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“The Berkshire Playwrights Lab never fails to surprise with its combination of new plays and talented actors, and with the 2013 season just announced, lovers of the literary and the dramatic will have reason to celebrate.”

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Thank you to all who made our Sixth Annual Gala Celebration a huge success!!!


Life Science: BPL’s First Ever Fully-Staged Workshop ProductionAnna Ziegler, playwright of Life Science

Berkshire Playwrights Lab is thrilled to present its first full workshop production, Anna Ziegler’s Life Science, from June 19 – June 30, 2013. Life Science examines the lives of four high school seniors living in the plush Washington, DC suburbs. Over the course of several months, the students make out, break up, discuss their plans for the future, and debate the role that being Jewish plays in their budding sense of themselves.

Performances run June 19 through June 30, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm, with the exception of the Saturday, June 22 performance, which will begin at 9:30pm, at Bard College at Simon’s Rock Daniel Arts Center.

 


Tom Bloom Berkshire Playwrights Lab 2012Annual Staged Reading Series

Each summer, the Berkshire Playwrights Lab stages readings of new work by both upcoming and established playwrights, providing them with a supportive environment to collaborate with a director and professional actors, and offering the Berkshire audience with a low-cost opportunity to share in the evolution of quality dramatic works and to experience first-hand the magic of the creative process.

This year, our reading series will take place on Wednesdays July 10, July 24, August 7, and August 21, at 7:30 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

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the blog

HALFTIME: From Stage to Screen to Stage Again

Jun 11, 2013 : Blog

BPL Resident Blogger Matt Whalan explores the journey of Richard Dresser’s...

An Interview with BPL’s Youngest Playwright

Jun 3, 2013 : Blog

Maddie Meyers is an actress, a writer – and a senior in high school. At eighteen years old,...

A PLAYWRIGHT’S EXPERIENCE

May 22, 2013 : Articles about BPL, Blog

Here’s a wonderful essay by playwright Jessica Provenz about her experience developing...

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About Us

Our mission is to provide the playwright with space to create. The Berkshire Playwrights Lab provides an opportunity for emerging and established playwrights to find a secure berth where they can develop new work and/or explore new avenues of creativity. Without a commitment to nurturing new voices and new talent, the American theater is losing promising playwrights. The Lab was created to provide playwrights the opportunity to develop their work and more than 25 short and 30 full-length plays have been presented under the BPL banner since its inception in 2007.

Founded by Joe Cacaci, Jim Frangione, Bob Jaffe, and Matthew Penn, the Berkshire Playwrights Lab is the area’s only theater dedicated exclusively to encouraging, developing, and presenting new plays. Through readings, workshops and fully-staged productions, the Lab provides emerging and established writers with a professional and creative environment, while offering audiences the engaging and provocative opportunity to share in the dramatic evolution of premiere works.

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