In August 2006, sponsored by the BYU Experimental Theatre Group, it held its first production, a 10-minute play festival titled Love Songs and Negotiations.

If submitted early before deadlines, the directors were willing to give feedback, and even had a workshop program for playwrights trying to develop both their short and full-length scripts.

As with acting, the ten-minute play format provides opportunities for many beginning and experienced directors without the time-consumption of managing and blocking a full-length production.

They also created written and visual aids to help audience members connect the script to issues in their own lives and the world around them.

In 2010, Davey Morrison edited a collection of NPP's work, Out of the Mount: 19 from New Play Project, published by Peculiar Pages.

The book allowed NPP's work to travel outside of Utah; it "ably makes its claim as one of the most ambitious and vibrant going concerns in the world of LDS culture.

Starring William McAllister,[15] Jason Jensen,[16] and Jessamyn Svensson, it was originally filmed in 2012, but was finally released 10 years later.

[20] Starring Davey Morrison as Adam and Becca Ingram as Eve, the first season (4 episodes) of the series played at several film festivals and received awards nominations.