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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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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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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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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Quiver only got one reading because of a severe weather, but you all really made it count. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped Core Writer Meg Miroshnik take this moving new play to the next level. A few rehearsal photos are below; you
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The final play in our 2017-18 Ruth Easton New Play Series is the bandaged place by Core Writer Harrison David Rivers, with readings April 9 and 10, 2018, at the Playwrights’
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Core Writer Allison Gregory is at the Playwrights’ Center this week, workshopping her play about the six infamous Mitford sisters: Darling Boud, Hen, Henderson, Honks, Woomling, Love
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