Playwriting Events
Playwriting News
Decentered Playwriting, a new book from Routledge Press, will be released this December and features the work of Playwriting alumna Luz Lorenzana Twigg ’23 as well as a foreword written by Associate Professor David Henry Hwang.
Playwriting alum C. Quintana ’13 has been named the inaugural recipient of Life Jacket Theatre Company’s $10,000 commission for Trans+ playwrights. Quintana is also the theatre company’s Resident Playwright.
Theatre alumni Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 and Sam Grabiner ’21 are among the select thirteen playwrights chosen to receive this year’s prestigious Sloan Commission.
Professor Lynn Nottage is featured in a new sculpture series at Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art.
Playwriting alumnus Alaudin Ullah ’22 will bring his one-person, multi-character play Dishwasher Dreams to The Old Globe this fall for the play’s West Coast premiere.
Love (Among Dreamers) by Theatre alumnus Greg T. Nanni ’21 makes its debut as the first production from Broadway For All's newly launched initiative, The House.
Playwriting alumnus Harrison David Rivers ’09 has written a new play called The Salvagers. The play, scheduled to debut in November 2023 at Yale Repertory Theatre, is directed by filmmaker Mikael Burke.
The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival has announced the winners of its 2023 competition, and current playwriting student Darius M. Buckley is among the honorees.
Theatre alumna Daaimah Mubashshir ’15 is set to co-host the exciting annual reading festival, (Writ)ual Mix Mixfest 2023, at the Atlantic Theater Company. This year, Mubashshir is not only co-hosting the festival but also sharing her work through a reading of The Immeasurable Want of Light, a play about a black, overweight artist coming of age in an alternate universe.
Playwriting student Amalia Oliva Rojas has been awarded an inaugural Hansberry Lilly Playwright Fellowship.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a new play by Jocelyn Bioh ’08, will premiere on Broadway in fall 2023.
Theatre alumn C. Quintana ’13 has recently released The 126-Year-Old Artist on Audible, an audioplay that shows the path to success isn’t always straightforward.