PLAY LAB
Eight months — Three playwrights — Three new plays
ETC PlayLab is an in-person development collective supporting three emerging New York City playwrights. Each writer arrives with a—a premise, fragments, notes—of a new play, ready to write a theatrical story.
We gather twice a month to hear new pages read aloud by emerging actors, because a voice under construction needs other voices to find its register:
Our aesthetic is feminist—not so much a subject as a set of questions. Whose story is this? Who is authorized to tell it? What is the form itself arguing? We are drawn to plays that bear witness to the forces that shape a person, and to what that person then does with them.
The eight months culminate in a public presentation, an evening for friends and colleagues, as well as invited industry professionals who might carry the work further.
