Shows & Events

Applications Open! New Works Residency Program

New to the Neighbrhood

FALL 2024

What Will the Neighbors Say? is thrilled to announce the inaugural cycle of our “New to the Neighborhood” New Works Residency Program. Specifically serving female-identifying, trans and non-binary artists of the global majority working and living in Brooklyn, this program will launch in the Fall of 2024 with two initial residents. Each resident will be awarded a $1.5k cash grant, in addition to a further $2.5k in funding for space, personnel, marketing and development, culminating in a staged reading of a new work, produced by the Neighbors. "New to the Neighborhood" is made possible with funds from the Howard Gilman Foundation, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council, with additional support from IndieSpace.

Applications open now through September 18th!

Six Foot Platform

STORYTIME

SEP 28th

The Neighbors are bringing back our beloved flagship community event, “storytime,” for a special edition as part of The Six Foot Platform, a public arts project by the Dumbo Improvement District and the Brooklyn Arts Council, on Washington Street in Dumbo. The event will run 12pm-6pm on September 28th, 2024. The event, which is always free, features music, storytelling from participants, and two MCs who keep everything moving. In between sets, audience members are encouraged to get up on stage and tell a story relating to the themes they suggest, creating an authentic and powerful collective experience. The only rule is that the story is true! The hosts will be Isuri Wijesundara and Keith Weiss, with live music by Savage the Poet and Sydni Dichter, all Brooklyn-based artists.

Marymount Manhattan College

The Citizenship Cycle

Sep 29th

In September we will return to Marymount Manhattan College for an 48-hour play festival entitled "The Citizenship Cycle," designed to facilitate reckoning and reconciliation in the face of another turbulent presidential election cycle in the United States. Guided by the Neighbors' Co-Artisitc Directors, students will create original pieces exploring the ideas and values of democracy and citizenship (i.e. freedom of expression, freedom of press, voter rights, oppression), to disrupt, celebrate, challenge and critique the practice(s) of democracy and citizenship in this country. The final projects will be shared on campus on Sunday September 29th.

NYU Espacio de Culturas

Artists-in-Residence

2024-25

The Neighbors are excited to officially announce a year-long residency at NYU's Espacio de Culturas @ KJCC where, in collaboration with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives and Tamiment Labour Archives, we will further develop “At the Barricades.” Helmed by Federica Borlenghi and written by Co-Artistic Directors James Clements and Sam Hood Adrain, the source-based play explores the international troops that fought Fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

Barrington Stage Company

Playwright Mentoring Project

2024-25

The Neighbors will be returning to Barrington Stage Company as arts educators in their Playwright Mentoring Project for emerging young artists in the Berkshires, under the direction of the Theatre Education and Community Engagement lead Jane O’Leary.

World Premiere

At the Barricades

Spring 2025

"At the Barricades" is a new multilingual, source-based music play written by Co-Artistic Directors James Clements and Sam Hood Adrain. This documentary theater project examines the international volunteers who traveled to Spain between 1936 and 1939 to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Inspired and informed by the true stories of those who fought in Spain alongside the anti-fascist forces, this play explores the integrated Lincoln Battalion to unpack the nature of resistance and solidarity. This production will run in late Spring of 2025 at a venue in New York.