Directed by Claire Beckman,
Music Direction by Nancy Shankman and
Choreography by Sheila Anozier

Ditmas Park

Directed by Ashley Thaxton-Stevenson

The Beverley Social Club

Part of the Brave New Works Series

Directed by Benjamin Viertel

Part of the Brave New Works Series

The Beverley Social Club

Directed by Tatiana Baccari

The Beverley Social Club

Part of the Brave New Works Series

Developmental readings Inspired by Classical Greek Myths

The Peristyle, Prospect Park South

Directed by Christopher D. Betts

Richards Street in Red Hook

Directed by Directed by Claire Beckman,
Music Direction by Nancy Shankman and
Choreography by Sheila Anozier

Ditmas Park

Directed by Christopher D. Betts

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Directed by Christopher Burris

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Directed by Tai Thompson

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Directed by Alessia Siniscalchi, David Hammond, Grant Neale, Tai Thompson, Tamilla Woodard

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Hamlet performed on Zoom in five parts, unabridged

Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li

Ditmas Park

Part of the Brave New Works series

Directed by Hersh Ellis

Ditmas Park

Part of the Brave New Works series

Directed by Alex Dimitriev

Waterfront Museum Barge: Red Hook

The 1950’s story of Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman who lives and works in Red Hook with his wife Beatrice, and her 18-year-old orphaned niece, Catherine. When Beatrice’s undocumented relatives arrive from Italy to work the docks, conflict grows between Eddie and cousin Rodolpho.

Link to Blog Critics article on the Arts page: blogcritics.org

Directed by Claire Beckman

Waterfront Museum Barge: Red Hook

Three site-specific developmental staged readings on the pier, gangways, and barge of the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, where the classic story of Pete Panto took place.

Listen to our 2 minute the NPR/WNYC Story about The Hook

Conceived with Sonnet Direction by Claire Beckman

Music Direction by Nancy Shankman

Choreography by Sheila Anozier

Performed on 15 porches and in the middle of Stratford Road between Cortelyou Rd. & Slocum Place.

A free spring celebration for the Ditmas Park community with Shakespeare sonnets, Madrigals, and joyous Haitian dance! To be an annual event.

Watch our NY one coverage of Shakespeare on Stratford 2019

Directed by Claire Beckman

At The Mark O’Donnell Theater-The Actors Fund Arts Center: Downtown Brooklyn

September 14, 2001: On the streets of Bangalore, India, a poor Muslim family is stranded. Desperate to reach a relative’s home in a distant suburb, the new immigrants to the city are struggling to find a ride late in the night. Watching them closely is a Hindu couple, both executives of American companies. The liberal and westernized executive couple offer to take the traditional and rural Muslim couple along. The conversation quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two worlds collide. Fueled by a pro and anti-Islamic rhetoric, and warnings about potential terror threats intermittently playing on the radio, the characters fight within their self-imposed confines of prejudice and fear, in their attempts to look beyond the obvious ideological differences, and unravel a common fellowship based on humanity.

Link to Star Revue article –

Brave New World Repertory Theatre Presents A Muslim in the Midst

a Brown Girl Magazine review

‘A Muslim in the Midst’: Exploring the ripple effects of Islamophobia and Terrorism post 9/11

Directed by Alex Dimitriev

Waterfront Museum Barge: Red Hook

The 1950’s story of Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman who lives and works in Red Hook with his wife Beatrice, and her 18-year-old orphaned niece, Catherine. When Beatrice’s undocumented relatives arrive from Italy to work the docks, conflict grows between Eddie and cousin Rodolpho.

Link to NYT article on current season page

and the Scene on Stage Review

Governors Island Commanding Officers House

By popular demand, BNW brought Claire Beckman’s bold adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard back to Governors Island for 10 sold-out performances. Opening weeks after the racist counter-protests in Charlottesville, Virginia this run attracted the attention of the New York Times. See review:

Read Laura Collins-Hughes rave review in The New York Times

Directed by Rebecca Martinez

Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance, Bed-Stuy.

In Leegrid Stevens adaptation of August Strindberg’sMiss Julie we replace aristocrats and servants with high caliber bankers and the janitorial staff, exploring themes of class and forbidden romance against a timely contemporary backdrop. BNW’s site specific production was staged on a state-of-the-art functional trading floor at the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance in Bed-Stuy.

Governors Island Commanding Officers House

Claire Beckman’s bold adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, set in 1870 Virginia during the oft overlooked Reconstruction Period, was an immersive site-specific production staged inside the historic Commanding Officers House on Governors Island (a short ferry ride from Brooklyn). The Plantation re-imagines Chekhov’s classic in order to explore the tectonic shifts in the social status of Black and White Americans directly after the Civil War, seeking to explore the root causes of some of America’s most pressing social issues with both humor and heart.

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers directed by Rebecca Martinez

Matisse’s Self Portrait directed by Jackie Alexander

Picasso’s Masterpiece directed by Claire Beckman

Glasshouse Art/Life/Lab, Williamsburg

A World Premiere Opening Show date: May 12th 2016

Charles L. Mee “re-makes” history with his unique style of collage-writing by using existing letters and writings of Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso and their contemporaries in this trilogy about the lives of artists.

Directed by Alice Reagan
The Grand Prospect Hall, South Park Slope, Brooklyn

The Miser is Molière’s darkest comedy: a grim fable for our times containing some of the most absurd and delightful classical, comedic dialogue ever written. The play is a harsh indictment wrapped in pastel-colored candy coating. Written in 1668 at the beginning of the market economy, The Miser sits almost too easily in 2014, when movements the world over are forecasting capitalism’s collapse. Under the direction of Alice Reagan, BNW’s production invited audiences into the opulent and overwhelming Grand Prospect Hall in South Park Slope for a truly unique evening.

Directed by Katherine Brook
Cloud City, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New York premiere

This early Gertrude Stein play is a thrilling example of Stein’s “theater of landscape.” Director Katherine Brook’s production took a strong point of view on Stein’s abstract, fragmented text, interpreting its domestic-centered language as a fanatical pursuit of sweetness amid horror and violence.

Directed by Shannon Sindelar
The Brick Theater, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
World premiere

Healey’s work explored the price of an idyllic life at a rural convent and the extreme measures some must take to maintain a self-imposed standard of normalcy.

Directed by Claire Beckman
5th St between 8th Ave and Prospect Park West, Park Slope, Brooklyn Opening Show date: June 22nd 2013

Elmer Rice’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene received an environmental staging using a Park Slope apartment building. Brave New World Rep brought the period piece out of the proscenium box, and into our contemporary world.

The play takes place entirely on the front stoop of a New York City apartment building and examines the complex daily lives of its lower income inhabitants (and those of the surrounding neighborhood). Rice captures an evening and a morning in the life of a New York City “village” rife with domestic quarrels, racial and ethnic tensions and economic anxiety.

Directed by John Morgan and Alec Harrington
The Waterfront Museum, Red Hook, Brooklyn

Orson Welles, famous for his movie Citizen Kane and infamous for creating a nationwide panic with his adaptation of War of the Worlds, turned his hand to another adaptation in 1955: Moby Dick. Welles strips Melville’s sprawling masterpiece to its bones, turning it into a play within a play. In the afternoon before an evening performance of King Lear, a Shakespearean theatre company delves into the text of Moby Dick. Brave New World Repertory staged this highly physical ensemble piece at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, constructing Melville’s world on the bare stage of the barge. The cast repurposed the museum’s nautical artifacts to transform the Lehigh Valley Barge # 79 into the docks of Nantucket, the deck of Captain Ahab’s ship, and the wild and wasteful ocean.

Directed by Claire Beckman
Home of Lindsay-Abaires (Ditmas Park) and
Akwaaba Mansion (Bed-Stuy)

This timeless 45-minute one act spans 90 years of Christmas Dinners with The Bayard Family. Performed twice, back to back by an African American and a Caucasian cast, Brave New World set the performances at the home of Chris and David Lindsay-Abaire in Ditmas Park and the Akwaaba Mansion in Bed-Stuy.

Directed by Claire Beckman
The Old Stone House, Park Slope

This timeless 45-minute one act spans 90 years of Christmas Dinners with The Bayard Family. Performed four times back to back by an African American and a Caucasian cast, Brave New World initiated their inaugural holiday event at The Old Stone House of Brooklyn. The company served a Christmas meal to the audience before each performance.

Directed by John Morgan
Our Lady’s (Little League) Field of Holy Name Church, Windsor Terrace

A Brooklyn spin on the original working class situation comedy in a Brooklynese dialect, mobsters, scheming wives and foolish husbands. Performed in Our Lady’s (Little League) Field of Holy Name Church On Windsor Place.

Directed by Cynthia Babak
The Brooklyn Lyceum, Park Slope Opening Show date: March 3rd 2011

Three World Premiere Plays in Collaboration with Company XIV
Company XIV’s Theatre, Gowanus

• Dénouement—A Murderous Masquerade, a Neo-Baroque murder mystery choreographed and directed by Austin McCormick, Company XIV founder
• Too Much Candy, a spooky fairy tale confection spiked with a twist of Freud. By Cynthia Babak; Directed by Nell Balaban
• Salsa, a psycho noir comedy about spicy hot sauce. By Greg Kotis; Directed by Chip Brookes

“…a stellar example of the artistic depths that can result from smart companies pooling their resources.”- offoffonline.com

Directed by Claire Beckman
The Oriental Pavilion, Prospect Park

Directed by Claire Beckman
The Old Stone House, Park Slope Opening Show Date : March 4th 2010

Ten intimate lantern-lit performances staged in The Old Stone House, first constructed in 1699 (seven years after the Salem hangings). The company used the first floor of this unique Brooklyn location for the Parris and Proctor homes and the second floor for the dramatic trial and jail scenes. The play opened with Tituba and the adolescent girls of the village seen through the colonial windows dancing around a fire and pot of soup. New York Magazine Critic’s Pick.

Directed by Claire Beckman
Beach and Boardwalk, Coney Island Opening Show date: September 26th 2009

Afternoon performances of The Tempest were offered free to the public in the open air of the legendary Boardwalk and beach at Coney Island. Performed on the sand and a tiered platform in the center of an audience seated in 1,500 folding chairs along a 235-foot stretch of Boardwalk near the NY Aquarium. This production was awarded a proclamation by Borough President Marty Markowitz.

Directed by Claire Beckman
Community and Private gardens throughout Brooklyn

Directed by Royston Coppenger
Prospect Park Bandshell, Celebrate Brooklyn!

On the eve of The Kindle this multi-media production of Bradbury’s classic dystopian society where firemen burn books, included projection and video design and was performed for an audience of 1500; Sponsored and co-produced by BRIC/Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell.

Conceived, Adapted and Directed by Claire Beckman
Prospect Park Bandshell, Celebrate Brooklyn! Opening Show date: August 2nd 2007

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass inspired this multi-media production with dance and live music. Recipient of a 2007 BRIClab Residency.

Directed by Royston Coppenger
Prospect Park Bandshell, Celebrate Brooklyn!

The epic story of Jack Johnson, the early 20th century boxing champion here called Jack Jefferson, included 65 characters played by 21 actors; the production featured video projections of images from Johnson’s life and career, both torn apart by racism, segregation and the prejudice that created a demand for a “great white hope” to defeat him.

Conceived and Directed by Claire Beckman
Porches and Sidewalks of Westminster Road, Ditmas Park
Opening Show date : September 18th 2005

Arguably BNW’s seminal production, this free-to-the-public, site-specific event had amplified sound and lighting was attended by over 2,000 people. The action took place on the porches and sidewalks of six Victorian homes in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. 750 people were seated in folding chairs in the wide street and the rest stood. The community participated by playing small roles or volunteering. The production received a “citation” by Borough President Marty Markowitz.

“In a quarter-century of theater-going in New York, never have I seen an audience as integrated as the one that took their folding seats on Sunday: black and white, old and very young, with a healthy sprinkling of neighborhood teenagers. Rarely have I seen one so rapt or appreciative. That the show was free enhanced the magic; this was street theater, people’s theater, of the highest order…” Jeff Coplon, critic.