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[New Visions New Voices. ]

New Visions/New Voices is a week-long biennial program for playwrights and theaters to stimulate and support the creation of new plays and musicals for young audiences and families. The next New Visions/New Voices will be in May of 2014.

Since its inception in 1991, the program has assisted in the development of 88 new plays, musicals, and operas from 78 playwrights and 35 composers working with 57 U.S. and 8 international theater companies and has received awards for exemplary service to the field from both the American Alliance for Theater and Education and the Children's Theatre Foundation of America.

For a list of past projects, click here.

While at the Kennedy Center, selected playwrights, directors, music directors, composers, and actors work collaboratively in a weeklong intensive to further 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 conference for theater professionals, educators, and others interested in the field.

There are five different ways you can participate in New Visions/New Voices 2014:

  1. A work in progress from a theater in the U.S.;
  2. A work in progress (written in English) from an international theater;
  3. A work in the “Translation Project” (for TYA plays that have been successful in other languages);
  4. As an International Playwright Observer;
  5. As a registered conference attendee.

Guidelines and Instructions forNew Visions/New Voices 2014 Projects

For U.S. Works-in-Progress
New, unproduced plays and musicals for young audiences, submitted by a theater.

For International Works-in-Progress
New, unproduced plays and musicals for young audiences (written in English) from a country other than the U.S.
Download International Guidelines and Application Instructions

For the "Translation Project"
Plays for children and young people that were written and successfully produced in a language other than English, but have not yet been produced in English.
Download Guidelines and Application Instructions

For the International Playwright Observership Program
International Playwright Observers are mid-career playwrights from countries other than the U.S. who will observe rehearsals and attend the conference.
Download Guidelines and Application Instructions

For registration information to attend the conference portion of New Visions/New Voices 2014
The 2014 New Visions/New Voices readings will begin on Friday, May 16, 2014 in the Kennedy Center Family Theater and will conclude in the early afternoon of Sunday, May 18, 2014.

More registration information and materials will be available on this webpage shortly. On-line registration begins December 2013.

For more information on New Visions/New Voices, please contact us at:

Please contact us at:

New Visions/New Voices
Education Department
The Kennedy Center
P.O. Box 101510
Arlington, VA 22210

Phone: (202) 416-8830

Fax: (202) 416-8297

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