Mark Swanson: is opening TINY TALES FROM A BIG CHAIR an original piece of childrens theatre toorrow night at 7pm!

vivian green: vivian green is the recipient of a 2011 leeway foundation transformation award. thanks writers' workshop.

vivian green: vivian green is the recipient of a 2011 leeway foundation transformation award. thanks writers' workshop.

Tom Tunnington: My play, SOME CONVERSATION will be presented 11/4-11/6 by South Street Players, Spring Lake, NJ

Eric Balchunas: A few of my short films/plays are part of Philly Comedy Month on Oct 18th 8pm at Philly Shakespeare Theatre

Walter Vail: My play NEIGHBORS is at Vagabond Acting Troupe Oct 20-22 & 27-29, 2011

Walter Vail: My play UNDER THE SEA was produced in Sept 2011 by The Open Eye in Margaretville, New York.

Walter Vail: My play BRANCH will be produced by Society Hill Playhouse in February 2012

paula diehl: Composer in Residence at Harvard sought my organ music.Result: 3 concerts scheduled #1-Nov 18, Brooklyn NY

D.W. Gregory: My comedy, Molumby's Million, has been nominated for a Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play.

Pat McGeever: SISTER SEX will be produced next May at Lionheart Theatre, where it won the 2011 "Make the House Roar" prize.

Steven Cleaver: First book, Saving Erasmus, was published in 2007

Tom Tunnington: My play, COLD CALLING, will be produced by Chatham Community Players in their Jersey Voices Festival 7/29-8/6

Pat McGeever: My SISTER SEX just won the Lionheart Theatre's "Make the House Roar" Playwright's Competition for 2011.

Eric Balchunas: Two of my short films (OWEN VS IKEA and BEHIND THE GOOSE) will be screened during Media Theatre's Film Fest

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Kerri Kochanski: SPITTING DAISIES & COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE SUNSET, produced by Crack the Glass (new Philly company) in June.

Ken Kaissar: My play The Man Stanley performs in Philly next month. Read all about it at www.themanstanley.com

Jeffrey Stanley: My Playwriting I course starts at Temple U Ft. Wash on 6/8. Enroll here - http://tinyurl.com/4xkaldm

Walter Vail: My play SHAME is a semi-finalist in Multistage's Multidisciplinary New Works Festival in NYC!!

Walter Vail: My new play,BRANCH-Reading at Soc.Hill Playhouse, Mon. 5-16-11 @ 7pm-PDC Members only.

Walter Vail: YOUNG FREDERICK DOUGLASS is selected for The Juneteenth Festival of New Plays-NYC Poets Cafe, June 18-19, 2011

Eric Balchunas: My play HOME FROM COLLEGE will be performed at Colonial Playhouse's Short Play Fest on June 10-25.

Walter Vail: NEIGHBORS opens at Walking Fish,runs Wed.,June 2, 2011 thru Sun.,June 19, 2011

Melissa McBain: A preview of GOING BACK NAKED will be featured during the April Arts Festival: Act for Charity at the Shubin,

Walter Vail: UNDER THE SEA is a finalist, Montgomery Theatre Adaptation Contest, Souderton,PA

Walter Vail: GERONTIA is one of three one act winners, Nor'Eastern Play Contest-Production May 5, Rutland,VT.

barbara weber: I'm honored to portray Sr. Aloysius in Doubt at the Old Academy in March 2011. www.oldacademyplayers.org

Pat McGeever: My 10-minute comedy, "David Austin" will be produced by Fels Point Corner Theater in Baltimore, 4/15-5/1.

Thomas Tirney: Reading of Teach Your Children at Frederick Lowe Theatre in NYC for Friday Night Footlights, TONIGHT

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Kerri Kochanski: My new book "Spitting Daisies & Communicating Through the Sunset" is now available on Amazon.com.

Eric Balchunas: My play THE BREAK-UP PITCH is getting a reading at The Painted Bride on Wed 1/12 at 7pm. Free.

Walter Vail: WAITING FOR LEPKE was a finalist in the 2010 Kernodle Competition at U. of Arkansas.

Walter Vail: GERONTIA is a finalist in the Vermont Actors Rep One Act Contest!

Walter Vail: CHRISTMAS IN HER HEART was produced in Geraldine, Alabama in Decenber 2010.

Walter Vail: My two act comedy PEEPERS won Open Space Cafe Theatre's 2010 contest, and was produced in Greensboro, NC.

John Rosenberg: My new show, California Redemption Value premiers next month at the Papermill Theater, which we built!

Kerri Kochanski: My new musical will be read in the "Notes From a Page" series at Emerging Artists Theatre, NYC, May 2011.

D.W. Gregory: My comedy, Molumby's Million, is a critic's pick by the Inquirer and runs through Nov. 28 at Iron Age Theatre.

Eric Balchunas: Has a few short plays/vids being included in Philadelphia Comedy Month show at Philly Shakes Theatre 11/16 8pm

Todd Holtsberry: Come see "Coyote on a Fence",by Bruce Graham! Runs for 3 weeks,I directed it. Go to www.colonialplayhouse.org

Jeffrey Stanley: Medicine, Man is also now Kindleable with free excerpt. Details at http://lnkd.in/bu4kTY , thanks.

Jeffrey Stanley: Tesla's Letters is now available on Kindle along with a free excerpt. Details at http://lnkd.in/2k5bDa

Greg Romero: UNDER MY COAT IS THE TRUTH and NEW ORLEANS will be seen in Thee Wise Moose's "Don't Blink Marathon" in Alaska

Kerri Kochanski: My new musical will receive a workshop at Emerging Artists Theatre in NYC in November.

Jeffrey Stanley: I will be performing my short monologue "Dream Me Up a Bartender" on 9/28 as part of Material v. Memory

Jeffrey Stanley: Pls enjoy my review of The Girls of Murder City about playwright Maurine Watkins. http://tinyurl.com/2df8dut

Eric Balchunas: Writing/Directing my 4th Fringe show, comedy mix of short plays/films/art show, 'Wawapalooza 4: Damaged Goods

D.W. Gregory: After a fantastic reading at Plays and Players, Molumby's Million premieres at Iron Age Theatre in November.

Pat McGeever: PS: Consider this monthly opportunity if you have some steamy stuff youreslf.

Pat McGeever: Part of my "Sister Sex" will be read at the Erotic Literary Salon, 7 PM, 7/20 at Time, our RinR venue.

Kerri Kochanski: My full-length, THE PINK PLAYS, will receive a staged reading at Emerging Artists Theatre in NYC on July 19.

Mark Jesse Swanson: My sketch comedy show The American Dreamsicle opens tomorrow at 8! www.offcolortheatrecompany.org for details!

Bill Hollenbach: My play, CITIZEN PAINE, produced by Iron Age Theatre opens the 913 Festival on 6/9 at the Brecht Forum in NYC

Ken Kaissar: My radio play OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT will be performed by the Bricolage Company in Pittsbrugh, June 3 - 5.

Ken Kaissar: My play THE VICTIMS will receive a staged reading at the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha on June 3.

Walt Vail: YOUNG FREDERICK DOUGLASS has won First Place in the 2010 Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Youth Theatre Competition

Walt Vail: A GOOD COP, by Walt Vail, will be produced in North Hollywood by Eclectic Theatre Company's Hurricane Festival

gerald van wilgen: My play SS Elisabeth will be performed at the Independence Seaport Museum during the next Fringe Festival.

Eric Balchunas: My play TOO MUCH CHEESE IN THE MOUSETRAP was selected for the Second Annual Lawrence (NJ) One-Act Playfest.

Robert Castle: My one minute play, IMMORAL WARS, will be part of the New York Minute play festival to be held April 9th and 10th, produced by the Spare Change Theatre at 352 7th Ave 16th Floor New York, NY.

Pat McGeever: My COLLEEN & KUDZO has been selected as a semifinalist in the Future Fest in Dayton, Ohio.

Joy Cutler: My play, THE FROGG PRINCE, will be performed in April by theater students at the International School in Jakarta, Indonesia. With a Butoh chorus! How cool.

Pat McGeever: My COLLEEN AND KUDZO will be read at the Baltimore Playwrights' Festival Saturday, March 13.

Katharine Clark Gray: I have two plays in Reverie Productions' WET INK 2010 Festival at 78th St. Theatre Lab in NYC. A short play will appear in their "Monday Night Sex" Program (yeah, I know) on Mon., Mar. 1, and my full-length TIMBER LAND plays Wed. Mar. 3. http://reverieproductions.org/now_playing.html

Walt Vail: WAITING FOR LEPKE, a one-act play that I recently wrote and had read in Writers Circle, has won First Place in The Astor Street Opry Company's One Act Play Contest. LEPKE will be produced by Astor Street Opry Co. in February, in Astoria, Oregon.

Greg Romero: My full length play, THE MILKY WAY CABARET, just closed in Dallas, Texas. Produced by Audacity Theatre Lab, this was the play's second production, originally commissioned and produced by Philadelphia's Cardboard Box Collaborative in 2007. The Dallas production ran for ten performances, November 11-21.

Todd Holtsberry: Todd Holtsberry and Bill Rolleri, Co-Producers of Philly's Primary Stages, are proud to announce the triumphant return of our staged reading series this upcoming Tuesday, and Wednesday (11/24 and 11/25)! This will be two entirely different nights of script-in-hand readings of ten minute plays in which we blur the lines between a staged reading and a fully produced night of theater. The shows start at 8pm, with a $5 suggested donation that helps cover the costs of the complimentary food and drink. We are performing at the home of Philly's Primary Stages, The Shubin Theatre at 407 Bainbridge St, in S. Philly. Primary Stages is back...bigger, badder, and bolder than before with a Co-Sponsorship team of the PDC, Secret Room Theatre, and The Shubin. When asked about this night, Co-Producer Bill Rolleri had this to say, "It is gonna f@%king rock!" Don't miss this great night in the development of new short plays in Philadelphia...hope to see you there!

Pat McGeever: Two of my short plays that were read at Writers' Circle earlier this year, CONFITEOR and NASAL HYGIENE, will be produced as part of a short-play show at Theatre on the Square in Indianapolis, Feb. 12-14 and 19-21.

Pat McGeever: My new play, SISTER SEX, which we read at Writers' Circle recently, will show for two weekends, Jan. 8-17, at the Epilogue Theatre in Indianapolis. The director tells me she has the perfect 300-lb. Irish nun.

Kate McGrath: Kate's one-act Mother's Day is now up on YouthPlays.com, thanks to PDC members Jon Dorf and Ed Shockley. Please check out their website, especially if you are connected with anyone who produces plays for younger audiences, teaches or directs or is in theatre education/production. Thanks!

Greg Romero: My project, THE TRAVEL PLAYS, just received a workshop with NYC's Boomerang Theatre Company on October 10th in Shetler Studios. The project presented all 37 of the plays, directed by six different directors, with dramaturgy by Wally Zialcita.

Jeffrey Stanley: New play THE GREAT AGE will get its first public reading in NYC on 10/20 at 7pm by The Collective theatre ensemble. Details at http://www.brain-on-fire.com/greatage.htm

Donald Drake: Horse Trade Theater Group in Greenwich Village will do a reading of selections from Candide Does America in February

Donald Drake: Hudson river Classics in Hudson, NY, will do a staged reading of my play The Passage next March

Jeffrey Stanley: I'm teaching an NYU Screenwriting I class ONLINE that begins 9/24. Enrollment now - http://tinyurl.com/llejlb

Katharine Clark Gray: Oh, and USER 927 *won* Reverie's Next Generation Playwriting Contest! Workshop production coming Spring 2010, full production to follow. www.reverieproductions.org

Katharine Clark Gray: My play "Burn Motherf***er: A Zombie Play", created during the PDC Zombie Bake-Off, was just accepted to the "Scary Bad Play Festival" Halloween edition! Performs Oct. 29 at New York Theatre Workshop.

Thomas Tirney: My Fringe Production of Salesmanship For Life & Limb premiers September 4 and goes through September 8 at Plays & Players. This one act "corporate" farce runs approximately 40 minutes and tickets are $10 at http://www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=9148. Join us for a "Business Happy Hour" one hour before each show to meet the cast and crew and enjoy a drink at Plays & Players fully stocked bar, Quig's Pub. If you don't laff, drinks are on me!

Samuel Toll: My short comedy, "Intervention Blues," will be produced in "Summer Shorts"- July 17 to August 2, 2009, by the New Vision Theatre in California.

Greg Romero: Two of my short plays, DOCTOR HELIX AND KEGGY THE KEG and ZOMBIE HEART SALAD SANDWICH (written as part of the "Zombie Bake-Off" in February), are playing in Austin, Texas, May 14-16, produced by live performance group Debutantes and Vagabonds at the Rollins Theater in the Long Center for the Performing Arts. The production is directed by Amanda Garfield.

Greg Romero: My solo-performance piece, VALENTINE'S DAY, goes into production at Wesleyan University (Middletown CT) on May 8th and 9th.

Katharine Clark Gray: 2 things: 1) I was accepted into LAByrinth Theater Co.'s Summer Intensive Ensemble, and 2) my play USER 927 is a finalist for Reverie Productions' Next Generation Playwriting Contest. It will enjoy a staged reading in June (tentatively, Wednesday the 10th) at-- entirely coincidentally-- LAByrinth. It will be directed by David Hilder.

Pat McGeever: My "Colleen and Kudzo," developed in the past year at Writers' Circle and Readings in Restaurants, and in the Laura Shiner Series, will be the featured production at the BloomingPlays Festival, of Bloomington (IN) Playwrights' Project during the last two weeks of May 2009. Many thanks to all who helped the script get this far along.

Greg Romero: My one-act play, THE RIDE, is being produced by Saint Joseph's University on May 1st, at 7:30 pm. The play is being directed by Edwin Lashley, an SJU Performing Arts Senior as part of his senior project.

Quinn Eli: Philadelphia’s own Walking Fish Theatre has accepted my full-length play, “Asylum,” for a staged reading on the evening of April 22. “Asylum” concerns Kit and Ginny, an affluent white couple who wake up one morning to discover they may in fact be black. Set on the edge of reality and fantasy, the play examines the invisible threads that tie the present to the past.

Donald Drake: My full-length play Candide Does America will be produced by the Bloomington Playwrights Project, an Indiana theater with a 30-year history. The play is a modern-day sequel to the original Voltaire classic, in which Candide travels throughout the United States, Iraq and Antarctica, discovering if it true, as his mentor Pangloss has taught him, that this is the best of all possible countries.

Walter Vail: HERO WORSHIP, my one hour, one act comedy, has just won First Place in the Little Theatre of Alexandria (Virginia) National One-Act Competition for 2008. The theatre expects to produce the play in May, 2009. HERO WORSHIP is based on an earlier play, GERONTIA, that won a contest in New Orleans the year before the big storm. PDC did HERO WORSHIP as a Reading in Restaurant at Abbracchio, and it proved to be funny, but I thought the ending needed work. I revised the ending after our reading--if winning a National contest is any criterion, it pays to keep revising!! Walt Vail

Robert Castle: Two of my plays were published online in January: HEARTBURNING (10-minute) in the Oregon Literary Review and THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS (one-act) in FreightTrain

Jacqueline Goldfinger: Tickets are now on-sale for my full-length play, "The Oath," which will be produced at Arclight Theatre in NYC April 23-May 10. To buy tickets: click here. For more information: http://www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com

Pat McGeever: PRINDERELLA AND THE SINCE, my Spoonerized version of the classic fairytale, will be produced at the Epilogue Theatre in Indianapolis this coming weekend and the next.

Donald Drake: Theater Breaking Through Barriers has accepted my full-length drama The Passage for a staged reading in New York City next month. Set in the not to distant future when physician-assisted euthanasia has become an accepted practice, The Passage is about Angus, a strong-willed artist, on the eve of his scheduled euthanasia.

Greg Romero: Since October 1st, I have been participating in a writing residency as the first-ever Resident Writer for the inaugural arts project, "ArtsEdge", a program created by The Kelly Writers House and The University of Pennsylvania. The Residency extends through the end of August, 2009, and will include the presentation of several of my works-in-progress over the next year. As a companion assignment to this residency, I will be teaching in the Creative Writing department of The University of Pennsylvania.

Walter Vail: My play, HERO WORSHIP, which was given a reading at Readings in Restaurants some time ago, and then revised base on the reading, has been accepted for production in December by Love Creek Productions in New York...dates of production will be announced in the near future. Walt Vail

Walter Vail: The Legend of Wenceslas (The play that won First Prize in the 2006 Beverly Hills THeatre Guild Contest) has been published by Brooklyn Publishers, Odessa, Texas. Copies will be available soon. Walt Vail

Donald Drake: Hudson River Classics will open its Equity reading series this October with my full-length play "Candide Does America." It's an update of the Voltaire classic in which Candide travels the U.S. and its military outposts to see if it is true, as his mentor Pangloss says, that this is the best of all possible countries.

Greg Romero: My ten-minute play, TWO BUBBLES, is now published by Playscripts, Inc. Originally written as part of a 24-Hour Festival, the play is anthologized with nine other works in Great Short Comedies: Volume 3.

Greg Romero: I was just hired as Adjunct Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at St. Joseph's University. I begin teaching "American Theater" in the fall.

Todd Holtsberry: For the 4th year in a row, I'm producing a show of new plays in the Philly Fringe Fest that includes the work of PDC member writers only! This year's show is entitled "4X4". If you want to hear more about it, click on "4X4" on the sign-in page of this website, then click on "Click on this to learn more!" You can also stay tuned to this website and your e-mail for more info...don't worry, it's a comin'...

Robin Rodriguez: My short play CRUMBLED WORLDS will be part of Todd's 4X4 Philly Fringe at Plays and Players Theatre September 7-13. Also Philadelphia Theatre Workshop has asked to see my full play TOUCHSTONE to be considered for their 2009 Playshop Festival, an extensive workshop with readings.

Samuel Toll: Colonial Playhouse will present an evening of short plays, including my comedy, "Intervention Blues," July 18 through July 26. Also, "The Last Dance" will be part of Todd's 4x4 Philly Fringe at the Plays and Players in September.

Donald Drake: My full-length play ARIA, about an artist who tries to win the heart of a macho-hating woman by letting her think he is gay, is one of three finalists in the Altanta Queer Literary Festival competition this year.

Greg Romero: In June and July, I am teaching Playwriting to advanced college-level students at The Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute in Waterford, CT.

Donald Drake: The Altamura Center for the Arts and Cultures has made a $500 award for my play Proper Protocol, after the founders of the philanthropy saw a reading of the play two months ago in Hudson, N.Y., where it had won the HRC Competititon.

Walter Vail: Love Creek Productions, an outfit that has produced plays by Vivian Green and Donald Drake in the past, will be producing NEIGHBORS, my one-act play, as an AEA Showcase at The Parker Theater, 123 East 24th Street, NYC, for four performances, July 14,15,16 & 17 at 8:00pm. This will be the third production of NEIGHBORS, which was produced in Philly by Vagabond Acting Troupe and by Inspira Theatre Company.

Robert Castle: My play "The Origin of Consciousness" will be produced by Turtle Shell Productions in NYC as part of its Summer Shorts festival running from July 9 to 30.

Greg Romero: ICE HOLES, a ten-minute play written in serial with Melissa Gawlowski, will be given a staged reading as part of "CAT Tales Festival 2008", in New York, NY; June 13 - 15.

Bill Hollenbach: Inside the Gatehouse has been selected as a finalist in Dayton Playhouse's FututerFest,08. It will be performed July 25-27.

Pat McGeever: Update: COLLEEN & KUDZO has been selected by the Bloomington Playwrights' Project in Bloomington IN for inclusion in their Lora Shiner script development series.

Pat McGeever: Recent activity: Reading of SEX GODDESS PIZZA at Walking Fish Theatre, Rowen Haigh directing, Dec. 23, 2007. Reading of COLLEEN AND KUDZO, Jan. 20, Indianapolis. Performances of SILVER MEDALLION, Marsha Grant directing, March 28-Apr. 6, Indianapolis. Reading of COLLEEN AND KUDZO, Marlene Sider directing, Abbraccio's Restaurant, April 21. Upcoming: staged reading of PRINDERELLA AND THE SINCE, Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, Maine, Northern Writes Festival, June 8.

Richard Kotulski: My play Silence will be performed by the Walking Fish Theatre in May, 2008.

Samuel Toll: "A CAB FUGUE" just finished a six week run at the Atwater Playhouse in L. A. "DEATH FOR HIRE" produced in the American Globe Theatre Fifteen Minute Festival in New York. "INTERVENTION BLUES," a PDC production, presented at the Spark Festival. "REVENGE IS BEST SERVED COLD" produced at The Cringe Festival in New York. "ALIENS SAVED MY MARRIAGE" Opening May 1st in Toronto's Inspirato Festival of short plays."PAULA'S ROOM" Semi-Finalist 2007 ONE-ACT CONTEST at FirstStageLA.

Walter Vail: My play, NEIGHBORS, produced by Vagabond Acting Troupe a year ago, was given a second production by Inspira Theatre Company at Society Hill Playhouse on April 17 & 18, 2008.

Walter Vail: My one act play, DOWNSIZING THE FAMILY is included in Vagabond Acting Troupe's current One Act Play Festival at Second Stage at The Adrian, playing May 1&2 at 8:00pm and May 3 at 2:00pm.

Greg Romero: My full-length play, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LULLABY YOU'VE EVER HEARD, opens on May 7th in Dallas, TX. The production is the first of three of my plays to be produced over the next three years by Audacity Theatre Lab.

Jonathan Dorf: HIGH SCHOOL (non) MUSICAL has just been published by Playscripts.

Bill Hollenbach: INSIDE THE GATEHOUSE is a semi-finalist the Dayton Playhouse's FutureFest '08 at the end of July.

Donald Drake: My full-length The Last Appointment was one of the winners of the 2008 International Mystery Writers Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, and a full production of the play will be given throughout the 10-day festival June, 2008.

Donald Drake: Winner of 2008 Hudson River Classics Showcase Theatere Award for my full-length play Proper Protcol to be given a stage reading May 17, 2008

Joseph Greenfield: My play THROW THE VIRGIN IN THE VOLCANO had an eight production run at the Shubin theater during June 2007. The play also had a first Monday reading in June 2004.