Cherry Lane Alternative

Beginning in 1996, Angelina Fiordellisi revived Cherry Lane, preserved the building and detailed history, and founded Cherry Lane Alternative, a development and producing non-profit company, creating a number of programs to launch the next generation of American playwrights, among them Rajiv Joseph, Katori Hall, Anton Dudley, Christopher Shinn, David Adjmi, Bathsheba Doran, Sam Forman, Jakob Holder, Sheila Callaghan, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Rogelio Martinez, Winter Millder, Deidre O’Connor, Bridgette Wimberly, Anne Washburn and Beau Willimon.

Home of the Mentor Project. Mentor Project was established in 1998 by Founding Artistic Director Angelina Fiordellisi and Susann Brinkley and was inspired by an important precursor in residence at Cherry Lane in the 60s: ALBARWILD, a collaboration between producers Richard Barr, Clinton Wilder, and playwrihgt Edward Albee, who created production opportunities for such early-career playwrights as Sam Shepard, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), A.R. Gurney, and Jean-Claude van Itallie. 

In 2020 Mentor Project celebrated its 22nd anniversary season, having nurtured the careers of 65 emerging artists to fuel the next generation of American playwrights.