offers staged readings, intensive development labs, master classes, bi-monthly critique sessions and community engagement events to create opportunities for playwrights, offer resources to emerging and established career artists and connect the new development community in the Southeast.
“THIS IS A COLLECTIVE OF POWERFUL STORYTELLERS THAT HAS SPRINGBOARDED SOME OF THE BEST PLAYWRIGHTS IN ATLANTA.” —Lauren Gunderson, award-winning playwright
“WTP IS A CORNERSTONE OF ATLANTA’S NEW WORK THEATRE SCENE.“– Celise Kalke, Synchronicity Theatre Managing Director and former Director of New Projects, Alliance Theatre
“THE ETHEL WOOLSON LAB IS WITHOUT A DOUBT ONE OF MY MOST FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES AS A PLAYWRIGHT. I will forever be thankful to Working Title Playwrights for working so hard to ensure that playwrights like me are supported, even well beyond the end of the lab itself.” – Malcolm Tariq, WTP 2018 Ethel Woolson Lab recipient
“WTP IS A TRUE GIFT TO THE ATLANTA COMMUNITY AND SUPPORTING THEM IS AN INVESTMENT IN FUTURE DRAMATIC WORKS THAT CHALLENGE US TO THINK DEEPLY ABOUT WHAT IS MEANS TO BE ALIVE” – Dr. Angela Farr Schiller, WTP Dramaturg and KSU Resident Dramaturg, Director and Professor
Pictured in banner: Erin Considine, A. Julian Verner, Amber Bradshaw, Melissa Simmons, Brooke Owens, Megan McFarland, Bill Murphey and Ben Silver take part in a moderation session for an 2017 Ethel Woolson Lab reading of RIDING BICYCLES IN THE RAIN. Photo credit: Danyale Taylor
