OUR HISTORY
2021
Sanguine Relaunches With A New Management Team
Mission Statement Refresh
We looked back at our mission statement to centralize our commitments to new work, equity and diversity in all aspects of artmaking, and accessibility of our programs for audiences and artists.
Emerging Artist Focus
We have a long history of championing early career artists. We are expanding that commitment through our education programs and radically open submission process to work at any level of our company.
Core Value Reinvesting
We've institutionalized positive values and practices, including prioritizing transparency, justice, communication, and joy in all of our artistic processes.
2018
Sanguine co-produces Education by Brian Dykstra at 59E59 and hosts first "Spring Break: Playwrights' Week" Week"
Sanguine Spring Break: Playwrights’ Week was designed to cultivate relationships with playwrights both in NYC and regionally, and to expand opportunities for writers to work on whatever they choose with a new group of high-caliber collaborators. The week featured Josh Bonzie, Lindsay Joy, Darrel Holnes, Alexis Scheer, and Calamity West.
2016 & 2017
Project Playwright Expands
In 2016, 6 finalists are named for Project Playwright for the first time. The winner, Primary, is named a Best Bet by Theatre is Easy. In the following year, Snguine receives over 400 submissions for the festival, breaking every previous record
2015
Sanguine Produces Off Broadway For The First Time
Come Back Up by Sarah Duncan becomes Sanguine’s first Off Broadway Production at the Gym at Judson, featuring cast members Tai Verley, JT Tarpav, Nicole Kontolefa, Amver Avant, and Amber Bogdewiecz.
2014
Sanguine Joins With IRT Theatre
Wild by Crystal Skillman becomes the first production at IRT Theater, which becomes Sanguine’s primary home for the next five years. The production was directed by Evan F. Caccioppoli and starred Hunter Canning and Jeff Ronan.
2013
Sanguine Gains 510(c)3 Status
After producing Craig Wright’s The Pavillion, Sanguine shifts it’s focus to solely new works.
2012
A Board Of Directors Is Formed
Founders Jillian Robertson and Karly Fischer will preside as co-presidents for the next 10 years.
2011
1st Annual Project Playwright
The Project Playwright Festival is created, with only 15 submissions in it’s inaugural year. Cary’s Chain Store Massacre by W.M. Akers becomes the first winner of our annual festival.
2010
Sanguine Theatre Company is founded.