NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC
79 EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10003 www.nytw.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TO PROVOKE, PRODUCE AND CULTIVATE THE WORK OF ARTISTS WHOSE VISIONS INSPIRE AND CHALLENGE ALL OF US.

NYTW IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING AND PRESENTING THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES THAT REFLECT, RESPOND TO, AND INVIGORATE THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE AND WORK.

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have suspended our in-person programming since March 12, 2020. This suspension of programming meant the unexpected early conclusion of our 2019/20 season mainstage productions, as well as the cancelation or postponement of dozens of Artist Workshop, Education, and Community Engagement programs. We are deeply grateful to have been able to mount four of our five productions: RUNBOYRUN & IN OLD AGE (presented as one theatrical event) and SING STREET, as well as ENDLINGS and SANCTUARY CITY - whose two runs were curtailed due to the crisis. After captivating audiences and critics in 2017 with SOJOURNERS and HER PORTMANTEAU, a two-part theatrical event, NYTW Usual Suspect Mfoniso Udofia returned to open the 2019/20 season with another pairing from her powerful nine-part saga, The Ufot Cycle, with the New York premiere of RUNBOYRUN and IN OLD AGE. Set in the family's present-day Worcester, MA home and 1968 Nigeria, RUNBOYRUN and IN OLD AGE pose questions about how to move forward when the past inhabits your very foundation. Loretta Greco and Awoye Timpo directed these two plays presented together as one evening of theatre. The production ran for 40 performances for 6,170 audience members. In November, we mounted the world premiere of SING STREET, a new musical based on the 2016 film by John Carney that transports us to Dublin during the 80s recession. Sixteen-year-old Conor and his schoolmates turn to music to escape troubles at home and impress a mysterious girl. With a score that embraces the new wave sounds of the era, SING STREET celebrates the thrill of first love and the power of music. Tony Award winners and Usual Suspects playwright Enda Walsh and director Rebecca Taichman led a team of talented collaborators, bringing this indy hit film to the stage. SING STREET ran for 69 performances for 13,391 audience members. SING STREET was scheduled to begin performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theater in March 2020, but is now anticipated to open in the 2021/22 season due to the health and safety precautions surrounding the pandemic. In February, we staged the New York premiere of Celine Song's ENDLINGS; this production also marked Celine's Off-Broadway debut as a playwright. On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos - sea women - spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. Across the globe on the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright, twice an immigrant, spends her days wrestling with the expectation that she write ''authentic'' stories about her identity. This new play, directed by Sammi Cannold, questions what we inherit and challenges who dictates the terms. Our recent suspension of public programming cut the run of ENDLINGS short; the production ran for 24 performances for 4,543 audience members, half the number of performances and audience members anticipated across a six-week run. In April, we extended the opportunity to view a recording of this powerful production to approximately 3,200 ticketholders who were scheduled to attend the production following the March 12 closing, including 100 NYC public high school students from our partner schools whose March 18 student matinee was also cancelled. Across town, NYTW began performances for the world premiere of SANCTUARY CITY by Pulitzer Prize recipient, Usual Suspect, and former 2050 Artistic Fellow Martyna Majok and directed by Rebecca Frecknall. Pre-DOMA and pre-DACA, SANCTUARY CITY is an unforgettable story that follows two life-long friends who fight to establish a place for themselves and each other in America. With a run that also fell within the COVID-19 emergency closure, SANCTUARY CITY played only 8 preview performances for 1,364 audience members, closing 10 days before it was scheduled to open. We remain dedicated to remounting SANCTUARY CITY when it is once again safe to gather. While regular in-person programming was suspended, we have continued to engage our artists and audiences through digital offerings in an effort to maintain our strong, dynamic community that we have cultivated over the last 41 years. At the very beginning of the pandemic, when our community was reeling from the reality of the situation - physically, economically, and psychically - we believed asking artists to respond creatively was an unreasonable burden. We also knew that artists and audiences alike needed community. In response, our first project immediately following the suspension of in-person activities was our Virtual Programming: virtual Open Mic nights, open to the public typically on the third Thursday of each month and presented in collaboration with Poetic Theatre Productions; jam sessions with artists from our wider NYTW community; Community Corners, where emerging artists from across the city and the nation can come together virtually to connect and discuss their work; weekly online Monday Masterclasses on directing, writing, performance, and more; and weekly Workshop Wednesdays, hosted by NYTW Artistic staff, featuring curated conversations with NYTW artists. Additionally, to deepen our engagement with our community, in April 2020 we launched a new network called Virtually Neighbors which aims to address the social isolation many people are experiencing by offering an opportunity to be assigned a virtual neighbor to connect with regularly through emails, phone calls, and video calls. All Virtual Programming is available to the public free of charge and all artists who contribute to our virtual artistic programming are compensated.

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