Playwrights' Center

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Champion playwrights and new plays
When you give to the Playwrights' Center, you support the brave, talented playwrights who are creating new work for the American stage.
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Meet the new Core Writers
Meet the new Core Writers
Welcome to Darren Canady, Erin Courtney, Marisela Treviño Orta, Stacey Rose, Ariel Stess, and Ray Yamanouchi
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2018-19 McKnight Theater Artist Fellows
2018-19 McKnight Theater Artist Fellows
Welcome to Scott W. Edwards, Masanari Kawahara, and Elise Langer!
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Join our membership community
Playwrights' Center membership is open to all. Connect with the 2,000 playwrights around the world who have found their artistic home here.
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Meet the 2018-19 Core Apprentices
Meet the 2018-19 Core Apprentices
Welcome to Lily Padilla, Drew Paryzer, and Lauren Wimmer
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As a Playwrights’ Center member, you’ll join 2,000 other playwrights worldwide, of all styles and experience levels. Benefits include exclusive access to our playwriting opportunities database, regular articles from experts, classes and seminars, one-on-one dramaturgy sessions, staged readings, and ways to connect with other playwrights.

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At the PWC this week: Benjamin Benne

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McKnight Fellow in Playwriting Benjamin Benne has the final workshop of his fellowship year today. He is doing further work on #nowall with dramaturg Wendy Weckwerth and actors Cristina Castro and Nora Montañez Patterson....