What is New Visions?
New Visions is NY Classical’s first ever new play development program. We designed New Visions specifically to address the wide-scale exclusions of People of Color, Women, Non-Binary People, and People with Disabilities from the classical canon and our company’s history as a theatre dedicated to staging this canon for the public free of charge.
We asked playwrights to challenge both the theatre’s and the general public’s understanding of what is a “classic” by submitting plays that engage with the notion of “classic” not on the terms of the established Western canon, but on the playwright’s own terms.
The plays on this page were each selected as a part of the first cycle of the New Visions New Play Development Program. Each has received a public reading of the work as well as developmental feedback on both the script and revisions from our Literary Director Matthieu Chapman.
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New Visions Cycle One Selections
First Cycle Long List Selection:
The following plays were longlisted for the final stage of the first cycle of New Visions and come with our recommendation:
Electra by Luz Lorenzana Twigg
Torgus and Snow by Christine Evans
