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Ready Now for Your 2024-25 Productions: DOWNSTATE and THE HEART SELLERS

This week we're featuring Bruce Norris and his new drama, DOWNSTATE, and, from Lloyd Suh, THE HEART SELLERS. Read these powerful new plays now and plan your productions.

AN ELOQUENT FUGITIVE SLAVE FLEES TO IRELAND · Psalmayene 24

IN THE UPPER ROOM · Beaufield Berry

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Abby Rosebrock is a Brooklyn-based writer and actress from South Carolina. Her plays have been commissioned, developed and produced throughout New York City and across the country. We are pleased to announce the release of DIDO OF IDAHO,BLUE RIDGE & SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE. Plus, READ In Conversation with Abby Rosebrock

Richard Dresser · OUR SHRINKING SHRINKING WORLD

JUST RELEASED: THE BROKEN MACHINE by Liz Duffy Adams

On Fire! Liz Duffy Adams, Kate Hamill, Sophie McIntosh, Inda Craig-Galván, Reina Hardy and Michelle Kholos Brooks

Sophie McIntosh · macbitches

Kate Hamill · DRACULA a feminist revenge fantasy

Liz Duffy Adams · BORN WITH TEETH

Reina Hardy · GLASSHEART

Inda Craig-Galván · BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA

Michelle Kholos Brooks · H*TLER'S TASTERS

Q & A with Gino Di Iorio

New York City-based playwright Gino Di Iorio spent some time with TRW discussing his newly published play, SCAB. This two-hander about the realities of the working class explores an unlikely bond between a hardened factory worker and her young replacement, building to a stunning climax as it shows us the human stories behind opposing points of view. With amateur and professional theatres on a mission to produce topical, thought-provoking work that entertains while it brings about greater understanding, Gino Di Iorio is absolutely an author to know.

by Katie Stottlemire

KATIE STOTTLEMIRE: Your play SCAB follows two line workers, Gilda and Eduardo, over the course of a week of training while a strike is occurring outside the factory building. What inspired you to write this play?

Gino: The play was really born of a kind of hopeless frustration that no one seems to care about working people anymore. The unions are dead in this country. We’ve got 10% union membership in the US, Mexico it’s slightly higher.I grew up in a blue-collar family. My folks were both working people, union people. And I wondered what they would have thought of... [MORE]

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Get your spring One Act plays lined-up now with one of these great titles.

UNRESIGNED

Short play, One Act

By Joe Calarco

Alejandro has revolutionized student government at his Pennsylvania high school and changed it for the better,
so when he unexpectedly resigns from being student body president halfway through his senior year, the entire school
is shaken. Who will take over? Who should take over? This exciting play looks at the ways we contribute to our
community, the power of the vote, and what it means to be a United States citizen...[MORE]

TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS, Vol. 2

10 One Acts

Edited by Craig Pospisil

TRW is pleased to publish this sparkling new collection of ten short plays - comedies and dramas, absurdist and naturalistic - from a wide-ranging group of exciting playwrights. All of the titles below are included in the collection and are available to read and license now....[MORE]

HOOPLA!

Drama, Short play, One Act

By Cheryl L. West

The fifth-grade talent show is approaching, and everyone at Baldwin Elementary is abuzz. Winston wants to win the show with his cheerleading routine and prove he’s more than the awful nickname everyone calls him: Fishboy. Introverted artist Gina wants nothing to do with the show, and she knows the overzealous (and unpleasant) twins, Randy, and Brandy, will probably win anyway. But with the persistence of Elliott, the school’s new kid and resident rebel, these unlikely friends form “Hoopla,” a dazzling hula hooping trio and help each other navigate the pressures of being a kid...[MORE]

TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS, Vol. 3

10 One Acts

Edited by Craig Pospisil

TRW presents ten compelling short works—heroes and villains, from earthly issues to supernatural ones—by established and emerging playwrights in this third volume of our popular series...[MORE]

YOUR SCHOOL THEATRE DIRECTOR'S PLAYBOOK

by Jim Hoare

This is a comprehensive guide on how to be a school theatre director, from the very first steps of forming a club to after the strike party. Whether you're a first time director or a seasoned pro, this indispensable guide book by industry legend Jim Hoare will take your next show to the stars!