Public Theater Selects 12 Playwrights for Its Emerging Writers Group
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The Public Theater has selected 12 playwrights for the inaugural run of its Emerging Writers Group, the theater announced yesterday. The program, a subset of the Public Writers Initiative, a long-term initiative to support playwrights, provides emerging playwrights with a $3,000 stipend, a reading of their work at the Public, and a biweekly writers’ group led by associate artistic director Mandy Hackett. Selected playwrights include Christina Gorman, whose play, “Split Wide Open” was a runner-up for the 2005 Princess Grace Award, Leila Buck, the New York Theater Workshop’s teaching artist at the Khalil Gibran International Academy, and Raul Castillo, a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company.
The playwrights were selected from an applicant pool of 700.
