The Summer Play Festival,
New York’s $10-ticket,
smash-hit, perpetually-sold-out
theater festival, featuring the
best playwrights, directors and
producers you haven’t yet heard
of, will hold its fifth and best
season ever at the celebrated
Public Theater on Lafayette
Street in New York’s Greenwich
Village.
The Summer Play Festival
(SPF)—the first program of its
kind anywhere—was founded in
2004 by Broadway producer
Arielle Tepper
Madover to give lesser known
writers, directors and producers
from around the globe the chance
to present their material and
craft, fully funded, in a
protective environment and under
the tutelage of established New
York theater professionals. More
than 1,000 playwrights submit
scripts to the not-for-profit
SPF each year.
The 2008 Festival will feature
eight new plays and 63
performances, and run from
Tuesday, July 1 to Sunday, July
27, 2008. The productions are:
Black Suits by
Joe Iconis and Robert Maddock;
Esther Demsack by
Billy Finnegan;
Future Me by Stephen
Brown;
Green Girl by Sarah
Hammond;
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of
Doom by Jennifer
Haley;
Tell Out My Soul by
Jacquelyn Honess-Martin;
The Ones That Flutter
by Sylvia Reed, and
Tio Pepe by Matthew
Lopez.
“New York is the place
every writer and theatrical
artist dreams of,” Ms. Tepper
Madover said. “The Summer Play
Festival was created to support
those dreamers and to ensure
that
New York
remains the dream capital of the
world. We are proud that SPF is
helping reinvigorate
New York
theater from the ground up, and
prouder still of the line-up we
will be presenting at The Public
in July.”
“The Summer Play Festival
is a wonderful and inspiring
institution,” said Public
Theater Artistic Director Oskar
Eustis. “It shares our core
values and in a short five years
has become an integral part of
The New York theater scene. Arielle is an inspired, generous, spirited and
endlessly enthusiastic producer,
and we are delighted to form
this partnership. Together we
can do even more to support new
writers for the theater.”
The SPF is a program of
The Living Room for Artists,
a not-for-profit organization
founded by Ms. Tepper Madover to
fuel
the growth of emerging theater
artists and encourage people to
create, attend and work in the
theater.