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M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A
by A. Van Jordanadapted by abigail jean-baptisteIn-person reading September 18
A Northern Stage workshop reading in partnership with Playwrights’ Center. A collaging of the award winning poetry collection by A. Van Jordan, this new play explores how we can be ready to spell our futures on our own terms.
Artists in Conversation: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
September 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Join us for an extra-special Artists in Conversation, with Ruben Santiago-Hudson! All ticket sales benefit Playwrights’ Center.
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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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: The Collaborators by E. Klaumann

ONLINE CLASS: Crafting a musical theater treatment

M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A

ONLINE SEMINAR: Our Desire is in the Past (and it may want us back)

IN-PERSON CLASS: Jokes for Plays

Artists in Conversation: Ruben Santiago-Hudson

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: LunarBiscuit and the Fanfic Squad’s First Ever Writing Retreat by Tyler Fridley
LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: LunarBiscuit and the Fanfic Squad’s First Ever Writing Retreat by Tyler Fridley

ONLINE MEMBER OPEN PLAY: October

ONLINE WRITING INTENSIVE: Crossing the finish line, early drafts 101
ONLINE WRITING INTENSIVE: Crossing the finish line, early drafts 101

Our Next Chapter | Season Announcement Party

IN-PERSON CLASS: Writing for the solo performer

ONLINE SEMINAR: Revolutionary Satire

LOCAL MEMBER OPEN PLAY: Featuring New Plays on Campus Writers

IN-PERSON MASTERCLASS: Musical Theater Songwriting

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

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 SEMINAR: Love Anyway

ONLINE SEMINAR: Staging a Staged Reading

ONLINE SEMINAR: Making Sense of Endings

ONLINE SEMINAR: World Building Through the Senses
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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Thank you and an update
It’s been a little over a month since we asked for help getting through an urgent moment and our community responded in force. More than 300 people—longtime supporters and new friends—donated to Playwrights’ Center, and were joined by institutional partners who’ve stepped up in significant ways.
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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.