List of TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley) New Works explained
TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley) is a non-profit, professional theater company based in Palo Alto, California. Since 2000, TheatreWorks has been dedicated to the development of scores of new plays and musicals, earning national recognition and acclaim for the company and their New Works Festival.
2002 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Memphis (musical) | Book & Lyrics by Joe DiPietro; Music & Additional Lyrics by David Bryan |
| The Mistress Cycle | Book & Lyrics by Beth Blatt; Music by Jenny Giering |
| My Antonia | Book by Scott Schwartz; Adapted from the novel by Willa Cather; Original Music by Stephen Schwartz | |
2003 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| A Little Princess | Book & Lyrics by Brian Crawley; Music by Andrew Lippa |
| Striking 12 | Book by Brendan Milburn, Rachel Sheinkin, & Valerie Vigoda; Music & Lyrics by Brendan Milburn & Valerie Vigoda |
| Caraboo (now called Caraboo, Princess of Javasu) | Book by Marsha Norman; Lyrics by Beth Blatt; Music by Jenny Giering |
| Jerry Christmas | Book by Daniel Goldfarb; Music & lyrics by Andrew Lippa |
| Baby Taj | By Tanya Shaffer | |
2004 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Coyote Creek Flat | By David Ford |
| Malaya (now titled The Peninsula)l | By Chay Yew |
| Party Come Here | Book by Daniel Goldfarb; Music & Lyrics by David Kirshenbaum |
| The Water | Book by Jeffrey Hilton & Tim Werenko; Lyrics by Jeffrey Hilton; Music by Georgia Stitt | |
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| The Funkentine Rapture | Book by Lee Summers & Ben Blake; Music & Lyrics by Lee Summers |
| Laughing Without an Accent | By Firoozeh Dumas; Developed with David Ford |
| Piece | Book by Tara Smith; Music & Lyrics by Scott Alan |
| Vrooom! | By Janet Allard; Developed with Michael Bigelow Dixon |
| Wheelhouse | Book by Gene Lewin, Brendan Milburn, Rachel Sheinkin, & Valerie Vigoda; Music & Lyrics by Gene Lewin, Brendan Milburn, & Valerie Vigoda | |
2006 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| American Klepto | By Allison Moore |
| Asphalt Beach | Book by T.C. Smith & Peter Spears; Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa |
| Big Red Sun | Book & Lyrics by John Jiler; Music by Georgia Stitt |
| The Drunken City | By Adam Bock |
| Mezzulah, 1946 | By Michele Lowe | |
| Something’s Wrong With Amandine | Book by Winter Miller; Music & Lyrics by Lance Horne |
| Emma | Book, Music, & Lyrics by Paul Gordon | |
2007 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| The Burnt Part Boys | Book by Marianna Elder; Lyrics by Nathan Tysen; Music by Chris Miller |
| Equivocation | By Bill Cain |
| The Shining Lives | By Melanie Marnich, Writing Arthur; Book, Music, & Lyrics by David Austin; Story development by Jennifer Maloney | |
2008 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Creating Claire | By Joe DiPietro |
| Girlfriend | Book by Todd Almond; Music & Lyrics by Matthew Sweet |
| Touch(ed) | By Bess Wohl |
| Unlock’d | Book & Lyrics by Sam Carner; Music by Derek Gregor | |
2009 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Auctioning the Ainsleys | By Laura Schellhardt |
| Ernest Shackleton Loves Me | Book by Joe DiPietro; Lyrics by Valerie Vigoda; Music by Brendan Milburn |
| Makeover | Book & Lyrics by Darrah Cloud; Music by Kim D. Sherman |
| The North Pool | By Rajiv Joseph |
| The Sparrow and the Birdman | By Raquel Bitton & Chris Smith | |
| Tales From The Bad Years | Music & Lyrics by Kait Kerrigan & Bree Lowdermilk | |
2010 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Variations on a Theme | By Anna Ziegler |
| Red Clay | Book and Lyrics by Jeff Hughes; Music by Scott Ethier |
| How to Write a New Book for the Bible | By Bill Cain |
| Fly-By-Night | Conceived by Kim Rosenstock; Written by Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, and Kim Rosenstock |
| Great Wall | Book by Kevin Merritt; Music and Lyrics by Kevin So; Story Consultant – David Henry Hwang | |
2011 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Little Rock | By Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj (Developmental Production) |
| The Giver | Based on the book by Lois Lowry; Music by Scott Murphy (Staged Reading-Musical) |
| Upright Grand | By Laura Schellhardt (Staged Reading-Play) |
| Wild with Happy | By Colman Domingo (Staged Reading-Play) |
| Up North | By Joe Tracz (Staged Reading-Play) | |
2012 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| The Trouble with Doug | Book by Will Aronson & Daniel Maté; Music by Will Aronson; Lyrics by Daniel Maté (Developmental Production) |
| Sleeping Rough | By Kara Manning (Staged Reading-Play) |
| The Loudest Man on Earth | By Catherine Rush (Staged Reading-Play) |
| Being Earnest | Book & Lyrics by Paul Gordon; Music by Paul Gordon & Jay Gruska (Staged Reading-Musical) |
| Triangle | Book by Thomas Mizer, Curtis Moore, & Joshua Scher; Music by Thomas Mizer; Lyrics by Curtis Moore (Staged Reading-Musical) | |
2013 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Cubamor | Book and Lyrics James D. Sasser; Music and Lyrics by Charles Vincent Burwell ; Based on the independent film Cubamor by Joshua Bee Alafia (Staged Reading-Musical) |
| Gather at the River | By Laura Marks (Staged Reading-Play) |
| The Great Pretender | By Laura Marks (Staged Reading-Play) |
| Laugh | By Laura Marks (Staged Reading-Play) |
| Mrs. Hughes | Book by Janine Nabers; Music and Lyrics by Sharon Kenny (Staged Reading-Musical) | |
2014 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Norman Rockwell's America | Book by Lynne Kaufman; Music & Lyrics by Alex Mandel (Staged Reading-Musical) |
| Describe the Night | By Rajiv Joseph (Staged Reading-Play) |
| The Disappearing Man | Book, Music and Lyrics by Jahn Sood (Staged Reading-Musical) |
| An Entomologist's Love Story | By Melissa Ross (Staged Reading-Play) |
| Tokyo Fish Story | By Kimber Lee (Staged Reading-Play) | |
2015 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Marie and Rosetta | By George Brant |
| Man and Beast | By Lynn Rosen |
| The Man in the Ceiling | Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa, Book by Jules Feiffer, Based on the Illustrated Novel by Jules Feiffer |
| The There There | By Jason Gray Platt |
| Confederates | By Suzanne Bradbeer |
| The Paper Raincoat | By Alex Wong, Amber Rubarth, & Devon Copley | |
2016 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Keynote Speech: The Black Cat That Isn't There | By Rajiv Joseph |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Based on the Novel by Ray Bradbury, Music & Lyrics by Neil Bartram, Book by Brian Hill |
| Gravity | Created by Joel Chapman, Weston Gaylord, Matt Herrero, Jessia Hoffman, & Ken Savage |
| The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga | Book, Music, & Lyrics by Min Kahng, Based on Manga Yonin Shosei by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama, Translated as The Four Immigrants by Frederik L. Schodt |
| Archduke | By Rajiv Joseph |
| I Enter the Valley | By Dipika Guha |
| Eddie the Marvelous, Who Will Save the World | Book, Music, & Lyrics by Kate Kilbane &Dan Moses | |
2017 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding | Book, Music, & Lyrics by David Hein & Irene Sankoff, Directed by David Leon Lowenstein |
| Past, Present, Future: The Shangri-Las | By David Stenn | Featuring songs of the Shangri-Las, Directed by Lisa Peterson |
| 3 Farids | By Ramiz Monsef, Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh |
| Tiny Houses | By Stefanie Zadravec, Directed by Giovanna Sardelli |
| Deal with the Dragon | By Kevin Rolston, Developed with & Directed by M. Graham Smith | |
2018 Festival
| Title | Notes |
|---|
| Keynote Address | By Suzanne Bradbeer |
| Venture | Book, Music, and Lyrics by Michael Najar |
| Born in East Berlin | By Rogelio Martinez |
| Once Upon a Rhyme | Book, Lyrics, and Music by Ronvé O'Daniel, Music by Jevares C. Myrick |
| They Promised Her the Moon | By Laurel Ollstein |
| Pride and Prejudice (musical) | Book, Music, and Lyrics by Paul Gordon, Based on the novel by Jane Austen |
| The Kilbanes - Rock 'n Roll n' More | Created and Performed by Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses |
| Something to Say: New Plays by Women | By Suzanne Bradbeer, Patricia Cotter, Dipika Guha, Velina Hasu Houston, Syche Phillips, and Geetha Reddy | |
