the foundry

Calling all Philadelphia-based playwrights! Applications are now open for The Foundry! Apply at www.playpenn.org/apply

BIG NEWS FOR 2027! The Foundry at PlayPenn, Philadelphia’s preeminent playwright collective, launches its inaugural festival in 2027, spotlighting new work by the next generation of theater artists, produced in association with Philadelphia Theatre Company. The Foundry New Play Festival will feature readings of new work by Lulu Duffy-Tumasz, Aly Gonzalez, and August Hakvaag. March 12–14, 2027 at The Louis Bluver Theatre at The Drake March 20 and 21, 2027 in NYC! The Foundry a

The Foundry at PlayPenn, Philadelphia's preeminent playwrights collective for emerging professional writers, welcomes Rayne, Siddarth Anand, and Monica Flory as new Foundry members and its Class of 2028. Playwrights L M Feldman (hand foot hand) and R. Eric Thomas (Xtravaganza) will continue to lead the workshop in their fifth year as the Foundry’s Lead Artists.

Back in 2010, Samuel D. Hunter was a young New York playwright fresh out of Moscow, Idaho, when Philadelphia gave him a life-changing...