Meet the Writers at the 23rd Annual Playwrights' Week

The Lark in New York City presented Meet the Writers, the public kick-off event of the 23rd Annual Playwrights’ Week livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 October at 7 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 23:00 GMT.

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Meet the six writers—Benjamin Benne, Dominic Finocchiaro, Nick Gandiello, Claire Kiechel, Sylvia Khoury, and Sarah Saltwick—as they speak about the process of playwriting and share excerpts from their plays. Moderated by Literary Agent and playwright advocate Beth Blickers.

From over 1000 submissions, six plays were selected to participate in Playwrights’ Week. Each new play receives ten hours of rehearsal in advance of a public staged reading focusing on the writers’ self-stated developmental goals.

The playwrights define their own goals for what they want to accomplish, and then spend the week together with each other and their collaborators, working to achieve those goals. Each writer has the company of five other extraordinary writers, who are there not just as a sounding board, but as a community.

Playwrights’ Week 2016 takes place October 17–21 at The Lark (311 West 43rd Street, 5th floor). For more information about Playwrights’ Week visit here.

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