Philadelphia Screenwriters Workshop (PSW) is facilitated by award-winning screenwriter-filmmaker and Princeton filmmaking professor, Moon Molson. Frustrated over script problems? We'll help you fix them. (And you thought they had no solutions!) PSW is a safe, creative space where you can: Generate story ideas or concepts Troubleshoot story structures Receive guidance in writing See your stories through the eyes of other motivated screenwriters. So you can finally finish that script you've been slaving over for so long.

The Foundry provides a three-year membership program to support emerging playwrights in Philadelphia with professional development, networking opportunities, and exposure as they launch their playwriting careers. The Foundry creates a space where under the guidance of lead artists, playwrights meet as a group and have the opportunity to share their work and add tools to their craft and creative practice. Lead Artists, L M Feldman and R. Eric Thomas, facilitate meetings. The program is free of charge. At this time, only playwrights living in Philadelphia are eligible to apply.

PlayPenn is an artist-driven organization dedicated to the development of new plays and playwrights. PlayPenn fully supports the needs of the writer and the demands of the play in an ever-evolving process within which playwrights can engage in risk taking, boundary-pushing work.

Jouska PlayWorks is an assembly of Black playwrights, all of whom are committed to creating theatre to enrich, entertain, empower, and awaken the moral conscience. Simpatico Theatre promotes positive social change in the Philadelphia community through theatre.

Theatre Exile is a nonprofit theater company dedicated to enhancing the cultural experiences of Philadelphians through the staging of works that engage the imagination. Studio X-hibition is focused on exporting the newest ideas from Philadelphia to the larger national theatrical community and importing work that can impact the artists living and working in Philadelphia. We are currently looking for competed plays for our mainstage season and works-in-progress for our Studio X-hibition series and accept unsolicited script submissions exclusively from Philadelphia-based playwrights.

ALL MY RELATIONS is an art, theater, film, and design collective committed to making new work that uplifts the interconnectedness of all living things past, present, and future. We shed the idea of prescriptive process. We weave together all parts of our artistic practices that we've developed in the concentric circles we work in; social justice, community organizing, reservations, broadway theaters, universities, and museums. All the story elements are interdependent. As a collective we are caretakers of each story, invested in its life and health. We show that same commitment each other,...

Claudine Quigley Piechotta provides independent theatre coaching for teens in Bucks County, PA. Claudine is a master theatre professional with 20+ years in the theatre world as a classical performer, singer, director and teacher.

American Theater Group produces new and classic works primarily by American playwrights with an emphasis on the development of new works and the rediscovery of undeservedly neglected older ones. ATG engages audiences by making theater’s glorious possibilities accessible to the diverse community in which we live, through remarkable performances as well as quality arts-in-education programming.

theatre.unmasked has a bi-weekly script development group consisting of writers and actors from the New England area. The group meets to share and discuss new plays or works in progress in a confidential and creative atmosphere. From time to time invited guests will be present to talk about their area of expertise, including actors, directors and playwrights. They will also be available to offer feedback and development ideas for any work presented during the session. TU embraces contemporary stories and guides conversation around unique and marginalized voices in the theatre.

A community of professional playwrights, theatre artists, and arts educators, playwrights theatre provides opportunities for writers to develop their works in a nurturing environment and connect with new audiences.

The Theater Project, (www.thetheaterproject.org) an award-winning professional theater in Maplewood, NJ, is seeking New York-New Jersey playwrights for its playwrights’ workshop. The group meets monthly to read and discuss works-in-progress. Membership includes access to a monthly reading series (September through May) at the Cranford (NJ) Community Center before a live audience and a yearly one-act festival for new works. For more information visit www.thetheaterproject.org/...