Center Theatre Group Launches L.A. Writers' Workshop Festival, Today

Center Theatre Group has announced the launch of the inaugural L.A. Writers' Workshop Festival: New Plays Forged In L.A., to celebrate some of the freshest and most exciting voices in Modern American Theatre coming out of Los Angeles and Center Theatre Group's long-standing L.A. Writers' Workshop. To be held annually at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the festival will feature readings of three new plays by three L.A. Writers' Workshop participants from throughout the program's thirteen year history. The inaugural festival will be on June 23 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. with readings of "A Kind of Weather" by Sylvan Oswald, "New Life" by Dan O'Brien and "How To Raise A Freeman" by Zakiyyah Alexander.

"The talent-level of writers who live and work in L.A. is unmatched," said Center Theatre Group Literary Manager and Artistic Engagement Strategist Joy Meads. "For more than a decade, Center Theatre Group has nurtured many of these exceptional voices through our Writers' Workshop - offering them the space and community to research and write new plays. Now, through our L.A. Writers' Workshop Festival, we can continue to support the excellence of the playwrights who call Los Angeles home by sharing their compelling new works with the public."

The festival begins at 11 a.m. with a breakfast reception and there will be a closing reception at 7:30 p.m.