New Works Series

Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc.’s new play development program Playwrights Lab, is collaborating with arts/cultural organizations to provide theatrical space and resources to give rise to local playwrights and their new works. The playwrights selected for our developmental workshops will have access to our dramaturg for further conceptual, revisionary, and editorial help as well as table readings of their full-length working draft with other theatre artists. Once the draft is ready for production, the play will undergo a week-long rehearsal and tech period, which includes a director, professional actors, and minimal scenic and lighting design. Following the rehearsal period, 2-3 performances of the production will be available as ticketed, non-equity events.

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Playwrights on Park's mission is to develop and produce original plays, to foster emerging and established playwrights, and to become a leader in new play development. This event includes a reading of a new play by professional actors, a talk back following the reading with the playwright, cast, and director, and an opportunity for audience members to complete a response card for each play/musical.We are currently accepting submissions for the 2023 season of the Playwrights on Park Reading Series at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, CT. 

Submissions for our 2025-2026 season will open in February 2025. Check this page for updates.

Submission Guidelines

• BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, womxn, Latinx, and differently-abled artists are strongly encouraged to submit
• We are seeking FULL LENGTH plays. No musicals or One-Acts at this time
• We are only seeking plays with small casts (4 or less actors), particularly 2 or 3 character casts
• Submit through this Google Form.
• Include any production or workshop history, as well as biographies of the playwright, and any collaborators
• Playwrights may self-submit or go through a literary agent.
• Connecticut-based and NYC playwrights are strongly encouraged to submit
• Please do not submit any plays that have already been submitted to Playwrights on Park in the past.

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MEET OUR NEW WORKS SERIES TEAM

Liv Fassanella is a playwright and dramaturg based in Connecticut. Her plays explore diverse experiences of womanhood through horror, comedy, and drama. Her play Adam and the Witches was selected for a workshop with Foul Contending Rebels Theatre Cooperative in Burlington, Vermont that took place in March-June 2023. In June of 2023, her short play Serious Play was produced as part of the Manchester Playwrights Festival at the Little Theatre of Manchester in Manchester, Connecticut. She received her Bachelor’s degree in playwriting from Bennington College in 2021, and since has served as the resident Dramaturg and New Works Coordinator at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford Connecticut. Email: LFassanella@PlayhouseTheatreGroup.org