foreword new works series
2026
Thank you to our playwrights, directors, performers, and audience members who made this year's new works series such a success. We are proud of the two week workshop period that foreword offers playwrights to facilitate deep work on their new plays.
Workshop #1 - Readings Feb 13 & Feb 14
Dutch Leftovers
by Dave Huber
directed by Heather Lanza
How much do you become what you surround yourself with? Tommy has inherited the family mortuary and fears he has inherited death itself. With wit, cynicism, and morbid senses of humor, Tommy and his family confront each other and the ways they have all been touched by Death. As they all carefully navigate the treacherous shallows of life and death, they struggle to find a way forward without succumbing to the past.
Workshop #2 - Readings Feb 27 & Feb 28
Ahoy-Hoy: A Play About That Relatable Feeling When Someone Else Invents the Telephone Three Hours Before You Do
by Jenny Stafford
directed by Megan Thrift
It's 1876. The brilliant, and anxious, Elisha Gray is THIS close to inventing the telephone and making History. That is ... if Alexander Graham Bell doesn't beat him to it first. Spoiler: He kind of does. Oversized egos clash in a battle of invention, ambition, and innovation - culminating in a winner-take-all contest to decide the outcome of their unyielding quest for legacy.
* Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the previously announced third workshop, scheduled for March, has been cancelled. Those with reservations for readings of that play have been contacted.