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The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Eliana Theologides Rodriguez as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. With ease, Rodriguez creates characters who each have a crown of their own and a dark side that enthralls with every read. By exploring loss, pain, and coping, we glimpse a picture of complex love and complex hurt. Our congratulations and thanks to Eliana.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Samantha Marchant as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. And the Last Four Things is a highly ambitious work examining eschatology utilizing a dizzying but very entertaining fluidity of time as one man's soul hangs in the balance. Samantha's time in the intensive focused on deepening the audience relationship to her protagonist and she was highly successful in that effort. Our congratulations and thanks to Samantha.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize kanishk pandey as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. The Fate of the Online Cow is an utterly unique work, transforming even the most banal elements of streamer culture into high drama. Ecologically-minded, worker-championing, and more than a little disturbing, this play has far more than its unconventional titular character going for it. Our congratulations and thanks to kanishk.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize SMJ as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. SWAY is a biting satire that interrogates the similarities between religious cults and modern influencer culture. This deft horror-comedy gives its ensemble pathos and bathos in equal measure in service of a truly memorable finale. Our congratulations and thanks to SMJ.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Jessica Durdock Moreno as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an Using abstract, non-linear drama punctuated with haunting memories, the play bravely and hilariously explores the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in all its horror and beauty. Though it's painstaking to watch Bette and Mary tear into each other, the audience can see how sometimes we cause suffering to who we love the most. Our congratulations and thanks to Jessica.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Madeline Dennis-Yates as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Madeline wields an air of whimsy throughout the play - what starts out as a fun reunion of a group of young women at their childhood summer camp turns into a mystery and ghost story. Secrets from the past are revealed as the ghost of a drowned girl haunts the group. Our congratulations and thanks to Madeline.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Alyssa Haddad as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2020 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Off-White; Or the Arab House Party Play explores a particularly difficult coming-of-age narrative, that of a Middle Eastern-American teenage girl in the aftermath of 9/11, with nuance and subtlety. The piece is crafted with painstaking attention to detail that makes even her least sympathetic characters utterly relatable. Our congratulations and thanks to Alyssa.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Ali Keller as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2020 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Blood/Sweat/Tears is a deft matryoshka doll of a play, layering a trio of complex worlds to highlight the gender disparities enforced in the stories we tell. As her worlds fold into each other, we are all made complicit in what we allow in the service of art. Our congratulations and thanks to Ali.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Aaron Coleman as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2020 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Tell Me I’m Gorgeous at the End of the World is a biting satire of The Gay Play that ruled stages in the 1990s. The piece is pitch Black, hilarious, and urgent, both onstage and off. Our congratulations and thanks to Aaron.

The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Megan Tabaque as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Winter 2020 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. Cycle Play is a fascinating exploration of toxic femininity, how our traumas grow when unattended, and the mystical power of exercise. Megan skillfully draws in her audience with a friendship between two broken women before what they need, from the world and each other, takes the story to a very dark place. Our congratulations and thanks to Megan.