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We are directors, teachers, collaborators,
and lovers of new work and theatrical forms.
Our passion for great storytelling and new play development brought the four of us together, and we began the Play Development Collective to put that enthusiasm and spirit to good use. As directors, we bring a strong voice and point of view on text and performance; as teachers, we bring a history and knowledge of theatrical forms; as collaborators, we bring an open heart and ear to what you are looking for.
There is no “one way” to develop a new play, and with our varied backgrounds come a wealth of ideas, exercises and anecdotes to help lead you to finding and detailing your theatrical voice. We’re not here to tell you what play you need to write, we’re here to listen and help you set goals of your own. These are your stories – let us put our expertise to use in helping you find their voice!
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Suzanne Agins
served as Artistic Associate at Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2005 to 2007. At Williamstown, she helped program and produce the Nikos Stage season, which was devoted to new work. She also programmed and produced the Fridays@3 reading series, ran the Literary Department, and advised the Leapfrog Project, which created a new play and a new musical each summer. She has directed new work by Deirdre O’Connor, Gordon Cox, Cusi Cram, Ken Weitzman, Sheila Callaghan, Lucy Thurber, and others at venues such as Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Juilliard School, Naked Angels, Summer Play Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theater, Soho Rep, and The Cherry Lane Theater.
She is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award (2006), a KPBS Patte Award, two San Diego Playbill Awards, and an adjunct faculty member at Princeton University and Fordham University.
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Linsay Firman
began developing new plays as the Associate Director of Soho Rep, where she worked from 1998 - 2004. While there, she headed the development program, creating flexible workshop models which were designed to respond to the developmental needs of each new play. She also founded Soho Rep's renowned Writer/Director Lab and ran the group for five years. Additionally she was a 2003/2004 Resident Director at New Dramatists, a 2007/2008 Resident Director at EST and a Director/Dramaturg in The Lark's 2007/2008 Meeting of the Minds writer’s group. She has directed new plays and workshops by Neena Beber, Brooke Berman, Stephanie Fleischmann, Heather Lynn MacDonald, Joy Tomasko and Anne Washburn, among others. Her production of Anne Washburn's "Apparition" was named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2003 by Time Out New York. Most recently, she directed Jose Rivera’s “Flowers” in the EST 2008 Marathon.
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Josh Hecht
worked for five years as Director of Playwright Development at MCC Theater. While there he initiated new work from such notable playwrights as John Guare, Terrence McNally, Jon Robin Baitz, Richard Greenberg, Doug Wright, Eric Bogosian, Wendy Wasserstein, and Peter Hedges, dramaturged Mainstage productions by Neil LaBute, Kate Robin, and Bryony Lavery, and helped form and lead the MCC Playwrights Coalition, a group of 25 of the most exciting and honored playwrights in New York including Stephen Adly Guirgis, Adam Rapp, Lucy Thurber, Brooke Berman, Julia Jordan, Itamar Moses, Stephen Belber, Mark Schultz, and many others. Since leaving MCC in 2005 he has directed workshops and productions at New Play Development centers across the country including the Humana Festival of New American Plays, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, TheatreWorks New Play Initiative, New York Theatre Workshop’s retreat at Vassar, the Playwrights Center PlayLabs, the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, 13P, and many others. His productions have earned the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience as well as GLAAD Media and IRNE nominations. He has led New Play Development workshops at the Field, New Dramatists, and the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
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