“What the Cherry Lane Alternative is doing is so exciting. Most important, I think, is the mentoring program of young playwrights. It is the mentoring program which will allow us to have an important theatrical future.”

— Edward Albee, Founding Mentor

Our Mission: In keeping with Cherry Lane Alternative's 26-year history, our mission is to support playwrights and small theater companies whose programs uplift emerging writers, enhancing our culture's literary landscape and consequently, the future of American drama.