Summer Play Festival
The Summer Play Festival (SPF) was a theatre festival held in New York, USA.
== Description ==
The annual four-week Summer Play Festival took place during the summer months at the Public Theater in New York City. It was founded by Broadway producer Arielle Tepper Madover and staged new plays and musicals by emerging writers. The first Summer Play Festival was presented in 2004, introducing a $10 ticket price that was a key feature of the event for its entire run. A year later in 2005, The Living Room for Artists, Inc. was formed as a non-profit organization to ensure that the Festival perpetuates its goals, and whose central mission is to both fuel the growth of emerging theatre artists and encourage people of all ages to create, attend and work in the theatre.  Unlike the New York International Fringe Festival, there was no application fee and each production was allotted a significant budget. The SPF organization handled all the marketing and maintained no long-term rights to the plays and musicals showcased. The Festival's advertising blanketed New York during the summer, with television, newspaper, and magazine ads. Bus stops and street posters also advertised the event.
100 emerging playwrights and composers, and around 1000 directors, designers, and other theatre artists worked at the Festival during its six-year run. The Festival had a successful track record in identifying emerging talent: SPF's writers and artists have gone on to receive numerous awards and accolades, and productions on Broadway, off-Broadway, regionally and internationally. Many have also developed projects with major film and television companies. The New York Times, Variety, and numerous other newspapers lauded Tepper's vision of creating affordable theatre for audiences, and a unique creative opportunity for emerging and established artists.
Other Festival programs included concerts, panels, salons, and forums developed in conjunction with Time Out New York and the NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, a university internship program, a play commissioning program, and residency programs with the Donmar Warehouse, the National Theatre of Great Britain, and a number of Festivals in Europe.
Artists included Ally Sheedy, Mary Beth Peil, Marin Hinkle, John Gould Rubin, Annie Parisse, Katherine Waterston, Stew, Annie Golden, Adam Gwon, Jeremy Schonfeld, Georgia Stitt, Sam Gold, Beau Willimon, Christopher Gattelli, Trip Cullman, Jordan Harrison, Chloe Moss, Evan Cabnet, Kristoffer Diaz, Adam Driver, J.T. Rogers, and Quiara Hudes.
== Past Festivals ==
2009The Chimes by Kevin Christopher Snipes, directed by Adam Immerwahr
Departure Lounge by Dougal Irvine, directed by Christopher Gattelli
Reborning by Zayd Dohrn, directed by Kip Fagan
The Happy Sad by Ken Urban, directed by Trip Cullman
The Sacrifices by Alena Smith, directed by Sam Gold
Tender by Nicki Bloom, directed by Daniella Topol
We Declare You A Terrorist by Tim J. Lord, directed by Niegel Smith
Whore by Rick Viede, directed by Stephen Brackett
2008The Black Suits music & lyrics by Joe Iconis, book by Joe Iconis & Robert Maddock, directed by John Simpkins
Esther Demsack by Billy Finnegan, directed by Stafford Arima
Future Me by Stephen Brown, directed by Joanna Settle
Green Girl by Sarah Hammond, directed by Wendy McClellan
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley, directed by Kerry Whigham
Tell Out My Soul by Jacquelyn Honess-Martin, directed by Evan Cabnet
The Ones That Flutter by Sylvia Reed, directed by Stephen Brackett
Tio Pepe by Matthew Lopez, directed by Caitlin Moon
2007Alice in War by Steven Bogart, directed by Alice Reagan
Blueprint by Bixby Elliot, directed by Jonathan Silverstein
Cipher by Cory Hinkle, directed by Kip Fagan
Devil Land by Desi Moreno-Penson, directed by Jose Zayas
Flesh and the Desert by Carson Kreitzer, directed by Beth Milles
The Gabriels by Van Badham, directed by Rebecca Patterson
Half of Plenty by Lisa Dillman, directed by Meredith McDonough
Lower Ninth by Beau Willimon, directed by Daniel Goldstein
Minor Gods by Charles Forbes, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Missing Celia Rose by Ian August, directed by Adam Immerwahr
My Wandering Boy by Julie Marie Myatt, directed by John Gould Rubin
The Nightshade Family by Ruth McKee, directed by Shelley Butler
Not Waving by Ellen Melaver, directed by Douglas Mercer
Novel by Anna Ziegler, directed by Michael Goldfried
Unfold Me by Joy Tomasko, directed by Linsay Firman
Vrooommm! A NASComedy by Janet Allard, directed by David Lee
2006The Butcherhouse Chronicles by Michael P. Hidalgo, directed by Thomas Caruso
Father Joy by Sheri Wilner, directed by Pam MacKinnon
The Fearless by Etan Frankel, directed by Scott Schwartz
Gardening Leave by Joanna Pinto, directed by Michael Goldfried
Hardball by Victoria Stewart, directed by Lou Jacob
Hitting the Wall by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, directed by Drew Barr
Marge by Peter Morris, directed by Alex Timbers
Millicent Scowlworthy by Rob Handel, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez, directed by Justin Waldman
Spain by Jim Knable, directed by Jeremy Dobrish
Splitting Infinity by Jamie Pachino, directed by Matt Shakman
The Squirrel by Alex Moggridge, directed by Patrick McNulty
Swansong by Patrick Page, directed by David Muse
Training Wisteria by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Evan Cabnet
A Wive's Tale by Christina Ham, directed by Rosemary Andress
2005The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! by Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Liesl Tommy
Courting Vampires by Laura Schellhardt, directed by Lou Jacob
crooked by Catherine Trieschmann, directed by Linsay Firman
Ephemera by John Yearley, directed by Erma Duricko
How Love is Spelt by Chloë Moss, directed by Michael Sexton
Indoor/Outdoor by Kenny Finkle, directed by Daniel Goldstein
Madagascar by J. T. Rogers, directed by Gus Reyes
The Map Maker's Sorrow by Chris Lee, directed by Stefan Novinski
Messalina by Gordon Dahlquist, directed by David Levine
Mimesophobia by Carlos Murillo, directed by Matt August
Sick by Zakiyyah Alexander, directed by Daniella Topol
Split Wide Open by Christina Gorman, directed by Lisa Rothe
Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs by Michelle Carter, directed by Jeremy Dobrish
tempOdyssey by Dan Dietz, directed by Randy White
Welcome to Arroyo's by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Jaime Castaneda
Wildlife by Victor Lodato, directed by Michael Sexton
2004Anatomy 1968 by Karen Hartman, directed by Lisa Rothe
Arrivals & Departures by Rogelio Martinez, directed by Lou Jacob
Colorado by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, directed by Tracy Ward
Earthquake Chica by Anne Garcia-Romero, directed by Leah C. Gardiner
El Paso Blue by Octavio Solis, directed by Juliette Carrillo
Honor & The River by Anton Dudley, directed by Ken Schmoll
It's Only Life: The Songs of John Bucchino by John Bucchino, directed by Daisy Prince
Kid-Simple by Jordan Harrison, directed by Will Frears
Kitty Kitty Kitty by Noah Haidle, directed by Carolyn Cantor
Mayhem by Kelly Stuart, directed by Melissa Kievman
Pink by Heather Lynn MacDonald, directed by Linsay Firman
Prozak & the Platypus by Elise Thoron and Jill Sobule, directed by Rebecca Taichman Prozak and the Platypus webbed site
Sam & Lucy by Brooke Berman, directed by Trip Cullman
Spin Moves by Ken Weitzman, directed by Suzanne Agins
Stealing Sweets and Punching People by Phil Porter, directed by Michael Sexton
Sweetness by Gary Sunshine, directed by Trip Cullman
The Dew Point by Neena Beber, directed by William Carden
Wet by Liz Duffy Adams, directed by Kent Nicholson