Connecting new voices

The National New Play Network, an alliance of twenty-one mid-sized professional theatres from all regions of the United States, is quickly becoming America’s preeminent champion of original work.
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In the wake of Goodspeed Theatre’s announcement that it will no longer produce a subscription series of new works at its Norma Terris Theatre, playwrights across the country are bemoaning what appears to be the increasing lack of venues willing to produce new plays and musicals. But while one light appears to be dimming, another is just beginning to shine. The National New Play Network, an alliance of twenty-one mid-sized professional theatres from all regions of the United States, is quickly becoming America’s preeminent champion of original work.

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Howard Emanuel
About the Author
As an actor, Howard Emanuel has appeared across the USA in regional theatres ranging from The Paper Mill Playhouse and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey to the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and Houston's Theatre Under The Stars. As a playwright, he has recently completed his first full-length work, Last Supper. As a novelist, his urban fiction manuscript, Naked Angels, is currently being shopped to various publishing houses. He is currently hard at work on his second and third plays. He holds a B.F.A. in Acting from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.