The Tennessee Stage New Play Festival is designed to encourage and promote the development of New American Plays. Here is a list of the works that made their stage debut with us, beginning in 1989.
2025 Tennessee Stage Company presented it’s first NPF Development Series: Our Development Series features staged readings that included various levels of technical production and staging. These plays received both a Facilitator and Dramaturg to assist the Playwright during the process. Facilitators read stage directions that could not be completed by the actors. Following each production, the facilitator led a feedback session allowing the audience, playwright, and dramaturg to discuss the playwright’s goals and impact of their piece.
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- Iced by Steve Sherman
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- Sandbags by Katie Myers
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- Snallygaster by Barry Wallace
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- Sweetheart Darling Honey Boo by Celeste Pelletier
2024 Beginning in 2024, our focus has narrowed to new works written by playwrights in Knox County, Tennessee and its contiguous counties (plus Hamblen). Night of Shorts: Change and Other Things This production included 9 one-act plays, all of which were world premieres.
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- The Festival by Harrison Young
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- The Greeks Have an Intervention by Sarah Wahrmund
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- Vengeance is Mine Sayeth Dolores by Kelly Robinson
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- Revenge? by Kevin Cannon
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- A Rose Garden Never Promised by Brenda Southerland
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- The LGA by Randy Thompson
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- Mindy’s Birthday by Crystal Braeuner
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- H.E.N.R.I. by Christina Sayer
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- These Intimate Continents by J.P. Schuffman
2022 Digital New Play Festival: These Productions were live-streamed, with the Full Productions filmed in front of live audiences.
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- The Thesis by Lee Howard (digital production)
- Turpentine by Brenden Taylor (digital production)
- In Loving Memory by Taylor James Foster (Filmed Full Production)
- A Graveyard In Madrid by Paul Leeper (Filmed Full Production)
2021 Digital New Play Festival: These productions were live-streamed
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- High Ground by Greg Congleton
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- White Dress / Red Bandana by Susan M. Steadman
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- Thinly Veiled by Shawn Samuelson Henry
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- Transisters by Jay Huling
2020/2023 Amazing Graces by Lea McMahan (Remounted in 2023, Due to Early Closing in March 2020)
2020 Raft by Carlin Thomas
2019 The Senator’s Wife by C. Robert Jones ( Regional Premiere Only)
2018 Acts of Love by Paul Lepper
2017 Found Objects by Marilynn Barner Anselmi
2017 The Nearly Final Almost Posthumous Play Of the Not Quite Dead Sutton McAllister by Kris Bauske
2016 The Cast List by Gayle Greene
2016 House Rules by Staci Swedeen
2015 I Am The Way by Scott Strahan
2014 Tic Toc by Gayle Greene
2013 Online Fighting by Harrison Young
2012 The Good Son by Craig Smith
2011 Best Kept Secrets by Peggy Aultman
2010 Church of Diminishing Marginal Returns by Jay Huling
2009 Hoppy’s Trunk by Mike Farley
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 Erlasan, 50/50 by Whitney Haring-Smith, and Standing Up V & E by Ed Simpson
2001 A Little Bit of Culture by Staci 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
