29th Street Playwrights Collective
  • Upcoming Events
  • Our Mission
  • DONATE
  • New Works 2022
    • Global Excursions by Maxine Kern
    • Love Triangle: A Trilogy
  • New Works Series 2020/21
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2019
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2018
    • FUKT by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • GLORIOUS DISASTER by Caroline Prugh
    • THE DIAMOND EATER by Carrie Robbins
    • EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD by Robin Rice
    • LEAVE PHILADELPHIA, NEVER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • TOM & TED GO TO THE RACES
  • Meet the Artists
    • Melissa Bell
    • Edgar Chisholm
    • Paul Hufker
    • Maxine Kern
    • Gabrielle Maisels
    • Robin Rice
    • Catherine Rogers
    • Michael Wells-Oakes
    • Emeritis Members >
      • Emma Goldman-Sherman
      • David Sard
      • Julie Richardson
      • Carrie Robbins
      • Matthew Wells
      • Suzanne Willett
  • New Works Series 2017
    • BARABBAS by Matthew Wells
    • THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DR. CUTTER by Carrie Robbins
    • LADY CAPULET by Melissa Bell
    • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • MAN & WIFE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • SURVIVORS by James Masten
    • LUST & LIES by ROBIN RICE
    • BREATH TO BREATH by Michael Wells-Oakes & Max Balton
  • New Works Series 2016
    • QUEEN MAIR by Matthew Wells
    • LOVE, SEX, ANARCHY by Melissa Bell
    • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
    • SHADOWS by David Sard
    • BONGANI by Gabrielle Maisels
    • LIFE AND OTHER DISASTERS by Julie Richardson
    • A COLD DECEMBER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS by Emma Goldman-Sherman >
      • Stage one readings >
        • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
        • LIFE, & OTHER DISASTERS by Julie RIchardson
        • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
  • Michael Warren Powell Memorial Reading
  • The UNaguration
  • Feisty Women Festival
  • Support New Work
    • Our Supporters
  • The Future Is Female Festival
  • Write Now Workshop
  • Writing Prompt
    • Freewriting Rules
    • March 2017 Prompt
    • April 2017 Prompt
  • Success Stories

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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 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), and 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 with our
New Works Series 2020 and WriteNow Workshop

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Artwork from 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)
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  • Upcoming Events
  • Our Mission
  • DONATE
  • New Works 2022
    • Global Excursions by Maxine Kern
    • Love Triangle: A Trilogy
  • New Works Series 2020/21
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2019
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2018
    • FUKT by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • GLORIOUS DISASTER by Caroline Prugh
    • THE DIAMOND EATER by Carrie Robbins
    • EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD by Robin Rice
    • LEAVE PHILADELPHIA, NEVER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • TOM & TED GO TO THE RACES
  • Meet the Artists
    • Melissa Bell
    • Edgar Chisholm
    • Paul Hufker
    • Maxine Kern
    • Gabrielle Maisels
    • Robin Rice
    • Catherine Rogers
    • Michael Wells-Oakes
    • Emeritis Members >
      • Emma Goldman-Sherman
      • David Sard
      • Julie Richardson
      • Carrie Robbins
      • Matthew Wells
      • Suzanne Willett
  • New Works Series 2017
    • BARABBAS by Matthew Wells
    • THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DR. CUTTER by Carrie Robbins
    • LADY CAPULET by Melissa Bell
    • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • MAN & WIFE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • SURVIVORS by James Masten
    • LUST & LIES by ROBIN RICE
    • BREATH TO BREATH by Michael Wells-Oakes & Max Balton
  • New Works Series 2016
    • QUEEN MAIR by Matthew Wells
    • LOVE, SEX, ANARCHY by Melissa Bell
    • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
    • SHADOWS by David Sard
    • BONGANI by Gabrielle Maisels
    • LIFE AND OTHER DISASTERS by Julie Richardson
    • A COLD DECEMBER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS by Emma Goldman-Sherman >
      • Stage one readings >
        • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
        • LIFE, & OTHER DISASTERS by Julie RIchardson
        • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
  • Michael Warren Powell Memorial Reading
  • The UNaguration
  • Feisty Women Festival
  • Support New Work
    • Our Supporters
  • The Future Is Female Festival
  • Write Now Workshop
  • Writing Prompt
    • Freewriting Rules
    • March 2017 Prompt
    • April 2017 Prompt
  • Success Stories