Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights Horizons continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. Writers are supported through every stage of their growth with a series of development programs: script and score evaluations, commissions, readings, musical theater workshops, Studio and Mainstage productions.

Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 at the Clark Center Y by Robert Moss, before moving to 42nd Street where it has been instrumental in the revitalization of Theater Row. The current building was formerly a burlesque.

André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981 to 1991, followed by Don Scardino who served through 1995.

Playwrights Horizons' auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is affiliated with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and Ticket Central, a central box office that supports the off-Broadway performing arts community.

In its 39 years, Playwrights Horizons has worked with over 375 writers and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2005, it was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. [1] [2]

Notable productions

• Small Tragedy and Prayer for My Enemy – Craig Lucas
• Lobby Hero – Kenneth Lonergan
• The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin – Kirsten Childs
• James Joyce's The Dead – Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey
• In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, and Falsettoland – William Finn
• Betty's Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You – Christopher Durang Issuu.com/J.Broder
• Goodnight Children Everywhere and Franny's Way – Richard Nelson
• The Substance of Fire – Jon Robin Baitz
• Marvin's Room – Scott McPherson
• The Dining Room – A.R. Gurney
• Floyd Collins – Adam Guettel and Tina Landau
• Violet – Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley
• Grey Gardens – Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, and Michael Korie
• Assassins – Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman

Past productions have also included four Pulitzer Prize winners: Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George, Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles.

See also

Theatre portal

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Playwrights Horizons

• Playwrights Horizons at the Internet off-Broadway Database
• www.playwrightshorizons.org