Our Programs

The Theater Project provides programs for playwrights to learn and develop their craft – no matter their ages or experience.

Playwrights have multiple opportunities to showcase their work and hone their craft.

Playwrights
workshop

Playwrights discuss issues and get feedback in a group setting. Staged readings of their work are regularly held at the Cranford Library.

Short Play 
Competition

A playwriting competition where top entrants see their short plays staged in front of an audience.

Young Playwrights Competition

High school students get professional feedback on their work. Winners see their plays staged.

New Work Presented between 2018 - 2019

 Think Fast Short Play Competition 
March 2019
Four New Years in Japan  by Steven Haworth
The Circus Master and the Peanut Dancer  by Sheila Duane  
Over Here  by John Poglinco
What’s in A Name?  by Valerie Stack Dodge  
Getting in the Last Word  by Mike Sockol
Zumba by Eileen Walsh
Medagan by Joe Godley
Polly  by Sanam Erfani & Scott Cohen
Mints by George Cameron Grant
 
 The Theater Project's Playwrights Workshop
November 2018
Cashing Out by Luigi Jannuzzi
You Had Me At Rinse by Stephanie Griffin
Office Kiss by Luigi Jannuzzi
Executive Washroom by Joseph Vitale
The Surprising Measure of Buried Treasure by Lynn Marie Macy
Come Fly The Metaphorically Friendly Skies by Michael McGoldrick

The Theater Project's Playwright's Workshop
June 2018
Fly Me To The Moon by Luigi Jannuzzi
Billy and John Part 1 by Bill Mesce
Ugly Baby by Joseph Vitale
Wing Man by Mary Jane Walsh
Billy and John Part 2 by Bill Mesce
Prayer Line Beyond by Adrienne Cantine
The Couch Potato & The Armchair Activist by Lynn Marie Macy
End Of The Line by Stephanie Griffin
Billy and John Part 3 by Bill Mesce
Sister Resisters by Lynn Marie Macy