THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CRYSTAL FIELD
PRESENTS
DREAM UP FESTIVAL 2025
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY SETS ITS 13th DREAM UP FESTIVAL
All events at THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions
August 24 to September 14, 2025
For Dream Up Festival tickets, go to: https://WWW.DREAMUPFESTIVAL.ORG/SHOWS – $15-$20
For additional info, call the TNC box office at 212-254-1109.
In 2010, the inaugural Dream Up Festival offered 25 shows consisting of 23 World Premieres and 2 American Premieres. The festival had reviewers from NY Times, NY Press, Show business Weekly, the Advocate, NYTheatre.com and others.
NEW YORK — From August 24 to September 14, 2025, Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, will resume its 13th Dream Up Festival, a feast of adventurous theater. The annual event is an ultimate new works festival, dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances.
The Festival is helmed by the theater’s Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price. This year it offers 22 plays. Audiences will savor the excitement, awe, passion, challenge and intrigue of new plays from around the country.
Theater for the New City has consistently been the most inexpensive theater of its caliber and it continues its commitment to affordable tickets with this festival. Dream Up Festival tickets are $15-$20 for all participating productions.
The festival does not seek out traditional scripts that are presented in a traditional way. It selects works that push new ideas to the forefront, challenge audience expectations and make us question our understanding of how art illuminates the world around us.
Theater for the New City (TNC) maintains a distinctive commitment to high artistic values and community service. In an effort to make theater accessible to all, TNC presents an assortment of distinct, exceptional events each year, including the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which celebrates the artistic and cultural diversity of TNC’s Lower East Side community; an annual Village Halloween Ball and an annual summer Street Theater tour that presents a free, live, original musical in thirteen neighborhoods in all five boroughs. Most of these are free of charge to the public.
Go to https://www.dreamupfestival.org/shows.html for more information and full schedule
LIST OF PRODUCTIONS
Breaking the Trust
– NY Premiere – Playwright: Bill Rogers, Director: Gerald vanHeerden
Con*Cussed
– World Premiere – Writer: Elizabeth Alice Murray, Director: Roger Cacchiotti
Dismantling Prospero
– Workshop – Playwright: Tom Rowan, Director: Kevin Ray, Producer: Marty Goldin
Dune: The Dunesical
– World Premiere – Written and Directed by Blake Du Bois and TJ Canlon
First Liar on the Moon
– World Premiere – Written and Directed by Fletcher Michael
Fury
– Workshop – Written by Paul Kouri
Gin & Milk
– World Premiere – Written and Directed by: Antony Raymond
Green Herrings in a Yellow Room: A Counter Production of The Yellow Wallpaper
– World Premiere – Written, directed, and designed by Sloan Aulgur
In Between Sessions
– World Premiere – Written by Amy Coleman, Directed by Roger Cacchiotti
In Search of “True Love”
– Written by Ayaka Yamamoto
Kind Stranger:…a memory play
– World Premiere – Adapted for Stage by: Steven Simone-Friedlan
Little Jewel: In the Plagues and Throes of Love
– World Premiere – Writer and Director: Bob Shuman
One in Twenty-Five
– World Premiere – Writer and Director: Thomas M Copeland
Sartre and Simone: A Comedy of Redemptive Love
– World Premiere – Written and directed by: William Cane
That Lost Orange Sauce
– World Premiere – Writer: Evan Davis, Director: Elena Menendez Sanchez
The Boys From Kingsbridge
– World Premiere – Written by: Steven Sarao
The Shadows of Love and Light
– World Premiere – Playwright: Larry Americ Allen, Director: Jill Giedt
The Story of Sal B and Barbranne: A mob fantasia
– World Premiere – Written and Directed by Stephan Morrow
To Feed the Roses
Written by Amy Losi, Directed by Laurie Rae Waugh
Twist of Faith
Written by: Michael Gurin
Based on an original story by: Matt Okin & Michael Gurin
Undesirable Secrets
– NY Premiere – Written and performed by: Rodolfo Avarado