Partnerships

Launched in 2023, this innovative collaboration with New Victory Theater provides unique performance opportunities for School of Drama students and paves the way for inspiring new work development for young audiences. New Victory has been recognized by Americans for the Arts with a national Arts Education Award and by the Drama Desk for “providing enchanting, sophisticated children’s theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people.”

Graduate students explore Ping Chong and Company’s methods for developing new works, which include devising, movement work, documentary theater, and creative producing. They engage with Ping Chong and Company’s “Undesirable Elements” series, an ongoing practice of creating interview-based theater works exploring culture, identity, and belonging in specific communities. After applying these approaches to their artistic, collaborative, or community work, students work in an ensemble to develop a piece centered on creative producing and community engagement.

Since 2013, Naked Angels has been part of the School of Drama’s creative community, bringing diverse and innovative voices together to enrich the theatrical landscape. The “1st Mondays at The New School” series offers emerging playwrights from the Naked Angels community a vital platform to showcase their work, providing them with invaluable exposure and networking opportunities. School of Drama students interact with and learn from these emerging talents, gaining insight into the creative process and forging connections within the industry through participation as actors in Naked Angels readings and productions.

Undergraduate students work with practitioners from the Obie Award–winning theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service to build their collaborative theater practice, investigating the relationship between the creative impulse and the development of work adapted from a primary text through the collaborative theater-making process.

St. Ann's Warehouse, Domino Sound, 24 Hour Plays, HERE Arts Center, Tectonic Theater Project, Pig Iron Theater, Waterwell Theater, Writopia, Cry Havoc, Capes Coaching, Lark Play Development Center, Cherry Lane Theatre, Frantic Assembly, Urban Bush Women, Dmitry Krymov, Lifetime Arts, People's Theatre Project, Wingspan Arts, The Wild Project