"Any self-respecting playwright [should be involved with] The
Playwrights' Center."
--Edward Albee
General Membership ($50 annually)
What do Kira Obolensky, Allison Moore, Vince Delaney, Melanie Marnich and other working playwrights all have in common? They've been supported by the Playwrights' Center since the very beginning of their careers - some even before they wrote their first play!
Membership is the primary way to access Center services, including our well-established Writer’s Opportunities, e-Bulletin, and the Piazza resource area. We help playwrights navigate the industry and launch their careers.
| by Mail / Fax | purchase General Membership Online | |
| download the general membership application form and mail or fax it to us with payment. |
The majority of our resources and benefits are available online through our
members area.
Here’s what is available:
- Playwriting Opportunities. Access our continually updated list of contest and submission opportunities. In addition to the listings we get from producing theaters, we scour the Internet every week to make sure our collection is the most comprehensive list available.
- Member Events Calendar. Got a production of your play going up? Email it to us and we’ll post it for all to see. Or, find local productions of other members’ work and support them!
- Community Forums. These brand-new forums give you a place to trade advice, questions, and stories with our vast community of Playwrights’ Center members. You can even find a partner to peer-review your script.
- Advanced Directory Search. Find and contact members faster and more easily.
- The Piazza. We’re still adding to this repository of essays and articles from working playwrights and theater luminaries written exclusively for the Playwrights’ Center by Lee Blessing, Barbara Field, Oskar Eustis and Deborah Stein (to name a few), an advice column, and other resources especially for playwrights.
- Auto-Renewal. Set your account to automatically charge your credit card each year.
Other
Membership Benefits:
Writer’s Opportunities Listings
We understand
that many submission opportunities are posted widely around the internet, but
what other sites don't have is a full-time staff person working for
you. We do the research, allowing you to focus on writing and
submitting your scripts to theaters. Our site has a comprehensive
list of opportunities that are updated and kept current regularly. Our pages
are easy to view, search and save, so each time you log in, the specific
items you were looking at are waiting for you.
Dialogue
Our periodic newsletter with playwright interviews emailed to your inbox.
Bi-weekly
E-Bulletins
Keep up with Center classes, discounts, and events and enjoy featured columns
from leading theater professionals... delivered directly to your inbox.
Access to purchase affordable health insurance
(and much more) via free Associate Membership in Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community
of artists and arts organizations. Learn more at fracturedatlas.org/pwcenter
Beginning and intermediate playwriting classes, taught by the Center's experienced Core Writers and playwriting fellows. And the FREE Playwriting Seminars take place throughout the year at The Playwrights’ Center.
Public
Roundtable Readings of your scripts
Roundtable readings can be reserved for a $150 fee, plus $13 per actor, per
hour.
A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience,
a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's
performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and dramaturgs.
The Roundtable Readings are very bare bones. There is no director and no rehearsal—it is a playwright-driven process. The Playwrights' Center’s casting associate will cast each reading, and a dramaturg will read the script in advance, speak to the playwright about his or her goals, attend the reading, and follow up with valuable input. Actors are called 1/2 hour before the reading and playwrights are encouraged to meet with them and help guide them in terms of the tone/spirit of the reading. Any information that the playwright would like to give to actors can be done during this time. We make sure the scripts are available for actors to pick up and read before hand - but for the most part it's a cold read. You may choose to pay for an extra hour with your actors, and we’ll ask them to come an hour early to work with you, and include that in their contracts.
The 2008-09 season of Roundtable readings will take place in the Center's Waring Jones Theater at 6:30 pm on select dates from September through May click here for event information.
To read about how to have your play read in the 09-10 season click here.
Access to one-on-one dramaturgy
Intensive one-on-one dramaturgical feedback for $150. This relationship provides
a critical read of your play with written and verbal comments by a dramaturg
chosen with your work in mind.
How it works:
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• the dramaturg reads your play and gives written comments.
• you absorb those comments and then talk with your dramaturg (via email, phone or in person).
• rewrite your script (if you choose) incorporating those comments.
• the dramaturg reads again (no written comments this time).
• you and the dramaturg have a final conversation.
You and your dramaturg will work together on a specific timeline for each step. However, we ask that the entire process be completed within three months of the date on which it began.
Call 612/332-7481 x23 for more details.
Access to our Membership Manager and Literary Associate
Anna Peterson is your guide to member programs and services.
