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New Ideas Festival 2018

March 7 - 25, 2018

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New Ideas Festival 2018
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS:
CAROLYN ZAPF, PAT MCCARTHY, AND KELSEY LAINE JACOBSON

March 7 to 25, 2018 in the Studio Theatre
Wednesday - Saturday 8 pm
Saturday & Sunday 2:30 pm
Readings: Saturdays 12 pm


New Ideas Festival 2018 is an opportunity to watch the premieres of new plays. Also presented are newly created, works-in-progress.

You'll get the opportunity to see a different program of plays each week.
And staged readings will be presented on Saturdays at noon.

All 2018 festival plays are performed in the Studio Theatre at Alumnae.

We invite you to join us, and provide our playwrights with your valuable feedback. Feedback is an important part of the playwright's creative process.

See the festival line-up below. Enjoy!
Centennial Season
Thirteen Hands
FireWorks Festival
Omission
New Ideas Festival
  • Week 1
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Reading Series
Queen Marie

2018 Line Up

WEEK ONE

F*ck L*ve by Rosemary Doyle
The Dancing Man of Macklin Street by Andrew Lee
Governing Ourselves by Stephen Near
Oracle Jane by Vicki Zhang

WEEK TWO

Sweet Mamma and the Salty Muffins by Ciarán Myers
If Socrates Were in My Shoes by Donna Langevin
Stars by D.J. Sylvis
Moving On by Elmar Maripuu

WEEK THREE

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Natalie Frijia
Marty and Joel and the Edge of Chaos by Camille Intson
The Officiant by Francesca Brugnano
Mourning After the Night Before by Chloë Whitehorn

READING SERIES

Watch Me Drown by Liam Salmon
Mirage: The Arabian Adventure of Gertrude Bell by Laurie Fyffe
Animal by Romeo Ciolfi
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  • HOME
  • MEMBERSHIP
    • Members Only
    • Become a Member
  • TICKETS
  • OPPORTUNITIES
    • Actors
    • Playwrights
    • Directors
    • Production
  • RENTALS
  • ❤ SUPPORT US
    • Our Supporters
    • Make a Gift
    • Donate by Shopping
  • INFORMATION
    • Contact Us
    • Board of Directors
    • About Us
    • Anti-Racism Statement
    • Safe & Respectful
    • Accessibility
    • News & Media
    • Open House
    • CURRENT SEASON >
      • Female of the Species 2022
      • Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike 2023
      • String of Pearls 2023
      • FireWorks Festival 2022
      • New Ideas Festival 2023
    • PREVIOUS SEASONS >
      • 2021/22 SEASON >
        • Albertine in Five Times
        • Nested
        • In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
        • New Ideas Festival 2022 >
          • NIF 2022 Master Classes
          • NIF 2022 Talks
          • NIF 2022 Short Plays >
            • B to Z
            • Joule's Odyssey
            • Cancel Culture
            • The Do-Gooders
          • NIF 2022 Workshops
      • 2020/21 Season >
        • New Ideas Festival >
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 2
      • 2019/20 Season >
        • The Heidi Chronicles
        • FireWorks Festival >
          • Belle Darling Klondike Queen
          • Grief Circus
          • If the Shoe Fits
        • The Trip to Bountiful
        • New Ideas Festival 2020
        • New Ideas Festival 2020 WEEK 1
      • 2018/19 Season >
        • The Importance of Being Earnest
        • Fireworks Festival 2018 >
          • The Pigeon
          • Moving On
          • Animal
        • Top Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2019 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 3
        • Impressionism
        • News - 100 Year Open House 2018
      • 100th Anniversary 2017/18 Season >
        • Thirteen Hands
        • FireWorks Festival 2017 >
          • This Will Be Our Last Transmission
          • Surrender, Dorothy
          • GASH
        • Omission
        • New Ideas Festival 2018 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 3
          • 2018 Reading Series
        • Queen Marie
      • 2016/17 Season >
        • THIS
        • FireWorks Festival 2016 >
          • Inked Heart
          • Motherland
        • The Gut Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2017 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 3
        • The Clean House >
          • The Creases In My Sari
      • 2015/16 Season >
        • Antigone
        • FireWorks Festival 2015 >
          • Divine Wrecks
          • Cottage Radio
          • Radical
          • Playwright Intensive 2015
        • Stepping Out
        • New Ideas Festival 2016 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 3
        • August: Osage County
      • 2014/15 Season >
        • Escape From Happiness
        • FireWorks Festival 2014 >
          • Burying Toni
          • You Have To Earn It
          • Playwright Intensive 2014
        • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 1
        • Blood Relations
        • New Ideas Festival 2015 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 2
          • I am Marguerite
          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 3
    • Blog