Roundabout Underground.

Roundabout Underground fosters new works by emerging theatre artists. It exists to support early career writers by developing and producing their new works in a creative, low-pressure environment. It also offers opportunities for directors and designers to hone their storytelling skills. Writers are often at the very beginning of their New York careers, and those that receive an Underground production also receive a Roundabout commission in an effort to offer continual support to these emerging playwrights.

In 2024 the Roundabout Underground Residencies were introduced to provide two playwrights time and space to work on one of their plays. Each writer is offered a multi-day workshop of the play, scheduled time at a desk in a shared workspace, and access to Roundabout resources and staff that they feel is helpful to their process and overall artistic development. 

Roundabout Underground Residencies 2025–2026

Iraisa Ann Reilly

Liba Vaynberg

Roundabout Underground Residencies 2024–2025

Vichet Chum

Nikki Massoud

Roundabout’s work with emerging and established playwrights, as well as the development of new plays, is made possible by Eric and Fiona Rudin.

Additional support is provided by Roundabout’s Leaders for New Works: Eugene and Joann Bissell and the Lillian Lincoln Foundation, James Costa and John Archibald, Linda L. D’Onofrio, Thomas and Liam Drury-Wang, Peggy and Mark Ellis, Carson Gleberman, Sylvia Golden, Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, Toni Ratner Miller, Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, Mary Solomon, and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

Readings and workshops at Roundabout are supported, in part, by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation

New Play Initiative

Roundabout is committed to supporting and developing the creation of new works through our New Play Initiative.

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Roundabout Underground Production History

Covenant

by York Walker

2023

the bandaged place

by Harrison David Rivers

2022

Exception to the Rule

by Dave Harris, Tow Playwright-in-Residence

2022

English

by Sanaz Toossi

2022

Darling Grenadine

by Daniel Zaitchik

2020

Usual Girls

by Ming Peiffer

2018

Bobbie Clearly

by Alex Lubischer, Tow Playwright-in-Residence

2018

Too Heavy for Your Pocket

by Mansa Ra

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

Iraisa Ann Reilly

Iraisa Ann Reilly is a writer, actor, and educator originally from New Jersey. Her one-woman show, A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de Los Reyes Magos, 1998, premiered Off-Broadway at Ensemble Studio Theatre in 2025. Bodega Princess was produced by The Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Latinx Playwrights Circle. As a writer, her work has been developed and recognized by Teatro del Sol, Soho Rep, Atlantic Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Two River Theatre, Arkansas New Play Festival, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, Theatre Exile, The New Harmony Project, Texas A&M University, Michigan State, Sol Project, Simpatico Theatre Company, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Art House Productions, and the Yale Drama Series. She is an Underground Resident Playwright at Roundabout Theatre Company, 2025-2026, and is currently under commission with Arden Theatre Company. As an educator, Iraisa Ann is an adjunct professor in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch and is a teaching artist with Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages ESPA, and Dreamyard Inc. MFA Dramatic Writing from NYU. BA Theatre and English from the University of Notre Dame.

Liba Vaynberg

Liba Vaynberg is a first generation American writer and actor. She is bilingual in English and Russian and studied Molecular Biology and International Studies at Yale. She is the recipient of the inaugural commission at Rattlestick with CBE, and her play Round Table will be receiving a world premiere at 59E59. Other plays include Scheiss Book at the United Solo Festival at Theatre Row, where it won Best One-Woman Show as well as the Backstage Magazine Audience Choice Award. Scheiss Book was also produced by Dixon Place, Wild Project (with Wheelhouse Theater Project) and Stonewall Inn. She is working on a sequel, Queen’s Quest, which was a 2018 SPACE on RYDER FARM finalist. She is currently collaborating with Dina Vovsi on a new commission about the Brighton Beach Community with Working Theater, and her play The Oxford Comma received an educational premiere at Xavier University. The Russian & The Jew, co-authored with Emily Perkins, was the recipient of a COJECO BluePrint Fellowship and was produced by the Tank. As a performer, she has recurred on New Amsterdam (NBC) and Madam Secretary (CBS) and has appeared on Billy & Billie (DirecTV) and The Deuce (HBO). New York acting highlights include Black Milk at Classic Stage Company, Bekah Brunstetter’s Oregon Trail at the Women’s Project, Novaya Zemlya at HERE, and Golem of Havana at La Mama, The Soap Myth opp. Ed Asner for PBS All Arts, Ether Dome dir. Michael Wilson and Williamstown Theater Festival.

Vichet Chum

VICHET CHUM (he/him) is a New York based writer from Dallas, Texas. His plays have been workshopped/produced at Steppenwolf Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Ars Nova, Page 73 Productions, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Cleveland Play House, the Magic Theater, the UCROSS Foundation, Fault Line Theatre, Crowded Outlet, Second Generation Productions, Weston Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, South Carolina New Play Festival and the New Harmony Project. He received the 2023 Lucille Bulger Service Award, 2018 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting with New Dramatists, the 2021 Laurents/Hatcher Award and a 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for the world premiere of his play Bald Sisters which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2022 and a special state citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for his play KNYUM at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in 2018. He is currently a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Fellow, a board member for the New Harmony Project, and a steering committee member for the Obie Award and Tony Award-winning organization, AAPAC (The Asian American Performers Action Coalition). Past notable writers’ groups include: the Resident Working Farm Group at Space on Ryder Farm, the Interstate 73 Writer’s Group at Page 73 and the Ars Nova Play Group. He is currently working on commissions for Audible, Steppenwolf Theatre, People’s Light, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Vichet’s debut YA novel “Kween” was released this last fall with Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. He is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BFA) and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company (MFA) and is represented by WME and CURATE Management. vichetchum.com

Nikki Massoud

NIKKI MASSOUD is an Iranian-Canadian-American writer and performer based in New York City. She is a 2050 Artistic Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and a commissioned playwright with Atlantic Theater Company, Noor Theater, and The Acting Company. Her work has been developed through Ground Floor/Berkeley Rep, Bard at the Gate, Atlantic Theater Company, Less Than Rent Theater, The Lark, The Coop, CUNY, and a City Artist Corps Grant. Her television work as a performer includes roles on Succession (HBO), Love Life (HBO Max), and Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon). Her New York stage credits include Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here at Playwrights Horizons, and Othello at New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Sam Gold. Nikki has also performed at the Goodman Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, and Huntington Theatre Company. Nikki is the Odyssey Award-winning narrator of over 70 audiobooks and a graduate of the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program, Georgetown University and BADA. “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.”

York Walker

YORK WALKER (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Chicago, Illinois. He is the inaugural recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Colman Domingo Award. He is also a member of Marcus Gardley’s New Wave Writer’s Workshop. His work includes Holcomb & Hart (Victory Garden’s New Plays For A New Year Festival), The Séance (Winner of the John Singleton Short Film Competition, 48 Hours… in Harlem), Covenant (Colman Domingo Award, Fire This Time Festival, Access Theatre’s 4 Flights Up Festival, Arizona Theatre Company’s Digital Play Series), White Shoes (Fire This Time Festival), Summer Of ’63 (American Conservatory Theatre’s New Play Series, Actors Company Theatre’s New TACTics Festival), and Soul Records (Manhattan Theatre Club’s Groundworks Lab). York received his MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and is currently developing work with Roundabout Theatre Company and South Coast Repertory Theatre.

Harrison David Rivers

HARRISON DAVID RIVERS (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright, librettist and television writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His plays include the bandaged place (New York Stage & Film, Roundabout), This Bitter Earth (New Conservatory Theatre Center, Penumbra, About Face, Theater Alliance, Richmond Triangle Players, The Road, InterAct, TheatreWorks Hartford), Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown), When Last We Flew (NYFringe, Diversionary, TheatreLAB, Real Live Arts, Out Front), and the musicals Five Points with Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar (Theater Latté Da), We Shall Someday with Ted Shen (Signature, Theater Latté Da) and I Put a Spell on You with Nubya Garcia. His television credits include “One of Us is Lying” (Peacock) “The Nevers” (HBO), “Wytches” (Amazon) and “The Plot” (Hulu). Harrison sits on the Board of Directors of The Movement Theatre Company and the Playwrights’ Center. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and the Columbia University’s School for the Arts.

Dave Harris

DAVE HARRIS (he/him) (Playwright) is a poet and playwright from West Philly. He is the Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout. Selected plays include Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons, Center Theatre Group, 2022), Exception to The Rule (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2022), and Everybody Black (Humana Festival 2019). His first feature film, Summertime premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Selected honors include: the Ollie Award, The Lorraine Hansberry Award and Mark Twain Award from The Kennedy Center, The International Commendation for The Bruntwood Prize, and a Cave Canem poetry fellowship. Dave is currently writing the feature adaptation of The Fortress of Solitude amongst several other feature and television projects.

Sanaz Toossi

SANAZ TOOSSI (Playwright) is an Iranian-American playwright and the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her plays include English (co-production Atlantic Theater Company/Roundabout Theatre Company) and Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons; Williamstown/Audible). She is currently under commission at Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club and South Coast Repertory. Sanaz was the 2019 P73 Playwriting Fellow and a recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Horton Foote Award, Hull-Warriner Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award, and in 2023, the recipient of the Best New American Play Obie Award. MFA: NYU Tisch.

Daniel Zaitchik

DANIEL ZAITCHIK (Book, Music & Lyrics) is a singer-songwriter and musical theatre composer, lyricist and bookwriter. His musicals include Darling Grenadine, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Costume, and Suprema (with Jordan Harrison). His work has been developed and produced at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Ars Nova, Marriott Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, NAMT, and others. Zaitchik is the recipient of the 2017 Kleban Prize for most promising musical theatre lyricist. Other honors include the Kahn Career Entry Award from Boston University, the Frederick Loewe Award from New Dramatists, and the Georgia Bogarduz Holof Lyricist Award. His latest singer-songwriter album – Natural History – will be released in January. danielzaitchik.com

Ming Peiffer

MING PEIFFER (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter from Columbus, Ohio and a member of the Obie Award-winning playwriting group Youngblood. Her play Usual Girls will be produced at the Roundabout Underground and her work has been developed and/or presented by New York Theatre Workshop, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE Arts Center, The Flea, The Wild Project, New Ohio, Soho Playhouse, The Gene Frankel Theater, C.O.W., Theater for the New City, FringeNYC, Horsetrade Theater, Yangtze Repertory, among others. Awards/fellowships include: NYTW 2050 Fellowship, The Kennedy Center’s Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award Recipient (i wrote on ur wall and now i regret it), The Relentless Award Honorable Mention (Usual Girls), The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center NPC Finalist (Usual Girls), Playwright’s Realm Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist (i wrote on ur wall and now i regret it), Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award Finalist. Ming was a Guest Artist at The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and a 2012-2013 Member of NPTC’s Women’s Work Project.

She has training from both the Stella Adler School of Acting and the Shanghai Theatre Academy where she lived abroad studying Traditional Peking Opera. She studied poetry at The New School and holds a BA with Honors in both Theater Arts and Mandarin Chinese from Colgate University. MFA: Columbia University (’16). In TV/Film, Ming is a staff writer on the Hulu Series “Locke & Key,” and is currently developing her own series with Color Force and F/X. Additionally, she is adapting Weike Wang’s Chemistry into a film for Amazon.

Alex Lubischer

ALEX LUBISCHER (Playwright) is a playwright from Nebraska and a second-year candidate in the Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama. Prior to pursuing his MFA, Alex spent several years in Chicago, followed by a short time in New York as a member of the Page 73 Writers Group. His plays include PIG.GOV, Bobbie Clearly, Ogalala, Blood Special, The Xylophone West, Acts of Contrition, Weird Kids, and Survey No. 5.

He has been a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, a two-time finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and a resident playwright at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. In Chicago, his scripts have been produced by Steep Theatre Company, Haven Theatre, The Fine Print Theatre Company, Collaboraction, and Tympanic Theatre Company, among others. He has developed new work at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens Theater, The House Theatre, Route 66 Theatre Company, Interrobang Theatre Project, and the Great Plains Theatre Conference. Alex received his B.A. from the University of Southern California and is a proud alumnus of the National Theater Institute.

Mansa Ra

MANSA RA (aka Jiréh Breon Holder, Playwright) made his professional debut with Too Heavy for Your Pocket (Laurents/ Hatcher Award, Alliance/Kendeda Award and Edgerton Foundation Award). He has written for television on NBC’s “New Amsterdam.” Other plays include In the Southern Breeze, 50:13, Shutter Sisters and The Dancing Granny. Ra was educated at Memphis Central High School, Morehouse College, Spelman College and Emory University, and earned an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. He lives in Hollywood with his fiancé and their dog, Harriet. www.MansaRa.info Twitter: @mansa_ra3x, Instagram: @mansa.ra3x

Martín Zimmerman

MARTÍN ZIMMERMAN (Playwright) is a multi-ethnic, bilingual playwright whose plays include Seven Spots On The Sun, On the Exhale, White Tie Ball, The Making Of A Modern Folk Hero, The Solid Sand Below, and Let Me Count The Ways, and have been produced or developed at The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, LCT3, New York Theatre Workshop, Victory Gardens Theater, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, La Jolla Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, The Playwrights’ Center, Alliance Theatre, A.C.T. (Seattle), PlayPenn, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, American Theater Company, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Chicago Dramatists, Primary Stages, Teatro Vista, Playwrights Foundation, Cara Mía Theatre Co, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Theatre Row, Borderlands Theater, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Borderlands Theater, Source Festival, The Gift, Collaboraction, Red Tape, The University of Texas at Austin, and Duke University.

Current and upcoming projects include a stage musical adaptation of The Giver produced by Marc Platt, the World Premiere of On the Exhale (Winter 2017/Roundabout Theater Company), and the New York premiere of Seven Spots on the Sun (Rattlestick/Spring 2017). He is currently under commission by La Jolla Playhouse and Milwaukee Rep. A recipient of the Terrence McNally New Play Award, Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citation, Humanitas Prize New Voices Award, Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, McKnight Advancement Grant, Jerome Fellowship, Carl Djerassi Playwriting Fellowship, National New Play Network’s Smith Prize, and a Core Apprenticeship at The Playwrights’ Center, Martín has been the Alliance for Latino Theater Artists (ALTA) Artist of the Month, was a member of the 2011-2012 Playwrights’ Unit at Goodman Theatre, is a Playwright in Residence at Teatro Vista, a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, and has been a finalist for the Kendeda Competition, Heideman Award, and a runner-up for the National Latino Playwriting Award. MFA in Playwriting: The University of Texas at Austin. BA in Theater Studies, BS in Economics: Duke University.

Jenny Rachel Weiner

Jenny was the 2016/2017 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at the Roundabout Theatre, where she has recently been named an Associate Artist and is also under commission. Select plays include: diventare (The Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award), Horse Girls (Fordham/Primary Stages, the cell, Ars Nova; New York, Collaboraction; Chicago, Annex Theatre; Seattle, published by Samuel French), Jason&Julia (Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop Production, Wyoming Theatre Festival Reading, City Theatre of Pittsburgh Reading), Stagedream (co-written with Lee Overtree, upcoming: workshop at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School), Aunt Sylvia Is Dead (The Collective; published in The Collective Anthology 2014), Kingdom Come (Roundabout Underground Reading Series, Roundabout Underground Production directed by Kip Fagan, published by Samuel French), Part & Parcel (Primary Stages Reading Series, Perry Mansfield Theatre Festival, Roundabout Theatre Company Reading), Damsels (developed at Space on Ryder Farm, upcoming: reading at the Signature Theatre directed by Meredith McDonough). Jenny has developed plays with/been commissioned by the O’Neill Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Northlight Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, Space on Ryder Farm, and Roundabout Theatre Company. BFA: Boston University, MFA: Fordham University/Primary Stages. Jenny currently attends the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School.

Lindsey Ferrentino

LINDSEY FERRENTINO (Playwright) is a New York-based playwright originally from the sunny state of Florida where many of her plays are set. Ugly Lies the Bone is the winner of the 2014 Newman/Woodward Drama Award. The play was developed at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center as part of their 50th Anniversary Season and had a workshop production this past fall at Fordham University. The play was also chosen for Roundabout Theater Company’s Underground Reading Series, Premiere Stages New Play Contest, Florida Studio Theater’s New Play Festival, and The Great Plains Theater Conference as a Play Lab selection.

More recently, Lindsey was granted the 2015 Emerging Writer’s commission from South Coast Repertory. Her work has been developed/performed at Atlantic Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, 3LD Art and Technology Center, Manhattan Repertory Theater, and The Marilyn Monroe Theater in New York. Her work has been seen regionally at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, The Alliance Theater in Georgia, The Blank Theater in LA, and The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She was a 2014 Kendeda Playwright with the Alliance Theater. Ferrentino is a recipient of the Edward Albee Playwriting Fellowship and Residency as well as The Blue Ridge Summer Theater Festival’s Playwriting Fellowship.

Her short stories have been published in New York magazine and Aaduna Literary Magazine. She holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in playwriting from Hunter College, and is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. lindseyferrentino.com

Jeff Augustin

JEFF AUGUSTIN (Playwright)‘s play Cry Old Kingdom received its world premiere at the 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays. His work has been developed at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference (Little Children Dream of GodThe Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (The Last Tiger in Haitiin the crowding darknessSnapdragon in New York (The Imaginary Life of Millo St. Jean). He is a recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. Jeff is currently a MFA Playwriting Candidate at University of California, San Diego and graduated from Boston College with a BA in Theatre Arts.

Meghan Kennedy

MEGHAN KENNEDY is a playwright, screenwriter and television writer. Her plays include Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theater, Original Theater in London, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) Too Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout Theater Company) Light (David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize) Lou, and Buffalo Bill or How to Be A Good Man. Her work has been developed at Atlantic Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, Page 73, Play Penn, and produced around the U.S., U.K., Ireland and Sweden. She is currently developing her play Locker Room Talk with Madison Wells Productions. Kennedy lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Joshua Harmon

Joshua Harmon’s plays include Bad Jews, (Roundabout Underground; Roundabout/Laura Pels; West End), Significant Other (Roundabout; Broadway/Booth Theatre), Admissions (Lincoln Center Theater; Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Play), and Skintight (Roundabout). His plays have been produced across the country and internationally in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Russia, South Africa, and throughout the U.K. Fellowships include MacDowell, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and NNPN/Actor’s Express. He is under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club. Education: Juilliard.

Andrew Hinderaker

ANDREW HINDERAKER (Playwright). Suicide, Incorporated, was developed at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and premiered at Chicago’s Gift Theatre in June 2010 to critical acclaim. The production enjoyed a twice-extended sold-out run and was nominated for multiple Jeff Awards, including Best New Work. Hinderaker’s follow-up, Kingsville, premiered at Chicago’s Stage Left Theatre in October 2010. It was featured in American Theater Magazine, and was a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award. Hinderaker’s plays have been developed and produced at such theatre companies as the Araca Group, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, American Theater Company, the side project, and Chicago Dramatists, where he is a Resident Playwright. Additional recognitions for Hinderaker’s work include a nomination for the 2010 Otis Guernsey New Voices in American Playwriting Award, and Finalist/Semi-Finalist status for the Princess Grace Award, the Heideman Award, and the Austin Film Festival. He holds two degrees from Stanford University, and is currently pursuing his M.F.A in Playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. www.andrewsplays.com

Adam Gwon

ADAM GWON (Music & Lyrics). Off-Broadway: Ordinary Days (Roundabout, Keen Company revival – Drama League Award nomination); Regional: String (Village Theatre), Cake Off (Signature Theatre – Helen Hayes Award nomination, Bucks County Playhouse), Cloudlands (South Coast Rep), The Boy Detective Fails (Signature), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma); West End: Ordinary Days (Trafalgar Studios). Honors: Kleban, Ebb, Loewe, Richard Rodgers Awards, 2ST Donna Perret Rosen Award, Weston Playhouse New Musical Award, ASCAP Adamson Award, MAC Wallowitch Award. Recordings include: Ordinary Days (Ghostlight Records), Audra McDonald’s Go Back Home (Nonesuch), The Essential Liz Callaway (Working Girl Records), Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Album.

Steven Levenson

STEVEN LEVENSON (Playwright)‘s plays include Core Values (upcoming, Ars Nova), The Language of Trees (Roundabout Underground), Seven Minutes in Heaven (HERE Arts Center; Emerging America Festival/Huntington Theater Company), Retreat (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Almost Stuck, and Girls Day. His work has been seen and developed by Roundabout, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, MCC Theater, Ars Nova, Hartford Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and the Araca Group. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts. A graduate of Brown University and the 2010 Artist in Residence at Ars Nova, Steven has received new play commissions from Roundabout, Lincoln Center, MCC, and Ars Nova. He is a member of the MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, an alumnus of Ars Nova’s Play Group, and a founding member of Colt Coeur. Steven is currently working on the book for an original musical with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

Stephen Karam

STEPHEN KARAM (Playwright) is the author of Speech & Debate which was produced off-Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company as the inaugural production of Roundabout Underground. Following an extended run in New York, Speech & Debate has received over 100 productions across the U.S. and Canada. Other plays include Sons of the Prophet (co-world premiere by Huntington/Roundabout Theater Companies), columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop), Girl on Girl (Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep), and Emma (a re-imagining of Jane Austen’s novel), performed this spring by the Professional Performing Arts High School in NYC.

His work is published by Dramatists Play Service and Dramatic Publishing Company and his freelance writing has appeared in The Advocate and McSweeneys.net. Current projects include the film version of Speech & Debate and Dark Sisters, an original chamber opera with composer Nico Muhly (a co-production of Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and Opera Company of Philadelphia). A MacDowell Colony Fellow, Stephen grew up in Scranton, PA and received his B.A. from Brown University.

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