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World Communities

Non-Fiction Theater

Historical Dramas, Human Rights Theater, NGO & Museum-Based Theater

Traveling the world through its productions, developing events inspired by their content, offering a storehouse of plays to produce while always creating new ones through enriching partnerships.


Updates from the Director New play set in Alabama Football Coach’s Nick Saban’s hometown

Historical Dramas

Plays that come out of a place or a history

Human Rights Theater

Illuminating the world’s struggles

NGO & Museum-Based Theater

Helping or articulating a mission

World Communities believes theater can be especially vital when it is relevant to a place, a mission, a culture or a history. We believe theater shouldn’t be content in being just a production, but can be the impetus for many things, including travel, oral history projects, festivals, symposiums, and special events.

World Communities believes the potential for art exists anywhere, in almost any story, if an artist is involved in telling it. The value of the work is not a function of the apparent significance of the landscape, but rather the skill and insight of the writer who looks upon it. By bringing in professional artists and challenging them to find art in out-of-the-way places and unarticulated narratives, both worlds are made bigger for the benefit of the audience.

World Communities believes in new work. We believe that if all educational and professional theater committed to doing one new play a season, it would innovate American Theater. World Communities’ particular focus is on new work that is non-fiction and all the unique offerings and opportunities that flow from such plays.

World Communities is also interested in collecting stories from playwrights about how they have written and produced various forms of Non-Fiction Theater, and using that repository of information to help inform and encourage other writers in the genre. To add to the archive, please fill in this form.

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“I was impressed inspired and moved. I laughed, I cried, I thought it was a great play.”

— Jimmy Carter Press Secretary Jody Powell on the play “Transcendence.

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Comission a Play

Creating new plays through the exchange of information for perspective, or partnership playwriting.

Perform a Play

Plays we have already written that offer a privileged view into other worlds.

Residencies

Integrating all we do into the education of students and the growth of the institution.