2024 Summer Playwriting Workshop Readings

STAGEtwo is excited to announce the return of the Summer Playwriting Workshop! Once again, we are thrilled to welcome back the talented and experienced Yu-Li Alice Shen as our mentor for the Summer Playwriting Workshop!The workshop will begin the week of July 7th and run for five (5) weeks, followed by a staged reading of excerpts from each play on August 24, 2024. There will be approximately three (3) meetings per week, and some may be virtual based on participants’ schedules. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to participate in the staged readings.As always, at the staged reading, the audience will vote for the play(s) they’d like to see performed in a full live production! These votes will be weighted with votes from the playwrights and our STAGEtwo Board Members’ input and the winner will be able to see their play performed live at the end of the 2024-2025 season! (Or 2025-2026, if it can’t be worked into the current season, because we’re still used to rapid changes now, right?)

This year, to more fully emulate the experience of having a play produced, each play excerpt will be assigned a director and the readings will be “semi-staged.” To accommodate this, there will be two (2) weeks between the workshop end and the staged reading. Playwrights will have the option to receive feedback throughout this process.

This is still the only local community theatre-run playwriting program in the area and we have been overwhelmingly blessed by the excellent plays have come out of this annual workshop! Come join with us, to help keep local original theatre alive!