THE SOUND INSIDE by Adam Rapp

*Regional Premiere* November 3 - 20, 2022 Directed by KDT Co Artistic Director Tina Parker

In the seventeen years since she was last published, novelist Bella Baird has almost completely isolated herself from the world. But things change when she meets Christopher – a brilliant but enigmatic student in her creative writing class at Yale. As their friendship deepens, their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, leading to a shocking request. Intensely intimate and deeply moving, THE SOUND INSIDE is “an astonishing new play… about fiction, both the kind we read and the kind we live.” (The New York Times). Nominated for six 2020 Tony Awards, including Best Play.

MAN CAVE by John J. Caswell, Jr.

*Regional Premiere* February 16- March 5, 2023 Directed by KDT Artistic Company Member Christie Vela

Imaculada gathers her friends in a fortress-like mansion belonging to her absent employer, a wealthy Republican Congressman. Together the four women convert his luxurious basement man cave into their own spiritual war room and protective sanctuary from the violence of men, both real and supernatural.

25th ANNUAL NEW WORKS FESTIVAL

Mainstage: THE LAST TRUCK STOP by Crystal Jackson

*World Premiere* June 8 - 25, 2023 Directed by KDT Co Artistic Director Christopher Carlos  

A tenacious trucker-turned-truck-stop-owner and her poetic, gun-toting postal carrier debate staying or going when their desert town becomes a no-go zone. Should they trust the colorful stranger who arrives with a story they desperately want to believe? A journey into a not-so-distant dystopian future; with blistering heat, resilient heart and dreams of the open road.

Staged Reading Series

June 2023 Playwrights and Directors TBD

Now in its 25th year, KDT's Staged Reading Series will showcase some of the newest and most exciting playwrights working in contemporary theater today and will feature some of DFW's most accomplished actors and directors. To commemorate this landmark Festival and further deepen our commitment to homegrown talent, KDT has created the TX Slot, which will spotlight a commissioned new work by a Texas playwright.

 PUP (Playwrights Under Progress) FEST

June 2023 Playwrights and Directors TBD

The 2023 NWF will also feature six staged readings of jury-selected plays by DFW high school students with student actors and professional directors in the most eagerly anticipated and celebrated annual highschool theater festival in Dallas. Theater professionals lead acting classes, mentor student playwrights and direct student actors during the week-long rehearsal process leading up to the performances. A vital New Works Festival component, playing to near capacity crowds, PUP Fest is the culminating event of Dallas Playwriting Arts Collective (D-PAC), a partnership with Junior Players and Dallas ISD.