The Chelsea Repertory’s Playwright Lab
Facilitated by Hal Carlton-Ford & Mary Workman, with Broadway playwright Jeremy Kareken (The Lifespan of a Fact)
The Chelsea Rep’s Playwright Lab meets every second Saturday of the month for a reading in front of a live audience, followed by talkbacks and audience queries from Hal Carlton-Ford.
The purpose of this lab is for playwrights to hear the words they have written spoken by professional actors and to hear the audience discuss their experience of the play, as exemplified by Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process.
If you’re in New York City, want to attend or you have a submission, please contact Hal Carlton-Ford.
2023 Season (Ongoing)
July/August — Hiatus for full productions in Chelsea Rep Lab’s Summerfest ‘23
June – Tom Simmons' The Great American Hangover, Joary Lizardo's Spider Empress, and Kiki Tsakalakis' Trying For Life
May — Brian Henry's Slaughterhouse Bowels and Katie Duggan's Bottomless Pit
April — Danielle Fink's Floater, Darnell Hutchins' Switch, and Ariella Carmell's Sit For Me
March — Kayla Nieporte Linkugel's Six Inches Above the Knee, Tanyeno Wotorson's Again, and Jonathon Ward's Playing Twins
February — Kiki Tsakalakis’ Trying For Life and Marc Weiner’s The Rabbi’s Son
2022 Season
February — Larry Raiken’s Love is a Fallacy and Jonathon Ward’s Kain’s Curse
March — Ellen Orchid’s Adjustments
April — Meredith Gleason's Sex. That’s All You Really Need to Know., Joary Lizardo’s Towers, and Lizzy Ryland’s Grandma’s Defiled Couch
May — Alex Plachov’s Untitled and Charles Meany’s Romance Over Easy
June — Jonathon Ward’s Dexter and Lewellyn
July — Carol Carter’s The Cage
August/September — Hiatus for full productions in Chelsea Rep Lab’s Summerfest ‘22
October — Ben Murphy’s Two Workmen, Alyssa Finfer’s Sickfluencer
November — Jonathon Ward’s If, Olgu Marandy’s Teaming and Dreaming
December — Brian Henry’s Suspect and Jaylan Turkkan’s The Promised Land