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 Play Reading and Discussion Series. We are looking for new, contemporary works that examine the issues that people in America struggle with today. Theatre will always be at the forefront of change, and we are interested in how individuals and families are grappling with the range of challenges they are facing.
ATW’s award-winning Artistic Director and Founder, Thurman E. Scott, whose mentor Stella Adler called “The inheritor of the Stanislavski legacy and of my legacy…” will direct an ensemble of actors, and we will invite the public to join in and witness the many complex and fascinating steps that go into developing a play as the director works with the ensemble in bringing the selected plays to life.
If you are a writer/playwright looking for an opportunity to submit your creation that examines a pressing social issue of our time, please submit your play along with a 1-2 paragraph description of how your play explores these issues, to outreach@actorstheatreworkshop.com. We will present two staged readings of the selected plays in 2024.
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.