Founded by playwright and director Michel Hausmann and National Medal of the Arts winner Moises Kaufman, Miami New Drama (MiND) is an innovative nonprofit professional theater company located in Miami Beach. The largest bilingual theater in America that is committed to artistic excellence and groundbreaking work unique to its diverse and remarkable region.

Established in 2015, MiND believes in the transformative power of theater and employs it as a tool for change, empathy, reflection, and exploration. MiND produces works that are in conversation with Miami’s unique multicultural and multilingual community and is relevant to national discourse for social change. Since 2016, MiND has served as the resident company at the historic Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road in the heart of beautiful South Beach. MiND maintains an annual budget of $4.5 million.

Programming consists of world-class theater productions, co-productions in partnership with top national and international organizations, and robust educational programs. MiND focuses on world premieres commissioned by the organization as well as others that provide partnerships with top national organizations such as Tectonic Theater Project and Asolo Rep. The first show of its debut 2017-2018 season was a multilingual  version  of  Thornton  Wilder’s
classic Our Town. It was critically-acclaimed as “glorious, emotionally potent” and “inventive and touching...superb!” and was subsequently published for licensing by Concord Theatricals.

Past productions have included the American premiere of Ferdinand von Schirach’s Terror directed by Tony Award winner Gregory Mosher; The Golem of Havana, an original musical written (book) and directed by Michel Hausmann; Queen of Basel, a new play by Hilary Bettis and directed by Michel Hausmann; One Night in Miami by Kemp Powers and directed by Carl Cofield (subsequently a feature film distributed by Amazon Studios and directed by Regina King); the world premiere of Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy by Billy Corben and Aurin Squire and directed by Michel Hausmann; Thornton Wilder’s Bridge of San Luis Rey adapted and starring David Greenspan; world premieres of Carmen Pelaez’s The Cuban Vote directed by Loretta Greco, Winter Miller’s When Monica Met Hillary directed by Margot Bordelon, the world premiere of Moises Kaufmann’s adaptation of the best-selling novel Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard by Jonathan Jakubowicz, and a new Louis Armstrong musical A Wonderful World directed by Tony Nominee Christopher Renshaw, which recently       received a pre-Broadway commercial production in Chicago.