Stagewrights

Stagewrights is a play-development group sponsored by Stageworks Theatre and run by and for Tampa Bay-area playwrights. The goals of the group are to provide critical guidance and support for member playwrights as well as opportunities for readings and productions of plays developed by members of the group. In recent years, several members of Stagewrights have received staged readings and/or full productions of their plays by Stageworks and other local theatres.

Stagewrights meets twice each month, usually on the first and third Tuesdays. At the first monthly meeting, playwrights may bring up to ten pages of a script to be read and critiqued by the group. The second Tuesday is given over to more formal readings of completed drafts of an act or entire play, also followed by a talkback/critique. These readings are cast from a stable of local actors who donate their time and talent. Meetings and talkbacks are run by members of the group, including local playwrights and theatre artists such as Ed Stevens, Jeanne Adams, Jim Wicker, and Dick Budin, among others. Playwrights interested in joining Stagewrights, or actors interested in volunteering for readings, may contact the group at anna.brennen@stageworkstheatre.org