Soho Repertory Theatre
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Soho Repertory Theatre, sometimes better known by its nickname Soho Rep, is a 70-seat theater company in New York City, that has won six OBIE awards, four Drama Desk Award nominations, and an Oppenheimer Award. It considers itself a “hot house” for the development of groundbreaking and unconventional new plays, cultivating new work from first impulse through fully-mounted productions, and, according to its mission statement, it seeks "the play that is only a play, not a TV show or a film."
Interestingly, although Soho Rep is known as a preeminent place where new American plays make their debuts, all of their Artistic Directors to date have been English. The first, Julian Webber, ran the theater from 1974–1999; the second, Daniel Aukin, ran it from 1999–2006, and the current Artistic Director is Sarah Benson.
The theater is known as having the youngest audience in New York City. It has debuted new plays by Mac Wellman, Wendy MacLeod, Richard Maxwell, Melissa James Gibson, The Flying Machine, Mark Schultz, Adam Bock, and others. It also has multiple play development programs, including the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, which was founded in 1999 by two directors, Linsay Firman and Laramie Dennis. It is currently run by a director, Maria Goyanes, and a playwright, Jason Grote.
