The Watermill Center / New York Theatre Workshop Partnership

The Watermill Center and New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) have created a special program supporting the development of new operatic work for the theater. The collaboration between these two prestigious institutions offers uniquely comprehensive opportunities for artists and companies: Watermill for the residency phase of new works, and NYTW for future rehearsal phases and public performances.

The partnership will apply to a new theatrical work where music plays an integral role or defines the essential theatrical language of the work. The primary emphasis is not on the conventional American notion of musical theater—the kind seen on Broadway—but rather other innovative forms that are often marginalized.

About the New York Theatre Workshop

Founded in 1979 (incorporated 1982), New York Theatre Workshop is a contemporary theatre company committed to the development of innovative theatre by supporting theatre artists at all stages of their careers, providing an environment where work can be created free from the artistic compromise and forbidding financial demands often associated with commercial ventures. The Workshop is dedicated to exploring and presenting theatrical experiences that reflect, respond to and invigorate the world in which we live and work.

Over more than twenty-five years, NYTW has evolved to become a significant force in New York City's vibrant cultural landscape and is now recognized as one of the leading producing theatres of original work in the United States.

The Workshop places the artist at the center of its mission, and, as a result, the work developed and produced there is aesthetically, thematically and methodologically diverse. During the course of a season, audiences can engage with an eclectic mix of theatre, including full-scale musicals, bare-bones readings and multimedia productions. NYTW is renowned for producing intelligent and complex plays that expand the boundaries of theatrical form and in some new and compelling way address issues that are critical to our times. The Workshop boasts a long list of acclaimed work that includes Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited) and KAOS, Caryl Churchill's Far Away and A Number, Jonathan Larson's RENT, John Guare's Lydie Breeze, Doug Wright's Quills, Alan Ball's All That I Will Ever Be, and Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde. NYTW's productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk, and Lucille Lortel Awards.

For further information, please visit www.nytw.org.

The 2010 - 2011 New York Theatre Workshop Residencies are Colin Gee's 'Frontier' and David Levine's 'Milli Vanilli Opera'