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.

Formerly known as The Playwrights Cohort, PlayPenn’s Playwright Entrepreneur Program (PEP), is a first-of-its-kind, tuition-free professional development program designed to help playwrights build sustainable, self-directed careers. This initiative addresses a critical gap in traditional artistic training by focusing on the practical business skills playwrights need to thrive.

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.