New Play Theatrical Club meets once a month to read new plays.  Gain an appreciation of the dramatic arts by hearing and reading new plays out loud.  Playwrights and solo artists are welcome to submit their work to be read by the group. NPTC strives to help the playwright with their craft. We will read recently published plays that are considered seminal and works-in-progress by local playwrights. We will also do visual writing exercises to stimulate the creative process

 Guidelines:

NPTC is open to all levels of writers, actors, directors, and dramatic arts lovers.  We are not a class, so feedback is not given during our meetings, we simply lift the writing off the page for the writer to hear and enjoy.

• Registration includes a copy of the play. Your copy will be held at the front desk for pickup.

Facilitator: Monique Giroux's play BABYLON AND TWIST received a staged reading by Daisy Theatricals in New York (2024).  THE POOL BOY received a staged reading at 1st Mondays, Naked Angels, NY (2022) and at  Round The Bend Theatre in Saugerties, NY (2022). Her play: LUCILE was workshopped by Naked Angels in New York and received a staged reading at Theatre@First in Boston (Fall  2022).  Her play SHEEP’S MEADOW is the runner-up for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2021. Monique also wrote a one-act play: A BITTER PILL which received a Zoom reading by The Quarantine Series Theatre Company (2020)

Monique graduated from NYU with a Bachelor of Arts and Science and from McGill University (Montreal) with a MBA. She founded The Armadillo Theatre Company in Toronto, Ontario to produce new American and Canadian playwrights. She worked as associate producer for Les Productions La Fete on the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Memoirs, a six-episode english and french documentary on the late prime minister of Canada which aired on the CBC/Radio-Canada. She was Literary Associate under Curt Dempster at The Ensemble Studio Theatre