Upcoming Events

TBTB is thrilled to showcase their first Short Play Festival after nine years! Running through April 11, 2026, the festival’s name is TRANSCENDENCY RISING: SHORT PLAYS ABOUT DEFYING LIMITATIONS, and it is at Theatre Row’s Theatre Five in New York City. The playwrights are John Patrick Shanley, Cate Allen, Bekah Brunstetter, Kathryn Grant, Lyle Kessler, Jeff Tabnick, and a few other surprises.

Thursday–Saturday at 7 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm. 

DG Members are offered discounted tickets reduced to $38. 

Use discount code: TRTBTB

Dramatists Guild National Silent Writing is open to DG members and non-members at no additional cost.

Writing is an art that thrives on inspiration, yet it can often feel like a solitary journey. We know that finding the motivation to write can sometimes be challenging. That’s why the Dramatists Guild offers ongoing online silent writing sessions, designed to transform your solitary endeavor into a communal experience.

Join DG Director of Business Affairs, Jessica Lit, Esq. and Staff Attorney, Leesa Fenderson, Esq., for a walk-through of the newly revised DG Model Premiere Production Agreement - NY/LA.

This agreement is used for premiere productions for small professional theatres in New York and Los Angeles and is one of the most frequently used contracts in our library. 

Please note that all sessions will be held on Zoom.

DG Members in the Atlanta area are invited to join a reading of this work. Registration is free, but seating is limited. Please rsvp in advance. 

April 22 @ 4:30 to 5:45 p.m.

About the play: While we still have icebergs, join us on Earth Day for a talk and reading by R. P. Singletary, whose cross-genre work of experimental form addresses grief, love, borders, and so much more. A rollicking ride across time+place. 

More about the work: https://parlyaree.com/speaksoftly

The Business Affairs team is excited to present its new monthly series: Attorneys Backstage! Each month, Director of Business Affairs Jessica Lit, Esq. and Business Affairs Consultant Leesa Fenderson, Esq. “pull back the curtain” on various aspects of the business of writing for the theatre.

Dramatists on Dramatists is a new series of online programming that brings together two DG members, to discuss whatever topics are of interest to them!

Their writing, their careers, their similarities, their differences—everything is on the table! There will also be time for questions at the end of the conversation.

Our guests for this evening's event: Samuel D. Hunter and Benj Pasek. 

This is an In-Person event.

Join Dramatists Guild Regional Co-Reps for San Diego, Tori Rice and Mabelle Reynoso, for a Writers Night Out with the local playwriting community on Saturday, May 2, 2026!

The evening kicks off at 6:30 PM with a casual mixer in the lobby of OnStage Playhouse—come hang out, enjoy light refreshments, and connect with fellow Dramatists Guild members. 

It’s a chance to catch up, meet new people, and talk all things theatre in a low-key, welcoming space.