Two new Plays.
Two new Musicals.
One new Variety show.
A Town-Hall Panel.
A Broadway Cabaret.
2023 was an epic festival.
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The 2nd annual festival took over downtown in an unprecedented collaboration amongst all Greenville theatres and ended with a Concert from the star of “Hamilton” on Broadway.
To learn more about the 2023 festival, view our program!
Casting for SCNPF 2023
The star-studded cast of SC New Play Fest 2023 boasted a stunning 19 Broadway credits! You've heard them on the cast albums of Waitress, Ain't Too Proud, The Great Comet..., and The SpongeBob Musical and seen them on the TONY Awards. These Broadway veterans join local Greenville stars and recent Fine Arts Center graduates.
Check out these Broadway stars and their credits!
Derrick Baskin (Broadway: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee- Drama Desk Award, Little Mermaid, Memphis, Ain’t Too Proud- TONY nomination)
Nick Blaemire (Broadway: Glory Days, Godspell, CryBaby)
Kim Blanck (Off-Broadway: Octet -Drama Desk Award)
Miguel Cervantes (Broadway: Hamilton, American Idiot, If/Then)
Lyndsey Cole (National Tour: Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia)
Drew Gehling (Broadway: Waitress, Almost Famous, On a Clear Day…)
Rhett Guter (Regional: Oklahoma, Bye Bye Birdie)
Kelly McAndrew (Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Grace McClean (Broadway: Bad Cinderella, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet…)
Jennifer Naimo (Broadway: Jersey Boys, Les Misérables, Grease)
Samuel Stricklen (Broadway: Superior Donuts)
Also joining the 2023 festival is a large contingency of shining local talent, those with Broadway and Regional credits as well as those who make Greenville the amazing theatre town it is, including:
Mauricio Perez (Broadway: Jersey Boys),
Mimi Wyche (Warehouse Theatre: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Broadway: CATS),
Carter Allen (The Greenville Theatre; Elf),
Jamaica Brewster (Fine Arts Center graduate),
Niecy Blues (CentreStage; The Color Purple),
Jo Garcia-Reger (Warehouse Theatre: KillCorp),
Evan Harris (Upstate Shakespeare Festival: Merry Wives of Windsor),
Isaiah Hogue (No Dreams Deferred: A Man of No Importance),
Wesley Hudson (Warehouse Theatre; 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee),
Kelseigh Redmon (CentreStage; The Color Purple),
Molly Wareham (Fine Arts Center graduate),
Kenneth Washington (Greenville Opera: The Magic Flute)
Eryn Woo (Greenville Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Fine Arts Center graduate).
The Broadway Cabaret with “Hamilton's” Miguel Cervantes happened on Sunday, Aug 13
The Broadway Cabaret was a combination of a cabaret-style performance paired with an “Inside the Actor’s Studio” type-interview with Broadway celebrity, Miguel Cervantes. Miguel shared backstage stories from working on the Broadway productions of Hamilton, American Idiot, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and more and then the audience heard Miguel sing #HamJams in a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Miguel Cervantes is Alexander Hamilton in the Broadway production of Hamilton. He first performed the role of Hamilton in 2016 and since then he has performed the role close to1200 times. His other Broadway credits include, If/Then, American Idiot, and The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee. You also might recognize him from his TV appearances on “Person of Interest,” “Braindead,” “Madame Secretary,” “Royal Pains,” “The Blacklist,” “All My Children.”
But his favorite roles have been "Daddy" to Jackson & Adelaide and husband to superhero wife, Kelly. He and his wife Kelly work with CURE Epilepsy, a research based nonprofit in Chicago working to find a CURE for Epilepsy, a condition that his daughter Adelaide suffered from and contributed to her passing in 2019.
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All Readings are free with first-come, first-serve open seating. Reserved seats can be acquired through a donation to the festival.
Peter Mark Kendall and Rosaline Elbay in Dodi & Diana Off-Broadway, October of 2022.
The 2022 festival featured readings of Kate Hamill's The Scarlet Letter, directed by Shelley Butler, Kareem Fahmy's Dodi & Diana, directed by Adrienne Campell-Holt, Adam Ben-David, Christyn Budzyna, and Jessica Penzias' musical From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, directed by West Hyler, and Samantha Miller's Dragonsoul Offline, directed by Jeffrey Lo.
Dodi and Diana went straight from the 2022 festival to an Off-Broadway premiere with the same cast and director as at the SCNPF reading. The New York Times wrote “The high point of the play is a question that the persecuted Dodi asks Diana, “Do you intend to defend me to them?” It has shades of Sussexes to come.” Theatermania called the play “exacting, unsentimental, and ferociously truthful”. And the Observer wrote that it “takes us sharply down to the figurative bowels of human feelings”.
