dream of the Burning Boy, by David West Read, 2011
Tigers Be Still, by Kim Rosenstock, 2010
Ordinary Days, by Adam Gwon, 2009

The Language of Trees, by Steven Levenson, 2008
Speech & Debate, by Stephen Karam, 2007

Pictured above: James Rebhorn and Rebecca Henderson in Too Much, Too Much, Too Many. Photo by Joan Marcus.