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For complete 2010 conference information click here
We also congratulate the plays and playwrights who were among the finalists for the 2010 conference:
EXQUISITE CORPSE by Mia Chung
DETROIT by Lisa D’Amour
FLOATING by Eric Lane
imaginingMADOFF by Deborah Margolin
THE FREQUENCY OF STARS AND OTHER MATTER by Tira Palmquist
BLUE POINT by Kyle Schmidt
BIRD ON A WIRE by Justin Sherin
WE ARE HERE by Tracy Thorne
VIRGINS AND WEREWOLVES by Michael Walek
VARIATIONS ON A THEME by Anna Ziegler
WHAT IS PLAYPENN?
PlayPenn is an artist-driven organization dedicated to improving the way in which new plays are developed. Employing an ever-evolving process, PlayPenn creates a relaxed tension within which playwrights can engage in risk-taking, boundary-pushing work free from the pressures of commercial consideration.
PlayPenn gives time and attention to playwrights from around the nation whose work is poised for a developmental workshop environment. Each summer PlayPenn hosts a two-week conference, inviting playwrights to develop new plays in a collaborative workshop environment. In order to encourage active revision and rewriting during the period of the conference, PlayPenn provides professional actors, directors, designers and dramaturgs with space, technical and administrative resources and ample time to use them. The process culminates in a series of staged readings to be presented to members of the local, regional and national professional theatre communities and to the community at large.PlayPenn is a new play development conference. The goal of the conference is the development of plays, through a process of collaboration, experimentation, rehearsal and rewriting rather than fully realized productions of finished works. We like to think of what we do as “development heaven”. By focusing on playwrights’ needs, PlayPenn makes the fundamental work of the theatre possible without the constraints and pressures of production, promotion and commercial concerns.
With an interest in streamlining our application and evaluation process, minimizing administrative costs, and functioning in the most ecologically sound manner possible, PlayPenn is now using LiteraryManager.org. As a database system for accepting applications, disseminating scripts to readers and collecting evaluations it has been a great boon to our extensive process of applicant consideration. Our workload is less and productivity is up.
