Mosaic Theater is dedicated to providing a platform for emerging and established playwrights to develop new work in a supportive and artistically rigorous environment. Through our incubator program, the Catalyst Series, we welcome the public into the room to experience new works as they’re being refined and created.
UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE CATALYST SERIES
REFLECTIONS ON HOME
June 2024
Mosaic expands its legacy of providing a platform for international voices with the 2023-2024 Catalyst New Play Festival—Refl ections on Home: A Celebration of Immigrant Voices. In partnership with Restless Books Immigrant Writing Lab and the DC Public Library, Mosaic will convene a diverse group of writers to refl ect on what home means to immigrant communities. Refl ections on Home will feature public workshops with professional playwrights as they refi ne works-in-process, as well as a series of panels and playwriting workshops at local library branches for community members of all experience levels. The festival offers audiences global perspectives on what it means to be an American today and deepens Mosaic’s commitment to building cross-cultural connection through theater.
Reflections on Home is sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts and Mosaic Partners Circle Activists Ed Grossman & Rochelle Stanfield and Advocates Elaine Reuben/ Timbrel Fund and Julie & David Zalkind.
Past new play events from the 2022-2023 Season
May 6 and 7, 2023
MURDERED MEN DO BLEED AND DRIP
By Jennifer Barclay and Hannah Khalil
Directed by Jim Culleton and Jared Mezzocchi
Developed in partnership with DC’s Solas Nua New Irish Arts and Dublin-based Fishamble Theatre Company
January 21, 2023
THE INVENTION OF SEEDS
By Annalisa Dias
Directed by Natsu Onoda Power
January 22, 2023
Between/Time: A Baltimore Cycle Play
By Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi
Directed by Danielle Drakes
January 21, 2023
PLAYWRITING CONTEST READING
January 22, 2023
Panel Discussion
Artists-in-Conversation: Reflections on Craft and Creativity
January 19 and 20, 2023
MAX & WILLY’S LAST LAUGH
By Jake Broder and Conor Duffy
Directed by Tony Award-nominee Sheryl Kaller
December 10 and 11, 2022
Mexodus
By Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson
Directed by David Mendizábal
October 4 - November 20, 2022
THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER
By Ifa Bayeza
Directed by Talvin Wilks
August 20, 2022
MONUMENTAL TRAVESTIES
By Andrew W. Mellon Playwright-in-Residence Psalmayene 24
Directed by Angelisa Gillyard
Past World & American Premieres
Past Workshops & Readings
Mosaic advances the creation of new works by conducting week-long workshops with playwrights, actors, dramaturgs for scripts in development. Mosaic also connects playwrights with actors to present public readings of vital works in progress, and inviting audience feedback.
2021 - 2022
Monumental Travesties
By Andrew W. Mellon Playwright-in-Residence Psalmayene 24 | Directed by Angelisa Gillyard
August 2022
My Father, My Martyr, and Me
By Fargo Tbakhi | Directed by Danielle Drakes
January 2022
Singing My Peace
By Alma Davenport | Directed by Sandi Holloway
Summer 2022
Partially based on the autobiography of performer Roz White
(Vradenburg Commission)
Dainty
By Agyeiwaa Asante | Directed by Kristolyn Lloyd
December 2022
(Vradenburg Commission)
2019-2020
I Was There
By Motti Lerner | Directed by Derek Goldman
2/10/20
Bereaved
By Joshua Sobol | Directed by KenYatta Rogers
2/3/20
No Desert Roses
By Laila Soliman | Directed by Noelle Ghoussaini
1/27/20
Nathan the Wise
Adapted and directed by Michael Bloom | From the original by Gotthold Ephraim
1/13/20
For My Silent Sisters
By Tara Meddaugh | Directed by Chelsea Radigan
12/2/19
2018-2019
The Shooting Gallery
Written and Performed by Aaron Davidman | Directed by Michael John Garcés
4/13/19; 4/28/19
The Scream and The Silence
by Motti Lerner | Directed by Derek Goldman
1/14/19
A Moving Picture
Written by Jennie Berman Eng | Directed by Kate Bryer
11/19/18
East of the River
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Star Johnson | Directed by Jennifer L. Nelson in Partnership with Anacostia Musical Theatre Lab
9/24/18
Vradenburg Commission
2017-2018
To Kill A King
Written by Joshua Ford | Directed by KenYatta Rogers
5/12/18
Yoga Play
by Dipika Guha | Directed by Jennifer L. Nelson
1/29/18
Native Son
by Nambi E. Kelley from the novel by Richard Wright | Directed by Psalmayene 24
9/25/17
2016-2017
Seeing Double
By Joan Holden, Sinai Peter, Henri Picciotto, Emily Shihadeh | Directed by Hanna Eady
6/6/17
Ism: A Tragicomedy
By Anu Yadav | Directed by Paige Hernandez
2/6/17-2/7/17
Quid Pro Quo
By Garrett Zuercher | Directed by James Caverly
11/14/16; 11/20/16
The Black Jew Thing
By Stacey Rose and Alexis Spiegel | Directed by Logan Vaughn
9/25/16-9/26/16
Hooded, Or Being Black for Dummies
Written by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm | Directed by Serge Seiden
9/12/16 (1 night only)
2015-2016
Imagining Heschel
Written by Colin Greer | Directed by Lila Rachel Becker
4/20/16
The Place We Built
Written by Sarah Gancher | Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
10/19/15
Run Home
Written by Jennifer L. Nelson | Directed by Patrick Pearson
10/12/15
After the War
Written by Motti Lerner | Directed by Ari Roth
9/7/15