New Georges builds relationships with artists* in all disciplines who are interested in generating highly theatrical work in all kinds of ways.
(Pssst!! If you’re a New York-based early- or mid-career artist, the best way for us to get to know you is through your application to the New Georges Jam. The application process occurs every two years, and this is the year: check back in summer ’26!)
What do we mean when we say weird or weird-ish? Or highly theatrical? Or a New Georges project? Well, it tends to break form: through structural innovation, relationship to audience, nonrealistic presentation or acting style. Tends to be heightened—by the rhythm, poetry, humor, or invention of its language or the ways it uses design and other tools of theatricality. It has wit (in the classical sense), is funny (in any sense), is playful, idiosyncratic, maybe messy. It proposes a world all its own.
If you’re a playwright, that’s what we read for (or maybe something else we’ve never seen, expand our definition!). Importantly, we don’t read for production or a “season” or immediate needs, we simply read to get acquainted: to discover something in your voice and your theatrical approach.
If you’re a director or other generative artist: these same aesthetic questions are on our mind when you introduce yourself in whatever way you choose (a statement, a video, an invitation to a show).
We look for artists who will flourish in New Georges’ process- and collaboration-focused framework. Can New Georges serve you? Will you thrive in a non-patriarchal community?
*who are women (cis + trans) and nonbinary
Some housekeeping around your approach:
Are you at least partly based in New York City? We work by building relationships over time, so if you’re not here, or near here, or sometimes here… it can be hard to find opportunities. If your relationship to our city is unusual or not wholly consistent, feel free to tell us all about it.
Playwrights, directors, other generative artists: if you are a woman+ artist and you’d like to share work with us, please write invitations@newgeorges.org with a recent script or an invitation to see your work. Be sure to include a bio or resume. (Better yet: apply to The Jam. See above!)
We don’t tend toward solo work, but a (highly theatrical!) solo play is fine if it’s the best representation of your work.
(Also: New Georges is about opportunity, not content. The project you send need not concern women or gender in its themes, its plot, its casting… heck, it can star 17 cis dudes, whaddo we care?? Make what turns you on!)
(Also: we may take a while to get back to you. We’re a very small company and we appreciate your patience, truly.)
(Also: we see a lot! But we can’t see it all. We genuinely appreciate your invitations, we promise we’re out there and paying attention to what you’re working on and who you’re working with. Keep sending!)
Still have questions? Let’s chat. E-mail me at susan@newgeorges.org, put “Still have questions!” in the subject line, ask your questions or throw me a few possible chat times (on weekdays, over the next three or so weeks) and we’ll get on the horn.
We know that gender identities and vocabulary around gender are fluid and ever-expanding. If you believe our non-patriarchal space and culture might be the spot for you and your work: bring it on.
Been all around our site, and not sure you see artists quite like you? (Not that there could ever be an artist quite like you…). Be in touch, via the methods above. You could be who we’ve been waiting for.
Top: Christina Pumariega, Carolyn Baeumler, Teresa Avia Lim in ALICEGRACEANON by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, 2012. Photo: Jim Baldassare
Throughout: Caitlin Sullivan and Deepali Gupta collaborate, 2018; costume designer E.L. Hohn presents to the company of LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR, 2019; Lynn Cohen and Carolyn Baeumler, Susan Bernfield, Deadria Harrington and Giselle Ty at the Audrey Residency Summit, 2017.