Dramatists Guild Foundation News

Atlantic Theater Company has revealed its Judith Champion Launch Commissioning Program writers for 2025. Learn more about the Commissioning Program and the writers here!

Nicolette Blount will join Moms' Night Out: The Summer Show at The Green Room 42 on July 26th at 7pm. Blount is a Chickasaw composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, and producer.

HARP Theatricals will present the original short play I Keep Leaving Parties Early by Amelia Kennedy, directed by Heather Bildman, as an official selection of the 50th Annual Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Festival (OOB Festival) - one of the nation's leading short play showcases.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 10, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Playwrights Jocelyn Bioh and Samuel D. Hunter and multi-sector leader Audrey Choi have joined the Dramatists Guild Foundation Board of Directors. Learn more here!

Roger Q. Mason will receive a staged reading of their play Night Cites as part of the Cherry Picked new play reading series with National Queer Theater. Learn more!

Playwright Andrea Aptecker will premiere her psychological thriller, There Are Monsters, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest this month. Learn more about the show here!

Acclaimed Black Filipinx playwright and Kilroys List honoree Roger Q. Mason will receive a staged reading of their play THE PRIDE OF LIONS, directed by é boylan with original dramaturgy by Gaven Trinidad

Rorschach Theatre’s 2025 Magic in Rough Spaces New Play Lab will present a trio of staged readings of new plays, each featuring sample design elements to give audiences a taste of what a full production might feel like.

On Monday, May 12th, the Dramatists Guild Foundation welcomed the Tony-nominated writing team of Death Becomes Her to share their creative and collaborative process with DGF supporters and fans of musical theater. See photos here!

Rorschach Theatre has announced finalists for its annual Magic in Rough Spaces New Play Lab. Get full details for the plays. The final three plays will be announced May 19, 2025 and public readings of those finalists will be on June 14, & 15, 2025.

Permafrost Theatre Collective will present a one-night staged reading of Zig-Zag by Philip Catherwood. The reading will be presented as part of PTC's ongoing Icebreaker Reading Series at Pearl Studios (500 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018) on Wednesday, May 14 at 6pm (doors open 5:30). 

Last night, the Dramatists Guild of America honored the recipients of their 2025 Awards with a ceremony at Green Fig at which playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists celebrated their fellow theatre writers. Check out photos here!

Tickets for the pre-Broadway world premiere stage adaptation of Prince's legendary film and album, PURPLE RAIN, will go on sale on Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m..

Original new musical PROUD MARYS will return to New York, following its presentations at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Fall 2024 Festival of New Musicals. Learn more!

Roger Q. Mason will receive the World Premiere of their play California Story with Outside in Theatre at LACC's Caminito Theatre. Learn

California Story, the first play in Roger Q. Mason's Califas Trilogy, will premiere at Caminito Theater at Los Angeles City College on May 12, 2025. Directed by Michael Alvarez, the production features an outstanding cast, including Aphrodite Armstrong, Camila Arteche, Davi Santos, Gracie Cartier, Morgan Day, Sawyer Shine, and Peter Mendoza.

Durango PlayFest has revealed the four new works that will headline its 7th annual play development festival in June. Learn more about the festival and the lineup and see how to attend.

Coming off a successful concert reading of Bend Toward the Light, a new musical written with collaborator Bryce Palmer, at the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, Sarah Slipp will be performing selections from the show at PinkFrog Cafe.

Refracted Theatre Company has shared its 2025 season, including Dream Hou$e, written by Eliana Pipes and directed by Laura Alcalá Baker, and Role Call, Refracted’s series of free, community reading series.