“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

Established in 1997, the Cherry Lane Alternative’s 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.