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our 2023 Cohort
The EPP 2022 Cohort involved an 8-month-long writers' room from April to December 2023, inclusive of monthly dramaturgical meetings with Resident Dramaturg Chaz T. Martin, community writing sprints, and workshops and meetings with prominent Philadelphia artists and arts professionals, all culminating in an in-person presentation celebrating each member’s progress.
All plays were presented by friends of the Collective on December 16th at The Louis Bluver Theater at the Drake.
Check out more information on our 2023 Cohort to learn more about the members and their works!
Featuring:
Andrew Beal (he/him) - The Launch, or What is Znord
Xavier Clark (he/him) - supper.
Dom Martello (they/them) - But I’ll Die Trying
Sarah Stryker (she/they) - Making It
our 2022 Cohort
The EPP 2022 Cohort involved a five-month-long writers' room from May to October 2022, focused on the growth and future of one work by each Cohort Member, culminating in an in-person presentation celebrating each member’s progress. It was a highly collaborative development process, meant to facilitate the growth of a play that is still a new idea, or one that has been sitting on the back burner.
All plays were presented by friends of the Collective on October 12th at Christ Church Neighborhood House on the set of the pigeon. between performance weekends.
Check out more information on our 2022 Cohort to learn more about the members and their works!
Featuring:
JUSTIN CLAREL (they/them) - i’m sorry for all the things i said when i thought i was straight
EMILY MOYLAN (she/her) - See You Next Week
DEZI TIBBS (she/him) - FINE
WILL VENCE JR. (they/them) - Masculine Evil
our 2021 classes
Fall 2021 Virtual Workshops
Our second Emerging Playwrights process took a different form. Rather than working with the intent of creating a finalize, presentable product, the goal of these workshops was to develop and collaborate on in-progress works by emerging writers in a safe, inclusive, and like-minded space.
Each of our three playwrights received our assistance for a full month in the fall of 2021 and were allotted 25 hours of rehearsal time to work and hear their scripts read aloud by local actors. This process took place 100% virtually from October to December.
Check out more information on our Fall 2021 Virtual Workshops to learn more about all of our collaborating artists and the plays!
FEATURING:
OCTOBER WORKSHOP: Jonathan Edmondson (he/him) – the pigeon.
NOVEMBER WORKSHOP: SMJ (they/them) – Stacy & Mia
DECEMBER WORKSHOP: Jasmin Casiano (she/they) – The Bus Stop
spring 2021 virtual residency
Our inaugural Emerging Playwrights Program residency took place 100% virtually in the spring and summer of 2021.
From this, two of our three featured artists produced full-length, digital, filmed productions of their works, which were available to stream for a short time in July and August.
Check out more information on our Spring 2021 Virtual Residency to learn more about our featured artists and their plays!
Featuring:
ANG BEY (THEY/THEM) — Twenty-Six
NATHANIEL FOSTER (HE/HIM) — Don’t Laugh. It’s Funny
MATTHEW SIEVERS (HE/HIM) — Deep Space