Noah Diaz News

The Playwrights Realm has announced their 2020-2021 season, during which they will operate full-time as a playwrights service organization.

Audible has announced  its latest Emerging Playwrights Fund class.

In response to the We See You White American Theater, Baltimore Center Stage has announced its first round of shifts in practices to help dismantle the systemic exclusion and oppression of BIPOC artists, administrators, producers and executives in the theater industry.

At a time of uncertainty with regards to the continuing effects of the global pandemic, as well as a much-needed reckoning of the ongoing racial injustice in our country, Baltimore Center Stage honors the collective need for progress, hope, and joy.

The future of the American Theater may suddenly be top of mind for theater makers, everywhere, but for the team at Seven Devils New Play Foundry (Formerly id Theatre, Inc.), the future of the American Theater has always been the focus.

PLAY AT HOME, the new micro-commissioning initiative begun by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Public Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, has announced their 100th playwright commission, ensuring that $50,000 has gone directly to playwrights in need in this time of crisis.

The Playwrights Realm, responding to the needs of playwrights in our current moment, announced that for the remainder of the 2019-20 season and for the upcoming 2020-21 season, it will become a full-time playwrights service organization.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced this year's six recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions. The commissioned writers are Kate Attwell, Mia Chung, Noah Diaz, Julia Izumi, Ife Olujobi, and Stacey Rose.

The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation has announced the recipients of their special COVID-19 response grants for playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists who have had a full professional production cancelled, closed, or indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 closures.

In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, First Floor Theater (FFT) announced today that it will indefinitely postpone its upcoming world premiere of Noah Diaz's The Juniors directed by FFT Artistic Director Hutch Pimentel, scheduled to play April 18 - May 30, 2020 at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Public Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, have announced PLAY AT HOME, a series of micro-commissioned short plays. The first of the commissioned plays will be available today, Wednesday, April 1, for the public to download, read and perform at home.

Due to COVID-19 precautions, The Realm is cancelling the April New York premiere of Noah Diaz's Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally, directed by Taylor Reynolds.

The new play RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY, written by Noah Diaz and directed by Taylor Reynolds, had its world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage Thursday evening. The play is a simultaneously quirky and heartfelt look at grief, loss and accessibility.  While the Dick & Jane stories, the characters names and play's title have been derived from, have been around for decades, this play is entirely new and definitely of today. It depicts a family dealing with grief, past and future, and the struggles of those with differing abilities.

The Playwrights Realm (Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereira) announced today the complete cast and creative team for the New York premiere of Noah Diaz's Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally, directed by Taylor Reynolds (who recently helmed Clubbed Thumb's acclaimed production of Will Arbery's Plano), April 3-May 2, at the Mezzanine Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 W 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019).

First Floor Theater is pleased to conclude its eighth season with the world premiere of Noah Diaz's dark comedy The Juniors, directed by FFT Artistic Director Hutch Pimentel, playing April 18 a?" May 30, 2020 at FFT's resident home, The Den Theatre (Upstairs Mainstage), 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Casting will be announced shortly. Tickets are currently available at firstfloortheater.com. The press opening is Friday, April 24 at 7:30 pm.

Baltimore Center Stage has announced the cast and artistic team for the co-world premiere of Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally, the fourth mainstage offering of the theater's 2019/20 season. At once poignant and heart-wrenching, Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally takes an updated look at the classic world of 'Dick and Jane' from the childhood books, with an emotional twist---a world that is beginning to fracture for one dysfunctional and dissembling family.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will host two bold visiting companies as part of LookOut, a year-round series that presents the work of artists and companies across genre and form. Steppenwolf's 1700 Theatre will be the home to two productions from impressive Chicago storefront theatres next year: First Floor Theater and Definition Theatre.

First Floor Theater announces their eighth season, featuring one world premiere and two Chicago premieres.First Floor Theater announce their eighth season, featuring one world premiere and two Chicago premieres.

The Sol Project (Jacob G. Padron, Artistic Director), the national theater initiative dedicated to amplifying Latinx voices and building a body of work for the new American theater, is proud to announce the world premiere of Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz, directed by Taylor Reynolds (Plano), a co-production between Baltimore Center Stage and The Playwrights Realm. Performances at Baltimore Center Stage (700 North Calvert Street) will begin February 6, 2020 and run through March 1, 2020. Performances at The Playwrights Realm will be presented at A.R.T. New York Theatres (502 West 53rd Street) beginning on April 3, 2020, with opening night set for April 14, 2020.

The OCP has announced the titles and events for their 2019/20 Alternative Programming Series, which will run from August 2019 through May 2020. Alternative Programming events are free and open to the public with an opportunity for donations. No tickets or reservations are necessary. Alternative Programming events are intended for mature audiences.