VINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC
108 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003 www.vineyardtheatre.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Founded 1981, The Vineyard is an acclaimed Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to developing and producing bold new plays and musicals by both emerging and established artists. We are committed to creating an artistic home for daring artists, to nurturing their unique voices, and to producing work that challenges all of us to see ourselves and our world in new ways, and that pushes the boundaries of what theatre can be and do.

Founded in 1981, The Vineyard is an acclaimed Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to developing and producing bold new plays and musicals by both emerging and established artists.

FY20 marked Vineyard Theatres 37th Season, and our 31st year at the 138-seat Gertrude and Irving Dimson Theatre in New York Citys Union Square.Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, The Vineyard launched two enormously successful New York Times Critics Pick productions in FY20: Is This A Room, conceived and directed by Tina Satter; and Dana H. by Lucas Hnath. Though our planned Spring production of Antoinette Nwandus Tuvalu was unable to take place, we launched The VT Show - Live!, a free online artist salon. With a total of 27,506 individuals served between our in-person and online programming, FY20 was the best-attended season in Vineyard Theatre history.The Vineyards ongoing new play development programs offer artists at all stages of their careers tailored dramaturgical and practical support in the form of workshops, readings, and residencies. In FY20, we produced readings of El Huracan by Charise Castro Smith, Time Alone by Alessandro Camon, Sandblasted by Charly Evon Simpson, and Inspired by True Events by Ryan Spahn. The Vineyard also conducted workshops of Tuvalu or, The Saddest Song by Antoinette Nwandu, This Land Was Made by Tori Sampson, and White Girl in Danger by Michael R. Jackson. In addition to our Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, presented this year to Charly Evon Simpson; and Whitney Whites second year of her Susan Stroman Directing Award residency; The Vineyard established the new Colman Domingo Award providing a residency for a Black male generative artist, which we presented to Harlem-based playwright York Walker.In FY20, The Vineyards education programs - offered at no cost to students or schools and designed to inspire learning and self-expression and develop life skills - served 692 local public high school students from five schools in Manhattan and the Bronx. We served 264 students with Student Matinee performances of Mainstage productions; co-produced the REBEL VERSES Youth Arts Festival with Developing Artists, which featured 86 student performers and drew audiences of 846; and hosted 13 professional internships. The Vineyard Theatre Student Ensemble continued despite the pandemic, serving a total of 38 students in three cohorts, the last of which was offered online.Among The Vineyards many notable world premieres are two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas, Paula Vogels How I Learned To Drive and Edward Albees Three Tall Women, and five productions that have transferred to Broadway John Kander and Fred Ebbs The Scottsboro Boys, Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowens [title of show], Bobby Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whittys Avenue Q, Nicky Silvers The Lyons, and most recently Indecent by Paula Vogel. Our work has won 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 5 Tony Awards, 23 Obie Awards, 2 Oppenheimer Awards, and numerous New York Drama Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and Drama Desk Awards. The Vineyard is proud to have been honored with a special Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, a Drama Desk Award for Artistic Excellence, and the first-ever Ross Wetzsteon Obie Award for support of artists and creativity in the theatre.

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