2016 Season Archives
The 2016 Season Play Pages
The Wedding Gift by Chisa Hutchinson
July 13, 2016 – August 6, 2016
pen/man/ship by Christina Anderson
July 13, 2016 – August 6, 2016
20th Century Blues by Susan Miller
July 13, 2016 – August 6, 2016
Not Medea by Allison Gregory
July 11, 2016 – August 3, 2016
2016 Playwrights
Christina Anderson
Allison Gregory
Chisa Hutchinson
Susan Miller
Ronan Noone
Producing Directors
Ed Herendeen
Founder & Producing Director
Peggy McKowen
Associate Producing Director
The 26th Season Archives
For the second season in a row, CATF has received extensive media coverage, including this in-depth story in American Theatre magazine, the nation’s leading publication devoted to the theater industry.
“One of the nation’s preeminent festival-based new-play springboards.”
—American Theatre magazine
2016 Articles
- DC Theatre Scene’s most memorable plays of 2016 (DC Theatre Scene)
- Contemporary American Theater Festival’s 5 Ring Circus (American Theatre, September 2016, PDF)
- Shepherdstown?…Seriously! (Views & Visions, September 2016, PDF)
- CATF donates panels to Bluemont Fair (Shepherdstown Chronicle, August 2016, PDF)
- Standout plays at this year’s Contemporary American Theater Festival: The list (The Washington Post, July 2016)
- Binge Watching: Festivals Play to Serious Theater Buffs (Group Travel Leader Magazine, June 2016)
- 26th Contemporary American Theater Festival starts this week (Communities Digital News) July 5, 2016
- WV Travel Team: Shepherdstown theater festival lets new material shine (Charleston Gazette-Mail) July 3, 2016
- The 26th Contemporary American Theater Festival: Ed Herendeen’s 26th Snapshot of American’s Theatrical Culture (Spine/dcmetroarts,) July 3, 2016
- CATF Gears Up for Its 26th Year of Staging Contemporary American Works (The Washington Diplomat) July 1, 2016
- Contemporary American Theater Festival’s pay-what-you –can previews run July 3-7 (Frederick News-Post) June 29, 2016
- Shepherd Vigil honors victims of the Orlando mass shooting (The Journal) June 16, 2016
- Setting the Stage: Contemporary American Theater Festival artists converge on Shepherdstown (Spirit of Jefferson) June 15, 2016
- 50 Essential Summer Festivals (The New York Times) May 20, 2016
- CATF announces fifth season of “Hostel YOUTH!” (Shepherdstown Chronicle) May 13, 2016
- Top 10 theatre festivals not to miss this summer (WorldGuide) Mar 24, 2016
- Groundbreaking plays by African American women featured in Bed-Stuy readings (Brooklyn Daily Eagle) Mar 9, 2016
- Theater festival receives W.VA. Governor’s Arts Award (Hagerstown Herald-Mail) Mar 8, 2016
- Maryland Woman named development director for Shepherd theater festival (Hagerstown Herald-Mail) Feb 28, 2016