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RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER is a multi-award-winning theatre company based in New York City. Rattlestick was the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial Obie Award, which recognized the company for its work in developing and producing innovative new plays. Rattlestick’s primary operations are its mainstage Off-Broadway productions, of which there are at least 4 each season, and its Emerging Playwrights Program, which is run through the company's literary department. Rattlestick's operations are exclusively dedicated to the development of new plays. The theatre, located at 224 Waverly Place in the Greenwhich Village neighborhood of New York City, is an intimate 94-seat theater with a proscenium stage.

Production History
Since its first production in 1994 Rattlestick has produced over forty-six world premieres and garnered numerous awards.

The Emerging Playwright's Project/ Program
With input from its Advisory Board, Rattlestick operates The Emerging Playwrights Project which matches a new playwright with an established artist for creative support and guidance. Past playwright and artistic mentors have included Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Zoe Caldwell, Arthur Kopit, Craig Lucas, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally and Marsha Norman. Plays produced from the Emerging Playwrights Project include, among others: Dan Clancy's Volunteer Man (Obie award), Harry Kondoleon's Saved or Destroyed (Obie award), Adam Rapp's Faster, Finer Noble Gases and American Sligo, Jonathan Tolins' The Last Sunday in June (GLAAD Award Nomination), Matthew Pepper's St. Crispin’s Day,  Lucy Thurber's Where We’re Born, Killers and Other Family and Stay, Adam Bock's Five Flights, David Folwell's Boise, Craig Wright's The Pavilion (Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Play of 2005) and Lady (Drama Desk Award Nomination), Sean Cuningham's God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny (Drama Desk Award Nomination), Craig Lucas' adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie, Michael John Garces' Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Bill Bowers' It Goes Without Saying, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Dark Matters, the American Premiere of Lars Norén's War, David Grimm's Steve & Idi, Stephen Belber's Geometry of Fire, Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project, Daniel Talbot's Slipping, and  Annie Baker's The Aliens (2010 Best New American Play Obie Award).

The Emerging Playwrights Program includes In-House Readings, Invited Readings, The Evening Reading Series and the F*!@cking Good Plays Festival. In-house readings are structured to give playwrights a chance to share their new work in an insulated and protected environment with Rattlestick Staff. They are usually done in an informal way, with little rehearsal and actors reading the play around a table. A discussion with the actors and theatre staff gives the playwright an opportunity for immediate feedback and response from the assembled artists. The Evening Reading Series is a formal public reading series of which approximately 12 are held per year. This format provides playwrights an opportunity to rehearse with a director and a group of professional actors and subsequently hear the play read out loud for an audience at the theater. These readings are free and open to the public. The F*!@cking Good Plays Festival is the Rattlestick's newest program. Rattlestick's Literary Department, working in collaboration with the company's readers group, selects seven plays by unrepresented writers for a slot in the Festival. Each play is assigned a director and cast of professional actors which are then provided rehearsal space and a public reading of the play. Each writer meets with the Artistic Director and the Literary Department for in-depth feedback about their play.

Staff
David Van Asselt, Co-Founder
 * ARTISTIC DIRECTOR:

Brian Long
 * MANAGING DIRECTOR:

Eugenia Furneaux
 * PRODUCTION MANAGER:

Denis Butkus, Julie Kline, Daniel Talbott
 * LITERARY DEPARTMENT: