ABOUT INCUBATE NYC
Launched in 2021, INCUBATE NYC is Egg & Spoon’s borough-based new works initiative supporting playwrights of color in the early stages of developing bold, playful, and community-rooted new plays. The program brings stories to life across New York City’s outer boroughs, creating a bridge between artists and local audiences. This program is generously supported by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Meet our 2026 playwrights
Danielle Stagger is a playwright and performer from Queens, NY. Her plays largely engage questions of performance, respectability, and shame through the exploration of the appropriate and the forbidden. She prioritizes the authentic presence of Blackness, queerness, and womanhood both on and off stage and, as an artist in practice, works to decentralize and destabilize the product-driven, linear theatrical process. Danielle is the inaugural recipient of the Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Fellowship, is a two-time Eugene O’Neill NPC Finalist, and was a nominee for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Danielle’s plays have been finalists for the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Ollie New Play Award, and the Lark’s Venturous Playwrights Fellowship. She has been commissioned by Second Stage Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club; she holds a B.A. in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University and an MFA in Playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
Dominic Colon is an actor and writer from the Bronx, New York. Most recently, he wrote for the hit Netflix series BOOTS, produced by television icon Norman Lear. A 2024 graduate of the WGAE Showrunner Training Academy, Dominic’s television pilot PAPI was selected for The Blacklist’s inaugural Latinx TV List, a curated list of the ten most promising unproduced pilots created by Latinx writers. As one of the top three finalists, he received a blind pilot deal with Hulu.
Currently, Dominic is the co-creator and writer of the television adaptation of Fat Joe’s memoir THE BOOK OF JOSE for BET Studios and STARZ. He also co-wrote and co-created BRONX GRACE, a one-hour medical drama for UTV and ABC, alongside Emmy Award
nominee Steven Canals. In the podcast space, Dominic wrote the episode OUR LADY OF THE SIX TRAIN for the GLAAD-nominated scripted podcast anthology LOVE IN GRAVITY.
Dominic’s plays have been developed by Atlantic Theater Company, LAByrinth Theater Company, Latinx Playwrights Circle, The SOL Project, and The National Queer Theater.
Selected works include THE EMPTY SPACE or WHITE PEOPLE RUIN EVERYTHING (Finalist for the Relentless Award, Picket Plays), PROSPECT AVENUE or THE MISEDUCATION OF JUNI RODRIGUEZ (EST Marathon & MTA Radio Plays for Rattlestick Theater), MY BRONX REMEMBERED (48 Hour Plays/Harlem 9), THE MESSAGE (48 Hour Plays/Harlem 9), and WHERE’S OUR ANGELS?(National Queer Theater). His play THE WAR I KNOW was the recipient of the inaugural WRITE-IT-OUT Prize, a cash award for playwrights living with HIV, created by Donja R. Love.
As an actor Dominic has appeared in over 60 television shows and movies. Most recently in a recurring role on Brad Inglesby’s HBO series TASK starring Mark Ruffalo. Other credits include POWER, MR. ROBOT, THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, and ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA.
In addition to his work as a professional writer and actor, Dominic has had the honor of teaching acting and playwriting at New York City high schools, hospitals, juvenile detention centers, and prisons, through organizations such as Manhattan Theater Club, TDF, New York Theater Workshop, and The Public Theater.
PREVIOUS INCUBATE NYC PLAYWRIGHTS
Amalia Oliva Rojas /// The Bronx, 2025
Nelson Diaz-Marcano /// Queens, 2025
Jesse Jae Hoon /// Queens, 2024
Christin Eve Cato /// The Bronx, 2024
Borna Barzin /// Brooklyn, 2023
Lily Gonzales /// Queens, 2023
Juan Ramirez Jr. /// The Bronx, 2023
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.