Playwriting News & Events

A new play by Acting alumna Liba Vaynberg, The Gett, will have its world premiere at Rattlestick Theater.

Playwriting alumna Rehana Lew Mirza ’07 will present Words We Believe at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2022 New Works Festival in Saratoga

Playwriting alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09, alongside Ethan Pakchar and Douglas Lyons, workshopped the new musical, Five Points, at Dis

Your Own Personal Exegesis, a new play by Playwriting alumna Julia May Jonas ’12, will have its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Claire

Playwriting alumnus Sam Grabiner ’21is the recipient of the Verity Bargate Award for 2022.

This year, alumna Daria Polatin ’07 logs an accomplishment many writers only dream of: adapting her own novel for the screen as the creator and sho

Alumni Jocelyn Bioh ’08 and Saheem Ali ’07 wrote and will direct, respectively, the new musical Goddess, set to have its world premiere at the Berk

Playwriting Concentration Head and Associate Professor David Henry Hwang has been named this year’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee as part of the A

School of the Arts alumni Josh Koenigsburg '09 and Tyne Rafaeli ’14 will be contributing to The Geffen Playhouse's 2022/2023 season.  

Playwriting alumnus Julián Mesri ’20 and Dramaturg alumna Meropi Peponides ’13

Concentration Head and Associate Professor of Playwriting David Henry Hwang

What You Are Now, a new play by al