New Works Lab is our bi-monthly play development program exclusively for ALAP members. For the New Works Lab, ALAP partners with a local theatre company (we rotate among some of the best groups in Los Angeles) to produce a reading of a member’s script. For each Lab, an L.A. theatre selects a script, conducts a rehearsal, and holds a reading. In addition to the reading, the playwright has pre-reading conversations with a dramaturge and director as well as a moderated post-reading discussion. The Lab provides members with a safe, engaged audience with whom they can develop their works.

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If you have questions, please contact New Works Lab Coordinator, Alison Hills, at Ahills@LAplaywrights.org.

Upcoming Lab:

Sunday, April 15 at 1PM
Eclectic Companey Theatre
5312 Laurel Canyon Boulevard
North Hollywood, California 91607

For our April Lab, ALAP will partner with Eclectic Company Theatre. Founded in 1989, The Eclectic Company Theatre is an ensemble of performers, writers, directors, designers, and producers united by a commitment to a high standard of artistic expression.  Members share a vision of the company as a center for diverse, innovative and socially relevant entertainment where members have opportunities to produce their own projects.  The company has no Artistic Director.  It functions as a co-op nonprofit, working in a direction based on the interest and passion of its members.  Its goal is to offer a supportive environment to produce the individual dreams of its members and to cultivate the next generation of theater producers and artists.  For more information, please see EclecticCompanyTheatre.org or https://www.facebook.com/EclecticCompanyTheatre.

Submissions for April Lab are closed.

Future Lab: 

For our June Lab, we are excited to partner again with Alliance Repertory Company (ARC).

Founded in 1986, the Alliance Repertory Company emerged from a Meisner acting class taught by Edward Kaye-Martin. ARC has produced established as well as emergent playwrights. Most recently, they have partnered with New River Dramatists. They seek plays that foster communication between theater artist and audience and heighten awareness of the human condition relevant to our times.  For more information, please see http://www.alliancerepertory.org.

Submission Deadline for the June New Works Lab is April 15.

Past Labs:
Dylan Brody's Mother, May I
Co-produced with Alliance Repertory Company
Sunday, March 4

Mother, May I: When Daniel, a successful Hollywood writer brings his girlfriend home to meet his East Coast intellectual family, secrets emerge and long-simmering conflicts come to a boil.  Narcissism, neuroses and family dynamics fuel the comedy and pathos as a mother's narcissism, a father's secret sexuality a sibling rivalry and an intergenerational habit of financial dependence collide over a two-day visit to the elder Grunman's home.

Founded in 1986, the Alliance Repertory Company emerged from a Meisner acting class taught by Edward Kaye-Martin. ARC has produced established as well as emergent playwrights. Most recently, they have partnered with New River Dramatists. They seek plays that foster communication between theater artist and audience and heighten awareness of the human condition relevant to our times.  For more information, please see http://www.alliancerepertory.org.