Manhattan Rep

09/15/2026

Are your characters truly different from one another?

How to Create Unforgettable Characters! explores specificity, desires, behavior, contradictions, and the details that can turn a character on the page into a fascinating human being onstage.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/unforgettable

09/15/2026

How long has that play idea been waiting for you?

How to Write a Fantastic Play in 28 Days! helps turn intention into action with a focused process designed to keep you writing and moving toward a completed draft.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/28-day-yes

09/15/2026

Have you ever imagined seeing a professional production built around your play? Suddenly the characters have bodies and voices, the world has a physical reality, and the story you created privately becomes something an audience can experience together.

Our Play Production Program brings together the professional theatrical elements needed to make that happen in New York City. Actors, direction, rehearsals, design, technical elements, and performance all work together to serve your play and bring its world to life.

There is nothing quite like watching other theatre artists invest their talent and creativity in something you wrote. Your play becomes collaborative, physical, immediate, and alive in an entirely new way.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/play-production-program

Self-produce your play in New York City or anywhere in the world. Manhattan Rep will do all the work, and bring your self-produced play to stunning life. Check out the reviews on our home page!

09/14/2026

What if the next chapter for your play is a professional production in New York City? You have written it, rewritten it, developed it, and perhaps had readings. At some point, the only way to experience the complete theatrical possibilities of your work is to produce it.

Our Play Production Program is designed to take your play into that exciting world. Professional actors and direction join with rehearsals, design, technical elements, and everything needed to transform the script into a fully realized NYC production.

Imagine sitting in the audience on performance night and realizing that everything happening in front of you began with an idea you once had. That is one of the extraordinary rewards of being a produced playwright.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/play-production-program

09/14/2026

Could your next collaborator be sitting at your INDUSTRY Reading?
Maybe.

And that possibility is exactly why getting your work in front of people matters.

Theatre is collaborative. Eventually your play needs directors, producers, actors, designers, artistic directors, and other professionals who believe in what you created.

Our Play Production Reading gives you the opportunity to present your play through an INDUSTRY Reading performed by professional actors for theatre industry professionals.

You are creating a place where people can discover your work.
Where conversations can begin.
Where connections can happen.
Where someone may see possibilities in your play that lead to another step.
You cannot know who will connect with your work.

But first, you have to give them the chance.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/reading

09/14/2026

Why should your play spend another year sitting on your computer? You did not create those characters so they could live forever inside a document. You created them to walk, talk, fight, love, struggle, and live in front of an audience.

Our Play Production Program helps bring your play into a professional New York City production with all the bells and whistles. Actors, direction, rehearsals, design, technical elements, and performance come together to create the theatrical experience you imagined when you first started writing.

There comes a point when you have to stop wondering what your play might look like fully produced. If you are ready, perhaps it is time to find out.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/play-production-program

09/14/2026

Are you ready to go from playwright to produced playwright? There is an enormous difference between having a finished script and watching professional actors perform that script in a fully realized New York City production.

Our Play Production Program is about taking your play all the way. Professional actors, direction, rehearsals, design, technical elements, and the many creative pieces that transform words on a page into a living theatrical experience come together around your work.

You already accomplished something extraordinary by writing a play. Now imagine taking the next step and seeing your name attached to a professional NYC production of the world you created.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/play-production-program

09/14/2026

How do you get theatre professionals excited about a play they have never experienced?

Give them an opportunity to experience it.

An INDUSTRY Reading can turn your script into an event that you can invite people to attend.

Our Play Production Reading puts your work into the hands of professional actors and creates an INDUSTRY Reading for professionals in the theatre industry.

Now your characters have voices.

Your story unfolds in real time.

The emotional life of the play becomes something people can experience together.

And industry professionals can begin imagining the possibilities for the work beyond the reading.

Your goal is not simply applause at the end of the night.

Your goal is interest.

Conversation.

Relationships.

And possibilities for what happens next.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/reading

09/14/2026

Could you really create an entire 10 minute play in just two hours?

Yes. How to Write a Fantastic 10 Minute Play in 2 Hours! focuses your creativity so you can stop overthinking and start making strong, theatrical choices that move you toward a completed short play.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/fan-10-90

09/14/2026

Do you know your play needs work, but you cannot figure out exactly what needs fixing?

How to Fix Your Play! helps you look at your play with fresh eyes, identify the real problems, and make focused choices that can transform your next draft.

https://www.manhattanrep.com/fixplay