New Visions/New Voices is a week-long program in May for playwrights and theaters to stimulate and support the creation of new plays and musicals for young audiences and families, culminating in a weekend of rehearsed readings and discussions with professionals in the field from around the country.

Since its inception in 1991, the program has assisted in the development of 80 new plays, musicals, and operas from 72 playwrights and 32 composers working with 51 US and seven international theater companies.

For a more in-depth look at the process, please view these articles from TYA Today about New Visions/New Voices 2002 and 2006.

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Application Information for New Visions/New Voices 2012 Projects

While at the Kennedy Center, selected playwrights, directors, music directors, composers, and actors work collaboratively in a weeklong intensive to develop new works. After revisions, rewrites, and rehearsals of the new plays and musicals, the works are presented as rehearsed readings during a three-day national conference for theater professionals, educators, and others interested in the field.

Application Information for New Visions/New Voices 2012 projects will be available on this webpage in the early summer of 2011.

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International Observership Program

New Visions/New Voices will host international playwright observers, who will participate in a playwright slam, observe the process of one of the artistic teams, converse with a dramaturg, and share their work with each other. Applications for the observership program will be available on this webpage in the summer of 2011.

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Registration Information for New Visions/New Voices 2012

The 2012 New Visions/New Voices readings will begin on Friday May 18, 2012 in the Kennedy Center's Family Theater and will conclude in the early afternoon of Sunday May 20, 2012.

Registration information and materials will be available on this webpage in early 2012.

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Actors

The Kennedy Center attends the League of Washington Theater and local Actors' Equity Association Liaison auditions each year and generally casts New Visions/New Voices using local actors. As New Visions/New Voices directors and writers are from out of town, auditions are not held. Please do not send resumes and headshots.

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Or, you can e-mail us at kctya@kennedy-center.org

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