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Our process begins with the weekly Monday Night Writers Meeting, where playwrights workshop new ideas. The results are seen across the country and around the world:

LIBERTY, a monumental new musical, with book & lyrics by Dana Leslie Goldstein and music by Jonathan Goldstein, was developed at the WorkShop through concert readings and a two-week Play In Process production. It recently concluded a preliminary run at New 42nd Street and will open Off-Broadway in the fall.

Fred Glover’s THE FIRE SEASON won Beverly Hills Theater Guild’s Nesburn Award and his play SANCTUARY won Tribute Productions’ Sprenger-Lang Award. Both plays were developed extensively at the WorkShop.

On being the first recipient of the Julio T. Nunez Artists Grant, Glenn Alterman said, "Part of my winning the grant came about from the productions of my play GOD IN BED in Europe last summer, many of the monologues from which were developed in the Monday Night Writers Meeting." Also, Glenn’s THE SEALING OF CEIL, originally read at Sundays@Six and later developed at the Monday Night Writers Meeting, won him Georgia State University’s prestigious Arts and Letters Degree in Drama.

Rich Orloff's comedy FUNNY AS A CRUTCH, developed at the WorkShop, became a NY Times Critic's Pick last season and gets its European premiere in May. Plays from Rich's short play collections FOREIGN AFFAIRS and COUPLES, both originally produced at the WorkShop, have since had 39 productions in the United States and Australia.

Developed and produced at the WorkShop, Jon Lonoff’s full-length comedy SKIN DEEP was published by Samuel French, Inc. last spring. The play has subsequently been produced in Georgia and Ontario, Canada, and is scheduled for next season in Kansas City and San Diego.

Laurie Graff's THE SHIKSA SYNDROME, first developed as a solo show at the WorkShop, found another life as a full-length novel published by Broadway Books, Random House.

Timothy Scott Harris’ new full-length play, PROTECTED, has been selected for presentation in the 2010 FringeNYC.

WorkShop Artistic Director and One Life to Live staff writer Scott C. Sickles' BEAUTIFUL NOISES was recently published in Smith & Kraus' 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays and his full-length drama HAIRDRESSER ON FIRE was produced at San Diego's Compass Theatre.

From the wildly varied Sundays@Six and Three-Day Staged Readings series to Plays in Process productions – all in the Jewel Box; from the monthly hilarity of VAUDEVILLE NOUVEAU and VERBATIM VERBOTEN to the riches of our annual WILL-A-THON, featuring the members of Charles E. Gerber’s Will’s PlayShop and honoring Shakespeare’s Birthday; from premieres, revivals and classics to special homegrown projects on our Main Stage, The WorkShop Theater Company is rarely dark. And, when we’re not in production ourselves, our reasonable rental rates provide a vital service to other companies not fortunate enough to have their own home.

We offer classes in Shakespeare and Musical Theater, post-performance discussions, and special celebrations. This February, we commemorated Black History Month with BLACK VOICE – a series of staged readings of scenes and plays by playwrights of color featuring over 50 talented artists, many of them new to the WorkShop. In honor of March’s Women’s History Month, we staged a revival of MISS LULU BETT, the first play by a woman to win the Pulitizer Prize, offering talk-backs with leading academics. It was one of the most popular productions in our history.