August 7-10, 2025
The South Carolina New Play Festival (SCNPF) is thrilled to announce its 2025 multi-day festival will feature performances from viral sensation Piff the Magic Dragon and Mary Kate Morrissey, who is currently playing Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway.
The 2025 season will also showcase the final rounds of South Carolina’s Next Broadway Star, a scholarship contest aimed at discovering and supporting high school musical theater students in South Carolina.
Celebrity judges for the competition will include Tony-winner Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tony-nominee John Ellison Conlee, and Broadway Casting Director Merri Sugarman. They will also lead masterclass workshops during SCNPF’s Insider Sessions.
Relive the 2024 SC NEW PLAY FEST!
The future of American Theater begins in Greenville
All Readings are free with reserved seating. Early access to reserved seats is available for festival donors.
Peter Mark Kendall and Rosaline Elbay in the 2022 festival show Dodi & Diana, which opened Off-Broadway, October of 2022.
The South Carolina New Play Festival starts on Thursday, August 7, and will feature a wide range of musicals, plays, town halls, an outdoor variety stage, and a Broadway Cabaret featuring Broadway’s Elphaba, Mary Kate Morrissey (Wicked).
The festival takes place in historic downtown Greenville at venues including The Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, CentreStage, The Warehouse Theatre, South Carolina Children’s Theatre, Falls Park, and the Governor’s School for the Arts.
The 2024 festival is supported, in part, by grants from the Community Foundation of Greenville, the Daniel-Mickel Foundation, the South Carolina Endowment for the Humanities, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Peace Center, and by public funds from the City of Greenville tourism tax fund.
