Dream Up Festival 2025
In 2010, the inaugural Dream Up Festival offered 25 shows consisting of 23 World Premieres and 2 American Premieres. The festival had reviewers from NY Times, NY Press, Show business Weekly, the Advocate, NYTheatre.com and others.
Festival performance dates: August 24 – September 14, 2025.
All performances will take place at Theater for the New City.
NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
We prefer works that have gone unproduced in New York City, but we will consider an updated version of previously produced NYC production. To qualify for the festival, our goal is works by US and international artists as World or NYC premieres. Translations and new adaptations of known material will be acceptable.
The festival is available to both performance groups and individuals. Plays, dance theater, solo works and interdisciplinary material will all be welcome so long as they can co-exist in repertory with other productions in the festival lineup. Technical requirements and use of production effects will need to be limited. Scenic elements are welcome but one or more of these elements will have to be used in an inventive way.
ABOUT DREAM UP – TNC’s Summer Showcase
The motto of the festival is “Dream Up: Invent, Concoct.” The festival is dedicated to new works. The question of the artist’s vision to free or attack the material will be asked in each application. The festival does not want traditional theater which is presented in a traditional way. Theater for the New City wants to use this festival as a way to push ideas to the forefront with the hope of revealing roads less traveled or undiscovered. Presentation of a straightforward play must be imaginative in some way.
FESTIVAL GUIDELINES
TNC’s 2025 summer festival known as Dream Up Festival will run August 24 to September 14, 2025.
We are accepting applications: February 26, 2025 to May 26, 2025.
Early Bird Submissions: February 26 to April 3 $50. General Submissions: April 4 to May 26 $60 certified check, cashier’s check, or money order in US Dollars payable to: Theater for the New City
All applications must be accompanied with a submission fee.
NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS https://theaterforthenewcity.net/2025/02/theater-for-the-new-citys-dream-up-festival-2025/
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