Meet the Playwright: Emily McClain
This Tuesday’s Bare Essentials Play Reading is The Rock and the Hard Place by Emily McClain. Read on to learn a little more about the playwright and the play we’ll be seeing on Monday!
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Meet the Playwright: Kwik Jones
This Monday’s Bare Essentials Play Reading is Water Boyz by Kwik Jones. Read on to learn a little more about the playwright and the play we’ll be seeing on Monday!
Meet the Playwright: Beverly Austin
Beverly Austin is Co-Winner of the 2020 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award and now, three years later, is finally seeing her Award-Winning Script’s World Premiere. Read on to learn a little more about Beverly and the play you’ll be seeing in August!
Meet the Playwright: Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman is the 2023 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award winner with his first full-length play, The Manuscript. Read on to learn a little more about Matthew and the play you’ll be seeing in August!
The Essential Theatre Play Festival Returns to 7Stages Theatre
After 15 years performing on Atlanta’s Westside, Essential Theatre returns to old stomping grounds in Little Five Points this summer
The Essential Theatre Play Festival returns this summer with a busier lineup than ever,
NOW ENROLLING: 10 Minute Play Bootcamp
Link to Register: https://July2023Essential10MinutePlayBootcamp.eventbrite.com
Take your playwriting to the next level with us in a 10 Minute Play Bootcamp!
In this class, you will create a 10 minute play over the course of four weeks.
FINAL WEEK to register for Essential Theatre Introduction to Playwriting!
Link to register: wepacintrotoplaywriting_summer2023.eventbrite.com
Registration closes at 2pm this Sunday, June 4.
Classes are all online, Tuesdays afternoons starting June 6 (next Tuesday)
Classes are 90 minutes long and meet weekly on Tuesdays at 2pm,
Work with Essential Theatre this summer!
Essential Theatre is the longest-running theater company exclusively dedicated to Georgia playwrights. The Essential Theatre Play Festival takes place annually in July and August, with rehearsals in June and July.
Essential Theatre and Hush Harbor Lab at the 2023 Decatur Arts Festival!
The Decatur Arts Festival is the community’s biggest annual celebration of ART!
Join us there for a weekend of music, theater, dance, comedy, and literary performances.
SATURDAY,
Have you got a play to share?
The deadline for the 2024 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award competition is April 23, 2023.
The only competition exclusively dedicated to the work of Georgia playwrights, the winning play will receive both a full production and a $750 cash prize.
