BROADWAY BOUND
THEATRE FESTIVAL
WHERE PLAYWRIGHTS TAKE CENTER STAGE
2025 SUMMER FESTIVAL LINE-UP
July 21 to August 17, 2025
Our Musicals
BBTF is proud to present four new musicals this season. In alphabetical order:
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A Brave New York
Book, Music & Lyrics by Kenady Sean,
Lyrics and Music by Emily Horton
Book & Lyrics by Kaylee Killingsworth
It's the year 2098. New York has been transformed into a privatized technocracy ruled by a technocrat who maintains order through biotech implants that allow citizens to live in an illusion of Utopia. In this dystopian future, a rebellious journalist uncovers the dark truth behind this utopian virtual world. Torn between truth and comfort, everyone must decide—will they fight for freedom in an unpredictable reality, or surrender to the perfection of a beautifully crafted lie?
Bengal to Berlin
by Hasan Padamsee
One hundred years ago, a fateful meeting between two geniuses resulted in the discovery of a new state of matter. Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician, met Albert Einstein and their collaboration changed the face of modern physics. This is their story, set against the backdrop of colonial Bengal and the intensifying struggle for Indian independence from the British Empire and poignantly portrayed by the sound worlds of Bollywood and Hindustani music.
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Making Ends Meet
Book & Lyrics by Laurence Holzman & Felicia Needleman
Music by Ian Brandon
This zany, original musical comedy tells the story of two married men, both vice presidents at Korman Brothers, a high profile Manhattan investment firm--who lose their jobs in the 2008 financial crisis and unwittingly become embroiled in a suburban gigolo business. What starts as an accident, soon becomes a full-fledged enterprise, as both men begin “servicing” the wealthy, lonely, bored women of Westchester County. The musical explores whether these two men can manage to keep their dirty little secret and continue to bring home the bacon, or whether their scheme will ultimately destroy their marriages and tear their families apart.
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One Night
Book & Lyrics by Laurence Holzman & Felicia Needleman
Music by David Shenton
Julie & Nathan and Danny & Vivian are two married couples who are the best of friends. They are enjoying a weekend away together when it comes out that years earlier Julie and Danny had a one-night stand. One Night explores whether the marriages and friendships can survive this shocking revelation.
Our Plays
BBTF is proud to present nine new works. In alphabetical order.
By Design
by Shelby Fairchild
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, some can read a person's mind or an object's entire story in an instant, just by touch. Alessandra is one such reader, but her father, a cruel scientist determined to destroy this highly evolved talent, has been experimenting on her since childhood in hopes of "curing her." Desperate find her long-lost mother, she teams up with another reader, their journey begins, with her father close behind them. What they discover may not be what they think they're looking for, but ultimately, precisely what they both need.
Double Cross
by Glory Kadigan
On a luxury cruise ship where secrets run deeper than the ocean itself, a the charismatic cruise director is thrust into a high-stakes dilemma when a wealthy guest accuses a member of her entertainment team of theft. As the investigation unfolds, her past affair with the accused threatens to unravel not only her career but her moral compass, forcing her to navigate a treacherous sea of suspicion, betrayal, and class conflict. With every interaction scrutinized, she must decide whether loyalty to her crew, her reputation, or the truth will steer her through the storm.
Everything in New York Goes Bang!
by Robert Galinsky
In this one-person show, the author recounts his journey from childhood in the suburbs of Connecticut, through his interactions with hipsters in the Lower East Side of New York City, to his work with young people incarcerated on Rikers Island Jail. Expertly embodying multiple characters through storytelling and rock-star level poetry, he explores the harmony and turmoil of living in New York City.
Ghost Writer
by Alicia Foxworth
Human trafficking is alive and well in pre-Civil War Kellington, NY, where it's just days before Independence Day. However, a duplicitous mayor who has secretly made his fortune in that very industry, has no intention of abiding by the law. As he clandestinely orchestrates a large shipment of human cargo, he banks on a much ballyhooed visit of a famous author to keep the town distracted. But unseen forces might have other plans. Based in historical context, this play showcases a critical part of American history that is currently being censored and rewritten, but is as relevant today as it was hundreds of years ago.
I Made it to the Moon
by Karen Campion
When a college-aged son brings home his fiance of six months for the first time, his mother is hellbent on breaking off their engagement. Little does she know the reason behind her angst is about to walk out of her secret, well-hidden past (it's1996 after all - the last days of privacy) and into her living room in a major way, exposing her son, her husband, and all attending the engagement dinner to the real backstory of who she is.
Retrospective
by T.J. Elliott
Famous painter Rory McGrory thinks he must be in a dream. Why else would he find himself transported to a large space filled with blank frames and his dead ex-wife? As she engages him in conversations about the tumultuous end to their marriage and the career retrospective she claims hangs in those frames, he's bemused -- until she tells him he's not asleep but dead. That dismay and denial deepens as further witnesses from his past appear attesting that he is now resident in the first stop of the afterlife, evidently: a place where detaching from past resentments is a prerequisite to moving to ‘next’, whatever ‘next’ turns out to be. But who is still ‘malattached’ to whom—and why—becomes the question everyone in this mixed-up merry ménage à quatre must try to solve.
Reunion
by Carey Campbell
After 30 years, Suzanne abruptly returns to the small midwestern town where she grew up to bury her mother. It's late on rainy night when she stops for a quiet cup of coffee at the local diner, a favorite after-school hangout for her younger self. To her chagrin, the two men at the counter want to talk. A shadow of recognition falls over Suzanne's face, and the conversation turns into a game of cat-and-mouse, as she finds herself confronting the demon from her past.
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The Rice Eaters
by Yide Cai
Set in a Chinese factory where workers mass produce Van Gogh replicas, Fan Gao and his co-workers navigate systemic greed and personal moral decay. German and Hong Kong employers exploit them with ruthless efficiency as they exemplify the cyclical nature of greed and the relentless prioritization of commerce over creativity. Fan Gao, consumed by his own ambition, claims his son's work as his own and begins an affair with a German manager. Betrayal and manipulation ripple through the characters those once oppressed rises to power only to perpetuate the same exploitation. And in the end, where has it gotten them?
This is Where it Ends
by Chris Phillips
In this contemporary riff on SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE, a married couple from Los Angeles, Stephen and James, invite Stephen’s brash actor friend, Kody, and James’s former fraternity brother, Ellis – once an entitled entrepreneur, now a spiritually-minded, recovering sex addict -- for a weekend at their Palm Springs home to celebrate James’s forty-fifth. Unknown to Stephen, James engages in extramarital adventures with anonymous hookups and Kody, while Stephen, increasingly frustrated in his role as ornamental house-husband, finds himself first unnerved by Ellis’s blunt honesty, then drawn to his refreshing candor. As the weekend progresses, the walls come down and the gloves come off as the four men bristle under the weight of the roles all of them have played for far too long.
OUR MISSION
BBTF is a developmental festival in the truest sense. Art is not a competition. We don't pit playwright-against-playwright. Rather, BBTF fosters an environment of support and friendship. Collaboration is one of our cornerstones. Playwrights become part of something much bigger than themselves and their plays. During the process, they're provided one-on-one dramaturgy, multiple online workshops, roundtable talkbacks and insight into the ever-changing landscape of American theater, all while learning the business of self producing. The result is a constructive, encouraging environment and a creative community accepting of all,
exclusive of none.
2025 BBTF VENUE
BBTF is proud to host its 2025 season at the newly renovated, state-of-the-art AMT Theater in the heart of NYC's Theatre District.
AMT Theater
354 W 45th St.
New York, NY
99-seat theater located in Hell's Kitchen on 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues
OUR SUBMISSION PROCESS
BBTF is one of the only curated festivals left in New York City. Each script is considered with care and appreciation, undergoing a rigorous evaluation process in which structure, content and character development, as well as development potential are reviewed and discussed. All submissions receive a critique, regardless of acceptance. Participants commit to multiple rewrites of their work under dramaturgical direction and collaboration before production, ensuring the strongest iteration of their work is presented to the public at an affordable price.
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Special thanks to our corporate sponsor
At Carlstrom Productions, we know all about what goes into producing great theatre, by providing Broadway caliber events for some of the most innovative companies around the globe. We're proud sponsors of the festival and thrilled to be a part of introducing these new works to the theatre world.