The New Play Lab at the annual William Inge Theater Festival is a partnership between the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission and the William Inge Center for the Arts at Independence Community College.
The 5th Annual New Play Lab connects 20 playwrights with members of the national theater community during the 39th Annual William Inge Theater Festival in Independence, KS.
Selected playwrights receive a professional public staged reading of their play, feedback from national theater artists regarding their script, exclusive playwriting masterclasses with master playwrights, and full access to all private and public festival events. Selected plays are either 10-minute plays or one-acts (30 minutes or less).
This year the festival is proud to honor the two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, Lynn Nottage with the 2022 Distinguished Achievement in American Theater Award.
2022 New Play Lab Playwrights:
John Adams, Some Specter
Barbara Blatner, Advances in Communication
Rick Davis, Amid Canyons and Mesas
Blaire M Deziel, Hometown Glory
Jeff Dunne, One’s Cup of Tea
Buddy Farmer, Joey & Mare
Ron Fassler, Having Words
Franky D Gonzalez, The Invention of Time
Diane Hightower, Habitat
Julie Linden, Symptoms and Their Interpretations
Charles Ranum, Discharged
Guillermo Reyes, Where’s the Party?
Arianna Rose, Touch the Moon
Karen Saari, Gun Story
Fernando Segal, Bird of a Feather
Taylor Sklenar, 500/501
Celeste Walker, The Red Blood of War
Jonathon Ward, Literary Glory
Robert Weibezahl, Artifact
A new round of applications will be accepted in the fall of 2022.
This program is supported in part by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.