New Works Lab

2014/15 Readings

SuperLab: Men On Boats
By Jaclyn Backhaus
Directed by Will Davis
August 8–12, 2014

The Light Years
Created by The Debate Society
August 18, 2014

Iowa
By Jenny Schwartz
Music and Lyrics by Todd Almond
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
September 15–26, 2014 

Antlia Pneumatica*
By Anne Washburn
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
October 1–2, 2014 

Iowa
By Jenny Schwartz
Music and Lyrics by Todd Almond
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
October 6–10, 2015 

The Storytellers*
By Ann Marie Healy
Directed Rebecca Taichman
October 30, 2014 

Placebo
By Melissa James Gibson
Directed by Daniel Aukin
October 31, 2014 

The Agonist*
By Ethan Lipton
Directed by Anne Kauffman
November 13, 2014

Musical Theater reading: Noir
Book by Kyle Jarrow, music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
November 17–20, 2014 

Bedlam
By Zayd Dohrn
Directed by Kip Fagan
November 21, 2014 

Writer Army
in residence at Playwrights Horizons
December 1–7, 2014 

American Boobs*
By Jenny Schwartz
Directed by Anne Kauffman
December 5–15, 2014 

The Debate Society
in residence at Playwrights Horizons
December 8–12, 2014 

Musical Theater reading: Buffalo Bella*
Book, music and lyrics by Kirsten Childs
Directed by Robert O’Hara
December 12–17, 2014

Rancho Viejo*
By Dan LeFranc
Directed by Daniel Aukin
December 16 and 19, 2014 

SuperLab: D Deb Debbie Deborah
By Jerry Lieblich
Directed by Oliver Butler
December 15–19, 2014

Peerless
By Jiehae Park
Directed by Lila Neugebauer
January 14–16, 2015 

SuperLab: Daisy: A Study of Americans Abroad
By Chiara Atik
Directed by Stella Powell-Jones
January 26–30, 2015 

The Experiment*
By Lisa Kron
Directed by Leigh Silverman
February 4–10, 2015 

The Storytellers*
By Ann Marie Healy
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
February 13–17, 2015 

I Enter the Valley
By Dipika Guha
Directed by Portia Krieger
February 25–27, 2015 

The Light Years
Created by the Debate Society
March 2–18, 2015 

Writer Army
in residence at Playwrights Horizons
March 16–20, 2015

SuperLab: Every Angel is Brutal
By Julia Jarcho
Directed by Carolyn Cantor
March 16–20, 2015

The Human Court
By Jessica Dickey
Directed by Davis McCallum
March 31–April 3, 2015 

Musical Theater reading: Alice Bliss*
Book by Laura Harrington, lyrics by Adam Gwon, music by Jenny Giering
Directed by Mark Brokaw
April 6–10, 2015 

Hir
By Taylor Mac
Directed by Niegel Smith
April 13, 2015 

SuperLab: Better
By Michelle Carter
Directed by Kent Nicholson
April 20–24, 2015 

The Animals
By Kirk Lynn
Directed by Anne Kauffman
May 13, 2015 

Writer Army
in residence at Playwrights Horizons
May 12–17, 2015 

The Light Years
Created by the Debate Society
May 18–29, 2015

A Life
By Adam Bock
Directed by Anne Kauffman
June 1, 2015

* denotes Playwrights Horizons commission

Past Readings