Playwrights
& Residencies
A home for storytellers.
Through our Signature Residencies, we’ve offered more than 37 playwrights an artistic home. For each resident playwright, we commit upfront to producing at least three plays: a body of work.
Edward Albee • Annie Baker • Lee Blessing • Martha Clarke • Will Eno • Horton Foote • María Irene Fornés • Athol Fugard • John Guare • Stephen Adly Guirgis • A.R. Gurney • Katori Hall • Quiara Alegría Hudes • Samuel D. Hunter • David Henry Hwang • Bill Irwin • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • Adrienne Kennedy • Tony Kushner • Romulus Linney • Kenneth Lonergan • Dave Malloy • Charles Mee • Arthur Miller • Dominique Morisseau • Lynn Nottage • Suzan-Lori Parks • Sarah Ruhl • Sam Shepard • Anna Deavere Smith • Regina Taylor • Paula Vogel • Naomi Wallace • August Wilson • Lanford Wilson • Lauren Yee • The Mad Ones • Members of the historic Negro Ensemble Company: Charles Fuller, Leslie Lee, and Samm-Art Williams
AUGUST 2023: Featured Playwright
DAVE MALLOY
PREMIERE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
Signature Productions:
Octet (2019)
Three Houses (2024)
Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/orchestrator. He has written thirteen musicals, including Octet, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction (Signature Theatre); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations, including Best Musical, Score, Book, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet, a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey; Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”; Black Wizard/Blue Wizard, an escapist RPG fantasy; Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage, an anti-academia rock opera; Beardo, a reinterpretation of the Rasputin myth; Sandwich, a musical about killing animals; and Clown Bible, Genesis to Revelation told through clowns. He has won two Obie Awards, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, a Theater World Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, an ASCAP New Horizons Award, and a Jonathan Larson Grant, and has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre. Future projects include an adaptation of Moby-Dick. He lives in Brooklyn.
Photo by Matthew Murphy
Signature Residencies
Spotlight Residency
An intensive residency (formerly Residency 1) for established playwrights, the Spotlight Residency offers a deep dive into a writer’s body of work through productions of three or more plays, both new and reimagined.
Premiere Residency
An exploratory residency (formerly Residency 5) geared towards creating new work, the Premiere Residency supports the development and production of several new plays by each resident playwright.
Launchpad Residency
Announcing our newest residency, Signature’s LaunchPad residency moves boldly into the future to support talented early-career playwrights from historically underrepresented communities. This unique residency deepens Signature’s mission to incubate and produce bodies of work by exceptional playwrights at all stages of their careers. LaunchPad provides holistic artistic support over three years, including two commissions, developmental opportunities, a workshop production, and a full production.
