May 19, 2023, 7:30pm at Atwater Village Theatre We hope you can join us for Stages – Readings of Ten-Minute Plays and Monologues featured in the “Best Of” Smith & Kraus Anthologies. Three plays are brand new from our November Ten-Minute Play Challenge.  Come participate in the process as we celebrate provocative short and sweet works from member and alumni playwrights. Bonus* by Lolly Ward Directed by Lee Hannah Conrads When two employees in the throes of a secret work relationship compare their pay and perks, they struggle to escape income inequality. All is fair in love and war unt ..read more

First Peek 2023 May 20-21 at Atwater Village Theatre We hope you can join us for our 13th Annual FIRST PEEK reading series featuring the brand new work of some of our member playwrights. Come participate in the process as we explore the creation of four new full-length plays. SATURDAY, May 20 5:00 PM – PERMUTATIONS by Jennifer Maisel Bec, Morgan, Lola, and Cam are parent friends – you know, the friends you make because your children hang out together. Tonight’s challenge – a long overdue dinner where they can’t talk about the kids. Who knew life in the empty nest could be so… empty ..read more

The Playwrights Union invites you to our fourth Annual Reading Festival of New Work. All plays were drafted during our February Writing Challenge, and have been finished or re-written in the weeks leading up to the Festival. Come hear some of this brand new work by seven of our current members and join our reception on Saturday night at Son of Semele Ensemble! SATURDAY, May 18 3pm Crazy Bitch by Jennie Webb A play about genealogy and jellyfish and rogue taxidermy. In a world where unbelievable brutality happens, every day, three women find themselves suspended between the extraordinary and rea ..read more

Yes! Thank you to Deb and Matthew for hosting a fabulous Spring Brunch in their incredible garden! Amazing to reconnect and begin to feel the strength our community again, with hugs, mimosas and ever-so delicious food. The bar is officially raised, Deb! Click Here for More Pix ..read more

June 12-13, 2021 Live on Zoom! The Playwrights Union invites you to our 11th annual reading series, featuring the brand new work of some of our member playwrights. Come participate in the process of play creation and join us online. SATURDAY, JUNE 12th 12pm SOPHIA HAYDEN DESERVES BETTER by Stephanie Alison Walker In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a flourishing career in architecture became career-ending. Throughout the two-year process of building ..read more

Jennifer is an award winning writer/director and sometimes solo performer. Jennifer Berry’s play “Big Pharma” about the rise of the anti-depressant drug industry and the loss of her generation of women was commissioned by BmoCa in Boulder, CO in 2003 and  went on to tour for five years.  Her play “Ojalá” which was produced in 2010 @ Casa 0101 in Los Angeles  was optioned as a screenplay. “Big Pharma” was featured on PBS and NBC. Her feature “The Exchange” was released in 2019. It was the opening short film at The Madrid International Film Festival. It was also honored at the Ho ..read more

Kansas City native, Marlow Wyatt is a magna cum laude graduate of Howard University’s Theater Arts Department.  She is an actor and playwright. Acting credits: Eight Nights (Antaeus Theater), 90011 South Central Speakeasy (Antaeus Theater), Isolation Inn (Moving Arts), Insurrection: Holding History (Celebration Theater), Private Battle (Watts Village Theater Co.) A Raisin in the Sun (Ira Aldridge Theater), Film: Ronnie: The Killer Next Door (Sundance), Riot (Showtime). Playwright: SHE (2021 Latino Theater Company World Premiere, Theater Alliance-Washington DC-staged reading, Long Beach ..read more

JAMI BRANDLI’s plays include Technicolor Life, S.O.E., M-Theory, ¡SOLDADERA!, Sisters Three, Through the Eye of a Needle, Medusa’s Song, O: A Rhapsody in Divorce, Visiting Hours, The Caregiver’s Guide and BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) which was named in the 2014 Kilroys List.  Her work has been produced/developed at New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, Launch Pad, The Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Chalk REP, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Lark, among other venues. As a 2019 Humanitas Prize PLAY LA, she wrote her play, Visiting Hours. BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) no ..read more

Chanel Glover (Florida A&M University BA | Tulane Law School JD | Ohio University MFA | Hunter College MSEd) is a former lawyer and special education teacher, whose work centers black queer characters, and stories exploring social justice.  Chanel was a featured playwright in terraNOVA Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwrights Group (2015). She’s screenwriter for the Sex Is a God Thing (2019) short, which premiered at the Black Harvest Film Festival (2019), Pan African Film Festival (2020), ClexaCon (2020), NewFest (2020), among others. Chanel is also the co-creator/co-writer for Sasha ..read more

Jennie Webb is an independent Los Angeles playwright and dramaturg (she created and ran the new play development program, “Seedlings,” at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum and currently runs private workshops) with works produced locally at  EST/LA, Inkwell Theater, Santa Monica Rep, Theatre of NOTE, La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival and Rogue Machine Theatre (where her dark retail comedy Yard Sale Signs premiered). National recognition includes Finalist (Footprint, O’Neill 2019 and Smiling Cat Candy Heart, City Theatre Short Play Fest 2019) and Semi-Finalist (O’Neill, PlayPenn, Trustus T ..read more