Stage Left is an innovative new play festival where art meets activism. Launched in 2025, Stage Left brings five new plays to the stage and pairs each show with an advocacy organization. Together, these partnerships invite audiences not just to witness the struggles and triumphs of progressive movements, but to take part in real-time responses and action following each production. Stage Left transforms the theater into a space for solidarity, dialogue, and community organizing.

Past Festivals

2026

How to Melt Ice by Amalia Oliva Rojas, in partnership with Workers Justice Project

Novios by Arturo Luíz Soria, in partnership with One Fair Wage

#NewSlaves by Keelay Gipson, in partnership with Freedom Agenda

Narrowsburg by Chad Kaydo, in partnership with Undue Medical Debt

Sisyphus in Yaffa by R. Forest Malley, in partnership with Theater Workers for a Ceasefire

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2025:
La Durezaby Ed Cardona Jr., in partnership with Latinx Playwrights Circle’s Next Draft and Los Deliveristas Unidos/Worker’s Justice Project
Hit Machine by Jonathan Caren, in partnership with United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW)
The Hero U Took by Pedro “Jungo Pete Roc” Rosario, in partnership with Release Aging People in Prison and Rehabilitation Through the Arts
Foot Wears House by Laura Neill, in partnership with REI Soho Union and Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU)
The Garbologistsby Lindsay Joelle; Panel to follow featuring John Rolly (DSNY) and Asa Needle (ALU), moderated by Jake Levin (Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice)
Date of Release by Andrea Ambam, in partnership with Release Aging People in Prison

Thank you to our 2026 Stage Left Partners