Centering the creative development of women, non-binary and trans playwrights through workshop rehearsals and performances of new plays, Script Development Workshops provide opportunities for playwrights to see their scripts move from words on a page to life on a stage.
Plays in Progress
September-December 2025
A Monthly Series of Script Development Workshops Capped with Staged Readings
TSGP invites submissions of new scripts written by women, nonbinary and transgender playwrights for the Fall Plays in Progress Script Development Workshop Series.
Fall 2025 Theme: “Of a Certain Age”
Our focus for the fall series is on plays which center characters who are “of a certain age”. Mature women and LGBTQIA+ people (i.e., over the age of 50), are often left out of the narratives and stories told in performance. In line with TSGP’s vision of centering human beings in all their many identities, we encourage submissions from women, nonbinary and transgender playwrights representing all communities, cultures and identities focusing on our Fall theme “Of a Certain Age”.
Eligibility Requirements
The Fall 2025 Plays in Progress Workshops will focus on playwrights who live in Washington State. TSGP provides a royalty but cannot assist with transportation or housing costs.
Scripts which have received a full production or which are currently being workshopped by another company are not eligible for this program.
Application deadline: July 13, 2025
Includes
A director and up to 4 actors who are compensated. Playwright receives a small royalty.
Up to 12 hours of rehearsals. Workshops are scheduled the 2nd or 3rd week of the month with rehearsals between Tuesday-Saturday and a Sunday afternoon performance.
1 public performance in-person at the MLK FAME Center Studio Space, including audience participation and a recording of the performance using the Zoom platform.
Intended for
Women, nonbinary and transgender playwrights who are resident in Washington State.
Complete scripts which have been through a more extensive artistic development process and would benefit from a public performance.
Plays which have received a full production or which are currently being workshopped by another company are not eligible for this program.
Objectives for this format
The staged-reading format offers the playwright an opportunity to:
Learn how their script is handled in a basic production format by a director and cast.
Collaborate with a director and cast to answer questions and guide the interpretation of their script.
Witness the impact on their story of minimal production elements, as determined by the director.
Evaluate the impact of their story through feedback from audience members as well as other theatre artists.
Receive usable inquiry-based feedback through facilitated feedback discussions.
Build connections with Seattle-based directors and actors.
How to Submit a script
Upload 10 page PDF script sample plus cover sheet including contact information. Scripts should include a header or footer with playwright name, play title and page numbers.
Tell us about yourself and your goals for your writing and your script.
What you will need for the application:
Playwright Biography - 75 words maximum.
Playwright's Statement
Resume (PDF format)
Script Sample (PDF format)
optional: Headshot (PNG or JPG format)
Directors for Plays in Progress 2025
While the primary focus in this program is on the playwright, the Script Development Workshops of both types offer an opportunity for current and emerging directors to practice their skills in a collaborative environment.
Director’s Responsibilities
Preparation, Rehearsals and Casting: Directors are asked to read the script and to make any of their own usual preparations for directing in terms of script analysis; to assist the producer with casting; and to assist the producer in scheduling the Zoom read-through and the rehearsals during the week of the workshop. Directors are also asked to review the basic CRP outline, to have a sense of the feedback process that will be followed; directors will be part of the response group after the performance of their script.
Meetings: TSGP will schedule at least one Zoom meeting prior to the workshop including one team meeting between the playwright and their director to allow the director to ask questions and talk with the playwright about their script and their goals.
Deadlines: Following the Zoom-based readthrough, the playwright will have an opportunity to revise their script. The due date for submitting the script which will be used for the workshop will be no later than two weeks prior to the beginning of rehearsals, to allow the director sufficient time to prepare.
How to apply:
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What you will need for the application:
Director Biography - 75 words maximum.
Resume (PDF format)
Headshot (PNG or JPG format)
Response to the following questions:
Tell us about your rehearsal process as a director working with new scripts and playwrights. How do you approach a new script? What is your favorite question for a playwright?
The theme for the Fall 2025 Plays in Progress is "Of a Certain Age". How does age show up in your life as a director or as a human being?
Many of the scripts submitted to TSGP are stories centered on trauma of different kinds, including racial, sexual, and gender-based. Tell us about your experience (as a director, an actor, a stage manager or other creative role) working with actors on scripts where characters have experienced trauma or where the story told is difficult or emotionally draining. How have you led a rehearsal or resolved such situations?
A History of Script Development at The Shattered Glass Project
January 2021 - Familiar Kill by Barbara Lindsay (renamed Want, produced by TSGP August 2022), directed by Maureen Hawkins
February 2021 - All New Cells by Aliza Goldstein (produced by TSGP June 2023), directed by Alison Kozar
February 2021 - Leal’s Last Stand by Suzanne Baillie, directed by Alma Davenport (Zoom-based reading - no public performances)
March 2021 - Loom by Carolynne Wilcox, directed by Rebecca O’Neil
March 2022 - Privileged by Alma Davenport, directed by Sandra L. Holloway (Zoom-based reading - no public performances)
April 2022 - Fire Country by Jessica Chisum, directed by Helen T. Merriam
March 2023 - Rockhound by Karen Saari, directed by Cindy Geise French
March 2023 - A Lonely Realization created, directed and performed by Darby Sherwood and Emily Stone (produced by TSGP in October 2024, directed by Rebecca O’Neil
September 2023 - A Witness by Jordan Elizabeth Henry, directed by Rebecca O’Neil
January 2025 - A Scythe and a Sandglass the Skeleton Bore by Mariah Lee Squires and S.W. Jones, directed by Shana Bestock
February 2025 - (((god/hole))) by Nelle Tankus, directed by Zenaida Smith
March 2025 - Inside the Head of Mimp by Miriam BC Tobin, directed by Adrienne Mackey
April 2025 - In Between Places by Carolynne Wilcox, directed by Zanne Gerard
May 2025 - The Request (or Prison Fan Fiction) by Brittney S. Harris, directed by Jordan-Michael Whidbey
June 2025 - Shape Of by Zoe Barker-Aderem, directed by Buddy Todd