INKubator New Play Program

MEET THE 2025 - 2026 INKUBATOR COHORT

Art House Productions is proud to announce the 2025-2026 cohort of its INKubator New Play Program. INKubator is a year-long generative process for a select group of six playwrights in residence at Art House Productions. This year's playwrights are Allyson Dwyer, Oded Gross, Cristina Luzárraga, Erin Mallon, Kyle Mazer, and Ferdinand Moscat.

Playwrights will meet monthly alongside program director Alex Tobey to share new work, receive feedback, and develop a first draft of a new play. In the spring, each writer will team up with a director and actors to present a public reading as a part of the 8th Annual INKubator New Play Festival in May 2026.

A theater artist from New Jersey, Allyson Dwyer’s work has been supported by or seen at The Brick, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Workshop Theater, The Road Theatre Company, Theater Accident, and more. Finalist: Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Alpine Fellowship, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Semi-finalist: Ars Nova Play Group, Pipeline PlayLab, Colt Coeur Artist Residency, Princess Grace Award. She is the founder of mind dream theater, an experimental new theater where the venue is your mind.

Oded Gross's plays have been produced at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and Boston Court Pasadena. His adaptations include The Imaginary Invalid, The Servant of Two Masters, and The Government Inspector. Among his original plays, Annelies was part of the Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Conference, Heart Attack With A Knife was produced at Kentucky’s YES Festival, and Dantino’s, an original commedia about gay marriage, was a finalist at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference.

Cristina Luzárraga is a playwright from New Jersey who recently returned home from Minneapolis. She is a current Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center where she was also formerly a Jerome Fellow and McKnight Fellow. She wrote the book for the hit musical I Am Betty about Betty Crocker, and her play Autorefract will be featured this fall at Playwrights’ Center’s PlayLabs Festival. She was recognized last year in American Theatre magazine as a Twin Cities Theatre Artist to Watch.

Erin Mallon is a playwright, USA Today Bestselling Author, and narrator of 800 audiobooks. Her play These Walls Can Talk is an Independent Audiobook Award Winner for Humor. Some of Erin’s full-length plays include Branched (Original Works Publishing), The Net Will Appear (Broadway Play Publishing), Skin Hungry (Broadway Play Publishing), Pale Blue Dot(s), Come Find Me, Soft Animals, and Out of the Woodwork. Erin lives in Maplewood, NJ with her husband and Three J’s.

Kyle Mazer is a playwright, poet, producer and composer from Millburn, New Jersey. He studied playwriting under Donald Margulies at Yale University where he was awarded the T. Whitney Blake Prize for excellence in English, Music, and Community Building. His writing credits include The S.S. Cancelled, ORCA: A One-Whale Musical, STALLED, KEEP THE CHANGE, Rusty Utopia, The Woman in Green, and Dog Eat Dog. He is a lover of all critters, and most sandwiches.

Ferdinand Moscat is a writer, actor, and director from Vineland, NJ currently based in New York City. Previous plays include Fan Service, Colin/Peter, Abuela Won’t Die, and Paternity. Recent directing credits: RENT, Dog Sees God, and Hypertension. Currently, he is developing a new play about Felix-Gonzalez Torres with The Cult Collective in New York City. He has ten fingers and ten toes and has had a mustache since the seventh grade.

ABOUT THE INKUBATOR NEW PLAY PROGRAM

INKubator is an eight-month generative playwriting process for a select group of playwrights-in-residence in Jersey City, culminating in the annual INKubator New Play Festival in May. 

Playwrights will meet as a group and in-person monthly from October 2025 to May 2026 alongside program director Alex Tobey to share new pages, receive feedback, and develop the first draft of a brand new play. At the end of the process in May, each writer will team up with a professional director and actors to present a public staged reading as a part of the annual INKubator New Play Festival.

At its essence, INKubator supports playwrights and the plays they are creating at their earliest stage of development while also creating opportunities for long-term artistic relationships with Art House and the Art House community.

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