Welcome to the NYTW Blog—a resource for behind-the-scenes insights on our productions, share-outs from the classroom penned by teaching artists, community partner spotlights, and a peek behind the curtain to see how work gets made at NYTW.

All About Our 2050 Administrative Fellows

With the deadline for our NYTW 2050 Administrative Fellowship less than a month away, we thought we’d take a moment to hear all about what our current fellows have learned so far this year.

Do you envision yourself working with donors as part of the Development team, or supporting new plays as the Artistic Workshop Fellow? Do you hope to lead Education and Engagement workshops and programming, or maybe use skills in Marketing to support the local community?

Read on below, get to know which projects each of our fellows work on at the Workshop, and see if any spark your interest.

March 4, 2026 by Marty Chandler


Class is in Session: Casebook Participants on the Making of TARTUFFE

Our Casebook program pulls back the curtain on one show in the Workshop’s season each year, and this year, participants spent eight weeks taking a behind-the-scenes look at the making of TARTUFFE. From conversations with the generative artists to sitting in on tech rehearsal, Casebook participants (or “Casebookers”) learned all about what goes into taking a new work from page to stage at an Off-Broadway theatre company. NYTW Education & Engagement Associate Marty Chandler chatted with a few Casebookers to recap what Casebook covered this year and hear about their experience in the program. Let’s hear what they had to say!

December 22, 2025 by Marty Chandler


Tartuffe Study Guide

Before seeing TARTUFFE at the Workshop, we recommend that you pop
over to “The Brief” Study Guide, where you’ll learn from all that’s inside
about topics like comedy and farce, themes of hypocrisy, and even could parse
through the difference between rhymes made by Lucas Hnath and Moliére.
Whether a student or curious theatregoer, we’re excited to share
this knowledge about the show—and then see you there!

December 5, 2025 by NYTW Education & Engagement


Mind the Gap Celebrates Its Sweet 16!

Mind the Gap, New York Theatre Workshop’s intergenerational theatre program, has been bringing elders and teens together across New York City and the world for now sixteen years. Founded in 2009, Mind the Gap workshops match elders (ages 60 and up) to teens (13-19), and asks them to share with each other their hopes, dreams, and stories from their lives.

To celebrate this “Sweet 16,” we are looking back at where we’ve taken Mind the Gap this year, celebrating our partnerships across the globe, and reflecting on the community cultivated by this program throughout its history.

October 6, 2025 by NYTW Education & Engagement


Saturday Church Study Guide

Are there any queens in the house? In this two-page, briefer edition of “The Brief” Study Guide, learn more about the process of making SATURDAY CHURCH, its inspiration from the real-life program at St. Luke in the Fields, and its adaptation from 2017 film to 2025 Off-Broadway musical. Explore our community partners, and reflect on the show’s themes of community and ballroom culture. Then, get hype about the show and get your tickets before they sell out!

October 1, 2025 by NYTW Education & Engagement


Meet the 2050 Fellows for the 2025/26 Season!

We can’t wait to introduce you to the newest cohort of 2050 Artistic and Administrative Fellows! These wonderful artists and administrators will spend the next year with us in community and we hope you’ll join us in welcoming them! The new Artistic Fellows are directors Miguel Bregante and Adam Coy; solo performer Rachel Lin; and playwrights Abigail C. Onwunali and May Treuhaft-Ali. The new Administrative Fellows are Chandler Gregoire (Development), Angela Guerra (Marketing), Kimmarie McCrann (Artist Workshop) and Julie Monteleone (Education & Engagement).

June 20, 2025


Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole Study Guide

The lights are shining bright onstage for LIGHTS OUT: NAT “KING” COLE at NYTW! Our partner schools from across the city will be joining us for our Student Matinee soon, and you can join us in learning more about the show too! In the latest edition of “The Brief” Study Guide, dive into topics like the sociopolitical context surrounding Nat “King” Cole’s variety show, the history of Black performers in tap dance, and more about the production itself. Get excited about this dazzling show with us, and then grab your tickets here!

May 14, 2025 by NYTW Education


Becoming Eve Study Guide

BECOMING EVE is now onstage at the Abrons Arts Center. Before we bring our partner schools to down there for our Student Matinee, we’re bringing them through several themes from the play, including gender and its intersections with Jewish texts, puppetry, adaptation, and more. Want to join us? Check out the latest edition of “The Brief” Study Guide.

March 27, 2025 by NYTW Education


A KNOCK ON THE ROOF STUDY GUIDE

Ready to catch a preview or performance of A KNOCK ON THE ROOF at NYTW? We know our students are! Our amazing partner schools from all over New York City will be joining us for our Student Matinee next month. To help the students (and all of us!) get excited about the show, our Education department has published the latest edition of “The Brief” Study Guide. From ​solo performance to the metric system, the topics covered in the guide will help prepare audiences to understand the weight of Khawla Ibraheem’s character, Mariam, and find commonality in her everyday life, feelings, and obstacles.

January 23, 2025 by NYTW Education


A Letter from NYTW

For more than 45 years, we’ve been producing theatre that animates, challenges and celebrates the world we live in. Through this work, we not only build shows, but also community.

While we may be best known for award-winning work—Rent; Merrily We Roll Along; On Sugarland; Hadestown; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Here There Are Blueberries and so many more—they represent a fraction of what we do in our unique home in the East Village.

December 11, 2024 by NYTW