2025 Finding Series
The 14th annual FINDINGS Series will run from June 16th -26th and will take place at 520 8th Ave – A.R.T New York.
All of these works-in-progress readings are free and will require a reservation. To RSVP, please fill out the RSVP form.
The Civilians’ R&D Group is comprised of writers, composers, and directors who meet throughout a season to develop original pieces of theater through the creative investigation of a pre-selected topic of their choosing. The creative processes may include interviews, community engagement, research, and other experimental methods of inquiry. Led by R&D Program Director Phoebe Corde, the Group shares and discusses their methodologies and the resulting work.
Two sisters work as heavy equipment operators in an open pit mine, driving the biggest trucks in the world, driving something as big as a three-story house –
Hauling oil sands through the pit,
75 meters deep inside the earth
Back and forth
Back and forth
In sub-arctic Northern Alberta,
For twelve hours
On May 1st 2024, the NYPD raided CUNY’s City College Campus and arrested 173 student protesters as part of an operation to crack down on pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses citywide. This was one of many violent police raids of student protest encampments throughout the United States. As community insiders, student journalists played an unprecedented role in documenting the events where many mainstream and legacy media outlets were otherwise barred or restricted from reporting on the story. 2024, SPRING is a documentary play drawn from interviews, video, and media from the Gaza solidarity encampment at City College of New York (CUNY).
A piece of documentary theater attempting to chart the machinations of propaganda that enable and empower the ongoing genocide and mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, the latest phase of which began on October 7th, 2023, and is ongoing as of the writing of this sentence on October 21st, 2024.
In Detroit’s opulent Black Owned Hotel Gotham, dreams clash and unravel—John J. White will do anything to preserve his vision, while his partner Irving Roane questions if it’s worth the cost. As waitress and aspiring lawyer June Gholston and lounge singer Delores Miggins chase conflicting futures, the hotel becomes a stage where hope is tested and survival is redefined in a city on the brink.