About Playwrights Gallery

Playwrights Gallery was founded in 1991 to nourish the work of emerging New York City playwrights. The Gallery holds twice-monthly playwriting workshops from September to June, and produces staged readings in the fall, winter and spring. Its acting company reads work in progress and performs finished work for invited audiences.

Plays first introduced at Playwrights Gallery have gone on to be seen at such regional theaters as:

GeVa—Rochester, NY

Montclair TheatreFest—Montclair, NJ

Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference—CT

Suncoast Theatre—St. Petersburg, FL

Hoover-Leppen Theatre, Chicago, IL

Collision Festival West—Los Angeles, CA

New Work Festival at the Utah Shakespearean Festival

Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME

In New York City, Gallery work has been seen at such venues as:

The Center Theatre

The Women's Project

Rattlestick

West Bank Theatre Center

Imua Theatre Company

National Arts Club

Miranda

Where Eagles Dare

Don't Tell Mama's

Merkin Concert Hall

New Dramatists

Bank Street Theatre

Samuel Beckett Theatre

Harbor Theatre

Michael Weller Theatre

Cherry Lane Theatre

Plays developed at Playwrights Gallery have been produced at:

The Chip DeFaa Invitational Theatre Festival

Turnip 15-Minute Play Festival

Samuel French Festival

The Woodstock Theatre Company

Gallery work has garnered such prizes as:

The John Golden Prize

The East Coast Regional Playwriting Contest First Prize

Finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville

Finalist for the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest

Finalist for the short play festival at Chicago Dramatists

Finalist for the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans

Finalist for the 16th Annual Nantucket Short Play Competition

Playwrights are members of the Dramatists Guild.
Actors are members of Actors Equity Association.