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Tennessee Playwrights Studio

Theatre company/playwright development lab co-founded by Molly Breen & Kenley Smith

Tennessee Playwrights Studio is a playwright development lab and theatre production company that was founded in 2018 by Kenley Smith and Molly Breen to offer in-state playwrights the opportunity to develop fresh, incisive scripts that reflect a changing world. In 2019, we broadened our scope to include theatre production of projects developed in Tennessee, and our first World Premiere production w

as MAIDENS by Kenley Smith. In January of 2021, we formed a partnership between TPS and two of the most productive and dynamic Black-owned theatre companies in Nashville: Destiny Theatre Experience and SistaStyle Productions for collaboration on the production of new works.

06/01/2025

The 2025 TPS Virtual Reading Festival is over, but you can watch the plays you missed or rewatch the plays you loved!

Visit tnplaywrights.org for info and individual links to all five plays! Congratulations to our 2024 cohort of fellows for their completed drafts of these new plays and thank you to the directors, actors and panelists involved with bringing these stories to life and sharing feedback with the playwrights!

05/30/2025

Last but not least, on Saturday! Followed by talkback with panelists Briana Cox, Preston Crowder, and Emmalee Manes

Cast: Wren Adaro, Dee Benn, Angela Gimlin, JJ Lee, Emmett Rector, Jennifer Whitcomb-Oliva

Register for free admission at tnplaywrights.org

05/28/2025

And Friday! Followed by talkback with panelists Preston Crowder, Kate McGunagle and Amina McIntyre.

Cash includes: Jarvis Bynum, Jack E. Chambers, Marissa Hoisington, Jennifer Whitcomb-Oliva.

Register for free admission at tnplaywrights.org

05/27/2025

This Thursday! Followed by talkback with panelists Lori Fischer, Emmalee Ingeborg Manes, and Shawn Whitsell

Cast Includes: Briana Celeste, Jaylan Downes, Reischa Harrell, Ana Maria Harvey, Tony Insignares, Josh Kiev, Jin Kohanski, Sabrina Lynne Sawyer, Nikki Staggs, Gillion Welsh

Register for free admission at tnplaywrights.org

05/16/2025

We begin tonight! Read more about the festival in the Nashville Pride!
https://pridepublishinggroup.com/2025/05/16/black-theatre-happenings-this-spring-a-virtual-festival-rent-and-a-childrens-camp/

05/12/2025

This Friday! Talkback following reading with panelists Lori Fischer, Amina McIntyre, and Shawn Whitsell

Cast: Janelle Brooks, Jack E. Chambers, Ellie Hammonds, Leslie Hammonds, Shanté King, and Patricyonna Rodgers

Register for free admission at tnplaywrights.org

05/01/2025

03/22/2025

Tonight!

03/11/2025

Call for Nashville directors - Tennessee Playwrights Studio's Virtual Reading Festival of Plays (written by 2024 TPS fellows) will take place in May of 2025. To be considered, please send email of interest to [email protected], along with resume. Payment is stipend of $500.

Address

4610 Charlotte Avenue
Nashville, TN
37209

Website

http://www.tnplaywrights.org/

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