American Playwrights News

No Puppet Co. will present the World Premiere of CRUSH, a video puppet play written by Krista Knight, presented in six parts and released in separate installments on YouTube, August 4-20.

Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced its 2020 Artists-in-Residence: Trip Cullman, Joshua Harmon, Michael R. Jackson, Sylvia Khoury, Martyna Majok and Tyne Rafaeli.

Chicago Dramatists invites you to the online reading of Richard Gustin's new play A Sparrow Falls on Saturday, July 25 at 2:00pm (CST), presented by the Ubiquitous Players.

Second Stage Theater has confirmed two plays for its Broadway home, The Hayes Theater, as well as one play for its off-Broadway home, The Tony Kiser Theater, for its upcoming 42nd Season in 2021. An additional off-Broadway production will be announced in the coming months.

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AATAB is not a theatre company. They were originally founded in 2018 as a social collective connected by a Facebook group. In response to Boston's need to embrace local Asian American artists she explains she would rather see established organizations do the work to welcome and elevate members of the community than see an individual company formed.

Southwest Shakespeare Company (SSC) invited Grammy Award winning Native artist, Ty DeFOE to direct their imaginative new broadcast of A Midsummer Night's Dream to benefit COVID-19 RELIEF among Arizona and Southern Utah's Native communities most devastated by the C-19 pandemic.

Philadelphia Theatre Company has hired New York director Jeffrey Page as a resident artist, to deepen the diversity of the theatre's future.

Randy Reinholz (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Producing Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, is stepping down after more than two decades leading America's only Equity theatre company devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights.

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Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced that Ensemble Member and playwright J. Nicole Brooks (Her Honor Jane Byrne) has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to support a three-year residency at Lookingglass Theatre Company through the National Playwright Residency Program (NPRP).

In collaboration with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, HowlRound Theatre Commons established the National Playwright Residency Program (NPRP) in 2013.

We've rounded up 10 books about Black theatre to read and educate yourself while in quarantine. 

L.A. Theatre Works, the world's leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection of work to stream free on its website.

Six American playwrights have won a total of $150,000 as the 2020 winners of The New York Community Trust's Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. The winners are Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Kimber Lee, Donja R. Love, Mona Mansour, Diana Oh, and Sung Rno.

New York Theatre Barn will host a free live stream of its New Works Series on Wednesday, June 17th, 2020 at 7PM EDT, featuring excerpts from the new musicals Wally Flynn and The River is Me.

During this quarantine, there have been a TON of free resources for us students- online Zoom webinars, general sessions with casting agents, free classes and more!! Everyone reminds us to make the absolute most of this free time to really hone our craft, as well as learn about 1,000 new skills to add to the ole' resume.

New York Theatre Barn will host An All-Female Tribute to Edna Ferber in a free live stream on Monday, June 15th, 2020 at 7PM EDT. The celebration will introduce the first new musical works based on Edna Ferber short stories.

a?oeGive the people A day of peace. A day of pride. A day of justice We have been denied. Let the new day dawn, Oh, Lord, I pray... We'll never get to heaven Till we reach that day.a?? - Ragtime