2024 Festival
Eugene Onegin by Sarah Gancher
Have to Believe We Are Magic by Sara Guerrero
Edi Ya & Diamond’s Grove by a.k. payne
Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem by Jonathan Norton
Sherlock Holmes: The Timbers Family File by LatinX Theatre Project
2023 FESTIVAL
Saturday Mourning Cartoons by Iraisa Ann Reilly
Nancy by Rhianna Yazzie
I Am Delivered’t by Jonathan Norton
The Grove of Forgetting by Robert Ford
Raices | Roots by LatinX Theatre Project
2022 FESTIVAL
Take My Hand and Wave Goodbye by Tammy Ryan
Responders by Joseph Scott Ford
El Camiòn de Ensueño by LatinX Theatre Project
Ashes of a Great Fire by Tony Meneses
2021 FESTIVAL
Remedios by the LatinX Theatre Project
Flex by Candrice Jones
The Heart’s Desire by José Cruz Gonzàles
2020 FESTIVAL
Love be Like by Clinnesha Sibley
The Interrogator by Russell Sharman
Russian Troll Farm by Sarah Gancher
Weightless by The Kilbanes
Heroes and Monsters by the LatinX Theatre Project
2019 FESTIVAL
Ain’t I A Woman by Na’Tosha De’Von
At the Wedding by Bryna Turner
He Did It by Rachel Lynett
Teen Dad by Adrienne Dawes
Blanket Statements by the LatinX Theatre Project
2018 FESTIVAL
Black Book by Austin Ashford
Among the Western Dinka by Russell Sharman
Crossing the Mnisose by Mary Kathryn Nagle
Staging the Daffy Dame by Anne García-Romero
Until Just Moistened by Crescent Dragonwagon
2017 FESTIVAL
(I)sland T(rap) by Austin Ashford
The Furies by Lisa D’Amour
Comet Town by Rick Ehrstin
Visible from Four States by Barbara Hammond
We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War by Mona Mansour
Transatlantic by John Walch
Follow Me @Tio Sam by the LatinX Theatre Project
The Dramatist (LIVE)
2016 FESTIVAL
Andromeda by Gayle Pazerski
The Champion by Amy Evans
A Little War in Little Rock by David Eshelman
Tectonic Mélange by Deborah Yarchun
R&J Damascus created by Kholoud Sawaf
2015 FESTIVAL
Uncle by Lee Blessing
The Quest for Don Quixote by Mark Brown
Dust by Qui Nguyen
The Dingdong by Mark Shanahan
2014 FESTIVAL
B Side: Myself by Jamey McGaugh
Just Like Us by Karen Zacarías
What God Had Wrought by John Walch
Disfarmer by Werner Trieschmann
2013 FESIVAL
Don Chipotle by Juan Francisco Villa
Raw Vision by Les Wade
If I Did This by E.M. Lewis
Swimming with Van Gogh by Susan Felder
2012 FESTIVAL
Uprooted by Clinnesha D. Sibley
The Spiritualist by Robert Ford
The Ballad of Rusty and Roy by Janelle and Troy Schremmer
The Football Project by Samuel Brett Williams
2011 FESTIVAL
Disfarmer by Werner Trieschmann
The Spiritualist by Robert Ford
They Want by Alan Berks
In The Book Of by John Walch
2010 FESTIVAL
Dream Date by Dan Borengasser
The Fall of the House by Robert Ford
Tell Martha Not to Moan by Clinnesha Dillon Sibley
Sundown Town by Kevin D. Cohea
2009 FESTIVAL
Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread by Ashley Edwards
Disfarmer by Werner Trieschmann
Ivanhoe, Ark by Sherry Kramer
Look Away by Robert Ford
Sundown Town by Kevin Cohea
The Arkansas New Play Festival was launched in 2009 and has since helped incubate the development of more than 50 plays. The playwright-focused festival links authors with a director, dramaturg, and professional cast for an intensive two- to three-week laboratory process, culminating in staged reading performances. Staged readings have been held in venues throughout Fayetteville, Bentonville, Little Rock, and—in 2020—streamed online. Since 2013, the Festival has benefited from support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Through the Arkansas New Play Festival, TheatreSquared seeks to give voice to playwrights whose timely and relevant stories resonate with the moment we live in—in Arkansas, in mid-America, and as a nation.
TheatreSquared’s signature offering of bold new plays in an intimate setting has driven its growth to become the state’s largest theatre, offering more than 300 performances annually in two intimate spaces. The playwright-led company is one of mid-America’s leading laboratories for new work, having launched more than 60 new plays. TheatreSquared’s remarkable expansion—with a twentyfold increase in audience in just the past decade—parallels the emergence of its home region in the northwest corner of Arkansas as a booming population center and destination for American art. Offering far-reaching access and education programs and an open-all-day gathering space, the Commons Bar/Café, TheatreSquared remains rooted in its founding vision, that “theatre—done well and with passion—can transform lives and communities.”