2023
Ngozi Anyanwu | My Name … is Beatrice
Benjamin Benne | and thou shalt be healed
June Carryl* | Colossus
Mathilde Dratwa | Dirty Laundry
Julia Izumi | Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with Live & Active Cultures!)
Madeline Sayet* | The Fish
DeLanna Studi* | "I" is for Invisible
Anne Washburn | The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire
*Writer-In-Residence
2022
Vivian J.O. Barnes | The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes
Lyndsey Bourne* | Sister and The Second Body
Bill Cain | God’s Spies
Jahna Ferron-Smith | Running While Black
Peter Kim George | To Red Tendons
Stephen Adly Guirgis | Dog Day Afternoon
Zora Howard* | Good Faith
Matthew Paul Olmos | a home what howls (or the house what was ravine)
Michael Shayan | Avaaz
Zakiya Young | Suburban Black Girl
Anna Ziegler | The Janeiad
*Writer-In-Residence
2021
New Works Festival*:
Will Arbery | Corsicana
Zora Howard | Hang Time
Elizabeth Irwin | Support
Julia Izumi | Regretfully, So The Birds Are
Mike Lew | tiny father
Yilong Liu | Good Enemy
Ramiz Monsef | The Ants
A Zell Williams | Diversity
Foundry Project*:
Jahna Ferron-Smith | Running While Black
Kate Hamill | The Re-Enactment and Re-Conciliation of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle as Performed by the Undergrads of Labor History 101 Under the Direction of Adjunct Professor Alice Lehnkey
Matthew Paul Olmos | that drive thru monterey
Heather Raffo | Tomorrow Will Be Sunday
Zakiya Young | The Zakiya Young Project
*Note: Due to the ongoing pandemic, all play development work was done through two online programs, culminating in online workshop reading presentations.
2020
Foundry Project*:
Luis Alfaro | My Father’s House
Jon Robin Baitz | I’ll Be Seein’ Ya
Bill Cain | The Patriots
Franky D. Gonzalez | Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes
Samuel D. Hunter | A Case for the Existence of God
Liza Powel O’Brien | Apostrophe
Gideon Jeph Wabvuta | One More Sunday
Anna Ziegler | Antigones
Writers in Residence:
Vivian J. O. Barnes | The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes
Eboni Booth | Primary Trust
Zora Howard | Bust
*Note: Due to the pandemic, OPC did not hold a Conference/New Works Festival in 2020, but instead worked with the writers (above) in online play development programs.
2019
Kimberly Belflower | John Proctor is the Villain
Sam Chance | Monument, Or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)
Kate Cortesi | Love
Inda Craig-Galván | Welcome to Matteson!
Dave Harris | Tambo & Bones
Kimber Lee | “untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play”
Sandra Tsing Loh*
James Morrison | Leave Your Fears Here
Thandiwe Mawungwa* | 33 Cents
Christopher Gabriel Núñez | Locusts
Liliana Padilla*
*Writer-In-Residence
2018
Jeff Augustin | The New Englanders
Jon Robin Baitz* | Faraway Friends
Stephen Belber | Joan
Keith Bunin | The Coast Starlight
Bill Cain* | The Patriots
Steph Del Rosso | 53% Of
Patrick Miller* | The Prophet
Lily Padilla | How to Defend Yourself
Quetzal**
Ruby Rae Spiegel | Blue Green
Alice Tuan | Cocks Crow
Charlayne Woodard | The Garden
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2017
Will Arbery | Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Jon Robin Baitz* | Vicuña: The Epilogue
Jennifer Barclay | Ripe Frenzy
Bill Cain | The Last White Man
Rick Cleveland*
Robin Gerber* | The Shot
Samuel D. Hunter | Greater Clements
JC Lee | What You Are
Sandra Tsing Loh | Blue State
Richard Montoya & Roger Guenveur Smith* | Venice is Dead
Hallie Palladino* | Infatuation
Ren Dara Santiago | The Siblings Play
Korde Arrington Tuttle | graveyard shift
*Writer-In-Residence
2016
Robert Askins | Our Father
Jon Robin Baitz | Vicuña
Aziza Barnes | BLKS
Perla Batalla, David Batteau, Oliver Mayer* | Blue House
Bekah Brunstetter | The Cake
Steve Connell**
Nick Gandiello*
David Jacobi | Ready Steady Yeti Go
Kudzai Sevenzo | Born Free (aka Under the Rubble)
Kristina Wong | Attention Please
Martín Zimmerman | On the Exhale
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2015
Robert Askins*
Father Greg Boyle**
Richard Cabral**
Mike Daisey | Why We Hate Art
Ellen Fairey | Support Group for Men
Nick Gandiello | The Blameless
JC Lee | Women of a Certain Age
Gina Loring, Sunni Patterson, Jaha Zainabu | 3 Women
Christopher Gabriel Núñez | The Surgeon and her Daughters
Jiehae Park | Peerless
Alice Tuan* | Private Rivals
Gideon Jeph Wabvuta | Mbare Dreams
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2014
Robert Askins | Permission
Bill Cain | Hasty Pudding
Chankethya Chey | My Mother and I
Mike Daisey | Our Man in Havana
Nick Gandiello | Sunrise Highway
Sandra Tsing Loh | The Madwoman in the Volvo
Meow Meow**
Brendan Millburn and Valerie Vigoda**
Ruby Rae Spiegel | Dry Land
Stew and Heidi Rodewald | two zero zero one three
Alice Tuan* | California Love
Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner**
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2013
Luis Alfaro | St. Jude - Part Two
Lucy Alibar | Carl the Raping Goat Saves Christmas
(renamed Throw me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up)
Richard Cabral | Fighting Shadows
Samuel D. Hunter | Rest
Sean Lewis | Dogs of Rwanda
Jiehae Park | Hannah and the Dread Gazebo
Laura Schellhardt | The Comparables
Alice Tuan* | Cocks Crow
David Wiener | Goliath
*Writer-In-Residence
2012
Luis Alfaro | St. Jude
Robert Askins | Fish Display
Stephen Adly Guirgis* | Between Riverside and Crazy
Jennifer Haley | Sustainable Living
Matt Hoverman | The Glint: A Mean Little Comedy
Terrence McNally | And Away We Go
Liza Powel O’Brien | Judith of Laurelton
Nikkole Salter* | Of Great Merit
*Writer-In-Residence
2011
Stephen Belber* & Adam Duritz* | Black Sun
Father Greg Boyle & the Homies* | Tattoos on the Heart
Richard Cabral**
Bill Cain | 30.3 thirty three
Rick Cleveland | Rick & Dick
Danai Gurira |The Zimbabwe Project
Kenneth Lin | Fallow
Don Nguyen | Red Flamboyant
Sarah Treem | When We Were Young & Unafraid
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2010
Jon Robin Baitz* | Other Desert Cities
Kate Fodor | Rx
Thomas Higgins | Wild Animals You Should Know
Len Jenkin | Psalm 151: Heaven Have Mercy
Mona Mansour | Urge for Going
Ben Rosenthal* | Neptune Kelly
Leslie Carrara‐Rudolph** | Wake Up Your Weird
Trieu Tran | Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam
Bess Wohl | Barcelona
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2009
Stephen Belber | Dusk Rings a Bell
Bill Cain | How to Write a New Book for the Bible
Leslie Carrara‐Rudolph | Entertaining a Thought: The Imagination Project
Frances Ya‐Chu Cowhig | Lidless
Stephen Adly Guirgis | Motherf**ker with the Hat
Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori* | Fun Home
David Wiener | Extraordinary Chambers
*Writer-In-Residence
2008
Bill Cain | Nine Circles
Dan Dietz | The Sandreckoner
Yussef El Guindi | Language Rooms
Danai Gurira | Eclipsed
Samuel D. Hunter | I Am Montana
Terrence McNally | Unusual Acts of Devotion
Sarah Treem* | Vienna's Amazing (renamed The How and the Why)
Bernard Weinraub**
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2007
Bill Cain | Equivocation
Julia Cho**
Steve Connell**
Rick Cleveland**
Cody Henderson | The Lawn
Ben Rosenthal | The Bog Lacuna
Lloyd Suh | American Hwangap
T.D. Mitchell**
Annie Weisman | Surf Report
Charlayne Woodard | The Night Watcher
**Guest Artist
2006
Stephen Belber | Muscles in Our Toes
Lee Blessing | Lonesome Hollow
Rick Cleveland**
Sherry Kramer | When Something Wonderful Ends
David Hollander | South Pole
Len Jenkin*
T.D. Mitchell | Beyond the 17th Parallel
Ben Rosenthal | The Monkey Puzzle Tree
Steve Connell and Sekou (tha misfit)**
*Writer-In-Residence
**Guest Artist
2005
Luis Alfaro | Holy Road
Keith Bunin | The Busy World is Hushed
Bill Cain | The Laying On of Hands
Julia Cho | Durango
Stephen Adly Guirgis* | The Little Flower of East Orange
Rogelio Martinez | My First Radical
Steve Connell & Sekou Tha Misfit | The Word Begins
*Writer-In-Residence
2004
Stephen Belber | For Reele
Keith Bunin & Peter Parnell | White Bicycles
Danai Gurira & Nikkole Salter | In the Continuum
Linda Hunt | The Little Locksmith
Julia Jordan | Dark Yellow
Susan Miller | A Map of Doubt and Rescue
2003
Jon Robin Baitz | Chinese Friends
Lee Blessing | Flag Day
Danny Hoch | Till the Break of Day
Joe Loya | The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell
Peter Morris | Pro Bono Publico
Charlayne Woodard | Flight
2002
Luis Alfaro | No Holds Barrio
Jon Robin Baitz | The Paris Letter
Jessica Goldberg | Katzman and the Mayor
Arthur L. Kopit | The Discovery of America
Lisa Loomer | Living Out
Kelly Stuart | Mayhem
2001
Doris Baizley | Glass Mountain
Mary Lathrop | Tales from the Salt Mines
Lynn Manning | Middle Passage: Section One
John Rafter Lee | Frankincense
2000
Jessica Goldberg | Good Thing
David Ives | Polish Joke
Deborah Zoe Laufer | Fortune
Adam Rapp | Nocturne
Ari Roth | Love & Yearning in the Not‐For‐Profits, and Other Marital Distractions
1999
Neena Beber | Hard Feelings
Heather Dundas | Rules for Cheaters
John Quincy Long | Year of the Baby
Kira Obolensky | Lobster Alice
Adam Rapp | Finer Noble Gases
1998
Neena Beber | Tomorrowland
Rick Cleveland | Danny Bouncing
Christopher Durang | Betty's Summer Vacation
Elroyce D. Jones | A Thimble of Smoke
David Lindsay‐Abaire | The Devil Inside
Bernardo Solano | Wild Life