Back for its 35th year, the creative residency will feature four fresh projects in development. It's your passport to process and a chance to connect with cutting-edge theater makers.
In residence at the Hop July 22 - August 1, 2026
This summer marks 35 years of the creative partnership between New York Theatre Workshop, the Dartmouth Department of Theater and the Hopkins Center. The residency is a platform for pioneering playwrights to develop new work, collaborate with Dartmouth faculty, artists and students, and share their bold visions.
Over those three decades, dozens of works have been developed through New York Theatre Workshop's summer residency at Dartmouth, including Rent, The Laramie Project, Quills, An Iliad and Hadestown; and participants have included Denis O'Hare, Sharon Washington, Doug Wright, Dael Orlandersmith, Anaïs Mitchell, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, Rachel Chavkin, Jeremy O. Harris, Martyna Majok and Ayad Akhtar.
Residency Events (see below for more details)
Wed, Jul 22 Opening Celebration
Fri, Jul 24 Artist-in-Residence Salon
Sat, Jul 25 Performances - Moonie and Nightbirds: The Story of Labelle
Fri, Jul 31 Artist-in-Residence Salon
Sat, Aug 1 Performances - Public Figure and Los Feliz
NYTW's goal is to impact the field of theater and bring new work to mainstream stages. NYTW supports the visionary work of artists through residencies, fellowships and workshops — laboratories of experimentation. With a commitment to pushing aesthetic boundaries and amplifying new voices, NYTW asks what it means to be alive today and inspires audiences' new perspectives and understandings.
Every August, the company brings their work to Dartmouth for a three-week residency to develop and perform new works-in-progress by some of today's most innovative professional playwrights and directors. Recent Dartmouth residency projects have included We Live In Cairo, which premiered at Boston's American Repertory Theater in 2019, and Hadestown, which won eight 2019 Tony awards for its current Broadway production.
NYTW Residency Events
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