{"id":320982,"date":"2026-08-14T03:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320982\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:14:50","slug":"cherry-lane-playwrights-collective-reveals-inaugural-cohort-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320982\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective Reveals Inaugural Cohort Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

The inaugural cohort members of the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective have been revealed.\u00a0The acclaimed Off-Broadway theatre is teaming up with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker<\/a> to support new work through the\u00a0nine-month developmental program.<\/p>\n

The six playwrights in the inaugural\u00a0group are\u00a0Hannah Applebaum, Jeesun Choi, Banna Desta, Jimmy Fay, Onyekachi Iwu<\/a>, and Maureen Sebastian.<\/p>\n

Starting September 13, the writers\u00a0will meet over 10 Sunday evenings at Cherry Lane, culminating in a series of individual readings from the cohort. Operating under the Cherry Lane Development Group with Baker\u2019s direction, all writers will retain full ownership of work developed in the program.<\/p>\n

The collaboration between Baker and Cherry Lane honors the theatre\u2019s celebrated history of fostering up-and-coming NYC playwrights. As the city\u2019s oldest Off-Broadway theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre<\/a> has hosted early and experimental works from artists including F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/a>, Eugene O’Neill<\/a>, Samuel Beckett<\/a>, Pablo Picasso, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams<\/a>, Sam Shepard<\/a>, and many more. <\/p>\n

Baker is a Pulitzer winner for her 2013 play The Flick. She wrote and directed Janet Planet for the screen in 2023 with A24, Cherry Lane’s parent company.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit CherryLaneTheatre.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The inaugural cohort members of the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective have been revealed.\u00a0The acclaimed Off-Broadway theatre is teaming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-320982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}