SCNPF 2024 will happen August 8-11
The South Carolina New Play Festival will take place over four days, starting on Thursday, August 8, and will feature a wide range of musicals, plays, town halls, an outdoor variety stage, and will culminate in a Cabaret featuring Tony-nominee Phillip Boykin (Hadestown) on August 11.
We are excited to bring the South Carolina New Play Festival back for another year. Last year we commissioned Donnetta Lavinia Grays, and this season we will present excerpts from her new play in progress. For our third festival we’ve expanded to present three musicals and a play, an outdoor variety stage, an insider package of industry sessions, and a town hall. We are thrilled to support this dynamic group of writers whose visions are distinct but who collectively embrace theatricality and speak to the present moment.
The festival will take place in historic downtown Greenville, South Carolina at venues including The Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, CentreStage, The Warehouse Theatre, Greenville Theatre, South Carolina Children’s Theatre, Falls Park, and at the Greenville One Center.
All readings are free with reserved seating, festival patrons have early access to reserved seats. The 2024 festival is supported, in part, by grants from the Community Foundation of Greenville, the Daniel-Mickel Foundation, the South Carolina Endowment for the Humanities, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Peace Center, and by public funds from the City of Greenville tourism tax fund.
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Broadway star and Greenville native, Phillip Boykin, is our 2024 Cabaret star. One Night Only, August 11 at 7pm.
The 2024 Broadway Cabaret will feature TONY-nominee Phillip Boykin, a native of Greenville, South Carolina, who will share the story of how he went from Greenville to Broadway, with backstage tales from the Broadway productions of Hadestown, Porgy and Bess, and Music Man, among others and perform a selection of songs from the shows that made him famous.
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All Readings are free with reserved seating that will open a month before the festival. Early access to reserved seats is available for festival donors.
Peter Mark Kendall and Rosaline Elbay in the 2022 festival show Dodi & Diana, which opened Off-Broadway, October of 2022.
The 2023 festival featured readings of The Game by Rhett Guter, directed by West Hyler, A Black-billed Cuckoo by Mat Smart, directed by Shelley Butler, Kween by Vichet Chum directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, The Essential Alice by Michael Friedman and Annie Weissmann, directed by Des McAnuff, and Catching the Moon by Nichole Jackson and Tyrone L. Robinson, directed by Clark E. Nesbitt.
In only two years, three SCNPF developed shows have already had world premieres: Dodi and Diana went straight from the 2022 festival to an Off-Broadway premiere produced by Colt-Coeur, Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter opened in November of 2023 at Two River Theatre in New Jersey, and Catching the Moon premiered in March 2024 at Children’s Theater of Charlotte.
