what’s new & happening
Announcing the 2026-27 Public Season
Ten incredible playwrights. Ten brilliant new plays. Launching December 7.
Come to the Center, and be a part of the new play development process!
Welcoming the Newest Core Writers & Core Apprentice
We welcome playwrights Blossom Johnson, JuCoby Johnson, and Christina Pumariega as Playwrights’ Center Core Writers through the 2028-29 season, as well as 2026-27 Core Apprentice Liggera Edmonds-Allen.
Announcing the 2026-27 McKnight Fellows
During the 2026-27 season the Center will welcome McKnight Playwriting Fellows Rachel Lynett and MK Tuomanen, along with McKnight Theater Artists Sarah Bahr, Jason Hansen, and Will Sturdivant. McKnight National Residency and Commission recipient Andrea Assaf will complete this exceptional cohort.
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Reach “End of Play” with us!
All of our classes are taught by professional playwrights and theater artists, and they’re open to anyone. Whichever class you take, you’ll walk away with the tools you need to write your next great play.
Upcoming events & classes

ONLINE MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Your Trial is Tomorrow

ONLINE SEMINAR: Revolutionary Satire

IN-PERSON CLASS: Writing for the solo performer

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Featuring New Plays on Campus Writers
LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Featuring New Plays on Campus Writers

IN-PERSON MASTERCLASS: Musical Theater Songwriting

ONLINE MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Tell Her What She’s Won, Johnny…

ONLINE SEMINAR: Elements of Dialogue: the Gristle and Grammar of Drama
ONLINE SEMINAR: Elements of Dialogue: the Gristle and Grammar of Drama

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Addie Mae Baker

they say hearing is the last sense to go

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Open Call

ONLINE SEMINAR: Getting It “Right,” or, How One Autistic Playwright Learned to Stop Worrying About ‘Getting Autism Wrong,’ And How You Can, Too!
ONLINE SEMINAR: Getting It “Right,” or, How One Autistic Playwright Learned to Stop Worrying About ‘Getting Autism Wrong,’ And How You Can, Too!

ONLINE MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Affected Place

A Train Unloads its Sorrows

ONLINE SEMINAR: Love Anyway

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Five Minutes to Forever

ONLINE MEMBER OPEN PLAY: The Fifth of November

Guns in Trees

ONLINE SEMINAR: Staging a Staged Reading

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Survivor Type

PHENOMENON

ONLINE MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Dark Mother

GUNNER

ONLINE SEMINAR: Making Sense of Endings

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Evoluted

Sing For Me

ONLINE MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Disappear

Eat the Rich

ONLINE CLASS: Writing the Divine: Bringing The Gods to The Stage

ONLINE SEMINAR: World Building Through the Senses

Hedda and George

ONLINE SEMINAR: Writers and Randomness

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More Playwrights’ Center news
In memory of Kate Sutton-Johnson
Playwrights’ Center joins the whole of the theater community in mourning the loss of the extraordinary Kate Sutton-Johnson.
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Announcing our 2026-27 Many Voices Mentee
Congratulations to our 2026-27 Many Voices Mentee, Kathryn Fumie!
We’re thrilled to welcome Kathryn to the Playwrights’ Center family, and look forward to sharing her work with you next season.
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An update on upcoming events
We have chosen to postpone our February Ruth Easton and In the Lab events (Amy Berryman’s The Treatment and Marvin González De León’s American Carnage.) We hope you will join us at a later date to hear their brilliant and transformative work.
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We are here.
We built this space for community to gather and experience art together, even in–especially in–our darkest times. If you’re able to join us, we hope you will.
We stand as always with you, with playwrights, and with the universal right to free expression.
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More News
Catch up on more articles including past announcements, playwright interviews, and more.
