MELLON FOUNDATION AWARDS $1 MILLION GRANT TO THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER

The Center secures major award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the work of playwrights. 

2008-09 season ambitious, impressive

10 playwrights featured:

OBOLENSKY, MILLER, BROWN, KAPIL, O’BRIEN, CARTER, DELANEY and WORKHAUS COLLECTIVE

Five resident fellows to receive $16,000 in cash and support

The Playwrights’ Center announces $16,000 in total awards to five winners of the newly redesigned Many Voices Fellowship program, a nationally esteemed residency opportunity for new and emerging playwrights of color.

PlayLabs Special Announcement

The Playwrights' Center takes a strategic hiatus from PlayLabs as year-round activity grows.

The Play Doctor

Polly Carl is ushering The Playwrights’ Center into a new era of relevance for American theater.

PWC and Alliance Theater Partnership

The Playwrights' Center and the Alliance Theatre have partnered to bring Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition winner Julia Brownell to Minneapolis.

Prestigious “Core Writer” distinction awarded

The Playwrights’ Center announces eight new Core Writers— writers of distinction who enjoy three-year terms with access to expenses-paid workshops in the Center’s world-class Ruth Easton Lab and exclusive access to public readings at the Center.

Strategic Plan Announced

The Playwrights’ Center announced a new Long Range Strategic Plan that will drive the organization into a very promising future.
The plan was unveiled in a multimedia presentation May 19 for a crowd that filled the Center’s black box theater.