Florida Stage's production of Ice Glen.

What Playwrights Say About NNPN

“I can't say enough about the impact the Continued Life Program had on my play. That elusive and desirable thing called 'buzz' that consecutive productions can create… very much became the case for Love Person. Three productions grew to six thanks to NNPN.”
Aditi Brennan Kapil, Love Person

Contacting NNPN

National New Play Network
Jason Loewith, Executive Director
c/o Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
641 D Street NW
Washington, DC 20004

Phone: 202-312-5270
Fax: 202-289-2446
Email Jason Loewith Here

 

NNPN Staff

Jason Loewith (Executive Director) became NNPN’s first Executive Director in March, 2009.   He won Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Jeff and After Dark Awards for Best New Musical for Adding Machine: A Musical, which he co-wrote with composer Joshua Schmidt. He produced the world premiere at Chicago’s Next Theatre Company in 2007, where he served as Artistic Director from 2002-2008. That production went on to a six-month commercial run Off-Broadway in 2008, winning four OBIE Awards for direction, design and performance.

For Next Theatre Company, he shepherded more than 20 productions to the stage, including five plays in world premieres or workshops. His programming twice received the After Dark Award for Outstanding Season (03-04 and 05-06), and work that he directed or produced won multiple Jeff, After Dark, and Black Theatre Alliance Awards and received critical accolades from Chicagoland's major media outlets. Jason increased Next's budget from $168,000 to $700,000, retiring $100,000 of inherited debt and quadrupling subscriptions and the Board of Directors along the way. After extensive training in long-term planning from the New Artistic Leadership Institute and TCG's Mellon/Duke New Generations program at Chicago’s Court Theatre, he created and implemented two strategic plans for Next Theatre, which led to triple-digit subscription and contributed income growth. During his years in Chicago, Jason also created successful multi-theatre collaborations. In 2002, he founded a consortium of theatres on Chicago's North Shore. That initiative, North Shore Live!, was funded by the Boeing Company and continues to serve an increasing number of organizations. More recently, Jason served as Executive Producer of Chicagoland's participation in Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays Festival. He raised more than $30,000 for this effort from grants and the 60 participating theaters, bringing free new plays to more than 7,000 patrons between 2006 and 2007.

Prior to his leadership roles in Chicago, Jason served five years as General Manager of Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway.  He holds an AB from Brown University and MA in Dramatic Arts from the University of California in Santa Barbara.

 

Jojo Ruf (Intern) is a 2008 graduate of Georgetown University with a double major in English and Theater and Performance Studies, and was part of the first graduating class of Theater majors.  While at Georgetown, Jojo served as the Executive Producer of nomadictheatre and received the Award for Artistic and Administrative Leadership.  She directed Translations (Georgetown University) and assistant directed the world premier of Wisconsin Death Trip (GU), Six Characters in Search of an Author (GU), and will AD the upcoming production In Darfur (Theater J). Jojo has worked for both Arena Stage and the Washington National Opera in their Education Departments, and continues to work with Arena Stage in their partnership with Georgetown University. This past winter Jojo produced Will the Circle be Unbroken: Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith, a Georgetown University/Arena Stage collaboration celebrating the life and work of Studs Terkel and starring Theodore Bikel and David Strathairn. In addition to working at NNPN, Jojo works in the Georgetown Department of Performing Arts and as a Teaching Artist for Ford's Theatre.