Headwaters New Play Festival
2024 FESTIVAL OFFERINGS
Join us all day August 30th in The Ruth Humphreys Brown Theatre. All daytime events are Pay What You Can.
Young Audience Outreach Tour: Coyote and the Counting Game – Team Crash
10am / Family Friendly
Be the first to see the show before it embarks on a 12 week tour across the southwest.
10-Minute Plays
11:30am / Recommended for ages 13+
One of the most exciting events of the summer! Original short plays inspired by a common theme, starring our talented company like you’ve never seen them before.
Headwaters Luncheon
1pm / Food provided by Vida: Eat to Live
Join us between performances for lunch with CRT staff and Headwaters artists.
Young Audience Outreach Tour: Coyote and the Counting Game – Team Snare
2pm / Family Friendly
Be the first to see the show before it embarks on a 12 week tour across the southwest.
Prima’s Guide to Funerals
7pm / Tickets starting at $38
From page to stage! Prima’s Guide to Funerals by Leonard Madrid was comissioned in 2022 and had a staged reading at 2023’s Headwaters Festival.
WHAT IS HEADWATERS?
Headwaters New Play Program aspires to be a source for new American plays through a process of commission, development, and production. The program seeks to amplify the voices of Hispanic and Latinx playwrights on CRT’s stages and across the communities of the San Luis Valley and Southwest region.
Since its inception in 2012, seven plays developed under Headwaters have had their world premieres onstage at Creede Repertory Theatre, including Kind of Red, Hazardous Materials, and Mountain Octopus.
Annual world premerie productions for CRT Education – The Tiny Tour, The KID Show, and the Young Audience Outreach Tour (YAOT) – are also comissioned and produced as part of Headwaters.
Each year, CRT premieres its new YAOT production, original 10-Minute Plays, and gives audiences a glimpse of new works in development over one weekend in late August/early September.