Seeking Play Submissions & Company Members for Play Reading and Discussion Series
Seeking Play Submissions
The Actors Theatre Workshop is accepting submissions of original plays for our curated Spring 2025 Play Reading and Discussion Series this April – June. We are looking for contemporary works that examine the pressing issues individuals and families face in America today. This series will highlight works that challenge and inspire audiences.
The Actors Theatre Workshop will co-produce selected plays. We will offer the playwright our physical theater space to host their own play reading with a live, publicly invited audience. Playwrights will be responsible for providing the non-Equity cast, crew and production. ATW, along with the playwright, will support marketing efforts to bring in the audience.
How to Apply:
Playwrights should submit a brief synopsis of their play, what the audience can expect from the show (what social issue(s) does the play tackle), the play’s length, as well as playwright bio, through this form. After completing the form, playwrights should send a PDF of their play and a PDF of the synopsis to outreach@actorstheatreworkshop.com.
Seeking Company Members
The Actors Theatre Workshop (ATW) is recruiting a small core of actors, from all ethnicities, ages and backgrounds, who are committed to growing and developing as members of a company, working both onstage and behind the scenes.
We are auditioning actors for a series of projects over the next year. The first one will be our Play Reading and Discussion Series where we will be presenting staged readings and open rehearsals of a selected play to members of the public in ATW’s 5,000-square-foot theater facility in Chelsea, Manhattan. In the theatre, the audience rarely sees the development process that a production goes through – – they only see the end result. This series will invite the public to join in and witness the many complex steps that go into developing a play as the director works with the ensemble, from the beginning process of choosing the play to creating the final production.
If you are an actor looking for an opportunity to grow and become part of a creative ensemble that puts new, thought-provoking plays on their feet, please submit your resume along with a 3 minute tape of the monologue that best expresses you as a creative artist to outreach@actorstheatreworkshop.com.