Sanctuary: Playwrights Theatre is a producing theater in NYC founded and run by dramatists, dedicated to presenting new plays and to offering writers for the stage a haven for artistic development.

We're the people behind the recent NY Times smash Food for Fish, and also behind Six Nights, that three-boro adventure you've probably heard about.

At Sanctuary, playwrights make the producing choices; playwrights make the artistic choices; playwrights read and select plays (not literary managers); playwrights select and empower directors, designers and actors. This is a new operational model for the American Theatre, designed to be imitated.

Sanctuary: Playwrights Theatre builds community among playwrights by empowering them to ply their art in an environment that allows them to experiment, while never losing sight of the fundamentals of the playwriting craft.

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The Sanctuary Bill of Playwrights:

• The future of the drama is in the hands of the dramatist
• Playwrights must have a place to shape the progress of stage work
• Playwrights do their best work in community with other playwrights
• The dramatist is the most essential curator for new stage writing
• The long tradition of the “the playwright as producer” needs reviving