Summerworks 2026’s sold-out, hit production of THE FAMILY DOG by Bailey Williams, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and starring the original cast will return for FOUR WEEKS ONLY, February 9 – March 6, 2027 at New York Theatre Workshop. Tickets will go on sale in a few weeks – sign up for our EBLAST to get updates, early access and special ticket deals!
Thanks to everyone who joined us to honor Josh Silverman, and to everyone who contributed to make it a truly special night.
It’s not too late to contribute to the Josh Silverman Fund! DONATE HERE
A very warm welcome to the incoming writers and directors taking part in Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group and New Play Fellowship!
Directors Cricket Brown, Marissa Joyce Stamps and Jillian Jetton will work on plays by Daniel Holzman, Aaron Ricciardi and Nikhil Mahapatra respectively – stay tuned for a Winterworks announcement.
And we’re looking forward to getting to know Agyeiwaa Asante, Ida Cutler, Carlin Feck, Fiona Gorry-Hines, Salwa Meghjee, Derick Edgren Otero, Jacob K. Robinson and Amy B. Tiong in this year’s writers’ group!
Whether it was your first Summerworks or your 29th, we are so pleased you could join us. CLICK HERE for photos, essays and press from this season.
We’ll be spending the summer incubating and planning for the fall, but we have lot of news to share, so watch this space!
We’ve been eager to put out a second anthology since Funny, Strange, Provocative was published in 2007, and the last year finally provided us with the time to take on this long-awaited project. We are thrilled to announce that Unusual Stories, Unusually Told, published by Bloomsbury/Methuen, is now available!
In it you’ll find seven Clubbed Thumb plays that span 18 years of our history, as well as essays and interviews about the work, and the often atypical processes that led to their productions.
Read more about the book and get your discounted copy (and our first anthology) HERE
by Ann Marie Healy
directed by Brooke O’Harra
With Hannah Cabell, Beth Hoyt, Meg MacCary, and Hubert Point-Du Jour
Production Design by Peter Ksander
Costumes by Tara Webb
Sound by Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg
In which that damn war just keeps going on and on, and three scrappy gals sit and wait and wonder: When will he call?
June 8 – 14, 2008
by Sylvan Oswald
directed by Alexis Poledouris
With Jeanine Serralles, Tracee Chimo, Lisa Rafaela Clair, Rebecca Hart, Caroline Tamas, Ariana Venturi, Sam Breslin Wright, Jenny Seastone Stern, Ginger Eckert
Sets by Jason Simms
Costumes by Jessica Pabst
Lights by Gina Scherr
Sound by Joe Varca
Choreography by Tracy Bersley
In which Vendetta, a late bloomer at a Victorian girls’ school, must save her friends and her family from a legacy of trouble — and it’s all in the dance moves.
June 15 – 21, 2008
by Sigrid Gilmer
directed by Robert O’Hara
With Spencer Scott Barros, Glenn Cruz, Amanda Duarte, Tim Frank, Hasani Issa, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Edward Nattenberg, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Gita Reddy, Paco Tolson
Sets by Caleb Levengood
Costumes by Clint Ramos
Lights by Raquel Davis
Sound by Daniel Odham
In which Robert and Nora, a couple on the rise, get a big promotion, a bigger house, and a brand new slave.
June 22 – 28, 2008
Featuring proposals by Stephen Brackett and Rachel Shukert, Kip Fagan, Michael Levinton and Mallery Avidon, Pam MacKinnon and Bruce Norris, KJ Sanchez and Lanthrop Walker, and Anne Washburn and Gordon Dahlquist
In which teams of artists will propose missing legislation YOU will have the chance to vote in…or veto…
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 8pm
The Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St between Spring and Broome
by Jordan Harrison
directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
With Gio Perez, Heidi Schreck, Brian Sgambati, and Rebecca Wisocky
Sets by Sue Rees
Lights by Garin Marschall
Costumes by Kirche Leigh Zeile
Sound by Leah Gelpe
The Frau used to make beautiful films for a fascist government. Now she’s trying to direct a film that’s simply beautiful. The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, who falls for Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War. But when her actors start disappearing, it becomes difficult for the Frau to ignore the real war outside her soundstage. Inspired by the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl.
January 5 – 26, 2008
Previews January 3 and 4