Neat Job Alert: City Theatre in Pittsburgh, one of our fantastic Member Theaters, is looking for a Director of Patron Services: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
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"If you feel like this world is on fire and daily tasks have become meaningless, this theater show is for you." — @baystatebanner.bsky.social
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Want me to steal your soul? Read the play first! newplayexchange.org/script/20463...
Big thanks, as always, to @newplayexchange.bsky.social for making it so easy for directors and producers to find my work! I wouldn't have half as many souls... I mean, productions without them!
By adding new members to its Core Partner Program, the D.C.-based Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company seeks to deepen its investment in local communities.
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With two weeks until the PlayFest Indy reading of this is a face, we are excited to introduce the incredible cast! Join us at Indiana Repertory Theatre on March 23rd at 7PM for an unforgettable night!
For cast details and tickets, click here: https://www.newharmonyproject.org/pfi
The NNPN Rolling World Premiere of "Haunted" by Tara Moses opens at Cleveland Public Theatre this week. I promise you don't get enough Indigenous horror comedy in your diet, so make some plans. thelandcle.org/stories/clev...
Thinking tonight about this beautiful piece of theatre/film/performance we got to make with @csvich.bsky.social 5(!) years ago.
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Announcing our 2026 Br!NK New Play Festival Playwrights! Congratulations! 🎉
The 2026 Br!NK New Play Festival will be May 16 & 17 at the Baumgartner Center for Dance, passes go on sale April 13. Mark your calendars & we'll see you at the Baumgartner Center for Dance in May! https://ow.ly/VUaT50Ynjtm
My February @newplayexchange.bsky.social 'Read and Rec' project is complete! I've read so many high-quality plays this month and am absolutely blown away by the talented folks in my orbit.
Final Tally:
- 39 Plays by
- 37 Playwrights!
Here's who I read and rec'd this last week:
Yessssss! ♥️
We’re thrilled to share that we’re just one month away from the showing of this is a face by J.C. Pankratz at PlayFest Indy! Join us on March 23rd at Indiana Repertory Theatre!
For more information on the cast and how to reserve tickets, click here: https://www.newharmonyproject.org/pfi
Yesterday the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize was awarded to two writers on their side of the Atlantic: U.S.-based Ro Reddick for “Cold War Choir Practice” and U.K./Ireland-based Hannah Doran for “The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights.” www.americantheatre.org/2026/02/26/r...
During Valentine’s weekend, Amanda L. Andrei visited the beloved Colorado New Play Summit for its 20th anniversary at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
SF-based folks, Playwrights Foundation is seeking a PT, year-round literary manager to support the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) and Resident Playwright Program: jobs.gusto.com/postings/pla...
Mon. 3/2, join Playwrights' Center for Artists in Conversation, in person or livestreamed. Twin Cities theater leaders from Penumbra, Capri, Pillsbury House, Theater Mu, Mixed Blood, & Springboard on response to ICE activity in the context of their artistic missions.
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Fellow playwrights! I’ve been reading and recommending plays on NPX (@newplayexchange.bsky.social) throughout February. I'm officially 4 weeks in and my eyeballs are killing me in the BEST way.
Here's just some of the 30+ incredible plays and playwrights I’ve read so far.
#NPX #Playwrights
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Thanks so much for sharing these! What a delightful resource.
Explorations of Grief cont.)
ELEPHANT by Margie Stokley-Bronz
FLAMENCO SONG OF LIVING & DYING by Riti Sachdeva
TROUBLE OF THE WORLD by Nikki Brake-Silla
I’M SO FUCKING TIRED (BUT I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO KEEP WRITING ABOUT THIS) by Rachel Lynett
THE GROVE by Monet Hurst-Mendoza
All on NPX 🧡
"... And letting go of what was 'supposed' to happen. They are a collective reminder that grief is dynamic and complex.” —playwright Megan Tripaldi
WHAT IF THIS WERE A WEDDING? by Julia Jennings
ARIADNE’S WAKE by Monica Cross
EVERYBODY WINS by Katie Bauer
ISLAND FUNERAL by Catherine Stewart...
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New Featured Script List up on NPX:
EXPLORATIONS OF GRIEF🧵
“While writers tend to explore grief in tragedies, they can also do so with humor, absurdism, mythology, & more. These scripts explore grief inspired by different causes: from death & the end of childhood to losing a version of yourself...
In solidarity with our Twin Cities colleagues, we’re sharing “Rise and Respond” donation links to MN arts organizations. Courtesy of Eleanor Savage and the Jerome Foundation.
Join us for the world premiere of DUMBED DOWN by Darryl Stamp February 12-March 1. Tickets and details at planbtheatre.org/dumbeddown
Audio & video by Danor Gerald.
The Kennedy Center’s roles as an incubator of new work for young audiences, and as a generous host for the American College Theater Festival, will be hard to fill, writes Daniella Ignacio.
Applications for the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective, a 9-month developmental program under the direction of Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker, will be open Feb. 2-March 2. Further details at playwrights.cherrylanetheatre.org
Theatres across Minnesota have closed for the day during the state’s general strike against ICE’s violence.
www.americantheatre.org/2026/01/23/i...
For those marching during the general strike today, confirmed warming sites include: Minneapolis Central Library, the Hennepin County Government Center, and Farrell’s Extreme Bodyshaping - St. Paul Gym.
In our winter 2026 print issue, the prolific L.A. playwright Justin Tanner chats about his newest autobiographical play, MY SON THE PLAYWRIGHT at @roguemachinethtr.bsky.social, and how his family has shaped his artistry.
www.americantheatre.org/2026/01/20/p...
Megan Gogerty chats with Charity Nebbe about her new show "Fair State," opening January 22 at Riverside Theatre. Interview starts at 31:21.
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love for my play FUTURE EMERGENCIES on @newplayexchange.bsky.social . "a triptych of dissolving social fabric, set to the pace of telling a secret at a party."