Past Seasons
2021
- "In a Field" Outdoors Plays Festival; Artistic Director Dan Kitrosser
2020
- Podcast Play Series
- Black Lives Matter Micro Play Festival; Curated and Directed by Kevin R. Free
2019
- 37 Full Productions at Theaterlab
- 35 Dramatic Readings (In NYC, the NY Metro North Suburbs, and Washington DC)
- 82 Playwrights
- 26 Professional Directors
- 47 Professional Actors
2018
- 36 Full Productions at Theaterlab
- 50 Dramatic Readings (In NYC, the NY Metro North Suburbs, and Washington DC)
- 86 Playwrights
- 25 Professional Directors
- 47 Professional Actors
2017
- 34 Full Productions at Theaterlab
- 37 Playwrights
- 21 Professional Directors
- 39 Professional Actors
Competition Winners
Elementary School
Kids in the Storm by Nyla Reed
Middle School
Anything and Everything by Jena Musmar
High School
Home, Sick by Cathleen Freedman
2016
- 28 Full Productions at Theaterlab
- 43 Playwrights
- 21 Professional Directors
- 39 Professional Actors
Competition Winners
Middle School
The Empty Bough by Abraham Callard
High School
The Supermarket of Lost by Cassandra Hsiao
Videos
Check out our YouTube page to see the plays presented at the 2016 Worldwide Plays Festival!
2015
- 50 Full Productions at the June Havoc Theater
- 54 Playwrights
- 25 Professional Directors
- 46 Professional Actors
Competition Winners
Elementary School
Best Comedic Play: Shelby the Cupcake by Isabella Roche
Best Dramatic Play: What Just Happened? by Zoe Wohlman
Middle School
Best Comedic Play: Young Mata Hari: The Nosy Schoolgirl by Benjamin A. Hendel
Best Dramatic Play: Black Magic by Darya Farah Foroohar
High School
Best Dramatic Play: Confessions 3 by Charlotte Rauner
Best Comedic Play: All’s Fair by Daniel Moses Bring
Videos
Check out our YouTube page to see the plays presented at the 2015 Worldwide Plays Festival!
2014
- 25 Staged Readings at Shelter Studios, the Producers Club, and The West End Theater
- 48 Full Productions at the June Havoc Theater
- 84 Playwrights
- 30 Professional Directors
- 50 Professional Actors
Competition Winners
Elementary School
Best Comedic Play: The Chocolate Thief by Alejandro Salas
Best Dramatic Play: tie between P.O.V. by Arjun Mazumdar and The Drill by Sierra Blanco
Middle School
Best Comedic Play: Zombie Grandma by Everett Moore
Best Dramatic Play: KABOOM by Abigail Sylvor-Greenberg
High School
Best Dramatic Play: Set Back by Peter Chipman and Victoria Stiely
Best Comedic Play: A Social Experiment by Kai Williams
2013
- 28 Staged Readings at the Soter Lee Blackbox
- 45 Full Productions at the Clurman in Theater Row
- 80 Playwrights
- 40 Professional Directors
- 50 Professional Actors
2012
- May 8th-20th at the 45th Street Theatre and 59 e 59.
- 85 Playwrights
- 43 Professional Directors
- 191 Professional Actors
2011
- May 17th- 22nd at the June Havoc Theatre
- 53 Playwrights
- 20 Professional Directors
- 16 Professional Actors
2010
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