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 at PlayPenn is a...

PlayPenn announces Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames (Fat Ham) as the first featured guest in its 2026 PlayPenn Presents conversation series. PlayPenn Presents brings leading artists into conversation with audiences to explore the making of new plays and theatre works and the evolving journeys of contemporary theatre makers. Previous guests in the series have included Samuel D. Hunter, J.T. Rogers, and Ayad Akhtar. One of the most widely produced playwrights working in American...

PlayPenn’s Continuing Education classes are laboratories for big ideas, fearless craft, and training for artists who want more than inspiration. It is rigorous, hands on, artist-centered training that strengthens structure, character, dialogue, and dramatic tension. You’ll write. You’ll revise. You’ll discover what your work is truly capable of becoming.