The Alcove
New Play Development Program
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Alcove Virtual Artists in Residence
Fiscal support for the creation or finishing of new work, and a more wholistic engagement with the Alcove during the residency timeframe.
2025-2026
Under The Kitchen Sink
by Shahid Iqbal Khan
An intimate drama set in an unspecified future, a play that asks questions about love and belonging. I say unspecified future. But really it is now. All time is now. Who you are now is because of who you were. In an age of suffocating rules, oppressive norms and bureaucratic living, can a thing like love seep through? Can it flower among the dead soil? Or are we doomed to forever be puppets to the puppet regime?
2024-2025
FOREST
by Annabel Nightingale
Dramaturg: Lily Einhorn
In FOREST we are On a Welsh hilltop sometime in the future a family isolate themselves from the desperate situation in the valleys and low lands. Pandemic, flooding, drought & starvation caused by worldwide climate change wreak havoc on the UK. Intolerance and prejudice is inflamed towards the growing number of desperate migrants seeking survival on higher ground. Could one unwanted visitor change lives and attitudes?
Tower Play
by Alistair McDowall
Dramaturg: Jonathan L. Green
The Alcove at the Lortel is pleased to welcome Alistair McDowall as its second artist in virtual residence. In addition to continuing development of his new play Tower Play, McDowall will advise The Alcove throughout the year with artist recommendations and projects. Jonathan L. Green, Director of New Play Development for Steppenwolf, will serve as dramaturg.
