The records include administrative correspondence, application files, financial and fund-raising records, internal reports, audio recordings and transcripts of guest lectures and craft discussions, audio recordings of board meetings and play readings, photographs, scrapbooks holding clippings about the organization, artwork and production materials for New Dramatists newsletters and publications, and other files related to the group's management and activities. Audiovisual materials, group of doodles created by theatre celebrities, and a set of autographed sign-in boards from the New Dramatists' annual spring luncheons are filed at the end of the series. The records primarily date from the organization's founding in 1949 through the 1988-1989 season.