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Playwrights' Center names Jeremy B. Cohen Producing Artistic Director

The Playwrights' Center, one of the nation's most respected champions of playwrights and new plays, announced today that Jeremy B. Cohen will become the Center's second Producing Artistic Director in the history of the organization. Cohen currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Development at Hartford Stage, having served with significant national recognition in that capacity for the past six years.

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New Play Trailers!

The trailers for Dominic Orlando's The Sense of What Should Be, Rhiana Yazzie's Ady and Sherry Kramer's The Bay of Fundy are up on our website now, and more will arrive soon. The new trailers are shorter and filmed in a theatrical setting.

Click here to watch the new trailers!

2010-11 Jerome Many Voices Fellows Announced

Playwrights' Center awards fellowships to Lisa Brimmer, Reginald Edmund, Kathryn Haddad, Shira Naharit, and Eric "Pogi" Sumangil

Playwrights' Center names Jeremy B. Cohen Producing Artistic Director

Playwright Buzz

NEW: Adam Kraar's EMPIRE OF THE TREES receives nomination from NY Innovative Theatre Awards; productions of new work by John Olive, Rhiana Yazzie, Janet Allard, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Sherry Kramer, Lee Blessing, Monica Raymond, and Andrew Kramer; and a reading Catherine Filloux's DOG AND WOLF.

New Core Writers Announced

Andy Bragen, Christina Ham, Adam Kraar, Mona Mansour, Mat Smart, and Victoria Stewart (renewing) to receive three-year terms in the Core Writer program.

2010-11 McKnight Fellows Announced

Six playwrights and theater artists honored with grants, artistic support

2010-11 Jerome Fellows Announced

The Playwrights' Center has named Dan Dietz, Gregory Moss, and Rhiana Yazzie the recipients of the distinguished 2010-11 Jerome Fellowship.

PlayLabs is back

Playwrights' Center's celebrated new play festival to return in fall 2010

Playwrights' Center doubles apprenticeship program through partnership with Kennedy Center

NEA grant expands opportunities for student playwrights, dramaturgs

Playwrights' Center Re-Opens Search for Producing Artistic Director

Revised position profile posted

Plays by Center playwrights earn raves at Humana

Fissures: lost and found; The Cherry Sisters Revisited; Heist!; and Lobster Boy written by current or past Playwrights' Center Core Writers and fellows.

New Plays on Campus Program Experiences Growth Spurt

Program forges relationships between colleges and working playwrights

Jerome Fellow Virginia Grise Wins 2010 Yale Drama Award

"Virginia Grise's writing is blazingly talented and resonant and the play stays with you long after you've read it," says playwright David Hare, who judged the competition.

Many Voices Fellow Reginald Edmund headed to Last Frontier Theatre Conference

Held annually in Valdez, Alaska, the conference provides development support for selectees and attracts award-winning theater artists, scholars, and critics.

Allison Moore's Adaptation of My Antonia Opening at Illusion Theatre in Minneapolis

Moore's play was developed through Illusion's Fresh Ink Series; performances begin February 19.

Core Alumna Jamie Pachino wins $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize

The prize honors outstanding contributions to the American theater by an emerging female theater artist; Pachino is the fourth Playwrights' Center artist to receive the award in five years.

Playwrights' Center Honors Mentor Charles Nolte

Charles Nolte, the esteemed actor, playwright, director and theater professor who inspired a group of writers to band together for support, passed away Thursday at age 87.

Jerome Fellow Kristoffer Diaz's hit play heads to NYC's Second Stage this April

Congratulations to 2009-10 Jerome Fellow Kristoffer Diaz, whose smash-hit The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity will receive yet another production, this time at New York’s famed Second Stage.

Rhiana Yazzie

Rhiana Yazzie is a Navajo playwright based in Minnesota. She is a Playwrights' Center Core Member and is commissioned by the Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater to write a play for American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle. In the 2008/09 seasons, Rhiana will see the production of four...MORE

Barbara Field

Barbara Field, has had work produced across the United States, Canada and Europe. She served as playwright-in-residence at the distinguished Guthrie Theater from 1974 to 1981, creating a number of pieces: her translations include Marriage (Gogol), Monsieur de Moliere (Bulgakov), and Pantalgleize (Ghelderode). Ad...MORE

Trista Baldwin

Trista Baldwin Trista Baldwin is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships (04-05 and 05-06) and a 2006-2007 McKnight Advancement Grant. Commissions include WADE THE BIRD (The Guthrie), published by Playscripts), TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITO (The Production Company) and STU AND RAY (New Georges). Her work has a...MORE