Play Lab

The Play Lab, started in 1995, features developmental readings of scripts from 20 minutes to 2 hours in length. Actors are sent scripts a month prior to the Conference. The readings receive one rehearsal the day before their performance, with the playwright acting as the director. The readings are then responded to by a three-person panel, and the audience gives their feedback as well. Additionally, authors have a private meeting with one of their panelists to further discuss the script.

The following plays have been invited to present in t

Chiara Arrigoni’s Annunciation (Milan, Italy)

Zach Barr’s New Oleanna (Chicago IL)

Paul Braverman’s A Crack in the Past (Fremont CA)

Lucas Calzada’s Curtain Rising (Los Angeles CA)

Stacy Isom Campbell’s 1999 (Greenville SC)

Eoin Carney’s Arms & the Eurovision (Pittsburgh PA)

Drew Carnwath’s Virgin Tears (Toronto, Canada)

Catherine Castellani’s The Misopeds (New York NY)

Kevin Cirone’s His Girl Watson: A Sherlock Noir (Tewksbury MA)

Annie Consodine’s Mnemorian (Chicago IL)

Ben Corbett’s Fat Men in Yoga Pants (Fayetteville AR)

Timothy Crawford’s Outrage: Terror in Springfield 1908 (Springfield IL)

Jennifer Crittenden’s The Issue (Sherman Oaks CA)

Claire Dettloff’s stuffed (Phoenix AZ)

Erin Dietsche’s Chill (Tucson AZ)

Emma Durbin’s landscape (Chicago IL)

Tim Foley’s Vista Point (Sacramento CA)

Erik Gernand’s The Totality of All Things (Chicago IL)

Marshall Gibbs’ Monster (Or #MeToo, Brute) (Baltimore MD)

Silvia Gonzalez S.’ Death of a Social Security Benefit (Lemoore CA)

Cameron Graham’s Sitting Ducks (Ann Arbor MI)

Kathleen Grotzinger’s Pussycats (Burbank CA)

Sarah Grousta’s The Hands That Feed You (Brooklyn NY)

Michael Hagins’ A Shot Rang Out (New York NY)

Steven Charles Haworth’s Red River Falls (Garrison NY)

Nicholas Walker Herbert’s Nadir (Sacramento CA)

Libby Heily’s Start Then Next (New York NY)

Rand Higbee’s Schroedinger: Into the Quantumverse (Yachats OR)

Andra Laine Hunter’s HareSkin (Dallas TX)

Kevin Kautzman’s MODERATION (St Paul MN)

Ward Kay’s The Bride in Blackout (Vienna VA)

Nina Kissinger’s This is Government (Brooklyn NY)

Rian Kumar’s Lillies in the Park (San Ramon CA)

Katy Laurance’s The Ballad of the Cursed Stormrider (Anchorage AK)

Glasgow Lyman’s Sex Therapy Play (Portland OR)

Seth McNeill’s Pop (Athens NY)

Dante Medema’s Biologics (Anchorage AK)

Allison Moon’s Zero State (Gresham OR)

Tom Moran’s The Adventures of Uta, the Wandering Uterus (Fairbanks AK)

Mark Muro’s The Ripper Strikes Again (Anchorage AK)

Michael C. O’Day’s How to Pronounce Samhain (Brooklyn NY)

Alicia Payne’s PAZ (Toronto, Canada)

Theresa Peters’ The Impossible Ask (Anchorage AK)

Samantha Ray’s Night Visuals of Life (Houston TX)

Kristen Ritter’s Disillusioned (Anchorage AK)

Jonathan James Rodriguez’ Evelyn & Adam (Bayamon, Puerto Rico)

Greg Romero’ and Brian Grace-Duff’s LARPing (Houston TX and Philadelphia PA))

Maya Rosen’s All Sales Final (Holliston MA)

Jesse Saywell’s The Babysitter (Manchester NH)

Fernando Buzhar Segall’s The Devil and The Candlemaker (New York NY)

Hawthorne Smith’s FRENZY (Austin TX)

Phillip Christian Smith’s Hippolytus in Space (New York NY)

Chris Soucy’s The King in Yellow (Savannah GA)

Chelsea Sutton’s The Abundance (Los Angeles CA)

Mike Teverbaugh’s Memento Mori (Toluca Lake CA)

Zac Thompson’s Class IV (Cambridge MA)

Zach Tomasovic’s Tribeca (Brooklyn NY)

Zonia Tsang’s Adam and Eve (New York NY)

Kanika Asavari Vaish’s Eight Ways to Plead with a God (New York NY)

Anne Valentino’s Lesbian Woman (Rockville MD)

Caitlyn Waltermire’s Dreary, Dearie (High Springs FL)

Philip Middleton Williams’ Cabana Boy (Palmetto Bay FL)

Heloise Wilson’s American Standard (New York NY)

Ellis Wollstonecraft’s Benjamin & Beatrice (Juneau AK)

he 2024 Play Lab.

Currently the Lab presents readings of 50-60 plays per year. Panelists include nationally acknowledged playwrights, director, designers, and dramaturgs, as well as some of the leading figures in Alaska’s theatre.

Plays that have been in the Play Lab since 1995.