The 2025 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (Kitt Lavoie, Artistic Director) was held from May 25-May 31 in Cape Girardeau, MO. Guest speakers at this year’s festival included Tony-nominated actor Jenn Colella (Come from Away, Suffs), Co-Artistic Director of the Obie-winning Ensemble Studio Theatre Graeme Gillis, and Jeff Award-nominated costume designer Gregory Graham.

Kitt directed Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods and served as dramaturg on the world premiere of Girlhood by Ida Esmaeili as part of the 2024-2025 Dobbins Conservatory mainstage theatre season.

Kitt’s play Together, Even When You’re Not was recently published by Applause Books in the anthology Stage It, Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theatre.

The collection Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2024: The Short Plays, which Kitt co-edited and which features the one-act Official Selections from the 2024 festival, was recently published. The collections of shorts from the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 festivals are all available for purchase on Amazon and other online booksellers. Kitt is currently editing the 2025 collection, which will become available later this year.

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, a documentary about the original Broadway cast of the 1981 Stephen Sondheim-Hal Prince musical Merrily We Roll Along, which Kitt produced and co-wrote, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Vudu, and other streaming platforms.

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"Touching, sweet and altogether exuberant! There have been other backstage documentaries over the years, but Best Worst might well be the best."
Huffington Post

"You don't have to be a fan of Broadway musicals to love every minute of Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...This movie is more than good, pal. It's indispensable."
Rolling Stone

See the trailer here!