Details
Date(s)Jun 16, 2025 – Jun 18, 2025
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10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Overview
Scéal Nua (New Story), founded by Sarah Street in collaboration with Origin Theatre Company and Irish Arts Center, is a community of playwrights within the Irish diaspora that meets weekly to develop and share new work. Our inaugural Scéal Nua New Play Festival will showcase full-length play readings and excerpts from seven up-and-coming members of this year’s cohort: Molly Babos, Barbara Cassidy, Don Creedon, Leo McGann, Nicola Murphy Dubey, Colm Summers, and Ciara Van Buren. Join us!
MONDAY, JUNE 16 // 6PM
MARIA
By Nicola Murphy Dubey
(approx. 20 min excerpt)
Maria follows a group of young girls in their final year of secondary school as they navigate relationships, drinking, friendships and an unexpected surprise.
THE EDIT
By Molly Babos
(approx. 75 mins)
Ivy, a wayward recent college graduate, gets more than she bargained for when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the professor whose child she babysits.
MONDAY, JUNE 16 // 8:15PM
FALLS
By Colm Summers
(approx. 80 mins)
A coming-of-age comedy about Parkinson’s disease, queerness and caregiving.
TUESDAY, JUNE 17 // 7PM
THEIR OWN THING
By Ciara Van Buren
(approx. 20 min excerpt)
A young woman with Down syndrome spends her day in a program for adults with disabilities, making plans and counting down the seconds until her life begins.
COLLARED
By Don Creedon
(approx. 65 mins)
A woman with a colorful past visits her ex-boyfriend, now a priest, to confess all her sins. But she’s got more than salvation on her mind.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 // 3PM
A QUESTION OF LOVELINESS
By Barbara Cassidy
(approx. 75 mins)
Sometime in the near future, something terrible has happened...
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 // 7PM
OFF THE BOOKS
By Leo McGann
(approx. 1 hour 50mins)
When Padraig, an Irish bartender in New York, encounters corruption, he’s faced with a decision: break the rules to secure his future or lose everything.
Every ticket purchased goes towards festival costs and platforming the playwrights' work. Thank you!
Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Dead Rabbit; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
