New Directions is a commission program uniquely designed to offer development lab time for leading directors in our field with the resources to develop projects for possible future productions at Seattle Rep and beyond.
New Directions provides the opportunity to start new collaborations, strengthen our bonds with freelance directors we admire, and fully recognize the capacity of directors as generative artists.
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New Directions In the News
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Taibi Magar Knows Just What Needs to Change
READ"The pandemic pause has prompted a prizewinning cohort to ask hard questions about salaries, working in other media, and choosing collaboration over 'scarcity.'" Read on as The New York Times interviews four leading directors in the American theater, including New Directions commissionee Taibi Magar (Familiar, 2018).
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Connect Black Theaters, Nurture Black Playwrights
READCommissionee Valerie Curtis-Newton's The Hansberry Project has partnered with True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia to launch The Drinking Gourd: Black Writers at Work, a "new play program that will create a network of Black theaters linked in the shared goal to co-commission, co-develop, and co-premiere the work of Black artists across the country" (True Colors). Hear from Curtis-Newton in a feature in The Seattle Times.
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Donald Byrd: Dance/USA 2021 Honor Award Recipient
READ"What I’m really interested in is trying to be relevant. It just so happens that some issues that I find relevant can also be topical." Read more from commissionee Donald Byrd in an interview with Dance/USA. It was announced in March 2021 that Byrd was the organization's 2021 Honor Award Recipient.
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