OUR MISSION
The 29th Street Playwrights Collective develops the voices of emerging, mature playwrights through weekly writing sessions, craft discussions and presentations.
Our goal is to foster new work for the stage while supporting the needs of the playwright, committing to gender parity (serving 50% women), and providing opportunities for the public to attend workshop performances and provide feedback.
Our over-arching artistic goals are to develop as playwrights by creating socially-engaged plays that speak to audiences today in ways that cultivate empathy and understanding across diverse peoples, and to bring people together in community, to educate and support people, to enlarge the audience for theatre, to keep theatre alive as a vital art-form that is necessary and valuable.
Since 2016, 29th Street Playwrights Collective has hosted live theatre events, including The UnAuguration, 2017, 2018; The Future Is Female Festival 2017, The Feisty Women Festival 2018, 2019, Write Now Presentations, the Annual Michael Warren Powell Memorial Play Readings, A Solstice Event, an Annual Holiday Party, industry readings, as well as our signature program: The New Works Series (now in our 5th year!)
The New Works Series has built a track record of presenting the first public reading of new plays that have successfully transferred to larger professional venues, including Off-Broadway productions at 59E59, the National Black Theatre in Harlem, Dixon Place, Theatre for the New City, and Summit Rock in Central Park, New Circle Theater Company, and regionally at Golden Thread Theatre, Centerworks (Berkeley CA), DETC (Desert Ensemble), garnered productions in Japan, Toronto, Sydney, New Zealand, South Korea and London. Plays developed at 29PWC have attained award status as O’Neill Semi-finalists, Henley Rose Competition for Women Finalists (2), Unicorn Finalist, 2 Bechdel Festival Finalists, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition Collaboration Award Honored Finalist, Risk Theater Modern Tragedy Competition Finalist, Silver Ear Award at the “Me & My Masks” Monologue Festival; and podcasts produced by Playing on Air, Parsnip Ship, Lost Souls Monologues, Inkubator Lab, and have been published in numerous anthologies.
*Check out our UPCOMING EVENTS page to keep up to date!
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The 29th Street Playwrights Collective develops the voices of emerging, mature playwrights through weekly writing sessions, craft discussions and presentations.
Our goal is to foster new work for the stage while supporting the needs of the playwright, committing to gender parity (serving 50% women), and providing opportunities for the public to attend workshop performances and provide feedback.
Our over-arching artistic goals are to develop as playwrights by creating socially-engaged plays that speak to audiences today in ways that cultivate empathy and understanding across diverse peoples, and to bring people together in community, to educate and support people, to enlarge the audience for theatre, to keep theatre alive as a vital art-form that is necessary and valuable.
Since 2016, 29th Street Playwrights Collective has hosted live theatre events, including The UnAuguration, 2017, 2018; The Future Is Female Festival 2017, The Feisty Women Festival 2018, 2019, Write Now Presentations, the Annual Michael Warren Powell Memorial Play Readings, A Solstice Event, an Annual Holiday Party, industry readings, as well as our signature program: The New Works Series (now in our 5th year!)
The New Works Series has built a track record of presenting the first public reading of new plays that have successfully transferred to larger professional venues, including Off-Broadway productions at 59E59, the National Black Theatre in Harlem, Dixon Place, Theatre for the New City, and Summit Rock in Central Park, New Circle Theater Company, and regionally at Golden Thread Theatre, Centerworks (Berkeley CA), DETC (Desert Ensemble), garnered productions in Japan, Toronto, Sydney, New Zealand, South Korea and London. Plays developed at 29PWC have attained award status as O’Neill Semi-finalists, Henley Rose Competition for Women Finalists (2), Unicorn Finalist, 2 Bechdel Festival Finalists, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition Collaboration Award Honored Finalist, Risk Theater Modern Tragedy Competition Finalist, Silver Ear Award at the “Me & My Masks” Monologue Festival; and podcasts produced by Playing on Air, Parsnip Ship, Lost Souls Monologues, Inkubator Lab, and have been published in numerous anthologies.
*Check out our UPCOMING EVENTS page to keep up to date!
Support our work! Click Here
Queen Mair, by Matthew J. Wells
The inaugural reading in the New Works Series, February 29, 2016
“King Lear has a wife, and she’s got a play… ‘Queen Mair,’ a prequel to ‘King Lear’ by Matthew Wells that focuses on Lear’s wife, will receive a free public reading on Monday night at Goddard Riverside’s Bernie Wohl Center on Columbus Avenue.” (Matt Windman, AMNY Feb 26-28, 2016)
The inaugural reading in the New Works Series, February 29, 2016
“King Lear has a wife, and she’s got a play… ‘Queen Mair,’ a prequel to ‘King Lear’ by Matthew Wells that focuses on Lear’s wife, will receive a free public reading on Monday night at Goddard Riverside’s Bernie Wohl Center on Columbus Avenue.” (Matt Windman, AMNY Feb 26-28, 2016)