Make art while learning tools to take back to your group. One premise of the play lab is that artists of color work in a myriad of creation styles and so the play lab is not limited to the traditional single author, but may engage collective artist groups and various approaches to play-making. Each year a call for submissions is announced. Literary Manager or use our e-mail address. Professional directors and dramaturgs are available to refine the work.
Playwrights receive an honoraria plus loding and travel.
Each residency concludes with a staged reading performed by a professional cast. Residencies vary in design. The basic model is to move from the Play Lab into a residency setting with a producing site. It is hoped that the residency will include a production by a partner theater, but a residency might also focus on research, dramaturgy or development of a specific aspect of a production, such as music or design. The festival is conceived as a bi-annual intersection of performance, practice and ideas.