* indicates Helen Hayes Award winner

2009-2010 Season

Special Events and Staged Readings

24, 7, 365 by Jennifer L. Nelson, Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival

Mortal Terror by Robert Brustein, The English Channel by Robert Brustein, A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, Fall for the Book

The Warrior by Jack Gilhooley, School of Visual Arts, New York

The Rivers and Ravines by Heather McDonald, theSPACE, Fairfax, VA

TFA Celebrates 20 Years: Only the Beginning, theSPACE, Fairfax, VA, featuring plays by Dianne McIntyre, Karen Zacarías, Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox, Paul D'Andrea, Heather McDonald, and Jennifer L. Nelson

10th Annual First Light Discovery Program

The Electric Baby by Stefanie Zadravec

STAY by Heather McDonald and Susan Shields

A Godless Man by John Xander Yi (winner GMU playwriting competition)

Ice Man by Liz Long (winner GMU playwriting competition)

The Generations Playwriting Project

 

2008-2009 Season

9th Annual First Light Discovery Program

Notes of Change by Amani Mansour (winner Fairfax Co. high school playwriting competition)

Infinity by Andrew Hawkins (winner GMU playwriting competition)

Still Beating Hearts by Ann Stingle (winner GMU playwriting competition)

The Bay of Fundy by Sherry Kramer

Refugee Blues by Wendy L. Anderson (screenplay)

24, 7, 365 by Jennifer L. Nelson

The Generations Playwriting Project

2007-2008 Season

Mariela in the Desert

by Karen Zacarías

Two-Bit Taj Mahal (world premiere)

by Paul D'Andrea

8th Annual First Light Discovery Program

Boxes by Sarah Congress (winner Fairfax Co. high school playwriting competition)

Alexander Hamilton is Dead by Andrew Hawkins (winner GMU playwriting competition)

Death of the Fourth Estate by Kerry Gildea

Dirty Pictures by D. W. Gregory

The Generations Playwriting Project

2006-2007 Season

Words at Night: Readings of Literary Works by Mason authors

7th Annual First Light Festival of New Plays

These Are the Days by Kathie West & Carolyn Saunders (hosted by OLLI)

Five Variations on the Art of Aphrodite by Hayley Rushing (winner Fairfax Co. high school playwriting competition)

Season with Sentiment by Harriet Lawrence (winner GMU playwriting competition)

El Virgen by Karen Zacarías

The Warrior by Jack Gilhooley +

The Faithkiller by Gwydion Suilebhan +

+ indicates play that went on to future full production

2005-2006 Season

Three Hotels

by Jon Robin Baitz

Lift: Icarus and Me (world premiere)

by Mary Hall Surface

music by David Maddox

6th Annual First Light Festival of New Plays

Oh Frank! by Frank Zacheis (hosted by OLLI)

One for Love by Kate Parkin (winner Fairfax Co. high school playwriting competition)

Violets by Owen Allen (winner GMU playwriting competition)

2004-2005 Season

Nathan the Wise (Concert Reading)

by Paul D’andrea after G.E. Lessing

Open the Door, Virginia! (world premiere)

by Dianne McIntyre

5th Annual First Light Festival of New Plays

1-800-NERVOUS by Barry Berkey (hosted by OLLI)

Tell Truth by Diane Ney (hosted by OLLI)

Ulysses by Dan Wright (winner Fairfax Co. high school playwriting competition)

Blue Devil Slip by Kim Eagan (winner GMU playwriting competition)

Lift: Icarus and Me by Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox +

Two-Bit Taj Mahal by Paul D’Andrea +

The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarías +

+ indicates play that went on to future full production

2003-2004 Season

Words at Night: Stories from Life (Staged Readings)

The Odyssey of Telémaca (world premiere)

by Mary Hall Surface

music by David Maddox

4th Annual First Light Festival of New Plays

The Treehouse by Guidion Suilebhan

Open the Door, Virginia! by Dianne McIntyre, Original Music by Olu Dara +

The World of Others by Catherine Trieschman

+ indicates play that went on to future full production

2002-2003 Season

Sing Down the Moon (revival)

by Mary Hall Surface

music by David Maddox

Perseus Bayou (revival)

by Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox

3rd Annual First Light Festival of New Plays

The Odyssey of Telémaca by Mary Hall Surface

and David Maddox +

The Three Musketeers adapted by Bette Cassatt +

The Million-Dollar Fight by D. W. Gregory

+ indicates play that went on to future full production

2001-2002 Season

Bee-Luther-Hatchee

by Thomas Gibbons

Nathan the Wise (world premiere adaptation)

by Paul D’Andrea

Mississippi Pinocchio * (world premiere)

by Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox

2nd Annual First Light Festival of New Plays

Mariela in the Desert by Karen Zacarías +

Saving Edgardo for God by Ernest Joselovitz

The Forgetting by Melinda Adamz

The Last Pharaoh by Wagdi Zaid

+ indicates play that went on to future full production

2000-2001 Season

The Lady from the Sea

by Henrik Ibsen

First Light Festival of New Plays

Monster by Derek Nguyen

Nathan the Wise adapted by Paul D’Andrea (after G.E. Lessing) +

The Ruling Passion by Sherry Kramer

Saving Edgardo for God by Ernest Joselovitz

We Miss You Stink by Karen Evans

Perseus Bayou by Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox +

+ indicates play that went on to future full production

Perseus Bayou * (world premiere)

by Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox

1999-2000 Season

The Memorandum

by Vaclav Havel

The Sins of Sor Juana * (world premiere)

by Karen Zacarías

Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales * (world premiere)

by Mary Hall Surface, music by David Maddox

1998-1999 Season

Mating Cries

by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller

Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe

Grimm Tales

by Carol Ann Duffy

original music by David Maddox

1997-1998 Season

tigertigertiger (world premiere)

by Mac Wellman

Crystal (world premiere)

by Anna Theresa Cascio

Blues Rooms (world premiere)

by Dianne McIntyre and Olu Dara

1996-1997 Season

Sweet Ike (world premiere)

by Frederick Gaines

Betty the Yeti

by Jon Klein

Things That Break * (world premiere)

by Sherry Kramer

1995-1996 Season

The Living

by Anthony Clarvoe

Boomtown

by Stephen Dietz

I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change (world premiere)

by Dianne McIntyre,

music by Kysia Bostic

1994-1995 Season

John Gabriel Borkman

by Henrik Ibsen

Faulkner’s Bicycle

by Heather McDonald

The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay (world premiere)

by Paul D’Andrea

1993-1994 Season

Cellophane Xerox (world premiere)

by Frederick Gaines

Carrier (world premiere)

by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller

Dream of a Common Language *

by Heather McDonald

1992-1993 Season

Halcyon Days

by Steven Dietz

The Last Living Newspaper (world premiere)

by Dale Worsley

In Living Colors * (world premiere)

by OyamO and Dianne McIntyre, music by Olu Dara

Rushmore (world premiere)

by Anna Theresa Cascio

1991-1992 Season

Spiele ’36 (world premiere)

by Steve Carter

The Einstein Project *

by Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein

Live Wire, a presentation of radio scripts from the Federal Theatre Project Radio Division (also broadcast on NPR)

1990-1991 Season

Indian Love Call (world premiere)

by Paul D’Andrea

Conversations with Georgia O’Keefe

by Constance Congdon

One-Third of a Nation

adapted by OyamO from original Federal Theater Project

script by Arthur Arents

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