Past Seasons

2021

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

2020

• Podcast Play Series
• Black Lives Matter Micro Play Festival; Curated and Directed by Kevin R. Free

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

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

Standard Playwriting Format

Please follow these standard formatting rules:

• Act and Scene headings are centered.
• Character’s names are centered and capitalized.
• Stage directions are indented one tab and italicized.
• Character’s names in stage directions are capitalized.
• Parenthetical stage directions are used for small actions.

Act One

Scene 1

Writopia Lab, New York City. Day.

DAN, a tall Writopia instructor, sits on the couch. He munches on a bunch of potato chips, crumbs fall on his lap. He brushes them off into the crevasses of the couch. REBECCA enters the room with her coat on.

REBECCA

Dan?

DAN

What?

REBECCA

Did you just brush off your crumbs in the couch?

DAN

shrugging

No.

REBECCA

You’re lying. And now I have to sweep them up.

DAN gets up and walks up to REBECCA.

DAN

Don’t worry about it. I’ll do it.

REBECCA and DAN freeze, staring at one another as the lights on them dim down. Lights come up from behind the couch, where a large chip crumb named NORMAN breaks out into song.

NORMAN THE CRUMB

Dan won’t sweep me up, he will forget about me. I’m so lucky — here at Writopia with instructors like Dan!

Blackout.