Edmonds Driftwood Players is committed to fostering new plays and supporting playwrights in our community. The New Works program has two interconnected components. Driftwood After Dark is a group of local playwrights who meet to share and develop new work. First Draft, which is curated by the members of Driftwood After Dark, presents six to eight staged and directed readings of nearly production-ready scripts for an audience each year. Although the majority of these public readings are sourced from the development pipeline of Driftwood After Dark, one or two plays each year are selected from scripts submitted by local writers who are not part of the group.