Working Title Playwrights

Working Title Playwrights is a new play incubator and service organization based in Atlanta, Georgia.

We are a support system for artists, dedicated to forging the future of exceptional, inclusive and boundary-breaking American theatre.

“This is a collective of powerful storytellers that has springboarded some of the best playwrights in Atlanta.”
—Lauren Gunderson, award-winning playwright

Pictured in banner: Tramaine Brathwaite writing a play for the WTP 24 Hour Plays, 2017. Photo credit: Branden La Fountain

News & Events

TABLEWORK: How New Plays Get Made

Check out the new WTP podcast launched in February 2023, Tablework: How New Plays Get Made where Working Title Playwrights Managing Artistic Director Amber Bradshaw interviews new play artists about how they create and collaborate, what they hope for the future of new play development and their favorite development tools and practices. As the world and the theatre rebuilds, rediscovers and realigns – we’re going to be a part that exploration. Continue reading “TABLEWORK: How New Plays Get Made” →

Monday Night Development Workshops

If you’d like to get to know WTP better, join us for our Monday Night Development Workshops on the 1st and third Monday of every month. MNDW is currently virtual AND live. It is free to attend for all theatre artists.

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WTP IN RESIDENCE at Theatrical Outfit and Windmill Arts

Working Title Playwrights is In Residence at Theatrical Outfit in downtown Atlanta and Windmill Arts in East Point! Continue reading “WTP IN RESIDENCE at Theatrical Outfit and Windmill Arts” →

WTP is Celebrating 20 years!

In addition to our core programing, the past 20 years have seen WTP:

 Launch a partnership with Theatrical Outfit, a prominent theatre nationally and regionally, leading to the yearly Unexpected Play Festival and our new home In Residence.

 Move from an all-volunteer organization to a nationally-recognized non-profit with a full-time staff.

 Experience the joy of seeing WTP-developed scripts produced and showcased throughout the world, including locally at the Alliance, Theatrical Outfit, Actors Express, Synchronicity, Essential and more.

 Initiate a partnership with Actors Express and Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, an acclaimed Courtroom Drama event, a continuing legal education fundraising events that was attended by more than 400 attorneys.

 Develop a ground-breaking Dramaturgy Intensive, a year-long rigorous academic
program designed to train the future generation of new play dramaturgs.

 Become a leading light in the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion movement, hosting the first open city-wide training for the theatre community.

 Start an Apprentice program to serve the next generation of artistic leaders.

 Launch two scholarship programs for Black Playwrights in honor of Rosalind Ayres-Williams and Barbara Molette.

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