Create.

Essential Theatre was founded by a playwright, to create a space for playwrights to be playwrights.

Since the first Essential Play Festival in 1999, we’ve premiered or presented 46 new works by 37 different Georgia playwrights,

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And the winners are…

Essential Theatre announces the winners of the 2020 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jennifer Kimball, Managing Director
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2020 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award Winners press kit

February 2020 – Essential Theatre is proud to announce the winners of the 2020 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award: The Outrage Machine by Daniel Carter Brown and The Wishing Place by Beverly Trader Austin.

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The 2019 Essential Theatre Play Festival

July 26-August 25, 2019

at the west end performing arts center

945 ralph david abernathy blvd, Atlanta, GA 30310

“This is an exceptionally powerful season this summer,

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2019 Festival

The 2019 Essential Theatre Play Festival

July 26-August 25, 2019

at the west end performing arts center

945 ralph david abernathy blvd, Atlanta, GA 30310

Named Best New Play Incubator by Atlanta Magazine in 2018, Essential Theatre has given Georgia playwrights a voice for the past twenty-one years,

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