Summer Play Festival

The Summer Play Festival ("SPF") is an annual four-week festival that stages new plays and musicals by emerging writers during the summer months in New York City founded by Broadway producer Arielle Tepper Madover. The first Summer Play Festival was presented in 2004. A year later in 2005, The Living Room for Artists, Inc. was formed as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization to ensure that the Festival perpetuates its goals and whose central mission is to both fuel the growth of emerging theatre artists and encourage people of all ages to create, attend and work in the theatre. Unlike the New York International Fringe Festival, there is no application fee and each production is allotted a budget. The SPF organization handles all the marketing and maintains no rights to the plays showcased.

Past Festivals

2008
* "The Black Suits" music & lyrics by Joe Iconis, book by Joe Iconis & Robert Maddock, directed by John Simpkins
* "Esther Demsack" by Billy Finnegan, directed by Stafford Arima
* "Future Me" by Stephen Brown, directed by Joanna Settle
* "Green Girl" by Sarah Hammond, directed by Wendy McClellan
* "Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom" by Jennifer Haley, directed by Kerry Whigham
* "Tell Out My Soul" by Jacquelyn Honess-Martin, directed by Evan Cabnet
* "The Ones That Flutter" by Sylvia Reed, directed by Stephen Brackett
* "Tio Pepe" by Matthew Lopez, directed by Caitlin Moon

2007
* "Alice in War" by Steven Bogart, directed by Alice Reagan
* "Blueprint" by Bixby Elliot, directed by Jonathan Silverstein
* "Cipher" by Cory Hinkle, directed by Kip Fagan
* "Devil Land" by Desi Moreno-Penson, directed by Jose Zayas
* "Flesh and the Desert" by Carson Kreitzer, directed by Beth Milles
* "The Gabriels" by Van Badham, directed by Rebecca Patterson
* "Half of Plenty" by Lisa Dillman, directed by Meredith McDonough
* "Lower Ninth" by Beau Willimon, directed by Daniel Goldstein
* "Minor Gods" by Charles Forbes, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
* "Missing Celia Rose" by Ian August, directed by [http://www.adamimmerwahr.com Adam Immerwahr]
* "My Wandering Boy" by Julie Marie Myatt, directed by John Gould Rubin
* "The Nightshade Family" by Ruth McKee, directed by Shelley Butler
* "Not Waving" by Ellen Melaver, directed by Douglas Mercer
* "Novel" by Anna Ziegler, directed by Michael Goldfried
* "Unfold Me" by Joy Tomasko, directed by Linsay Firman
* "Vrooommm! A NASComedy" by Janet Allard, directed by David Lee

2006
* "The Butcherhouse Chronicles" by Michael P. Hidalgo, directed by Thomas Caruso
* "Father Joy" by Sheri Wilner, directed by Pam MacKinnon
* "The Fearless" by Etan Frankel, directed by Scott Schwartz
* "Gardening Leave" by Joanna Pinto, directed by [http://www.michaelgoldfried.com Michael Goldfried]
* "Hardball" by Victoria Stewart, directed by Lou Jacob
* "Hitting the Wall" by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, directed by Drew Barr
* "Marge" by Peter Morris, directed by Alex Timbers
* "Millicent Scowlworthy" by Rob Handel, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
* "Sonia Flew" by Melinda Lopez, directed by Justin Waldman
* "Spain" by Jim Knable, directed by Jeremy Dobrish
* "Splitting Infinity" by Jamie Pachino, directed by Matt Shakman
* "The Squirrel" by Alex Moggridge, directed by Patrick McNulty
* "Swansong" by Patrick Page, directed by David Muse
* "Training Wisteria" by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Evan Cabnet
* "A Wive’s Tale" by Christina Ham, directed by Rosemary Andress

2005
* "The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl!" by Quiara Hudes, directed by Liesl Tommy
* "Courting Vampires" by Laura Schellhardt, directed by Lou Jacob
* "crooked" by Catherine Trieschmann, directed by Linsay Firman
* "Ephemera" by John Yearley, directed by Erma Duricko
* "How Love is Spelt" by Chloë Moss, directed by Michael Sexton
* "Indoor/Outdoor" by Kenny Finkle, directed by Daniel Goldstein
* "Madagascar" by J. T. Rogers, directed by Gus Reyes
* "The Map Maker's Sorrow" by Chris Lee, directed by Stefan Novinski
* "Messalina" by Gordon Dahlquist, directed by David Levine
* "Mimesophobia" by Carlos Murillo, directed by Matt August
* "Sick" by Zakiyyah Alexander, directed by Daniella Topol
* "Split Wide Open" by Christina Gorman, directed by Lisa Rothe
* "Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs" by Michelle Carter, directed by Jeremy Dobrish
* "tempOdyssey" by Dan Dietz, directed by Randy White
* "Welcome to Arroyo's" by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Jaime Castaneda
* "Wildlife" by Victor Lodato, directed by Michael Sexton

2004
* "Anatomy 1968" by Karen Hartman, directed by Lisa Rothe
* "Arrivals & Departures" by Rogelio Martinez, directed by Lou Jacob
* "Colorado" by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, directed by Tracy Ward
* "Earthquake Chica" by Anne Garcia-Romero, directed by Leah C. Gardiner
* "El Paso Blue" by Octavio Solis, directed by Juliette Carrillo
* "Honor & The River" by Anton Dudley, directed by Ken Schmoll
* "It's Only Life: The Songs of John Bucchino" by John Bucchino, directed by Daisy Prince
* "Kid-Simple" by Jordan Harrison, directed by Will Frears
* "Kitty Kitty Kitty" by Noah Haidle, directed by Carolyn Cantor
* "Mayhem" by Kelly Stuart, directed by Melissa Kievman
* "Pink" by Heather Lynn MacDonald, directed by Linsay Firman
* "Prozak & the Platypus" by Elise Thoron and Jill Sobule, directed by Rebecca Taichman [http://www.prozakandtheplatypus.com/ Prozak and the Platypus webbed site]
* "Sam & Lucy" by Brooke Berman, directed by Trip Cullman
* "Spin Moves" by Ken Weitzman, directed by Suzanne Agins
* "Stealing Sweets and Punching People" by Phil Porter, directed by Michael Sexton
* "Sweetness" by Gary Sunshine, directed by Trip Cullman
* "The Dew Point" by Neena Beber, directed by William Carden
* "Wet" by Liz Duffy Adams, directed by Kent Nicholson

Links

* [http://www.spfnyc.com/ SPF Website]