The New Group, an Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

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 theater company located at Theatre Row

Theatre Row (New York City)

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, 410 West 42nd Street, is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. Founded by Artistic Director Scott Elliott, The New Group produced its first play, Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...

's Ecstasy

Ecstasy (play)

Ecstasy is a 1979 play by British playwright Mike Leigh with a six-character cast. It covers the life of four blue-collar friends living in a ratty area of London near Kilburn High Road and the drunken frustration in their lives, particularly that of the lead character Jean.Jean is a suicidal...

, in 1995. Notable productions include This is Our Youth

This is Our Youth

This Is Our Youth is a 1996 play by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan.-Production history:Originally produced by The New Group, the play opened at the INTAR Theatre in New York City in October 1996. It later opened at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre in November 1998...

, Curtains

Curtains (musical)

Curtains is a musical with a book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, with additional lyrics by Kander and Holmes....

, Goose Pimples, Aunt Dan and Lemon

Aunt Dan and Lemon

Aunt Dan and Lemon is a play by Wallace Shawn. The world premiere was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England on August 27, 1985, under the direction of Max Stafford-Clark. This production opened off-Broadway at The Public Theatre on October 21,...

, Hurlyburly

Hurlyburly

Hurlyburly is a dark comedy play by David Rabe, first staged in 1984.-Plot:More than three hours long, Hurlyburly focuses on the intersecting lives of several low- to mid-level Hollywood players in the 1980s. Fueled by massive amounts of drugs, they attempt to find some meaning in their isolated,...

, Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s...

, Rafta, Rafta...

Rafta, Rafta...

Rafta, Rafta... is a comedy by British Pakistani playwright Ayub Khan-Din adapted from the 1963 Bill Naughton play, All in Good Time. The play is set in the working-class English town of Bolton, and examines a story of marital difficulties within an immigrant Indian family. Eeshwar Dutt is a...

, The Starry Messenger, and A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind is a play written by Sam Shepard, first staged at the off-Broadway Promenade Theater on 5 December 1985. The play was directed by Shepard himself with stars Harvey Keitel as Jake, Amanda Plummer as Beth, Aidan Quinn as Frankie, Geraldine Page as Lorraine, and Will Patton as Mike...

.

In fourteen years, The New Group has received over seventy awards and nominations for excellence. The New Group's first musical, Avenue Q

Avenue Q

Avenue Q is a musical in two acts, conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics. The book was written by Jeff Whitty and the show was directed by Jason Moore and produced by Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, and Jeffrey Seller...

, won three Tony Awards, for Best Book, Best Score, and Best Musical, in 2004.

The New Group is run by founding Artistic Director, Scott Elliott, and Executive Director, Geoff Rich.

Artists

Notable playwrights, directors, actors, and theater artists who have worked at The New Group include Adam Alexi-Malle

Adam Alexi-Malle

Adam Alexi-Malle is an Italian actor, singer, dancer and musician born in Siena, Italy. His Italian father and Spanish/Arab mother later emigrated to London in the United Kingdom and finally to the United States...

, Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Adult Simba in The Lion King film series, and Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers.He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his...

, Mark Brokaw

Mark Brokaw

Mark Brokaw is a stage director. He won the Drama Desk Award, Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Director of a Play for How I Learned to Drive.Brokaw was raised in Aledo, Illinois and graduated from the Yale Drama School...

, David Cale, Keith Carradine

Keith Carradine

Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor who has had success on stage, film and television. In addition, he is a Golden Globe and Oscar winning songwriter. As a member of the Carradine family, he is part of an acting "dynasty" that began with his father, John Carradine.-Early life:Keith...

, Sarita Choudhury

Sarita Choudhury

Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury is an English actress.-Biography:Choudhury was born in Blackheath, London, England, of half Bengali-Indian and half English descent. Her parents, Prabhas Chandra Choudhury, a scientist, and Julia Patricia Spring, married in 1964 in Lucea, Jamaica...

, Jim Dale

Jim Dale

Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...

, Paul Dano

Paul Dano

Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as L.I.E. , The Girl Next Door , Little Miss Sunshine , There Will Be Blood , and Where the Wild Things Are .-Early life:Dano was born in New York City, the son of Gladys and Paul Dano...

, Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage is an American film, television and theater actor. Since his breakout role in the 2003 film The Station Agent, he has acted in Elf, Underdog, Find Me Guilty, the 2007 film Death at a Funeral and its 2010 remake, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian...

, Kevin Elyot

Kevin Elyot

Kevin Elyot is a British playwright and screenwriter. His most notable works include the play My Night with Reg and the film Clapham Junction.-Sources:*-External links:...

, Lisa Emery

Lisa Emery

Lisa Emery is an American stage, film, and television actress.Emery was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an aspiring actress from Charlottesville, Virginia and an advertising executive who worked in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania...

, Raúl Esparza

Raúl Esparza

Raúl Eduardo Esparza is an American stage actor, singer, and voice artist noted for his award winning performances in Broadway shows...

, Josh Hamilton

Josh Hamilton (actor)

Josh C. Hamilton is an American actor.Hamilton was born in New York City, New York. His father is actor Dan Hamilton, and his stepmother is actress Stephanie Braxton...

, Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role...

, Danny Hoch

Danny Hoch

Danny Hoch is an American writer, director and performance artist. He has acted in larger roles in independent and art house movies and had a few small roles in mainstream Hollywood films, with increasing exposure as in 2007's We Own the Night...

, Marin Ireland

Marin Ireland

Marin Ireland is an American film, stage and television actress.She won the 2009 Theatre World Award and was nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in reasons to be pretty.-Education:...

, Judith Ivey

Judith Ivey

Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and director.-Personal life:Ivey was born in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of Dorothy Lee , a teacher, and Nathan Aldean Ivey, a college instructor and dean. She spent 1965-1968 in Dowagiac, Michigan, where she attended Union High School through tenth grade...

, Kristen Johnston

Kristen Johnston

Kristen Johnston is an American stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun...

, Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan

-Early life and education:Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and the granddaughter of film and theatre director Elia Kazan...

, Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din is a British Pakistani actor and playwright.As an actor, Khan-Din participated in some 20 British films and TV series in the late 1980s and the 1990s...

, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...

, Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...

, Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.-Background and education:Born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, Lonergan began writing in high school at the Walden School .His first play, The Rennings Children, was chosen for the Young Playwright's Festival in...

, Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Lyonne

-Early life:Lyonne was born Natasha Braunstein in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Yvette Lyonne, a product licensing consultant, and Aaron Braunstein, a native of Brooklyn who worked as a boxing promoter. Lyonne grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household...

, Jena Malone

Jena Malone

Jena Malone is an American actress and musician who has appeared on television, in films, and on Broadway. She made her movie debut with the film Bastard Out of Carolina , and has appeared in films including Contact , Stepmom , Donnie Darko , Saved! , Into the Wild , and Sucker Punch .Malone is...

, Derek McLane

Derek McLane

Derek McLane is an American set designer for theatre, opera, and musical theatre). He graduated with a BA from Harvard College and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama....

, Laurie Metcalf

Laurie Metcalf

Lauren Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, the voice of Mrs. Davis in the Toy Story film series and as Debbie Salt in Scream 2...

, Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

, Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Antine Nivola is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Best Laid Plans, Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, and the first two films of the Goal! trilogy.-Personal life:...

, Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Ellen Nixon is an American actress, known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City . She has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award....

, Brian F. O'Byrne

Brían F. O'Byrne

Brían Francis O'Byrne is an Irish actor who works mostly in the United States. He was born in Mullagh, County Cavan.O'Byrne first attracted notice for his performances in the Martin McDonagh plays The Beauty Queen of Leenane as Pato Dooley and The Lonesome West...

, Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell is an American actor known for his leading roles in Lawn Dogs, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Choke and Moon, as well as for his supporting roles in The Green Mile, Iron Man 2, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Frost/Nixon, Galaxy Quest, Matchstick Men, The Assassination of...

, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Mark Ruffalo

Mark Ruffalo

Mark Alan Ruffalo is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He starred in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zodiac, Shutter Island, Just Like Heaven, You Can Count on Me and The Kids Are All Right for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best...

, Anabella Sciorra, Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American film actress, fashion designer and former model. Sevigny gained reputation for her eclectic fashion sense and developed a broad career in the fashion industry in the mid 1990s, both for modeling and for her work at New York's Sassy magazine, which labeled her...

, Cara Seymour

Cara Seymour

Cara Seymour is an English actress of stage and screen. She has appeared in many ensemble casts for acclaimed films such as American Psycho, Adaptation., Gangs of New York, Hotel Rwanda, and The Savages....

, Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...

, Betty Shamieh

Betty Shamieh

Betty Shamieh is a Palestinian-American playwright , author, screenwriter, and actor.-Background:Shamieh was born in San Francisco, California...

, Jonathan Marc Sherman

Jonathan Marc Sherman

Jonathan Marc Sherman is a contemporary American playwright.He was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and grew up in Livingston. He began writing plays on a typewriter his father gave him as a birthday gift when he was twelve or thirteen years old...

, Lili Taylor

Lili Taylor

Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress notable for her appearances in such award-winning indie films as Mystic Pizza, Say Anything..., Short Cuts and I Shot Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed TV show Six Feet Under....

, Sam Trammell

Sam Trammell

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, Frank Whaley

Frank Whaley

Frank Joseph Whaley is an American film and television actor known for his roles in independent films.-Personal life:Whaley was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Josephine and Robert W. Whaley, Sr. He is half-Irish and half-Sicilian and grew up in Syracuse. He has two sisters and an older...

, and Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams (actress)

Michelle Ingrid Williams is an American actress. After starting her career with television guest appearances in the early 1990s, Williams achieved recognition for her role as Jen Lindley on the WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek, which she played from 1998 to 2003...

.

Production history

2009-2010

The Kid by Andy Monroe, Michael Zam and Jack Lechner, based on the book by Dan Savage

Dan Savage

Daniel Keenan "Dan" Savage is an American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. Savage writes the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. Its tone is frank in its discussion of sexuality, often humorous, and hostile to social conservatives, as in...

, directed by Scott Elliott (spring 2010)

A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind is a play written by Sam Shepard, first staged at the off-Broadway Promenade Theater on 5 December 1985. The play was directed by Shepard himself with stars Harvey Keitel as Jake, Amanda Plummer as Beth, Aidan Quinn as Frankie, Geraldine Page as Lorraine, and Will Patton as Mike...

by Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...

, directed by Ethan Hawke (winter 2010)

The Starry Messenger written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan

2008-2009

Groundswell by Ian Bruce, directed by Scott Elliott

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932...

by Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...

, directed by Scott Elliott

Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot, directed by Mark Brokaw

2007-2008

Rich Boyfriend by Evan Smith, directed by Ian Morgan

Rafta, Rafta... by Ayub Khan-Din, directed by Scott Elliott

Two Thousand Years by Mike Leigh, directed by Scott Elliott

Things We Want by Jonathan Marc Sherman, directed by Ethan Hawke

2006-2007

Expats by Heather Lynn MacDonald, directed by Ari Edelson

Strangers Knocking by Robert Tenges, directed by Marie Masters

The Accomplices by Bernard Weinraub, directed by Ian Morgan

The Fever by Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...

, directed by Scott Elliott

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen, directed by Scott Elliott

2005-2006

Everythings Thurning into Beautiful by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, directed by Carl Forsman

Jayson with a Y by Darci Picoult, directed by Sheryl Kaller

A Spalding Gray Matter written and performed by Michael Brandt, directed by Ian Morgan

The Music Teacher words by Wallace Shawn, music by Allen Shawn, directed by Tom Cairns

Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh, directed by Scott Elliott

2004-2005

Terrorism by The Presnyakov Brothers, translated by Sasha Dugdale, directed by Will Frears

Critical Darling by Barry Levey, directed by Ian Morgan

Hurlyburly

Hurlyburly

Hurlyburly is a dark comedy play by David Rabe, first staged in 1984.-Plot:More than three hours long, Hurlyburly focuses on the intersecting lives of several low- to mid-level Hollywood players in the 1980s. Fueled by massive amounts of drugs, they attempt to find some meaning in their isolated,...

by David Rabe, directed by Scott Elliott

A Likely Story by David Cale, directed by Tamara Jenkins

SIN (A Cardinal Deposed) by Michael Murphy, directed by Carl Forsman

2003-2004

Roar by Betty Shamieh, directed by Marion McClinton

Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn, directed by Scott Elliott

2002-2003

The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort, directed by Scott Elliott

Avenue Q music & lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty, directed by Jason Moore

Comedians by Trevor Griffiths, directed by Scott Elliott

2001-2002

Smelling a Rat by Mike Leigh, directed by Scott Elliott

Good Thing by Jessica Goldberg, directed by Jo Bonney

2000-2001

Servicemen by Evan Smith, directed by Sean Mathias

Paradise Island by Benjie Aerenson, directed by Andy Goldberg

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton, directed by Scott Elliott

1999-2000

Betwixt by David Cale, directed by Scott Elliott and Andy Goldberg

Another American: Asking and Telling by Marc Wolf, directed by Joe Mantello

Cranes by Dmitry Lipkin, directed by Scott Elliott

1998-1999

East is East by Ayub Khan-Din, directed by Scott Elliott

Halfway Home by Diane Bank, directed by Stephen Williford

Some Voices by Joe Penhall, directed by Frank Pugliese

1997-1998

The Flatted Fifth by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, directed by Jo Bonney

Hazelwood Jr. High by Rob Urbinati, directed by Scott Elliott

Goose-Pimples by Mike Leigh, directed by Scott Elliott

1996-1997

The Fastest Clock in the Universe by Philip Ridley, directed by Jo Bonney

My Night With Reg by Kevin Elyot, directed by Jack Hofsiss

This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Mark Brokaw

1996

Curtains by Stephen Bill, directed by Scott Elliott

1995

Ecstasy by Mike Leigh, directed by Scott Elliott

Awards

The New Group's past productions have received 7 Obies

Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...

, 21 Drama Desk

Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...

 nominations, 6 Lucille Lortel Awards, 3 Tony Awards including Best New Musical, and the Calloway, Kalbie, Taking Off, and Theatre World Awards.

Ecstasy, 1995

OBIE (Overall Excellence)
Taking Off Award
Calloway Award

Curtains, 1996

2 OBIEs (Direction; Ensemble Acting)

This is our Youth, 1996

Lucille Lortel Award 1999 (Outstanding Actor, Mark Ruffalo)
Theatre World Award 1997 (Mark Ruffalo)

Goose-Pimples, 1998

3 Drama Desk Nominations (Outstanding Director of a Play, Scott Elliott; Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Adam Alexi-Malle; Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Caroline Seymour)

Another American: Asking and Telling, 2000

OBIE (Special Citation, Joe Mantello and Marc Wolf)
Kalbie Award (Best Male Solo Show, Marc Wolf)

What the Butler Saw, 2001

Lucille Lortel Nomination (Outstanding Revival)

Comedians, 2003

2 Lucille Lortel Nominations (Outstanding Revival; Outstanding Lead Actor, Jim Dale)
Drama Desk Nomination (Outstanding Actor in a Play, Jim Dale)
Drama League Award (Raúl Esparza)
Drama League Nomination (Outstanding Revival)

Avenue Q, 2003 & 2004

3 Tony Awards 2004 (Best Musical; Best Book of a Musical, Jeff Whitty; Best Score, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx)
2004 GLAAD Media Award (Outstanding NY Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway)
2 Theatre World Awards 2004 (Stephanie D’Abruzzo, John Tartaglia)
2003-04 Outer Critics Circle Award (Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance and Puppet Artistry)
2 Lucille Lortel Awards 2003 (Outstanding Musical; Sound Design, Brett Jarvis)
3 Lucille Lortel Nominations 2003 (Outstanding Director, Jason Moore; Outstanding Choreographer, Ken Roberson; Outstanding Set Design, Anna Louizos

Anna Louizos

Anna Louizos is an American scenic designer and art director. She is best known for her Tony Award-nominated sets for the musicals In the Heights and High Fidelity, as well as the London, Broadway, Las Vegas, and touring productions of Avenue Q...

)
5 Drama Desk 2002-03 Nominations (Outstanding Musical; Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Stephanie D’Abruzzo; Outstanding Music, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx; Outstanding Lyrics, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx; Outstanding Book of a Musical, Jeff Whitty)

Aunt Dan and Lemon, 2004

2 OBIEs (Performance, Lili Taylor; Design, Derek McLane)

Sin (A Cardinal Deposed), 2005

OBIE (Special Citation)
2 Drama Desk Nominations (Outstanding Play; Outstanding Actor in a Play, John Cullum)

Hurlyburly, 2005

Lucille Lortel Award (Outstanding Featured Actress, Parker Posey)
4 Lucille Lortel Nominations (Outstanding Revival; Outstanding Director, Scott Elliott; Outstanding Lead Actor, Ethan Hawke; Outstanding Featured Actor, Josh Hamilton)
4 Drama Desk Nominations (Outstanding Revival of a Play; Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Josh Hamilton; Outstanding Director of a Play, Scott Elliott; Outstanding Costume Design, Jeff Mahsie)
Drama League Award (Ethan Hawke)
Drama League Nomination (Outstanding Revival)

Abigail's Party, 2006

Lucille Lortel Award (Outstanding Costume Design, Eric Becker)
7 Lucille Lortel Nominations (Outstanding Revival, Outstanding Director, Scott Elliott; Outstanding Lead Actress, Jennifer Jason Leigh; Outstanding Featured Actor, Darren Goldstein; Outstanding Featured Actress, Lisa Emery; Outstanding Set Design, Derek McLane; Outstanding Sound Design, Ken Travis)
4 Drama Desk Nominations (Outstanding Lead Actress, Jennifer Jason Leigh; Outstanding Featured Actress, Lisa Emery; Outstanding Set Design, Derek McLane; Outstanding Costume Design, Eric Becker)

The Accomplices, 2007

2 Drama Desk Nominations (Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Featured Actor, Andrew Polk)

Mourning Becomes Electra, 2009

Drama Desk Nomination (Outstanding Lighting Design, Jason Lyons)

Premiers

In 2007 The New Group produced the premier of Bernard Weintraub's play The Accomplices

The Accomplices

The Accomplices is a 2007 play by New York Times reporter Bernard Weintraub. It premiered at The New Group in New York City in 2007 and played thereafter in regional theatres.The play is based on Hillel Kook's wartime experiences in the United States...

, based on the thwarted efforts of Hillel Kook

Hillel Kook

Hillel Kook , also known as Peter Bergson , was a Revisionist Zionist activist, politician, and prominent member of the Irgun.-Early life:...

to prod the United States to do more to rescue European Jews during the Holocaust.