Our Vision
The Berkshire Playwrights Lab is dedicated to encouraging, developing, and presenting new plays. Through readings, workshops, and fully staged productions, The Lab will provide emerging and established writers with a professional and creative environment, while offering audiences the unique and provocative opportunity to share in the dramatic evolution of premiere works.
We hope The Lab will become one of the region’s premiere developmental forums for new plays. We already have our sights set on summer 2009 as we expand our program to include a Workshop Series of New Plays. Workshops, though fully rehearsed and staged, are generally presented with minimal scenic and lighting design elements, allowing the focus of the work to rightly fall upon the text. It is our goal to present an exciting series of workshops of new plays by some great new voices in our 2009 season here in the Berkshires.
We hope The Lab will become one of the region’s premiere developmental forums for new plays. We already have our sights set on summer 2009 as we expand our program to include a Workshop Series of New Plays. Workshops, though fully rehearsed and staged, are generally presented with minimal scenic and lighting design elements, allowing the focus of the work to rightly fall upon the text. It is our goal to present an exciting series of workshops of new plays by some great new voices in our 2009 season here in the Berkshires.
Lola Jaffe, Chair of the Board of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, actress Wendy Malick, Bard College at Simon's Rock Provost Mary Marcy, and actor Dan Lauria after a performance to benefit the Great Barrington Fire Department, presented by The Lab in 2007.
