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Workshopped readings and an Artist Salon with the 2025-2027 Featured Playwrights.

Synopsis

What was it like being the first to hear early drafts of Angels in America? Or Fences? Or The Glass Menagerie? Or Twelfth Night? At Playwright Festival, you’ll know.

Last year’s Playwright Festival gave audiences the opportunity to meet with, and see early drafts of new work from Tony Award-nominated playwright Kristoffer Diaz and two-time Sundance Fellow christopher oscar peña. This year, you’ll be the first to welcome the visionary 2025-2027 Featured Playwrights and see early drafts of the plays commissioned for our 2025-2027 cycle.

Audiences are the cornerstone of our work, and your seat at the festival makes you an active participant in the creation of new plays from some of the most unique, powerful, prolific, and in-demand voices of the modern stage.

You’ll enjoy two workshopped readings, and close the weekend off with a catered Artist Salon with the playwrights. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with the Featured Playwrights, and to discuss their work, their process, the state of their art, and the state of the world. While those playwrights have yet to be announced, Profile Theatre has already identified and commissioned those writers. At Playwright Festival, our audiences and artists build the future of live theatre together.

Dates

Friday, June 27th | First Workshopped Reading
Saturday, June 28th | Second Workshopped Reading
Sunday, June 29th | Artist Soiree

Location

Location To Be Announced!

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