Since our founding in 1996, The Actors Center has cultivated opportunities for thousands of diverse professional actors to advance their artistic development and unleash their creative potential, enriching stages and screens for audiences across the country.

Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer the Primary Stages Reading Series as a creative lab for emerging and established playwrights. Conveniently located in our in-house rehearsal studios, our reading series provides a home for writers to hear their new work read aloud.

The Echoes Writers Group at Primary Stages is a year-long, educational program focused on finding, nurturing, and amplifying the voices of women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists. Led by the artistic team at Primary Stages, Echoes is a place for writers to discover and develop their voice in a supportive and creative community that grows together. The group is comprised of 10 writers who participate in twice-weekly Mentorship and Sharing Sessions, where they have the chance to create and develop their own work with professionals from across the theater community. Mentors for our...

The Playwrights Realm is devoted to supporting early-career playwrights along the journey of playwriting, helping them to hone their craft, fully realize their vision, and build meaningful artistic careers. Our innovative, hands-on approach helps to make playwriting a viable career, and gives a spotlight to new talents, who otherwise might not be able to sustain themselves or have the time and resources needed for their craft. In addition to advancing our playwrights’ work through dramaturgical and production support, The Realm gladly provides human support so that our artists can have...

Irons in the Fire is Fault Line Theatre's year-round reading series of new plays in development. We believe that every play and every playwright requires something a little different, and we want to give our artists the right sandbox to play freely within. So the format for both process and presentation is intentionally malleable. Each public presentation of these works in progress is the culmination of a few hours, a few weeks, or even a few months of rehearsal, depending on what each project requires. These readings are hosted in an environment that appropriately celebrate that particular...

Member writers read and discuss a specific play by George Bernard Shaw before responding to Shaw’s work through targeted writing prompts. The writers’ new works needn’t be commentaries on Shaw or adaptations of Shaw’s work, but original works inspired by the ideas sparked by reading and discussing the initial Shaw play as a cohort. Speakers’ Corner writers then spend the remainder of the year developing these ideas into plays to be developed through readings and workshop labs. At monthly and bi-monthly meetings, writers share their work and receive constructive feedback from one another and...

Founded in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater Company is a Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose primary mission is to develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers. Since its founding, Ma-Yi has distinguished itself as one of the country’s leading incubators of new work shaping the national discourse about what it means to be Asian American today.

Theatre Now is an artist service organization dedicated to the development, production, publication, and circulation of short and long-form musicals, by providing ongoing support for writers and their work in order to nurture voices and forms that push the boundaries of musical theatre.

Prospect Theater Company is dedicated to a bright future for the American musical. We develop and produce new works, envisioned and implemented by emerging artists. Our artists work in diverse genres and styles but share an interest in re-inventing the art form of musical theater for the 21st Century. For it's lab program, Musical theater writing teams will come together to create original short musicals inspired by historic monuments in New York City. Selected writing teams will each be randomly assigned a monument from a curated list, and asked to visit that monument. Experiences...

The Jam is a collaboration-based performance gym for early- to mid-career artists who make work for performance: playwrights, directors, composers, designers, interdisciplinary and other generative artists who are women (cis + trans), nonbinary, or seek a nonpatriarchal space for collaboration. The Jam is artist-driven and artist-led. All Jam members become New Georges affiliated artists upon joining. We meet biweekly to talk and to share work that is developed through collaborative pairings within the group. Jammers are also encouraged to lead the group in a Jam Session on a topic of their...

Did you know that you can have a long and rewarding career in the theatre even if you never set foot on stage? Roundabout Theatre Company is partnering with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.), which represents many of the behind-the-scenes workers in theatre and film, to deliver a new, three-year training program. This new program is unparalleled because participants, all 18–24, will work hands-on in multiple disciplines of technical theatre, training with some of the industry’s top professionals. YEAR ONE Based at Roundabout, participants will receive...