Ohio Playwrights Circle (OPC) exists to provide encouragement, opportunity, and education for Ohio Playwrights. It is also the hope of this project to provide opportunities for actors and directors to practice their craft and experience the challenges of creating new work. We will always strive to create an atmosphere of respect, fun and congeniality in all of our activities. Key Program Components are: • New Play Reading Series • Classes in Playwrighting • OPC Round-Table • The WorkshopOPC is a project of the American ArtWorks Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) not for profit corporation. OPC is...

CPI's mission is to help local playwrights improve their work and ultimately have it published and/or produced on stage.

The Educational Theatre Association is an international nonprofit organization that serves as the professional association for theatre educators. EdTA is the parent organization of the International Thespian Society, an honorary organization that has inducted more than 2.5 million Thespians since its founding in 1929. Additionally, EdTA operates the Educational Theatre Foundation, the organization’s philanthropic arm dedicated to increasing opportunity and access to school theatre.

The Aronoff Center is a large performing arts center in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Events that can typically be found at the Aronoff Center include: plays, ballet, popular music concerts, stand-up comedy shows, and musicals.

At the Indiana Writers Center (IWC), we believe everyone has a unique story to tell; and our goal is simple: to help you tell it. For more than 40 years we have worked to foster a vibrant writing community in Indiana, providing education and enrichment opportunities for both beginning and accomplished writers. Located in the Circle City Industrial Complex just around the corner from the shops, restaurants, and theaters on Massachusetts Ave, we offer a variety of classes and workshops led by some of Indiana’s best writers. In addition, we host literary events such as readings, open mics,...

The purpose of the Indiana Playwrights Circle (IPC) is to encourage and develop playwrights, and to promote script writing, audience development, and related arts. At the Indiana Playwrights Circle, we have four primary activities: 1. Weekly cold readings of new pages – about 20 minutes per playwright. We invite actors and do cold readings. Critique follows the read. 2. Monthly table reads of full-length works in draft form. We cast actors and try to get actors who represent the demographic (age, gender, race, etc) desired by the playwright. The actors get the script in advance; some prepare...

Our goal is to celebrate the rich and vibrant theatrical activity taking part in Kentucky. We seek to facilitate open communication among the academic, community, and professional theatre companies in the state; promote high theatrical standards; and help build awareness and appreciation for theatre in all its forms.

Derby City Playwrights is a collective of Louisville writers dedicated to the development of locally grown plays. Creating new and insightful work from within our community, Derby City Playwrights will build a home for new play development and production in Louisville.

Literary Cleveland is committed to helping writers and readers explore other voices and discover their own—creating a vital, diverse and supportive literary community in the process.

Black Theatre Matters is a program of Plowshares Theatre Company. Black Theatre Matters covers trending topics in the theatre featuring experts across art form. It is designed to be a liberal arts resource dedicated to supporting, documenting and celebrating the achievements of Black theatre artists throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

The mission of the Bill Nunn Theatre Outreach Project (BNTOP), founded by the late film and stage actor Bill Nunn, is to create a platform for underserved public school students in the Pittsburgh region to gain access to theatre arts and work with seasoned professionals within the field.

MTAP--Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh--brings together a group of local and regional artists working in a wide range of musical theatre expression, from solo cabaret to full-length narrative musical theatre. Through monthly meetings, the group supports the development of new work, serving as an incubator where new works of musical theatre come into being and are nurtured.