2014-15 season writers
9 years 6 months ago

We're thrilled to announce the plays and playwrights to be featured in our 2014 PlayLabs festival and 2014-15 Ruth Easton New Play Series. This year, the Ruth Easton New Play Series will grow from one reading of each play to two.

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9 years 6 months ago

We invite you to apply for one of our fellowships or the Core Writer program. Deadlines for 2015-16 are:

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William YellowRobe
9 years 6 months ago

Affiliated Writer William YellowRobe has opened the nation's first play development center for Native American playwrights in Arlee, Montana. The Inter-Tribal Playwright Center at the Bearhead Swaney Inter-Tribal Theatre Company kicked off in August

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9 years 6 months ago

It's so great having Ken Weitzman here at the Center this week for his first Core Writer workshop with us. Ken says, "I write plays because it's the way I think—in dialogue with a condensed kind of storytelling. It's the way I wish to reach and

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Bianca Sams
9 years 6 months ago

The playwrights selected for Tennessee Rep's 2014-15 Ingram New Works Project include current Playwrights' Center Core Apprentice Bianca Sams and 2013-14 Core Apprentice

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dance of the holy ghosts
9 years 6 months ago

Marcus Gardley's dance of the holy ghosts, developed at the Playwrights' Center as part of the 2011-12 Ruth Easton New Play Series, is part of the Ubuntu Theater Project 2014 Summer Theatre Festival, with performances September 5-13.

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9 years 6 months ago

Core Writer Idris Goodwin and Playwrights' Center members Nathan Yungerberg and Eric Holmes have been commissioned to write monologues or performance essays for The New Black Fest's Hands Up

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Harrison David Rivers
9 years 6 months ago

Two current Playwrights' Center writers will have work featured at the 2014 PRELUDE festival, taking place October 8-10, 2014 at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.

Many Voices

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