New WORKS

New Musical Award     Artists Retreat     Stage Readings & Workshops     World Premieres


New Works at Weston
The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company is committed to developing new works for the American Theatre and providing creative opportunities for active and emergent theatre artists. Our current programming includes an annual New Musical Award, Artists Retreat, workshops and stage readings. In 2010, the WPTC produced its first ever world-premiere play, The Oath by Gavin Broady as part of its OtherStages season. In 2011, the Playhouse MainStage hosted the world premiere of an exciting new musical, Saint Ex, with music by Jenny Giering, book and lyrics by Sean Barry.  This year we are thrilled to bring to our MainStage the world premiere of Pregnancy Pact August 30 - September 11, 2012.

Submission Policy
We regret that the size of our staff and budget do not permit us to consider unsolicited manuscripts at this time.

Funding
Recent support for WPTC New Works Programs has been received from 321 Theatrical Management/Nancy Nagel Gibbs & Greg Schaffert; Lisa deLima & Bobby Alter; Dramatists Play Service, Inc.; Dramatic Publishing; Samuel French, Inc.; Wayne & Deborah Granquist; Earl & Polly Hoffman; Sam & Barbara Lloyd; the Frederick Loewe Foundation; Marguerite & Peter Mason; Stacey Mindich Productions LLC; Music Theatre International; the Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation; Thomas Schumacher; the Shubert Foundation; Richard B. Smith, MD; Tams-Witmark Music Library; and Luis Ubinas & Deb Tolman. In Kind Support has been received from Bob & Linda Aldrich of The Inn at Weston and Kurt Deutsch of Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records.

Capital Projects
The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company has acquired the 5-acre Walker farmstead at the northern edge of the village of Weston, Vermont and is in the process of designing and funding its transformation into a year-round campus for play development through a major capital campaign.

Playwriting in the Schools
See WPTC Education Programs for information about our expanded Playwriting in the Schools project, supported in part by the Bay & Paul Foundations and the Creative Connections Arts Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation.

Contact
For further information about WPTC New Works Programs, contact Resident Producing Director Steve Stettler at sstettler@westonplayhouse.org or 802.824.8167 x102.