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The National New Play Network (NNPN) is an alliance of leading not-for-profit professional theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays for the American theater. We strive to pioneer, implement and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights. NNPN was founded in 1998 by then-Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center Special Programs Director David Goldman with the support and encouragement of Founder and Chairman George C. White. They believed that new play development in the next generation should be regionalized by linking producing and developmental theaters around the country with their playwriting communities. NNPN’s flagship program, the Continued Life of New Plays Fund, supports three or more theaters which choose to mount the same new play within a twelve-month period. The result is a “rolling world premiere” through which the playwright develops a new work with at least three different creative teams, for three different communities of patrons, ensuring the resulting play is of the highest possible quality. NNPN’s other programs include The Smith Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding play with political content; MFA Residencies for recent playwriting graduates; the National Showcase of New Plays, hosted each year by a different member theater; the MFA Playwrights Workshop at the Kennedy Center; and new play commissions chosen by the membership. Through these activities and others, NNPN has granted nearly a half million dollars to theaters and artists in the 24 regions of the country where NNPN member theaters are located.