New Voices/New Work
New Voices/New Work was created in 2002 to commission and develop new work for young audiences and to expand the canon of LGBTQ+ themed plays. The program celebrates and gives voice to a broad range of playwrights. NCTC has produced more than 40 world premieres over nearly four decades.
History
New Voices/New Work (originally New Play Development Lab) launched in 2002 and has commissioned and produced the following World Premieres:
- 2003 – Mysterious Skin by Prince Gomolvilas
- 2004 – Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing
- 2005 – Crucifixion by Terrence McNally
- 2006 – The War At Home by Brad Erickson. Recently
- 2008 – It’s Murder, Mary! by Andrew Black and Patricia Milton
- 2011 – Waiting for Giovanni by Jewelle Gomez, in collaboration with Harry Waters, Jr
- 2012 – Rights of Passage by Ed Decker & Robert Leone
- 2013 – Pansy by Evan Johnson, in collaboration with Ben Randle (as part of Emerging Artist Program)
- 2013 – American Dream by Brad Erickson
- 2017 – Leaving the Blues by Jewelle Gomez
- 2017 – Everything That’s Beautiful by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
- 2017 – warplay by JC Lee
- 2017 – This Bitter Earth by Harrison David Rivers
- 2018 – Still at Risk by Tim Pinckney
- 2019 – This Side of Crazy by Del Shores
- 2020 – You’ll Catch Flies by Ryan Fogarty
- 2020 – The Book of Mountains and Seas by Yilong Liu (suspended due to the COVID-19 after one preview performance on March 6, 2020)
- 2020 – The Law of Attraction by Patricia Milton
- 2021 – Interlude by Harrison David Rivers
- 2021 – Puppy Mind: Learning to Train Your Wandering Mind by Andrew Nance
- 2022 – PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute by Yilong Liu
- 2022 – A Picture of Two Boys by Nick Malakhow
- 2023 – Getting There by Dipika Guha
- 2024 – The Tutor by Torange Yeghiazarian
- 2025 – Simple Mexican Pleasures by Eric Reyes Loo
- 2025 – Spanish Stew by Marga Gomez
New Voices/New Work is supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and the generosity of our Individual Donors.