2025 season
We’re so excited to announce the programming for Good Apples Collective’s third season, including the world premiere production of Road Kills by Sophie McIntosh this summer, the second annual Rootstock Reading Series in the fall, and the continuation of several of our events and resources for emerging artists.
SPRING: On Sunday, April 27, Good Apples Collective will host the next round of our popular Director-Playwright Speed Dating event at Tompkins Square Park. As a collective founded by a director-playwright pair, we’re passionate about helping other playwrights and directors find collaborators who bring out the best in them. Our first director-playwright speed dating event in the spring of 2024 was attended by over 60 emerging artists, many of whom let us know afterwards that they had made new connections that led to development and production opportunities.
SUMMER: Good Apples Collective and ryan duncan-ayala will present the world premiere production of Sophie McIntosh’s Road Kills, directed by Nina Goodheart, at the Main Theater at Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003), running August 15 through September 6 — our longest run yet. Road Kills follows Owen, a roadkill collector, and Jaki, a drunk driver stuck doing community service. As they traverse the highways of Wisconsin, they connect over their common ground as outsiders, challenge each other on issues of faith and family, and careen towards a collision that threatens to shatter them both. This unflinching new play forces us to confront the long-lasting repercussions of abuse and urges us not to look away.
FALL: Good Apples Collective will present the second annual Rootstock Reading Series — three readings of three new plays, all penned by emerging gender-marginalized playwrights and directed by emerging gender-marginalized directors, presented over the course of a single weekend at a venue to be announced. Last year’s participants included Among the Coats, written by Noma Mirny and directed by Kenny Castro; I Am Malala Book Club Meeting on Sunday, November 12 2023, written by Mehrnaz Tiv and directed by Sabina Sethi Unni; and The Morbs, written by Jen Diamond and directed by Britt Berke.
YEAR-ROUND: Alongside our reading series and mainstage production, Good Apples Collective will host events and publish free resources intended to uplift emerging artists and indie producers. Good Apples will continue hosting co-working days for the theater community in the Signature Theater lobby; the next co-working days will be structured around constructing resumes and writing artist statements. Good Apples is also planning several more installments of our free resources for indie theater producers, including an update to our widely circulated rehearsal space database.
YEAR-ROUND: Good Apples Collective will also continue to work with the Apple Corps, an advisory committee composed of Paige Seber, Saawan Tiwari, Mia Fowler, and Willow Funkhouser throughout the coming season to shape their ongoing and upcoming programming. These four handpicked artists have been extensively involved in previous Good Apples productions and they will help guide the artistic and managerial decisions of the company as we continue to expand.
Good Apples Collective is a developmental orchard for new theatrical works that expose abuses of power, challenge taboos around desire and sexuality, and uplift the voices of queer and gender marginalized communities. Co-led by director Nina Goodheart and playwright Sophie McIntosh, Good Apples Collective empowers emerging artists to create work with trusted creative peers and revolt against oppressive hierarchies that undercut and isolate new voices.
