NYTW Honors New Directors Project Nov.5

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) announced that the theatre will inaugurate its 25th Anniversary Public Program Series on Monday, November 5 at 7:30PM with a two-part discussion honoring the legacy of the New Directors Project, which nurtured emerging directors from 1983 to 1990.  Many of the New Directors Project's alumni have made an immeasurable contribution to theatre's aesthetic development, and NYTW is proud to celebrate their accomplishments and its own artistic impact.  The event will take place at NYTW (79 East 4 Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery).

The first part of the evening will be a conversation between Jean Passanante, NYTW's first Artistic Director and the New Directors Project's creator, and director Liz Diamond, who participated in the inaugural group of New Directors in 1983-84.  Their dialogue will be followed by a panel discussion featuring David Esbjornson, Michael Greif, Brian Kulick, Lisa Peterson, and Bartlett Sher, with Liz Diamond serving as the moderator.  A video presentation of archival production photos will accompany the panel.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), now celebrating its 25th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents five to seven new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 60,000 audience members. Over the past twenty-five years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number. The 2002 remounting of Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history.  NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Tickets to this event are free to all NYTW members, students, and the general public. To reserve your tickets, please visit the NYTW Box Office at 79 East 4th Street (between Second Avenue and Bowery) on Tuesdays – Saturdays between 1pm – 6pm. For more information about New York Theatre Workshop, please visit www.nytw.org.