PlayShops

Our Annual PlayShop Festival occurs in the Spring each year. During this unique and intensive program, playwrights work collaboratively with a director, dramaturg, designers, actors, and audiences over a five-week period to fully develop scripts into plays ready for world premiere productions.

Submisions will be accepted for our Fifth Annual PlayShop Festival beginning January 1, 2011. We will seek new, previously unproduced scripts from playwrights in the greater Philadelphia area. Philadelphia Theatre Workshop looks to the PlayShop Festival to choose productions for our mainstage season. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2011.

Philadelphia Theatre Workshop presents world premieres of high quality scripts that reflect diverse, contemporary, human stories. Our plays are chosen because they present characters, situations, and perpectives not seen on other area stages. We are looking for unproduced, full-length, contemporary plays that require simple sets and costumes, with small casts and low technical requirements. For the festival, we are specifically seeking plays that are IN PROGRESS and would benefit from the five-week developmental process. Four plays will be chosen for the festival.

Questions? Call Artistic Director Bill Felty @ 212-300-3540