Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is one of the funniest Americans; wrote one of its most widely-produced plays; and has nabbed the first fruits of a fantastic program from New Dramatists. As if that weren't enough, Peter will be coming in as guest faculty to teach a playwriting workshop at Carnegie Mellon this spring.
NNPN TAPS PLAYWRIGHT PETER SINN NACHTRIEB FOR $25,000 FULL STAGE USA COMMISSION!
NNPN proudly announces the selection of playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (Boom, Hunter Gatherers, BOB) for the first of five Full Stage USA commissions sponsored by New York's New Dramatists. This aggressive commission-through-
Funded
by a gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Full Stage USA will
provide a total of five grants over the next several years. New
Dramatists playwrights selected NNPN and four other producing partners
for the program over the summer; New Dramatists will announce the other
four producing partners in the next few months. In each case, a New
Dramatists playwright will be selected to receive a commission award of
$25,000, and the partner will receive a subsidy of up to $50,000 upon
commitment to production.
ABOUT THE COMMISSION
Nachtrieb's
proposal for a play about lying in contemporary America was evaluated
alongside fourteen others submitted by New Dramatists writers. NNPN's
26 member theaters voted on the projects and ultimately selected
Nachtrieb, a writer familiar to many of them through previous work
developing scripts. The playwright has developed or premiered scripts
with NNPN member theaters Marin Theatre Company and Woolly Mammoth.
NNPN's Full Stage project aims to ultimately produce the commission via
the Continued Life of New Plays Fund, which creates Rolling World
Premieres across a minimum of three theaters within a single year.
"I am honored and excited to receive this opportunity from NNPN and New Dramatists,"
said Nachtrieb. "I love how this commission not only offers
substantial financial support, but also provides abundant resources for
the development, collaboration and production of the play. I think it's
going to help me create something really awesome."
"The
thought of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb collaborating on a new play with the 26
NNPN theaters, who are together remapping the American theatre, is
terrifically exciting," said New Dramatists Artistic Director Todd
London. "Because Peter is a national member of New Dramatists (from San
Francisco), we're also delighted to offer him, through Full Stage USA,
two years of enhanced developmental time while he's readying the play
for production. We can't wait to see which three of the NNPN theaters
step forward to produce his work once he's written it."
