David Thigpen News

Westport Country Playhouse has announced that 2019 Tony Award winner Celia Keenan-Bolger will lead the cast of a Script in Hand play reading, “100 Saints You Should Know,” on Monday, September 18, at 7 p.m. Learn more about the reading here!

The Collective NY  has announced their first full-length play publication, HURRICANE PARTY by David Thigpen. The title joins their previous publications of The Collective's nationally popular short play anthologies (C:10 Anthology Volumes 1-5).

Town Stages is proud to announce the 2019 slate of recipients of the annual Sokoloff Creative Arts Fellowship: Charlotte Arnoux & Alex Parrish, Nikko Benson, Eamon Boylan, Maximus DeFrancesco, Molly Powers Gallagher, Tess Howsam, Rachel Lin, Anna Lublina, Lacy Marie Meyer, Ben Moniz, Marina Montesanti, Zach Morris, Mark Murray, Tara O'Con, Noah Reece, Tidtaya Sinutoke, Alex Spieth, Jeff Tang, Greg Taubman, The Mother Line Story Project, Will Thomason, Isaac L. Thompson Jr, Rebecca Vineyard, and Emma Rosa Went.

The Collective NY is excited to announce their sixth annual ten minute play series, C:10, on the heels of a highly successful and extended run at NYC's oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater, Cherry Lane. The Collective NY's C:10 is a compilation of 14 different ten minute plays with 44 actors.

THE COLLECTIVE NY (Ross DeGraw and Sayra Player, Artistic Directors) is pleased to announce the extended run of David Thigpen's Hurricane Party. The production, which opened in early September has been a recent favorite to many New York influencers and will extend its run through October 21st at The Cherry Lane Theatre.

THE COLLECTIVE NY announces complete casting for the world premiere production of David Thigpen's THE HURRICANE PARTY, directed by Tony Award Nominee Maria Dizzia (In the Next Room). Previews begin on Wednesday, August 29 at the Studio Stage at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Opening night is set for Tuesday, September 11, with a limited engagement through Sunday, October 7, 2018.

THE COLLECTIVE NY announces its Fall 2018 season, marking the company's return to producing in New York and beyond.

Coming off of four previous sold-out festivals, The Collective NY returns for a 5th year of the wildly popular Collective:10 Play Festival, with 11 world premiere ten-minute plays in two programs. All of the plays presented, plus two additional selections, will be published in a fifth volume of the best-selling The Collective:10 Anthology.

The Collective NY launched VOL.4 of The COLLECTIVE:10 ANTHOLOGY with a reception at the Drama Book Shop in New York City on December 12, 2016.

The Collective NY seeks submissions for its 2nd Annual Collective:10 Play Festival. Original 10-minute plays will be selected to premiere in a fully-produced Fall 2014 run at a prominent Manhattan venue and published in The Collective:10 Play Anthology Vol. 2.

The Collective NY presents THE COLLECTIVE:10 PLAY FESTIVAL, two programs of 10-minute plays directed, produced, and performed by members of the permanent ensemble and Collective colleagues including artists from The Actors Studio, Chris Sullivan (Broadway's Lombardi and Nice Work If You Can Get It) and writer Greg DePaul (Bride Wars, Saving Silverman). Performances begin today, October 9 at The McGinn/Cazale Theater. The plays, selected from over 300 blind submissions, will also be published as an anthology.

The Collective NY presents THE COLLECTIVE:10 PLAY FESTIVAL, two programs of 10-minute plays directed, produced, and performed by members of the permanent ensemble and Collective colleagues including artists from The Actors Studio, Chris Sullivan (Broadway's Lombardi and Nice Work If You Can Get It) and writer Greg DePaul (Bride Wars, Saving Silverman). Performances begin October 9 at The McGinn/Cazale Theater. The plays, selected from over 300 blind submissions, will also be published as an anthology.