Mat Smart
5 years 11 months ago

Core Writer Mat Smart is at the Playwrights’ Center this week, workshopping his new play Every Three Hundredth Night with director Cláudia Nascimento and actors Nora Montañez Patterson, 

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Tim J. Lord
5 years 11 months ago

Jerome Fellow Tim J. Lord is workshopping Fault & Fold at the Playwrights’ Center this week with director Nicole A. Watson and actors Carley Rosefelt, Imran Sheikh*, Annie Schiferl,

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Mia Chung
5 years 11 months ago

Jerome Fellow Mia Chung is working on her untitled Korean War musical at the Playwrights’ Center this week, in partnership with Nautilus Music-Theater. She is collaborating with director Ben Krywosz; music director Jill Dawe; composer Marc Chan; and

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Mfoniso Udofia
5 years 12 months ago

McKnight National Residency and Commission recipient Mfoniso Udofia is at the Playwrights' Center this week, one of several visits over the course of her residency year. She is workshopping her commissioned play Lifted, part of her 9-play

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Larissa FastHorse
by Malick Ceesay and Jessica Franken
6 years 2 days ago

Playwrights’ Center Core Writers can use their play development funds and time however they want. This often takes the form of a play development workshop with collaborators in our theater, but sometimes playwrights choose to do research

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Picture of the cover page of the script for POLICE BOYS by Marion McClinton
by Jessica Franken
6 years 2 days ago

Marion McClinton’s Police Boys takes place, says the script, in “a future you can touch with your hand.” That future is a moving thing, pushing out ahead of a play that started its long life at the Playwrights’ Center. It takes place in the

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Show are for The Gentleman Caller at Raven Theatre - a drawing of William Inge and Tennessee Williams
6 years 2 days ago

This season, more than 50 productions of Playwrights’ Center-developed work can be stages across the country and abroad (see map).

April-May 2018, catch these Playwrights’ Center-developed pieces. Did we miss

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C. A. Johnson
6 years 1 week ago

Core Writer C. A. Johnson is at the Playwrights’ Center this week, workshopping her new play The Climb. She is collaborating with director Jennie Ward and actors Sandra Struthers*, Kiara

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