New Georges

Did you know: applications are now open for The Jam, New Georges' collaboration-based working lab for early- to mid-career theatermakers! The application process opens only every two years, so download guidelines now and get to it: due Friday September 13! Find all you need to know right here: https://newgeorges.org/artist-platform/

GRIEF HOTEL! Saw it last summer in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks and were simply gobsmacked.

But then, we’re longstanding Liza Birkenmeier and Tara Ahmadinejad fans, both are pretty much fixtures around here, in development programs, in all kinds of production... but with this, as collaborators: gobsmacked.

So when our Clubbed Thumb comrades said they were bringing GRIEF HOTEL back, we eagerly hopped on board. Join us ALL at The Public Theater for one big fun exciting takes-a-village celebration of this funny, fiercely moving, now 🏆 OBIE-winning 🏆 play.

It’s our mission—and sure is our bliss—to build relationships with artists, to stand with them as they experiment, make work, enter more visible phases of their careers. Partnering with Clubbed Thumb to remount GRIEF HOTEL makes us 💃🕺🏽🌻🌷☀️

Tickets on sale! Here we go .dear.liza 💫💫💫

https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2324/clubbed-thumb/grief-hotel/

Closing on the new year & a match to boot! If you can support New Georges and all the artists and projects that keep us busy and happy all year long: WOW. If you're already in, BIGGEST thanks 🍏 Here's the direct route: https://newgeorges.kindful.com/

Monday Dec 4, BIG BENEFIT returns! Tickling the toes of the holiday season, sneak a peek at HILMA, with Kristen Sieh and J Moliere PLUS COTILLION composer Dionne McClain-Freeney leading us in a holiday singalong PLUS the s*xy looks and yummy drinks 'n tacos at elNico! BE THERE!! So many ways to play, find 'em here: https://newgeorges.ticketspice.com/elnico

Just. Wow.

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York says "A.R.T./New York honors New Georges and Susan Bernfield with The Exuberant Imagination Award recognizing 30+years of experimentation, tenacity, service, and wit. Join us as we celebrate the indelible role that New Georges has played in the theatrical ecosystem: a small theatre that’s had outsized impact and a trajectory that mirrors A.R.T./New York’s own. New Georges Founder and Artistic Director/Producer Susan Bernfield has served on the A.R.T./New York Board of Directors for a quarter century, representing her peers while championing curiosity, innovation, and the full breadth of our community."

You come, too? It's October 25! Info + tickets: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E0198&id=2

And if you're attending any part of ART/New York's swell Fall Forum: the benefit is $100 off!

What to wear??

“That exaggerated, super-elegant, ultrarefined sensibility—the centerpieces are tasteful, the gowns are divine—conveys the aesthetic for the playwright’s blistering, all-caps discussion of Black élite debutante culture… As much as [Colette] Robert wants to show us the skull beneath the updo… she’s also dedicated to the loveliness of the event: songs (written by Dionne McClain-Freeney) decorate the play, performed by a glittering doo-wop quartet, who sing about s*x, power, and Blackness with a sangfroid the teen-agers have yet to discover.”

Helen Shaw captures THE COTILLION as Ojima Abalaka’s illustration fulfills all our dreams wow�

Thru May 27 only!

After a 5-year collaboration, New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company will present
Colette Robert’s THE HARRIET HOLLAND SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS THE 84TH ANNUAL STAR-BURST COTILLION IN THE GRAND BALLROOM OF THE RENAISSANCE HOTEL this May.

So here we are at an irresistible moment. Black History Month ended yesterday... Women’s History Month starts today. Only one way to celebrate that intersection: we put THE COTILLION tickets on sale!

HOLY COW 🐄! 4 years ago TODAY we received the inaugural grant to produce Colette Robert's THE HARRIET HOLLAND SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS THE 84TH ANNUAL STAR-BURST COTILLION IN THE GRAND BALLROOM OF THE RENAISSANCE HOTEL (aka ).

And guess what?! 💥💥 It's finally happening. Make sure to follow and cuz we've gotcha ya covered with a big ol end of Black History Month heading into Women's History Month announcement comin at ya tomorrow - WED MARCH 1. 💥💥

THE COTILLION IS HAPPENING after 3 years (or 10 depending on when you start counting)! Overwhelmed and overjoyed to have spent the last week in The Room with and the whole design team and company working on !!! And we get to play with ??!! 2023 is gonna be tops.

Hip hip hooray, it's the New Georges Jam!!! 🍓🍇🍒

The Jam is New Georges' collaboration-based "performance gym" for theatermakers in an ever-expanding variety of disciplines, and every two years, it's a huge pleasure to introduce you to a rousing new class. Here they are for '23: Liz Appel, EllaRose Chary, Sauda Aziza Jackson, Charlene Jean, Alex Keegan, Katelynn Kenney, Divya Mangwani, Thalia Sablon, Nadira Simone, Raecine Singletary, Julia Sirna-Frest and Dina Vovsi.

They join 11 Jammers who are continuing on (some as active collaborators; others as community members, here for Jam sessions and work shares): Raquel Almazan, Lydia Blaisdell, Lyndsey Bourne, Sarah Einspanier, Deepali Gupta, abigail jean-baptiste, Amina Henry, Kimille Howard, Eli Nixon, ruth tang and Ashley Olivea Teague.

yay woohoo congratulations!!! and on opening YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXEGESIS at 💥💫💥 clearly we had a fabulous time! go go go! thru 12/31!

we are beyond thrilled for and can’t wait to go full speed on w The Movement Theatre Company] — coming to you spring 2023 at theatres!!
・・・
with .repost
・・・
We want to send a warm congratulations to Colette Robert who has been selected as this season’s SDCF Denham Fellow for her upcoming production of THE HARRIET HOLLAND SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS THE 84TH ANNUAL STAR-BURST COTILLION IN THE GRAND BALLROOM OF THE RENAISSANCE HOTEL, which she also authored. THE COTILLION is being co-produced by and The Movement Theatre Company] The Movement Theatre Company in April and May 2023. The Denham Fellowship comes with a $10,000 award.

Learn more about Colette Robert, THE COTILLION, and the Denham Fellowship through the links in our bio!

the holiday season is about to explode!💥 get tickets for ONE NIGHT ONLY: DEC 14 at 8pm 🎄+ 🍷 glühwein will be flowing cause it’s also the Holiday Party!! 🎟️ for bb brecht’s YULETIDE HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR!!! 🧨

you know what you’re gonna want tomorrow???? a big fluffy New Georges sweatshirt!!!! so you better order it today!! customink.com/fundraising/newgeorges30 💙❤️ ONLY AVAIL TIL DEC 1!!! 💖💚

30 candles for New Georges! and what a party thanks to all of YOU! wow! we are still riding high 💫💫💫 so much love to you all ♥️ Susan + Jaynie
🎈we announced our first major fundraising campaign - New Georges Says Yes: a campaign for the next 30 🎂 - we’re incredibly buoyed by all the support! 🥰
🎈thank you:
🌿Jalisa Miller and for hosting us.
🥯🍸Rachel Jackson and the team from for wine-ing and dine-ing us with a side assist from Tito’s Vodka.
🌸Julie Guinta and for flowers and decor and design and turning it up to eleven.
🖋Nicole Lewis for our kickass new logo.
📋Hayley Isaacson for helping us produce tonight’s event. And our helpers, Caitlin, Shannon, Sydney, Olivia, Ema and Sarah.
🔊Katie Brook for conceiving and directing the amazing NG audio history with extra oomph from Ben Williams.
🤩Our board!! Our chair Annie Chanler, Alisa Schierman, Morgan Brill, and our newest members Danielle Porcaro, Deadria Harrington, Miranda Haymon and Hilary Bettis.
🎈
all photos: + check stories for all the fab step & repeat shots
🎈
can’t get enough! NG merch on sale through Dec 1

This is 30.🎈2012-2021: The 3rd 10 years in 10 pieces of paper, part 2 of 2
💫
1) For 2013 tdfStages “Meet the Theatre” video, tdf’s Mark Blankenship got a “Blam! Pow!” comic book theme from our energy, we were flattered 2) Neil Genzlinger reviews GREAT LAKES at Dixon Place (“dizzyingly entertaining!”) & follows up with Sunday Arts & Leisure feature for the 2015 uptown remount  3) In 2015, happily co-produce Ariel Stess’ HEARTBREAK, her Audrey Residency project, with The Bushwick Starr, immortalized (kinda?) in chalk  4) A play structured like an exploded view diagram?? If it’s HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS by Trish Harnetiaux, better believe it! Director Katie Brook knew how to make it come true, 2015 5) As first partners of The Sol Project, proud & delighted to show our support at this 2016 Time Warner Funder’s Breakfast, get to talk Jacob Padron’s indeed-historic plan & our upcoming production, Hilary Bettis’ ALLIGATOR  6) A year before producing Sheila Callaghan and Daniella Topol’s (NOT) WATER, we spent 3 June 2016 weeks workshopping at 3LD: mapping, outlining, generally figuring out  7) Works on Water: 26 days of art + theater, June 2017, this schedule is just the first WEEK! The play (NOT) WATER, natch; the theatrical & operatic output of a water-specific NG residency; multiple art works; attendant conversations (spearheaded by Katie Pearl!); water art field trips all over the city  8) 2019’s LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR by Chana Porter, dir Tara Ahmadinejad, inspired graphics of many lovely/random icons in this surreal-ish play to mix ‘n match on flyers ‘n things  9) “New Georges started the party before anyone knew they wanted it. Ahead of their time, they continue to innovate”: gobsmacked to receive National Theatre Conference’s Outstanding Theatre Award, December 2019 at The Players Club  10) March 2020, theaters shut down, & we asked our artists to write tiny plays for the time of no plays, 1-pagers (more or less) our audience could read in eblasts we sent, a tiny balm for us & for them
 
This is the entire Liz Appel’s THE WORLD BY HERE AND NOW 🧡Sent in email May 4, 2020. Shhhhh it’s Jaynie’s favorite

This is 30.🎈2012-2021: The 3rd 10 years in just 10 photos, part 1 of 2
💫
1) Peggy Stafford’s sublime MOTEL CHERRY, dir Meghan Finn, co-pro w/Clubbed Thumb closes out Summerworks 2012 2) Jam on Toast, a Jam fest! 3 productions run in crazy rep; here their 3 genius casts goof it up. Also in 2.5-week fest at Dixon Place: Readings! Workshops! Cabarets! A game that’s a show! Not in 2.5-week fest: sleep 3) …GREAT LAKES premieres at Jam on Toast, remounted at City Center w/help of WP, 2015 Obie Awards for collaborators Kate Benson & Lee Sunday Evans 4) That’s Hilary Bettis in unfinished Gural Theatre at ART/New York Theatres, where we’ll premiere her ALLIGATOR, dir Elena Araoz, in collab with The Sol Project, 2016: 1st in this space, 1st Sol partner, big 1st for the playwright 5) 2017 return to 3LD with Sheila Callaghan & Daniella Topol: (NOT) WATER cohabitates w/other Works on Water & ends with audience lying on pool floats under a flying boat, immersed in sound, light & video 6) Among key tasks in Sarah Cameron Sunde’s prolific tenure: booking The Room USING ACTUAL BOOKS! 17 identical calendars travel the world (seriously!) in her backpack, now THAT’S artist service 7) Jaynie, Susan & Deadria tell 3 stories at 2017’s TIERING UP! 3-story gala at The Flea 8) New program! The Audrey Residencies = work on new-play project all yr + meet monthly for wide-ranging chats, like the one Susan & 2018 residents Corinne Donly, Tara Ahmadinejad, Liza Birkenmeier enjoy here 9) 2 singular projects that use sound as primary element, so we produced em in rep, 2018: Stephanie Fleischmann & Debbie Saivetz’s Audrey Residency project SOUND HOUSE (in photo) + Lily James Olds/Door 10’s THIS IS THE COLOR DESCRIBED BY THE TIME, experienced by audience thru headphones 10) As pandemic wears on, we support artists’ reconfigured ingenuity, as with FUTURE WIFE: PARTY IN A SPREADSHEET, live from The Room w/playwright ruth tang, director Sarah Blush & co-creators

The Verge: “Weirdest thing I’ve ever done in Google Sheets” 💻💥 Pandemic plus & unanticipated delight: artists approach with new ways & things to make, we have time & resources to say YES, oh yeah, let’s just do it!

Applications are open for The New Georges Jam! What's The Jam? New Georges’ artist-led, collaboration-based “performance gym” for early- to mid-career women (cis + trans) and nonbinary theatermakers (playwrights, directors, composers, interdisciplinary, any generative makers of performance!) combines a structure of institutional support with the spirit of a collective.
 
Applications are due October 28... and only come along every two years. Hit our website for all the info and apply!

In the 📷: texts + tea = Charly Evon Simpson & Caitlin Ryan O’Connell’s entry in The Jam’s 2019 Jamboree; cast members of 2014 mega-fest Jam on Toast; the 2018-20 Jam kicks off in person, the next one will, too! Apply!

This is 30. 🎈 2002-2011: The 2nd 10 years in a 10 pieces of paper, part 2 of 2
💫
1) “It’s about the artists”: the invitation to 10th anniversary party deserves a close look 2) New Georges Perform-a-Thon order of events: this many people in 1 place over 12 hours every YEAR? By 2002 the Thon had outgrown The Room and included Thon greatest hits, perhaps this was the Thon that broke the camel’s back 3) Exceptional graphic design from SELF DEFENSE (’01) through Jam on Toast (’14) by Noah Scalin/ALR Design, whose George-headed butterflies debuted in the “newsbro” (big brochure!) for 2003’s ANNA BELLA EEMA/belly: three shorts + stuck into the next decade; especially notable gracing 4) the poster for New Georges MANFEST (2004), all kinds of shenanigans going on there 5) Feels stunningly binary today, but in 2004, man, it was a convo ahead of its time—6 women writing plays with men as protagonists + so much additional stuff—that came out of never being able to shake all these assumptions and expectations around “women’s theater,” which wasn’t OUR definition & the opposite of our intenion (program note: “I don’t wake up in the morning wanting to make some women’s theater, I wake up and want to do GOOD theater”) so this was a protest. “Maybe! We can break free! For 2 weeks!” 6) Sheila Callaghan’s DEAD CITY adapts Joyce’s Ulysses to 2006 NYC, why not read the OG? Book club very well attended! For the first few chapters 7) A gaffe so nice the Times corrects it twice 8) 2008 remount of GOD’S EAR at The Vineyard in assoc with NG is supported by a fan of the play (someday over drinks we’ll talk about never assuming you know how to pronounce the surname of the first living playwright you ever heard of) 9) The Jam’s very first cohort (2010!) puts on a super-cool show in The Room, with a set and props and costumes and everything 10) Noah’s 2011 GERM PROJECT newsbro says it all—and then some

It hangs in our office to inspire utopian dreams 💥 Kudos commissionees Kate Walat & Portia Krieger, Kara Lee Corthron & Kara-Lynn Vaeni, Lynn Rosen & Shana Gold, Anna Ziegler & the late great Bea Terry & all our collaborating artists for giving it a go 🦋

This is 30. 🎈 2002-2011: The 2nd 10 years in just 10 photos (so many shows!), part 1 of 2
💫
1) The transformational ANNA BELLA EEMA by Lisa D’Amour, dir Katie Pearl, runs in rep with Alva Rogers’ belly: three shorts, dir Julia Whitworth (2003), a golden pair 2) Jenny Lyn Bader’s NONE OF THE ABOVE, dir Julie Kramer, and Ethan Allen-donated bed means Alison Pill jumps into NY debut + we can all nap during tech 3) 2004’s MANFEST (Ditch the Niche!) = 6 women write short plays with male protagonists + panels like this one, of playwrights who “write the other” 4) Gala 2005: Emily DeVoti writes Dan Illian + Vanessa Aspillaga into a shower at The Dakota in our 1st apartment takeover (plays in all the rooms), a feat repeated thru 2018 5) DEAD CITY by Sheila Callaghan, dir Daniella Topol (2006) opens 3LD, spends 8 weeks in space for production development, yields an extension + a new producing model 6) Jenny Schwartz’s GOD’S EAR, dir Anne Kauffman, songs by Michael Friedman (2007), talk of the town + moves to the Vineyard 7) Linda Powell meets Angela Davis—who she plays in Eisa Davis’ ANGELA’S MIXTAPE, dir Liesl Tommy!—in the Ohio Theatre lobby post-show, 2009 8) Heidi Schreck’s sorcerous CREATURE, dir Leigh Silverman, is an ideal final Ohio outing 9) We seed and support Marielle Heller’s THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL adaptation, our own Sarah Cameron Sunde co-directs with Rachel Eckerling on Lauren Helpern’s groovy set built for wrap-around video, 2010 9) The Germ Project, 2011: we commission “plays of scope and adventure” from 4 playwrights + 4 collaborating directors then fully produce 4 20-minute proof-of-concept “germs” chosen to test each play’s moments of maximum theatrical excitement

“To delight the senses, thrill the brain & defy a shrinking theater”💥 Hearing that this crazy scheme was next on our docket, Jaynie Saunders Tiller decides to take the job 😎

Applications are now open for The New Georges Jam! What's The Jam? Our artist-led, collaboration-based “performance gym” for early- to mid-career women (cis + trans) and nonbinary theatermakers combines a structure of institutional support with the spirit of a collective. Applications are due October 28... and only come along every two years. Click for much more info and apply!

ARTIST PLATFORM - New Georges Content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content cont...

This is 30. 🌼 1992-2001: our 1st 10 years in 10 fun pieces of IRL paper, part 2 of 2
💫
1) A conglomeration of production pix pasted up for some display! Spans ‘92 to 2003, how many did you see? 2) From ‘92 to ‘94 we co-rented a theater all season with The Basic Theatre & Gilgamesh Theatre Group, and tried promoting ourselves together as “At the Beckett” 3) The era of women in space! Our newsy whole-list newsletter heralds The Room 4) New Georges Cool-Lots, summer ‘95, marks the first appearance of Kinda Personal (New Georges’ all-woman sketch comedy group) and second for Love in the Void: alt.fan.c-love, following its debut in the first annual New Georges Perform-a-Thon (through this project, Susan learns what the internet does) 5) We next shared space with adobe theater company as residents at 46 Walker Street (Soho Rep) AND in brand-new Time Out New York 6) The Room hosts readings, lots of ‘em, and this is Tracey Scott Wilson’s first, helmed by original lit manager Maxine Kern,who read EXHIBIT #9 among our submissions and said: THIS 7) The Fringe comes to town, we won’t stand idly by, and we can do math! Shows by Wendy Weiner, Sonya Sobieski, Tessa Leigh Derfner 8) How the heck did we communicate with artists if there wasn’t any internet?? Artist news in the mail, baby. Fold, address, stamp, monthly! That’s what Must See TV was for 9) Tracey’s LEADER OF THE PEOPLE, dir Jessica Bauman, headlines WATCH THIS SPACE: a New Georges Anthology, “eight weeks of fresh works from artists to watch” in the Performance Club at HERE, which also includes Cusi Cram’s EURIPIDAMES, a workshop of Leigh Fondakowski’s I THINK I LIKE GIRLS, and the short and longer work of 42 additional playwrights and directors.

And boy, were our arms tired.🏋️‍♀️ Reading the brochure again, noticed the copy DOES anticipate “one exhausted theater company.” But on the inside it says: “we always have more fun when whole bunches of artists get together.” 📃💌📮

This is 30.🎈 1992-2001: our 1st 10 years in 10 cool photos, part 1 of 2
💫
1) Susan, Sept 1992 during the run of our second show: an anthology of one-acts we somehow called I’M SORRY… WAS THAT YOUR WORLD? 2) Susan with original partners Greer Goodman and Colleen McQuade in our first show, Caryl Churchill’s VINEGAR TOM in Feb ‘92, behind us nice press that encouraged us to keep the new company going 3) Those one-acts: a toe dip into new plays & we never looked back, this is EASY JOURNEY TO OTHER PLANETS by Neena Beber, dir Bonnie Mark, with Carolyn Baeumler, Adrienne Wilde, Susan 4) We spent two 3-show seasons at The Beckett, whew! Closing the first: MAIDEN VOYAGES by Honor Molloy and Bronagh Murphy, dir Jessica Bauman, with Colleen McQuade, Marian Quinn, Bronagh, Tobi Brydon, Susan 5) Susan and Marceline Hugot collide in Lisa Reardon’s GLORIA, dir Julie Hamberg, but outside all is groovy 6) In October ‘94, The Room is born in a commercial loft at 27 W. 20th St; Sarah Lambert, Kia Corthron, Beryl Jolly show for the Open House 7) Here’s Susan on the set of Randolyn Zinn’s FRANK, FRANK in our next producing home, 46 Walker Street 8) The Village Voice’s mysterious request to fax over our info is followed by 1996 Obie Award and grant, with then-associate directors Jessica Bauman, Garland Hunter, Barbara Pitts McAdams 9) 1998’s FISHES by Diana Son, dir Judy Minor, with Amy Povitch, Connie Winston, closes out our Walker St time 10) Maria Striar, Mary Shultz in Barbara Wiechmann’s THE HOLY MOTHER OF HADLEY NEW YORK, dir Rachel Dickstein, which opened September 10, 2001, at the Ohio Theater in Soho.

GULP. On Friday we came back to the theater to perform this gorgeous play in which a shaken community gathers together to await a miracle. 💟💟💟

we’re finally getting the band back together… not everyone there yet because did you know that scheduling in the theater is HARD (!), but we’re happy to be on the official road to production for and man, tonight was special… and so was dinner with these fine folks! 🧡 to this team and our co-producers + lots more to come!!!!

yay! + + company!! GALATEA is the exact play-in-a-park experience we need this summer! They are sold out this weekend but are getting the waiting list IN so go go go! 🌼🌸🌼 shout-outs to and everyone who made this happen 💫

Caught GALATEA online last yr and oh what fun! NOW: site-specific production directed by 🌳 It’s free, q***r, sustainable theater! It’s an ! And (proudly) it’s a New Georges Supported Production!! Just 4 shows—join there Thursday 8/25! MJ you did it!
 
 ***r ***rtheater
・・・
with .repost
・・・
A TRANS LOVE STORY SET AGAINST A CLIMATE CRISIS!

GALATEA tells the story of two young people from a village threatened with flooding who escape to the nearby woods, where they find love, trouble and a little bit of magic. GALATEA is a roiling q***r celebration based on the 1585 play by John Lyly.

Reserve your tickets quickly! Galatea is only showing for 4 performances from August 25th to 28th at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6! Please reserve at galatea-by-mjkaufman.eventbrite.com, link in bio!

We can't wait to see you frolicking in our corner of the woods! Please join us at GALATEA!" ***rtheatre

Works by NG playwrights Jen Silverman and Dipika Guha performed by puppets. I’M THERE!

We're supporting and her collaborators    who are working towards group creation to focus specifically on reproductive justice for theater makers, creating more accessible pro-choice theater, and encouraging communication/solidarity/amplifying the voices of theater makers in states with total bans. If you want to learn more about and this project check out the . And if you want to get involved more directly [email protected]