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Past Seasons

2021

  • "In a Field" Outdoors Plays Festival; Artistic Director Dan Kitrosser

2020


2019

  • 37 Full Productions at Theaterlab
  • 35 Dramatic Readings (In NYC, the NY Metro North Suburbs, and Washington DC)
  • 82 Playwrights
  • 26 Professional Directors
  • 47 Professional Actors

2018

  • 36 Full Productions at Theaterlab
  • 50 Dramatic Readings (In NYC, the NY Metro North Suburbs, and Washington DC)
  • 86 Playwrights
  • 25 Professional Directors
  • 47 Professional Actors

2017

  • 34 Full Productions at Theaterlab
  • 37 Playwrights
  • 21 Professional Directors
  • 39 Professional Actors

Competition Winners

Elementary School
Kids in the Storm by Nyla Reed

Middle School
Anything and Everything by Jena Musmar

High School
Home, Sick by Cathleen Freedman


2016

  • 28 Full Productions at Theaterlab
  • 43 Playwrights
  • 21 Professional Directors
  • 39 Professional Actors

Competition Winners

Middle School
The Empty Bough by Abraham Callard

High School
The Supermarket of Lost by Cassandra Hsiao

Videos

Check out our YouTube page to see the plays presented at the 2016 Worldwide Plays Festival!


2015

  • 50 Full Productions at the June Havoc Theater
  • 54 Playwrights
  • 25 Professional Directors
  • 46 Professional Actors

Competition Winners

Elementary School
Best Comedic Play: Shelby the Cupcake by Isabella Roche
Best Dramatic Play: What Just Happened? by Zoe Wohlman

Middle School
Best Comedic Play: Young Mata Hari: The Nosy Schoolgirl by Benjamin A. Hendel
Best Dramatic Play: Black Magic by Darya Farah Foroohar

High School
Best Dramatic Play: Confessions 3 by Charlotte Rauner
Best Comedic Play: All’s Fair by Daniel Moses Bring

Videos

Check out our YouTube page to see the plays presented at the 2015 Worldwide Plays Festival!


2014

  • 25 Staged Readings at Shelter Studios, the Producers Club, and The West End Theater
  • 48 Full Productions at the June Havoc Theater
  • 84 Playwrights
  • 30 Professional Directors
  • 50 Professional Actors

Competition Winners

Elementary School
Best Comedic Play: The Chocolate Thief by Alejandro Salas
Best Dramatic Play: tie between P.O.V. by Arjun Mazumdar and The Drill by Sierra Blanco

Middle School
Best Comedic Play: Zombie Grandma by Everett Moore
Best Dramatic Play: KABOOM by Abigail Sylvor-Greenberg

High School
Best Dramatic Play: Set Back by Peter Chipman and Victoria Stiely
Best Comedic Play: A Social Experiment by Kai Williams


View the 2014 Play Festival Playlist

2013


  • 28 Staged Readings at the Soter Lee Blackbox
  • 45 Full Productions at the Clurman in Theater Row
  • 80 Playwrights
  • 40 Professional Directors
  • 50 Professional Actors

View the 2013 Play Festival Playlist

2012

  • May 8th-20th at the 45th Street Theatre and 59 e 59.
  • 85 Playwrights
  • 43 Professional Directors
  • 191 Professional Actors

View the 2012 Play Festival Playlist (May 8 - May 13)
View the 2012 Play Festival Playlist (May 17 - May 20)

2011


  • May 17th- 22nd at the June Havoc Theatre
  • 53 Playwrights
  • 20 Professional Directors
  • 16 Professional Actors

2010

  • May 24th and 25th at the West End Theatre
  • 20 Playwrights
  • 1 Professional Director
  • 19 Professional Actors
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