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New Works Now

featuring collaborations with
The Neukom Institute at Dartmouth
and Literature to Life

APRIL 25 - MAY 5, 2024

Established in 2014, the New Works Now Festival embodies Northern Stage’s commitment to developing new work for the American theater. Since then, the New Works Now mission has grown to include providing additional workshop opportunities, producing New Works Now-nurtured plays as part of the main stage season when possible, and making a concerted effort to shepherd these plays into a bright future on the American stage.

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NWN Performance Calendar
  • Neukom Festival Readings Free

    All Neukom readings are free to the public

  • The Great Gatsby $24 - $40

    Prices vary based on seat location

  • Student Tickets $19

    For students of all ages

NEUKOM: Running time is approximately 95 minutes for both plays. There is no intermission.
The readings are recommended for teens and up.
THE GREAT GATSBY: Running time is approximately 60 minutes. There is no intermission.
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Neukom Festival

April 25-27, 2024

Featuring 2 new plays by the winner and finalist of the 2023 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting

Saturday's readings will take place at Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall, Dartmouth College.

Instagirl

by Jessica Moss
directed by Sarah Elizabeth Wansley

The 2023 Neukom Award-winning Instagirl puts social media and influencer culture center stage unlike any other piece. The emotional feminist comedy focuses on a house of Instagram influencers and their perpetual struggle in pursuit of fame and success. When an AI influencer is brought into the house as a final attempt by their agency to revive their dwindling careers, her arrival rips open the facade kept up by these young women and probes hard at what lies at the core of authenticity and humanity. Moss’s uniquely comic portrayal of these young influencers is fresh and bold, yet compelling to all, regardless of one’s familiarity with social media.

angel’s share

by Dominic Finocchiaro

The 2023 Neukom Finalist angel’s share tackles the meaning of humanity in a computerized world through a different lens. In the (not too) distant future, where a deceased loved one can be “archived” and digitally “resurrected” via another person, a couple grapples with the consequences of using this technology for their son, who has recently passed. Finocchiaro’s gorgeously poetic piece outlines a sorrowful yet hopeful journey undergone by parents in their search for solace. 

 

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About The Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting
The Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting is an annual collaboration between the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth, Dartmouth’s Department of Theater, and Northern Stage. The competition consider full-length plays and other full-length works for the theater that address the question: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN IN A COMPUTERIZED WORLD?

The seventh annual Neukom Award for Playwriting is NOW accepting submissions until 5PM on May 1, 2024! Playwrights with either traditional or experimental theater pieces, including multimedia productions, are encouraged to submit works to the award program. Click HERE to learn more about submissions.

The Great Gatsby

May 1-5, 2024

A new and inventive take on the American classic by Literature to Life

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
directed and adapted by Kelvin Grullon
performed by Bryce Foley

New York, 1922. At the height of the jazz age and in the midst of Prohibition, midwestern veteran Nick Carraway moves to New York City and is quickly pulled into the world of the rich and powerful by way of his cousin Daisy and his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby. In this hour-long one-person adaptation of The Great Gatsby, Literature to Life (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) breathes new insight into one of America’s greatest novels about privilege, identity, and the price of the American Dream.

Join us for a discussion about the book and performance after every show!

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About Literature to Life
Literature to Life (LTL) is a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. Founded as the educational program of the American Place Theatre more than three decades ago, LTL carries forward the legacy of founder Wynn Handman, who championed American writers of diverse backgrounds as “voices worth hearing” – a pioneering notion in the 1960s. Now under the leadership of Literature to Life co-founding Artistic Director, Elise Thoron, this mighty collective of artists and educators brings the voices of diverse authors to thousands of students and audiences nationwide, giving them the tools to become the empowered “voices worth hearing” of our future. Learn more about LTL HERE.

This project was made possible by a BOLD Ventures grant, a Helen Gurley Brown Foundation initiative.

Meet the NWN Artists

Jessica Moss

Playwright, INSTAGIRL

JESSICA MOSS writes, performs, and produces. Some of her plays include Funnie (2022 winner of the Leah Ryan’s FEWW Prize, O’Neill finalist), Our Play (2023 winner of the Lanford Wilson award), A Girl Lives Alone (SafeWord New Play Contest winner), Cam Baby (Toronto Fringe New Play Winner, Weissberger finalist), Polly Polly (Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship), Next to Him, We’ll Make it Together, and more. Her TYA show, The Worries of Wesley, will premiere in January at the Contemporary Theatre of Ohio, and Our Play, an ensemble piece for high-school and university students, will premiere at Southeast Missouri State University in February. Training: Juilliard. 

Dominic Finocchiaro

Playwright, angel's share

DOMINIC FINOCCHIARO’s full-length plays include angel’s share, cataract, complex, dress, The Found Dog Ribbon Dance, Gold Person, how it feels to fall from the sky, I Summon You, The Lucky Ladies, mother’s son, and Trees in their youth. His writing has been produced and developed around the country, including with Roundabout Theatre, the New Group, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Echo Theater, the Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, the Lark Play Development Center, the National New Play Network, Portland Center Stage, the Flea Theater, the Kennedy Center, PlayPenn, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Dixon Place, and the Amoralists. MacDowell, Marble House, and UCross Fellow. BA Reed College, MFA Columbia University, Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at the Juilliard School. http://www.dominicfino.com/.

Kelvin Grullon

Director/Adapter, The Great Gatsby

KELVIN GRULLON is a Dominican American actor from Washington Heights, New York City. An architecture graduate from the University of Virginia (2013), he launched his acting career with Literature to Life’s one-person play The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a show in which he plays 10+ characters from Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. He is a multi-talented artist with a passion for storytelling, often working as an actor, filmmaker, producer, spoken word performer, and as a DJ under the moniker CHICOBEMBÉ. He has starred on numerous independent projects in theater (She Hates Coffee, Room28 Comedy), film (La Tierra, No More Lonely People), voice over (Corner Wolves), and new media works (Guap, DominicanYork). He was also featured in Northern Stage’s production of King Lear, playing the role of King of France as well as other ensemble roles. He received his actor training with acting troupe Humanity Studios under the guidance of acting coach Shae D’lyn (Dharma & Greg). He loves taking on tragic hero roles – the confident fool with a heart of gold that often finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Bryce Foley

Performer, The Great Gatsby

BRYCE FOLEY is an American actor from Ypsilanti, Michigan. He received his B.A. in Drama from the University of Michigan and is a recent graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker studio. He has performed at UofM (Twelfth Night, The Bacchae, Ovid’s Metamorphoses), and at Davis Shakespeare Festival (The Reaper & The Whale). Along with acting, Bryce has a history of directing, including Everybody by Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins and a new original television show Barely Friends. Bryce is pleased to make his New York theatre debut in The Great Gatsby with Literature to Life.

Season
Sponsor

Thank you to Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, our season underwriter since 2018.

New Works Now
Sponsors

New Works Now is made possible by The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College and the BOLD Ventures Grant, a Helen Gurley Brown Foundation initiative.