The Playwrights' Center

New Plays on Campus is an institutional membership program of the Playwrights' Center that puts the best new plays in America into the hands of college and university theaters and connects today's students and faculty with living playwrights and the professional playwriting world.

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New Plays on Campus Benefits:

All of the regular general member benefits:
With institutional memberships come individual Playwrights’ Center memberships for up to 7 students or faculty members—a great value whether you’re from Texas, Hawaii or Minnesota.

The Playwrights’ Center is an amazing resource for anyone interested in theater. Our web site has been completely redesigned with a new members area where members can create their own online profile, search through hundreds of opportunities for writers, promote their own productions and find other member productions in their area, and read advice columns and articles by luminaries in the field. Discussion areas are also available where members can meet other writers and discuss important issues. This social networking feature is available exclusively to our members.

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SCRIPT MATCHING SERVICES

The Playwrights’ Center has access to a vast nationwide network of playwrights and plays. Let us be your “literary manager at large.” We’ll narrow the pool to meet your requirements, then you select the play or playwright in ongoing consultation with us. Scripts are drawn from the Center’s high-caliber Core Writers, fellows, and PlayLabs artists, assuring a professional commitment to excellence.

CORE APPRENTICE PROGRAM

Each year the Playwrights’ Center invites five students from around the country to develop their plays in our world-class lab. These student workshops will continue to be available on a merit basis, and are offered exclusively to New Plays on Campus members.

STUDENT INTERNSHIPS

Special internships throughout the year can be arranged to give students hands-on experience with the new play development process. New Plays on Campus Members are given priority consideration for internships.

For more information about the New Plays on Campus program, please contact Anna Peterson, Membership Manager and Literary Associate at annap@pwcenter.org or 612-332-7481 x23.

PRAISE FOR NEW PLAYS ON CAMPUS:

“This play engaged our students' imaginations more than any other project I've seen in a while.”

David Johnson, Associate Professor of Theatre at Virginia Tech, about NPOC and their production of TALLGRASS GOTHIC by Melanie Marnich

“It is one of the first times that I can honestly say that such a bridge between the professional world and college theatre makes us connect in a way that is creative, important, and useful for all parties involved.”

Karen Peterson Wilson, Theatre Dept. Chair at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, about NPOC and their production of PERPETUA by Vincent Delaney

“The NPOC workshop was a wonderful first taste of what life as a working playwright could be like. When I saw The Playwrights’ Center for the first time I was stunned, in awe that a national center for playwriting was housed inside a church—it was beautiful, and empowering.”

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, MFA playwriting student at University of Texas at Austin, about the workshop of her play THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOSET

“Asked if New Plays On Campus could ‘change American theater,’ Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Artistic Director Gregg Henry chuckles. ‘I think it is possible…I don’t mean to be Pollyanna about it, but everybody’s going to benefit from this.’”

From a Variety magazine article by Mark Blankenship