CRY HAVOC was commissioned by Lincoln Center to create an evening of short plays inspired by the events of the Lincoln Center campus and the environment of the Atrium. The evening was part of the Lincoln Center Originals series and featured three new plays by CRY HAVOC playwrights, lead performances by six CRY HAVOC actors, and ensemble work from our collaborating artists and apprentices.

Award-winning documentary feature film Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, about the (in)famous Stephen Sondheim/Hal Prince flop Merrily We Roll Along, was workshopped multiple times with CRY HAVOC. Our artists had roles as a writer, co-producer, producer, and production assistants.

sundays in the park with clay & cher, by SMJ was a finalist in the 2024 Sam French Festival. SMJ wrote the play as part of the inaugural cycle of the CRY HAVOC PlayList project.

Theaters around the world joined together to celebrate the 15th anniversary of CRY HAVOC with a Worldwide Festival. Performances of plays developed by the company, totaling 39 productions of 25 plays by 12 playwrights in four languages on every continent - including a reading by scientists at a research station on Antarctica!

“Splendid! Kiki Baby should be required viewing for anyone trying to understand the country’s current economic crisis.” -Backstage review of Kiki Baby by Lonny Price, Kitt Lavoie, and Grant Sturiale. Kiki Baby was also the winner of the 2011 Theater for the American Musical Prize.

Reviews of The Pawnbroker, by Katelin Wilcox: “A tidy, insightful, and provocative piece of storytelling.” -Theatre is Easy “Well written and passionate” -NY Theater Now

realer than that by Kitt Lavoie was a Sam French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival winner.

The Cooking King and Stalled by Sharon E. Cooper, Good Enough by Kitt Lavoie, and Hot Air by Katelin Wilcox were Sam French Festival finalists.

Through CRY HAVOC’s Workshop and Apprentice programs, we are proud to be the company where dozens of artists wrote their very first plays.

Believin' by Sharon E. Cooper is published in The Best 10-Minute Plays, 2019.

Good Enough by Kitt Lavoie is published in the Vintage Books collection Plays for Three.

Painting Seventeen by Sharon E. Cooper is published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays, 2014.

Bank & Trust by Kitt Lavoie is published in the Vintage Press collection Plays for Two.

The Cooking King by Sharon E. Cooper is published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays, 2010.

The Seven Men of Hanukkah and Believin', both by Sharon E. Cooper, were made into award-winning short films. The Seven Men of Hanukkah was a winner of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Believin' was a winner of the Chain Film Festival's Filmmaker's Favorite Award.

Rainbow Rabbit Reliant, a screenplay by Kitt Lavoie, won multiple awards on the festival circuit.