Registration will open on Friday, April 17 at 12 PM.
by Mo Holmes
Showtimes
Saturday, May 9, 8 PM
Sunday, May 10, 3:30 PM
Sunday, May 10, 8 PM
There’s mean things happenin’ in this land. What's left to do but make a scene? Join the 1500, a group of sharecroppers and tenant farmers from the bootheel of Missouri, as they camp out on the highway to protest the failings of the president’s New Deal. Based on historical and familiar events from peoples who take to the road.
About the Playwright
Mo Holmes is a black queer Southern playwright, librettist and dramaturg, born in San Antonio and raised on the long stretch of road from Texas to Alabama. She is a winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize and Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award, a Jane Chambers finalist and a two-time O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. Her work has been developed and/or presented by The Bushwick Starr, The Fire This Time Festival, the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival and Good Apples Collective in New York; and the Playwrights’ Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, DePaul University’s Climate Action New Play Collective, and others nationally. As a dramaturg and teaching artist, she has supported new play development at Good Apples Collective, the Playwrights’ Center, Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, Horizon Theatre Company, and Columbia.
About the New Plays Festival
Columbia University School of the Arts presents a festival of new plays written by the 2026 Columbia MFA Playwriting Cohort. The esteemed faculty who nurtured these students, including Tony©, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as James Ijames, Lynn Nottage, Rogelio Martinez, Blair Singer, Noelle Vinas, Charles L. Mee, Michael Korie, David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, and David Henry Hwang, invite everyone to experience these innovative new playwrights.
Organized by James Ijames, Theatre.