Created by Arthur Kopit, the Playwrights’ Workshop brings playwrights together to share and develop new work in a rigorous, yet highly flexible and professional environment. Playwrights cannot apply to this program, fellows are nominated for inclusion in the Workshop by the Lark’s esteemed pool of Playwright Advisors and artistic directors at regional theaters. A small number of Playwright Fellows, and a Writer in Residence, an established writer, are invited to participate in each round of the Workshop, which lasts six months. This program supports a community of self-guided professionals who desire creative connection, peer relationships and mentorship opportunities, at no cost to them.
Online Reservations are closed, but we will open a wait list at the door at 7pm on the day of the reading. Please join us!
This Year’s Playwrights
Chisa Hutchinson (BA, Vassar College; MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts) has written a bunch of plays including Alondra Was Here, Dirt Rich, Mama’s Gonna Buy You, Sex on Sunday, She Like Girls, Somebody’s Daughter, The Subject, This Is Not the Play and Tunde’s Trumpet…
Kimber Lee received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin Playwriting Program in May of 2011. Plays include
fight,
different words for the same thing,
Home, and
golden hour, and her work has been produced and developed by…
Rajiv Joseph’s play,
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a 2010 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, played on Broadway last year, starring Robin Williams. His other plays include
Gruesome Playground Injuries,
Animals Out of Paper,
The Monster at the Door,
The North Pool…
Dominique Morisseau is a writer and actress, and recent alumni of the 2011 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab, and the Lark Playwrights’ Workshop. Her produced one-acts include:
Third Grade (FTT Festival)
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Rogelio Martinez’s plays include
Wanamaker’s Pursuit (Arden Theater, Spring 2011),
When Tang Met Laika (Sloan Grant/ Denver Center Theater/ Perry Mansfield),
All Eyes and Ears (INTAR at Theater Row),
Fizz…
The Plays
brownsville song (b-side for tray) by Kimber Lee – Tuesday, May 14 @7:30pm
Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau – Wednesday, May 15 @7:30pm
Ping Pong by Rogelio Martinez – Tuesday, May 21 @7:30pm
Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson – Wednesday, May 22 @7:30pm
PUBLIC READING
USED TO WAS (MAYBE 
DID)
by Brian Dykstra
directed by Margarett Perry
Used To Was (Maybe Did) is written in the language of Hip Hop and tells the story of spoken word poets who compete for recognition while a young groupie may blossom into a real poet. The play explores questions of greed, ethics and race and how easy it is for Hip Hop artists to sell out in order to achieve fame, and how destructive that selling out may prove to be. Is Hip Hop a language of love and inclusion, or is it all about the green?
When & Where?
Monday, June 10th, 7PM at Lark Play Development Center
Two Launching New Plays Productions Opening in May!
The Lark Play Development Center’s Launching New Plays into the Repertoire Initiative, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a five-year experiment to “create a movement” around selected plays by bringing together U.S. and international theater producers to launch new plays into national prominence by creating an arc of at least four productions of each play.
Cylce II: Marcus Gardley’s “the road weeps, the well runs dry“
Cycle II playwright Marcus Gardley and his play the road weeps, the well runs dry will be running at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska May 3-26th.
For ticket information click here.
Cycle III: Andrea Thome’s “Pinkolandia”
Cycle III Playwright Andrea Thome and her play, Pinkolandia, and will be running at INTAR Theatre in New York City May 3-26th.
For ticket information click here.
Announcing Kimber Lee to be the 2012-14 PoNY Fellow!
Lark Play Development Center and Playwrights of New York (PoNY) are proud to announce that Kimber Lee will be the recipient of the 2013-14 PoNY Fellowship which provides over $100,000 in comprehensive career support, including housing in the PoNY apartment in the heart of the theater district in Manhattan. She joins the PoNY family of fellows which includes Carson Kreitzer (NEA Art Works Award for Behind The Eye), Samuel D. Hunter (Obie Award for A Bright New Boise), Katori Hall (Olivier Best New Play Award for The Mountaintop), Tommy Smith (The Wife), A. Rey Pamatmat (Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them) and, the current Fellow, Dominique Morisseau (Detroit ‘67).
Artistic Director of the Lark, John Clinton Eisner, said of Kimber’s talent, “Kimber Lee inhabits many worlds in her writing: gritty city neighborhoods, a Tokyo sushi bar, a lonely town in Idaho. Her plays are as thrilling in their language – which is poetic, real and often funny – as in their compelling action and raw humanity. Although you may not have heard of her yet, this PoNY Fellow is already a leader in the theater’s next generation.” Lee was nominated for the PoNY Fellowship by Suzan Zeder and Kirk Lynn of the University of Texas at Austin and Amy Wheeler and Liz Engelman of Hedgebrook.
