July 7, 8 & 9
at Vineyard Arts Project, 215 Upper Main St., Edgartown, MA (map)

ArtFarm and Vineyard Arts Project present New Writers New Plays, a festival of emerging playwrights. Starting in June, three playwrights will come to the Vineyard Arts Project facility to workshop, write, and begin staging brand new works. The culmination of the residencies will be presented with readings on July 7th, 8th, and 9th at the Vineyard Arts Project in Edgartown. This will be an opportunity like no other to see these brand new plays while they are still being created and to get to know the writers, directors, and actors at intimate gatherings following the readings.

Appropriate
by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
directed by Eric Ting
July 7th at 4pm, July 8th at 7pm, and July 9th at 1pm

This award winning playwright (2011 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award recipient) whose last play Neighbors was critically acclaimed comes to NWNP straight from the Emerging Writers Group at The Public in NYC.
Read about Branden in The New York Times.

Pyramidica: Songs of Freedom
by Lucas Papaelias and Deborah Smith
directed by Lou Moreno
July 7th at 1pm, July 8th at 4pm, and July 9th at 7pm

This show comes from NYC, where it is being developed by ArsNova. Broadway actress Jenni Barber (25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee, Cactus Flower, Electric Company) will star in this rock musical about pyramid schemes.

Untitled: The Border Trilogy
by Tanya Saracho
directed by Lisa Portes
July 7th at 7pm, July 8th at 1pm, and July 9th at 4pm

This untitled script that is the second play in a trilogy that has been comissioned by The Goodman in Chicago. The first installment of the trilogy, El Nogalar, opened there last month. The trilogy explores life on the border between Texas and Mexico, and stars Raul Castillo, Sandra Delgado, and Ricardo Gutierrez.
Read about Tanya in the New York Times.