Organizations Type : Developmental Workshops

The ASCAP Foundation is dedicated to nurturing the music talent of tomorrow, preserving the legacy of the past and sustaining the creative incentive for today's creators through a variety of educational, professional, and humanitarian programs and activities which serve the entire music community.

Aspiring musical theatre composers have the chance of a lifetime to work on their creation with Oscar-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz at one of the ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Workshops. Workshop submissions will be considered for events that will take place in Los Angeles and New York.

The Barrow Group is a non-profit Off-Broadway Theatre Company, Acting Studio and Arts Center located in New York City. It was founded in 1986 by Lee Brock and Seth Barrish.

Celebrating the voices of playwrights by workshopping new plays in collaboration with professional directors, actors, and students.

The Mission of The Cape Cod Theatre Project is to contribute to the vitality of American Theater by developing new American plays, bringing audiences into the development process, and administering an intern program to encourage a new generation of theater devotees.

CATCO (Contemporary American Theatre Company) is Columbus' largest professional theatre. Pre-Covid-19, CATCO was production twelve productions per year, six for general audiences, and six for young audiences. CATCO is an SPT Equity company that produces work with both Central Ohio and National artists. CATCO's focus is on contemporary work that delights, transforms, and inspires.

The Playwrights’ Center champions playwrights and new plays to build upon a living theater that demands new and innovative works.

Playwrights Welcome is a new program developed for Dramatists Guild of America Members by Samuel French along with Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing, Music Theatre International, Playscripts and Rodgers and Hammerstein. The goal is simple: to provide free access to theater for playwrights, composers and lyricists. We are invested in the success and artistic health of our industry’s writers, and by extension the vibrancy of the American theater. We’re also aware that attending theater is an integral part to how writers learn their craft and grow as artists.

Founded in 1965, East West Players is the nation’s longest-running professional theater of color and the largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work.

Established in 1999, Developing Artists (DA) provides youth, who attend High Schools (13-19 years old) in the New York metropolitan area, the opportunity to study performing arts at the highest level and combat the disparity of arts education for students from under-served communities. We impact students by creating a forum to navigate life's increasing challenges (e.g. age discrimination, social injustices, gender inequality, institutional racism, economic disparity, sexism); to use their voice in dealing with these issues; and channel that energy into self­-expression and self­ confidence. DA has a track record of engaging positively with those who face significant barriers in their daily lives. We strive to create a supportive young artist community through our REBEL VERSES Youth Arts...

Est. 1983. First Stage develops new, unproduced work for stage and screen. Offers writers' workshops and staged readings of plays developed in the workshops.

Aurora Theatre Company’s program for the development of new works, builds upon the successes of Aurora’s Global Age Project. With O+G, Aurora serves as an incubator of new works, offering extensive personalized support to local playwrights and theatre creators as they craft their pieces specifically for Aurora's stages.

Hambidge provides a residency program that empowers talented individuals to explore, develop, and express their creative voices.

For more than 40 years, the Hangar Theatre has produced quality theatrical and education programs for Ithaca and the surrounding area. In 2018 a new logo and identity was established for the Hangar Theatre Company to distinguish between the programs and shows produced, staged and performed at the Hangar Theatre produced by the Hangar Theatre Company from those presented by community organizations, emerging performing arts groups and independent producers. The Hangar Theatre Company produces five shows each summer, one holiday winter production, and a variety of innovative theatre-based offerings throughout the year.

FRIGID New York's continuing mission is to seek out new art, new artists, and new audiences. We do this by creating an accessible community of varied voices that value collaboration, resourcefulness, diversity, and innovation. We provide a home for independent theater artists, with a focus on voices that require amplification. We nurture their development, and we help to establish their careers by promoting their work to local, national, and international audiences.

Created in 2009 with the support of co-founder Martha R. Ingram to provide an opportunity for theater artists to develop new theater works while in residency at Nashville Rep. The program has evolved to include a New Works Lab for emerging playwrights. Lab Playwrights develop new works for the stage alongside the Ingram New Works Fellow in a yearlong residency culminating in the annual Ingram New Works Festival.

Musical Cafe is a musical theatre development and education program for Northern California-based writers and composers. Our prime offering, the Musical Cafe Showcase Series, alternates between San Francisco and the East Bay. Each Showcase is a public presentation of new, original, locally-sourced musical theatre works-in-progress.

We nurture new musical theatre writers under the age of 26 by offering them private and public workshops of their writing. Three teams will receive workshops and feedback with NMI’s resident theatre ensemble, the Academy Repertory Company, and will then have excerpts of their work presented as part of the GOT MUSICAL concert in May.

NWI is an Artist-in-Residence program and developmental platform in the Department of Theatre and Dance in Montclair State University’s College of the Arts.

Obsidian Theatre Company was born out of a passionate sense of artistic responsibility – a responsibility to bring the Black voice, in its many artistic dialects, to Canada’s cultural forefront. The Playwrights Unit is an intensive yearlong process that runs annually from Sept-June. The Unit has an emphasis on professional development and the business of being a professional artist in Canada. Submissions for the Playwrights Unit are accepted starting in April annually.

The Flea was founded in 1996 by a group of downtown artists looking to raise a joyful hell in a small space. The Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops at The Flea Theater are intimate, four-session intensives for new work and new ways of working.

PlayGround is the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, providing unique opportunities for the cultivation and development of early-career local playwrights and partnerships with leading professional directors, actors and theatres. Through the development of original short and full-length plays, PlayGround creates a microcosm of the greater theatre scene, supporting emerging playwrights’ experimentation and risk-taking, while helping them to hone their style and technique.

The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco (PCSF) encourages and develops local playwrights and promotes script writing, audience development, and related arts. The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco produces a Reading Series comprised of Developmental Readings and Staged Readings in the Spring and another in the Fall. Additionally we produce an annual benefit production, PlayOffs, each winter. The deadlines are as follows: Spring Season - Nov 30, Fall Season - April 30.

We support and champion diverse contemporary playwrights in the creation of new works to sustain theater as a vital, dynamic art form. We seek to identify exceptional writers and give them space, time and professional artistic collaborators to explore new theatrical ideas, allowing them to experiment and take risks with structure, form and/or content in an environment that is free from the pressures of the marketplace. Home of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Rough Readings Series.

Playwrights Gallery was founded in 1991 to nourish the work of emerging New York City playwrights. The Gallery holds twice-monthly playwriting workshops from September to June, and produces staged readings. Its acting company reads work in progress and performs finished work for invited audiences.

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.

Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Residency (formerly the Playwrights Unit) is a year-long program for Chicago-area generative theater artists. Established in 2010, the program commissions up to four theatrical projects each year, with commissioned artists meeting bi-monthly with the Goodman’s artistic staff and other cohort artists to develop their new works. Each selected project is awarded a $5,000 commission and is offered mid-point and final readings of their plays at the Goodman. Members are also considered artists-in-residence at the theater: they are invited to opening nights, meetings, rehearsals and special events as available. The New Stages Residency has expanded guidelines from the Playwrights Unit, and will consider any of the following types of project proposals: Single-author...

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 New Voices/New Works Programs are helmed by our Artistic Team with the goal of developing unique and challenging works for future productions at Rattlestick. Our team works with leading theater artists with diverse perspectives, both aesthetically and culturally, who are using innovative models to engage audiences.

Ross Valley Players produces diverse, professionally-oriented, high quality live theatre that evokes, entertains, and enlivens the human spirit. We invite the participation of an evolving and expanding community. We provide an open, collaborative environment in which to learn and develop theatre crafts. We honor and sustain our legacy as a flourishing cultural resource, and pursue the excitement and promise of the future through the transformative power of storytelling.

The SLAC Playwrights’ Lab dedicates time, talent, and artistic resources to the exploration and investigation of new scripts. SLAC brings together local and national artists to form the Lab company, which is comprised of actors, directors, dramaturgs, stage managers, and resource artists.

The Adult Conservatory was established with the mission to create classes that would be fun and informative—for people of every age and ability. Today the program includes classes in playwriting, musical theatre, and there’s a large variety of acting choices that enable students to arrange their own curriculum, based on interest and skill. Classes are offered four times a year with a cost of $3​1​5 for 8 weeks. If you register 10 days before the session begins, you will receive a $​20 discount for early registration. Most classes are offered every session bu​t can not be guaranteed.

Our program 4D creates teams of dramatists, directors, and dramaturgs in New Orleans to create three new full-length plays every season. The Ruby Prize is our $10,000 bi-annual award to a woman playwright of color named in honor of Ruby Bridges, who showed incredible perseverance in the face of formidable obstacles. Finalists for the Ruby Prize present their work in the New Play Bacchanal, a multi-day series of several staged readings open to the public for low or no cost.

Stage Left Theatre inspires debate by producing and developing plays that explore political and social issues. Downstage Left residencies are designed to help playwrights take a project from the conceptual stage all the way to a production-ready script. Playwrights work closely with one of our ensemble directors and members of the literary team to design a process tailored to the particular needs of their project.

Antaeus is an actor-driven theater company that explores and produces timely and timeless works, grounded in our passion for the Classics.

New Visions/New Voices is a week-long biennial workshop/festival for playwrights and theaters to stimulate and support the creation of new plays and musicals for young audiences and families. While at the Kennedy Center, selected playwrights, directors, music directors, composers, and actors work collaboratively in a week-long intensive to further develop new works. After revisions, rewrites, and rehearsals of the new plays and musicals, the works are presented as rehearsed readings during a three-day conference for theater professionals, educators, and others interested in the field.

The purpose of The New Harmony Project is to create, nurture and promote new works for the stage, television, and film that sensitively and truthfully explore the positive aspects of life.

Est. 2002. We are experienced actors, directors, writers, and teachers. Our goals are to produce new plays by local writers and innovative stagings of classic works; to encourage playwrights to grow through through workshops, staged readings, and productions of their plays; and to offer performance classes to all ages. Writers: we have an active playwright’s guild and play development program that cultivates new works.

Theater at Solel presents readings of short plays on Jewish topics, and invites the audience to discuss and debate their meanings. Contact for more information.

The WOMEN’S WORK LAB for short plays provides a supportive and nurturing environment to emerging and mid-career women playwrights. Six members are selected each year, along with a similar number of directors. The LAB meets monthly (Sundays) from February through June, allowing for time in between sessions for writers to continue to develop and revise their work in response to feedback. Members are expected to bring work to each session beginning with the development of an original short play based upon an assigned theme.

TRU was formed to promote a spirit of cooperation and support within the general theatre community by providing information and a variety of entertainment-related services and resources that strengthen the capacity of producing organizations, individuals producers, self-producing artists and other theater professionals. Created to nurture producers as well as writers, TRU VOICES seeks producer-driven projects, and also matches writers with producers. Each reading is followed by a “Dollars and Sense” panel discussion with prominent New York producers, general managers and artistic directors focusing on potential venues, marketing and budgeting of the work.

UMass New Play Lab is a crucible for new work. A professional playwright and two UMass student playwrights will be given the opportunity this fall for workshop productions of their newest plays — works that represent fresh voices, big ideas, and envelope-pushing modes of storytelling. Play Lab projects have continued on to further development in regional and New York theaters.

Founded in 1981 by Stephen Sondheim as the Foundation of the Dramatists Guild, Young Playwrights Inc. (YPI) is America’s first national Young Playwrights Festival and Competition. The only professional theater in the United States devoted solely to writers aged 18 and younger, YPI has had a profound impact on the landscape of the American Theater (and film and television).

Write Now provides a forum through which each playwright receives constructive criticism and the support of a development team consisting of a professional director and dramaturg. Finalists will spend approximately one week in workshop with their development team. At the end of the week, each play will be read as a part of the Write Now convening.

Geva Theatre Center invites aspiring playwrights from the Greater Rochester area, ages 13-18, to submit short plays for consideration for the Young Writers Showcase. We recommend submitting plays of no more than 10 pages and with no more than eight characters.

The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) was founded by Elmaz Abinader, Junot Díaz, Victor Díaz and Diem Jones in 1999. Each envisioned an arts organization that could change the landscape of the literary world by supporting writers-of-color through workshops, mentorship, community building, and information sharing. VONA/Voices is open to all adult writers-of-color at any level of experience. The workshops are one-week long. There are no degree, publication or documentation requirements to apply. For writers seeking financial aid, VONA offers limited partial tuition scholarships.

The Nautilus Composer-Librettist Studio is provides an opportunity for five writers and five composers to work with five professional performers, exploring the possibilities and basic elements of music-theater. The studio focuses on the process of collaboration through a series of brief exploratory assignments for the writers and composers. The exercises are then sight-read by the performers in brief working sessions. The participants rotate partners, and the process is repeated four more times. Within the two-week period, all composers work with all writers and all performers. Toward the end of the studio, an informal reading of all the compositions is held. Since 1986 Nautilus (formerly The New Music-Theater Ensemble) has provided opportunities for the artistic growth of music-theater...

Ross Valley Alternative Works (RAW) is dedicated to the staging and production of original, provocative and exciting new works by Bay Area playwrights.

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/playwrights-workshop.html or to apply email two short writing samples to jvitale@ccm.edu. Playwrights are also invited to attend a session to view the group at wor...

Butterfly Effect Theatre Company presents profound theatrical stories that inspire our audiences and enrich our community. Each season, BETC selects one playwright through a national competition to join us in Boulder for a one-week residency. During the residency week, the playwright works with a professional director, dramaturg, and actors to develop the selected script. The week concludes with a public reading and post-reading conversation. BETC takes pleasure in supporting our parent playwright residents’ writing careers post-residency, and advocating for production of their plays through connections within the National New Play Network. Competition guidelines will be posted in June on our website and through the New Play Exchange, with a September deadline. See website for details.

Ars Nova exists to discover, develop and launch singular theatre, music, and comedy artists who are in the early stages of their professional careers. Play Group is a two year residency in which members become a part of the Ars Nova Resident Artist community. In addition to biweekly meetings where members share new work and receive feedback from their Play Group peers, residents enjoy two Play Group writing retreats; and the opportunity to further develop and showcase one of their plays in a weeklong workshop that can culminate in a public reading.

The 29th Street Playwrights Collective develops the voices of emerging, mature playwrights through weekly writing sessions, craft discussions and presentations. Our goal is to foster new work for the stage while supporting the needs of the playwright, committing to gender parity (serving 50% women), and providing opportunities for the public to attend workshop performances and provide feedback.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) was founded by Lawrence Edelson in 2005 to build a new body of operatic repertoire for new audiences by nurturing composers and librettists, developing sustainable artistic collaborations, and contributing new works to the national canon. Until ALT started the Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP), there was not a single full-time training program for opera composers and librettists at any opera company in the United States. To date, the program has provided intensive, personalized mentorship to 38 gifted emerging artists. Beyond works developed at ALT, distinguished alumni of the CLDP are now creating works for companies around the country, including Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Lyric Opera,Los Angeles Opera, Beth Morrison Projec...

Founded in 1981, our ensemble-based organization is dedicated to providing a creative environment in which to collaborate and develop maverick theater. Theatre of NOTE’s staged reading series, establish to foster relationships with playwrights as they develop new works (with the hopes of producing these pieces on our stage).

Theatre of NOTE is a non-profit democratic company that stagedives the arena of theatre arts. Founded in 1981, our ensemble-based organization is dedicated to providing a creative environment in which to collaborate and develop maverick theater. The Young Writers Project is NOTE’s 10-year-old outreach program featuring original work from young LA playwrights, produced for Theatre of NOTE by Jonathan Klein. Each year, five writers from five high schools are chosen to participate in a workshop-based writing experiment that culminates in the staged production of five short plays, one play representing each school. Check website for details.

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.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY is a unique Cultural Institution that has earned a nationwide reputation for its dedication to nurturing established and emerging playwrights who experiment with new forms and to presenting other experimental and developmental theaters with a very active program of Community Art Services and Festivals which continue to expand theater accessibility. Est. 2006. The newest division of the Resident Theater Program, NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD, is a reading series for worthy plays in earlier stages of development.

The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory produces Brave New Works. This festival provides theater professionals and students with the space and resources to conduct creative experimentation, to create new works for the stage, and to test the dramatic product on an audience. For three weeks, the Brave New Works festival of new and evolving plays gives playwrights a laboratory to work with a director and actors, revise and rewrite their scripts, and share the results with members of the Emory and Atlanta community.

We are Dayton’s professional regional theatre company, exploring the human experience and promoting enlightenment, inclusion and understanding through quality entertainment. Named after The Human Race Theatre Company’s late Artistic Director, Marsha Hanna, who passed away in 2011, the New Play Workshops program provides playwrights a residency opportunity in order to further develop a new play in a workshop setting, guided by a seasoned director and supported by professional actors. The process culminates in the staged reading of the play.

We are Dayton’s professional regional theatre company, exploring the human experience and promoting enlightenment, inclusion and understanding through quality entertainment. The Human Race’s Musical Theatre Workshops program focuses on the development of original musicals, providing an avenue for that very important “second production” and to encouraging appreciation of rarely produced musicals. Through a process of residencies, workshops and staged readings, the program not only contributes to the art form, but helps build an audience for new musicals. For years, the highlight of the MTW program has been the Festival of New Musicals.

CPT develops new, adventurous work; and nurtures Northeastern Ohio artists—particularly those whose work is inventive, intelligent, and socially conscious.

To expand access and make Firehouse a vibrant artistic home we're launching FIREHOUSE STUDIO as an incubator for new work, where artists and makers of all kinds can investigate, explore, test, and exercise their creative imaginations. Work-in-progress showings will be a regular feature of the series, and will be open forums for artists and audiences to have a conversation about the work, as both an essential part of its development and as a way to connect the audience to the performance-making process.

Our Staged Reading Series accepts plays by emerging playwrights and offers them a fully staged reading at our festival in Boise, Idaho in September. Please keep in mind that we will be taking technical requirements and feasibility to produce with a short rehearsal schedule into consideration when making selections. Selected plays are assigned a cast and director. Playwrights will receive a prize of $100. Campfire Theatre Festival is not currently able to provide playwright travel stipends for the Staged Reading Series; however, if a selected playwright can provide their own travel to Boise for the festival, all efforts will be made to assist with housing.

Our new Spark Program accepts plays by emerging playwrights for a week-long workshop process that culminates in a seated reading. Our first Spark workshop will take place in the Spring in Boise, Idaho, and our second will take place as part of our festival in Boise, Idaho in September. If your work is selected, your play will be assigned a cast, a dramaturg and director, you will receive a prize of $100 for a selected full-length play, and you will receive airfare and housing for a week in Boise, Idaho.

Founded in 2017, the Lotus Lee Foundation is a nonprofit theatre organization in New York City partnered with the Lotus Lee Drama Studios which was founded in China in 2015. Lotus Lee is a pioneer of theatre in China specializing in theatrical planning, investment, production, performance, marketing, and bringing new technology to the theatre. We have a large presence and following in Chinese international cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou and are growing here in the east coast of the United States. The New Work Initiative is an open submission competition whose primary goal is to bring new voices from the United States to China, and vice versa. We're particularly interested in new works from playwrights who are hungry to be heard and are willing to discover new technology...

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 evoked by these varied histories and environments will provide the spark and settings for this year’s writing assignment.

The Miranda Theatre Company is a not for profit organization dedicated to the development and production of new plays that offer hope, while they explore the challenges that face us both as individuals and as member of the global community. With this kind of work, we believe that theatre has the power to transform and inspire audiences to work for a future that embraces positive change. The Miranda Theatre Company is seeking submissions of plays by female and/or female-identifying playwrights for 2019 Annual Liz Smith Reading Series: The series takes place in March in celebration of Women’s History Month. Miranda is dedicated to the development and production of new plays that offer hope, while exploring the challenges that face us both as individuals and as members of the global communit...

The foundation of our company is “Pass It On.” During our tenure, we pass the baton of Lead Producing Playwright from artist-to-artist, giving each playwright the chance to navigate the company using their individual artistic vision. Each group of Welders produces one show by each member playwright then passes the company (from board to bank account) on to a new group of artists. That group will produce one show by each member playwright then pass the company on again to a new group of DC-area artists, creating what we hope to be an ever-evolving platform for new play development right here in DC. While we are only accepting applications from fully-formed groups, we are more than happy to informally play matchmaker if we think an individual artist might be a good fit for a group we know...

Flashback Theater is a producing theater company in Somerset, Kentucky with the mission of exploring our present relationship to the world through the lens of our past interactions as a community and through the passionate pursuit of theater that speaks to the soul.

ARTC is accepting submissions from playwrights of all ages, colors, orientations, creeds, and writing styles to become active members of its New York City theatre company. Founded in 1975, these multigenerational artists develop new plays in weekly workshops on Tuesday evenings in midtown Manhattan. ARTC also produces numerous staged readings and biannual equity showcases with professional writers, actors, and directors. Plays developed through ARTC’s workshop process have moved on to subsequent productions on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in America’s leading regional theaters. Please apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/SWTnhavFa2eozpeQ2 Restrictions: Open to NYC and tri-state based playwrights.

The Sandbox includes 9 two-hour session with one NMI Staff Member for a price of $1500 (no matter the number of collaborative team members). You can pay the full amount up front, or you can pay for three sessions at a time ($500 each). You will be receiving consultations from a selected staff member to work on such topics as outlining, song-spotting, presentation of scenes and songs, marketing advice, budgeting, feedback, music preparation, song structure, consultation about demo recordings, and more, depending on the needs of your musical at any given moment in the process.

To cultivate bold, theatrical ideas that inform, inspire, and provoke conversation, and to support the voices and artists making work at the forefront of the form.

The Orchard Project Greenhouse Program, for collaborators generating multiple new works and collaborations in a multitude of forms.

To cultivate bold, theatrical ideas that inform, inspire, and provoke conversation, and to support the voices and artists making work at the forefront of the form.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) was founded by Lawrence Edelson in 2005 to build a new body of operatic repertoire for new audiences by nurturing composers and librettists, developing sustainable artistic collaborations, and contributing new works to the national canon.

We are here to create to an artistic hub for up-and-coming, likeminded artists in the early stages of their careers. By giving them a space to work, we encourage and empower our actors and playwrights to discover their unique voice, collaborate with new storytellers, and explore what it means to break molds and redefine normal.

Normal Ave exists as a shared desire to bring theatre to New York audiences that is socially relevant and emotionally stimulating. In New York City, we are gifted with an array of source material: the many different lives that coexist on 13 miles of an island. Normal Ave provides fresh, accessible, high-caliber programming that reflects the drive of the New York Community that we are rooted in. We are here to create to an artistic hub for up-and-coming, likeminded artists in the early stages of their careers. By giving them a space to work, we encourage and empower our actors and playwrights to discover their unique voice, collaborate with new storytellers, and explore what it means to break molds and redefine normal.

Chain is excited to announce its new play development lab, highlighting underrepresented voices in American theatre. Chain Playwriting Lab aims to honor the themes and legacies of the great diverse American playwrights of our time, through the development of new theatrical work.

The 10 Minute Taste at the 4208 Group is a modern take on dinner theater. Instead of sitting through a full-length musical, or Shakespearean classic, five 10-minute plays are presented while guests dine in a contemporary establishment. At The 4208 Group we focus on shining a light on women artists of color. We also work with organizations that showcase and/or empower women artists of color. We are a company that works to cultivate the growth and development of women artists of color.

Andi Matheny Acting Studios wants to give their adult acting students onstage acting experience. They're looking for 10-minute plays and short one-acts with simple staging, specifically from St. Pete writers. They're aiming for students to rehearse over the summer, with a one- or two-weekend fully-staged run in their theatre space in the fall. It's not a paying gig, but they're open to working with playwrights who'd like to use this as an opportunity for script development, and make revisions in the early stages of rehearsal.

Berkshire Voices was created by and for Berkshire-based playwrights to provide key support and resources for writers at every stage of their careers, fostering supportive artistic relationships across generations and experience levels.

Weekly workshops helmed by Emma Goldman Sherman are held in the theatre district in Midtown from 2 pm-6pm. Writing individually in a group is very helpful because we learn to push through blocks that can trip us up at home. Because everyone else in the room is writing, the pressure to continue helps us learn to push ourselves, and that habit can teach us that we usually can go further than we think we can, and we are often grateful for that little extra push! When we return home, we are able to work better, for longer periods, with greater focus. Writers do not share what was just written although we do discuss how the writing itself went.

Live & In Color develops new work for the stage that promotes and celebrates diversity. Emphasizing non-traditional casting, multi-ethnic participants, and bold theatricality, we offer unique development opportunities for new plays and musicals that encourage dialogue among artists from a variety of cultures.

Theater Masters is dedicated to nurturing, developing, and producing the work of the next generation of American playwrights on a national scale, Theater Masters is also a producing and presenting organization dedicated to bringing distinguished theater professionals to the Roaring Fork Valley and to enriching the quality of theater education in our Valley. Our goal is to enhance audience understanding of, and support for, theater. Under the leadership of Julia Hansen, Theatre Masters was formed in 2001 by Aspen residents Barbara Broeder, Ann Ferrell, Mike Otte, and Virginia Pearce. WHAT WE DO Offer master classes, in-school programs, symposiums, post-show discussions and behind-the-scenes talks. Produce professional productions by established writers and new playwrights by teaching...

Plays considered must be less than 90 minutes and presented as a staged reading. There are 5 days of rehearsal. The Play is presented to an audience the evening of the 5th day, Permission must be granted before submitting a play .

Each summer, The 24 Hour Plays brings together a group of talented early-career theater artists for a free professional intensive. All participants are invited into a weeklong experience in NYC featuring workshops, master classes, panel discussions, career development, community building, and more. Each participant receives a $200 stipend. The program culminates in a cohort production of The 24 Hour Plays in an Off-Broadway theater.

Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre is a multipurpose space that provides arts activities for the whole community. As well as a busy programme of theatre, dance and music, Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre runs a range of community classes open to all the family and hosts approximately eight visual art exhibitions annually in the foyer gallery space. Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre was developed through support from Kathleen Tacchi-Morris and continued support from the Tacchi-Morris Trust and Heathfield Community School. The centre's existence continues the legacy of pacifism that echoed throughout Kathleen Tacchi-Morris’s work and life.

Pleasance is a registered charity and for over 30 years we have provided a valuable platform and launch pad for a huge collection of artists, both at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Pleasance Islington. We have also supported a great many individuals in associated creative, administrative and technical roles within the arts.

Looking for a chance to bring your play from page to stage? Want to see new writing at its freshest? Reading Week connects playwrights and audiences, giving writers the opportunity to hear their scripts brought to life in a rehearsed reading and gain valuable feedback. Join us at Pleasance Islington for a week-long festival of new plays, with a different one every night - you could be sitting beside the next Sarah Kane or Tom Stoppard!

The MTF community includes writers, composers, performers, choreographers, directors, music directors, dramaturgs, designers, and producers. Musical Theatre Factory is artist focused, and a space where writers can see their work, at any stage, on its feet. MTF is accessible to emerging musical theatre makers and builds bridges for them to connect with experts in the field, across disciplines. We are dedicated to developing new work in a collaborative atmosphere free from the pressures of critical or financial success that dismantles oppressive ideologies towards collective liberation through powerful and joyful story and song.

New American Voices (NAV), Queens Theatre's renowned new play development program, is dedicated to supporting writers who represent the rich cultural diversity of the evolving populations of the borough of Queens, New York City and the United States. Since its inception in 2002, approximately one hundred new works have received Play Readings, Showcases and Full Productions on Queens Theatre's three stages.

We commission and produce original theatre for young audiences that speaks to the needs, dreams, and imaginations of young people and the child that lives inside each of us. Our Productions respect the intelligence of children and offer hope to individuals of all ages. Pollyanna supports general education through teaching, using theatre as a methodology across the curriculum.

Provides opportunities for engagement and experimentation in the performing arts.

Interrobang Theatre Project, in association with The Theatre School at DePaul University, is proud to announce The Playwriting Initiative. It is our belief that it falls on every theater in our community to nurture new work. Our commitment to playwrights will include providing a supportive environment with necessary resources such as actors, directors, and space.

Tallgrass Theatre would like to invite writers, actors, and audience members to experience the process of creating theatre together. Our Iowa Playwrights Workshop (IPW) allows writers and actors to grow in their craft while developing new works of theatre. It also invites the audience to be part of the process and see how scripts grow and change from the first reading to a staged performance! The Iowa Playwrights Workshop is dedicated to developing and nurturing the theatre craft in Iowa.

Through a combination of personalized dramaturgy, group workshops, and professional development classes — featuring a roster of locally and nationally recognized artistic leaders — Company One Theatre’s PlayLab is an incubator of new work for writers of varied experience levels and backgrounds. Over its six seasons, C1 PlayLab has provided a multiplicity of dramaturgical support models for more than 40 playwrights, all with the goal of supporting Boston’s diverse artistic field.

The Boston Project is a new works initiative that supports the creation and development of new plays set in Boston, which explore what it means to live in this city at this moment and tap into the full breadth of experiences and identities that make up life in the Hub.

The Ingram New Works Project empowers exceptional new voices to write the stories they are most passionate about. Ingram New Works and Nashville Repertory Theatre provide playwrights with season-long developmental support, travel, lodging, hospitality, networking, and audiences, allowing them to focus on what they do best: creating powerful, necessary, impactful new plays. The three pieces of the Project are the Lab, Fellowship, and Festival.Since 2009, the Ingram New Works Project has supported the development of over 60 new plays. We are the playwrights’ home away from home, powered by Nashville’s authentic and radical hospitality.

Members are selected via lottery to showcase new work in front of an audience for free! Participants are given the opportunity to use DG's Zoom channel. DG Footlights™ is a gratis program, created and moderated by the Dramatists Guild, that connects dramatists with free space in which to hold a public reading of a new work that is currently in development. This initiative operates on a space-grant model: a representative from the Guild will arrange for a venue to donate space during allocated dates and times, and will ensure that the space is available for dramatists to use to present a self-produced reading to the public. Writers are expected to build an audience for their work on their own when selected for FNF. The purpose of the DG Footlights™ series is to provide Guild members with an...

Rapture Theatre is dedicated to elevating the quality of new works in Indianapolis. That is why we have created a program specifically designed for that purpose: The Dragon's Lair. ​The Dragon's Lair is a year-long development opportunity given to one Indiana-based playwright annually. We are looking for a new full-length play and a playwright who is eager to take their script to the next level.

San Diego Writers, Ink is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We offer classes, groups, workshops, readings and other literary events at The Ink Spot and other locations throughout San Diego County.

Three schools commission and early career playwright to write a play that each school will independently produce throughout the academic year. The faculty, students, and playwright collaborate throughout the year in the development of the text. The script will be a full-length play with a minimum of five characters. The majority of the characters will be under thirty years of age so that undergraduate actors can successfully play the roles. The play will reflect the students’ thoughts on the theme suggested by the playwright.

The New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative (NOMTI) is a group of musical theater writers who support each other in creating high-quality new works for musical theater.

DG Footlights™ is a gratis program, created and moderated by the Dramatists Guild, that connects dramatists with free space in which to hold a public reading of a new work that is currently in development. This initiative operates on a space-grant model: a representative from the Guild will arrange for a venue to donate space during allocated dates and times, and will ensure that the space is available for dramatists to use to present a self-produced reading to the public. Writers are expected to build an audience for their work on their own when selected for FNF. The purpose of the DG Footlights™ series is to provide Guild members with an opportunity to gain exposure, to develop their craft, and to obtain credentials. With that in mind, please be sure you are applying with new work that...

DG Footlights™ is a gratis program, created and moderated by the Dramatists Guild, that connects dramatists with free space in which to hold a public reading of a new work that is currently in development. This initiative operates on a space-grant model: a representative from the Guild will arrange for a venue to donate space during allocated dates and times, and will ensure that the space is available for dramatists to use to present a self-produced reading to the public. Writers are expected to build an audience for their work on their own when selected for FNF. The purpose of the DG Footlights™ series is to provide Guild members with an opportunity to gain exposure, to develop their craft, and to obtain credentials. With that in mind, please be sure you are applying with new work that...

The Cabal is an ambitious group of female-identified professional playwrights who promote the development of new scripted plays in the Twin Cities and one another’s success.

New Leaf is a local new play development program that focuses on uplifting the work of Minnesota-based emerging playwrights. This Fall, New Leaf will launch in collaboration with the Playwright Cabal and Arts Nest to present staged readings of five new plays between September and December 2019. Each event concludes with a facilitated feedback session between the audience and artistic team. By the end of the collaboration with us, we aim to elevate the playwright to the next level of their development process. All events are free and open to the public.

Artists need space to experiment—and cities need thriving arts communities. An artist-run organization, Base is accessible through a range of programs, all designed to encourage artists to take creative risks.

The Blue Door Theatre, a 501c(3) certified non-profit arts organization, was so named because the front door was blue. In 2002 the BDT moved to its current location in the Garland district. Since its creation, the BDT has been an all-volunteer organization. Our performers, box office staff and board of directors volunteer their time and talent.

Hugo House is a place to read words, hear words, and make your own words better.

The Village Playwrights was founded in 1985 as a group where Lesbian and Gay playwrights could develop plays in a free and welcoming environment.

The Pat Graney Company began Keeping the Faith in 1992, which they offer to incarcerated women and girls nationwide. The program consists of performances, lecture-demonstrations and workshops for incarcerated women and girls.

Keeping the Faith-The Prison Project (non-religious) is an arts-based educational residency program designed to enable incarcerated women and girls to discover a sense of identity and to develop that identity within the context of community--through the vehicles of performance, video documentation and a published anthology of their writings.

Seattle Playwrights Circle gathers writers for the creation of new theater work. We dedicate ourselves to providing playwrights an opportunity to receive feedback on new plays from their peers every month. All are welcome.

At RLP Productions, our mission is to educate and entertain the general public on the social, political and economic context of African American and American storytelling via film, theatre, television, and other various artistic mediums to include: conferences, publications, dessert services, and more.

New England Puppet Arts is devoted to the advancement of mask and puppetry as sophisticated art forms, and to the exploration of storytelling, theatrical endeavors, and community events which employ mask and puppetry in innovative ways. We believe that mask and puppetry arts should transcend traditional taxonomy in order for exciting, transformative theatre and spectacle based events to reach new audiences, and new practitioners.

BBC Writersroom works with writers at every stage of their career. We discover, develop and champion new and experienced writing talent across the whole of the UK. We’re based in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast.

Since 2008, Blackboard has been devoted to Black playwrights throughout the African Diaspora.

Stripped Bare is Synchronicity Theatre’s arts incubator project. Created from the desire to use our new home as a midwife to new theatrical works and make space for emerging artists to flex their wings, Stripped Bare provides an incubator to test-drive new artistic ideas.

3GT was founded in 2011 for the express purpose of challenging the cultural bias that favors men’s voices over women’s on stage. At that time, fewer than 20% of plays produced by the American mainstream theatre establishment in any given year were written by women. Although change was afoot, in 2017 industry watchdog Theatre Communications Group noted “when it comes to the status of female playwrights in the American theatre, the long arc of history is bending toward parity-but so slowly, almost imperceptibly, that you’d be forgiven for despairing.” But recent data is more optimistic. Despite the Dramatists Guild’s findings that as of 2018, national production of plays by women overall is still languishing below 30% , TCG says the percentage of new plays by women getting production “has le...

Creative Greensboro is proud to sponsor the NC New Play Project, an annual workshop production. Playwrights from across North Carolina may submit their full-length scripts or related one-acts for consideration. The deadline for submitting a play for the 2021 NC New Play Project is Monday, June 1

Kaz Conference Writing Workshop is organized by author and activist Donna Kaz and is the home of small, focused writing workshops online.

The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts partnering with the American Theatre Wing and in collaboration with Disney Theatrical Productions and Samuel French, a division of Concord Records. The Songwriting Challenge is a national competition for high school students who have a passion for writing songs that could be part of a musical theater production and the wide range of musical styles represented in contemporary musical theater including hip-hop, rock, R&B, country, jazz, and more. Finalists for the Songwriting Challenge will be selected from six regions across the country and paired with mentors working professionally in musical theatre to develop their songs into Broadway-stage-ready compositions, via both video chats and...

MTSU Write is a from-home mentorship program within the English Department. It is a three-semester program, working with new and experienced writers in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and playwriting.

IATI Theater’s Play Development Program, Cimientos, provides playwrights the opportunity to develop new, never-before produced plays through a community of cutting-edge theater artists. Through the PPP* and SRP*, Cimientos amplifies as clearly as possible the voice of the creational author who lays the foundations from which a dramatic work is conceived. Like IATI Theater, Cimientos, is committed to supporting playwrights and works that push conventions and explore the avant-garde. We recognize, however, that what is different and innovative is not always what is unconventional and therefore, we do not discriminate against naturalistic works. Cimientos will consists of two main components: ♦ PPP (Pal Playwrights Panel): Playwrights accepted to the program, IATI Theater’s artistic staff a...

Since we can't gather to see extraordinary solo performances, we have created AFO Solo Shorts to bring extraordinary solo performances to you. Do you have an idea for a short solo art piece? Pitch it to us! We typically work with solo theater makers but we're happy to consider artists from all disciplines: designers, painters, sculptors, dancers, wigmakers... anyone with a creative mind! Take us on a virtual tour of a scenic model, or time-lapse yourself painting a self-portrait, or dance in the rain with your camera propped on your windowsill. We want any and all solo ideas that are three minutes in length or less.

Youth Theatre Northwest nurtures the intellectual, artistic, and personal development of children and youth through drama education, performing opportunities, and live theatre experiences.

BTS was founded in 2009 as a development workshop and incubator for new American plays and musicals. We sponsor table readings of selected scripts using our Resident Company of actors, then work with the best pieces to produce staged readings. Outstanding works may be optioned and developed for a full production backed by our producers and creative team, both independently and in festivals throughout New York City.

Pen Points writers' workshop evolved into Pin Points Theatre in 1980. It can be best described as a community theater company that travels internationally; creating its plays and workshops in impoverished D.C. communities then presenting them to schools, businesses, government agencies and theaters throughout D.C., the United States, and so far, in Asia (Guam, Korea, Japan, and Singapore), Canada, and Germany.

Serenbe Playhouse is a professional theatre company committed to producing bold new works and reinvented classics that connect art, nature and community.

New World Theatre acknowledges that there is a crisis of understanding and awareness that is deeply rooted in our history of racism, and if we are ever going to fully dismantle the institutions of systemic racism, we need to stop... and listen to those who continue to suffer simply because they are black. We can no longer afford to ignore what is happening to our fellow human beings, which is why we are creating a collection of monologues that will give voice to those who can no longer remain silent. Through the power of writing and theatre, we can do our part to amplify the stories of systemic racism and raise the level of awareness and understanding to effect meaningful change in the human heart.

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.

THESPIAN PLAYWORKS nurtures original student-written plays from the page to the stage. The program staff will choose up to four plays to be developed at the International Thespian Festival, sponsored by Concord Theatricals. Professional directors and dramaturgs will help the chosen finalists workshop and present their plays with student actors. Eligibility Writers must be active members of the International Thespian Society enrolled in high school during the current school year. All finalists must be available to attend the upcoming International Thespian Festival. Finalists will be responsible for the cost of their travel to ITF, but the International Thespian Society will pay the registration fees, which include room and board as well as admission to all ITF events.

The 3 pillars of our mission: empowering artists to generate a dynamic, uniquely global program of adventurous work, innovating and celebrating the power of live theatre; pro-actively and meaningfully inviting our NYC community to engage in this artistic work; providing affordable access to ensure that our theatre is available to all.

Collaborative. Community-driven. Socially Engaged. Control Group cultivates a community driven by innovation and exploration. We create opportunities for learning, sharing, personal growth, and career development, for artists from recreational to professional. We bring our work and approaches into underserved communities, cultivating new voices and promoting simple life skills available through artistic practices. We stand at the forefront of innovation in Denver's independent performance scene. We are tirelessly building a community of artists, supporters, and audience/participants to carry local culture through the 21st century. Colorado-based and globally-faced, we seek to connect our work and community with larger flows and cutting-edge innovations around the world.

The vision continues to evolve, most recently with the opening of a new theater in the Gaia Building in Berkeley’s thriving art district and in its developing relationships with other Bay Area theaters to present Marsh productions which include the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa, the Dance Palace in Point Reyes, and the Sonoma Community Center. So why is it called The Marsh? The name, The Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance, came out of several months Stephanie Weisman spent living in a house on stilts on the Delaware Bay. The teeming interplay of the marsh terrain and its vast fecundity seemed a perfect metaphor.

Created by award-winning playwright Donja R. Love in 2019, Write It Out! (WIO!) provides an affirming space for people living with HIV (PLWHIV) to create their narratives in a theatrical framing artistically. By placing PLWHIV at its core, WIO! builds community for people of similar lived experiences to express themselves freely while amplifying the visibility of PLWHIV in the theatre and beyond. The intention of WIO! is to use the power of imagination and healing to radically transform the landscape of theatre and those living with HIV.

Players Workshop seeks plays for its Ninth Annual International 10-Minute Play Festival. This fully-staged festival will be in English and will take place in March of 2021 in the center of the international arts of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Each playwright whose script is selected and performed will receive a $25 USD cash honorarium and two complimentary tickets to the production. One play will be selected as the Audience Favorite and its playwright shall receive an additional $25 USD cash award. No other remuneration will be provided, and any playwright attending must do so at his or her own expense.

The Rose Theatre Co., a DC-based professional organization, is seeking short comedic monologues for the creation of a curated digital film series titled IN CHARACTER. Selected monologues will be produced and released by The Rose for use across digital platforms, including Instagram and You Tube. Writers may make multiple submissions. This is an open-ended project. Writers will retain all rights to their words. The Rose Theatre Co. will retain all rights to the audio-video content and their production of the monologues submitted. Please note that all submissions are voluntary and unpaid.

The Rev Theatre Company presents classic and contemporary works, new musicals, and in-school arts education for a diverse audience, to spur social awareness and cultural development in the Finger Lakes region.

Every month (mostly), we pick a featured playwright whose work we love. Then we curate a rotating group of resident and guest directors who in turn collaborate with the talents of the actors of their choice. Individually, each group rehearses and interprets one short work of a featured playwright before then all coming together to form that month's PLAYxPLAY. The series offers an audience the rare opportunity to see a wide range of a single writer's voice in one evening, while simultaneously offering the playwright the chance to see a variety of interpretations of their work by an array of artists. The group is run by co-producers and *resident directors: Jake Beckhard, Bryn Herdrich, and Lauren Zeftel.

The Cary Playwrights’ Forum’s mission is to provide NC playwrights and aspiring playwrights opportunities to develop as dramatic writers.

At The Sappho Project, we provide the platform for women and TGNC musical theatre book writers, composers, and lyricists to share their work. We want our industry to more accurately reflect all perspectives, stories, and experiences. Don't you? By providing simple and direct access to resources, we are seeking to make original work visible. We support early career artists by producing new works and connecting artists to collaborators and mentors.

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.

“MKE MaKEs” is a series to develop and present world premiere music theatre works. The program will encompass a wide range of new musical works from never-before-produced readings to fully produced world premieres. “Made in Milwaukee” is a proud moniker we will apply to all works under the MKE Makes umbrella,” said Michael Unger, Skylight Music Theatre Artistic Director. “Skylight feels that it is critical to the survival of the American music theatre to foster new works and new writers and encourage voices we have not yet heard to take center stage.”

Page to Stage Pipeline, a group to develop new plays on the University of Southern Maine’s campus.

The Sol Project: A National Theater Initiative Amplifying the Voices of Latinx Playwrights in American Theater. The Sol Project’s artistic collective is composed of: Adriana Gaviria, Rebecca Martínez, David Mendizábal, Jacob Padrón, Julian Ramirez, and Laurie Woolery. Our collective extends further to include: Brian Herrera (Resident Scholar), Joey Reyes (Producing Assistant), Stephanie Ybarra (Resident Dramaturg) and our Founding and Advisory Circle members: Claudia Acosta, ​Elena Araoz and Kyoung Park.

THE GREENHOUSE is a play development program at FIU Theatre supporting South Florida playwrights. Three playwrights were selected for one-week intensive residencies in the summer to workshop/revise a draft of a full-length play. A director, a dramaturg, and age-appropriate actors will work with the playwright. The week will culminate in a public reading of the revised work — this year, virtually on Zoom.

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.

Sunday Sprints is a guided writing session I teach over Zoom. It's weekly from 12pm to 2pm PST. Every fifteen minutes, I give a new writing prompt designed to get writers thinking more deeply about the characters in their work. We work with our microphones off (so people can listen to their own music, or write in silence if they prefer) and with our cameras on (so we can create a sense of community and accountability). At the end of class, writers are allowed to unmute themselves for an informal conversation to discuss how the prompts worked for them and if there's anything they're struggling with.

The South Florida Theatre League is an alliance of theatrical organizations and professionals dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and advocating growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry.

Prologue Theatre is launching FOREWORD: A New Works Series. We will be selecting 5 new works to be workshopped via Zoom from November 2020-March 2021.

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 new script, and are supported by a social event that brings the Downtown Theatre Community together in a fun and meaningful way. A Few Thoughts Before You Apply Applications are due Monday, September 2...

The Coop is a theater-and-film production company committed to an intentionally inclusive, ethical work environment and a collaborative creative community.

The fulcrum of our mission currently rests in our weekly Monday night workshop where we develop the work from our writers. Our structure is such that it evolves as we do. Just like our own artistic development, our process is ever-changing and always improving. Alongside the Monday night workshop, our membership participates in special programs to engage as a community and further their personal artistic goals. Master classes, development weekends and other career-focused events give Fierce artists the extra space to concentrate on the becoming a better artist through experiences. Projects that reach different levels of artistic readiness are selected for staged readings, workshop productions or full productions as part of our producing season. Everything produced by Fierce has been engag...

Fishlicker Improv! is a Chequamegon Bay band of merrymakers and gaggle of goofballs. We come to any venue, organization, or event and help you and yours find your funny bone and the good stuff on the other side of "Yes and." Weee!!! Readers Theatre (Act Your Page) is a group of actors, directors, playwrights, and other creative types who read and explore new and classic plays on Zoom. We have lively and robust conversations around the plays and playwrights before and after the plays and maybe even dish up a little talk on theatre news and views. Whether you're a seasoned professional, or you've never read a play aloud, please feel welcomed to join us!

The Playwright Development Program (PDP) is a series of two-day workshops conducted by nationally-renowned playwrights in conjunction with the Theatre League of South Florida and the Deering Estate at Cutler. The program is designed to provide intensive support for developing new work from Miami-Dade County’s growing and diverse community of playwrights. Local playwrights are invited to submit work samples for review by a panel that will admit a limited number of participants into the series. The PDP Cycle lasts two years and consists of three weekend workshops each year (a total of 6 weekend workshops) with exact dates to be determined. Selected local playwrights must agree to attend all workshops, at which they will be provided with the opportunity to develop their work further in...

Clutch is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to creating opportunities for female artists in theatre and film. By commissioning and producing original works, Clutch provides vital creative space for female writers, directors, actors, and designers to collaborate and work together. Clutch welcomes the voices and work of writers, actors, directors, designers, technicians, producers, and artists who identify as female. All ages. All colors. All races. All faiths. All abilities. All sexual orientations. You are #SoClutch.

New York City is changing drastically during this pandemic and racial justice reckoning. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and playwright Cusi Cram invite artist investigators - playwrights, performers, designers, directors, dramaturgs, and other theatremakers - to artistically investigate a block in NYC. This is designed to be a block you have a connection to - it can be where you live, or just a block you love. It can be in your neighborhood or not. 5 artists will be selected to receive a mini-grant of $250 to produce any sort of artistic material that addresses one or more of the questions: Why did you choose this block? What is there to celebrate about this block? What are the challenges of the block? What was this block like in a previous time? How do you imagine this block in 3...

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, critique groups, and the annual Gathering of Writers to instruct, inspire, and connect writers throughout the state. The IWC also provides community outreach programs in schools, community organizations,...

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. Critique follows. 3. Bi-monthly large group meeting on a topic of interest to playwrights. NOTE: All above activities are currently on Zoom. We are not sure about 2022. 4. Annual production of a...

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation was founded on the premise that art, artists and creative culture offer significant value in our society. Our mission is to support artists, cultural organisations and educational institutions to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in the viewing and creation of art. The Bomb Factory enables contemporary visual arts practice to thrive through the provision of affordable studio and exhibition space as well as a supportive network of artists where peer collaboration and critique is encouraged. All resident artists support the organisation by contributing their skills and time to the public programme. Their engagement with learning and participation enables The Bomb Factory Art Foundation to demonstrate the social value of art.

To create an urban performing artist community advocating, teaching, demonstrating collective work and responsibility promoting, self-determination and discipline through creative edu-tainment artistic experiences and exploration. We unite engineers for change and warriors against apathy and parasites in the communities in which we live.

The Inland Northwest's premier progressive non-profit theater, specializing in political, intellectual, and social stimulation.

We make Latino and Native cultures come alive through theatre that reflects and challenges our community.

The Road is proud to begin its fourth year of Under Construction, a playwright’s group that develops socially and politically relevant voices and thoughts for the American stage. The goal of Under Construction is simple: to leave with a deeper knowledge of playwriting through collaborating and sharing with one’s peers, and for each participant to create a new piece that is workshop ready. Playwrights are given live readings of their plays in our state of the art theatre on Magnolia. Initial drafts will be read by fellow playwrights, but participants in this program will also have access to The Road’s ensemble of theatre artists for private & public readings, as well as support from the Artistic Team at The Road.

Actors from coast to coast over the years have asked Ronnie Marmo to teach a weekly acting class. The unfortunate reply was always the same: “Because, I don’t stay in one city long enough.” Thanks to Zoom, Ronnie Marmo will now finally be able to teach a weekly acting workshop for you to join no matter where you are in the world! Many of you know that the theatre community is in serious trouble, and Ronnie’s theater company, Theatre 68, is nervous about simply making the rent. Ronnie has decided that he will teach this weekly workshop as a fundraiser for Theatre 68 during the COVID-19 crisis. He has lovingly named the class, “STOP F*CKING ACTING”. Classes began May 20th and are first come first serve). RSVP your spot now @ ronniemarmow...

PlayGround is the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, providing unique opportunities for the cultivation and development of early-career local playwrights and partnerships with leading professional directors, actors and theatres. Through the development of original short and full-length plays, PlayGround creates a microcosm of the greater theatre scene, supporting emerging playwrights’ experimentation and risk-taking, while helping them to hone their style and technique. The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its fourth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 22-February 7, 2021 via Zoom live stream, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks.

The PlayGround Experiment is a home for theatre artists to explore, test, and showcase new work while finding inspiration and support from the community that it creates.

Created and taught by David Davila, the Voices of America Writers Workshop is a free eight-week workshop for people of color and members of the trans community who want to tell their own stories through play and screenwriting. The program was created in response to the inequality of opportunities available to marginalized communities. In this workshop writers use tools from creative writing, dramatic writing, and comedy writing/improv - focusing on idea generation, the art of dialogue, and story structure to create multi-dimensional characters and captivating narratives. At the end of the workshop writers present scenes in a public reading and are then invited to the PlayGround Experiment to continue working on their new creations.

Creative Lab Hawaii, founded in 2012 by the Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism’s Creative Industries Division (CID), is a key facet of DBEDT’s HI Growth Initiative, is developing an ecosystem to increase export, attract investment and build the state’s creative entrepreneurial capacity.

The Playwrights Immersive is a yearlong program for playwrights working on a two-act theatrical narrative play or musical. The yearlong program includes a five-day, boot camp-style program, followed by a one-year coaching program that supports fellows in executing their material as individuals, and as a group. The Playwrights Immersive is designed to empower playwrights to take their craft and projects to the next level via one-on-one and small group coaching.

A track for writers in all genres to develop new content for motion pictures, and television. Participants receive coaching on script writing and taking projects to market. Writers Guild of America West logo. The Writers Immersive is a five-day program for writers in motion pictures, and television. The yearlong program includes five days of intensive work in Hawaii, followed with a one-year coaching program that supports participants in executing their material as individuals, and as a group. In partnership with the Diversity Program of the Writers Guild of America West, the Writers Immersive is designed to empower writers to take their stories and craft to the next level via one-on-one and small group coaching.

A track for producers in all genres to develop new content for motion pictures, and television. Participants receive coaching in developing their script, financing their script, distributing and marketing. The Producers Immersive is a five-day program for producers in motion pictures, and television. The yearlong program includes five days of intensive work in Hawaii, followed with a one-year coaching program that supports participants in executing their material as individuals, and as a group. In partnership with the Producers Guild of America, the Producers Immersive is designed to empower producers to take their projects to the next level via one-on-one and small group coaching.

A track for writer/producers, director/producers, and producers who are creating content for the web. Participants receive coaching in developing their material, financing their script, distributing and marketing. The Web-Series Producers Immersive is a yearlong program that includes five days of intensive work in Hawaii, followed by a one-year coaching program that supports participants in executing their business plans/material as individuals, and as a group.

CLH Music Immersive is a five-day intensive program focuses on providing participants with the opportunity to co-write and produce music for specific film or TV projects with a team of professional mentors. Following the completion of the program, attendees will receive year-round mentoring support, and three of the most promising attendees will be selected by the mentors to participate in networking opportunities with music industry leaders in Los Angeles. In addition to composing songs, participants will learn the finer points of music licensing, publishing, intellectual property (IP) protection, and other aspects of the business from industry experts.

A track for writers in animation to develop new content for motion pictures, television, or web. Participants receive coaching on script writing and taking projects to market. The Animation Immersive is a five-day program for writers in motion pictures, television and web. The yearlong program includes five days of intensive work in Hawaii, followed with a one-year coaching program that supports participants in executing their material as individuals, and as a group. In partnership with the Diversity Program of the Writers Guild of America West, the Writers Immersive is designed to empower writers to take their stories and craft to the next level via one-on-one and small group coaching.

A track for creators, writer/producers, director/producers, and producers who are creating content in the mobile game app space. Participants receive coaching in developing their material, distributing and marketing – taking it from concept to demo. Our program leans toward self-publishing. The Mobile Game App Producers Immersive is a yearlong program that includes 5-days of intensive work in Hawaii, followed by a one-year coaching program that supports participants in executing their business plans/material as individuals, and as a group.

We develop and produce theatrical productions for the stage and screen. We were founded in 2019 and specialize in new age and ground-breaking work both in-person and online.

The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival honors new American plays that provide dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors. The festival endeavors both to recognize playwrights for their outstanding work and to provide a resource for universities across the country to identify dynamic plays with robust roles for college-aged actors for production at their institutions.

Since 2008, Blackboard has been devoted to Black playwrights throughout the African Diaspora.

The Crowbait Club is a Maine non-profit Corporation and 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, The purpose of The Crowbait Club is to inspire, nurture, educate, and empower artists and audiences, thereby enriching and celebrating the Maine arts community and the culture of the community at-large. The Crowbait Club is a performance and production company with a commitment to developing original theater artists and craftspeople and to provide a no barrier, very low cost gateway into the performing arts for those interested in trying it. We serve the community at large.

Turn Point is a new London based theatre company. Creating stories about who we are, what we can achieve and who we want to be. Tickle & Scratch is a free weekly online scratchnight to help actors, writers & theatre makers connect and perform during the pandemic.

Mission: SquareWrights is a group of artists working collaboratively to bring our original pieces of Theatre Art to our communities and beyond. Since its inception in 2003, the Stratford-based SquareWrights Playwright Group has had more than 100 productions and staged readings including short-play festivals, the 24-hour Fast Forward Theatre Festival and fundraisers for Katrina and Tsunami victims, the Stratford Library and the historical Perry House. The group has been represented multiple times at the Stratford Summer Arts Festival on the grounds of the Shakespeare Theatre. In addition, we’ve collaborated with the Stratford Arts Commission, The Temple Players, the Stratford Arts Guild, Eastbound Theatre of Milford, New Plays at Blackstone in Branford, Two Roads Brewery and Bridgeport’s P...

FORGE is a boutique consulting agency grounded in the philosophy that how you work matters as much as why you create and what you want to make. We believe in the power of process, and in building the skills, systems, plans, and practices that will carry you not only through your next set of goals, but your life’s work as a creator. We see ourselves as coaches as much as consultants. We are proud to bring our expertise to the table, as we encourage and enable our clients to build their own skills. Our goal is to teach you the tools to master your present challenges and meet those ahead with confidence. Our own process grows from the fundamental strength of our teamwork. Working with FORGE gets you the experience and expertise of both Chie + Greg, from first meeting to final check-in. Whet...

For artists, creators, makers, entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, and idea-havers like you. At FORGE, co-founded by Chie Morita + Greg Taubman, we believe that how you work matters just as much as why you create and what you want to make. And when we say “make” we believe the sky's the limit. Whether it’s a fresh product line, a much-needed service, an innovative design concept, an immersive restaurant pitch, a push for justice, a new script, a board game idea, or a sandwich for lunch, FORGE believes in the power of process, and in building the skills, systems, plans, and practices that will carry you through your life’s work as a creator. Learn to articulate your work with gusto, concoct creative solutions to today’s conundrums, and retrofit your process with guidance from FORGE an...

To build international and cross-cultural collaborations through music theatre performance that cultivate, connect, and empower artists across borders.

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.

Our mission is to connect artists around the world to explore the virtual space between theatre and film. We pledge to seek out stories that explore the truths of today and continue to prioritize a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives in all of our work.

CATCO (Contemporary American Theatre Company) is Columbus' largest professional theatre. Pre-Covid-19, CATCO was production twelve productions per year, six for general audiences, and six for young audiences. CATCO is an SPT Equity company that produces work with both Central Ohio and National artists. CATCO's focus is on contemporary work that delights, transforms, and inspires.

Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) is a multifaceted collective of theatremakers joined together in support of the next generation of BIPOC producers by providing access to education, training, and mentorship. We are supported and incubated by Broadway For All (BFA), a national organization shaping the next generation of advocates for radical inclusivity and anti-racism through engagement with the performing arts.

Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) is a multifaceted collective of theatremakers joined together in support of the next generation of BIPOC producers by providing access to education, training, and mentorship. We are supported and incubated by Broadway For All (BFA), a national organization shaping the next generation of advocates for radical inclusivity and anti-racism through engagement with the performing arts.

WE ENHANCE COURSEWORK THROUGH EMBODIED LEARNING. We are trained artists and facilitators that combine higher education goals with theatre techniques and group-reflection. Our collective experience in applied theatre, education, facilitation and the allied health field informs our unique approach to adult learning. WHERE THE TEXTBOOK ENDS, OUR WORK BEGINS. In the field, students encounter many situations where they are tested beyond the textbook. Theatre in Tandem works with institutions and educators to create and facilitate sessions that provide the connection between what is learned in the classroom, and what is needed in the field. WE REHEARSE THE SKILLS NECESSARY TO BUILD PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENCE. Through a variety of theatrical techniques we practice problem-solving, critical thinki...

The Writers' Hour is a virtual writing sprint held each weekday morning. Free for all to attend. Grab a hot drink and get some writing done with us. Join the next Writers' Hour. London AM Monday-Friday 8-9 am GMT US Eastern AM Monday-Friday 8-9am EST US Pacific AM Monday-Friday 8-9am PST

MISSION: A collaboration of African-American playwrights whose mission is to produce quality and excellent theater works in our communities and abroad. VISION: We endeavor to SUPPORT one another, ENCOURAGE each other, and EQUIP one another with resources and tools to "raise the bar" and to be recognized as a major contributing factor in our cities, communities, and nation.

Since 2015, NWTW has built a community around the creation, development, and production of new theatrical work, and delivered compelling, timely issues to our audiences for discussion. Our collaborative programs offer a variety of ways for playwrights, theatre artists, and patrons from all walks of life to gather and immerse themselves in new work, with a love for the great performative and literary traditions of the theatre.

The Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project is a free, weeklong songwriting workshop for young, aspiring songwriters between the ages of 18 and 30. Led by award-winning master teachers, this program is for songwriters of all genres: music theatre, contemporary pop, R&B, country, rock, Latin, jazz, and many more!

The DREAMing Out Loud Program at PEN America is a paid, tuition-free creative writing workshop series for young immigrant writers primarily those who are undocumented, DACA recipients, and/or DREAMers who came to the U.S. when they were children. By providing community and professional support to the next generation of immigrant writers, the program seeks to counter anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. and to amplify the voices of many living in this country who are marginalized because of their immigration status. At the end of the program, New York Theater Workshop will be producing a sharing of the DREAMing Out Loud students' short plays with professional actors.

Our mission: Theatre Raleigh is a homegrown theatre company producing intimate theatre experiences in the heart of Raleigh that engage our community, foster regional artists, and elevate professional theatre in our city. Our work centers around creating high quality theatrical experiences that resonate with our audiences. We are committed to building a community of artists and arts-supporters here in the Triangle, to championing the development of new works, and to cultivating the next generation of theatre audiences through ongoing opportunities for learning and engagement.

We are the 15th Street Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends, a prominent Quaker meeting in Manhattan, NYC. We have a large and beautiful landmark meetinghouse, as well as a courtyard, at our disposal for a production.

The Orchard Project Performance Lab, for professional makers of live performance, either staged in traditional or digital venues.

The Orchard Project Episodic Lab, for writers working on the advancement of original TV scripts.

The Orchard Project Audio Lab, for early development of scripts and ideas in the audio storytelling form.

As part of the Orchard Project's ongoing commitment to push the storytelling form, it will be supporting a new online-only laboratory called the Liveness Lab. The Liveness Lab will explore how performance can address the questions of “liveness” in the current moment, looking into and far beyond live-streamed video chat. From technical solutions to process-based innovations, the artists and companies participating will explore possibilities, hear from experts in a variety of fields, and examine processes past, present, and future.

Port City Playwrights' Project is a community of playwrights and screenwriters in the greater Wilmington area. In addition to bi-monthly meetings where we read and provide feedback to each other’s work, Port City Playwrights’ Project showcases members’ new writing throughout the year by mounting script-in-hand staged readings as well as fully staged productions.

Nykieria Chaney LLC, is a woman owned film and theatre production company based out of Atlanta, GA. Our goal is to increase access to the arts for Atlanta residents while providing artists a place to develop, rehearse, and perform new works with an emphasis on reintroducing historical African-American contributions to literary and performing arts. We will engage the community through ongoing arts educational programs, workshops, and special events. By providing affordable easily accessible development space for artists, we will help cultivate a generation of artists equally invested in their culture, social, and creative practices.

We’re a collective of women playwrights who support, promote, and present the work of women playwrights – and help move this work into the local and national theatre pipeline!

Simple Production was founded by Flo Ankah in 2006 as an incubator of creative collaborations for the stage and screen. Our mission is to feed the imagination of curious audiences, igniting viewers to dive into action; themes that inspire us include women's rights, immigration and the environment. We believe in leading with purpose and simplicity so that each participant feels empowered, celebrated and heard.

The Rebel Playhouse, a 501(c)(3) non-profit theater company, produces plays for children and families that break traditions and challenge normative thinking. Our mission is to Empower, Educate and Entertain. We challenge and rebel against established stories, igniting children's imaginations. empowering them to think outside the box and create their own stories. Rebel also offers classes designed to foster creative development. We are an equal-opportunity employer, actively seeking to promote and implement equity and inclusion through gender, age and color-conscious casting. Our company is people-centric, always putting our patrons and those who work for us first.

Brand New Sherriff Productions' mission is to inspire, help, teach and learn together as we heal and love each other. We aspire to educate, amaze and inform through the creation of original, thought provoking American theater productions. We follow through on our commitment to serving the under-served in our community.

Our mission is to guide a new generation of performing artists as they learn from — and collaborate with — our world-class faculty of working professionals. We use and discover innovative teaching techniques that ignite curiosity, inspire confidence, and promote risk-taking because we believe the world needs art made by bold, compassionate people who are a credit to the community they serve.

The Playwrights’ Center champions playwrights and new plays to build upon a living theater that demands new and innovative works. The Playwrights' Center's Core Apprentice program is offered in partnership with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Each year the Playwrights' Center will offer fully funded play development workshops for three student playwrights combined with a nine-month mentorship with a professional playwright.

NADIA is a non-profit organization based in New York City dedicated to coordinating the research, development, and implementation of industry-wide anti-discriminatory practices. NADIA supports a diverse group of project leaders and artists who are looking to think critically and discover new ways to produce culturally conscious art in order to develop practices that are equitable, inclusive, and sustainable. National Arts Diversity Integration Association (NADIA) is accepting script submissions for a new play or musical to be recorded and presented as a staged reading in their Spring 2021 Amplified Currents Festival of the Arts, which will be held online, April 17th-25th, 2021. Please note: There are no submission fees, nor is there a fee to be a part of the festival. This is a paid opport...

An acting and writing workshop that meets on Mondays at 7pm. at Theatre 71 in NYC and Saturdays at 2 p.m. at The Whitefire in Sherman Oaks

The Playwrights' Lab and the Mill Valley Library present Short Play Festivals and Playwriting Workshops.

Storytellers/Producers/Performing & Teaching Artists

Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian and Asian American (A/AA) performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of A/AA artists’ words, and the presentation of A/AA bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established A/AA artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve.

"Everyone needs to express themselves well. It's not just what you say, but how you say it.” – Tye Noorda The Theatre for Youth and Education (TYE) Center, originally known as the Noorda Regional Theatre Center for Children and Youth, was founded in 2009 with a generous gift from Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation. The TYE Center is part of the UVU Department of Theatrical Arts for Stage and Screen. Benefactor Tye Noorda was raised in rural Utah, and had few opportunities to perform. It is in the spirit of Tye Noorda’s resilience and commitment to children and youth in which we operate, striving to provide performance and public speaking opportunities for all children and youth while training enthusiastic teachers of the arts, through the operation of the following programs: Provides teach...

Dominion Stage will enrich the local arts community by expressing, through live theatrical productions, the different contemporary, traditional, diverse, and historically under-represented stories in our community. Our company will provide an inclusive place for new and continued education and personal development for participants on the stage, in technical roles, and as leaders/administrators behind the scenes.

The Inkwell Theater is a writer’s theater company, dedicated to developing, supporting, and cultivating new plays and playwrights in the Los Angeles community. Focused exclusively on new works, we allow young artists and veterans alike to work in an environment of experimentation, freedom, and collaboration.

The Inkwell Theater is a writer’s theater company, dedicated to developing, supporting, and cultivating new plays and playwrights in the Los Angeles community. Focused exclusively on new works, we allow young artists and veterans alike to work in an environment of experimentation, freedom, and collaboration.

The Vagrancy is an award-winning, not-for-profit theatre company. It was founded in 2007 in New York City by Caitlin Hart and Alia Wilson. It has been Los Angeles based since 2009 and assembled a Michigan Chapter in 2020. The Vagrancy is currently under the Artistic Direction of founder Caitlin Hart.

The Playwrights Union is a collective of dramatists who provide a community of professional and personal support for each other in Los Angeles. It was founded in 2009 by Jennifer Haley, a playwright who had been living in LA for two years and felt the need to connect with local writers. Early members of the group discovered they had commonality in that they considered themselves playwrights, but were living in LA because they either wrote for, or aspired to write for, television and film. “We identified ourselves as dramatic writers building our chops and contacts in all genres, determined to remain artists even as we seek to make a living in our field,” says Haley. Members meet regularly, run an internal writing workshop, create various writing challenges for each other, attend each oth...

The award-winning and critically acclaimed Fine Arts Center Theatre Company produces an annual season of musicals, comedies, and dramas and has gained a reputation for high-quality productions and Colorado premieres of new American work.

Our mission is to provide playwrights the opportunity to excel at their craft by fostering an environment that nurtures the creation of powerful, thought-provoking and relevant plays that bring new, diverse voices to the local and national stage.

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.

Tablespoon Theatre is an independent company specialising in new writing and physical performance. Born out of an original play staged in 2018, we are a Glasgow based collective creating and producing performing arts events across the city. Tablespoon Theatre performances seek to experiment with physicality, ensemble, and original composition to create immersive and truly artist-led work. Guided by virtues of inclusivity and creativity we operate largely through open-call outs, with the aim to collaborate and pursue cross-disciplinary work with every project. Tablespoon Theatre is a community led enterprise that runs physical theatre workshops for children and adults.

Welcome to The Drawing Board: A Lab for Playwrights, Screenwriters, and Actors The Drawing Board helps writers in various stages of development to move forward through table reads, workshops, and staged readings.

American Players Theatre’s mission is to perform timeless, challenging, poetic texts, with Shakespeare at the center, to the broadest audience possible. We strive to share our understanding that great poetry and stories, both from our past and from the emerging voices of our future, can illuminate the ever-expanding experience of what it is to be human.

OUR MISSION at the Greenhouse Ensemble is to create an environment that nurtures deep-rooted engagement within our growing community. We cultivate audacity, weed self-doubt and bring light to creative impulses, pushing our Ensemble beyond their own expectations. Our multidisciplinary events compel and challenge audiences by immersing them in an atmosphere composed of diverse works of art.

THE ASSEMBLY is a collective of multi-disciplinary performance artists committed to realizing a visceral and intelligent theater for a new generation. Assembly members unite varied perspectives in service of wide-reaching, unabashedly theatrical and rigorously researched ensemble performances, crafted to spark conversation with our audiences. Our work embraces the complexities of our present moment; it is a call for empathy and engagement. Embracing collaboration as the core of the creative process, the company chooses projects through consensus and develops text, action and design side-by-side within the rehearsal environment. From workshops to productions to post-performance discussions, The Assembly is dedicated to rooting its artists, audiences, and peers in a profound sense of comm...

Spectrum Theatre Ensemble evolves the awareness, resources, and professionals that empower our neurodiverse community in achieving equal opportunity and full participation in society. Spectrum Theatre Ensemble (STE), in partnership with The Epic Players, is seeking scripts from neurodivergent playwrights for consideration as part of the 2021 Neurodivergent New Play Festival (NNPF). As a part of the NNPF, the Neurodivergent Playwright Initiative will consist of a combination of virtual and in-person readings to be held in July and August of 2021.

Raised in a basement, fed on radioactive trash, Brooklyn based Rat Queen Theatre Company creates devised musicals that reimagine American history. We find that a lot of historical writing is neglectful of the truth and, honestly -- boring. We use history to question everyone’s assumptions (including our own) about the origins of our society. We utilize the unabashedly loud, queer, and ostentatious to dive deeper into the narratives we think we know and uncover what may have been overlooked.

This is a group of Rochester Playwrights, Actors and others who get together once a month to read and discuss each other's plays, screenplays, TV pilots or other written work. We will also, on occasion, have special guests.

Our mission is to support and develop the work of WNY playwrights as they prepare their work for submission opportunities both locally and nationally. Unconnected to any specific theatre company or production opportunity, the group’s ultimate goal is to rigorously write and develop new plays for the submission process. We seek to offer serious career playwrights the resources needed to write 1-2 full length plays per year while also receiving feedback from a supportive group of peer writers, actors, and dramaturgs. We seek to foster and promote the work of playwrights in the WNY area, using the group to as a platform to give these writers more visibility throughout the community.

A Cold Reading Series every Tuesday at 9:00PM

At Home Artists Project is a newly formed group of artists with a simple goal in mind: We create compelling live entertainment in order to fill the current cultural vacuum and promote a sense of community in a time of isolation, all while aiming to help support affected artists and philanthropic arts organizations.

It is the mission of ShirleyArts! to support and promote the visual and performing arts for education and entertainment. We are a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization that has been serving North Central Massachusetts since 2004.

As Un-American Blackbox centers artworks as the vehicle for fostering and promoting conversation about American identity, we’re also committed to offering time, space, and resources for the creation and development of those artworks. PLAYBOX Series is focused on workshops of new pieces of American theatre, culminating in virtual readings for a live audience.

EmpowerHer*Voice is a community-based platform for all people of marginalised genders worldwide to spotlight their innovative and far-reaching vision and foreground their unique and everyday lived experiences. We are a space of collaborative and productive dialogue, a space dedicated to the voice and the story it has to tell. Our platform brings together artists, creatives, activists, and academics or just curious people all engaged in a common mission: to share and cultivate novel ideas with the potential to reshape our shared reality. Our community revolves around the exchange of knowledge and experiences. 
 We cultivate cultural, cross-disciplinary dialogue in our speaker events, workshops and team meetings. We want to create a virtual environment where knowledge filters through differe...

Hear Me Out Monologues seeks to expand and encourage new groundbreaking in the craft of monologue in order to better equip a generation of playwrights and screenwriters with the power to make unforgettable drama (and comedy) happen within the narrow confines of the Zoom box.

The Umbrella Arts Center offers a wide variety of in-person and online arts education instruction for adults, teens, and youth, as well as a summer camp and vacation week programs. In respnonse to distance learning we created The Umbrella @ Home program to deliver quality arts instruction virtually. We are constantly working with our teachers to adapt and design new opportunities to continue to learn, socialize, and experiment with the arts.

Imaginarium Theatre Company Inc. is a nonprofit corporation registered in the state of New York. We are dedicated to creating stimulating stories for the modern world while pursuing and advocating for environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive practices in the theatre industry. We strive to provide opportunities for emerging artists to gain industry experience and work collaboratively in order to build networks of talent and generate new works that enrich contemporary theatre.

Founded in 2016, Pipeline-Collective creates guerilla-style theatre, with emphasis on the craft of the actor, dynamic storytelling, and theatrical magic on a shoestring budget. We cultivate relationships and collaborations across state lines and into non-arts realms. Through innovative programming such as the Playground Series – which seeks to make theatre “dark nights” a thing of the past – and theatrical benefits that call attention to the work of charitable organizations, Pipeline-Collective extends the reach of the arts, empowering theatremakers to tell their stories.

North Star’s mission is to guide the future of storytelling in a post-pandemic world by endowing theater-makers with agile developmental practices and specialized creative teams.

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.

The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), founded in 1972, is a multidisciplinary arts center based in the diverse community of Southeast Queens. It devoted its mission to offer quality visual, performing, and literary arts, and to provide accessible education programs to encourage participation in the arts.

Our Mission is to support playwrights who are developing new work and presenting works that explore our humanity in queer, quirky, dark or in an otherwise askew manner. We are also committed to presenting theatre by queer and people of color whose work explores the world in brave and challenging ways.

We are an independent, nonprofit advocacy group created to identify, unite and promote arts, culture, and heritage throughout Rutherford County, Tennessee. Founded as a 501(c)(3) in late 2018, our mission is to: Advocate for all aspects of our cultural community Promote Rutherford County as a cultural and heritage community and destination Communicate the social and economic impact of the arts Create opportunities for networking, collaboration, education, and economic success Define current arts gaps and create a united front to address these gaps As our tagline states, our purpose is “connecting creatives and community.” We advocate a cooperative, not competitive, approach. Partnering with existing arts organizations, individuals, and other groups—representing government, education,...

'The Imaginary Theatre Company' aims to provide Affordable, Accessible and Original theatre and theatre opportunities to the students of Queen's University, the Kingston Community and the Global Theatre Community through its work in documenting the theatrical process on YouTube.

Township Theatre Group is a voluntary, community theatre company founded in 1952. The Group produces an annual season of plays, musicals or showcases and sponsors a Touring Company that presents short plays and original works in area libraries. All main stage performances are presented in the theatre at Temple Beth El conveniently located on Park Avenue in the heart of Huntington.

The PlayPen Collective is a group of artists comprised of playwrights, actresses, actors, singers and multi-media artists who produce devised theater with a focus on theme and theatrical innovation.

Memoriam Development is a collective of creators gathered together in order to make great original content for stage, screen, and pod. Founded in 2016, Memoriam hit the ground running with its first project, Surial. A podcast parody of the hit podcast Serial.

(S.T.A.C.) wants to challenge and collaborate, to develop and foster a true melting pot that celebrates the all cultures through theater arts in Spokane.

Spokane Playwrights’ Salon (SPS) is a monthly gathering of regional writers interested in the craft of playwriting. Through participation and conversation, we offer each other mentorship, informal readings and discussion. Our goal is to advance our craft and our work through networking and educational opportunities, as well as by supporting venues that promote and produce original plays.

About The UnDisposables. WHAT We are a Theatre Collective, established in order to bring a refreshing wave of opportunity to new and emerging creative professionals. All our work is based on positivity and supporting each other to create art without limits. WHO We are a collection of individuals who currently have our heads down planning new and exciting ideas. In the coming months, we will be formally introducing you to each member of the collective to give you a clearer idea of who we are and what we’re here to create. WHY We are here because we feel the industry is often too cold and limits the very art it is trying to create. As an actor you are often walked over by directors or casting agents who see you as nothing more than your appearance, as anything else almost no one wants to giv...

We are a community of artists, art lovers, music makers, and creators. The Center for the Arts is well known for hosting national music concerts, but we also feature film screenings, a community theater program (Center Players) and showcase artwork by regional, national, and international visual artists in the art gallery. The Center also hosts classes, workshops and programs throughout the year, and adds to the economic vitality of Central New York.

The Breakthrough Theatre is no longer at our Winter Park location. We have closed due to Covid-19. We still offer virtual classes, camps, productions.

Anchorage Community Theatre’s mission is to build community through theatre. We are dedicated to making theatre with and for the entire community of Anchorage. ACT carries out our mission by providing: Exceptional, affordable, accessible theatre productions; Theatre education and training for people of all ages, abilities, and experience levels; Support for other local theatres.

Bindlestiff Studio cultivates artists who reflect and celebrate the diverse values, traditions, and histories of Pilipino and Filipino American cultures through bold artistic expression and community engagement.

For over 40 years, the Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop has been the premiere writing program for new writers looking to start and further their career in the world of television. Every year, the Workshop selects up to eight participants out of more than 2,500 submissions and exposes them to Warner Bros. Television’s top writers and executives, all with the ultimate goal of earning them a staff position on a Warner Bros.-produced television show. The Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop consists of three components, all geared towards preparing the writer for a successful career in television writing. The 2021-2022 Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop will run October 2021 – March 2022, with meetings on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, one evening a week fro...

Writing is often an isolating experience. That’s why it can be helpful to meet with others who share your writing interests to exchange ideas and resources. Since 1984, the Monadnock Writers’ Group has provided fellowship and support to writers in all genres and at all levels of achievement. Our free monthly speaker series brings a variety of accomplished writers to Peterborough to share their experiences and expertise with members. These speakers address a range of genres—fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, blogging and more—from research and planning through publishing.

The BringAbout supports the development of new theatrical works by providing writers and creatives with time, space, and talent to realize their visions through movement. Jennifer Jancuska leads the fluid group of professional artists through the craft of collaboration, allowing dance to be used as a narrative tool. TBA works to meet the needs of each unique project in an imaginative and authentic way. who is JENNIFER JANCUSKA + THE BRINGABOUT? Jennifer Jancuska is a choreographer and creative producer, as well as the founding Artistic Director of the Brooklyn based company, The BringAbout. Over the span of three years, The BringAbout has been engaged in development of more than 25 new works leading towards productions in New York, California, and Connecticut. The BringAbout includes a...

The BringAbout supports the development of new theatrical works by providing writers and creatives with time, space, and talent to realize their visions through movement. Jennifer Jancuska leads the fluid group of professional artists through the craft of collaboration, allowing dance to be used as a narrative tool. TBA works to meet the needs of each unique project in an imaginative and authentic way. who is JENNIFER JANCUSKA + THE BRINGABOUT? Jennifer Jancuska is a choreographer and creative producer, as well as the founding Artistic Director of the Brooklyn based company, The BringAbout. Over the span of three years, The BringAbout has been engaged in development of more than 25 new works leading towards productions in New York, California, and Connecticut. The BringAbout includes a...

Founded in 1988, Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops has been serving playwrights and screenwriters in the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades and is currently offering ONLINE playwriting workshops for playwrights anywhere.

The MFA Musical Theatre Program at San Diego State is committed to the creation of new works of musical theatre. Our objective is to nurture the creation of new musical theater and to provide an invaluable educational opportunity to our students to work directly with top professionals in the field. Over the course of two years, MFA students will rehearse and develop to full production a new work of musical theatre under the guidance of faculty director Stephen Brotebeck and faculty music director (and Head of MFA Program) Robert Meffe. Brotebeck and Meffe have years of Broadway experience developing new musical works for the stage including shows such as Peter and the Starcatcher, Ghost and Little Women. Past artists have included Lynne Shankel, Crystal Skillman, Bobby Cronin, Caroline Pr...

Speranza Theatre Company's mission is to create thought-provoking collaborative theatre centered on women’s issues, providing an opportunity for artists, particularly females, to share their voices through challenging and entertaining theatre based in honesty and truth. Speranza Theatre Company is a non-profit women's theatre company and member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. Founded to provide an opportunity for artists, particularly females, to share their voices through entertaining and challenging theatre, Speranza presents professional theatrical performances, free readings of new works, and educational programming.

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.

Brave New World Repertory Theatre, a Brooklyn-based company, reaches under-served audiences to promote a love of theatre, with re-imagined classics and brave new works that reflect our diverse community. BNW is seeking new play submissions for Brave New Works: Ditmas Park 2022 Reading Series. This season, we are especially looking to feature LGBTQIA+ stories. We are making an active effort to ensure that we cast the largest net possible in seeking talented, new writers from the LGBTQIA+ community. Details are as follows: The submission deadline for the Brave New Works 2022 Reading Series is August 15th, 2021. Due to our small staff, only the first 100 plays submitted will be guaranteed consideration and only finalists will be contacted. Finalists will be notified of their status b...

The Jewish Plays Project puts bold, progressive Jewish conversations on world stages. The JPP’s innovative and competitive development vehicle invests emerging artists in their Jewish identity; engages Jewish communities in the vetting, selecting and championing of new voices; and secures mainstream production opportunities for the best new plays.

Our mission is to cultivate a diverse and vibrant arts community while creating opportunities for local and emerging artists through performances and education.

Wry Crips Disabled Women's Theatre Group has been helping Bay Area women with disabilities find their voice and providing opportunities to get their stories out since 1985.

Our mission is simple: Use art to heal a variety of communities through guided discussion and connections to available resources. #ARTivism SERVICES One of the main goals of Heal.Be.Live., LLC is to use art to start conversations in communities. These conversations are not only meant to foster communication, but to empower communities by connecting them with resources. ARTivism comes in many forms: performances coupled with dialogue, seminars, workshops, presentations, etc. We cater our ARTivism to the needs of our clientele. PERFORMANCES | "APPLIED ART" With this initiative, our goal is to present art that fosters new perspectives. Art is a great way to examine different topics in a way that gives everyone a "shared" point of reference in an entertaining way! Learn more about our work...

Our mission is to provide a platform that nurtures and amplifies the voices of women of color through the development and production of new creative works.

SCRiB LAB offers space for writers to experiment, together-but-alone. There are three types of programs for writers of all genres and ages. Each has a series of mini labs; some aimed at collaboration, others at solitude. SCRiBE is for writers of all genres SCRiPT is for playwrights of all levels SCRiBBLE is for anyone seeking ideas

Villain Theater is committed to fostering talent and building a diverse community of artists in Miami. We provide our students the opportunity to learn with the best improv acting training available. We have a mission to be civically engaged, charitable, and an active part of our community. Villain Theater has a commitment to our neighbors in Little Haiti, to join the already strong identity of the community, and provide new opportunities to grow. We believe Miami is the most exciting city in the world and that we can elevate and contribute positively to the Miami comedy scene. We promise impressive and compelling performances in shows that you cannot find anywhere else.

The purposes of this organization are: ​First: To present live theatre productions for the cultural education, entertainment, and inspiration of the community. ​Second: To foster and develop, through theatrical workshops and other appropriate means, the artistic talents and skills of adults and young people in the community. Especially for those who might not have the funds or opportunity to pursue their interest in the performing arts.​ Third: To engage in and subsidize social activities designed to foster the foregoing purposes of the organization as limited by the laws. Fourth: To take live theatrical productions to locations that lack access to quality live performances.

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.

Entretener, educar y auto gestar experiencias que promuevan habilidades socio-emocionales, individuales y colectivas a través de las bellas artes.

Taller artístico es una corporación sin fines de lucro que ofrece talleres holísticos de teatro musical el cual se ofrece cursos como canto, actuación, baile, música, entre otros. Este taller está diseñado para jóvenes de 12-18 años con un enfoque en teatro musical.

Pleasance is a registered charity and for over 30 years we have provided a valuable platform and launch pad for a huge collection of artists, both at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Pleasance Islington. We have also supported a great many individuals in associated creative, administrative and technical roles within the arts. Fringe Futures Festival is a brand new festival of LIVE work-in-progress shows from leading independent performance makers. Taking place in North and South London across May and June, Fringe Futures Festival is an innovative collaboration between the Pleasance & VAULT Creative Arts, providing an opportunity for early & mid-career artists to try out work at various stages of development in front of a live audience.

deafinitely theatre is the first deaf launched and deaf led professional theatre company in the uk producing quality bilingual theatre in british sign language and spoken english.

deafinitely theatre is the first deaf launched and deaf led professional theatre company in the uk producing quality bilingual theatre in british sign language and spoken english. Whilst the nation were at home due to the Covid-19 lockdown, Deafinitely Theatre launched Deafinitely Digital in a mission to bring theatre to people at a time when accessing live performance is not possible. All the productions have now streamed, however watch this space for future online productions or sign up to our newsletter to get the latest information about live and online productions: https://deafinitelytheatre.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=89bd0c9…

Camden Youth Theatre is completely free to attend and introduces young people aged 13-19, who live or go to school in Camden, to the skills they need to make their own inventive new theatre. CYT work with top professional theatre-makers, creating new shows and performing at two of London’s best studio theatres: here at Camden People’s Theatre and New Diorama Theatre. Our mission is to support young and emerging artists making inventive new theatre – particularly about issues that matter to people right now.

Founded in 2019, Write It Out! (WIO!) is a groundbreaking playwriting program and prize for people living with HIV and AIDS. WIO! takes pride in being created by community for community. Understanding the isolation one can feel when living with HIV, WIO! provides community and artistic tools as it amplifies the visibility of people living with HIV in the theatre and beyond. The goal of WIO! is to use the power of imagination and healing to strengthen the voice of those living with HIV and AIDS and transform the theatrical landscape into a more equitable and stigma-free space. The free workshops take place virtually every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-6:30pm EST, from September - December. Write It Out! is only for people living with HIV. All writing levels/experiences are encouraged to...

Are you a New York-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround is seeking applications for the fourth PlayGround-NY Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading series, from which each year’s Best of PlayGround are selected. PlayGround releases a prompt on a Friday morning and writers have just four-and-a-half days to write an original ten-minute play inspired by the prompt. Of the submitted scripts, 6 get chosen for a fully-staged, partly-teched, script-in-hand reading led by leading local directors and actors, on fourth Mondays, October-March. Writers not...

A lab to create a critical mass of TGNC plays so that the theater cannot say that this work never existed. In 2018, four trans and gender non-conforming playwrights/writing teams will develop 4 new plays in the Trans Lab Fellowship supported by the Women’s Project and The Public Theater. Plays written by trans and gender non-conforming playwrights are a rarity in American theater, as transgender stories get co-opted, commercialized, and poorly represented by cisgender writers, we are developing a lab to create a critical mass of tgnc plays so that the theater cannot say that this work never existed. Our lab will also support 1-2 emerging directors as we have noticed a lack of trans and gnc directors. The year long program culminate in a series of readings of the works developed in the lab....

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, personally and artistically. As an ensemble we find our artistic home in each other.

our mission is to tap into the ephemeral nature of theatre as an art form that leaves no trace and only exists in the present. to put to the test the idea that theatre can happen anywhere, from a mountain to a Walmart parking lot. to challenge expectations of what a play is. to blur the lines between theatre and _____. to pull back the veil of the illusion of disconnection (particularly between the “audience,” “performers,” and the natural environment). to make a space for voices that are not best served by the walls of a theatre space in NYC or for works that are too “out there” to be “produced.” we are not affiliated with Leave No Trace (organization) but certainly abide by those 7 principles when creating in natural spaces

Colie Creations Inc is a writing company founded by cystic fibrosis patient and double lung transplant recipient, Nicole Kohr. The up and coming 501c3 nonprofit is bringing the story time and Broadway experience to every patients bedside through accessible storytelling.

Our versatile ensemble creates visceral experiences that challenge perspectives through passionate storytelling. Shattered Globe is inspired by the diversity of our city and is committed to making the theater accessible to all audiences. Through initiatives like our Protégé Program, we create a space which allows emerging artists to grow and share the ensemble experience with us. Shattered Globe Theatre brings its audiences dynamic re-imaginings of classic works, as well as premiere productions that celebrate new voices and innovative viewpoints.

TMI Project’s mission is to help craft and amplify radically true stories to ignite human connection, challenge the status quo, and inspire both storytellers and listeners to take action for positive social change. We do this by: Teaching true storytelling workshops which culminate in live performances and digital content that focus on the “too much information” parts of a story typically left out because of shame, stigma, fear or cultural expectation. Centering our programming around four social justice initiatives: Anti-Racism, Gender Equality, LGBTQIA+ Rights, and Mental Health Awareness. Partnering with schools, nonprofits, small businesses, and corporations to work with directly impacted folks, students, emerging and veteran activists, and leaders. Shining the spotlight on the st...

Zeiders American Dream Theater is a professional, non-profit theater company whose mission is to provide artistic experiences to the community in a forum that fosters and introduces new, exceptionally gifted artists, composers, and creative writers.

The International Writer's Lab (IWL) is a first of its kind creative accelerator whose core mission is to support global, emerging storytellers in the development of compelling film or television, projects (in live action), create a bridge between African and Hollywood-based African-American storytellers, and help position participants on a path to propel their careers forward through increased awareness and preparedness. Our vision is to create a premiere on-ramp for writers of exceptional talent, starting in Kenya, to high value opportunities and exposure to the best in the Hollywood film and television communities, which will also benefit from greater diversity and inclusion of these dynamic storytellers.

Serve the Latino community with professional bilingual plays (English/Spanish), focusing on the problems and social issues confronting our community; offer workshops for at risk youth, and adults; offer new artists an opportunity to present their work to the public. Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA (Synergy Theater Group) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit arts organization operating out of the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center, located at 2332 West 4th Street in the heart of the Rampart District, one of the most densely populated and economically depressed areas of Los Angeles on the outskirts of Downtown. SINERGIA art workshops for children and youth at risk and adults in Theatre, Photography and Animation. These workshops are also offer in English and in Spanish.

Theater of Possibility - Rehearsal for Living: Finding Yourself through Acting and Improv. TOP serves children, youth and adults who are interested in using theater to explore and express themselves more fully and authentically. We welcome students who are quirky, spirited or shy, or who may have Asperger's, autism, ADHD, or other learning or ability differences. TOP promotes an atmosphere of inclusion and respect for each person's unique gifts.

The Moxie Incubator is a season-long accelerated development program for new, unproduced plays. The Incubator Cohort will be made up of 3 playwrights, 3 directors, and 3 line producers - in alignment with Moxie's mission, we will select work by artists of historically-excluded genders for this program. All participating artists are paid a stipend for every round of the Incubator process. If you are interested in submitting to be a part of the Moxie Incubator Program, you can submit via the link below. Artists can submit to the Incubator as: A Playwright A Director A Line Producer

East Broadway Theatre Project, initially sponsored by the Eileen Fisher Company, in partnership with the Educational Alliance has an opening for March 2022 for reading/work-in-progress musical, concert, cabaret. Readings are scheduled once a month from October through May all events are free to local, diverse audience, beautiful, bare space that seats 85 (covid - 40) in the heart of the Lower East Side.

WNO’s acclaimed commissioning program for contemporary American opera enters its tenth exciting season, showcasing three new one-act operas by talented composer-librettist teams. This season, American Opera Initiative (AOI) mentorship is led by newly appointed AOI Artistic Advisor and librettist Kelley Rourke, librettist and filmmaker Kimberly Reed, composer Carlos Simon, and WNO Principal Conductor Evan Rogister, who will lead a chamber orchestra of WNO Orchestra members. The concert staging will be directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello.

ABOUT THE STUDIO The New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, presented in collaboration with Nautilus Music-Theater, is designed to provide an opportunity for five writers and five composers to work with professional performers, exploring the possibilities and basic elements of music-theater. The studio focuses on the process of collaboration through a series of brief exploratory assignments for the writers and composers. The exercises are then sight-read by the performers in brief working sessions. The participants rotate partners, and the process is repeated four more times. Within the two-week period, all composers work with all writers and all performers. Toward the end of the studio, an informal reading of all the compositions is held. The studio is co-directed by Ben Krywosz (Arti...

Mission Statement To add diverse, relevant and underrepresented creative work to the American opera theater repertoire.

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.

Knoxville Opera’s mission is to provide the residents of East Tennessee with high quality, locally produced opera and to contribute to the future of the operatic art form by educating the community about opera and its role in our culture. Knoxville Opera, founded in 1978, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization presenting productions made possible, in part, by generous funding from our patrons, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Knoxville, the Arts and Culture Alliance of Knoxville, the Arts & Heritage Fund and the Cole Foundation.

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 functional, creative lives. We provide health insurance, generous stipends, and extra funds to support activities ranging from trips abroad for research to theater tickets and more.

Theatre UCF produces a full season of contemporary and classic plays and musicals each year at the University of Central Florida and downtown during UCF Celebrates the Arts. Each summer, Theatre UCF produces a new play festival called Pegasus PlayLab that invites playwrights from around the country to hold public workshops and readings in collaboration with our students and faculty. From dramas to comedies and theatre for young audiences to works tackling today’s pressing issues, there is something for everyone at Theatre UCF! Don’t want to miss a show? You can subscribe and save and not miss a single thrilling performance while getting perks like pre-sale access to UCF Celebrates the Arts and the best seats in the house. And we know UCF’s campus is big, so be sure to check out our locat...

Zoetic Stage accepts new, previously unproduced full-length plays from literary agents. We are unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts by playwrights who are not represented (lawyers and law firms do not qualify as representation). Florida residents may submit a manuscript without representation.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s mission is to create a connection between artists and audiences of all ages. Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) provides award-winning theatre productions and first class educational opportunities on a year-round basis and is the resident professional theatre at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. The Theatre has earned a reputation for the quality and diversity of its plays.

In 2020, Creative 360 celebrates 25 years as a not-for-profit community arts and wellness organization. 25 years ago, Cynthia Keefe and Linda Z. Smith founded “The Creative Spirit Center” with a vision to make creativity accessible to all. Since then, the nonprofit has become Creative 360 and welcomed countless people through its doors to experience, express and expand the creative process in all its forms. Our vision, mission and core values are at the heart of everything we do. Vision We envision a world in which creativity is integral to every life and its value is recognized. Mission To create environments that allow people of all ages and abilities to experience the creative process, and to enhance physical, mental and spiritual wellness through the arts and humanities.

OUR MISSION To enrich and connect the community through diverse opera experiences.

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Playwriting Program (NPP) offers three (3) programs for student-written work: ten-minute plays, one act plays, and full-length plays. See below for specific guidelines and awards for each program, but please make note of these overall guidelines for ALL manuscripts: All plays must be blind submissions, which means that the playwright’s name and any identifying information (including school information) must be removed from the manuscript in its entirety. This includes the title page, and all headers and footers throughout the text of the play. All plays will be evaluated by readers from outside Region 3. Playwrights’ names will be associated with their manuscripts through the electronic form submitted via the Submittable websit...

The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) is New York City’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQ+ theater company. We are dedicated to an honest and open exploration of the life experiences and cultural sensibilities of the LGBTQ+ community and to preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive. The Robert Chesley / Jane Chambers Playwrights Project is an ongoing, intermittent forum for playwrights to have their work presented to an invited audience. No staging. No Q and A. Just an opportunity for playwrights to be heard. The series honors Jane Chambers (1937-83) and Robert Chesley (1943-90) – arguably two of the most original and impassioned voices to contribute to our theatrical heritage.

A COOPERATIVE MISSION The Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative operates 424 w 54 Street as a legally incorporated and wholeheartedly organized co-op supporting entrepreneurs, educators, and artists who share values of service and hospitality. Here, we work to design experiences, build companies and organizations, practice our crafts, cultivate relationships, and grow as people. Read below to learn more about the prime produce co-op and hear what drives some of our members. EVENT SERVICES Host your next event in our creative and dynamic environment. Prime produce hosts can help you or your events team craft an experience to support your event goals. Our hosting team has experience working with corporate, nonprofit, and community based clients needing a plug-and-play venue covering all lo...

The Rogue Lab is an incubator for new work that stretches the boundary of what is currently being done onstage, including immersive experiences, interactive design, puppet plays and genre-bending pieces that fit within the Rogues’ Hyper-theater aesthetic. This lab is an 8-month bi-weekly meeting of 6 playwrights that culminates in a public reading series. Each playwright is paired with a designer, composer, or choreographer and a director who will collaborate with the writer to work through theatrical magic and styles and incorporate the knowledge of those elements into the DNA of the new play. At the end of the residency, plays are presented in a public Rogue Lab Reading Series. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, our 2020 Reading Series is postponed until further notice. INTRODUCING ROGUE...

Mission: Circle X Theatre Co. is a not-for-profit ensemble of artists dedicated to highly provocative, boldly theatrical productions of new and rarely-seen plays and the development of new works for the stage. We believe in imagination over budget, adrenaline over inertia, irreverence over convention and excellence over all.

Birdhouse Theatre is an incubator for professionally driven artists, of multiple mediums, that recruits and nurtures talent, while delivering professional quality. Utilizing local and outside talent, while educating and enhancing civic engagement of modern issues, we hope to create dividends of participants driven and motivated by the arts to be active citizens.

Mission: The purpose of The New Harmony Project is to create, nurture and promote new works for the stage, television, and film that sensitively and truthfully explore the positive aspects of life.

Walking on Water Productions (WoW) is a Tompkins County musical theatre company that empowers local theatre artists by training, collaborating with, and showcasing them through production opportunities, internships, and educational workshops that provide individual development and community connection; together, we present both new and existing works that appeal to multi-generational audiences.

What Is The Cabaret Lab? Award-winning cabaret artists Amelia Ryan and Michael Griffiths have come together to create comprehensive, holistic, fun, and supportive programs to nurture emerging performing artists. Spanning the worlds of both Cabaret and Musical Theatre, the courses cover everything from writing and performing, auditioning and arranging, through to producing and pitching. Having mentored for the Adelaide Festival Centres 'Class of Cabaret' and 'Greenroom' Programmes for 5+ years, as well as running both private and group coaching for adults, they have developed well crafted, finely tuned processes that generate exceptional results. With a signature mix of story-telling, song, heart, humanity, and a healthy dose of humour, the programs are both educational and entertaining!...

Theaterlab is an artistic laboratory dedicated to research into the nature of live performance. Through the development of new and experimental work, including theater, music, and visual arts, Theaterlab supports New York City’s diverse community of artists as well as the general public interested in seeing emerging new work. Theaterlab also focuses on audience development as a creative project. We regard the theatrical experience as a creative public assembly with the audience as an important partner in fulfilling our mission. In addition to producing and presenting new work, Theaterlab provides affordable space for rehearsal and project development, including resident and affiliate artists programs.

Bob Carter’s Actors' Workshop & Repertory Company, Inc. is incorporated in the state of Florida to provide education and training in the theatre arts and to develop professional theatrical productions using primarily local talent. The corporation is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization and all contributions are tax deductible. We thank you for your generous support! Actor’s Rep., a 501 (3c) non-profit organization, is now in its thirty seventh year. Since 1980, the company is known for its strong training programs for actors of all ages, and its productions of daring, avant garde, and seldom-seen classic plays. New classes are underway for children, teens, and adults in beginning and advanced acting and improvisation.

Play Incubation Collective is a hub for new play development based in Western Massachusetts. PIC’s mission is two-fold: ​To provide long-term, process-driven opportunities to develop new plays that challenge the status quo To build a collaborative network of local theater artists and supporters We aim to revolutionize the process of theater-making, as well as the experience of theater-going. It is our belief that the key to doing so is by going local. We are committed to cultivating locally sourced theater created by and for ALL the people in our community. We are invested in the notion that, in order to create a theater landscape that is accessible, sustainable, and equitable, it must be locally sourced and supported.

PIC’s process of play development is unique. We invite incoming playwrights to spearhead their vision with the support of our collective of theater makers. We bring a talented team of actors, dramaturgs, designers and more to collaborate with each writer on the development of their piece, and all of the participating artists help contribute to PIC’s monthly administrative duties. The specifics of what that development looks like are open to the writer. (more details at www.playincubation.org/playwrights) The 2022 PIC writer-in-residence will receive a stipend to go along with this 9-month residency, access to monthly rehearsal space, and a culminating public presentation of their play in the fall. Play Incubation Collective (PIC) see...

Black Box Performing Arts Center (BBPAC), a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in Teaneck 2015 and relocated to 49 East Palisade Avenue in Englewood in 2019, and Black Box Studios (BBS), which has operated in Bergen County since 2007, together form Northern NJ’s premiere theater and performing arts school combo. BBPAC is a working professional theater run by The Black Box Rep Company, a small, tight-knit group of collaborative artists, which self-generates full seasons of cutting edge theater, reviving classics both old and newer, while also developing original works for the intimate stage.

Caffè Lena presents extraordinary music in an intimate setting steeped in history. It is widely recognized as the longest continuously operating folk music venue in the United States. The Library of Congress calls Caffè Lena “An American treasure,” and we have been recognized by The GRAMMY Foundation for our important contributions to the development of American music. Yet we are proud to stay true to Lena’s founding vision of simplicity, kindness to strangers, and art above profit. In keeping with Lena’s devotion to presenting deserving talent regardless of fame, our diverse programming sets the stage for musical discovery year ’round. We invite you to come up to a room where your faith in the power of music will be renewed. You’ll see a world-class performer only feet away; watch every...

Looking for an opportunity to connect with local writers, actors and directors? Want to share a theater piece you're writing? Join the Monthly Playwright's Jam! A monthly meetup hosted by Caffè Lena for local writers, actors & directors. First Sunday Monthly 1:00PM – 3:00PM│DOORS 12:45PM│CASTING BEGINS AT 1:00 PM│READINGS BEGIN AT 1:15

Convention registration and SETC membership is required for all individuals participating in the Ten-Minute Play Festival. Sometimes the best way to take exciting risks, jump at new chances, and explore new ideas is to remove the time it takes to talk ourselves out of it, and the SETC Ten Minute Play Festival strives to do just that! By working within a strict guideline of one twenty-four hour period playwrights, actors, and directors band together to create brand new works and present them in front of an audience under a fun and intense time crunch. New play development is such an incredible process and ten-minute plays really allow us to get to the heart of an idea very quickly, especially with open-minded and kind collaborators.The process is like this: Directors and playwrights get pa...

Live & In Color develops new work for the stage that promotes and celebrates diversity. Emphasizing non-traditional casting, multi-ethnic participants, and bold theatricality, we offer unique development opportunities for new plays and musicals that encourage dialogue among artists from a variety of cultures.

Caliban is a three time MacDowell Fellow and has been a Resident Artist at the RS9 Theatre in Budapest, Hungary; The Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; HERE Art Center; and Galapagos Art Center. He was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant and has been a New York State Council on the Arts Panelist for Playwriting. In the academic world, Caliban has directed, taught and/or lectured at The National Theatre Conservatory, NYU, Columbia University, C.W. Post College, Hunter College, The City College of New York, Towson University, The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and The Director’s Guild. ​ He received his education at Bard College, the Yale School of Drama and the New York Film Academy.

MISSION To develop and produce socially relevant theatre from a unique perspective that promotes community dialogue.

MISSION To develop and produce socially relevant theatre from a unique perspective that promotes community dialogue.

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.

Plays and Pizza is a short play series developed by Rose Desena to bring writers and actors together. We meet monthly at We need a new location Plays and Pizza is a short play series developed by Rose Desena to bring writers and actors together. We meet monthly.

Play On is an arts organisation dedicated to inspiring and engaging young people and new audiences to connect with classical plays. We collaborate with cultural venues, schools and creative industry professionals to place accessibility, innovation and excellence at the heart of our artistic offer.

The Writers Guild Foundation celebrates the vital importance of screen storytelling and storytellers. Founded in 1966, the Writers Guild Foundation preserves and promotes the history and craft of writing for the screen. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we’re proud of all we do for the community, including our Veterans Writing Project, our Volunteer and Mentorship Programs, our Archive, and the Shavelson-Webb Library.

The Writers Guild Foundation celebrates the vital importance of screen storytelling and storytellers. Founded in 1966, the Writers Guild Foundation preserves and promotes the history and craft of writing for the screen. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we’re proud of all we do for the community, including our Veterans Writing Project, our Volunteer and Mentorship Programs, our Archive, and the Shavelson-Webb Library.

In an effort to provide their students with more educational and artistic opportunities, Baylor University has recently restructured and revamped their Musical Theatre concentration. Lauren Weber from Baylor University says, “A part of this restructuring process has been to examine the work that we do with our students and how it compares to current trends in professional musical theatre, and explore ways that we can better prepare our students to take on a variety of roles in professional and educational musical theatre upon graduation. We have added new works into our rotation as a way to give students the opportunity to participate in the development and workshopping process of a new musical work.” Lauren Weber reached out to MusicalWriters.com about this new submission opportunity. Ba...

Kentucky Playwrights Workshop (KPW) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, encouragement, and support of playwrights who live in the state of Kentucky.

Adventurous Puppet Theatre, Film & Creative Engagement

Delivering Professional Theatre Productions & Interactive Theatre Workshops for Boomers and Seniors where they live and gather.

Founded in 2009, by former members of the Professional Playwrights’ Unit of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, dramatic question theatre (dqt) has developed plays that have both received a wide array of national honors and been nominated for major awards including the John Gassner Award for New Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, Drama Desk Award for Best Play, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The company develops plays by Women and People of Color that deal with race, culture, and class. Concurrently, it builds a diverse audience from the Latinx and Black communities it regularly serves.

Formerly at The Lark, BareBones® are simply staged public presentations of plays in the later stages of development. A BareBones® is the culmination of a comprehensive development strategy including Lark generative and/or workshop programs, and an intensive 80 to 100 hours of rehearsal in advance of six to eight public presentations, designed to foster a sense of community engagement around the rehearsal process. BareBones® are designed as a significant resource for playwrights and their creative collaborators to replicate many of the opportunities and challenges of a production rehearsal environment, while remaining in a controlled laboratory space. Plays that have been developed through the BareBones® program include Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, Chisa Hutchinson's She Like Girls, Ra...

The Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop program, formerly at The Lark, is an annual residency that gathers five playwright fellows at various career stages. Created and facilitated by playwright Arthur Kopit and a rotating group of esteemed playwrights including Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck, José Rivera, Doug Wright, and others, Goldberg Fellows meet in twelve bi-weekly sessions throughout the year, sharing excerpts of new work in progress, read cold by a group of high caliber actors in an informal but rigorous laboratory environment. As part of their residency, fellows are provided an opportunity in May of each year to present a public reading of work developed in these sessions, as an extension of the workshop process.

For over 15 years, TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS, INC. has been licensing popular small cast plays and musicals to theatres throughout the country and internationally as well. Best known as the creator of the hugely popular musical hit, ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE (which was named by AMERICAN THEATRE magazine as one of the top 10 most produced shows), TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS is a boutique licensing company that prides itself for its personalized service to our many client theatres. Other popular shows that TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS licenses include the musicals, THE HONKY TONK ANGELS and THE HONKY TONK ANGELS HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR and the plays, STORIES MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME and A SOUTHERN BELLE PRIMER ( OR WHY PRINCESS MARGARET COULD NEVER BE A KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA) which is based on the best selling, cu...

The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award winning not-for-profit theater that presents an annual season of new performance works. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance. We provide a springboard for emerging professional artists to make career-defining leaps, and we are a sanctuary where established artists come to experiment and innovate. We are also a neighborhood playhouse, serving our Bushwick, Brooklyn community's diverse artistic needs and impulses. The Bushwick Starr began in 2001 as a developmental space for the New York based theater company, Fovea Floods, Inc. In 2004, the company helped to fully conver...

Theater for Young Audiences at 92nd Street Y is a series of performances and discussions centering children as the audience. Our shows are stimulating and compelling, using storytelling as a vehicle for building empathy, and learning essential life lessons. Our shows gather around movement as a shared language, a way to meet each other through the most universally shared experience: moving. Audience participation and a crafted handmade design remind children that they are essential creators in the story. Theater for Young Audiences at 92nd Street Y (92Y.org/MusicalTheater) is seeking to commission playwrights for a new series specifically designed to introduce 6-10 year olds to the exciting world of Shakespeare. The commission requires writing a 40-minute performance piece for children a...

Arts Umbrella is where young artists ages 2–22 cultivate their creativity in Dance, Theatre, and Art & Design. As a non-profit centre for arts education, we believe that art is powerful. Powerful enough to change kids’ lives in incredible ways. When young people connect with the arts, they gain self-confidence, develop self-discipline, and discover creative expression—qualities they carry with them for life. Arts Umbrella has four locations in Vancouver and Surrey, as well as donor-funded programs at schools, community centres, neighbourhood houses, and healthcare facilities across Metro Vancouver. We reach more than 24,000 students every year, with nearly 80% participating at little to no cost.

Playwrights Ink is a Madison, WI non-profit association of theater artists dedicated to the development of playwrights and their work. Our members include area playwrights, actors, directors, and theater enthusiasts. Through informal readings at our monthly meetings we help writers develop their scripts. Actors read a writer’s script, which is followed by a discussion during which members explain what they thought was effective and offer constructive suggestions. Anyone can attend a meeting and offer feedback. While we are not a production company, we have on occasion presented public staged readings of our members’ plays, following which we encourage audience feedback. In July 2013, in honor of our 21st year, Madison Performance Collective with Mercury Players Theatre produced Coming of...

Welcome to The Art Centre Theatre - The finest community of talented youth, teens and adults in the North Texas area. Conveniently located in Plano! We offer instruction in theatrical arts (music, dance, voice and more!) Last year serving over 700 children and staging over 50 complete productions. We hope you'll enjoy our shows, and consider joining our rapidly growing family!

Refracted is a 501(c)3 theatre production company based in Chicago. The company's mission is to use innovative theatre to tell "the other side of the story." By looking at complex issues from different angles, through a multi-faceted lens, we generate meaningful discourse that centers our core humanity.

Up to four plays by WTP member playwrights are selected each year to participate in the Ethel Woolson Lab. Each recipient is given a 29-hour developmental workshop, culminating in a rehearsed, staged reading for the public. Each selected playwright is partnered with a support team of artists designed for the needs of the play and the playwright. This includes a dramaturg, a director, a stage manager and a cast of actors. The EWL is Working Title Playwrights most in-depth development opportunity. Because the lab is an intensive process, WTP asks that the playwright take time off to spend the week dedicated to the script. Beginning in 2019, WTP has included a stipend for the recipient playwright, marking the 10-year anniversary of the lab. The Ethel Woolson Lab selection process involves 5...

Working Title Playwrights, a new play incubator and service organization based in Atlanta, Ga., is now accepting submissions for the July 2022- June 2023 New Play Development Apprenticeship. Those interested in dramaturgy, playwriting, arts administration, new play incubation and more - are invited to apply. WTP encourages Global Majority/BIPOC artists to submit. The mission of this apprenticeship is to support emerging artists in all aspects of their career and aspirations. This is not a trade for work or services. Apprentices will: Work closely with staff and board to find your home in the organization Be offered free access to our 5-6 Master Classes and 2-4 Master Chats per year, including the WTP Dramaturgy Intensive Tailor your apprenticeship experience to uplift your artistic and ca...

The Keegan Theatre’s Boiler Room Series (BRS) is pleased to announce numerous opportunities for artists, including playwrights, actors, designers, stage managers, and other production team members. Playwrights are invited to submit new works to be considered for development as part of the 2022-2023 Boiler Room Series. Actors, designers, stage managers, and other production team members are invited to submit for the upcoming 2021-2022 Boiler Room Series, taking the mainstage as part of The Keegan Theatre’s 25th Anniversary Season. EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION: The Keegan Theatre and the Boiler Room Series believe that Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are essential in the open and honest exploration of the human condition. Through a commitment to these tenets in casting, staffing, and t...

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 2021/22 cohort included Cusi Cram, Brittany K. Allen, Judy Gold, Migdalia Cruz, Brenda Withers, C. Quintana, Tina Satter, Mfoniso Udofia, Madhuri Shekar, and AriDy Nox, with such topics as Playwriting...

SPL is the only designated new script development company currently operating in Spokane, WA. We give you, our playwright, a unique opportunity to workshop your unfinished drafts into fully realized scripts ready for print or production. Through professional collaborations, staged readings, and live audience feedback, we can give you a competitive edge.

The Ensemble Playwright Lab (EPL) is a residency program in which the playwright engages with Letter of Marque's (LOM) ensemble to create, develop, or reimagine a piece of work; which will be presented to the public at the end of the residency. There will be two residencies: Fall & Spring. Two playwrights, one for each residency, will be selected to work with our ensemble once a week, for a total of 21 hours of collaboration and discovery. And the best part? The EPL is FREE to the playwrights! Each residency is uniquely tailored to provide playwrights with the opportunity to collaborate closely with LOM’s artistic directors and professional multi-disciplinary ensemble. This experimental process of creation and development is designed to welcome the playwright into the rehearsal roo...

WOMEN'S WORK is an award-winning program comprised of two separate, dramaturgically-driven Labs: 1) The Short Play LAB (SPL) selects 4-6 emerging women playwrights each year and leads them through a rigorous, step-by-step process to create original 15-30 minute scripts in six-months, written to an assigned theme. The plays are then produced in an annual festival; 2) the Full-Length LAB is for selected alumnae of the SPL to develop longer works over an extended period, with the same guidance and production goals. Both LABS meet monthly, have submission deadlines, and provide comprehensive and rigorous feedback to the writers. 6-8 directors commit to the full year of the two LABs, both permanent resident directors and guest artists. The WOMEN’S WORK LAB for short plays provides a suppor...

The Maestra Mentorship is a six-month hybrid partnering program which connects women and nonbinary musicians (ages eighteen and up) who are interested in continuing their pursuit of a career in making music for the theatre with professional women and nonbinary musicians currently working in the musical theatre industry. Prospective composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, instrumentalists, and lyricists are all encouraged to apply. MAESTRA provides support, visibility, and community for the women and non-binary people who make the music in the musical theater industry. Our membership comprises music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, lyricists, sound designers, electronic music programers, rehearsal pianists, and instrumentalists in musical theater. An...

The National Music Theater Conference proudly supports the development of all styles and genres of music theater, including musicals, song cycles, operas, and hybrid works. In keeping with the ethos of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the National Music Theater Conference strives to create a supportive, collaborative environment in which emerging and established artists alike are welcome to explore, experiment, and take risks with their work-in-progress. The National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is the nation's premier program for the development of all styles and genres of music theater, including musicals, song cycles, operas, and hybrid pieces. Every summer, three unproduced works are selected from a nationwide pool of submissions for a two-week-long...

The New Works Series intends to cultivate and nurture the talent of the next generation of Southern playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as we feel it is our responsibility to follow in the footsteps of great American Southern playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Beth Henley, and Wayne Kirkpatrick (among others). Furthermore, the Studio Tenn New Works Series strives to deconstruct the notion of what voices, themes, and stories historically come from the Southern region of the United States.We are thrilled to showcase the work of the next generation of Southern playwrights and composers, and in doing so give our community the opportunity to witness how new theater is created. Program Information: 2022-23 Season marks the inaugural year for Studio Tenn’s New Works Series. After the su...

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 expertise or curiosity. The Jam culminates its season by presenting work to the public. Past presentations have included evenings of works-in-progress (JAMboree, Mistleshow, Jam on Ice, Cotillion), read...

The New Jersey Play Lab is a collective of dramaturgs who are committed to collaboration, methodology, and excellence in their work. The New Jersey Play Lab is a home for playwrights and dramaturgs of all career levels who seek collaboration, methodology, and excellence in their work. At each and every point of engagement at The New Jersey Play Lab, whether through our early career foundational programming, play development forums, dramaturgical services, or our developmental residencies, the focus is on providing the knowledge and opportunity to move forward in one’s artistic and professional journey. While some of our programming is limited to NJ-based artists, many of our programs have no regional restrictions.

The Terrence McNally New Works Incubator is a fellowship program created by the Terrence McNally Foundation in partnership with Tom Kirdahy Productions (TKP) and Rattlestick Theater. As a continuation of Terrence McNally’s singular legacy of fostering bold new voices in the American theatre, the incubator will support the development of new plays by offering resources and professional mentorship to three early-career playwrights and creating an opportunity for them to develop their work with the support of both a nonprofit theater and a commercial theatrical production company. McNally fellows are selected by a panel of renowned American playwrights. The selection panel for the inaugural cohort of McNally fellows includes Sheila Callaghan, Stephen Karam, MJ Kaufman, Donja R. Love, Taylo...

The Old Lady project is an initiative to encourage the development of plays and musicals that feature significant roles for female identifying characters over 50. Plays will be submitted to a national panel of directors and producers and two staged readings will occur in Evanston per year. A directory of works will be featured on the Old Lady Project webpage to facilitate connections between theatre companies, directors and producers.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University supports the development of new musicals. AMTP’s goal is to provide artists and their works with the proper time, space, and resources to realize their intended vision and shepherd them through the next step of their developmental journey. Additionally, inviting artists and pieces to campus allows Northwestern students to engage with new work in a rewarding and illuminating way through performance opportunities, assistantships, and observation. AMTP strives toward becoming a fully inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist program through the pieces we select, the artists with whom we choose to work, and how we engage the Northwestern student community.

Launched in 2018, the Table Series gives members the opportunity to work with a dramaturg/director on their new play and experience it read by members of the WTP Actor’s Ensemble with moderated feedback throughout the evening. The Table Series does not culminate in a finished product, but in a new stage of process: opening up the text to artists with fresh perspectives and the questions of a professional cast. Bringing together a team of actors, a dramaturg/director to lead the room and an intimate audience to respond, this series features four or five readings every year. In an effort to replicate the first rehearsal of a (29 hour style) workshop, each reading happens in one evening. We are excited to offer our members and ensemble exclusive access into what actually happens within WTP’s...

The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn will be a year-long professional development program open to emerging Philadelphia playwrights and will focus on navigating the industry. Every month experts in their sector will engage the cohort on subjects such as entertainment law, building a portfolio, finding representation, having agency in the rehearsal room, managing personal finances and more. The Cohort will operate on a hybrid model, holding monthly meetings in person and online. Session dates TBA throughout the year.

Pipeline’s Playlab is a playwrights group that aids and encourages artists in growing their biggest, wildest ideas into imaginative and daring new plays. Through monthly meetings, one-on-one dramaturgical support, and workshop-events, each writer is supported in developing their ambitious initial concept into a new script over the course of a year! In line with our vision, we want you to send us your most impossible idea for a play that you are dying to write. We are looking for plays that bend the rules, and playwrights who crave a space in which they can dive into new, uncharted territory. We are interested in fostering projects in their earliest stages of conception – the closer you are to first putting pen to paper, the better! Our vision: we believe that an unbridled imagination i...

We are pleased to announce the launch of PlayList: a new short play development series. PlayList is for writers of any background, identity, education or experience level who are interested in honing their work on a short script with a room full of artists experienced in new play development. The CRY HAVOC Company believes that writing a script doesn’t have to be a solitary experience. Collaborative feedback at key points in your writing process can bring you closer to your goals. Our approach to script development places your writing goals at the center of the workshop process, ensuring that collaborators are giving feedback that helps you write the play you are trying to write. If you are interested in seeing how our structured feedback process can support your work, apply to be among...

The ASCAP Foundation "The Latin Beat" Songwriter Program supported by the Harold Adamson Lyric Award is a new initiative to benefit songwriters of Latin descent who write music predominantly in Spanish and who are in the early stages of their career. Five (5) writers will be selected to participate in a two-day writer’s retreat where each music creator will be paired with one (1) veteran Latin music writer. Mentors will work with participants on crafting a new song or enhancing an already written work. The workshop will culminate in a listening event where participants will have the opportunity to showcase their work.

The Latiné Musical Theatre Lab, LLC is a NYC-based organization with a national footprint that develops and advocates for new Latiné-written works of musical theatre. The Lab is a sponsored artist with The Producer Hub (The Tank LTD), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)3 organization serving the performing arts community. We envision a world of equity in the theatre community for Latiné artists. Where our representation on and off stage matches our representation in the general population. Where our participation in the theatre community reflects the true contributions of Latinés to the fabric of this nation. ​ We see a world where audiences and producers embrace our stories as a fundamental, unalienable part of the art form - not simply as a way to check the box of diversity, or throu...

Launched in 2023, WATERWORKS celebrates new theatrical voices in Charlottesville and beyond! This festival of new works puts the playwright at center stage and diversifies the stories told on the Live Arts stage. WATERWORKS is presented by The Madwoman Project.

Since its launch in 1973, The Banff Playwrights Lab has provided an inspiring, interdisciplinary, and inclusive environment for Canadian playwrights to work on their plays while surrounded by playwrights and performing artists from across the country and around the world. We are proud to gather on Treaty 7 territory to create, share, and explore theatrical storytelling. The upcoming 51st edition of the Playwrights Lab encourages applications from established and emerging playwrights that are telling compelling stories and exploring new creative landscapes in this time of both deep challenges and great opportunities for the theatre world. We invite artists developing new works for both adults and young audiences – especially artists that are new to the Lab – to join us in a dynamic co...

Mitu’s Hybrid Arts Lab supports women, trans, and non-binary artists working at the intersection of performance and technology. With a focus on early career BIPOC artists, this program offers studio and creation space, technical resources, training, and mentorship to a small cohort for the exploration, development, and expansion of their practice and a new artwork. The program culminates in a series of in-process studio visits that invites our community into a conversation about process and innovation. 2024 marks our fifth annual Hybrid Arts Lab and thanks to the generous support of New York Community Trust’s Van Lier Fellowship Program, we will convene a cohort of three artists for ten months. Each artist will receive support to develop an artwork bridging performance and technology. This...

Are you a Chicago-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround is seeking applications for the 2024-25 PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading series, from which each year’s Best of PlayGround are selected. PlayGround releases a prompt on a Friday morning and writers have just four-and-a-half days to write an original ten-minute play inspired by the prompt. Of the submitted scripts, 6 get chosen for a fully-staged, partly-teched, script-in-hand reading led by leading local directors and actors, on first Mondays, November-April. Writers...

Playwrights’ Round Table develops original theatrical works year-round through monthly workshops, staged readings, and productions of select plays. These activities support the development and artistic growth of area playwrights and introduce local audiences to new voices of the American stage. In 1997, PRT launched as a playwriting support group focused on growing and developing local writers. In its first year, PRT established a monthly playwriting workshop where actors read works from both established and emerging playwrights. Many of these plays went on to be produced by PRT and/or submitted nationally. In its existence, PRT has presented over 500 new plays by over 100 different playwrights, and remains the only theater in Central Florida producing new work year-round. Today, PRT p...

Bechdel Project is a feminist arts incubator for storytellers. With over 50 years of combined experience in arts management, advocacy, and new work development, we move nimbly to deliver a unique blend of art, activism, and education. Bechdel Project is rooted in the vibrant cultural landscape of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and was founded in 2015 with the goal of addressing harmful gender disparities prevalent within our culture’s storytelling. Bechdel Project believes that we can change our culture by changing the stories we tell and that the lack of women-centered stories in our culture is harmful to women and men alike. Our mission is to amplify the voices and stories of women, non-binary, and underrepresented genders through art, activism, and education to shape a more equitable future for...

'Tailz of Too Katz' is a literary play on words, the phrase coming from the Charles Dickens novel, 'A Tale of Two Cities' in 1859. While there's little literal inspiration from this book, it's an invitation to understand the various dimensions that comprise the organization. 'Tailz' is used to symbolize cat tails. 'Too' denotes more than two. And Katz - well, that is self-explanatory. In other words, ours is a story wrapped in a riddle & wrapped in an enigma. Throughout this site, as well as many of the elements, denote a playful note. This silliness is in contrast to the depth of the issues that are fundamental to our business. The (mis)spelling of many words is intential specifically where the letters 's' have been substituted with 'z' & 'c' replaced with 'k'. With more...

Girls Write Now is a nationally award-winning nonprofit, media brand, and multi-generational community. For nearly three decades, we have broken down the barriers of gender, age, race, and poverty to mentor, teach, and connect writers and leaders across disciplines and around the nation. With a focus on those historically disempowered due to their gender and gender identity, we harness the power of stories to shape culture, impact industries, and bridge worlds. ince 1998, Girls Write Now has been forging a path for a diverse powerhouse of voices across genders, races, ages, and socio-economic backgrounds to uplift the leaders of tomorrow. Our community spread across the nation is loudly and proudly telling their stories every day, and we’re doing our part to ensure they’re heard. As we co...

Life Jacket Theatre Co is a purveyor of undertold stories. We create bold, challenging, and theatrically imaginative shows focused on real people and events. We build every show using rigorous field and archival research. We have been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, two American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Design Awards, seven New York Innovative Theatre Awards, and eleven BroadwayWorld Awards. Our work has been selected as Critic’s Picks by The New York Times, Time Out New York, Fest Magazine, Voice Magazine, and The List and has been named the “#1 Show at the Edinburgh Fringe” by Fest Magazine and among the “Top 10 Plays of the Year” by New, Now, Next. Now, we are accepting applications for the WRITERS ROOM, a new dramaturgical home dedicated to supporting and uplifting emerging LGBTQ+...

Housed in the Musical Theatre department at Manhattan School of Music, the Lab Series is a new musical development program which provides writers and their creative teams with valuable time and space to workshop their projects, with MSM students serving as actors and in other necessary roles. Once in residency, creative teams maintain full autonomy over their process. Some residencies end with a presentation, but that is not required. However teams choose to spend their time, they are supported by our faculty and students, who are guided by a passion for cultivating the future of the musical theatre. Using an open-submission process, the Lab Series selects cutting-edge musical theatre projects with potential for professional life. All members of the creative team must be able to be physi...