The New Voices Program is a playwriting program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The goal of the New Voices Program is to create and ultimately produce more works about the experiences and culture of our BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community by providing meaningful access and opportunities.
About the Program
The New Voices Program aims to promote diversity and equity within the Triangle theatre community by hosting a writing workshop series. The workshop series is to provide training to adults (18+) of the global majority (BIPOC) and the LGBTQIA+ communities. The series will end with a culminating event during the spring of 2025, in which the cohorts’ will present their work.
The program will be taught and facilitated by experienced writer Judy Dove, and will include several sessions on understanding the art of creative writing, consulting and coaching during the writing process, and a reading series to showcase and workshop each of the original works.
Judy M. Dove is a Raleigh playwright, director, and teaching artist, and has directed for the
Raleigh Little Theatre, Forest Moon Theater, and NRACT. Her full-length play, Haiku, was
selected for the 2021 Sips&Scripts New Works Festival, was a semi-finalist in the 2023 Morgan-
Wixson New Play Festival in Santa Monica, and was a finalist for the 2023 SETC Charles M.
Getchell New Play Contest. Her newest full-length play, Shinsei (rebirth,) was written when she
was a member of the RLT/New Voices 2022 cohort, was a semi-finalist in the 2023 Bay Area
Playwrights Festival, and was produced by OdysseyStage in 2024. It was recognized by the
Chatham Life and Style Best of 2024 in five areas including Outstanding Playwriting. Other
plays have been produced by the Rock Hill Community Theatre Short Play Festival, Goodly
Frame Theatre’s ZoomFest 2020, OdysseyStage 10×10, Old Courthouse Theatre, Cary
Playwrights, Triad Short Play Festival, Artists Soap Box/CATG, Creative Greensboro’s Evening
of Short Plays and Short Tales for Children, and the Raleigh Little Theatre Storytellers to Go!
Memberships include Dramatists Guild of America, and the North Carolina Theatre Conference,
for which she served on the Board of Directors for 13 years.
Dates:
Orientation: February 24, 2025
Tuesdays: March 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2025
Tuesdays: April 1, 8, & 15, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
The program will be limited to 5-6 participants, which will be selected via the application process below. There is no cost to apply or participate. Session will take place on RLT’s campus.
How to Apply
Click here for the application
Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025
Please note: This opportunity is a space for those who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+. If you do not identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+, we invite you to check out other opportunities at RLT.
Questions? Please email education@nullraleighlittletheatre.org.
The 2024 Cohort
Meet our 2024 New Voices cohort here! Watch the video of their culminating event held on Wednesday, June 12 on RLT’s Facebook page.
The 2023 Cohort
Meet our 2023 New Voices cohort here! Watch the video of their culminating event held on Wednesday, June 14 on RLT’s Facebook page.
The 2022 Cohort
Meet the talented cohort of New Voices for 2022! Watch the video of their culminating event held on Thursday, May 26 on RLT’s Facebook page: https://fb.watch/hyfnFn7oTB
The Inaugural 2021 Cohort
Click here to meet the talented participants that comprised the New Voices Program’s inaugural cohort in 2020-21. Watch the live video from their culminating event here on RLT’s Facebook page!
Special thanks to our program sponsor, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.
