Urban Stages is an award-winning Off-Broadway Theatre Company founded in 1984 by current Artistic Director Frances Hill. Over the past 23 years, Urban Stages has produced over 68 productions, most of them world premieres. We have a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, two Drama Desk nominations, an Outer Critic's Circle Award, an Obie nomination, and eight Audelco nominations. Two of our plays, Men on the Verge of an Hispanic Breakdown, by Guillermo Reyes, and Minor Demons, by Bruce Graham, were subsequently moved to commercial theatres. Chili Queen, a play by newscaster Jim Lehrer, was moved to the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Numerous projects developed at Urban Stages have been adapted into film and television projects, including Scar, by Murray Mednick, Conversations with the Goddesses, by Agapi Stassinopoulos, and Cotton Mary, by Alexandra Viets, and most have had further productions, commercially, regionally, and abroad. We have a history of commercial moves and of discovering and introducing new writers to the theatre community and having their plays become part of the theatrical repertory. Recent productions have been published in the Smith and Kraus anthologies Best Plays of 2003, Best Plays of 2004, and Best Plays of 2005.