"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

--From Hamlet (III, iii, 100-103)

 
 

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The cast of The Girl in the Boat by Ben Varkentine

 

 

 

The Tennessee Stage New Play Festival is designed to encourage and promote the development of new American plays. We accept submissions of unpublished works from playwrights all over the country, and typically review seventy scripts from over 25 different states. The festival consists of one world premiere production, staged readings and table readings of selected scripts, and a playwriting workshop for local writers. This series is ideal for seasoned professionals and developing theatre artists to collaborate and explore the craft.

2008 World Premiere Production:

Our 2008 World Premiere production was Paul Leeper's Dangerous Heterosexuals. Directed by Bruce Borin and featuring Biz Lyon and Tom Parkhill, it was a very successful production and tremendous fun to do.

Keep a lookout for more information on our 2009 New Play Festival which will feature a very funny comedy from Mike Farley who wrote our 2004 New Play, A Kinder Gentler Vampire.

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Map to Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN

Want to submit a script? See our Submission Policy.

Interested in auditioning for the New Play Festival? See our Auditions page.

Also get information about our Readings and Staged Readings on the Auditions page.

Past World Premieres



2008 Dangerous Heterosexuals by Paul Leeper

2007 Texaco Star by Margo Haas

2006 Distant Music by Jim McLindon

2005 Safe House by Paul Leeper

2004 A Kinder, Gentler Vampire by Mike Farley

2003 The Girl in the Boat by Ben Varkentine

2002 Essential Existential, including Blindly by Suzan Eraslan, 50/50 by Whitney Haring-Smith, and Standing Up V & E by Ed Simpson

2001 A Little Bit of Culture by Stacey Swedeen

2000 Hit And Miss by Barry Bradford

1999 The Little Theater's Production of Hamlet by Jean Battlo

1998 Living Will by Roberta Neiderjohn

1994 Dry Thunder by Bob King

1992 When Pigs Fly by John Hollomon

1991 Shakespeare's Women: Strategic Moves by Charlotte Headrick & Terry Weber

1989 Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory adapted by Ron McIntyre-Fender & Martin McGeachy